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ALDE: Antiquarian and 19th Century Books

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Auction Name Antiquarian and 19th Century Books Total Sales (EUR) 247,821.00
Auction Date June 21, 2022 - June 21, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 127,960.00
Sale Number #62122 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 166,570.00
Total Lots 286
Sold Lots 188 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 194,710.00
% of Lots Sold 65.73% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 259,450.00
Unsold Lots 98 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 95.52%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
55 MONTFAUCON (Bernard de).

L'Antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures. – Supplément.

1719-1724 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 35,000.00
104 TOCQUEVILLE (Alexis de).

De la démocratie en Amérique.

1835-1840 EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 13,750.00
51 [MANUSCRIT ALCHIMIQUE].

La Vraye pratique de la noble science d’Alchimie de Nicolas Flamel [ou le Livre des Laveures]. [Suivi des figures du Rosarium philosophorum].

fin du XVIIe siècle. EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 12,500.00
9

? ????? ???????. Novum Testamentum.

1633 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 6,750.00
63 PÉTRONE.

Satyricon, cum notis Baschii, Reinesii et Schefferi.

1700 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 6,250.00
64 [PICHON (Thomas-Jean) et Nicolas GOBET].

Le Sacre et couronnement de Louis XVI, roi de France et de Navarre, dans l'église de Reims, le 11 juin 1775.

1775 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 6,250.00
54 MONTAIGNE (Michel de).

Essais, donnez sur les éditions les plus anciennes et les plus correctes… par Pierre Coste.

1727 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,750.00
44 [LE CLERC (Nicolas-Gabriel)].

[Histoire physique, morale, civile et politique de la Russie. Atlas].

1783-1794. EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 5,500.00
27

De medicinali materia libri sex.

1543 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 5,250.00
5 BACLER D'ALBE (Louis-Albert Ghislain).

Carte générale du théâtre de la guerre en Italie et dans les Alpes.

1798 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 5,000.00
35 HÉLIODORE D'ÉMÈSE.

L'Histoire æthiopique, contenant dix livres, traitant des loyales et pudiques amours de Theagenes Thessalien et Chariclea Æthiopienne.

1549 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 5,000.00
85 [CUVIER (Frédéric)].

Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles.

1816-1830 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,000.00
6 BEAUCHESNE (Jean de).

Le Tresor d'escriture, auquel est contenu tout ce qui est requis & necessaire à tous les amateurs dudict art.

1580 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,500.00
76 VIDA DA CAPODISTRIA (Girolamo).

Dubii amorosi.

1636 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,250.00
74 [THESEUS DE COLOGNE].

L'Hystoire tresrecreative : traictant des faictz & gestes du noble & vaillant Chevalier Theseus de Coulongne, par sa proesse Empereur de Rome.

vers 1550 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,875.00
156 [VALLÈS (Jules)].

Angleterre.

EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,750.00
95 MAUPASSANT (Guy de).

Contes choisis.

1891-1892. EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 3,375.00
100 PRATO (Antoine del).

Principes et maximes, théories et projets de l'Institut chrétien-philosophique, avec l'organisation, les fonctions et les règles de sa société.

1814-1816. EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 3,375.00
52 MÉZERAY (François-Eudes de).

Abrégé chronologique de l'histoire de France.

1673-1674. EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,250.00
94 [LÓPEZ WILLSHAW (Arturo)]. JULLIAN (Philippe).

14, rue du Centre, Neuilly sur Seine.

1961 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,640.00
199 FIRMICUS MATERNUS (Julius).

Astronomicon lib. VIII.

1533 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 2,625.00
25 DESPORTES (Philippe).

Les Premières œuvres. Reveues, corrigées & augmentées pour la quatrième impression.

1577 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,500.00
69

RELIURE EN ARGENT.

XVIIIe siècle. EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,500.00
161 VALLÈS (Jules).

Le Bachelier.

1881 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,500.00
24 [DE BACKER (Georges)].

Dictionnaire des proverbes françois, avec l'explication de leurs significations, et une partie de leur origine.

1710 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,250.00
  • Forum Auctions
    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.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    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.
    Forum Auctions
    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.
    Forum Auctions
    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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    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.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    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.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    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.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    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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