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Morton Subastas: Book of Explorers and World Travelers auction

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Auction Name Book of Explorers and World Travelers auction Total Sales (MXN) 2,041,920.00
Auction Date June 23, 2020 - June 23, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (MXN) 1,790,000.00
Sale Number #975 High Estimate of Lots Sold (MXN) 2,585,000.00
Total Lots 254
Sold Lots 149 Low Estimate of All Lots (MXN) 4,326,500.00
% of Lots Sold 58.66% High Estimate of All Lots (MXN) 6,223,000.00
Unsold Lots 105 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 32.81%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
195 Gualdi, Pedro.

Monumentos de Méjico.

1841 MXN 70,000.00 - 120,000.00 MXN 192,000.00
151 Waldeck, Jean-Frédéric Maximilien - Brasseur de Bourbourg, Étienne-Charles (Abbé).

Monuments Anciens du Mexique: Palenqué...

1866 MXN 150,000.00 - 200,000.00 MXN 144,000.00
196 Egerton, Daniel Thomas.

Bocetos originales "San Miguel del Soldado May 1835" / "Vista Lejana de San Agustín" / "Bledos".

1840 MXN 150,000.00 - 200,000.00 MXN 144,000.00
143 Montanus, Arnoldus.

Die Unbekante neue Welt, oder Beschreibung des Welt-Teils Ameika...

1673 MXN 140,000.00 - 200,000.00 MXN 120,000.00
113

Cruz, Sor Juana Inés de la.Tomo Primero Poemas./Tomo Segundo de las Obras.../Fama y Obras Posthumas.

1725/1701. MXN 120,000.00 - 200,000.00 MXN 96,000.00
205 Castro, C. - Campillo, J. - Auda, L. - Rodríguez, C.

México y sus Alrededores.

1855 - 1856. MXN 90,000.00 - 120,000.00 MXN 84,000.00
43 Lucini, Antonio F.

Dimostratione di Tutta la Guerra / L'Armata Turchesca/ La Venuta del Gran Soccorso... Grabados.

1631 MXN 18,000.00 - 22,000.00 MXN 66,000.00
125 León y Gama, Antonio.

Descripción Histórica y Cronológica de las Dos Piedras...

1792 MXN 50,000.00 - 80,000.00 MXN 57,600.00
190 García Cubas, Antonio.

Carta Oro - Hidrográfica de la República Mexicana.

1893 MXN 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 MXN 50,400.00
53 Lear, Edward.

Views in Rome and its Environs: Drawn from Nature and on Stone.

1841 MXN 60,000.00 - 100,000.00 MXN 48,000.00
199 Egerton, Daniel Thomas.

Sn. Agustin de las Cuevas.

1840 MXN 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 MXN 48,000.00
198 Egerton, Daniel Thomas.

Guanajuato.

1840 MXN 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 MXN 45,600.00
201 Egerton.

Daniel Thomas. Guadalajara.

1840 MXN 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 MXN 40,800.00
141 Herrera, Antonio de.

The General History of the Vast Continent and Islands of America...

1725 MXN 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 MXN 36,000.00
200 Egerton.

Daniel Thomas. Veracruz.

1840 MXN 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 MXN 33,600.00
164 López, Juan.

Mapa de las Cercanías de México...

ca. 1785. MXN 10,000.00 - 14,000.00 MXN 28,800.00
126 León y Gama, Antonio.

Saggio dell'Astronomia Cronologia e Mitologia Due Antichi Monumenti di Architettura Messicana.

1804 MXN 16,000.00 - 22,000.00 MXN 26,400.00
130 Solís, Antonio de.

Historia de la Conquista de México, Población y Progresos de la América Septentrional.

1783 MXN 14,000.00 - 20,000.00 MXN 26,400.00
105

Retratos de los Españoles Ilustres con un Epítome de sus Vidas.

1791 MXN 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 MXN 24,000.00
117 Rulfo, Juan.

Pedro Páramo.

1959 MXN 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 MXN 24,000.00
119 Vega Carpio, Lope Félix de.

Colección de Obras Sueltas.

1776-1779. MXN 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 MXN 20,400.00
165

Plan, o Mapa de la Nobilissima Ciudad de Valladolid.

1796 MXN 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 MXN 19,200.00
94 Alamán, Lucas.

Disertaciones sobre la Historia de la República Megicana desde la Época de la Conquista...

1844-1849. MXN 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 MXN 18,000.00
197 Egerton, Daniel Thomas.

Hacienda de Barrera, Guanajuato.

1840 MXN 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 MXN 18,000.00
134 Pruneda, Pedro.

Historia de la Guerra de Méjico, desde 1861 á 1867...

1867 MXN 14,000.00 - 20,000.00 MXN 16,800.00
  • 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.
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