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Auction Name	Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V,	Total Sales (GBP)	2,951,798.00
Auction Date	December 10, 2024 - December 10, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	1,645,100.00
Sale Number	#L24405	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	2,319,900.00
Total Lots	242
Sold Lots	141	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	2,338,900.00
% of Lots Sold	58.26%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	3,313,000.00
Unsold Lots	101	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	89.10%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1168	ORIGENES.	Opera omnia [edited by Erasmus].	1545	GBP 80,000.00 - 100,000.00	GBP 406,400.00
1005	ANACREON.	Ek ton Anakreontos tou Tiiou. Anacreontis Teii Odae.	1552-1554	GBP 200,000.00 - 300,000.00	GBP 254,000.00
1239	VIMERCATI, FRANCESCO.	Francisci Vicomercati Mediolanensis in octo libros Aristotelis de naturali auscultatione commentarii. Et eorundem librorum e Graeco in Latinum per eundem conversio.	1550	GBP 70,000.00 - 100,000.00	GBP 228,600.00
1018	AUGUSTINUS, AURELIUS.	En habes optime lector absolutissimi doctoris Aurelii Augustini, opus absolutissimum, de Civitate dei, magnis sudoribus emendatum ad priscae venerandaeque vetustatis exemplaria...	1522	GBP 26,000.00 - 32,000.00	GBP 203,200.00
1047	CAESAR, GAIUS JULIUS.	C. Iulii Caesaris rerum ab se gestarum commentarii. De bello Gallico libri VIII. De bello Civili Pompeiano libri III. De bello Alexandrino liber I. De bello Africo liber I. De bello Hispaniensi liber I. ...	1543	GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00	GBP 101,600.00
1201	SICULUS FLACCUS, FRONTINUS AND OTHERS.	De agrorum conditionibus, & constitutionibus limitum, Siculi Flacci liber I. Iulii Frontini lib. I. Aggeni Urbici lib. II. Hygeni Gromatici lib. II. ...	1554	GBP 80,000.00 - 100,000.00	GBP 101,600.00
1092	EUSTATHIUS THESSALONICENSIS.	Eustathiou arxiepiskopou Thessalonikis parekbolai eis tin Omirou Iliada.	1542	GBP 70,000.00 - 100,000.00	GBP 88,900.00
1132	JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS.	Lhistoire escripte premierement en Grec par Josephus le Juif autheur tresnoble & ancien. Et en apres mise en Latin don't elle a este depuis faicte Francoyse. ...	1530	GBP 60,000.00 - 80,000.00	GBP 76,200.00
1230	VEGETIUS RENATUS, FLAVIUS.	I quattro libri di Vegetio Renato della medicina de cavalli et altri giumenti overo dell'arte di maniscalchi, tradotti della latina nella lingua volgare.	1544	GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	GBP 76,200.00
1129	JEWEL, JOHN.	A defence of the Apologie of the Churche of Englande, conteininge an answeare to a certaine booke lately set foorthe by M. Hardinge, and entituled, A confutation of &c.	1567	GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	GBP 69,850.00
1050	CASTRO, ALFONSO DE.	Adversus omnes hareses.	1543	GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	GBP 63,500.00
1139	LANDALFUS SAGAX.	Eutropii insigne volumen quo romana historia universa describitur, ex diversorum authorum monumentis collecta. Quanto vero maior codicum sinceritas eo tempore fuit, quam est hodie. ...	1532	GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00	GBP 63,500.00
1039	BOEHME, JOHANN.	Gli costumi, le leggi, et l'usanze di tutte le genti, raccolte qui insieme da molti illustri scrittori per Giovanni Boemo Aubano Alemanno, e tradotti per il Fauno...	1543	GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	GBP 50,800.00
1140	[LE COURT, BENOIT].	A Sammelband of 20 works gathered and bound by Le Court,	late 1490s to 1520s,	GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	GBP 50,800.00
1161	MASSARI, FRANCESCO.	Francisci Massarii Veneti In nonum Plinii De naturali historia librum castigationes & annotations.	1537	GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	GBP 48,260.00
1037		BIBLE. NEW TESTAMENT. LATIN. Evangelium. Secundum Matthaeum, Secundum Marcum, Secundum Lucam, Secundum Johannem. Acta Apostolorum. ...	1541	GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	GBP 44,450.00
998	ACHILLES TATIUS.	Narrationis amatoriae fragmentum e Graeco in Latinum conversum, L. Annibale Cruceio interprete.	1544	GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	GBP 38,100.00
1154	LUTHER, MARTIN.	Der Ander Teil der Bucher D. Mart. Luth., darin alle Streitschrifften, sampt etlichen sendbrieven an Fursten und Stedte etc. zusamen gebracht sind, ...	1551	GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	GBP 38,100.00
1187		REGUM FRANCORUM IMAGINES, quam proxime fieri potuit, ad vivum expressae, Una cum eorum vita, unicuique Imagini per compendium subiecta.	1554	GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	GBP 38,100.00
1009	[ARISTOTELES] PLATO and ARATUS OF SOLI.	Ek Platonos Timaoiu tmima to to Kikeronou peri pantos biblio sumphonoun. Ex Platonis Timaeo particula, Ciceronis de universitate libro respondens.	1542	GBP 26,000.00 - 32,000.00	GBP 33,020.00
1165	MORE, THOMAS, AND DESIDERIUS ERASMUS.	De optimo Reip. statu deque nova insula Utopia libellus... Epigrammata... Epigrammata. Des. Erasmi.	1518	GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	GBP 31,750.00
1233	VERGILIUS MARO, PUBLIUS.	Publii Virgilii maronis opera.	1502	GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	GBP 30,480.00
1025		BIBLE. LATIN. Sacra Biblia ad LXX. interpretum fidem diligentissime tralata.	1526	GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	GBP 27,940.00
1029		BIBLE. OLD TESTAMENT. PROPHETS. HEBREW. [Hebrew title:] Prophetae priores. Iosue, Iudicum liber, Samuel, Regum II.	1544	GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	GBP 27,940.00
1085	DIONYSIUS HALICARNASEUS.	Antiquitates Romanae [translated by Lampugninus Biragus].	1480	GBP 24,000.00 - 30,000.00	GBP 27,940.00

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Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD

Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD

Sotheby’s: William Golding.
Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD

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Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD

Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD

Sotheby’s: John Milton.
Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD

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