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Auction Name: Bibioteca Brookeriana VIII
Auction Date: 12/17/2025 - 12/17/2025
Sale Number: #pf2525
Total Lots: 339
Sold Lots: 261.0
Lots Sold: 76.99%
Unsold Lots: 78

Total Sales (EUR): 3,762,880.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 2,460,180.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 3,579,970.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 3,073,180.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 4,479,470.00
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: DALVIMART, Octavien ou d’ALVIMAR(T). The Costume of Turkey

Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: DALVIMART, Octavien ou d’ALVIMAR(T)]. CLARK. The Military Costume of Turkey

Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: HOMMAIRE DE HELL, Ignace-Xavier. LAURENS, Jules. Voyage en Turquie et en Perse

Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: POSTEL, Guillaume. De la République des Turc

Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: PREZIOSI, Amadeo. Stamboul. Souvenir d’Orient.

Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: COSTUMES. EMPIRE OTTOMAN.

Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: PRISSE D'AVENNES, Achille Constant T. Emile. L'Art Arabe

Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: PRISSE D'AVENNES. Histoire de l'art Egyptie

Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: BESANCENOT, Jean. Costumes et types du Maroc.

Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: COSTUMES OTTOMANS. Suite de figures ottomanes à l’aquarelle

Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: LES MILLE ET UNE NUIT, contes arabes

Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: SCHLEGEL, Hermann et A. H. VERSTER van WULVERHORST. Traité de Fauconnerie - Planches

Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: THEVENOT, Melchisédec. Relation de divers voyages curieux

Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11:
Sotheby's Fine Books & Manuscripts
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Balthus, Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights, New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1993. 6,600 USD.

Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. Complete Works, Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company & Chapman & Hall, LD, 1850. Limited Edition set of 30 volumes. 7,500 USD.

Sotheby’s: John Lennon, Yoko Ono. Handwritten Letter from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to their Chauffer. 1971. 32,500 USD.

Sotheby’s: Winston Churchill. First edition of War Speeches, Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1941. Set of 7 volumes. 5,500 USD.

Sotheby’s: Andy Warhol, Julia Warhola. Holy Cats First Edition, Signed by Andy Warhol. 1954. 30,000 USD.
Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
Lot 11. Blaeu's Superb World Map on a Polar Projection (1695) Est. $5,500 - $7,000

Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
Lot 36. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000

Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
Lot 49. One of the First Lunar Globes to Show the Far Side of the Moon (1963) Est. $1,000 - $1,300

Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
Lot 5. The First World Map with Lavish Allegorical Vignettes of the Continents (1594) Est. $15,000 - $17,000

Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
Lot 55. Anti-British Propaganda Map with Churchill as an Octopus (1942) Est. $2,000 - $2,300

Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
Lot 197. One of the Most Influential Maps of Westward Expansion (1846) Est. $9,500 - $12,000

Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
Lot 10. Scarce Pitt Edition of Carte-a-Figures Map of the World (1680) Est. $9,500 - $11,000

Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
Lot 220. A Fine, Early Rendering of San Francisco (1874) Est. $2,200 - $2,500

Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
Lot 707. Hand-Colored Image of the Presentation of Jesus with Gilt Highlights (1450) Est. $1,600 - $1,900

Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
Lot 80. One of the Most Important Maps Perpetuating the Myth of the Island of California (1680) Est. $3,250 - $4,000

Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
Lot 725. Homann's Atlas Featuring 26 Folio-Sized Maps in Original Color (1715) Est. $4,500 - $5,500

Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
Lot 169. One of the Earliest Maps to Show Philadelphia (1695) Est. $4,750 - $6,000