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Galerie Bassenge: Literature and Autographs

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Auction Name Literature and Autographs Total Sales (EUR) 222,340.95
Auction Date October 13, 2021 - October 13, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 137,970.00
Sale Number #118LT High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 137,970.00
Total Lots 461
Sold Lots 324 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 343,210.00
% of Lots Sold 70.28% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 343,210.00
Unsold Lots 137 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 64.78%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
2013 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Brief 1815

1815 EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 9,840.00
2024 Griesbach, Johann Jakob

Teil seines schriftlichen Nachlasses

EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 9,225.00
2076 Haeckel, Ernst

Brief an Heinrich Barth

EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 7,995.00
2446 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Principes du droit politique

EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 6,396.00
2136 Georg Ludwig, Kurfürst von Hannover

5 eigenhändige Briefe

EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 4,674.00
2443 Nietzsche, Friedrich

Jenseits von Gut und Böse

EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 4,428.00
2527 Schalck, Ernst

Hans Trappfuß

EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 3,936.00
2152 Maria Theresia, röm.-dt. Kaiserin

Adelsbrief 1751

1751 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,444.00
2368 La Fontaine, Jean de

Contes et nouvelles en vers

EUR 3,500.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 3,075.00
2323

aus der Bibliothek von Herzog Wilhelm von Braunschweig

EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,952.00
2514 Meggendorfer, Lothar

Prinz Liliput

EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,952.00
2532 Seidmann-Freud, Tom

Buch der Hasengeschichten

EUR 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 2,952.00
2325

aus der Bibliothek von Herzog Wilhelm von Braunschweig

EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,829.00
2040 Hesse, Hermann

Brief mit Zeichnung

EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,706.00
2192 Kilian, Georg Christoph

Brief 1780

1780 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,706.00
2324

aus der Bibliothek von Herzog Wilhelm von Braunschweig

EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,706.00
2390 Ovidius Naso, Publius

Les métamorphoses

EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,460.00
2448 Stirner, Max

Geschichte der Reaction

EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,214.00
2138 Sophie Dorothea, Kurprinzessin von Braunschweig-Lüneburg

Eigenhänd. Brief 1694

1694 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,968.00
2082 Koch, Robert

Brief 1887

1887 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,845.00
2190 Kaulbach, Wilhelm von

Sign. Gedicht mit Federzeichnung

EUR 450.00 - 450.00 EUR 1,845.00
2537 Textor, A.

Kinderspiele für alle Jahreszeiten

EUR 1,400.00 - 1,400.00 EUR 1,845.00
2066 Unger, Friederike

Brief 1810 an Göschen

1810 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,722.00
2096 Mygind, Franz von

Brief 1763 an Jacquin

1763 EUR 800.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,722.00
2144 Luise, Königin von Preußen

Brief 1806

1806 EUR 550.00 - 550.00 EUR 1,722.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
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