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Rossini: Classic Art, Historical Memories

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Auction Name	Classic Art, Historical Memories	Total Sales (EUR)	39,370.00
Auction Date	March 13, 2026 - March 13, 2026	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	18,130.00
Sale Number	#175146	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	26,810.00
Total Lots	53
Sold Lots	40.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	24,630.00
% of Lots Sold	75.47%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	35,060.00
Unsold Lots	13	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	112.29%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
186	PICART (Bernard).	Religious ceremonies and customs of all the peoples of the world. Ancient and modern superstitions.	1723-1743.	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 3,720.00
341	Hasui Kawase (Japan, 1883-1957)	Print, oban yoko-e, Shichirigahama, Soshu. Signed Hasui and stamped Sui. Watanabe Shozaburo type D publisher's stamp.	1930	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 3,472.00
191		MANUSCRIT. - Extract from the Registres Plumitifs du Bureau des finances de la Generalite de Paris. Contenant ce qui concerne les Ponts et Chaussees.	n.d. [18th century].	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 2,728.00
187	[MANUSCRIT]. DUBRAY (Pierre).	Survey plan of the Magnanville seigneury. 1731.	1731	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 2,604.00
183	MARIAN (Matthaus).	Todten-Tanz. Wie derselbe in der loblichen und weitberuhmten Stadt Basel, als ein Spiegel Menschlicher Beschaffenheit, gantz Kunstlich gemahlet, zu sehen ist.	1649	EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 2,108.00
179	OVIDE.	Ovidii metamorphosis cum commento familiari et ejusdem annotationibus in tabulam collectis.	February 26, 1497.	EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 1,860.00
340	Utagawa Hiroshige (Japan, 1797-1858):	Print, oban yoko-e, from the untitled series of large fish, the carp with the poem: Matsu tsui ni/ kumoi no tatsu to/ narinubeshi/ kawase o noboru/ koi no ikioi [The vigor of a carp / going up the rapids: / in the end, / it would finally become / a dragon	circa 1840-1842.	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 1,860.00
190		[MANUSCRIT]. Important heraldic collection of coats of arms drawn in an in-4 volume comprising approximately 2600 arms.	Second half of the 17th century.	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,612.00
197	BALZAC (Honore de).	The unknown masterpiece.	1931	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 1,612.00
182	LYCOPHRON.	Lycophronis Chalcidensis Alexandra, sive Cassandra.	s.d. [ 1546].	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 1,488.00
189		[MANUSCRIT]. Collection ou recueil de divers blasons et armoiries si comme des Roys, Princes, Seignieurs, Nobles, Pays, Villes, Villaiges, familles etc. Avec la maniere pour bien et dueument blasonner les Armoiries, ensemble l'explication des metaux, coul	1645	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 1,364.00
193		Livre des reves, ou l'Oneiroscopie. Application des songes aux numeros de la Loterie royale de France, tiree de la cabale italienne, & de la sympathie des nombres.	s.d.	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 1,240.00
188	GUER (Jean-Antoine).	Moeurs et usages des Turcs, leur religion, leur gouvernement civil, militaire et politique, avec un abrege de l'histoire ottomane.	1746-1747.	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 1,054.00
198		[BEHIND THE MIRROR]. Set of 15 volumes including Miro, Calder (2 volumes), Kandinsky (2 volumes), Hockney, Steinberg, Giacometti (3 volumes), Pol Bury, Ubac, Derain, Matisse and Tapies.	N/A	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 930.00
192	[RACKHAM (Arthur)]. ESOPE.	Fables. New translation.	1913	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 806.00
342	Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japan, 1797-1861)	Print, oban tate-e, from the series Tsuzoku sangokushi eiyu no ichinin, Heroes of the Famous History of the Three Kingdoms, plate Xuande (Gentoku) plunging into the Tan Gorge.	N/A	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 768.80
185		[HEBREW BIBLE].	s.d. [1546?]	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 744.00
347	Noel Nouet (France, 1885-1969)	Print, oban tate-e, Shinobazu ike, Lake Shinobazu. Signed Nuetto saku (Made by Nouet) and Noel Nouet and dated Tokyo 1936.	N/A	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 694.40
180	[INCUNABLE]. HEROLT (Johannes).	De miraculis beate virginis	1492	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 682.00
307		Album Haqikaisi qiang zong shuo) on Hatchkiss weapons.	Circa 1900	EUR 500.00 - 800.00	EUR 620.00
349	Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japan, 1797-1861)	Print, oban tate-e, from the series Tsuzoku sangokushi eiyu no ichinin , Heroes of the Famous History of the Three Kingdoms, plate Zhang Fei (Chohi).	N/A	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 620.00
181	DESCARTES (Rene).	Meditationes de prima philosophia, in quibus Dei existentia, & animae humanae a corpore distinctio, demonstrantur.	1644 or 1650].	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 558.00
343	Utagawa Hiroshige (Japan, 1797-1858)	Print, oban yoko-e, from the series Edo meisho no uchi, Famous Views of Edo, plate Ryogoku hanabi, Fireworks at Ryogoku Bridge. Signed Hiroshige ga,	N/A	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 558.00
345	Yanagawa Shigenobu (Japan, 1787-1832)	Triptych of prints, oban tate-e, plate Oi gawa hoko watari, The Crossing of the River Oi. Signed Sigenobu ga. (wormholes, restoration).	N/A	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 558.00
351		Two triptychs of prints, oban tate-e, including :	1869	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 558.00

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000

Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000

Forum, May 28: The Christ Child holding a crystal orb and surrounded by banderoles with devotional exhortations, on a leaf most probably from a Book of Hours, [Southern Netherlands, last decades of the fifteenth century]. £2,000-3,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000

Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000

Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000

Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000

Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000

Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000

Forum, May 28: Ribelles y Helip (José), Attributed to. An album comprising 33 finely executed watercolours of Spanish costume, bull-fighting scenes, and other genre subjects, [circa 1830]. £10,000-15,000