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Auction Name Books, Autographs, Prints Total Sales (EUR) 594,337.50
Auction Date December 10, 2013 - December 10, 2013 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 316,010.00
Sale Number #98 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 390,950.00
Total Lots 733
Sold Lots 336 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 623,700.00
% of Lots Sold 45.84% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 768,840.00
Unsold Lots 397 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 77.30%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
349 Gaza, Theodorus

Introductivae grammaticae libri quatuor

1495 EUR 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 81,250.00
585 Regale matrimonio

Regale matrimonio Impero Ottomano

EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 72,500.00
255 Napoleone

Description de l'Egypte, ou Recueil des observations et des recherches, qui ont ete faites en Egypte pendant l'expedition de l'Armee Francaise

1820 - 1829 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 37,500.00
666 Ungaretti, Giuseppe

Il porto sepolto

1916 EUR 17,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 30,000.00
531 Piranesi, Giovanni Battista

Della Magnificenza ed Architettura de' Romani

1761 EUR 18,500.00 - 20,500.00 EUR 23,750.00
337 Hondius, Henricus - Jansonius

Atlas novus, sive descriptio geographica totius orbis terrarum

1638 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 16,250.00
97 Alighieri, Dante

Commedia di Dante insieme con uno dialogo circa el sito forma et misure dello Inferno

1506 EUR 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 15,000.00
593 Saba, Umberto

Manoscritto - Voci dai luoghi e dalle cose

EUR 12,000.00 - 14,000.00 EUR 13,750.00
220 David, Giovanni

Divers/Portraits/graves a l'eauforte / et dedies / a M. Dominique Corvi/Peintre Celebre/par jean David Genois/Son Eleve

1775 EUR 7,500.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 11,875.00
427

Lezionario

sec. XV EUR 4,500.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 11,500.00
207 Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria

Lombardia ch'abbraccia gli Stati de' duchi di Savoja, Mantova, Parma, e Modona, e del Milanese, Descritti dal P. Coronelli.

1706 EUR 6,800.00 - 7,600.00 EUR 9,250.00
426

Codice pergamenaceo

EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 7,500.00
459 Mitelli, Giuseppe Maria

Proverbi figurati consecrati al Serenissimo principe Francesco Maria di Toscana da Giuseppe Maria Mitelli pittore Bolognese e da Lui inventati, disegnati e intagliati

1678 EUR 3,700.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 6,250.00
356 Samuel, Rabbi

[Epistola contra Judaeorum errores]

1478-1480 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,625.00
284 Foresti, Giacomo Filippo

Supplementum supplementi delle croniche...nouamente reuisto, vulgarizzato, & historiato, & con somma diligentia corretto: con la gionta vltima del 1540 insino al 1552 ?

1553 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 5,000.00
323 Gobetti, Piero

Riviste. Energie Nove

1918-1920 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,000.00
411 Lunari

Una Collezione di Lunari e Calendari

EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,000.00
466 Montale, Eugenio

Ossi di seppia

1925 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 4,750.00
568 Barbault, Jean

Les plus beaux monumens de Rome ancienne, ou recueil des plas beaux Marceaux de lantiquite romaine qui existent encore

1761 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 4,750.00
650 Tucci, Giuseppe

Tibetan Painted Scrolls

1949 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,750.00
263 Zichy, Michael von

Liebe. Vierzig Zeichnungen

1911 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,200.00 EUR 4,250.00
533 Piranesi , Giovanni Battista

Guercino - Raccolta di alcuni disegni del Barberi da Cento detto Il Guercino

1764 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,000.00
129 Belli, Silvio ?

Libro del misurar con la uista.

1569 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 3,750.00
131 Berardi, Francesco

Otto allegorie. Virtu, Industria, Premio del Lavoro, Virilita, Ozio, Passione, Invidia, Ignoranza.

XVIII secolo. EUR 3,000.00 - 3,200.00 EUR 3,750.00
652 Tolomeo, Claudio

Geografia cioe Descrittione Universale della terra...[La seconda parte della geografia di Cl. Tolomeo]

1598 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,250.00
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
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