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Auction Name Very Beautiful Mountain Books Total Sales (EUR) 617,013.00
Auction Date December 09, 2024 - December 09, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 277,250.00
Sale Number #120924 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 362,000.00
Total Lots 166
Sold Lots 153 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 324,050.00
% of Lots Sold 92.17% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 421,600.00
Unsold Lots 13 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 146.35%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
62 FELLOWS (Charles).

A Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont-Blanc.

1827 EUR 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 EUR 131,250.00
24 BLAEU (Joan) et BORGOGNIO (Gio Tomaso).

Theatre des Estats de son Altesse Royale le duc de Savoye, prince de Piemont, roi de Cypre.

1700 EUR 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 31,250.00
41 CHARTON (Gabriel).

Souvenirs pittoresques des glaciers de Chamouny.

1821 EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 27,500.00
22 BIRMANN (Samuel).

Souvenirs de la vallee de Chamonix.

s.d. [1826] EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 26,250.00
6 ALBANIS-BEAUMONT (Jean-Francois).

Voyage pittoresque aux Alpes pennines

1787 EUR 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 22,500.00
163 WYTTENBACH (Jacob Samuel).

Vues remarquables des montagnes de la Suisse, avec leur description.

1785 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 20,000.00
48 COLEMAN (Edmund Thomas).

Scenes from the snowfields : being illustrations of the upper ice-world of Mont Blanc, from sketches made on the spot in the years 1855, 1856, 1857, 1858

1855, 1856, 1857, 1858 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 16,250.00
139 Smith (Albert).

The new game of the ascent of Mont Blanc.

1861 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 15,000.00
122 Pitschner (Wilhelm)

Der Mont Blanc Darstellung des Besteigung desselben am 31 Juli, 1 und 2 August 1859 - Atlas zum Mont Blanc.

1860-1864. EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 11,000.00
59 EBEL (Johann Gottfried) et MEYER (Johann Jakob)

Voyage pittoresque dans le Canton des Grisons en Suisse vers le lac Majeur et le lac de Come sur les grandes routes nouvellement construites a travers les cols de Splugen et de Bernhardin en 32 planches.

1827 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 10,000.00
104 MARTEL (Pierre) et WINDHAM (William).

An account of the glacieres or ice Alps in Savoy, in two letters, one from an English gentleman to his friend at Geneva ; the other from Pierre Martel, engineer, to the said English gntleman [sic].

1744 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 10,000.00
35 BROWNE (James D. Howe).

Ten Scenes in the last Ascent of Mont Blanc including five Views from the Summit.

fevrier 1853. EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 9,500.00
138 Smith (Albert).

Mr Albert Smith's Ascent of Mont Blanc in miniature.

vers 1854. EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 9,375.00
4 ALBANIS-BEAUMONT (Jean-Francois).

Travels from France to Italy, through the Lepontine Alps, or, An itinerary from Lyons to Turin, by the way of Pays-de-Vaud, the Vallais...

1800 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 9,250.00
66 FRESHFIELD (Douglas William).

Across Country from Thonon to Trent. Rambles and Scrambles in Switzerland and the Tyrol.

1865 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 7,500.00
117 PAYOT (Venance).

Collection de roches du massif du Mont-Blanc.

vers 1860. EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 7,500.00
97 LORY (Gabriel-Ludwig et Mathias-Gabriel).

Voyage pittoresque aux glaciers de Chamouni.

1815 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 6,188.00
76 HACQUET (Belsazar).

Physikalisch= Politische Reise aus den Dinarischen durch die Julischen, Carnischen, Rhatischen in die Norischen Alpen, im Jahre 1781 und 1783 unternommen von Hacquet.

1785 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 6,000.00
156 WALTON (Elijah) et BONNEY (Thomas George)

The Peaks and valleys of the Alps.

1867 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 6,000.00
159 WHYMPER (Edward).

Scrambles amongst the Alps in the years 1860-69.

1871 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 5,750.00
111 MEYER (Johann Jakob).

Malerische Reise auf der neuen Kunststrasse aus dem Etschthal in Tyrol uber die Stilfser-Joch durch die Veltlin langs dem Comersee nach Mayland .

1831 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,500.00
102 LUSI (Frederic Guillaume de).

Voyage sur le Mont-Blanc entrepris le 15 septembre 1816.

1816 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 5,375.00
3 AGASSIZ (Louis).

Etude sur les glaciers.

1840 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,250.00
20 BERNUCCA (Francesco), LOSE (Friedrich) et LOSE (Carolina).

Viaggio pittorico e strorico ai te laghi Maggiore, di Lugano e Como

1818 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,000.00
32 BRAY (Comte Francois Gabriel de).

Voyage pittoresque dans le Tyrol ; aux salines de Salzbourg et de Reichenhall et dans une partie de la Baviere.

1825 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 5,000.00
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