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Sothebys: Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Auction Name	Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII	Total Sales (GBP)	4,437,867.00
Auction Date	July 11, 2025 - July 11, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	2,105,250.00
Sale Number	#L25407	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	3,037,700.00
Total Lots	281
Sold Lots	203	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	2,666,750.00
% of Lots Sold	72.24%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	3,847,700.00
Unsold Lots	78	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	115.34%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1628	CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS.	Opera quae aedita sunt hactenus omnia.	1534]	GBP 80,000.00 - 120,000.00	GBP 698,500.00
1758	MAGNUS, JOHANNES.	Gothorum Sueonumque historia autore io. magno.	January 1554	GBP 180,000.00 - 280,000.00	GBP 482,600.00
1680	ESTIENNE, ROBERT.	Dictionarium, seu latinae linguae thesaurus, non singulas modo dictiones continens, sed integras quoque Latine et loquendi et scribendi formulas... Editio secunda.	20 June 1543	GBP 300,000.00 - 400,000.00	GBP 381,000.00
1843	SIMEONI, GABRIELE.	Comentarii di Gabriello Symeoni fiorentino sopra alla tetrarchia di Vinegia, di Milano, di Mantova, et di Ferrara.	1548	GBP 80,000.00 - 120,000.00	GBP 381,000.00
1767	MONTALBANI, MARCO.	Discorsi di nobilta. Della vita del nobile, et del prencipe, & del regimento di se stesso, della casa & Republica sua.	1549	GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00	GBP 304,800.00
1825	[RUDIMENTUM NOVITIORUM].	Le Premier [-Second] Volume de la Mer des Histoires. Auquel et le second ensuyvant est contenu tant du vieil testament que du nouveau toutes les hystoires, ...	1536	GBP 120,000.00 - 180,000.00	GBP 203,200.00
1715	GIOVIO, PAOLO.	Elogia Virorum bellica virtue illustrium, septem libris iam olim ab Authore comprehensa.	1575	GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	GBP 165,100.00
1644	DANTE ALIGHIERI.	La comedia di Dante Aligieri con la nova espositione di Alessandro Vellutello.	June 1544	GBP 80,000.00 - 120,000.00	GBP 101,600.00
1617	CAMBERY, JEAN DE.	Le miroir Royal, blasonnant les Armoiries de France, et le nom du Roy: ensemble une Epistre, adressante a treshaulte et tresillustre dame, madame Catherine de medicis.	1549	GBP 26,000.00 - 35,000.00	GBP 76,200.00
1791	PETRARCA, FRANCESCO.	Li sonetti, canzone, triumphi.	1519	GBP 60,000.00 - 80,000.00	GBP 76,200.00
1627	CHAUMEAU, JEAN.	Histoire de Berry, contenant l'origine, antiquite, gestes, provesses, privileges, & libertes des Berruyers: Avec particuliere description du-dit pais.	1566	GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00	GBP 69,850.00
1633	COMMYNES, PHILIPPE DE.	Les memoires de messire Philippe de Commines, chevalier, seigneur d'argenton, sur les principaux faicts et gestes de Louys onziesme et Charles huictiesme son fils, roys de France.	19 August 1581	GBP 26,000.00 - 35,000.00	GBP 53,340.00
1852	THEVET, ANDRE.	Des vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres grecz, latins et payens.	31 August 1584	GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00	GBP 53,340.00
1636	CORTE, CLAUDIO.	Il cavalerizzo nel quale si tratta della natura de' cavalli del modo di domargli et frenargli, e di tutto quello che a cavalli et a buon cavalerizzo s appartiene.	1573	GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	GBP 50,800.00
1686	FONDULO, GIROLAMO.	Lucia, comoedia. Manuscript,		GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	GBP 50,800.00
1813	RABUTIN, FRANCOIS DE.	Continuation des commentaires des dernieres guerres en la Gaule belgique.	1559	GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	GBP 50,800.00
1662	DONI, ANTON FRANCESCO.	Lettere di m. Anton Francesco Doni, libro primo, con alcune altre lettere nuovamente alla fine aggiunte.	1545	GBP 35,000.00 - 50,000.00	GBP 44,450.00
1754	LUCIFER DE CAGLIARI.	Opuscula.	1568	GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00	GBP 38,100.00
1668	DU BELLAY, GUILLAUME.	Exemplaria literarum, quibus & christianissimus Galliarum Rex Franciscus, ab adversariorum maledictus defenditur.	1537	GBP 35,000.00 - 50,000.00	GBP 33,020.00
1679	ESTIENNE, CHARLES.	Le Herbe, fiori, stirpi, che si piantano ne gli horti.	1545	GBP 26,000.00 - 35,000.00	GBP 33,020.00
1683	FICINO, MARSILIO.	De vita libri tres, Recens iam a mendis situq[ue] vindicati, ac summa castigati, diligentia, quorum: Primus, De studiosorum sanitate tuenda.	1560	GBP 26,000.00 - 35,000.00	GBP 31,750.00
1836	SAVIGNY, CHRISTOFLE DE.	Tableaux accomplis de tous les arts liberaux. Paris: Jean de Gourmont & Francois de Gourmont, 1587		GBP 18,000.00 - 24,000.00	GBP 30,480.00
1725	HERBERSTEIN, SIGMUND VON.	Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii Sigismundi Liberi Baronis in Herberstain, Neyperg, & Guettenhag: In his Commentariis... habebis... Russiae, & ...Moscoviae, brevissimam descriptionem.	July 1551	GBP 18,000.00 - 24,000.00	GBP 27,940.00
1726	[BOOK OF HOURS].	Hore deipare virginis Marie secundum usum romanum.	5 December 1519	GBP 22,000.00 - 30,000.00	GBP 27,940.00
1709	GIOVIO, PAOLO.	Le vite di Leon decimo, et d'Adriano sesto sommi pontefici, et del cardinal Pompeo Colonna.	February 1549	GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	GBP 25,400.00

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