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Bertolami Fine Art : Rare, Antique and Collectible Books

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Auction Name Rare, Antique and Collectible Books Total Sales (EUR) 98,748.85
Auction Date December 17, 2024 - December 17, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 69,760.00
Sale Number #321 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 101,570.00
Total Lots 276
Sold Lots 211 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 125,080.00
% of Lots Sold 76.45% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 176,220.00
Unsold Lots 65 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 56.04%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
108 Kepler, Johannes

EPITOME ASTRONOMIAE COPERNICANAE. USED FORM QUAESTIONUM & RESPONSIONUM CONSCRIPTA INQ. VII LIBROS DIGESTA, QUORUM TRES PRIORES SUNT DE DOCTRINA SPHAERICA ... AUTHORE JOANNE KEPPLERO.

1618 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 6,096.00
107 Coronelli, Vincenzo

COSMOGRAPHICAL EPITOME, OR COMPENDIOUS INTRODUCTION TO ASTRONOMY, GEOGRAPHY, & HYDROGRAPHY, FOR THE USE, DILUCATION, AND MANUFACTURE OF SPHERES, GLOBES, PLANISPHERES, ASTROLABS, AND GEOGRAPHICAL TABLES, AND PARTICULARLY OF THE PRINTED MATERIALS, AND EXPLA

1693 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 3,556.00
10

Statutes of the Principalities of Bozzolo Sabbioneta ... Manuscript of ancient law and economics,

1588 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,048.00
65 Venuti, Ridolfino

ACCURATE AND SUCCINTH TOPOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION OF MODERN ROME. POSTHUMOUS WORK OF THE ABBOT RIDOLFINO VENUTI OF CORTONA, ... REDUCED TO A BETTER FORM, ENLARGED, AND ARRANGED WITH MANY COPPER FIGURES.

1766 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,794.00
241 Marx, Karl

CAPITAL. A CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. [ECONOMIST'S LIBRARY COLLECTION OF THE MOST VALUABLE MODERN ITALIAN AND FOREIGN WORKS ON POLITICAL ECONOMY, VOL. 9, P. 2.

1886 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,413.00
136 Dali, Salvador & Boccaccio, Giovanni

DECAMERON

1972 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,032.00
37 Genga, Bernardino

Surgical anatomy, that is, anatomical history of the bones and muscles of the human body...

1672 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,905.00
102 Mattioli, Pietro Andrea

The discourses of m. Pietro Andrea Matthioli ... in the six books of Pedacius Discorides Anazarbeus on medicinal matters...

1568 EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 1,905.00
122 Mydorge, Claude & Giordano, Vitale

Conical Elements or the First Book of Catoptrics.

1685 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,905.00
146

Petrarch with the exposition of Alessandro Vellutello...

1552 Not Available EUR 1,905.00
84 Basilius Valentinus (Basil Valentine)

FR. BASILII VALENTINI, ORDIN, BENEDICT. CHYMISCHE SCHRIFTEN, AUS EINIGEN ALTEN MSTEN AUFS FLEISSIGSTE VERBESSERT, MIT VIELEN TRACTATEN, AUCH ETLICHEN FIGUREN VERMEHRET, UND NEBST EINEM VOLLSTANDIGEN REGISTER IN DREY THEILE VERFASSET SAMT EINER NEUEN VORR

1740 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,651.00
133 Boscovich, Ruggero G.

De lentibus et telescopiis dioptricis.

1755 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,651.00
109 Galilei, Galileo

Dialogue... where in four-day congresses the two greatest systems of the world, Ptolemaic and Copernican, are discussed. Second impression enhanced by a Letter from the same...

ca.1710 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,524.00
71 Lauro, Giacomo

Antiquae Urbis splendor hoc est praecipua eiusdem templa, amphitheatra, theatra, circi, naumachiae, arcus triumphales, mausolea aliaque sumptuosiora aedificia pozzoe item triumphalis et colossaearum imaginum descriptio.

1641 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,397.00
207 Eymerich, Nicolas

Directorium inquisitorum F. Nicolai Eymerici Ordinis Praed. Cum commentariis Francisci Pegnae.

1587 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,397.00
222 Alighieri, Dante

Comedy of Dante Alighieri divine poet

1529 EUR 600.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,397.00
120 Cossali, Pietro

ON THE MYSTERIOUS ALEMBERT EQUATION (1+hv-1)m=(1-hv-1)m LETTER WRITTEN ON JULY 9, 1783. FROM FATHER PIETRO COSSALI TO THE SAME MR. D'ALEMBERT.

1783 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,270.00
193 Kircher, Athanasius

ATHANASII KIRCHERI E SOCIETATE IESU HISTORIA EUSTACHIO-MARIANA QUA ADMIRANDA D. EUSTACHIJ, SOCIORUMQUE VITA EX VARIJS AUTHORIBUS COLLECTA; LOCUS IN QUO EIDEM IN MONTE VULTURELLO CHRISTUS INTER CORNUA CERUI APPARUIT, NOUITER DETECTUS; ...

1665 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,270.00
179 Casas, Bartolome de las

HISTORY, OR VERY BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WEST INDIES; ACCORDING TO ITS TRUE SPANISH ORIGINAL PRINTED IN SEVILLE, WITH THE ITALIAN TRANSLATION BY FRANCESCO BERSABITA.

1626 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,206.50
117 Della Porta, Giovan Battista

Elementorum curvilineorum libri tres.

1610 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,143.00
195 Menghi, Girolamo

Compendium of the art of exorcism, ...

1580 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 1,143.00
264 Brusoni, Lucius Domitius

FACETIARUM EXEMPLORUMQUE, BOOKS VII.

1518 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,143.00
12

[ MANUSCRIPTS / HORSE RIDING ] " Manuscript Discourse on Horses, Their Evils and Way of Learning to Ride "

late 17th and early 18th century EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,079.50
170 Pezel, Christoph D.

CHRISTOPHORI PEZELII PRAECEPTA GENETHLIACA SIUE DE PROGNOSTICANDIS HOMINUM NATIUITATIBUS COMMENTARIUS ERUDITISSIMUS, IN QUO NON SOLUM ASTROLOGIAE PRAECEPTA & CERTA ISTIUS FUNDAMENTA DEMONSTRANTUR, VERUM ETIAM VARII CASUS, HISTORIAE, EUENTUS & EXEMPLA LEP

1607 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,079.50
115 Giordano, Vitale

De componendis gravium momentis dissertatio.

1687 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,016.00
  • High Bids Win
    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.
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    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja
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    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.
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    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
  • 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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