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Morton Subastas: Antiquarian and Contemporary Books

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Auction Name Antiquarian and Contemporary Books Total Sales (MXN) 819,600.00
Auction Date June 21, 2022 - June 21, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (MXN) 761,000.00
Sale Number #1073 High Estimate of Lots Sold (MXN) 972,000.00
Total Lots 282
Sold Lots 103 Low Estimate of All Lots (MXN) 2,610,000.00
% of Lots Sold 36.52% High Estimate of All Lots (MXN) 3,405,000.00
Unsold Lots 179 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 24.07%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
4 Códice Cospiano.

Códice Cospiano.

1898 MXN 35,000.00 - 45,000.00 MXN 33,600.00
6 Duca di Loubat.

Il Manoscritto Messicano Vaticano 3738 detto il Codice Rios. Riprodotto in Fotocromografia a Spese di sua Eccellenza il Duca di Loubat per Cura della Biblioteca Vaticana.

1900 MXN 30,000.00 - 35,000.00 MXN 30,000.00
46 Humboldt, Alexander de.

Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain.

1811 MXN 24,000.00 - 28,000.00 MXN 24,000.00
61 Casas, Bartolomé de las.

Istoria o Brevissima Relatione della Distruttione dell'Indie Occidentali.

1626 MXN 22,000.00 - 26,000.00 MXN 21,600.00
40

Publicadas por Acuerdo de fecha 27 de diciembre de 1870.

1871 MXN 12,000.00 - 14,000.00 MXN 20,400.00
22 Brown, James A.

Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from the Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma.

1975 MXN 18,000.00 - 22,000.00 MXN 18,000.00
179 Zamacois, Niceto de.

Historia de Méjico.

1877 - 1882. MXN 18,000.00 - 22,000.00 MXN 18,000.00
23 Strebel, Hermann Wilhelm.

Alt - Mexiko. Archäologische Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte seiner Bewohner.

1885 MXN 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 MXN 15,600.00
169

1930 - Fotografías de la Construcción de Puentes, Estaciones y Vías Férreas de Diferentes Estados de la República Mexicana: Durango, Estado de México, Tamaulipas, Morelos, San Luis Potosí, Querétaro / Casas de Lomas de Chapultepec / Colonia Roma / Panteón

 1920 - 1940. MXN 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 MXN 15,600.00
204

Colección de Historietas Infantiles. Tom y Jerry - La Zorra y el Cuervo - El Gato Félix - Super Ratón - Archi.

MXN 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 MXN 15,600.00
64 García Icazbalceta, Joaquín.

Nueva Colección de Documentos para la Historia de México.

1886 MXN 16,000.00 - 20,000.00 MXN 14,400.00
166 Castillo, Edmundo (Editor).

Mexrail. Magazine de Empleados del Ferrocarril Mexicano.

1924 - 1926. MXN 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 MXN 14,400.00
266 Alessandri, Innocente.

Vita di Filippo Neri Institutore della Congregazione dell’ Oratorio. In sessanta Tavole in rame disegnate da Pietro Antonio Novelli ed incise da Innocente Alessandri.

1793 MXN 16,000.00 - 20,000.00 MXN 14,400.00
74 Conte di Segur.

Storia Dell' America in Continuazion della Storia Universale - Indice Generale della Storia Dell’ America.

1820 - 1823. MXN 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 MXN 13,200.00
104 Álvarez, Francisco.

Noticia del Establecimiento y Población de las Colonias Inglesas en la América Septentrional.

1778 MXN 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 MXN 13,200.00
207

Cuentos de Calleja en Colores. Series "Pinocho" y "Pinocho Contra Chapete".

1919 - 1923. MXN 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 MXN 13,200.00
208 Disney, Walt.

Cuentos de Walt Disney.

MXN 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 MXN 13,200.00
212 Lantz, Walter / Marge.

El Pájaro Loco / La Pequeña Lulú.

1950´s - 1960's. MXN 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 MXN 13,200.00
236 Peza, Juan de Dios.

Tradiciones y Leyendas Mexicanas.

sin año. MXN 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 MXN 13,200.00
36 Prescott, William.

Historia de la Conquista de México. Con una Ojeada Preliminar sobre la Antigua Civilización de los Mexicanos, y con la Vida de su Conquistador Fernando Cortés.

1844 - 1846. MXN 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 MXN 12,000.00
89 Howman, Keith.

The Atlas of Rare Pheasants.

1997 MXN 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 MXN 12,000.00
167

General Álvaro Obregón 1920 - 1924.

1924 MXN 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 MXN 12,000.00
209 Disney, Walt.

Historietas de Walt Disney.

MXN 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 MXN 12,000.00
228 Gimeno de Flaquer.

El Álbum de la Mujer. Ilustración Hispano - Mexicana.

1884 MXN 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 MXN 12,000.00
238 Varo, Remedios.

De Homo Rodans, Hälikcio von Fuhrängschmidt.

1970 MXN 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 MXN 11,400.00
  • 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
    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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