• Auction 19611

    Selections from the Library of Lorenzo H. Zambrano: Latin Americana, Science, and Literature

    2 June 2020 - 18 June 2020, New York

    SALE TOTAL: 648,125 (USD)
47 Lots for Sale 19611
Lot 1
Natural History of the New World
José de Acosta, 1589
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$5,000
Lot 2
Petition of Early Spanish Governor of Coahuila and Texas
Marque´s de Aguayo, c.1718
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$2,750
Lot 3
The Conquest of the New World
Peter Martyr Anghiera, 1574
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$2,250
Lot 4
Early Dictionary of Nahuatl
Francisco de Ávila, 1717
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$4,750
Lot 5
Rare Spanish Medical Text
Bravo de Sobremonte, 1651
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,000
Lot 6
Nahuatl grammar, second edition
Oracio Carochi, 1759
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$875
Lot 7
Six of Nine Indian Tracts in English
Bartolomé de las Casas, 1699
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$2,500
Lot 8
The Third Indian Tract
Bartolomé de las Casas, 1552
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$13,750
Lot 9
Iconic Plate Book on the Ancient Maya
Frederick Catherwood, 1844
estimate
$18,000 - $25,000

price realized
$32,500
Lot 10
The Ashendene Press Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes, 1927-28
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$5,250
Lot 11
The letters of Hernando Cortés
F.A. Lorenzana, 1770
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$5,250
Lot 12
Ordinances regulating the Council of the Indies
Madrid, 1681
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$8,125
Lot 13
Journal of the Beagle Voyage
Charles Darwin, 1839
estimate
$6,000 - $9,000

price realized
$20,000
Lot 14
First Edition Origin of Species
Charles Darwin, 1859
estimate
$100,000 - $150,000

price realized
$200,000
Lot 15
British and Foreign Orchids
Charles Darwin, 1862
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$4,000
Lot 16
The First All-Embracing Hypothesis of Evolution
Erasmus Darwin, 1794-96
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$2,750
Lot 17
Posthumous Poems
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 1714
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$8,125
Lot 18
Robinson Crusoe, the First English Novel
Daniel Defoe, 1719-20
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$3,250
Lot 19
Most important work on the conquests of Cortés
Bernal Díaz del Castillo, 1632
estimate
$6,000 - $9,000

price realized
$9,375
Lot 20
First Edition of Great Expectations
Charles Dickens, 1861
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$9,375
Lot 21
The Search for Ancient Palenque and Mitla
Dupaix & Lenoir, 1834 & 1844
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$5,250
Lot 22
Manuscript copy of Historia de las Indias
Diego Durán, c. 1830s
estimate
$18,000 - $25,000

price realized
$52,500
Lot 23
China and the Philippines
Fernández de Navarrete, 1676
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$4,750
Lot 24
Conversion of the Indigenous Peoples of Mexico
Jean Focher, 1574
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$27,500
Lot 25
Early English Account of Colonial Mexico
Thomas Gage, 1648
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$2,250
Lot 26
The Origins of Americans
Gregorio García, 1729
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$1,125
Lot 27
Literary Dialogue between Indian and Spaniard
Granados y Gálvez, 1778
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$3,250
Lot 28
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Inscribed by Francisco Madero
Querétaro, 1848
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$5,250
Lot 30
The Mexican Treasury
Francisco Hernandez, 1628
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$30,000
Lot 31
Description of the West Indies
Herrera y Tordesillas, 1726-30
estimate
$6,000 - $9,000

price realized
$6,250
Lot 32
Colored Issue of Antiquities of Mexico
Viscount Kingsborough, 1830-48
estimate
$80,000 - $120,000

price realized
$81,250
Lot 33
Bilingual Nahuatl Catechism
Martín de León, 1611
estimate
$6,000 - $9,000

price realized
$6,250
Lot 34
Discovery of the Aztec Sun Stone and Coatlicue Statue
Antonio de León y Gama, 1792
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$9,375
Lot 35
Second Expanded Edition of León y Gama's Treatise on the Aztecs
Antonio de León y Gama, 1832
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$750
Lot 36
Lyell's Principles of Geology
In original boards, 1830-33
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$12,500
Lot 37
Early Lithographic Plate Book on Mexico
George Francis Lyon, 1827
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$4,000
Lot 38
Franciscans in Jalisco and Northern Mexico
Franciscans, 1831
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$1,500
Lot 39
First Mexican Color Plate Book
Michaud & Thomas, c.1850
estimate
$6,000 - $9,000

price realized
$8,750
Lot 41
Origins of the Peoples of the Americas
F.X.A. de Orrio, 1763
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$1,500
Lot 42
Ancient Mezcala Stone Scuptures
Pen and ink drawings, 1966-87
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$10,625
Lot 43
Ancient Chalcatzingo in Mexico
Pen and Ink Drawings, c.1960s-71
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$4,750
Lot 44
Ceramic Figures from Preclassic Mexico
Pen and Ink Drawings, 1966-73
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$5,000
Lot 46
Deciphering Mayan Hieroglyphics
Léon de Rosny, 1876
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$3,250
Lot 47
The Stupendous Sallust
Sallust, 1772
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$8,125
Lot 48
Travels into Chile and the Andes Plate Book
Peter Schmidtmeyer, 1824
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$1,875
Lot 49
Popular Account of the Conquest of Mexico
Antonio Solís y Ribadeneyra, 1684
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$2,375
Lot 51
History of the Yucatan
Villagutierre Soto-Mayor, 1701
estimate
$2,500 - $3,500

price realized
$5,250
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