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Morton Subastas: Auction of Old and Contemporary Books

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Auction Name Auction of Old and Contemporary Books Total Sales (MXN) 1,540,800.00
Auction Date May 24, 2022 - May 24, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (MXN) 1,373,500.00
Sale Number #1068 High Estimate of Lots Sold (MXN) 1,686,000.00
Total Lots 210
Sold Lots 106 Low Estimate of All Lots (MXN) 2,744,500.00
% of Lots Sold 50.48% High Estimate of All Lots (MXN) 3,488,000.00
Unsold Lots 104 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 44.17%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
164 Molina, Alonso de.

Vocabvlario en Lengva Castellana y Mexicana / Vocabvlario en Lengva Mexicana y Castellana.

1571 MXN 270,000.00 - 300,000.00 MXN 300,000.00
75 Kingsborough, Edward; Dupaix. M.

Antiquities of Mexico: Comprising Fac-similes of Ancient Mexican Paintings...

1831 MXN 100,000.00 - 120,000.00 MXN 120,000.00
172 Linati, Claudio.

Linati, Claudio. Costumes Civils, Militaires, et Réligieux du Mexique. 

1828 MXN 100,000.00 - 120,000.00 MXN 108,000.00
159 Ortega y Pérez Gallardo, Ricardo.

Historia Genealógica de las Familias más Antiguas de México.

1908 / 1910. MXN 22,000.00 - 26,000.00 MXN 45,600.00
180

Los Mexicanos Pintados por sí Mismos.

1854 - 1855. MXN 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 MXN 45,600.00
113 Bill W. - Lois W.

Libro de Alcholicos Anónimos y Fotografías Firmadas y Dedicadas.

MXN 24,000.00 - 28,000.00 MXN 38,400.00
46 Landivir, Raphaelis.

Rusticatio Mexicana.

1782 MXN 35,000.00 - 40,000.00 MXN 36,000.00
76 Peñafiel, Antonio.

Monumentos del Arte Mexicano Antiguo.

1890 MXN 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 MXN 36,000.00
95 Ramos, Manuel.

“Mexican Revolution”, Fotografías de la Decena Trágica.

MXN 35,000.00 - 40,000.00 MXN 36,000.00
204 Laryew (Stanislas Waléry).

Nus: Cent Photographies Originales de Laryew.

1923 MXN 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 MXN 30,000.00
158 Duque de Otranto.

Familias de México.

1958 MXN 14,000.00 - 16,000.00 MXN 28,800.00
12

Memorias del Estado de Guanajuato

1832, 1857, 1869, 1871, 1875. MXN 22,000.00 - 28,000.00 MXN 24,000.00
83 Solís, Antonio de.

Historia de la Conquista de México.

1704 MXN 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 MXN 24,000.00
155 Venio, Otto.

Theatro Moral de la Vida Humana. En cien Emblemas con el Enchiridion de Epicteto y la Tabla de Cebes.

1733 MXN 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 MXN 24,000.00
33 Ulloa, Antonio de.

Noticias Americanas: Entretenimientos Físico - Históricos sobre la América Meridional.

1772 MXN 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 MXN 21,600.00
16 Habsburgo, Fernando Maximiliano de.

Los Traidores Pintados por Sí Mismos.

1867 MXN 9,000.00 - 11,000.00 MXN 19,200.00
31 Prieto, Alejandro.

Historia, Geografía y Estadística del Estado de Tamaulipas.

1873 MXN 12,000.00 - 14,000.00 MXN 19,200.00
24 Sessé, Martino - Mociño, Joseph Mariano.

Plantae Novae Hispaniae: Plantas de Nueva España.

1893 MXN 12,000.00 - 14,000.00 MXN 18,000.00
85 Maximiliano de Hasburgo, Fernando.

Recuerdos de Mi Vida. Memorias de Maximiliano.

1869 MXN 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 MXN 18,000.00
171 Bullock, William.

Six Months' Residence and Travels in Mexico.

1824 MXN 14,000.00 - 16,000.00 MXN 14,400.00
23 Romero, José María.

La Penitenciaría.

1892 MXN 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 MXN 12,000.00
65

Regla y Constituciones que han de Guardar las Religiosas de los Conventos de Nuestra Señora de la Concepción.

1773 MXN 12,000.00 - 14,000.00 MXN 12,000.00
173 Sartorius, Carl.

Mexico and the Mexicans. Landscapes and Popular Sketches.

MXN 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 MXN 12,000.00
183 Grosjean, George.

Mapamundi - The Catalan Atlas of the year 1375.

1978 MXN 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 MXN 12,000.00
185 Sánchez, Pedro C. / González Arce, José.

Directorio de Todas las Poblaciones que Constituyen la República Mexicana 1885.

MXN 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 MXN 12,000.00
  • Sotheby’s
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    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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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
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  • 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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