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Sale Name: CATALOGUE OF THE FINE LIBRARY, OF THE LATE, THOMAS H. LUDLOW. Archaeologist and Secretary of the American School at Athens, Greece, TOGETHER WITH THE, COLLECTION OF A CONNOISSEUR. For many years a resident of Rome, Italy and other parts of the European Co
Auction Date: 05/08/1900 - 05/08/1900
Year of Sale: 1900
Sale Number: #May081900
Total Lots: 1273
Sold Lots: 1265
Lots Sold: 99.4%
Unsold Lots: 8
Price Unknown: 0

Total Sales (USD): 1,872.12
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 0.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 0.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 0.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 0.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: Inf%
Currency: USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars: 310,942.00

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1025		ROME. Roma Antologia Illustrata	1872-76	USD -	87.50
402		EARLY PRINTING. Nuremberg Chronicle	1493	USD -	39.00
798		MONUMENTS GRECS...	1873-93	USD -	32.50
966	RICHARDSON (SAMUEL)	Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded	1785	USD -	27.50
632	HUGO (VICTOR)	Edition Nationale des OEuvres de Victor Hugo	1885	USD -	22.50
362	DORAT	DORAT. Fables Nouvelles	1773	USD -	20.00
428	Ariosto (Lodovico)	EARLY PRINTING. Orlando Furioso	1584	USD -	19.00
117		BOCCACCIO. Il Decamerone. Nuovamente corretto et con diligentia stampato	1527	USD -	17.00
384		DRAMA. Spirit of the Age newspaper for 1828, containing a choice selection of all the exquisite and extraordinary Articles . . . which have appeared . . . weekly in the Age	1829	USD -	15.00
871		PARIS, OU LE LIVRE DES CENT-ET-UN	1831-32	USD -	12.50
443		ECCE HOMO. A Survey of the Life and Work of Jesus Christ; also three other books	1866, etc	USD -	12.50
482		ENGRAVING. New York City The Government House	1847	USD -	12.50
905	PIRANESI (J. B.)	De Romanorum Magnificentia et Architectura	1761, 1765, etc.	USD -	12.00
69		BAUMEISTER (A.) im Verein mit Anderen. Denkmaeler des Klassischen Alterthums	1884	USD -	11.50
397		EARLY PRINTING. Lactantii Opera	1478	USD -	11.00
581	HAMERTON (PHILIP GILBERT)	Landscape	1885	USD -	11.00
1193	VERZERI (TERESA-EUSTOCHIO) E G. C. BENAGLIO	Discorsi Tre	1869	USD -	10.50
697	LA FONTAINE (J.)	Contes et Nouvelles en Vers	1795	USD -	10.50
394	Aquinas (Thomas)	EARLY PRINTING. Liber primus de Vitate Catholice Fidei	(1474)	USD -	10.00
551	GOETHE	Faust, Eine Tragoedie	1808	USD -	9.50
803	MOREAU	Epitreset Evangiles	1825	USD -	9.25
904		PINACOTECA della Pontificia Accademia delle Belle Arti in Bologna	1820-30	USD -	9.00
1149	TASSO (TORQUATO)	La Gerusalemme Liberata	1745	USD -	9.00
1268	ZANETTI	Le Gemme Antiche di Anton Maria Zanetti	1750	USD -	8.50
487		ERASMUS. Das Lob der Narrheit	1781	USD -	8.50

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Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€

Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€

Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €

Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€

Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€

Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€

Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€

Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500

Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000
Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD

Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD

Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD

Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR