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Auction Info

Auction Name
Art Books - An Antique Dealer's Library - Chapter 1: Fine Arts in Italy
Auction Date
04/22/2025 - 04/22/2025
Sale Number
#163115
Total Lots
440
Sold Lots
341
Lots Sold
77.50%
Unsold Lots
99
Total Sales (EUR)
30,882.60
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
17,660.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
25,250.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
24,000.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
33,860.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
91.21%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
404 Vasari

Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects,

1757 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 882.00
292

Two books from the British museum 1)Italian Drawings, Artists working in Rome (1550-1640), Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 441.00
403 Ludovico Barone von Pastor

Storia dei Papi, dalla fine del Medio Evo,

1942 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 378.00
379 Bernard Berenson

Italian pictures of the Renaissance, Central italian North Italian schools,

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 378.00
242 Roberto Longhi

Roberto Longhi, Caravaggio in Europe,

EUR 20.00 - 30.00 EUR 378.00
1

Set of two books: 1) Simona Lecchini Giovannoni, Alessandro ALLORI,

EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 352.80
300

Set of three books on places in Rome, in slipcases 1) R. Lefevre, Palazzo Chigi,

1973 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 352.80
412 Roberto Longhi

The complete works of Roberto Longhi,

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 315.00
183 Stephen Pepper

Guido RENI, The Complete Works,

1988 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 315.00
310 Luigi Salerno

18th-century landscape painting in Rome,

1977-1978 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 315.00
220 Harold E. Wethey

TITIAN, three volumes 1)The religious paintings (Volume I)

EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 315.00
309 Jorg Garms

Views of Rome from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century,

1995 EUR 20.00 - 30.00 EUR 315.00
390 Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios

Le temple du gout, Les Arts decoratifs en Italie, entre classicisme et baroque,

1984 EUR 30.00 - 40.00 EUR 315.00
214

Set of two works on Giambattista TIEPOLO 1) L'opera grafica dei TEIPOLO, Le acqueforti,

EUR 30.00 - 50.00 EUR 277.20
79 Anna Paola Zugni-

Tauro, Gaspare DIZIANI,

1971 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 252.00
369 Filippo Todini

Umbrian painting from the 13th to the 16th century,

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 239.40
420

Pinacoteca di Brera, museum and gallery of Milan

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 239.40
422 Federico Zeri

Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore,

1976 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 226.80
272

Set of three books on Naples 1) Nicola Spinosa and Leonardo di Mauro, 17th-century Neapolitan views,

1989 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 201.60
182

Set of four books on Guido RENI 1) exhibition catalog: Guido RENI (1575-1642),

1988 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 201.60

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