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Morton Subastas: Antiquarian and Contemporary Books

Auction Reports


Auction Name	Antiquarian and Contemporary Books	Total Sales (MXN)	767,880.00
Auction Date	February 23, 2021 - February 23, 2021	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (MXN)	702,000.00
Sale Number	#1008	High Estimate of Lots Sold (MXN)	895,000.00
Total Lots	250
Sold Lots	88	Low Estimate of All Lots (MXN)	2,237,500.00
% of Lots Sold	35.20%	High Estimate of All Lots (MXN)	2,881,000.00
Unsold Lots	162	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	26.65%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
23	Varios Autores.	Apuntes para la Historia de la Guerra entre México y los Estados Unidos.	1848	MXN 40,000.00 - 50,000.00	MXN 60,000.00
2	Kingsborough, Edward.	Antiquities of Mexico: Comprising Fac-similes of Ancient Mexican Paintings and Hieroglyphics.	1848	MXN 7,000.00 - 9,000.00	MXN 48,000.00
105	Nebrija, Antonio.	Habes in Hoc Volumine Amice Lector Aelii Antonii Nebriss. Rerum a Fernando & Elisabe Hispaniaru[m] Faelicissimis Regibus Gestarum Decades Duas, Nec no[n] Belli Navariensis Libros Duos. Annexa Insuper Archiepi Roderici Chronica, Aliisq[ue] Historijs Anteha	1545	MXN 18,000.00 - 22,000.00	MXN 38,400.00
226	Palafox y Mendoza, Juan de.	Historia Real Sagrada. Luz de Príncipes y Súbditos. Injusticias que Intervinieron en la Muerte de Christo Bien Nuestro.	1661	MXN 30,000.00 - 35,000.00	MXN 33,600.00
111		Anales Eclesiásticos y Seglares de la M. N. y M. L. Ciudad de Sevilla.	1747	MXN 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	MXN 30,000.00
4	Clavigero, Francesco Saverio.	The History of Mexico.	1806	MXN 18,000.00 - 22,000.00	MXN 19,200.00
178	Vega Carpio, Lope Félix de.	Colección de Obras Sueltas, Assi en Prosa, como en Verso.	1776 - 1779.	MXN 18,000.00 - 22,000.00	MXN 18,000.00
202	Ward, Henry George.	México in 1827.	1828	MXN 16,000.00 - 20,000.00	MXN 18,000.00
69		Guía de la Ciudad de México, Breve Guía Ilustrada.	1906	MXN 9,000.00 - 11,000.00	MXN 15,600.00
133	Junta Directiva del Desagüe y Saneamiento.	Memoria sobre las Obras de Desagüe del Valle y el Saneamiento de la Ciudad de México: Noviembre 1º de 1896.	1896	MXN 16,000.00 - 20,000.00	MXN 14,400.00
21	Stevens, Isaac I.	Campaigns of the Rio Grande and of Mexico. With Notices of the Recent Work of Major Ripley.	1851	MXN 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	MXN 12,000.00
181	Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm.	Essais de Théodicée sur la Bonté de Dieu, la Liberté de l’Homme et l’Origine du Mal.	1714	MXN 12,000.00 - 14,000.00	MXN 12,000.00
240	Landesio, Eugenio.	Cimientos del Artista, Dibujante y Pintor.	1866	MXN 12,000.00 - 14,000.00	MXN 12,000.00
73		México y las Colonias Extranjeras en el Centenario de la Independencia.	ca. 1910	MXN 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	MXN 11,400.00
205	Anónimo.	Plano de la Ciudad de México.	1600	MXN 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	MXN 10,800.00
216	Alvarez de Toledo, Gabriel.	Historia de la Iglesia, y del Mundo, que Contiene los Sucesos desde su Creación hasta el Diluvio.	1713	MXN 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	MXN 10,800.00
169		Lecturas Clásicas para Niños.	1924 - 1925.	MXN 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	MXN 10,200.00
198	Ober, Frederick A.	Travels in Mexico and Life Among the Mexicans.	1884	MXN 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	MXN 10,200.00
18	Reid, Samuel C.	The Scouting Expeditions of McCulloch's Texas Rangers; or The Summer and Fall Campaign of the Army of the United States in Mexico 1846.	1860	MXN 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	MXN 9,600.00
29	Filisola, Vicente.	Memorias para la Historia de la Guerra de Tejas. Por el Sr. General de División y actual Presidente del Supremo Tribunal de Guerra y Marina de la República.	1849	MXN 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	MXN 9,600.00
40	Alvensleben, Maximilian.	With Maximilian in Mexico from the Note - Book of a Mexican Officer.	1867	MXN 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	MXN 9,600.00
108	Ramos del Manzano, Francisco.	Respuesta de España al Tratado de Francia sobre las Pretensiones de la Reyna Christianissima.	1667	MXN 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	MXN 9,600.00
137	Salas López, F. E.	La Irrigación. Su Utilidad y Medios de Ejecutarla. Estudio Técnico - Descriptivo de Algunas de las Principales Construcciones para Retener y Distribuir el Agua.	1908	MXN 9,000.00 - 11,000.00	MXN 9,600.00
155	El Observador de la República Mexicana.	Periódico Semanario.	1827	MXN 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	MXN 9,600.00
93	Gil y Sáenz, Manuel.	Historia de Tabasco.	1892	MXN 9,000.00 - 11,000.00	MXN 9,000.00

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
17th July 2025

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
17th July 2025

Forum, July 17: Lucianus Samosatensis. Dialogoi, editio princeps, second issue, Florence, Laurentius Francisci de Alopa, 1496. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum, July 17: Boccaccio (Giovanni). Il Decamerone, Florence, Philippo di Giunta, 1516. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum, July 17: Henry VII (King) & Philip the Fair (Duke of Burgundy). [Intercursus Magnus], [Commercial and Political Treaty between Henry VII and Philip Duke of Burgundy], manuscript copy in Latin, original vellum, 1499. £8,000 to £12,000.

Forum, July 17: Bible, English. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New, Robert Barker, 1613. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum, July 17: Bond (Michael). A Bear Called Paddington, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1958. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
17th July 2025

Forum, July 17: Yeats (William Butler). The Secret Rose, first edition, with extensive autograph corrections, additions and amendments by the author for a new edition, 1897. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, July 17: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, bound in dark green morocco elaborately tooled in gilt and with 3 watercolours to fore-edge, by Fazakerley of Liverpool, 1841. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum, July 17: Miró (Juan), Wassily Kandinsky, John Buckland-Wright, Stanley William Hayter and others.- Spender (Stephen). Fraternity, one of 101 copies, with signed engravings by 9 artists. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, July 17: Sowerby (George Brettingham). Album comprising 22 leaves of original watercolour drawings of fossil remains of Cheltenham and Vicinity, [c.1840]. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, July 17: Mathematics.- Blue paper copy.- Euclid. De gli Elementi, Urbino, Appresso Domenico Frisolino, 1575. £12,000 to £18,000.
Sotheby’s
Geek Week
2-17 July | New York

Sotheby’s
Geek Week
2-17 July | New York

Sotheby’s, July 15: Buzz Aldrin's FLOWN Apollo 11 Crew-Signed NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Cover. $15,000 to $20,000.

Sotheby’s, July 15: Lunar Surface Flown Mission Emblem Presented to Tom Stafford by John Young. $8,000 to $12,000.

Sotheby’s, July 17: Albert Einstein. Typed Letter Signed ("A. Einstein."), to Ann Morrisett, Affirming a Pacifist's Right to Self-Defense, March 21, 1952. $10,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s
Geek Week
2-17 July | New York

Sotheby’s, July 17: Operating and Maintenance Manual for the BINAC Binary Automatic Computer Built for Northrop Aircraft Corporation. Philadelphia, 1949. $30,000 to $50,000.

Sotheby’s, July 17: Steve Jobs Apple Computer Business Card, c. 1977. $5,000 to $8,000.

Sotheby’s, July 15: Extensive Chronology of Spacecraft From Apollo to Skylab, Signed by a Member of Every Crewed Apollo Flight and the Commanders of Each Skylab Mission. $5,000 to $8,000.
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DOYLE
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
July 23, 2025

DOYLE
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
July 23, 2025

DOYLE, July 23: WALL, BERNHARDT. Greenwich Village. Types, Tenements & Temples. Estimate $300-500

DOYLE, July 23: STOKES, I. N. PHELPS. The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909. New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1915-28. Estimate: $3,000-5,000

DOYLE, July 23: [AUTOGRAPH - US PRESIDENT]FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. A signed photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Estimate $500-800

DOYLE, July 23: [ARION PRESS]. ABBOTT, EDWIN A. Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions. San Francisco, 1980. Estimate $2,000-3,000.

DOYLE, July 23: TOLSTOY, LYOF N. and NATHAN HASKELL DOLE, translator. Anna Karénina ... in eight parts. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [1886]. Estimate: $400-600

DOYLE, July 23: ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. London: Bloomsbury, 2000. Estimate $1,200-1,800