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Forum Auctions
A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library
19th June 2025Forum, June 19: Euclid. The Elements of Geometrie, first edition in English of the first complete translation, [1570]. £20,000 to £30,000.Forum, June 19: Nicolay (Nicolas de). The Navigations, peregrinations and voyages, made into Turkie, first edition in English, 1585. £10,000 to £15,000.Forum, June 19: Shakespeare source book.- Montemayor (Jorge de). Diana of George of Montemayor, first edition in English, 1598. £6,000 to £8,000.Forum, June 19: Livius (Titus). The Romane Historie, first edition in English, translated by Philemon Holland, Adam Islip, 1600. £6,000 to £8,000.Forum Auctions
A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library
19th June 2025Forum, June 19: Robert Molesworth's copy.- Montaigne (Michel de). The Essayes Or Morall, Politike and Millitarie Discourses, first edition in English, 1603. £10,000 to £15,000.Forum, June 19: Shakespeare (William). The Tempest [&] The Two Gentlemen of Verona, from the Second Folio, [Printed by Thomas Cotes], 1632. £4,000 to £6,000.Forum, June 19: Boyle (Robert). Medicina Hydrostatica: or, Hydrostaticks Applyed to the Materia Medica, first edition, for Samuel Smith, 1690. £2,500 to £3,500.Forum, June 19: Locke (John). An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding in Four Books, first edition, second issue, 1690. £8,00 to £12,000. -
Sotheby’s
New York Book Week
12-26 JuneSotheby’s, June 25: Theocritus. Theocriti Eclogae triginta, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, February 1495/1496. 220,000 - 280,000 USDSotheby’s, June 26: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby, 1925. 40,000 - 60,000 USDSotheby’s, June 26: Blake, William. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Printed ca. 1381-1832. 400,000 - 600,000 USDSotheby’s, June 26: Lincoln, Abraham. Thirteenth Amendment, signed by Abraham Lincoln. 8,000,000 - 12,000,000 USDSotheby’s, June 26: Galieli, Galileo. First Edition of the Foundation of Modern Astronomy, 1610. 300,000 - 400,000 USD -
Finarte
Books, Autographs & Prints
June 24 & 25, 2025Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE / LANDINO, CRISTOFORO. Comento di Christophoro Landino Fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino, 1481. €40,000 to €50,000.Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus]. Aggiunta: Marsilius Ficinus, Ad Dantem gratulatio [in latino e Italiano], 1487. €40,000 to €60,000.Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. Il Convivio, 1490. €20,000 to €25,000.Finarte
Books, Autographs & Prints
June 24 & 25, 2025Finarte, June 24-25: BANDELLO, MATTEO. La prima [-quarta] parte de le nouelle del Bandello, 1554. €7,000 to €9,000.Finarte, June 24-25: LEGATURA – PLUTARCO. Le vies des hommes illustres, grecs et romaines translates, 1567. €10,000 to €12,000.Finarte, June 24-25: TOLOMEO, CLAUDIO. Ptolemeo La Geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alessandrino, Con alcuni comenti…, 1548. €4,000 to €6,000.Finarte
Books, Autographs & Prints
June 24 & 25, 2025Finarte, June 24-25: FESTE - COPPOLA, GIOVANNI CARLO. Le nozze degli Dei, favola [...] rappresentata in musica in Firenze…, 1637. €6,000 to €8,000.Finarte, June 24-25: SPINOZA, BARUCH. Opera posthuma, 1677. €8,000 to €12,000.Finarte, June 24-25: PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER. Borus Godunov, 1831. €30,000 to €50,000.Finarte
Books, Autographs & Prints
June 24 & 25, 2025Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - LECUIRE, PIERRE. Ballets-minute, 1954. €35,000 to €40,000.Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - MAJAKOVSKIJ, VLADIMIR / LISSITZKY, LAZAR MARKOVICH. Dlia Golosa, 1923. €7,000 to €10,000.Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - MATISSE, HENRI / MONTHERLANT, HENRY DE. Pasiphaé. Chant de Minos., 1944. €22,000 to €24,000. -
Bonhams, June 16-25: 15th-CENTURY TREATISE ON SYPHILIS. GRÜNPECK. 1496. $20,000 - $30,000Bonhams, June 16-25: THE NORMAN COPY OF BENIVIENI'S TREATISE ON PATHOLOGY. 1507. $12,000 - $18,000Bonhams, June 16-25: FRACASTORO. Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus. 1530. $8,000 - $12,000Bonhams, June 16-25: THE FIRST PUBLISHED WORK ON SKIN DISEASES. MERCURIALIS. De morbis cutaneis... 1572. $10,000 - $15,000Bonhams, June 16-25: BIDLOO. Anatomia humani corporis... 1685. $6,000 - $9,000Bonhams, June 16-25: THE NORMAN COPY OF DOUGLASS'S EARLY AMERICAN WORK ON INNOCULATION AND SMALLPOX. 1722. $20,000 - $30,000Bonhams, June 16-25: LIND'S FIRST TREATISE ON SCURVY. 1753. $15,000 - $20,000Bonhams, June 16-25: RARE JENNER SIGNED CIRCULAR ON VACCINATION. 1821. $4,000 - $6,000Bonhams, June 16-25: MOST BEAUTIFUL OF MEDICAL ILLUSTRATIONS. BRIGHT. Reports of Medical Cases... 1827-1831. $10,000 - $15,000Bonhams, June 16-25: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE PRESENTATION COPY TO HER MOTHER. 1860. $6,000 - $8,000Bonhams, June 16-25: LORENZO TRAVER'S MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF BURNSIDE'S NORTH CAROLINA EXPEDITION. TRAVER, Lorenzo. $2,000 - $3,000Bonhams, June 16-25: ONE OF THE EARLIEST PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOKS ON DERMATOLOGY. HARDY. Clinique Photographique... 1868. $3,000 - $5,000
Venator and Hanstein: Modern and Contemporary Graphic Art, Modern Books
Auction Reports
Auction Name | Modern and Contemporary Graphic Art, Modern Books | Total Sales (EUR) | 399,533.40 |
Auction Date | March 29, 2025 - March 29, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 350,000.00 |
Sale Number | #180 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 350,000.00 |
Total Lots | 503 | ||
Sold Lots | 267 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 570,650.00 |
% of Lots Sold | 53.08% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 570,650.00 |
Unsold Lots | 236 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 70.01% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1085 | Arnulf Rainer | Haute Coiffure |
1963 | EUR 9,000.00 - 9,000.00 | EUR 10,710.00 |
793 | RUPPRECHT GEIGER | Farbsequenzen |
1966 | EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 9,450.00 |
1320 | ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER | GUSTAV SCHIEFLER: Die Graphik Ernst Ludwig Kirchners. Band I bis 1916 / Band II 1917-1927. 2 Bde. |
1926-31 | EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 7,938.00 |
1101 | GERHARD RICHTER | Blattecke |
2014 | EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 7,560.00 |
832 | HAP GRIESHABER | Fruhling (Hirtin) |
1949 | EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 6,930.00 |
503 | JOSEF ALBERS | Ek Id (aus: Homage to the Square) |
1970 | EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 6,300.00 |
672 | OTTO DIX | Katze und Hahn |
1966 | EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 6,300.00 |
870 | DAVID HOCKNEY | The marriage |
1962 | EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 6,300.00 |
978 | EWALD MATARE | Liegende Kuh |
1934 (oder 1932 | EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 6,300.00 |
1052 | PABLO PICASSO | La Ronde de la Jeunesse |
1961 | EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 5,292.00 |
1027 | EMIL NOLDE | Segler und drei kleine Dampfer |
1910 | EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 5,040.00 |
1242 | ANDY WARHOL | Jean Cocteau |
1985 | EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 5,040.00 |
639 | MARC CHAGALL | Clown (Aus: Der Zirkus) |
1967 | EUR 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 | EUR 4,914.00 |
1069 | SERGE POLIAKOFF | Composition rouge et verte (Komposition in Rot und Grun) |
1962 | EUR 3,500.00 - 3,500.00 | EUR 4,914.00 |
1382 | PABLO PICASSO; PIERRE REVERDY | Le chant des Morts. Poemes. Lithographies originales de Pablo Picasso. |
1948 | EUR 4,500.00 - 4,500.00 | EUR 4,914.00 |
794 | RUPPRECHT GEIGER | Ein Weg zur Farbe (Mappenwerk und Entwurfe) |
1977 | EUR 4,500.00 - 4,500.00 | EUR 4,536.00 |
970 | NEO RAUCH | Die Reise |
1989 | EUR 4,500.00 - 4,500.00 | EUR 4,536.00 |
1376 | MIRO, JOAN; MICHEL LEIRIS / FERNAND MOURLOT | Der Lithograph. (Deutsche Ubersetzung von Ursula Patzies und Georges D. Ruelle). Bd. I. (v. 4). |
1972 | EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 4,536.00 |
945 | ROY LICHTENSTEIN | As I opened fire |
1966 | EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 4,158.00 |
1323 | HEINRICH VOGELER | HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL: Der Kaiser und die Hexe. |
1900 | EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 4,158.00 |
1340 | MARC CHAGALL | FERNAND MOURLOT: Chagall Lithograph II: 1957-1962 |
1963 | EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 4,158.00 |
1391 | WALASSE TING | 1C/ Life / One Cent Life. Ed. by Sam Francis. |
1964 | EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 4,158.00 |
635 | MARC CHAGALL | Hochzeitsfest in der Grotte der Nymphen (Aus: Daphnis und Chloe) |
1961 | EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 3,780.00 |
971 | ZERO |
1966 | EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 3,780.00 | |
1054 | PABLO PICASSO | Aus: La Celestine |
1968 | EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 3,780.00 |