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Auction Name Books, Maps, Prints Total Sales (EUR) 1,814,937.50
Auction Date May 25, 2018 - May 26, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 826,730.00
Sale Number #1 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 1,116,290.00
Total Lots 1410
Sold Lots 900 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 1,135,485.00
% of Lots Sold 63.83% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 1,517,145.00
Unsold Lots 510 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 119.63%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
710 BLAEU, Joan

[Atlas maior, sive cosmographia blaviana, qua solum, salum, coelum, accuratissime describuntur]. Geographia, quae est cosmographiae Blaviana pars prima [...].

 1662 EUR 250,000.00 - 350,000.00 EUR 600,000.00
1044

Horae. Use of Rome. Latin (and a few French rubrics).

 C. 1490 EUR 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 EUR 137,500.00
27 VAN ORLEY, Richard

"Les avantures de Telemaque fils d'Ulÿsse &c.".

 1721 EUR 45,000.00 - 60,000.00 EUR 108,750.00
1045

Horae. Use of Utrecht. Middle Dutch.

 C. 1470 EUR 6,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 50,000.00
713 BEAULIEU, Sébastien de

[Les glorieuses conquestes de Louis le Grand].

 1727 EUR 35,000.00 - 45,000.00 EUR 41,250.00
720 BLAEU, Joan

Toonneel der Steden van de Vereenighde Nederlanden, met hare beschrijvingen. [Toonneel der Steden van 's Konings Nederlanden, met hare beschrijvingen].

 1652 EUR 30,000.00 - 35,000.00 EUR 40,000.00
1043

Biblia Vulgata. Latin.

 last quarter 13th c. EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 28,750.00
169

Processional or Collaborative Tôkaido. Gojôraku Tôkaidô [or] Tôkaidô meisho fukei.

 1863 EUR 15,000.00 - 18,000.00 EUR 20,000.00
274 LÉOPOLD II de Belgique

3 l.a.s. et 3 télégrammes à la reine Marie-Henriette.

 1867-1870 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 17,500.00
1073 GARSIAS, Paulus

[Determinationes magistrales contra conclusions Joannis Pici Mirandulae].

 1489 EUR 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 16,250.00
1102

LHystoire du preux & vaillant Cheualier Galien Rethore filz [...].

 1550 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 11,875.00
53 BARBAULT, Jean

Les plus beaux édifices de Rome moderne ou Recueil des plus belles vues des principales églises, places, palais, fontaines, &c. qui sont dans Rome dessinées par Jean Barbaultpeintre (...) et gravées en XLIV. grandes planches et plusieurs vignettes (...).

 1763 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 10,625.00
54 BARBAULT, Jean

Les plus beaux monuments de Rome ancienne ou Recueil des plus beaux morceaux de l'antiquité romaine qui existent encore : dessinés par Monsieur Barbaultpeintre (...) et gravés en 128 planches avec leur explication, viii-90 pp., 73 pl. (petit trou central

1761 - 1770 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 10,625.00
714 LECLERC, Sébastien

[Plans et profils appelés communément les "Petits Conquêtes", servant à l'histoire de Louis XIV].

 1727 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 10,625.00
1059

Statuta synodalia Leodiensia.

 between 1484/85-1487 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 10,625.00
1088 LUDOLPHUS DE SAXONIA, O. CARTH.

Dit es dleve(n) ons liefs heren Jhesu cristi derdewerf gheprent gecorrigeert en(de) merckelick verbetert met addicien va(n) schonen moralen en(de) gheestelike(n) leeringhen en(de) deuote(n) meditacien.

 1521 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 10,000.00
1062

[Dialogus inter clericum et militem super dignitate papali et regia]. "Disputatio i[n]ter clericum et milite[m] sup[er] potestate prelatis atq[ue] principib[us] [...]".

 C. 1473 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 9,375.00
1101 LA CÉPÈDE, Pierre de

Paris et Vienne imprime nouuellemnt a Paris [...].

 1530 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 9,375.00
275 LÉOPOLD II de Belgique

41 lettres, billets et notes de/à Léopold II, barons Auguste d'Anethan, Auguste et Constant Goffinet.

 Fin 19e - début 20e s EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 8,750.00
668 WALDEMAR, George

Picasso. Dessins.

 1926 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 8,125.00
1067 THOMAS Aquinas

Tractatulus solennis de arte et vero modo p[re]dicandi [....] Una cu[m] tractatulo eximii doctoris Henrici de bassia de arte predicandi [...].

 C. 1493? EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 8,125.00
1171 LORRIS, Guillaume de; MEUNG, Jean de

Le rommant de la Rose nouuellement reueu et corrige oultre les precedentes impressions [ed. Guillaume Michel].

 1538 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 8,125.00
1103 THESEUS de COLOGNE

LHystoire tresrecreatiue: traictant des faictz & gestes du noble & vaillant Cheualier Theseus de Coulongne [...].

 1550 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 7,750.00
1081 NIGER, Franciscus

[Modus epistolandi]. Ars epistolandi.

 1494 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 6,875.00
1041

Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik al-Khawlani al-Sharithi [An anthology of poetry].

 dated 889 AH / 1484 AD EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 6,250.00
  • 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.
  • Sotheby’s
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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