Sothebys: Books and Manuscripts, pf2654, Paris
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 17, 2026 - June 17, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lunardi Vincenzo | An Account of the First Aerial Voyage in England |
Londres | 1784 | EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 2 | Agustin Antonio | Dialoghi intorno alle medaglie inscrittioni et altre antichita |
Rome | 1592 | EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | EUR 21,760.00 |
| 3 | Aphtonius Sophista; Horace | Aphthonii Progymnasmata; Opera |
Amsterdam; Londres | 1642; 1744 | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 1,792.00 |
| 4 | Magazzino di Mobilia o sia serie di modelli di mobilia di ogni genere |
Florence | 1798-1802 | EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 10,880.00 | |
| 5 | Bayer Johann | Uranometria, omnium asterismorum continens schemata |
Augsburg | 1603 | EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | EUR 24,320.00 |
| 6 | Bertaut Francois | Journal du voyage d'Espagne |
Paris | 1669 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 1,280.00 |
| 7 | Capriglia Giuseppe da; Martinelli Domenico | Misura del tempo; Horologi elementari |
Padoue; Venise | 1665; 1669 | EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 5,120.00 |
| 8 | Wynne Giustiniana | [Casanova, Giacomo] ─ Giustiniana Wynne |
Paris | 1759 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 9 | Cassini Jean-Dominique | Cassini, Jean-Dominique |
Paris | 1705 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 10 | Chatelet Emilie du | Chatelet, Emilie du |
1738-1739 | Not Available | Not Sold | |
| 11 | Columelle; Varro; Cato; Palladius | Opera Agricolationum |
Bologne | 1504 | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 2,176.00 |
| 12 | Cook James; Hawkesworth John; Kippis Andrew | 4 Books, including: Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de Sa Majeste britannique |
Paris | 1774; 1778; 1785; 1789 | EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | EUR 12,800.00 |
| 13 | Descartes Rene | Discours de la methode |
Leyde | 1637 | EUR 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 | EUR 76,800.00 |
| 14 | Diderot Denis;Suard Jean-Baptiste Antoine;Bourlet de Vauxcelles Simon-Jerome | Opuscules philosophiques et litteraires |
Paris | 1796 | EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 3,584.00 |
| 15 | Epiphane de Salamine | Panarion |
Bale | 1544 | EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | EUR 12,800.00 |
| 16 | Musurus Marcus | Epistolae diversorum philosophorum, oratorum, rhetorum |
Venise | 1499 | EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | EUR 23,040.00 |
| 17 | Euler Leonhard | Institutionum calculi integralis |
Saint-Petersbourg | 1768-1770 | EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 8,320.00 |
| 18 | Euphrate Gerard d' | Le premier livre de l’histoire & ancienne cronique de Gerard d'Euphrate |
Paris | 1549 | EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | EUR 12,160.00 |
| 19 | Ferretti Francesco | Diporti Notturni |
Ancona | 1579 [1580] | EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 3,840.00 |
| 20 | Fine Oronce | Protomathesis |
Paris | 1530-1532 | EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | EUR 15,360.00 |
| 21 | Franchieres Jehan de;Tardif Guillaume;Alagona Artelouche d';Bouchet Guillaume | La Fauconnerie; Livre de l’Art de Faulconnerie et des chiens de Chasse; La Vollerie; Recueil de tous les Oiseaux de proye |
Poitiers | 1567 | EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | EUR 10,880.00 |
| 22 | Fridolin Stephan | Der Schatzbehalter oder Schrein der waren Reichtumer des heils und ewyger Seligkeit genant |
Nuremberg | 1491 | EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | EUR 53,760.00 |
| 23 | Girard Albert | Invention nouvelle en l'algebre |
Amsterdam | 1639 | EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 9,600.00 |
| 24 | Goldoni Carlo | Goldoni, Carlo |
Paris | 1787 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 25 | Gregoire le Grand | Pastorale sive regula pastoralis |
Cologne | 1470 | EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 10,240.00 |
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