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Sothebys: Bibioteca Brookeriana VIII

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Auction Name Bibioteca Brookeriana VIII Total Sales (EUR) 3,762,883.00
Auction Date December 17, 2025 - December 17, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 2,460,180.00
Sale Number #pf2525 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 3,579,970.00
Total Lots 339
Sold Lots 261.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 3,073,180.00
% of Lots Sold 76.99% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 4,479,470.00
Unsold Lots 78 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 84.00%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
90 COLONNA, FRANCESCO

Hypnerotomachie, ou Discours du songe de Poliphile, deduisant comme Amour le combat a l'occasion de Polia

 20 August 1546 EUR 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 EUR 254,000.00
124 EUSEBIUS CAESARIENSIS

Eusebiou tou Pamphilou Euangelikes proparaskeues bib. pente kai deka

 1544 EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 EUR 254,000.00
221 PARADIS, PAUL CANOSSA, CALLED

Ce livre contient ung petit traicte de Alkimie tourne de langue hebraique en langue francoyse

 [1540] EUR 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 EUR 254,000.00
172 JANDUN, JEAN DE

Perspicacissimi speculatoris ac summi paripathetici Iohannis de Ianduno Questiones in duodecim libros metaphysice ad intentionem Aristotelis et magni commentatoris Auerrois subtilissime disputate. Solertis artium doctoris Marciantonij Zimara annotationes

8 March 1505 EUR 120,000.00 - 180,000.00 EUR 228,600.00
153 GOHORY, JACQUES

Hystoria Jasonis, Thessaliae principis, de Colchica velleris aurei expeditione, cum figuris aere excusis earumque expositione, versibus priscorum poetarum

 1563 EUR 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 EUR 177,800.00
46 BILLON, FRANCOIS DE

[Le Fort inexpugnable de l'honneur du Sexe Femenin, construit par Francoys de Billon Secretaire]

 [1 April 1555] EUR 120,000.00 - 180,000.00 EUR 152,400.00
109 DIOGENES CYNICUS (PSEUDO)

Diogenis Epistole Bruti Yppocratis medici

 [1492] EUR 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 EUR 114,300.00
145 GIOVIO, PAOLO

Pauli Iovii Novocomensis Vitae duodecim vicecomitum Mediolani principum

 1549 EUR 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 EUR 101,600.00
175 JUSTIN MARTYR, SAINT

Les euvres de sainct Justin Philosophe & Martyr, mises de Grec en langage Francois, par Ian De Maumont: Auec table des matieres les plus dignes

 July 1559 EUR 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 EUR 101,600.00
306

THUCYDIDES. L'histoire de Thucydide Athenien, de la guerre qui fut entre les Peloponnesiens et Atheniens

 1559 EUR 70,000.00 - 90,000.00 EUR 88,900.00
154 GOHORY, JACQUES AND LEONARD THIRY

Livre de la Conqueste de la Toison d'or, par le Prince Iason de Tessalie: faict par figures avec exposition d'icelles

 1563 EUR 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 EUR 82,550.00
36 BEMBO, PIETRO

Epistolarum Leonis decimi pontificis maximi nomine scriptarum libri XVI

 1540 EUR 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 EUR 76,200.00
41 [edited by Justinus Decadyus]

[BIBLE] PSALTERIUM GRAECUM. Psaltirion

 [not after 1 October 1498] EUR 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 EUR 76,200.00
170 HUTTICH, JOHANN

Imperatorum et Caesarum Vitae, cum Imaginibus ad vivam effigiem expressis

 1534 EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 EUR 76,200.00
38

BIBLE, GREEK. Panta ta kat'eksoxin kaloumena Biblia theias diladi graphis palaias te, kai neas

 (February 1518) EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 EUR 69,850.00
11 ALCIATI, ANDREA

Viri clarissimi D. Andree Alciati Iurisconsultiss

 (6 April 1531) EUR 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 EUR 63,500.00
14 ALCIATI, ANDREA

Emblemes d'Alciat, de nouveau Translatez en Francois vers pour vers iouxte les Latins

 1549 EUR 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 EUR 63,500.00
114 DU BELLAY, MARTIN

Les Memoires de Mess

 1572 (28 November 1571) EUR 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 EUR 57,150.00
25 edited by Marcus Musurus

ARISTOPHANES. Aristophanous komodiai ennea

 15 July 1498 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 53,340.00
10 ALCIATI, ANDREA

Viri clarissimi D. Andree Alciati Iurisconsultiss

 (28 February) 1531 EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 EUR 50,800.00
157 [GROTESQUES, LANDSCAPES AND OTHER PRINTS]

A composite album containing fifty French and Italian engravings from the mid-sixteenth century, connected with the School of Fontainebleau, assembled in Bavaria

 ca 1600 EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 EUR 50,800.00
45

BIBLE-ITALIAN. La Biblia la quale in se contiene i sacrosanti libri del Vecchio & Nuouo Testamento, i quali ti apporto, christianissimo lettore, tradotti da la hebraica & greca uerita in lingua toscana, nuouamente corretta & con ogni diligentia stampata

 1547 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 40,640.00
133 FULVIO, ANDREA

Illustrium imagines

 (15 November 1517) EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 40,640.00
136 GALENUS, CLAUDIUS

De compositione pharmacorum localium, libri decem

 1549 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 38,100.00
156 GREGORIUS NAZIANZENUS

Orationes XXX (translated by Willibald Pirckheimer, with contributions by Desiderius Erasmus and Johannes Straub)

 1531 EUR 24,000.00 - 32,000.00 EUR 38,100.00
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