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Galerie Bassenge: Literature and Autographs

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Auction Name Literature and Autographs Total Sales (EUR) 292,533.20
Auction Date October 07, 2020 - October 07, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 223,970.00
Sale Number #116LT High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 223,970.00
Total Lots 695
Sold Lots 387 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 385,160.00
% of Lots Sold 55.68% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 385,160.00
Unsold Lots 308 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 75.95%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
2603 Bloch, Ernst

79 Briefe u. 4 Postkarten

1929-1949. EUR 18,000.00 - 18,000.00 EUR 17,220.00
2089a Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Faust, Tragédie

1828 EUR 12,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 9,840.00
2683 Friedrich II., der Große, König von Preußen

Eigenhändiger Brief des Sechzehnjährigen

1728 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 9,840.00
2738 Hermine, Deutsche Kaiserin

170 Briefe und Karten

1929-1947. EUR 3,600.00 - 3,600.00 EUR 9,225.00
2268 Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoffel v.

Gantz neu eingerichteter abentheuerlicher Simplicius Simplicissimus

um 1671. EUR 4,500.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 7,380.00
2625 Lenard, Philipp

20 Briefe und Postkarten+ Beilagen

1910 - 1933. EUR 8,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 7,380.00
2601 Adorno, Theodor W.

Briefwechsel und Manuskripte

Ca. 1954-1964. EUR 7,500.00 - 7,500.00 EUR 6,150.00
2517 Lechter, Melchior

Sammlung von 19 Briefen und Postkarten

1933-1937. EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,658.00
2568 Rilke, Rainer Maria

Brief 1899

EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 5,166.00
2691 Friedrich Wilhelm, Kurfürst von Brandenburg

Landtags-Recess

1653 EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 5,166.00
2543 Karschin, Anna Louisa

Brief-Gedicht an Daniel Chodowiecki

1786 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 4,428.00
2770 Debussy, Claude

Foto mit Widmung

1906 EUR 2,200.00 - 2,200.00 EUR 4,428.00
2668 Wallenstein, Albrecht von

Eigenhänd. Brief

1622 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 4,305.00
2599 Zweig, Stefan

Brief 1936 an Viktor Zuckerkandl

1936 EUR 450.00 - 450.00 EUR 3,936.00
2039 Deutschland

Deutschland

1796 EUR 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 3,690.00
2548 Lenau, Nicolaus

Gedichtmanuskript "Tubal"

ca. 1836. EUR 3,200.00 - 3,200.00 EUR 3,198.00
2550 Lenau, Nicolaus

Gedichtmanuskript "An Natalie"

1838 EUR 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 3,198.00
2605 Botaniker in der Habsburger Monarchie

145 Briefe und Karten

1822-1935. EUR 4,500.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 2,829.00
2569 Rilke, Rainer Maria

Brief 1903 aus Worpswede

1903 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,706.00
2766 Adorno, Theodor W.

Brief 1967

1967 EUR 450.00 - 450.00 EUR 2,706.00
2235 Treitzsaurwein, Marx

Der Weiß Kunig, 1775

1775 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,460.00
2793 Verdi, Giuseppe

Brief 1890

1890 EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 2,460.00
2594 Varnhagen von Ense, Karl August

Brief 1836

1836 EUR 800.00 - 800.00 EUR 2,214.00
2008 Beling, Oswald

Verdeutschete Waldlieder

1649 EUR 750.00 - 750.00 EUR 1,968.00
2502 Benn, Gottfried

Brief 1944 an Alice Schuster

EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,968.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
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