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  • Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 567. One of the Earliest & Most Desirable Printed Maps of Arabia - by Holle/Germanus (1482) Est. $55,000 - $65,000 Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 567. One of the Earliest & Most Desirable Printed Maps of Arabia - by Holle/Germanus (1482) Est. $55,000 - $65,000
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 567. One of the Earliest & Most Desirable Printed Maps of Arabia - by Holle/Germanus (1482) Est. $55,000 - $65,000
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 567. One of the Earliest & Most Desirable Printed Maps of Arabia - by Holle/Germanus (1482) Est. $55,000 - $65,000
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 681. Zatta's Complete Atlas with 218 Maps in Full Contemporary Color (1779) Est. $27,500 - $35,000
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 347. MacDonald Gill's Landmark "Wonderground Map" of London (1914) Est. $1,800 - $2,100
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 1. Fries' "Modern" World Map with Portraits of Five Kings (1525) Est. $4,000 - $4,750
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 539. Ortelius' Superb, Decorative Map of Cyprus in Full Contemporary Color (1573) Est. $1,100 - $1,400
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 51. Mercator's Foundation Map for the Americas in Full Contemporary Color (1630) Est. $3,250 - $4,000
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 667. Manuscript Bible Leaf with Image of Mary and Baby Jesus (1450) Est. $1,900 - $2,200
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 226. "A Powerful Example of Color Used to Make a Point" (1895) Est. $400 - $600
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 290. One of the Most Decorative Early Maps of South America - from Linschoten's "Itinerario" (1596) Est. $7,000 - $8,500
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 62. Coronelli's Influential Map of North America with the Island of California (1688) Est. $10,000 - $12,000
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 589. The First European-Printed Map of China - by Ortelius (1584) Est. $4,000 - $5,000
  • Forum AuctionsA Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library19th June 2025 Forum AuctionsA Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library19th June 2025
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    A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library
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    A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library
    19th June 2025
    Forum, 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.
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    A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library
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    Forum, 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.
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    Sotheby’s, June 25: Theocritus. Theocriti Eclogae triginta, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, February 1495/1496. 220,000 - 280,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby, 1925. 40,000 - 60,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: Blake, William. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Printed ca. 1381-1832. 400,000 - 600,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: Lincoln, Abraham. Thirteenth Amendment, signed by Abraham Lincoln. 8,000,000 - 12,000,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: Galieli, Galileo. First Edition of the Foundation of Modern Astronomy, 1610. 300,000 - 400,000 USD
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Arenberg Auctions: April Live Auction

Auction Reports

Auction Name April Live Auction Total Sales (EUR) 360,009.00
Auction Date April 03, 2025 - April 04, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 223,625.00
Sale Number #40325 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 291,980.00
Total Lots 903
Sold Lots 902 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 223,775.00
% of Lots Sold 99.89% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 292,180.00
Unsold Lots 1 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 123.22%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
475 DE WIT, Frederick

Atlas assembled to order containing 54 maps, incl. "Nieut Kaert-boeck".

17th c EUR 750.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 19,500.00
337 DODOENS, Rembert

Cruydt-boeck volghens sijne laetste verbeteringhe [...] Item, in't laetste een Beschrijvinghe vande Indiaensche ghewassen, meest ghetrocken uyt de schriften van Carolus Clusius. Nu wederom van nieuws oversien ende verbetert.

1644 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 9,100.00
474 BERTIUS, Pierre

La geographie racourcie de Pierre Bertius cosmographe du Roy tres-crestien [...].

1618 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 6,240.00
478 ROBERT de VAUGONDY, [Gilles & Didier]

Atlas universel [...]. Corrige et augmente de la carte de la Republique francaise divisee en departements par C.F. Delamarche [...].

[after 1788] EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,980.00
632 Abraham Ortelius

Typus Orbis Terrarum.

16th c EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,850.00
728 VAENIUS, Otto

Amorum emblemata, figuris aeneis incisa.

1608 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,160.00
508 SANDERUS, Antonius

Flandria illustrata, sive Descriptio comitatus istius per totum terrarum orbem celeberrimi, III tomis absoluta [...].

1641-1644 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,640.00
631 MERCATOR, Rumold

Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio.

1587 EUR 1,600.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,640.00
52

Zucchetto worn by Pope Leo XIII in May 1903.

EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,860.00
514 GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico

Omnium Belgii, sive Inferioris Germaniae regionum accurata descriptio [...].

1625 [= 1624] EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,860.00
467 Abraham Goos

Nieuw Nederlandtsch caertboeck. Waer in volkomentlijker als oyt te voren vertoont werden de Seventien Provintien. Soo in't geheel, als elk besonder, met een beschrijvinge over de selve lande.

1685 EUR 700.00 - 800.00 EUR 2,470.00
490 Arnoldus Montanus

Gedenkwaerdige gesantschappen der Oost-Indische maetschappy in 't Vereenigde Nederland aen de Kaisaren van Japan: vervaetende wonderlijke voorvallen op de togt der Nederlandsche gesanten [...].

1669 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,470.00
513 GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico

Description de touts les Pays-Bas [...].

1609 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 2,470.00
637 WIGGERS, Joannes

"In primam partem D. Thomae Aquinatis Commentaria Ioannis Wiggers, S.Th. Doctoris ac Professoris Regii in Schilis publicis Academiae Louaniensis. Scripta per Magistrum Carolum Huysman".

early 17th c.] EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 2,470.00
303 (FOUREZ, Lucien ; MAES, Louis Theo ; STALINS, baron Gaston ; et al. (ed.))

"Armorial du Grand Conseil de Malines appele Manuscrit Stalins".

[c. 1949] EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,340.00
498

Le Grand Theatre sacre [- profane] du Duche de Brabant.

1729-1730 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,340.00
527 David Roy

Les ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grece [...].

1758 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,340.00
890

19 catalogues de ventes de livres.

ed. et dates div EUR 120.00 - 150.00 EUR 2,340.00
507 Daniel Meisner

Libellus Novus Politicus Emblematicus Civitatum Pars Quarta oder Newen Politischen Statt: und Emblematabuchs Vierter Theil Darinen das vierte 100 Statt, Vestung, Schlosser, und Flecken, so da ligen am Reinstrom, Lutzenbur: Henegaw, und Geldern, &....

1638 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,210.00
523 Daniel Meisner

Libellus Novus Politicus Emblematicus Civitatum Pars Altra oder Newen Politischen Statt: und Emblematabuchs ander Theil darinen das Zweyte 100 Statt, Vestung Flecken, und Schlosser, so da ligen In Thuringen, Sachsen, Schlesien, Poln, Preuse[n], Po...

1638 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,080.00
592 BLAEU, Willem Jansz

Europa recens descripta.

[C. 1662] EUR 700.00 - 900.00 EUR 2,080.00
643

Diploma of "doctor utriusque iuris" awarded by Dole University (Franche-Comte) to Gregorius de Weer[d]t from Antwerp.

20 September 1654 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 2,080.00
825

Het groote Tafereel der dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlanden, gepleegt in den jaare MDCCXX. Zynde een verzameling van alle de conditien en projecten va...

1720 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,080.00
117

The Studio. An illustrated magazine of fine and applied art. Charles Holme editor.

1893-1900 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,950.00
238 VERHAEREN, Emile

La multiple splendeur. Poemes.

1906 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,950.00
  • Dominic Winter AuctioneersJune 18 & 19Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First Editions Dominic Winter AuctioneersJune 18 & 19Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First Editions
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    Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First Editions
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    June 18 & 19
    Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First Editions
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: World. Van Geelkercken (N.), Orbis Terrarum Descriptio Duobis..., circa 1618. £4,000-6,000.
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Moll (Herman). A New Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain..., circa 1715. £2,000-3,000.
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Churchill (Winston S.). The World Crisis, 5 volumes bound in 6, 1st edition, 1923-31. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    June 18 & 19
    Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First Editions
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Darwin (Charles). On the Origin of Species, 2nd edition, 2nd issue, 1860. £1,500-2,000.
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, 6 volumes in 3, 1st quarto ed, 1855-56. £1,500-2,000.
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Saint-Exupéry (Antoine de, 1900-1944). Pilote de guerre (Flight to Arras), 1942. £10,000-15,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    June 18 & 19
    Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First Editions
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Austen (Jane, 1775-1817). Signature, cut from a letter, no date. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Huxley (Aldous). Brave New World, 1st edition, with wraparound band, 1932. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Tolkien (J. R. R.) The Hobbit, 1st edition, 2nd impression, 1937. £3,000-5,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    June 18 & 19
    Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First Editions
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Rackham (Arthur, 1867-1939). Princess by the Sea (from Irish Fairy Tales), circa 1920. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Kelmscott Press. The Story of the Glittering Plain, Walter Crane's copy, 1894. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, June 18-19: King (Jessie Marion, 1875-1949). The Summer House, watercolour. £4,000-6,000
  • Bonhams, June 16-24: KELMSCOTT PRESS. RUSKIN. The Nature of Gothic. 1892. $1,500 - $2,500
    Bonhams, June 16-24: ASHENDENE PRESS. The Wisdom of Jesus. 1932. $2,000 - $3,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: CHARLOTTE BRONTE WRITES AS GOVERNESS. Autograph Letter Signed, 1851. $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF WUTHERING HEIGHTS. BRONTE, Emily. New York, 1848. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: IAN FLEMING ASSOCIATION COPY. You Only Live Twice. London, 1964. $7,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: DELUXE EDITION WITH ORIGINAL PAINTING. BUKOWSKI, Charles. War All the Time. 1984. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: EINSTEIN'S MOST POWERFUL STATEMENT ON THE ATOMIC BOMB. Original Typed Manuscript Signed, "On My Participation in the Atom Bomb Project," 1953. $100,000 - $150,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: EINSTEIN ON SCIENCE, WAR AND MORALITY. Autograph Letter Signed, 1949. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. WASHINGTON, George. Engraved document signed, 1786. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: AN EARLY CHINESE-MADE 34-STAR U.S. CONSULAR FLAG. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF LINCOLN WITH HIS SON TAD. 1864. $60,000 - $90,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: MALCOLM X WRITES FROM KENYA. Postcard signed, 1964. $4,000 - $6,000
  • FinarteBooks, Autographs & PrintsJune 24 & 25, 2025 FinarteBooks, Autographs & PrintsJune 24 & 25, 2025
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    Finarte, 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.
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    June 24 & 25, 2025
    Finarte, 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.
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    June 24 & 25, 2025
    Finarte, 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.
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    June 24 & 25, 2025
    Finarte, 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 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: THE NORMAN COPY OF BENIVIENI'S TREATISE ON PATHOLOGY. 1507. $12,000 - $18,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: FRACASTORO. Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus. 1530. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: THE FIRST PUBLISHED WORK ON SKIN DISEASES. MERCURIALIS. De morbis cutaneis... 1572. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: BIDLOO. Anatomia humani corporis... 1685. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: THE NORMAN COPY OF DOUGLASS'S EARLY AMERICAN WORK ON INNOCULATION AND SMALLPOX. 1722. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: LIND'S FIRST TREATISE ON SCURVY. 1753. $15,000 - $20,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: RARE JENNER SIGNED CIRCULAR ON VACCINATION. 1821. $4,000 - $6,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: MOST BEAUTIFUL OF MEDICAL ILLUSTRATIONS. BRIGHT. Reports of Medical Cases... 1827-1831. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE PRESENTATION COPY TO HER MOTHER. 1860. $6,000 - $8,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: LORENZO TRAVER'S MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF BURNSIDE'S NORTH CAROLINA EXPEDITION. TRAVER, Lorenzo. $2,000 - $3,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: ONE OF THE EARLIEST PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOKS ON DERMATOLOGY. HARDY. Clinique Photographique... 1868. $3,000 - $5,000