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Auction Name Drawings, Prints, Rare Books, Manuscripts & Atlases Total Sales (EUR) 965,706.25
Auction Date June 16, 2022 - June 18, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 496,970.00
Sale Number #2206 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 688,060.00
Total Lots 1315
Sold Lots 1240 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 523,540.00
% of Lots Sold 94.30% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 726,250.00
Unsold Lots 75 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 132.97%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1280 DESCARTES, René

Discours de la methode pour bien conduire sa raison, & chercher la verité dans les sciences. Plus La Dioptrique. Les Meteores. Et La Geometrie. Qui sont des essais de cete methode.

 1637 EUR 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 EUR 106,250.00
1208

Dutch and Latin "secrets" of copyists and illuminators.

 1570 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 67,500.00
1061 GOOS, Pieter

Le Grand & Nouveau Miroir ou Flambeau, de la Mer contenant la description de toutes les Costes Marines Occidentalles & Septentrionnalles [...]. Traduict de Flaman en François par Paul Yvounet.

 1669 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 25,000.00
944

Carte du dîner. Restaurant du Café de Chartres, Palais-Royal, N° 82.

 1784-1820 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 15,000.00
276 DIX, Otto

Am Spiegel.

 1922 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 13,750.00
1076 [SAUMERY, Pierre-Lambert; CRASSIER, Guillaume Pascal de]

Les délices du païs de Liège, ou Description géographique, topographique et chorographique des monumens sacrés et profanes [...].

 1738-1744 EUR 11,000.00 - 13,000.00 EUR 12,500.00
1066 ORTELIUS, Abraham

Theatri Orbis Terrarum Parergon, sive Veteris geographiae tabulae [...]. Editio novissima [...].

 1624 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 11,250.00
464

14 photos of architectural monuments in Belgium.

 Second half 19th c EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 9,375.00
846

Two engraved partitions.

 [18th c.] EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 9,375.00
1146

Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère; publiées par la Commission royale de pomologie [...].

 1853-1860 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 9,375.00
675 LEMIERRE, Antoine-Marin

Oeuvres choisies. Édition stéréotype [...].

 1811 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 7,250.00
40

Crucifixion, with the four Evangelists.

 [1520-1540] EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,625.00
63

Collection of 85 prints from Antwerp.

 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 5,625.00
275 DIX, Otto

Alte Dirne.

 [19]22 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,625.00
1142 VAN STERBEECK, Franciscus

Theatrum fungorum oft Het toneel der Campernoelien [...].

 1675 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 5,625.00
486

North American postcards with annotations and drawings by Horta's hand.

 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,250.00
1197

"Grand recueil d'armes des familles illustres. Collection de 278 planches".

 after 1626] EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 5,250.00
716

94 ouvrages illustrés par Joseph Hémard.

 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 5,000.00
1065 ORTELIUS, Abraham

Abrege du Theatre d'Ortelius, contenant la description des principales parties & regions du Monde [...].

 1602 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 5,000.00
934

Almanach impérial [royal] pour l'an XIII [- 1814-1815].

 1804-1814 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 4,750.00
1084 DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste

Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise [...].

 1736 EUR 4,500.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 4,750.00
534

Grand album de +/- 633 cartes porcelaines.

 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,250.00
1167 MAROLOIS, Samuel; VREDEMAN de VRIES, Jan

[Mathematicum opus absolutissimum]. 3 works bound together assembling 200 engr. geometrical, optical and architectural plates.

 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 4,250.00
1139 LINDEN, Jean Jules: LINDEN, Lucien; RODIGAS, Émile

Lindenia. Iconographie des orchidées.

 1885-1890 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,000.00
1290

Tablature spirituelle, des offices & officiers de la couronne de Iesus, couchez sur l'estat Royal de sa creche, & payez sur l'espargne de l'estable de Bethleem. Reduite en petits exercices [...]. Par un père de la Congregation du Tiers Ordre S. François.

 s.d. [approb. 22/12/1619] EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 4,000.00
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    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
    Starting 10AM CST
    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
    Starting 10AM CST
    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
    Starting 10AM CST
    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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
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