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Zisska and Schauer: Antiquarian Books and Manuscripts

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Auction Name Antiquarian Books and Manuscripts Total Sales (EUR) 420,771.25
Auction Date May 07, 2014 - May 07, 2014 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 373,660.00
Sale Number #63a High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 373,660.00
Total Lots 625
Sold Lots 432 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 603,550.00
% of Lots Sold 69.12% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 603,550.00
Unsold Lots 193 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 69.72%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
386 MAIER, M.,

Atalanta fugiens, hoc est, emblemata nova de secretis naturae chymica.

1618 EUR 25,000.00 - 25,000.00 EUR 17,500.00
204 GEILER VON KAYSERSBERG, J.,

Das buch d' sunden des munds. Alphabet in XXIII. Predigen.

 1518 EUR 20,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 12,500.00
632 ZANETTI, G., UND M. MORO,

Album di gemme architettoniche ossia gli edifizj piu rimarchevoli di Vicenza.

1847-56. EUR 10,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 7,500.00
3

ALCHYMIA MANUSCRIPTA (Ruckentitel).

 ca. 1620-70. EUR 10,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 6,875.00
387 MYLIUS, J. D.,

(Opus medico-chymicum). Tractatus III. Seu basilica philosophica continens lib. III.

1618 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 6,875.00
219 HOMER,

Odyssea. Erst durch Simon Schaidenreisser mit fleiss zuo Teutsch transsferiert, mit argumenten und kurtzen scholijs erklaret.

1538 EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,750.00
318 THEUERDANCK (PFINZING, M.),

Die geuerlicheiten eins teils der geschichten des lobliche(n) streitbaren und hochberumbten helds und Ritters Tewrdannckhs.

1519 EUR 8,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 5,750.00
486

SAMMELBAND - 3 BASLER DRUCKE - medizinischen Inhalts.

1575 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 5,750.00
529 BESTELMEIER, G. H.,

Magazin von verschiedenen Kunst - und andern nuzlichen Sachen, zur lehrreichen und angenehmen Unterhaltung der Jugend, als auch fur Liebhaber der Kunste und Wissenschaften.

EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 5,500.00
598 CROZAT DE TUGNY

RECUEIL D'ESTAMPES d'apres les plus beaux tableaux et d'apres les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France dans le cabinet du Roy, dans celuy de Monseigneur le Duc d'Orleans, & dans d'autres Cabinets.

1729-42. EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,000.00
370 IMPERATO, F.,

Historia naturale.

1672 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 4,750.00
101 ANTONINUS FLORENTINUS,

Confessionale: Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio.

1476 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 4,625.00
10 LULLUS

"HOLLEN-ZWANG VON REINMUND LULLIER."

 17. Jhdt. EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 4,250.00
560

PERIKOPENBUCH HEINRICHS II., DAS. CLM 4452 der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek Munchen.

1995 EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 4,250.00
1

GRADUALE

 spates 15. Jhdt EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 4,125.00
517 EBERHARD, H. W.,

Die Anwendung der chemischen Druckart auf Metallplatten.

1821 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 4,000.00
610 MONTFAUCON, B. DE,

L'antiquite expliquee, et representee en figures.

1719-1724. EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 4,000.00
15

MODENA - PIO DI SAVOIA - "MISURE E MAPPE

 1769-74. EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,750.00
295 REUCHLIN, J.,

De arte cabalistica libri tres Leoni X. dicati.

1517 EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 3,750.00
438 EUKLID,

Elementorum lib. XV. Accessit XVI. de solidoru(m) regularium comparatione.

1589 EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 3,750.00
443 KEPLER, J.,

Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, quibus astronomiae pars optica traditur.

1604 EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 3,750.00
515

BERUFE - KONVOLUT - Cirka 60 Dekrete.

1603-1806. EUR 100.00 - 100.00 EUR 3,750.00
589 SERLIO, S.,

Tutte l'opere d'architettura, et prrospetiva (sic). Diviso in sette libri.

1600 EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 3,750.00
516 BOCKLER, G. A.,

Theatrum machinarum novum, das ist: Neu-vermehrter Schauplatz der Mechanischen Kunsten.

1661 EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,500.00
375 VALENTINI, M. B.,

Museum museorum, Oder Vollstandige SchauBuhne aller Materialien und Specereyen.

1714 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,375.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
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