RARUS'S GALLERY

Price Realized: $87 200

EUCLID (fl. ca. 300 B.C.). Elementa geometriae. Translated from the Arabic by Adelard of Bath. Edited by Giovanni Campano. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 25 May 1482.

Уход: $87,200. Аукцион Christie's. The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science and Medicine, Part I. 18 марта 1998 года. New York, Park Avenue. Лот № 83.

Описание экземпляра: Super chancery 2o (305x211 мм.). Collation: a10 b-r8 (a1r blank, a1v Ratdolt's dedication to Giovanni Mocenigo, doge of Venice, a2r text, r7v colophon, r8 blank). 138 leaves. 45 lines and headline. Variant settings conform to GW main entry. Types 3:91G (text), 7:92G (preface and propositions), 7B:100R (headlines, capitals only), 6:56G (diagram lettering). Heading on a2r red-printed, three-quarter white-on-black foliated woodcut border (Redgrave border 3), possibly by Bernhard Maler, 15 ten-line and numerous five-line white-on-black woodcut initials, over 500 marginal woodcut and type-rule diagrams. Modern blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe; cloth slipcase. PMM 25.

Провенанс: Cremona, Augustinians, for use of Frater Johannes Gabz and Frater Basilius de Ripa (contemporary inscriptions on dedication page); H.C. Hoskier (Feb. 1903 inscription); Charles Lemuel Nichols (bookplate).

Price Realized:  $365 500

ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.) Opera, in Greek. With works by Galen (129-199? A.D.), Theophrastus (ca. 370 - ca. 287 B.C.), Philo Judaeus (ca. 30 B.C. - 45 A.D.), Alexander Aphrodisiensis (fl. early 3rd century A.D.) and other authors. Edited by Aldus, Thomas Linacre, Justin Decadyos, Gabriel Bracius and others. Venice: Aldus Manutius, 1 November 1495 - June 1498. PMM 38.

Уход: $365,500. Аукцион Christie's. The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science and Medicine, Part I. 18 марта 1998 года. New York, Park Avenue. Лот № 21.

Price Realized: $30 860

ARCHIMEDES (287-212 B.C.). Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia, in Greek and Latin - EUTOCIUS, Ascalonites (fl. early 6th century). In eosdem Archimedis libros commentaria, in Greek and Latin. Translated by Jacobus de Sancto Cassiano Cremonensis (fl. 1450), edited by Johann Müller, called Regiomontanus (1436-76), and by Thomas Gechauff, called Venatorius (d. 1551). Basel: Johann Herwagen, March 1544. 4 parts in one volume, 2° (315 x 217mm). With blank I4. Greek, roman and italic types. Woodcut mathematical diagrams, woodcut ornamental initials, printer's woodcut device on Ii4. (Small puncture affecting a few letters and penetrating to \Km\k, title detached and with some wear and small loss in the margins, Dd1.4 detached, a few marginal wormholes, k4 with loss in the bottom margin, occasional marginal dampstain.) Temporary contemporary paper binding comprising three sheets of rough paper, sewn on vellum cords, hinges reinforced with 16th-century vellum fragments (worn, with some loss at spine and edges, some soiling). PMM 72.

Уход: £20,000. Аукцион Christie's. Valuable Manuscripts and Printed Books . 12 November 2008. London, King Street. Лот № 90.

Price Realized:  $20 000

TARTAGLIA, Niccoló (ca 1499-1557). Nova scientia inventa. Venice: Stefano dei Nicolini da Sabbio for the author, 1537. 4o (195x155 mm). Collation: *4 A-L4. 48 leaves, unfoliated. Full-page allegorical woodcut on title, printer's woodcut device at end, numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text. (Some very minor marginal soiling.) Later vellum. Provenance: Early signature scrawled out at end of text, contemporary purchase inscriptions on L3v and L4v; Haskell F. Norman (bookplate, his sale Christie's New York, 18 March 1998, lot 201). PMM 66.

Уход: $20,000. Аукцион Christie's. Important Scientific Books: The Richard Green Library. 17 June 2008. New York, Rockefeller Plaza. Лот № 320.

Price Realized: $2 210 500

Copernicus, Nicolaus. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI. Nuremberg: Johann Petreius, 1543. 202 leaves. 148 woodcut diagrams, including 6 repeats (Gingerich count), tables of calculations, ornamental woodcut initials in part attributed to Hans Sebald Beham, some Greek. В ц/пергаментном переплете эпохи. 4o (270x204 мм.). PMM 70.

Уход: $2,210,500. Аукцион Christie's. Important Scientific Books: The Richard Green Library. 17 июня 2008 года. New York, Rockefeller Plaza. Лот № 60.

На памятнике Николаю Копернику в Варшаве высечены слова: "Он остановил Солнце и сдвинул Землю".

Price Realized:  $284 488

BRAHE, Tycho (1546-1601). Astronomiae instauratae mechanica. Wandsbeck: for the author by Philip von Ohrs, 1598. Тираж 100 экземпляров. Чрезвычайная редкость. За 40 последних лет не более 3-х продаж.

Уход: £172,000. Аукцион Christie's. BOOKS. 23 ноября 1998 года. London, King Street. Лот № 60.

Price Realized:  $357 870

Kepler, Johannes. Astronomia nova ΑΙΤΙΟΛΟΓΗΤΟΣ, SEU PHYSICA COELESTIS, TRADITA COMMENTARIIS DE MOTIBUS STELLAE MARTIS, EX OBSERVATIONIBUS G.V. TYCHONIS BRAHE. [HEIDELBERG: E. VÖGELIN], 1609. PMM 112.

Уход: £212,500. Аукцион Sotheby's. Music, Continental and Russian Books and Manuscripts. London, 20 May 2014, lot 98.

Price Realized:  $173 000

GALILEI, Galileo. Dialogo... sopre i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano. Florence: Gian Battista Landini, 1632. PMM 128.

Уход: $173,000. Аукцион Christie's. Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts Including Americana. 04 декабря 2014 года. New York, Rockefeller Plaza. Лот № 216.

Price Realized:  $662 500

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Sidereus nuncius magna, longeque admirabilia spectacula pandens. Venice: Tommaso Baglioni, 1610. PMM 113.

Уход: $662,500. Аукцион Christie's. Beautiful Evidence: The Library of Edward Tufte. 2 December 2010. New York, Rockefeller Plaza. Лот № 13.

Price Realized:  $40 105

GALILEI, Galileo. Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche, intorno due nuove scienze attenenti alla mecanica & i movimenti locali. Leiden: Elzevier Press, 1638. PMM 130.

Уход: £25,000. Аукцион Сотбис. Music, Continental and Russian Books and Manuscripts. 28 ноября 2012 года. Лондон. Лот 151.

Price Realized: $35 000

DÜRER, Albrecht (1471-1528). Underweysung der messung, mit dem zirckel unn richtscheyt in Linien ebnen unnd gantzen corporen. Nuremberg: [Hieronymus Andreas Formschneider], 1525. PMM 54.

Уход: $35,000. Аукцион Christie's. Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts Including Americana. 4 December 2014. New York, Rockefeller Plaza. Лот № 207.

Price Realized: $90 500

[DESCARTES, Ren (1596-1650)]. Discours de la methode pour bien conduire sa raison, & chercher la verit dans les sciences. Leyden: Jan Maire, 1637. PMM 129.

Уход: $90,500. Аукцион Christie's. The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science and Medicine. Part II. 15-16 июня 1998 года. New York, Park Avenue. Лот 407.

Price Realized: $23 475

SPINOZA, Baruch (later Benedictus de, 1632-1677). Tractatus theologico-politicus. Hamburg: Henricus Künraht, 1670. 4º (199x154 mm). Roman, italic and Hebrew type. Woodcut printer's device on title. (Light soiling to title and upper corners of B1-3, marginal waterstains, without the final blank.) Contemporary vellum over pasteboard, yapp edges, blue page edges (rebacked, lower cover wormed, ties lacking). Provenance: contemporary note at one corner of title, underlining and scoring to K2. PMM 153.

Уход: £15,000. Аукцион Christie's. Valuable Books and Manuscripts Including Cartography. 15 July 2015. London, King Street. Лот № 181.

Price Realized: $298 000

Darwin, Charles. ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION, OR THE PRESERVATION OF FAVOURED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, 1859. В издательском коленкоровом переплете с тиснением золотом на корешке. 8vo (198x125 мм.).

Уход: $298,000. Аукцион Sotheby's. Fine Books & Manuscripts Including Americana. New York, 14 December 2015, lot 41.

32 page publisher's catalogue at rear dated June 1859, half-title verso with quotations from "W. Whewell" and Bacon only, folding lithographic diagram by William West after Darwin; short closed tear to fore-margin of one page of the index, else an unusually tight and clean example. Original publisher's green cloth, sides stamped in blind, spine in gilt, by Edmonds and Remnants with their ticket on the lower pastedown; rear hinge starting, front hinge sound, though with some splitting to paper over hinge, short tear to cloth at bottom of upper joint, else a very bright copy with no fraying to spine ends or noticeable dulling to cloth, only faint rubbing to gilt rules on spine.

Первое издание одного из наиболее знаменитых трудов в истории науки и основополагающего в сфере эволюционного учения. Естественно, отмечено в PMM 344b.

Price Realized: $54 261

AGRICOLA, Georgius (1494-1555). De re metallica libri XII. - De animantibus subterraneis liber. Basel: Hieronymus Froben and Nicholas Episcopius, March 1556.  2° (345 x 227mm). With blank \ka\k6. 2 woodcut plates, woodcut illustrations and diagrams throughout. (Light soiling on the title and occasional light soiling in the margins.) Early 19th-century quarter sheep over sprinkled boards, morocco lettering-piece (joints repaired, extremities rubbed). Provenance: J. Pichez (partially deleted title signature; shelf-marks on the title). PMM 79.

Уход: £34,850. Аукцион Christie's. Valuable Printed Books and Manuscripts. 23 November 2011. London, King Street. Лот № 59.

Price Realized: $536 500

The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, touching the Spagyrist's Principles commonly call'd Hypostatical, as they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists, FIRST EDITION, J. Cadwell, for J. Crooke, 1661. PMM 141.

Уход: £362,500 inc. premium,(RUB 37,490,322). Аукцион Bonhams. The Library of the late Hugh Selbourne, M.D., Part I, 25 March 2015. London, Knightsbridge. Лот  236.

Price Realized: $12 650

BERNOULLI, Jakob (1654-1705). Ars conjectandi, opus posthumum. Accedit tractatus de seriebus infinitis, et epistola gallic scripta de ludo pilae reticularis. Edited by Nicolaus I Bernoulli (1687-1759). Basel: Thurneisen Brothers, 1713. 4o (221 x 170 mm). Woodcut device on title, folding sheet with woodcut diagrams, 2 folding letterpress tables, some woodcut diagrams in text, woodcut decorations and initials. (Some very minor light browning and pale spotting.) 18th-century tan paper boards (some edgewear), uncut; quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: A.G. Pickford (signature stamp on front pastedown). PMM 179.

Уход: $12,650. Аукцион Christie's. The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science and Medicine. Part II. 15-16 июня 1998 года. New York, Park Avenue. Лот 292.

Price Realized: $96 000

HOOKE, Robert (1635-1703). Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: John Martin and James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1665. PMM 147

Уход: $96,000. Аукцион Christie's. The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science and Medicine. Part II. 15-16 июня 1998 года. New York, Park Avenue. Лот 525.

Price Realized:  $2 500

Leeuwenhoek, Anton van. Arcana Naturae Detecta ab Antonio Van Leeuwenhoek. Delft: Apud Henricum a Krooneveld, 1695. 4to, modern calf. With portret, engraved title & 27 plates. PMM 166.

Уход: $2,500. Christie's New York, Nov 11, 1994, lot 47.

Price Realized:  $240 000

More, Thomas, Sir, 1478-1535. Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia. [Louvain]: Thierry Martin, [1516]. PMM 47.

Уход: $240,000. Аукцион Sotheby's. The Collection of Otto Schaefer. New York, November 1, 1995, lot 159.

Price Realized: $29 794

CAMPANELLA, Tommaso (1568-1639). Realis philosophiae epilogisticae partes quatuor. Frankfurt: Godefrid Tampach, 1623. [Bound with:] – приплёт: Astrologicorum Libri VII in quibus astrologia omni superstitione Arabum, & Judaeorum eliminata, physiologicae tractatur. Frankfurt: Godefrid Tampach, 1630.

Уход: £18,750. Аукцион Christie's. Valuable Manuscripts and Printed Books. 21 November 2012. London, King Street. Лот № 99.

В 1602 году приговоренный инквизиционным трибуналом к пожизненному заключению итальянский философ, гуманист Томмазо Кампанелла создает утопию «Город Солнца», где в художественной форме дано описание идеального города-государства. О нем рассказывает Гостиннику некий генуэзец-мореход, побывавший на острове Тапробана и посетивший солнечный град. Труд этот написан на итальянском языке. Впоследствии в 1613 году он был переведен на латинский язык. На латинском языке «Город Солнца» впервые и был опубликован во Франкфурте-на-Майне (1623) в виде приложения к «Реальной философии» Кампанеллы, который все еще находился в это время в застенках. Второе парижское издание в 1637 году, которое осуществил сам Кампанелла, все также не отделило "Город Солнца" от "Реальной философии". В этом плане этому великому произведению жутко не повезло и для коллекционеров в наше время создает определенные неудобства.

MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò (1469-1527). IL Principe … La Vita di Castruccio Castracani da Lucca … IL modo che tenne il duca Valentino per ammazar Vitellozo … Rome, Antonio Blada, 1532. Продаж первого издания "Государя" давно не наблюдалось: на аукционы выставляются более поздние, как итальянские, так и национальные европейские. Порядок цен на них совсем небольшой, чуть ниже приведем несколько примеров.

Price Realized: $56 250

Bacon, Sir Francis (1561-1626). [Novum organum] Instauratio magna. London: John Bill, 1620. Folio (279x187 mm). Engraved title-page signed in the plate by Simon van de Passe (Johnson no. 2), woodcut headpieces and historiated initials, e3 cancelled, errata on e4r, Norton's name omitted from colophon. Contemporary calf paneled in blind, the spine in seven compartments, plain endpapers, edges sprinkled red; marginal staining to endpapers from leather turn-ins. PMM 119.

Уход: $56,250. Аукцион Sotheby's. Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts. New York, 02-04 December 2015, lot 39.

Price Realized: $28 140

HOBBES, Thomas (1588-1679). Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill. London: Andrew Crooke, 1651. 2° (269 x 180mm). Engraved frontispiece, folding letterpress table. (Light spotting.) Contemporary sprinkled calf, sides panelled in gilt, edges sprinkled red (rebacked, corners rubbed). Provenance: a contemporary reader (deleted title inscription, neat marginalia) -W.R. Sorley (signature on front endpaper). PMM 138.

Уход: £17,500. Аукцион Christie's. Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts. 15 November 2013. London, South Kensington. Лот № 47.

Price Realized: $222 500

LOCKE, John (1632-1704). An Essay concerning Humane Understanding. London: Elizabeth Holt for Thomas Basset, 1690. Median 2o (323 x 197 mm). Collation: A4 a2 (title, author's dedication to the eighth Earl of Pembroke, epistle to the reader, errata); B-Z4 Aa4 (text Books I-II); Bb-Zz4 Aaa-Ccc4 (Books III-IV, table of contents). Type-ornament vignette on title. Contemporary English mottled calf, spine gold-tooled in compartments and red morocco lettering piece, red-and-green sprinkled edges, (spine-ends repaired, joints worn). PMM 164.

Уход: $222,500. Аукцион Christie's. The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science and Medicine. Part II. 15-16 июня 1998 года. New York, Park Avenue. Лот 624.

Price Realized: $97 813

HUME, David (1711-1776). A Treatise of Human Nature: being an Attempt to introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects. Of the Understanding [volume I]; Of the Passions [volume II]; Of Morals [volume III]. London: John Noon and [volume III] Thomas Longman, 1739-1740. 3 volumes, 8° (197-206x126mm). Four pages of publisher's advertisements at end of volume II. (Without the final blank in vol. III, occasional scattered marginal spotting.) Contemporary near uniform calf, spines with raised bands, numbered directly in gilt, compartments with gilt double rules, sides with gilt double-rule border, volumes 1 and 2 also with an inner blind roll-tooled border with crowns and sprays, edges sprinkled red (vol. I rebacked preserving the original spine, vols. II-III with spine ends repaired and joints split, corners repaired, extremities rubbed); modern blue cloth slipcase with Kennet arms in gilt. Provenance: Lord Kennet of the Dene (bookplate). PMM 194.

Уход: £62,500. Аукцион Christie's. Valuable Books and Manuscripts Including Cartography. 15 July 2015. London, King Street. Лот № 177.

Price Realized: $137 000

[MALTHUS, THOMAS ROBERT]. An Essay on the Principle of Population, as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society, with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers. London: for J. Johnson, 1798. PMM 251.

Уход: $137,000. Аукцион Bonhams. Fine Books and Manuscripts including the Collection of Barbara J. Land. 22 сентября 2015 года. Нью-Йорк. Лот № 36.

Price Realized:  $173 000

SMITH, Adam (1723-1790). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776. PMM 221.

Уход: $173,000. Аукцион Sotheby's. The Library of a Distinguished American Book Collector. New York, 04 June 2013, lot 139.

Price Realized: $40 000

RICARDO, David (1772-1823). On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. London: John Murray, 1817. 8o (216x138 mm). (Without the publisher's advertisements at end.) Contemporary half calf, grey paper boards, gilt spine (a trifle rubbed). Provenance: John Hales Calcraft: 19th century armorial bookplate; Helmut F. Friedlaender (bookplate; his sale Christie's New York, 23 April 2001, lot 176). PMM 277.

Уход: $40,000. Аукцион Christie's. Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana. 19 June 2014. New York, Rockefeller Plaza. Лот № 189.

Price Realized: $6 325

LOMBROSO, Cesare (1836-1909). L'Uomo Delinquente, studiato in rapporto alla antropologia, alla medicina legale ed alle discipline carcerarie. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1876. 8o (229 x 156 mm). Mounted lithographed illustration on p. 65, some wood-engraved illustrations in text. (Title- and half-title reinforced along inner margin, some light foxing.) Modern quarter vellum. PMM 364.

Уход: $6,325. Аукцион Christie's. The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science and Medicine. Part III. 29 октября 1998 года. New York, Park Avenue. Лот № 1175.

Price Realized: $7 475

KANT, Immanuel (1724-1804). Critik der reinen Vernunft. Riga: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1781. 8o (200x123 мм.). Contemporary mottled sheep, spine gilt, gilt-lettered lettering piecce on spine (light wear to spine, with some old repairs to joints). PMM 226

Уход: $7,475. Аукцион Christie's. The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science and Medicine. Part II. 15-16 июня 1998 года. New York, Park Avenue. Лот 562.

FIRST EDITION. "Kant's great achievement was to conclude finally the lines on which philosophical speculation had proceeded in the eighteenth century, and to open up a new and more comprehensive system of dealing with the problems of philosophy ... The influence of Kant is paramount in the critical method of modern philosophy. No other thinker has been able to hold with such firmness the balance between speculative and empirical ideas ... His methods ... dominated western philosophical thought throughout the nineteenth century, as they do today".

Price Realized:  $3 633

KIERKEGAARD, Soren Aabye (1813-1855). Enten-Eller. Copenhagen: Reitzel, 1843. 2 volumes, 8 (198x123 mm). Half-titles. (Some slight spotting.) Contemporary half calf, flat spines gilt with a decorative romantic design (rubbed, joints weak, front joint to vol I with small restoration at foot). Provenance: Ellen Weitring (early inscription on flyleaves); Bent Juel-Jensen (modern ex-libris). PMM 314.

Уход: £2,185. Аукцион Christie's. Printing and the Mind of Man. 20 October 1999. London, King Street. Лот № 67.

Price Realized: $56 250

Ницше, Фридрих. Так говорил Заратустра. Книга для всех и ни для кого. Первые три тома: Хемниц, Эрнст Шмейцнер, 1883-1884; четвертый: Лейпциг, К.Г. Науманн, 1991. Мягкие издательские обложки сохранены в переплете. PMM 370.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900. Also sprach Zarathustra. Leipzig, 1883-85. 4 parts in 1 vol. 8vo, contemp mor, orig wraps preserved. Presentation copy, inscript to Carl von  Gersdorff. The Garden copy.

Уход: $56,250. Аукцион Sotheby's. New York, Nov 9, 1989, lot 198.

Этот же экземпляр через год в Лондоне:

Уход: $35,860. Аукцион Sotheby's. London, April 26, 1990, lot 271.

Price Realized:  $46 000

Freud, Sigmund. Die Traumdeutung. Leipzig and Vienna: Franz Deuticke, 1900 [i.e., 1899]. PMM 389.

Уход: $46,000. Аукцион Christie's. The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science and Medicine. Part III. 29 октября 1998 года. New York, Park Avenue. Лот № 1354.

В верхней части титула дарственная надпись автора своему другу и помошнику Вильгельму Флиссу: "Seinem theuern Wilhelm/24 Okt 1899".

Подробное описание лота: 8o (220x145 мм.). (Small tear at bottom of title-page, two tiny punctures near Freud's inscription.) Contemporary brown boards, title and author's name gilt-lettered on spine, edges stained greenish-blue (ends of spine a bit chipped, worn along front outer joint, fore-corners slightly worn). Provenance: Wilhelm Fliess (presentation inscription to him from Freud); the Fliess family; Jeffery Masson, editor of The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess: 18887-1904 (1985); acquired from Masson by Haskell F. Norman in 1989.

Знаменитая книга Зигмунда Фрейда, выдержавшая несчетное количество переизданий, по праву считается одним из главных бестселлеров XX века. Так как в США психоаналитоков больше чем во всем остальном мире, то Фрейда надо продавать только в Америке. Иногда цены зашкаливают. Был бы хороший экземпляр.

Price Realized: $12 500

Schopenhauer, Arthur. Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung: vier Bücher, nebst einem Anhange, der die Kritik der Kantschen Philosophie enthält. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1819. В одном картонаже эпохи. PMM 279.

Уход: $12,500. Аукцион Сотбис. The Library of a Distinguished American Book Collector. 04 June 2013. Нью-Йорк. Лот № 138.

Описание лота: 8vo (203x118 mm). First section-title, half-title, general title, section titles for the subsequent three books, folding table; some light dampstains in top and bottom margins, some light browning and marginal spotting. Contemporary black German marbled boards, in a brown cloth drop-box; extremities torn, covers scraped. First edition, rare, of Schopenhauer’s magnum opus, a pessimistic view of scientific endeavor explicitly described (on the title page) as a “criticism of Kantian philosophy.”

Провенанс: Mrs. Philip D. Sang (sale, Sotheby's New York, 14 February 1986, lot 315). Acquisition: Ralph Geoffrey Newman.

Price Realized: $26 180

Institoris, Henricus (c. 1430-1505) & Sprenger, Jacobus (c. 1436-1495). Malleus maleficarum. [Speier: Peter Drach der Mittlere, before 15 April, 1487]. 1st Edition. Latein. Folio, 19th-cent paper bds; soiled, upper cover stained. 48 lines; double column; types 10:180G, 11:90G. Rubricated, with lombard initials in red or blue with some pen flourishes, red paragraph marks at beginning of chapter headings, capital strokes. Some soiling, spotting & browning or staining. 129 (of 130) leaves; lacking blank. Goff I - 163. Donau 298.

Уход: £17,000. Sotheby's. July 1, 1994, lot 164, to Kraus.

Первое издание вышло очень скромно оформленное: печать в два столбца; из украшений - только буквицы.

BRANT, Sebastian (1458-1521). Das Narrenschiff. Basle, Johann Bergmann, 1494. Этого издания на антикварном рынке очень давно не наблюдалось, оно является настоящей уникой, давно осев в книгохранилищах. PMM 37.

В наше время к продаже предлагаются более поздние издания на латыни. Чуть ниже мы приведем примеры.

Price Realized: $ 1 500 000

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, por Juan de la Cuesta vendese en casa de Francisco de Robles, 1605. ff. [4] 312 [8]. 4°.

Segunda parte del ingenioso cauallero Don Quixote de la Mancha por Miguel de Ceruantes Saavedra, autor de su primera parte. En Madrid, por Juan de la Cuesta, vendese en casa de Francisco de Robles, Ano 1615.

Уход: $1,500,000. Sotheby's New York, November 9, 1989, lot 80.

Переплёты ок. 1880 года зн. мастера Francis Bedford-a: марокен, тиснение золотом. Обе части - первое издание на испанском языке. Неплохой провенанс: Pellot - Huth - Morgan - The Garden copy. Появление на рынке 9 ноября 1989 года обоих томов первого издания "Дон Кихота", кроме как чудом назвать нельзя. Все экземпляры даже по одному тому давно и давно разобраны и появиться на рынке давно и давно не могут - ведь это книга вселенского масштаба. Цена на сегодня просто унизительная ... PMM 111.

Price Realized:  $545 849

BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (?1313-75). Decamerone. Hieronymus Squarzaficus (fl. 1475-after 1503). Vita di Boccaccio. Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 20 June 1492.

Уход: £361,250. Аукцион Christie's The Arcana Collection: Exceptional Illuminated Manuscripts and Incunabula, Part I. 07 июля 2010 года. London, King Street. Лот № 4.

В этом экземпляре к "Декамерону" приплели еще «Новеллино» — сборник новелл Томмазо Гуардати, иначе Мазуччо, правда, далеко не первое издание. Издатели - все те же, что и у "Декамерона" - Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio. На цену книги приплёт почти не влияет.

Price Realized:  $220 000

Dante Alighieri. La Commedia. Florence, Nicolaus Laurentii Alamanus, 1481, 30 Aug. Folio, 18th-cent russia gilt, attributed to John Brindley. With port of Dante mtd & tipped in at front; with 19 engraved illustr. to the Inferno, those for the 1st & 2d Cantos ptd directly on the page, the rest ptd separately & pasted in. 45 lines of text, 60 lines commentary & headline; types 4b:115R (text), 5:91R (commentary). Engraving on a2r cropped; minor worming, touching a few letters; some dampstaining; some stains & soiling; long tear in 1 leaf repaired. 369 (of 373) leaves; lacking 3 blanks. Goff D - 29. Schaefer copy. PMM 8,b.

Уход: $220,000. Аукцион Sotheby's. New York, 08 December 1994, lot 66.

Экземпляр с комплектом гравюр на меди является величайшей редкостью, о чем мы и поговорим ниже в форме расследования.

Price Realized: $5 200 000

Shakespeare, William. COMEDIES, HISTORIES, & TRAGEDIES. PUBLISHED ACCORDING TO THE TRUE ORIGINALL COPIES. ISAAC JAGGARD, AND ED. BLOUNT (PRINTED AT THE CHARGES OF W. JAGGARD, ED. BLOUNT, I. SMITHWEEKE AND W. ASPLEY), 1623. PMM 122.

Уход: £2,808,000. Аукцион Sotheby's. English Literature, History, Fine Bindings, Private Press and Childrens Books, including the First Folio of Shakespeare. Лондон, 13 июля 2006, lot 95.

"Первое фолио: комедии, хроники и трагедии" Уильяма Шекспира (William Shakespeare’s First Folio: Comedies, Histories and Tragedies), которое ушло с молотка за 5,2 млн. долларов в июле 2006 года на аукционе Sotheby’s. Полное название — «Мистера Уильяма Шекспира комедии, хроники и трагедии. Напечатано с точных и подлинных текстов». Тот самый легендарный экземпляр первого издания пьес Уильяма Шекспира, изданного в 1623 году Джоном Хемингом и Генри Конделом, участниками шекспировской труппы. PUBLISHED ACCORDING TO THE TRUE ORIGINALL COPIES. LONDON: ISAAC JAGGARD, AND ED. BLOUNT (PRINTED AT THE CHARGES OF W. JAGGARD, ED. BLOUNT, I. SMITHWEEKE AND W. ASPLEY), 1623. "Первое фолио" содержит 998 страниц большого формата. Текст напечатан в две колонки. Тираж, вероятно, не превышал восемьсот экземпляров.

Price Realized: $153 600

The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner ...  Written by Himself. London: Printed for William Taylor, 1719 — The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Being the Second and Last Part of his Life and of the Strange Surprizing Accounts of his Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe. London: Printed for William Taylor, 1719. PMM 180.

2 volumes, 8vo (197x120 мм.). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Crusoe, engraved foldout map in vol. 2, errata and 4-pp. advertisement in vol. 1, 11-pp. advertisement in vol. 2; last 4 quires of vol. 1 stained, scattered foxing on title and some leaves of vol. 2. Contemporary calf, not uniform, vol. 1 in a panel design, vol. 2 mottled with gilt-ruled border; upper cover of vol. 2 scuffed, and rebacked with original spine laid down. Red half morocco folding-case (vol. 1) and brown cloth folding-case (vol. 2).

Уход: $153,600. Аукцион Сотбис. Property from the Library of the Late Mrs. J. Insley Blair. 03 декабря 2004 года. Нью-Йорк. Лот № 136.

Провенанс: Hamond (ms. exlibris on title of vol. 1) — Percival & Elisabeth Merritt (bookplate in vol. 2)

First edition, first issue of both parts, of the book that is widely accepted as the first novel in English. It was an immediate success, widely translated, and which inspired a huge number of imitations and adaptations across the world since publication. The first part was published on 25 April 1719 in an edition of 1,000 copies; the sequel, Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, was published in August the same year. Rousseau recommended it as the first book which ought to be studied by a growing boy; Coleridge praised its depiction of “the universal man” and Marx used it to illustrate economic theory in action.

Price Realized: $78 697

Swift, Jonathan. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships. 2 vols. London, Printed for Benjamin Motte, 1726. PMM 185.

Уход: £49,250. Аукцион Sotheby's. English Literature, History, Children's Books & Illustrations. London, July 14, 2011. lot 47.

Описание лота: 8vo (183x118 мм.), 2 volumes, first edition, Teerink's "a" edition, Martha Blount's copy, signed on the upper paste-down of each volume ("Martha Blount | her Book", "Martha Blount"), frontispiece portrait in volume1 in second state (with legend around the oval frame), 5 engraved maps, one engraved diagram, cancels G6 and 2E8 in volume 2, contemporary calf, spines misnumbered in gilt ("1" and "2" reversed), preserved in modern quarter morocco folding box, joints cracked, head and base of spines slightly chipped, corners slightly worn, volume 2 without spine label, very minor wormhole to first three leaves of volume 2, occasional slight spotting to text.

Price Realized: $1 542 500

Подробное описание лота: Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge (Carroll, Lewis). Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. London, [The Clarendon Press for] Macmillan and Co, 1865. 8o (223x137 мм.). 42 wood-engraved illustrations by the Dalziel brothers after John Tenniel. TEN ORIGINAL PENCIL DRAWINGS FOR THE ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN TENNIEL, EACH SIGNED WITH HIS MONOGRAM (all inset to size, nine with caption mounted below, and each inserted opposite its corresponding wood engraving). See individual descriptions under "drawings" below. THE VERY RARE FIRST ISSUE OF THE SUPPRESSED FIRST EDITION. APPARENTLY LEWIS CARROLL'S WORKING COPY, MARKED UP BY HIM IN CHARACTERISTIC PURPLE INK IN PREPARATION FOR THE NURSERY ALICE (1889), THE ONLY KNOWN UNTRIMMED COPY, AND WITH TEN ORIGINAL PRELIMINARY DRAWINGS (INCLUDING "THE CHESHIRE CAT") BY JOHN TENNIEL BOUND IN (1899). PMM 354.

Уход: $1,542,500. Аукцион Christie's. LEWIS CARROLL & ALICE: PRIVATE COLLECTION OF JUSTIN SCHILLER. 09 декабря 1998 года. Нью-Йорк, Парк Авеню. Лот № 38.

Price Realized:  $61 133

Alexandre DUMAS (1802-1870). Les Trois Mousquetaires. Paris: Baudry, 1844. 8 volumes in-8º (209 x 125 mm). Reliure de l'époque, demi-veau bleu nuit, dos lisses ornés en long.  ÉDITION ORIGINALE RARISSIME de l'ouvrage le plus célèbre d'Alexandre Dumas. D'abord paru en feuilletons dans Le Siècle de février à juillet 1844, ce roman historique, célèbrant l'amitié et le courage, remporta un succès tel que Dumas composa rapidement une suite, intitulée Vingt ans après et Le Vicomte de Bragelonne. Le tome VIII s'achève sur quatre nouvelles : "Un message", "Histoire d'un mort raconté par lui-même", "Histoire d'une âme", "Fra Bartolomeo".  TRÈS BEL EXEMPLAIRE EN RELIURE DE L'ÉPOQUE. Tome IV: découpe angulaire sur le faux-titre, titre et p. 5, sans atteinte au texte; manque la table; dernier feuillet (p. 363) doublé; accroc à la coiffe supérieure. Rousseurs. Frottements aux coiffes et charnières, coins émoussés. Carteret Romantique I, p. 235.

Уход: €49,500. Аукцион Christie's. Livres et manuscrits. 9 December 2014. Paris. Лот № 135.

Price Realized: $340 654

DUMAS, Alexandre (1802-1870). Le Comte de Monte-Christo. Paris: Béthune et Plon, A. Henry (pour les faux-titres et titres des volumes 9 à 18) pour Baudry (volumes 1 à 14) et Pétion (vols. 15 à 18), 1845-1846. 18 volumes in-8 (207x128 mm). Avec les faux-titres. (Quelques rousseurs, quelques feuillets brunis.) Demi-veau bleu de l'époque, dos à nerfs, caisson du centre orné du chiffre couronné "HS", (petites usures à quelques coiffes et une coiffe restaurée). Provenance: Henry Seymour (dos ornés à son chiffre) - Michel Bolloré.  ÉDITION ORIGINALE, publiée d'abord en feuilleton dans Le Journal des débats (août 1844 - janvier 1845). "Rare et recherché. Difficile à rencontrer en belle condition d'époque" (Clouzot). "Lorsqu'il signe avec Béthune et Plon, vers la fin de 1843, le contrat du Comte de Monte-Cristo, Dumas est avant tout un auteur dramatique qui a porté la révolution au théâtre et aussi le rénovateur des Impressions de voyage. Les Trois Mousquetaires ne lui ont pas encore donné ce renom de maître du roman historique que les journaux s'arracheront. La postérité, passant outre au jugement de tous les académismes et ratifiant le sentiment des lecteurs sans cesse renouvelés, donne peu à peu au Comte de Monte-Cristo sa vraie place, l'une des premières" (Laffont-Bompiani). TRÈS BEL EXEMPLAIRE D'UNE GRANDE PROVENANCE DANS SA RELIURE DE L'ÉPOQUE. Carteret Romantique I, 236; Clouzot 54.

Уход: €253,000. Аукцион Christie's. IMPORTANTS LIVRES ANCIENS, LIVRES D'ARTISTES ET MANUSCRITS. 21 April 2010. Paris. Лот № 141.

Price Realized: $17 393

[HUGO, Victor (1802-1885)]. Notre-Dame de Paris. Paris: Charles Gosselin, 1831. 2 volumes, 8° (213x131mm). Wood-engraved title vignettes after Tony Johannot. (Vol. I with small worm trace at outer margin of 11.2.) Crimson straight-grained morocco gilt by R.D. Canape, covers with wide border of multiple fillets with corner-pieces, gilt spine compartments with central device of a cathedral window, gilt turn-ins, satin doublures, gilt edges (joints lightly rubbed), morocco-trimmed slipcases.  FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. 'Les exemplaires de la première tranche, sans mention d'édition et sans nom d'auteur sont extrèmement rares' (Clouzot). Johannot's title-page vignettes show Quasimodo in the pillory receiving a drink from Esmeralda (vol. I) and Esmeralda escorted to the gallows (vol. II). Ray considers the former 'one of the most moving of Johannot's designs'. EXCELLENT COPY. Clouzot 86-87; Carteret Romantique I, 400; Lhermitte 317; Ray French Illustrated Book 180; Vicaire IV, 256. PMM 273 (упом.)

Уход: £11,250. Аукцион Christie's. Valuable Printed Books and Manuscripts. 13 June 2012. London, King Street. Лот № 177.

Price Realized: $80 605

VICTOR HUGO. Les Misérables. Bruxelles: A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie, 1862. 10 volumes in-8 (235x153 mm). (Rousseurs éparses.) Brochés (volumes débrochés, dos fendus et couvertures salies. Manque la quatrième de couverture du tome II).  ÉDITION ORIGINALE DE CE CHEF-D'OEUVRE DE VICTOR HUGO ENRICHI D'UN ENVOI AUTOGRAPHE SIGNÉ "V": "Pour toi, chère et bien chère amie. H[auteville] H[ouse] 1862". This copy is inscribed to Hugo's wife Adèle.

Уход: €61,000. Аукцион Christie's. Collection Victor Hugo. 4 April 2012. Paris. Лот 71.

Price Realized: $90 048

STENDHAL, HENRI BEYLE DIT LE ROUGE ET LE NOIR.PARIS, LEVAVASSEUR, 1831. édition originale. 2 volumes in-8 (207 x 120 mm). illustration : 2 vignettes de titre d’Henry Monnier. reliure signée simier, r. du roi. Demi-veau cerise avec coins, dos à larges nerfs portant le nom de l’auteur et le titre, tranches marbrées.

Уход: €70,350. Аукцион Sotheby's. Livres et Manuscrits. Paris, 19 November 2012, lot 119.

PROVENANCE: Docteur Robert Fleury (17-18 avril 1997, no 315).

Price Realized: $39 307

FLAUBERT, Gustave (1821-1880). Madame Bovary. Moeurs de province. Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, 1857. 2 volumes. In-12° (172x115 mm). (Pâles rousseurs éparses.) Demi-chagrin brun légèrement postérieur, dos à nerfs (dos passé, une charnière intérieure partiellement fendue). Provenance: Louis de Cormenin (envoi) - Jacques Dennery (ex-libris sur une garde).  ÉDITION ORIGINALE. EXEMPLAIRE SUR PAPIER VÉLIN FORT avec la faute à Senart, portant sur le faux-titre un ENVOI AUTOGRAPHE SIGNÉ: "À mon vieil ami Louis de Cormenin, le livre et l'auteur" (envoi rogné dans la marge droite). Exemplaire inconnu à Auguste Lambiotte. Louis de Cormenin, ami intime de Maxime Du Camp, fut l'un des fondateurs de la Revue de Paris en 1851, dans laquelle parut d'abord Madame Bovary. Carteret Romantique I, 263.

Уход: €26,650. Аукцион Christie's. Livres Anciens, Livres Modernes et Manuscrits . Paris, 20 November 2007, lot 127.

Price Realized: $17 436

BALZAC, Honoré de (1799-1850). La Peau de chagrin, roman philosophique. Paris: Charles Gosselin et Urbain Canel, 1831. 2 volumes in-8 (215 x 135 mm). Deux frontispices d'après Tony Johannot, gravés par Porret, sur Chine. (Quelques rousseurs, tache brune dans la marge inférieure des pages 9 à 12 du tome II.) Reliure signée Lorenzo Mariotti, demi-veau vert, coins de vélin, sans les couvertures (dos légèrement passés avec quelques éraflures sans gravité). ÉDITION ORIGINALE. Tome II avec les erreurs de pagination mentionnées par Carteret. BEL EXEMPLAIRE GRAND DE MARGES. Carteret Romantique I, 60; Vicaire I, 184; Clouzot 12; Lhermitte 52. (2)

Уход: €12,500. Аукцион Christie's. Bibliothèque littéraire d'un amateur parisien. Paris, 25 June 2009, lot 72.

Издание Д.П. Ефимова. Москва, 1900-1910. В 4-х превосходных п/к шагреневых переплетах мастерской А.П. Петцман в Москве, оригинальные форзацы с золотым фоном, крашенная головка под цвет орнамента на форзацах. Формат: 24х17 см. Комплектный экземпляр! Редкость в таком виде!