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Fine Books & Manuscripts

Session: Fine Books & Manuscripts

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17 Feb 2013, session starting at 9:00 PST

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MERCATOR, GERARD, AND JODOCUS HONDIUS. Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de frabrica mundi et fabricati figura. Amsterdam: I. Hondius, [1619].
Sold for US$ 27,500 inc. premium
MERCATOR, GERARD, AND JODOCUS HONDIUS. Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de frabrica mundi et fabricati figura. Amsterdam: I. Hondius, [1619].
SCHULZ, CHARLES. 1922-2000. Original 3-tiered, 8-panel Sunday Peanuts strip, ink on stiff paper, 16 1/2 x 23 1/2 (sight), dated October 16, [1983],
Sold for US$ 25,000 inc. premium
SCHULZ, CHARLES. 1922-2000. Original 3-tiered, 8-panel Sunday Peanuts strip, ink on stiff paper, 419 x 596 mm (sight), dated October ...
(Book of Hours) HORAE BEATAE VIRGINS. XV Century. 210 leaves. Hand illuminated on vellum. 10 minatures, plus 4 full illuminated pages with floral borders. Small illuminated capitals in gold. Later leather, damaged and waterstained. Pages are a bit wavy, from dampness, some mold to a couple of the first leaves, but paintings still nice. Spine cracked.
Sold for US$ 21,250 inc. premium
BOOK OF HOURS. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, mainly in Latin, Book of Hours, [France, late 15th or early 16th century].
MILTON. Paradise Lost. London: 1669.
Sold for US$ 16,250 inc. premium
MILTON, JOHN. 1608-1674. Paradise Lost. A Poem in Ten Books. London: S. Simmons, 1669.

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BORDONI. De Rebus Praeclare... 1588
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BORDINI, GIOVANNI FRANCISCO. c.1536-1609. De rebus praeclare gestis a Sixto. V. Pon. Max. Rome: J. Tornerius/F. Zanettus, 1588..
Sold for US$ 3,125 inc. premium
BORGHINI, VINCENZO MARIA. 1515-1580. Discorsi.... Florence: Filippo & Jacopo Giunti, 1584-85.
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BORGHINI, VINCENZO MARIA. 1515-1580. Discorsi.... Florence: Filippo & Jacopo Giunti, 1584-85.
Sold for US$ 812 inc. premium
Roman Breviary. Office of the Blessed Virgin. Vienna: 1619. 4 volumes. Decorative box.
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BREVIARY—OFFICE OF THE DEAD. Das geistliche Seelenmahl oder Officium für die Abgestorbenen. Brünn: Johann Paul Krauss, [c.1750].
Sold for US$ 2,750 inc. premium
MANUSCRIPT—CALLIGRAPHY. BUSENITZ, JOHANN. Manuscript on paper, in German, Marienburg, August 2, 1713 and after.
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CALLIGRAPHY. BUSENITZ, JOHANN. Manuscript on paper, in German, Marienburg, August 2, 1713 and after.
Sold for US$ 2,750 inc. premium
Cock, Hieronymus. OPERUM ANTIQUORUM ROMANORUM. Antwerp. 1562. Oblong 4to. 21 engravings of Rome. Vellum binding wavy and soiled, but plates still nice. Small margins.
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COCK, HIERONYMUS. c.1510-1570 Operum antiquorum Romanorum hinc inde per diversas Europae regiones extructorum Reliquias ac Ruinas, deformatas libellus hic novus continet. [Antwerp]: Cock, 1562..
Sold for US$ 4,375 inc. premium
VALLET GIULLELMUS. [Biographies.] Head of spine chipped.
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CONTI, SEBASTIANO. 1623-1696. Fasti Senenses, ab Academia intronatorum editi. [Rome or Siena: s.n., c.1662.].
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US$ 1,000 - 1,500
£660 - 990
€780 - 1,200
GALLONIO, ANTONIO. d.1605. Trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio.... Rome: Ascanio e Girolamo Donangeli, 1591.<BR />
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GALLONIO, ANTONIO. D.1605. Trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio.... Rome: Ascanio e Girolamo Donangeli, 1591..
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US$ 1,500 - 2,500
£990 - 1,600
€1,200 - 1,900
GELLI. la Sporta Comedia. 1550.
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GELLI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. 1498-1563. La Sporta[.] Comedia. Firenze: [Apresso Bernardo Giunta], 1550..
Sold for US$ 250 inc. premium
GIGLI, GIROLAMO. 1660-1722. Diario Sanese in cui si veggono alla giornata tutti gli avvenimenti piu ragguardevoli... della citta e stato di Siena. Lucca: Leonardo Venturini, 1723.
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GIGLI, GIROLAMO. 1660-1722. Diario Sanese in cui si veggono alla giornata tutti gli avvenimenti piu ragguardevoli... della citta e stato di Siena. Lucca: Leonardo Venturini, ...
Estimate:
US$ 700 - 1,000
£460 - 660
€540 - 780
GOSPELS IN ARABIC Evangelium Sanctum Domini nostri Jesu Christi.... Rome: Typographia Medicea, 1590-[1591].
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GOSPELS IN ARABIC. Evangelium Sanctum Domini nostri Jesu Christi.... Rome: Typographia Medicea, 1590-[1591].
Estimate:
US$ 8,000 - 12,000
£5,300 - 7,900
€6,200 - 9,300
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