L'Autographe Auctions: A Legacy in Ink: A Rare Book & Autograph Sale, 6, London

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
July 07, 2025 - July 07, 2025
Page Size: 273 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
252

Rococo Splendor - Engraved Ceiling in the Manner of Tiepolo (c. 18th Century)

Probably end of the 18th century. GBP 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
253

Beasts in Harmony - Five Animal Studies Engraved by Adam Bartsch (Early 19th Century)

Wien n.d. (beginning of 19th cent.). GBP 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
254

Pastoral Charm - Bucolic Scene by Berardi after Zais, Printed by Wagner

Later reprint GBP 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
255

Imperial Grandeur in Copper - Bibiena's Baroque Vision for Emperor Charles VI

Augsburg: 1740 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 156.00
256

Bibiena's Stage - Theatrical Architecture in Monumental Baroque Plate

Augsburg: 1740 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 130.00
257

The Slaughter of the Innocents - Eighteenth-Century Engraving after Daniele da Volterra

Florence end of the 18th century. GBP 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
258

Through Fire and Water - Dramatic 18th-Century Engraving after Simon Vouet

18th century GBP 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
259

Contest of the Gods - Ghisi's Mannerist Engravings of Apollo, Pan, and the Muses

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
260

Wild Falls - Majestic 17th-Century Landscape Engraving by Isaak Major

17th century. GBP 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
261

Invidia Incarnate - Mitelli's Baroque Allegory of the Jealous Woman (1675)

1675 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
262

Grandeur Etched in Stone - Piranesi's Architectural Manifesto (1761)

Rome 1761 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
263

Gothic Atrium - Atmospheric Architectural Etching by Pozzetti (c. 1800)

Beginning of the 19th century. GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 39.00
264

Myth on the Move - Neptune and Aeolus in Rococo Allegory from Remondini (1799)

1799 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
265

Philosopher's Gesture - Diogenes Discards His Cup in Etching by Salvator Rosa (1662)

Second half of the 18th century. GBP 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
266

Arcadia in Print - Bucolic Landscape by Vivares after Zuccarelli (1756)

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
267

St. Jerome in Lyon - Rare 1532 Title-Page of the Vulgate Bible

[Lyon] 1532 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
268

Sacred Splendor - Ornate Title of the 1597 Metz Missal

Metis (Metz) 1597 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
269

Holy Jerusalem - Baroque Broadside of the Via Crucis

Naples n.d. (c. 1800). GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 104.00
270

Scholastic Masterpiece - Lombard's Sentences with Lyon Title-Page (1512?)

(Lyon 1512?) GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
271

Early Physics in Print - Title-Page from 1516 Edition of Saxony and Buridan's Commentaries

[Paris February 1516]. GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
272

Portugal Reclaims its Crown - Allegorical Title-Page of Sousa de Macedo's Rare 1645 Work

(London 1645). GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 195.00
273

Only the Beginning - Title-Page of the First Latin Bible Printed in England (1580)

Londini [i.e. London] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
274

Two Moons, Two Minds - Hevelius & Riccioli's Competing Visions of the Lunar Surface

Undated, 1707 or 1742 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 520.00
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