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Auction Name Old and Rare Books (Pre-1600) - Internet bidstart 5/1 Total Sales (EUR) 6,720.94
Auction Date May 12, 2020 - May 12, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 2,410.00
Sale Number #51220 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 2,970.00
Total Lots 33
Sold Lots 32 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 2,610.00
% of Lots Sold 96.97% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 3,190.00
Unsold Lots 1 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 210.69%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
36799633 Pietro Da Bergamo

Tabula Aurea

1570 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,090.00
36853005 Guy de Chauliac, Laurens Joubert

?La grande chirurgie de Guy de Chauliac

1578 Not Available EUR 889.44
36891959 Ambrogio Teodoro Macrobio

In Somnium Scipionis, Lib. II Saturnaliorum. Lib. VII

1574 Not Available EUR 479.60
36878607 Erizzo Sebastiano

Discorso di m. Sebastiano Erizzo, sopra le medaglie de gli antichi.

1568 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 436.00
36907915 Ambrogio Calepio

Dictionarium (Five parts in one volume)

1591 Not Available EUR 416.38
36817719 Philip Melanchthon

Ursachen so die Chur und Fürsten: auch Stende und Stedte(..)

1537 EUR 330.00 - 370.00 EUR 381.50
36860777 Venegas, Alejo

Primera parte de las differencias de libros que ay en el uniuerso...

1583 EUR 700.00 - 800.00 EUR 381.50
36906073

Decretum d. Gratiani, universi iuris canonici pontificias constitutiones

1566 EUR 280.00 - 400.00 EUR 327.00
36904219 Gesner, Conrad

Ornithology: "Merchen" Duck. Folio with hand coloured woodcut & descriptive text on one leaf

1557 Not Available EUR 261.60
36769361 Conrad Gesner

Ornithology; Wading Bird / Acovet. Folio with hand coloured woodcut & descriptive text on one leaf

1563/1557 Not Available EUR 207.10
36769753 Conrad Gessner

Illustrated title page with hand coloured woodcut to First Edition of his Thierbuch

1563 Not Available EUR 184.21
36769235 Jean Le Clerc (attr.)

2 woodcuts on one Leaf. Genesis: Adam & Eve; Cain & Abel; Unicorns

1614 Not Available EUR 152.60
36817581 Johann Friedrich I., Kurfürst v. Sachsen

Warhafftiger bericht und Summari außfürung. Warumb jnen zu unschulden auffgelegt wirdet(..)

1546 Not Available EUR 141.70
36898663 Sebastiano Serlio

Roman Villa [Capitolo], Italy] Quarto leaf with hand coloured woodcuts

1565 Not Available EUR 119.90
36822129

Histoire des Nobles et Vaillans Chevalliers, les quatres fils d'Aymon - sans date (ca. 1600)

Not Available EUR 110.09
35834023 Manuscript

Illuminated Book of Hours from Normandy - without date (ca. 1450).

Not Available EUR 109.00
35902145 Manuscript

Original bible sheet from the 13th century - without date (ca. 1250)

Not Available EUR 109.00
35901871

Original sheet from a manuscript - without date (ca. 1350)

Not Available EUR 101.37
36770939 Leonhard Fuchs (1501-1566); Albrecht Meyer; Heinrich Füllmaurer

Large folio woodcuts hand colour: Burdock, Bardane, Arctium lappa [Gross Kletten]

1543 Not Available EUR 92.65
36886411 Leonhard Fuchs; Albrecht Meyer; Heinrich Füllmaurer

Large folio woodcuts hand colour: Bugloss [Ochsenzunge, Anchusa arvensis]

1543 Not Available EUR 92.65
36830853 Giorgio Liberale); W. Meyerpeck

Trifolium Clover. 2 folio woodcuts on one leaf

1565 Not Available EUR 81.75
36888503 Gesner, Conrad 1516-1565

Reptiles: Crocodile & Chameleon. Folio with hand coloured woodcut & descriptive text on one leaf

1557 Not Available EUR 81.75
36606921 Manuscript

Leaf from a book of hours - without date (ca. 1450)

Not Available EUR 65.40
36372093 Manuscript

Original page from a book of hours

1463 Not Available EUR 61.04
36755973 du Tillet

Arrest de la Cour de Parlement, pour vendre les biens des Huguenots

1589 Not Available EUR 54.50
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
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    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
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    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
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    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
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    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
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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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  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
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