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Auction Name: Old and Rare Books (pre-1700)
Auction Date: 12/22/2025 - 12/22/2025
Sale Number: #122225
Total Lots: 155
Sold Lots: 42.0
Lots Sold: 27.10%
Unsold Lots: 113

Total Sales (EUR): 61,025.80
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 78,200.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 138,000.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 166,665.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 289,620.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 21.07%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
98928614	Baldus de Ubaldis	[Incunable] Decretalium	1489	EUR 7,200.00 - 10,000.00	EUR 5,614.59
98456229	Geffrey Chaucer	The Woorkes - Canterbury Tales	1538	EUR 5,500.00 - 9,000.00	EUR 5,450.00
98927852	Bartholomaeus de Chaimis	[Incunable] Confessionale	1482	EUR 5,500.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 5,124.09
99797322	Olaus Magnus	Historia delle genti... settentrionali.	1565	EUR 3,600.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 4,578.00
99003593	Jacobus de Voragine	[Incunable] Lombardica Historia ... Aurea Legenda	1496	EUR 4,000.00 - 7,000.00	EUR 3,979.59
98925858	Solinus	[Incunable] de Memoralibus Mundi	1493	EUR 4,200.00 - 7,000.00	EUR 3,708.18
98300055	Tardif / Artelouche	Fauconnerie de Guill [Bound w:] Fauconnerie... de Alagona.	1567	EUR 4,000.00 - 10,000.00	EUR 2,834.00
99916997	Martin Luther	Epistel der Aposteln	1567	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 2,071.00
99576509	Erasmus Roterodamus	[Post Incunable] Adagiorum Opus	1528	EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	EUR 1,962.00
98618782	Manuzio / Stazio	[Post Incunable] Statii Sylvarum	1502	EUR 3,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 1,689.50
98776551	Capaccio	Delle Imprese	1592	EUR 1,400.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 1,526.00
99572102	Vitruvio	Les Dix Livres d'Architecture	1684	EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	EUR 1,417.00
99391609	Incunable Finely Illuminated	Painted on parchment	1470	EUR 1,700.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 1,308.00
99338432	Valeriano	Hieroglyphica	1575	EUR 1,700.00 - 2,500.00	EUR 1,253.50
99751397	Filippo dell'Aquila	[Post-Incunable] Quinze Effusions Du Sang	1520	EUR 1,800.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 1,253.50
99756785	Manardi	[Post Incunable] Epistolae Medicinales	1521	EUR 2,200.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 1,199.00
99577746	THS KAINHS DIAThHKHS APANTA	[Post Incunable] [NOVI TESTAMENTI OMNIA]	1531	EUR 1,400.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 1,090.00
98830920	AA. VV.	Manoscritto Etiopico Ge'ez	1790	EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 1,035.50
99956674	Scevolini	Astrologia	1565	EUR 900.00 - 1,800.00	EUR 872.00
98300958	Lipsio / Eugippio	Poliorceticon [Bound w:] Historia ab Eugippio	1595/1596	EUR 1,400.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 872.00

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Sotheby’s
Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
27 January 2026

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.

Sotheby’s
Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
27 January 2026

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.