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Auction Name	Books, Autographs, and Prints - online 2/23	Total Sales (EUR)	31,192.20
Auction Date	March 12, 2024 - March 12, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	21,440.00
Sale Number	#31224	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	34,450.00
Total Lots	383
Sold Lots	117	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	102,340.00
% of Lots Sold	30.55%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	155,540.00
Unsold Lots	266	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	20.05%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
324	Fellini, Federico, Roberto Rossellini	Roma Citta Aperta - Paisa - Certificate of Nomination for Award, 1946	1946	EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 3,870.00
150	Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de	Elemens de la philosophie de Neuton, Misa la portee de tout le mond., 1738	1738	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 1,032.00
88	De Matteis, Paolo	Illustrious Virtutum Maecenati Atque Amplissimo Domino Domno Adriano Ulloae Et Regenti Dignissimo Paulus De Matthaeis, ut Tyrones addiscant hec Pictura Artis Exempla dicat et consecrat, 1700	1700 [c.1720].	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 967.50
95		Notices and Posters, 1700	1700	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 903.00
331	Fellini, Federico	Satyricon - Certificate of Nomination for Award, 1970	1970	Not Available	EUR 709.50
1	Aristotele	Aristotelis Stagiritae peripateticorum Principis Ethicorum ad Nicomachum libri decem, 1565	1565	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	EUR 645.00
327	Fellini, Federico	Venice Biennale XIV International Film Festival 1953 - Silver Lion of San Marco to Federico Fellini for the film I Vitelloni, 1953	1953	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	EUR 645.00
63		Holy Bible, 1608	1608	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 593.40
96	Giuseppe Lorenzo Maria Casaregi	De Commerce, 1740	1740	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 580.50
27	Siebmacher, Johann	Das erneuerte und vermehrte Teutsche Wappenbuch, 1657	1657	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 516.00
148	Vesuvio - Torcia, Michele	Report of the last eruption of Vesuvius which occurred in August of this year 1779, 1779	1779	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 516.00
25	Sacchi, Bartolomeo detto il Platina	History of Battista Platina....of the Lives of the Supreme Pontiffs, 1592	1592	EUR 200.00 - 250.00	EUR 503.10
16	Ruscelli, Girolamo - Tolomeo, Claudio	Orbis Descriptio., 1561	1561	EUR 350.00 - 500.00	EUR 451.50
40	Giovanni Domenico Peri	The Negotiator, 1682	1682	EUR 300.00 - 350.00	EUR 451.50
61	Mercurio, Scipione	The Commare or Gatherer. Divided into three books., 1680	1680	EUR 350.00 - 550.00	EUR 451.50
213	Galanti, Giuseppe Maria	Naples and its surroundings, 1829	1829	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 425.70
383	Warhol, Andy - Colacello, Bob	Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1979	1979	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 425.70
22	Tolomeo, Claudio	Europae tabula secunda continent Hispaniam BAETICAM, Hispaniam Lusitaniam & Hispaniam Tarraconensem., 1541	1541	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 387.00
28	Argoli, Andrea	Ptolemaeus parvuus. In Genethliacis junctus Arabicus., 1680	1680	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 387.00
31	Bentivoglio, Guido	Memoirs. With which he describes his life, and not only the things that happened to him during it, but also the most notable ones that still occurred in the city of Rome, in Italy & elsewhere, 1648	1648	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 387.00
41	Federico Federici	Treatise on the Fiesca family, 1650	1650	EUR 350.00 - 450.00	EUR 387.00
45	Mascardi, Agostino	The Conspiracy of Count Giio. Luigi de Fieschi, 1629	1629	EUR 300.00 - 320.00	EUR 387.00
54	Giacomo Cantelli	Holy Land: siue Promissionis, olim Palestina, in duo diuisa Regna, Israel et Iuda et in sex sub diuisa Provincias scilicet Iudaea, Samaria, Galilaea, Trachonitide, Peraea et Idumaea ac in duodecim Tribus Filiorum Israel., 1679	1679	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 387.00
94		Laws of the Ligustica Academy of Painting, Sculpture, Civil Architecture, 1783	1783	EUR 150.00 - 180.00	EUR 387.00
98	Carlo Giuseppe Ratti	Education of the most beautiful things to be seen in Genoa in painting, sculpture and architecture, 1766	1766	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 387.00

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
Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
K. Marx, Das Kapital,1867. Dedication copy. Est: € 120,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Latin and French Book of Hours, around 1380. Est: € 25,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Theodor de Bry, Indiae Orientalis, 1598-1625. Est: € 80,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Breviary, Latin manuscript, around 1450-75. Est: € 10,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
G. B. Piranesi, Vedute di Roma, 1748-69. Est: € 60,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
K. Schmidt-Rottluff, Arbeiter, 1921. Orig. watercolour on postcard. Est: € 18,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: € 20,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
C. J. Trew, Plantae selectae, 1750-73. Est: € 28,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
M. Beckmann, Apokalypse, 1943. Est: € 50,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Ulrich von Richenthal, Das Concilium, 1536. Est: € 9,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
I. Kant, Critik der reinen Vernunft, 1781. Est: €12,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ) / Die Volks-Illustrierte (VI), 1932-38. Est: €8,000
ALDE, May 28: KIPLING (RUDYARD). Le Livre de la Jungle. – Le IIe livre de la Jungle. Paris, Sagittaire, Simon Kra, 1924-1925. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, May 28: NOAILLES (ANNA DE). Les Climats. Paris, Société du Livre contemporain, 1924. €50,000 to €60,000.

ALDE, May 28: MILTON (JOHN). Paradis perdu. Quatrième chant. S.l., Les Bibliophiles de l'Automobile-Club de France, 1974. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, May 28: LEBEDEV (VLADIMIR). Russian Placards - Placard Russe 1917-1922. Saint-Petersbourg, Sterletz, 1923. €1,000 to €1,200.

ALDE, May 28: MARDRUS (JOSEPH-CHARLES). Histoire charmante de l'adolescente sucre d'amour. Paris, F.-L. Schmied, 1927. €1,500 to €2,000.

ALDE, May 28: TABLEAUX DE PARIS. Paris, Émile-Paul Frères, 1927. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, May 28: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Les Fables illustrées par Paul Jouve. S.l. [Lausanne], Gonin & Cie, 1929. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, May 28: SARTRE (JEAN-PAUL). Vingt-deux dessins sur le thème du désir. Paris, Fernand Mourlot, 1961. €1,500 to €2,000.

ALDE, May 28: [BRAQUE (GEORGES)]. 13 mai 1962. Alès, PAB, 1962. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, May 28: MIRÓ (JOAN). Je travaille comme un jardinier. Avant-propos d'Yvon Taillandier. Paris, Société intenationale d'art XXe siècle, 1963. €1,000 to €2,000.

ALDE, May 28: MAGNAN (JEAN-MARIE). Taureaux. Paris, Michèle Trinckvel, 1965. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, May 28: PICASSO (PABLO). Dans l'atelier de Picasso. 1960. €15,000 to €20,000.

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