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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | Gregoire Henri | Correspondance a Marie-Anne Dubois |
1792-1809 | EUR 9,000.00 - 13,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 27 | Gringore Pierre | Heures de nostre dame translatees de latin en francoys |
Paris | vers 1534 | EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | EUR 5,760.00 |
| 28 | Harvey William | De Motu Cordis & sanguinis in animalibus |
Leyde | 1639; 1640; 1644 | EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | EUR 19,200.00 |
| 29 | Helvetius Claude-Adrien | De l’Esprit |
Paris | 1758 | EUR 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 30 | Ces presentes heures a lusaige de Paris |
Paris | 1500 | EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 31 | Ces presentes heures a lusaige de Rouan |
Paris | 1508 | EUR 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | EUR 14,080.00 | |
| 32 | Officiu beate Marie virginis ad usum Cisterciensis |
Paris | 1546 | EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | EUR 11,520.00 | |
| 33 | Horae in Laudem Beatissimae Virginis Mariae ad usum Romanum |
Paris | 1556 | EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | EUR 8,960.00 | |
| 34 | Le Maistre de Sacy Isaac-Louis | Office de l’eglise en Latin & en Francois |
Paris | 1659 | EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 3,328.00 |
| 35 | Lemaire de Belges Jean | Lepistre du Roy a Hector de Troyes |
Paris | 1516 | EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 3,840.00 |
| 36 | Liebault Jean | Trois livres de l'embellissement et ornement du corps humain |
Paris | 1582 | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 1,152.00 |
| 37 | Chauveau Hardouyn | C'est l'ordre qui a este tenu a la nouvelle et ioyeuse entree |
Paris | 1549 | EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | EUR 5,120.00 |
| 38 | Sartorio Bernardo | I numi a diporto su l’Adriatico |
Venise | 1688 | EUR 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | EUR 32,000.00 |
| 39 | Lope de Vega Felix | El Cardenal de Belen |
1610 | EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | EUR 230,400.00 | |
| 40 | Macrobius Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius | In Somnium Scipionis expositio. Saturnalia |
Venise | 1492 | EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 6,144.00 |
| 41 | Malherbe Francois de | Poesies |
Paris | 1689 | EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 42 | Memoires mathematiques ou enseignement necessaire tant pour la geometrie, construction des fortifications, que d'autres sciences mathematiques |
Flandres | c. 1630 | EUR 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 43 | Brochero Julian Joseph | Patente di nobilta di Don Luis Bermudo Soriano e Dona Antonia Ortiz De Espinosa |
Madrid | 1774 | EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | EUR 8,320.00 |
| 44 | Meder Johann | Quadragesimale novum de filio prodigo |
Bale | 1495 | EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | EUR 8,320.00 |
| 45 | Mela Pomponius | De situ orbis |
Venise | 1478 | EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 6,400.00 |
| 46 | Moliere | George Dandin |
Paris | 1669 | EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 47 | Montaigne Michel de | Essais |
Paris | 1587 | EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | EUR 23,040.00 |
| 48 | Nicolay Nicolas de | Les Quatre premiers livres des Navigations et Peregrinations Orientales |
Lyon | 1567 | EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | EUR 15,360.00 |
| 49 | Nider Johannes | Consolatorium timoratae conscientiae |
Cologne | avant 1470 | EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | EUR 7,680.00 |
| 50 | Pascal Blaise | Les Provinciales |
Cologne | 1657 | EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | EUR 44,800.00 |
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