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Auction Name: Fine Books and Manuscripts
Auction Date: 05/26/2025 - 05/26/2025
Sale Number: #52625
Total Lots: 210
Sold Lots: 83
Lots Sold: 39.52%
Unsold Lots: 127

Total Sales (EUR): 29,364.30
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 37,940.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 45,320.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 121,680.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 151,390.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 19.40%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
2	DAVID ROBERTS	Picturesque Sketches in Spain,	c 1837	EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 2,772.00
31	HUBERT GOLTZIUS	C. Iulius Caesar sirve historiae. Book one.	1663	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 1,512.00
7		Book of Hours of Isabella the Catholic. With box and study book.	1991	EUR 2,200.00 - 2,400.00	EUR 1,260.00
6	JOHANNES GUTEMBERG,	The Gutenberg Bible, Volumes I and II, and explanatory book. Leather binding.		EUR 1,400.00 - 1,600.00	EUR 1,260.00
22		Status du Thoison or Insigne Ordre du Toison d'Or. Scriptorium Limited Editions,	1998	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 945.00
18	Alfono X	Cantigas de Santa Maria by Alfono X "El sabio", Florence manuscript. Copy no 676/1000.		EUR 1,800.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 882.00
17	Alfono X	Cantigas de Santa Maria by Alfono X "El sabio", Florence manuscript. Copy no 1119/1000.		EUR 1,800.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 819.00
30		Facsimile of the Bible of St. Vincent Ferrer.	1993	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,100.00	EUR 756.00
64		Facsimile of "Bestiario de Don Juan de Austria", original from 1570. Siloe edition, 373/696. Hardcover. With cover.		EUR 300.00 - 350.00	EUR 756.00
49		Book of Hours of Philip II with Missarum et officiorum of Philip II. Editorial Patrimonio, facsimile number 75/979. El Escorial Treasures Collection		EUR 600.00 - 700.00	EUR 693.00
44	Casiano Alguacil,	Book of photographs of monuments of Toledo.	around 1870	EUR 600.00 - 700.00	EUR 630.00
32		Sierra Morena Mining Company (XIX century). Book of photographs of Sagunto: Mines, Gate and shippers of Sagunto.	end of the 19th century	EUR 900.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 630.00
26		Set of 10 selected books: - Ausias March and his time,	1997	EUR 900.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 630.00
24		The Quest for the Holy Grail.	1997	EUR 900.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 630.00
23		Apocalypsis Beati Liebanensis or Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle.	1992	EUR 900.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 630.00
103	Charles V Editorial Versol	Book of Hours of Charles V. Editorial Versol, issue 199/599.	1994	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 567.00
42		Chapter of Philip II of the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial. Limited facsimile edition, copy 257/980.		EUR 800.00 - 900.00	EUR 567.00
33		Beato de Liebana. Commentaries on the Apocalypse. Facsimile Blessed of Saint Sever and additional book. Copy 953/2000.	1984	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 567.00
28		Axedrez Books, Dice and Tables.	1987	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 567.00
50	SANTIAGO SEBASTIAN LOPEZ,	Codex Borgia. Study book and box. With notarial certificate. Facsimile. Copy 58/178.	1990	EUR 600.00 - 700.00	EUR 535.50

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Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.

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