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Auction Name Books and Manuscripts Total Sales (EUR) 140,625.90
Auction Date November 04, 2020 - November 04, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 70,500.00
Sale Number #108631 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 97,000.00
Total Lots 141
Sold Lots 75 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 109,200.00
% of Lots Sold 53.19% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 149,700.00
Unsold Lots 66 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 93.94%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
127 GUEUDEVILLE (Nicolas).

Historical Atlas or New introduction to History, Chronology & Ancient & Modern Geography.

1708-1720. EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 17,835.00
85 [MIRABEAU (Victor de Riquetti, Marquis de) and François QUESNAY].

Rural Philosophy, or General Economics and Politics of Agriculture, reduced to the immutable order of physical and moraloix, which ensure the prosperity of Empires.

1763 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 9,840.00
2 BALZAC (Jean-Louis Guez de).

Letters.

1624 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 9,225.00
138 WEISS (Johann Martin).

Representation of the celebrations given by the city of Strasbourg for the King's convalescence, on the arrival and during His Majesty's stay in this city.

1745 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 8,610.00
66

JOURNAL DE L'AGRICULTURE, du commerce et des finances.

1765-1766. EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 6,396.00
63 HAITI.

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 1826 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 5,535.00
134 ORTELIUS (Abraham).

Epitome of the theatre of the world.

1598 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 5,535.00
87 MONTESQUIEU.

Of the Spirit of theoix.

s.d., 1749 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 5,166.00
112 SAINT-PIERRE (Charles-Irénée Castel de).

Project of priced size. To put an end to the evils caused in France by the ruinous disproportions in the Arbitrary Size Distributions.

1723 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 3,690.00
121 VILLERMÉ (René).

Table of the physical and moral state of the workers, employed in the cotton, wool and silk factories.

1840 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,075.00
81 MALTHUS (Thomas Robert).

Essay on the principle of population.

1809 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 2,952.00
136 SANDERUS (Antonius).

Flandriaillustrata.

1735 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,829.00
115

HOLY SYCOPHANCY. - SAINT-SIMONIAN BOOKS.I) Dogma. - II) Prophecy. - III) Retreat and trial. - IV) Dispersion.

n.d. EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,706.00
133 NOAILLES (Countess of).

The Innumerable Heart.

1931 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,706.00
48 DEPARCIATES (Antoine).

Essay on the probabilities of the human life span: From which we deduce the way to determine Life Annuities, both simple and Tontines.

1746 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 2,460.00
97 PECKER (Constantin).

Social economy. Interests of commerce, industry and agriculture, and civilization in general, under the influence of steam applications.

1839 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,460.00
132

MANUSCRIBE. - the Art of building In water and how to use it for all kinds of purposes.

 Not Available EUR 2,091.00
41 CONSIDERING (Victor).

Social destiny.

1834, 1838, 1844 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,968.00
57 FOURIER (Charles).

The New Industrial and Corporate World or Invention of the attractive and natural industrial process distributed in passionate series.

1829 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,968.00
103

PROUDHON. - PEOPLE'S BANK. Action of 5 francs.

EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,968.00
45 COURNOT (Antoine-Augustin).

A treatise on the sequencing of fundamental ideas in science and history.

1861 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,845.00
74 [THE RIVER MERCIER].

The natural and essential order of political societies.

1767 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,845.00
101 WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

A total of 30 documents relating to weights and measures, including 14 decrees, 2 advertising leaflets, 6 handwritten documents (16 pages in total) and 4 comparison tables.

 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,845.00
129 KIRCHER.

China monumentis.

1667 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,845.00
38

ARREST of the King's Council of State, Establishing a new East India Company. From April 14, 1785.

 1785 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,722.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • 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.
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