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Auction Name Old Books from the 15th-19th Centuries Total Sales (EUR) 211,809.00
Auction Date December 17, 2020 - December 17, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 118,680.00
Sale Number #121720 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 156,020.00
Total Lots 371
Sold Lots 221 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 196,680.00
% of Lots Sold 59.57% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 257,960.00
Unsold Lots 150 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 82.11%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
94 KIRCHER (Athanasius).

Mundus subterraneus, in XII libros digestus.

 1665 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 30,000.00
124 MONTAIGNE (Michel de).

Essais. Cinquième édition, augmentée d'un troisième livre et de six cens additions aux deux premiers.

 1588 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 10,875.00
90 HYGINUS.

Poeticon astronomicon.

 1485 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 7,500.00
110 MOLIÈRE.

Les Facheux. Paris, [Christophe Journel pour]

 1662 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 6,250.00
154 TASSIN (Christophe).

Les Plans et profilz de toutes les principalles villes et lieux considerables de France. [Paris, 1638].

 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 5,125.00
150 RONSARD (Pierre de).

Les Œuvres. Augmentees de plusieurs poësies de l’auteur, qui n’estoyent en la precedente edition, redigees en cinq tomes.

 1592 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,000.00
123 MOLIÈRE.

Éditions hollandaises et elzéviriennes.

 XXe siècle, XIXe ou du XXe siècle. EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 4,000.00
250 DERÔME (Léopold).

Le Luxe des livres.

 1879 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,875.00
206 PALTEAU (Guillaume-Louis Formanoir de).

Nouvelle construction de ruches de bois, avec la façon d'y gouverner les abeilles, inventée par Mr Palteau premier commis des vivres de la généralité de Metz. [1756].

 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,750.00
238 LEGGE (William Vincent).

A History of birds of Ceylon. Londres, l'auteur, [1878]-1880.

 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,750.00
65

Devises pour tapisseries du Roy, où sont representez les quatre elemens, et les quatre saisons de l'année, peintes en mignature par J. Bailly [...] et gravées par S. Le Clerc.

 1668 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 3,375.00
98 LA FONTAINE (Jean de).

Fables choisies, mises en vers.

 1678-1694 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,250.00
114 MOLIÈRE.

Le Médecin malgré luy. Paris, [Claude II Calleville pour]

 1667 (1666) EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,250.00
163 CARRACHE (Augustin).

L'Arétin, ou recueil de postures érotiques. À la Nouvelle Cythère, s.d. [Paris, Pierre Didot, 1798].

 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 3,125.00
89 [HOLBACH (Baron d')].

Essai sur les préjugés, ou, de l'influence des opinions sur les mœurs & sur le bonheur des hommes. Ouvrage contenant l'Apologie de la Philosophie, par Mr D. M. Londres [Amsterdam, M.-M. Rey],

 1770 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,000.00
76 DU BELLAY (Joachim).

Les Œuvres francoises. Reveuës, & de nouveau augmentées de plusieurs poësies non encores auparavant imprimées.

 1569 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,750.00
96 LA FONTAINE (Jean de).

Les Fables choisies.

 1669 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,500.00
182 VREDEMAN DE VRIES (Hans).

Perspective. La Haye, Hendrik Hondius, 1604. – Perspective, altera pars. Leyde, Beuckel Nieulandt pour Hondius, 1605. – [Relié en tête :] Architectura. [La Haye], Hondius, [1607].

 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,500.00
168 DUPÉRAC (Étienne).

I Vestigi dell'antichità di Roma.

 1575 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,375.00
91 IBN AJERRUM.

Grammatica arabica Agrumia appellata.

 1631 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,250.00
174 LE MUET (Pierre).

Manière de bastir pour touttes sortes de personnes. [Paris, Melchior Tavernier, 1623].

 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,125.00
107

[MANUSCRIT]. Terrier de Chadrat.

 1680 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,000.00
223 SMITH (Adam).

Recherches sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations. Yverdon, s.n. [F. B. de Felice],

 1781 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,875.00
241 ORBIGNY (Charles d').

Dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle.

 1841-1849 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,875.00
136 RABELAIS (François).

Œuvres. Contenant cinq livres, faicts, & dits heroiques de Gargantua et de son fils Pantagruel. Plus, la Prognostication Pantagrueline, avec l'oracle de la Dive Bacbuc & le mot de la Bouteille. Augmen

 1584 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,813.00
  • 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
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    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.
  • 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.
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