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Beaussant Lefevre: Books and Manuscripts

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Auction Name	Books and Manuscripts	Total Sales (EUR)	185,234.00
Auction Date	May 31, 2024 - May 31, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	106,720.00
Sale Number	#150642	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	128,350.00
Total Lots	404
Sold Lots	370	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	140,130.00
% of Lots Sold	91.58%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	172,950.00
Unsold Lots	34	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	107.10%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
297	LEPAUTRE (Jean) et alii [Architecture et decors].	[Architecture et decors].	Seconde partie du XVIIe siecle.	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 5,197.00
136	SIEMIENOWICZ (Kazimierz).	Grand art d'artillerie.	1651	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 4,158.00
383	SERLIO (Sebastiano).	Il settimo libro d'architettura... Architecturae liber septimus, in quo multa explicantur, quae architecto variis locis possunt occurere...	1575	EUR 550.00 - 600.00	EUR 3,844.00
335	PARIS - FELIBIEN (Michel).	Histoire de la ville de Paris...	1725	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 3,248.00
304	[MARCOLINI (Marco Antonio) & Josephus Barba GUZMAN].	Relacion de las exequias hechas en Roma a... don Phelipe V...	1746	EUR 350.00 - 400.00	EUR 3,203.00
113	DIDEROT (Denis) & Jean d'ALEMBERT.	Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers... Recueil de planches...	1777-1779.	EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 3,075.00
361	PERRET (Jacques).	Des fortifications et artifices, architecture et perspective...	1601].	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 2,859.00
193	[ANTOINE (Pierre-Joseph)].	Serie des colonnes.	1782	EUR 150.00 - 180.00	EUR 2,435.00
381	SEHEULT (Francois-Leonard).	Recueil d'architecture, dessine et mesure en Italie, dans les annees 1791, 92 et 93...	1821	EUR 300.00 - 350.00	EUR 2,339.00
189	ALBERTI (Leon Battista).	L'architecture et art de bien bastir...	1553	EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	EUR 2,306.00
103	DENON (Vivant).	Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte, pendant les campagnes du general Bonaparte.	1803	EUR 800.00 - 850.00	EUR 2,209.00
191	ANDROUET DU CERCEAU (Jacques).	Livre d'architecture... contenant les plans et dessaings de cinquante bastimens tous differens...	1611	EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 2,209.00
176	LIGER (Louis).	La nouvelle maison rustique, ou Economie generale de tous les biens de campagne...	1755	EUR 450.00 - 500.00	EUR 2,178.00
181	[MOLLET (Claude)].	Theatre des plans et jardinages... avec un Traicte d'astrologie...	1652	EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00	EUR 1,949.00
248		Descrizione delle feste celebrate in Parma l'anno MDCCLXIX per le auguste nozze di Sua Altezza Reale l'infante don Ferdinando colla reale arciduchessa Maria Amalia.	[1769].	EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00	EUR 1,949.00
205	BLONDEL (Jacques-Francois).	De la distribution des maisons de plaisance et de la decoration des edifices en general.	1737-1738.	EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00	EUR 1,922.00
279	LALOUX (Victor).	Tributes.	1937	EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00	EUR 1,922.00
265	[FREART DE CHAMBRAY (Roland).	Parallele de l'architecture antique et de la moderne.	1702	EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	EUR 1,819.00
138	VALTURIO (Roberto).	De re militari...	July 1532.	EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00	EUR 1,794.00
207	BOCKLER (Georg Andreas).	Architectura curiosa nova. Das ist: Neue, ergotzliche, Sinn- und Kunstreiche, auch nutzliche Bau- und Wasser-Kunst...	1664	EUR 1,800.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 1,666.00
264	FRANCINI (Alessandro).	Livre d'architecture...	1640	EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	EUR 1,666.00
206	BLONDEL (Jacques-Francois).	Cours d'architecture, ou Traite de la decoration, distribution & construction des batiments... - Planches pour le premier [-sixieme] volume du Cours d'architecture...	1771-1777.	EUR 300.00 - 350.00	EUR 1,602.00
283	LAURO (Giacomo).	Splendore dell' antica e moderna Roma, nel quale si rappresentano tutti i principali tempii, teatri, anfiteatri, cerchi... con li piu segnalati giardini degli antichi e moderni Romani...	1641	EUR 700.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,559.00
362	PERRONET (Jean-Rodolphe).	Description des projets et de la construction des ponts de Neuilly, de Mantes, d'Orleans & autres ; du projet du canal de Bourgogne...	1782-1783	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 1,559.00
192	ANTOINE (Jean).	Traite d'architecture, ou Proportions des trois ordres grecs...	1768	EUR 450.00 - 500.00	EUR 1,538.00

Koller Auctions
Books & Autographs
18 September 2024

Koller, Sep. 18: Cowper, William. Anatomia corporum humanorum ab excellentissimis… Utrecht, 1750. CHF 25,000 to 40,000

Koller, Sep. 18: Bell, Thomas. A Monograph of the Testudinata. London [1836-1842]. CHF 20,000 to 30,000.

Koller, Sep. 18: Gould, John. A monograph of the Trochilidae, or family of humming-birds [and] Supplement completed after the authors death…, London [1849-]1861 and [1880-]1887. CHF 50,000 to 80,000.

Koller Auctions
Books & Autographs
18 September 2024

Koller, Sep. 18: Gould, John. The birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan Islands, including many new species recently discovered in Australia. CHF 50,000 to 80,000.

Koller, Sep. 18: Levaillant, François. Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des toucans et des barbus. Paris [1801-]1806. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.

Koller, Sep. 18: Pfinzing, Melchior. Die geverlicheiten und einsteils der geschichten des loblichen streytparen…, Nürnberg, 1517. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.
Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: HAMILTON, Sir William - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: 1779. € 50,000 - 80,000

Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: KIRCHER, Athanasius - Turris Babel. Amsterdam: 1679. € 3,000 - 5,000

Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: EDWARDS, George.London - Gleanings of Natural History. Londra: 1758-1764. € 7,000 - 10,000

Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: HEVELIUS, Johannes - Cometographia. Danzica: 1668. € 20,000 - 30,000

Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: KUPKA, Frantisek - Quatre histoires de blanc et noir. Parigi: 1926. € 10,000 - 15,000
Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 732. Early Announcement of Continental Congress' Declaration of Independence (1776) Est. $12,000 - $15,000

Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 361. One of Ortelius' Most Decorative Maps in Full Contemporary Color (1585) Est. $9,500 - $12,000

Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 55. Early Edition of One of the Most Important 16th Century Maps of the New World (1545) Est. $6,000 - $7,500

Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 27. Fascinating Japanese Satirical Map of the World Published After WWI (1924) Est. $2,750 - $3,500

Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 637. Complete Example of De Bry's Petits Voyages, Part VIII (1606) Est. $4,750 - $5,500

Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 50. Extremely Rare Uncut Sheet from Sylvanus's 1511 Edition of Ptolemy's Geographia (1511) Est. $2,000 - $2,300

Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 399. One of the Most Desired Maps of Ireland by John Speed (1610) Est. $2,750 - $3,500

Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 689. Pictorial Map of Melbourne in the Style of MacDonald Gill (1934) Est. $900 - $1,100

Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 652. Blaeu's Carte-a-Figures Map of Africa in Full Contemporary Color (1663) Est. $3,000 - $3,750

Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 729. Hand-Colored Image of David Handing the Letter to Uriah (1518) Est. $1,000 - $1,300

Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 533. Eight-Volume Set Recounting Travels of Anacharsis in Greece (1789) Est. $800 - $950
Dominic Winter Auctioneers
September 11
Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts, The Polydore Vergil bound for Queen Mary I

Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Exquemelin (Alexandre Olivier). The History of the Bucaniers of America..., 4 parts in one, 3rd edition, 1704. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Greenough (George Bellos). A Physical and Geological Map of England & Wales..., Geological Society, July 1865. £5,000-8,000

Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Illuminated Psalter. Manuscript Psalter with Calendar, Flanders or North-East France, late 13th century. £7,000-10,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
September 11
Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts, The Polydore Vergil bound for Queen Mary I

Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Book of Hours. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, Use of Rome, in Latin, Florence, c. 1470s. £3,000-5,000

Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Henry VIII (King of England). Assertio septem sacramentorum adversus Martinum Lutherum, Antwerp: Michiel Hillen, 1522. £3,000-5,000

Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Binding for Queen Mary I of England and Ireland. Polydori Vergilii Urbinatis Anglicae..., 1555. £20,000-30,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
September 11
Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts, The Polydore Vergil bound for Queen Mary I

Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Llwyd (Humphrey). The Breviary of Britayne..., 1st edition in English, 1573. William Lambarde's copy. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Embroidered Binding. The Whole Book of Psalmes..., Imprinted for the Company of Stationers, 1634. £700-1,000

Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Astronomy Manuscript. [Shakerley, Jeremy (1626-c.1655). Tabulae Britannicae, the British tables…], late 17th c. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
September 11
Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts, The Polydore Vergil bound for Queen Mary I

Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Elew (Jan Barend, publisher). Nederlandsch bloemwerk, Amsterdam: J.B. Elwe, 1794. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Vellucent Art Nouveau Binding [Book of Common Prayer] by Herbert Granville Fell, 1900. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Palladio (Andrea). The Architecture of A. Palladio; in Four Books, 2nd edition, 1721. £2,000-3,000
Sotheby’s
10 September 2024
The Shem Tov Bible

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