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New England Book Auctions: 15th-18th Century Printing, Science, & Americana Part 2

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Auction Name 15th-18th Century Printing, Science, & Americana Part 2 Total Sales (USD) 70,362.00
Auction Date September 17, 2024 - September 17, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 59,005.00
Sale Number #91724 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 89,345.00
Total Lots 206
Sold Lots 187 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 63,420.00
% of Lots Sold 90.78% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 95,905.00
Unsold Lots 19 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 73.37%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
78 Neff, Jacob

Manuscript hymnal on paper by Neff. 44 leaves of verse and music in German Kurrentschrift and Fraktur.

1804 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 5,100.00
23

Bible in English. The Holy Bible. Woodcuts. Black letter ruled in red.

1582-83 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 4,800.00
88 Vincent of Beauvais.

Opuscula...

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,300.00
141 Plato

Opera quae extant omnia. Greek and Latin text.

1578 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 2,280.00
123a [Moraes Cabral, Francisco de; & Luis Hurtado]

Le Premier [second] livre du preux, vaillant et tres victorieux chevalier Palmerin d'Angleterre, filz du Roy dom Edoard.

USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,040.00
142 Plato

Omnia Opera...commentariis Procli in Timaeum & Politica. Greek text.

March 1534 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,040.00
24

Bible in Latin. Biblia.

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,920.00
185 Vergilius Maro, Publius

Opera

1532; 1529 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,680.00
2 Ackermann, Rudolph, publisher

The Microcosm of London.

Circa 1830 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,560.00
31 Bude, Guillaume

Commentarii Linguae Graecae. Printer's device on title (Schreiber 10). 1109,

1548 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,200.00
90 Josephus, Flavius

Opera. Greek text. Title in red and black.

1544 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,140.00
39a (Caxton, William)

An Original Leaf from the Polychronicon printed by William Czxton at Westminster in the Year 1482. The Life and Works of William Caxton, with an Historical Reminder of Fifteenth Century English by Benjamin P. Kurtz. Printed in reed and black Franciscan ty

1938 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,080.00
101 Legendre, Adrien-Marie

Nouvelles Methodes pour la Determination des Orbites des Cometes.

1805 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,080.00
129

Ely, W. W. Map of the New York Wilderness.

1869 USD 80.00 - 120.00 USD 1,080.00
52 Dante Alighieri

L'Amoroso Conuiuio. Title within woodcut border, device on final leaf verso.

1531 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,020.00
76 Harmony Society

Feurige Kohlen der aufsteigenden Liebesflammen im Lustspiel der Weisheit.

1826 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,020.00
109 Lucretius Carus, Titus

De Rerum Natura, Libri VI.

1570 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,020.00
144 Plutarch

Omnium quae exstant operum. Greek text with Latin translation by Hermann Cruser and Wilhelm Xylander in parallel columns

1624 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,020.00
100a

(Leaf Book). An Original Leaf from the Polychronicon printed by William Caxton at Westminster in the Year 1482. The Life and Works of William Caxton

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 960.00
174 Thucydides

De Bello Peoploponnesiaco Libri Octo. Greek text with Latin translation by Lorenzo Valla; edited by Henri Estienne.

1564 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 960.00
197 Xenophon

Quae extant opera...editio secunda.

1581 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 900.00
43 Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Opera Omnia quae exstant, a Dionysio Lambino...

, 1566 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 840.00
9

Americana. Early 19th-century manuscript ledger.

1830s-50s USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 660.00
60

Engravings. Collection of over 400 ornamental and architectural engravings from various editions mounted to leaves.

vd USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 660.00
92 Josephus, Flavius

Historien und Bucher: Von alten Judischen Geschichten

1603) USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 660.00
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 54
    Books, Autographs & Manuscripts
    October 8th-10th 2024
    Gonnelli: Menù di gala per l'incoronazione di Nicola II Romanov e di Aleksandra Feodorovna. Moskva, 1896. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Raccolta di 38 albumine, molte colorate a mano, di vedute della Cina, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Giappone e vari ritratti, 1880. Starting price 340 €
    Gonnelli
    Futurism
    Gonnelli: Lucio Fontana. Milan: Achille Mauri, 1968. Starting price 400 €
    Gonnelli: Mucha Alphonse, Documents décoratifs, 1901-1902. Starting price 10000 €
    Gonnelli: Christie Agatha, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. A detective story. London: John Lane, 1921. Starting price 460 €
    Gonnelli: Alberti Leon Battista, Ecatonphyla. Venice: Bernardino da Cremona, 1491. Starting price 10000 €
    Gonnelli: Menabrea Luigi Federico, Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage Esq. London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843. Starting price 5000 €
    Gonnelli: Bardi Giovanni, Memorie del calcio fiorentino. Florence, 1688. Starting price 1000 €
  • ABAA
    75th Anniversary Virtual Book Fair
    September 25-27
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    ABAA
    75th Anniversary Virtual Book Fair
    September 25-27
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    ABAA
    75th Anniversary Virtual Book Fair
    September 25-27
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    ABAA
    75th Anniversary Virtual Book Fair
    September 25-27
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    ABAA
    75th Anniversary Virtual Book Fair
    September 25-27
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    ABAA
    75th Anniversary Virtual Book Fair
    September 25-27
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    ABAA
    75th Anniversary Virtual Book Fair
    September 25-27
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    ABAA
    75th Anniversary Virtual Book Fair
    September 25-27
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    ABAA
    75th Anniversary Virtual Book Fair
    September 25-27
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    ABAA
    75th Anniversary Virtual Book Fair
    September 25-27
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    ABAA
    75th Anniversary Virtual Book Fair
    September 25-27
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  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Bible, Arabic & Latin. Biblia Sacra Arabica, 3 vol., Rome, Tipografia della Congregazione di Propaganda Fide, 1671. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Shepard (Ernest). "Wind in the Willows" Toad Escapes from Prison, original pencil drawing with watercolour, 1931. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Economics.- Smith (Adam). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 2 vol., second edition, Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1778. £12,000 to £18,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Burma.- Burmese School (1870s). Folding manuscript, or parabaik, of festivities and processions, probably from the Court Workshop at the Royal Court at Manadaly, Burma, [c. 1870]. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: More (Sir Thomas). La Description de l'Isle d'Utopie ou est comprins le Miroer des republiques du monde, first French edition, Paris, Charles l'Angelier, 1550. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Botany.- Dioscorides (Pedanius). De medicinali materia libri sex, hand-coloured throughout, Frankfurt-am-Main, Chr. Egenolff, 1543. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: World.- Blaeu (Johannes). Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula Auctore Joanne Blaeu, engraved map, [c.1662]. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Shelley (Mary). Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, 2 vol., [second edition], Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: [Evans (Marian)] 'George Eliot'. A complete set of first editions of her works, uniformly bound in red morocco, 1858-1885 (30). £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Lewis (C.S.) [The Chronicles of Narnia], 7 vol., first editions, 1950-56. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Albertolli (Ferdinando). Porte di Città e Fortezze...di Michele Sammicheli, Milan, 1815. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Gregynog Press.- Euripides. The Plays, one of 25 specially-bound copies, this by George Fisher at the Gregynog Bindery, 1931. £4,000 to £6,000.
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