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Auction Name Online Sale: Antiquarian Books including two collections: Equestrian Books and 16th-century Editions Total Sales (EUR) 36,580.00
Auction Date November 06, 2018 - November 06, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 25,350.00
Sale Number #4527 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 48,590.00
Total Lots 162
Sold Lots 86 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 42,300.00
% of Lots Sold 53.09% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 82,020.00
Unsold Lots 76 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 44.60%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
62 Dalla Torre Giovanni.

Dialogo della giostra fatta in Trivigi l'anno 1597... Ove s'hanno diversi ingeniosi, & piacevoli discorsi intorno alla dechiaratione & interpretatione delle livree, imprese, & motti di ciascuno de' cavalieri.

1584 EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,464.00
61 Carducci Alessandro - Moniglia Giovanni Andrea.

Il mondo festeggiante balletto a cauallo fatto nel teatro congiunto al palazzo del sereniss. gran duca, per le reali nozze de' serenissimi principi Cosimo terzo di Toscana, e Margherita Luisa d'Orleans.

1661 EUR 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 3,472.00
75 Ridinger Johann Elias.

Neue Reit-Kunst... L'art de monter à cheval en tailles douces.

1722 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,472.00
67 Manoscritto.

Secreti per Mali de cavalli. Segreti per medicare animali et in (?) cavalli...

XVI secolo EUR 500.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,480.00
41 Postillato Allacci/Allacci marginalia.

Kan?nes t?n apostol?n kai t?n hagi?n synod?n [greco] Apostolorum et Sanctorum Conciliorum decreta. Hinc sarcienda ecclesiae concordia.

1540 EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,232.00
19 Dante Alighieri.

La Divina Comedia di Dante di nuovo alla sua vera lettione ridotta con lo aiuto di molti antichissimi esemplari.

1555 EUR 800.00 - 1,600.00 EUR 1,364.00
117 Incunabolo/Incunable.

Scriptores Rei Rusticae. Reggio Emilia: Dionigi Bertocchi, 18 settembre 1496.

1496 EUR 1,200.00 - 2,400.00 EUR 1,240.00
122 Manoscritto.

Taccuino di disegni.

secolo XVII]. EUR 1,200.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 1,240.00
77 Ruini Carlo.

Anatomia del cavallo, infermita, et suoi rimedii. Opera nuova, degna di qualsivoglia prencipe, & cavaliere, & molto necessaria a filosofi, medici, cavallerizzi, & marescalchi....

1706-1707. EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 992.00
17 Dante Alighieri.

Il Dante con argomenti, & dechiaratione de molti luoghi, novamente revisto, & stampato.

1547 EUR 500.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 806.00
21 Dante Alighieri.

Bulgarini Belisario. Risposte...

1586 EUR 250.00 - 500.00 EUR 744.00
1 Aristoteles.

Trattato dei governi... tradotto di greco in lingua vulgare fiorentina da Bernardo Segni...

1549 EUR 600.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 620.00
6 Boccaccio Giovanni - Betussi Giuseppe.

Libro... delle Donne Illustri, Tradotto per Messer Giuseppe Betussi.

1545 EUR 400.00 - 800.00 EUR 620.00
15 Dante Alighieri.

Dolce stil novo. Rime di diversi antichi autori toscani in dieci libri raccolte.

1532 EUR 500.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 620.00
101 Disegno/Drawing.

Colombina Gaspare. Discorso distinto in quatro capitoli; nel primo de quali si discorre.

EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 595.20
7 Boccaccio Giovanni.

Il Filocolo... Di nuovo riveduto, ricorretto, e alla sua vera lezion ridotto.

1594 EUR 120.00 - 240.00 EUR 446.40
50 Vergilius Maro Publius.

Poemata, quae extant omnia. Adiectis figuris egregie depictis, & doctissimorum virorum scholijs ac annotationibus, partim antehac, partim nunc primum publicatis, quarum catalogum sequens pagella enumerabit.

1579 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 446.40
13 Cicero Marcus Tullius.

De philosophia, prima pars [- volumen secundum] ... Cum scholijs & coniecturis Pauli Manutij.

1555 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 421.60
16 Dante Alighieri.

Daniello Bernardino. La Poetica di Bernardino Daniello Lucchese.

1536 EUR 400.00 - 800.00 EUR 372.00
40 Post incunabolo.

Paschasius Radbertus (santo). Commentaria in lamentationibus Ieremie prophete profundiora theologie secundum eius sensum quadriformem accuratissime dilucidantia profecto liber & predicatoribus & lectoribus...

1502 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 372.00
10 Cartari Vincenzo.

Le imagini de i dei de gli antichi nelle quali si contengono gl'idoli, riti, ceremonie, & altre cose appartenenti alla religione de gli antichi...

1580 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 322.40
20 Dante Alighieri.

Buonanni Vincenzo. Discorso...

1572 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 322.40
38 Pontano Giovanni Gioviano.

Amorum. Libri duo.

1514 EUR 250.00 - 500.00 EUR 322.40
47 Tolomei Claudio.

Due orazioni in lingua toscana. Accusa contra Leon Secretario, di secreti rivelati. Difesa.

 1547 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 322.40
58 Brezé Argentero Gioachino Bonaventura marchese di.

Saggio sopra le razze con alcuni altri utili trattati in materia di cavalli. Tradotti dal francese e pubblicati a profitto de' poveri carcerati.

1770 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 322.40
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    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
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    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
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    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
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