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Bruun Rasmussen: Art Books; Poetry; Books and Manuscripts; Memorabilia

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Auction Name Art Books; Poetry; Books and Manuscripts; Memorabilia Total Sales (DKK) 855,150.00
Auction Date June 21, 2022 - June 21, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (DKK) 517,200.00
Sale Number #2225a High Estimate of Lots Sold (DKK) 678,200.00
Total Lots 239
Sold Lots 185 Low Estimate of All Lots (DKK) 851,200.00
% of Lots Sold 77.41% High Estimate of All Lots (DKK) 1,101,900.00
Unsold Lots 54 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 77.61%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
6192 Christopher Plantin:

Biblia Sacra. Bd. 1-5.

[1568-1573] DKK 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 DKK 93,750.00
6074 Lucas Lossius:

Stutt iñehalld catechism [...] fyrer børn samsett & skrifad j latinu [...].

1693 DKK 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 DKK 68,750.00
6162

Collection of 12 vols. of books on books. 19th-20th century. Various bindings. (12)

19th-20th century DKK 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 DKK 31,250.00
6007 Jim Dine

Walasse Ting: Life. 1 Cent

1964 DKK 10,000.00 - 10,000.00 DKK 26,250.00
6120 Johannes Finnaeus (ed.):

liber originum Islandiae [...].

1774 DKK 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 DKK 19,375.00
6143

Collection of 15 vols. from 16th century. Various bindings and conditions. No copies are complete. (15)

16th century DKK 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 DKK 18,750.00
6005 Arnaldo Pomodoro, Luis Borges

Siete Poemas Sajones. Seven Saxon Poems. Numbered and signed, limited ed.

1974 DKK 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 DKK 17,500.00
6115 [Jacob Richardson]:

Historiskt Bewis om Swea och Göta Rikes Urgamla Frihet [...].

1758 DKK 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 DKK 16,875.00
6078 Qi Baishi

Qui Baishi 4 vols.

1952 DKK 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 DKK 13,125.00
6184

Psalms. Handwritten manuscript in Danish and Hebrew. Bilingual.

18th century. DKK 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 DKK 12,500.00
6082 Henrik Ibsen

Collection of 8 1st editions.+ Gildet på Solhaug. 2nd ed. (9)

1871-1894 DKK 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 DKK 11,875.00
6111 Johann Andersen:

Nachrichten von Island, Grönland und der Strasse Davis.

1747 DKK 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 DKK 10,625.00
6181 Johs. V. Jensen

Collection of 57 1st eds. Most bound with orig. wrappers in nice half morocco (Ida Flagstad). Enclosed one vol. bound in half leather. (58)

DKK 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 DKK 10,625.00
6144

Collection of 23 vols. from 18th century. Most in Danish. Various bindings and conditions. (23)

18th century DKK 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 DKK 10,000.00
6075 Tycho Brahe

Tychonis Brahe Dani [De Nova Stella].

1901 DKK 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 DKK 9,375.00
6125 Uno von Troil:

Bref, rörande en resa til Island 1772.

1777 DKK 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 DKK 8,750.00
6172 Søren Kierkegaard

Kjöbenhavns flyvende Post. Incl. Interimsblad #34, #76, #82/83 and #87.

1834 and 1836 DKK 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 DKK 8,125.00
6200 Laurids de Thurah

Hafnia Hodierna [...].

1748 DKK 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 DKK 8,125.00
6076 E.E. Cummings

Golden Eagle, 1935.

1935 DKK 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 DKK 7,500.00
6081 Søren Kierkegaard

Om Begrebet Ironi med stadigt Hensyn til Socrates.

1841 DKK 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 DKK 7,500.00
6044 Tomas Tranströmer

Poémes.

1998 DKK 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 DKK 6,875.00
6063 Dan Turèll

Opsvulmede byer i sigtekornet flagrende skud i bedvidstheden.

1972 DKK 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 DKK 6,875.00
6149 Hans Christian Andersen

Collection of 12 vols. from the 1830s. Various bindings. (12)

1830s DKK 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 DKK 6,875.00
6195 Thomas Bartholin

Anatomia, ex Caspari Bartholini [...] Reformata.

1666 DKK 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 DKK 6,875.00
6004 Asger Jorn

“Mémoires. Edite par l'Internationale Situationniste”

1959 DKK 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 DKK 6,250.00
  • 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
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    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
  • 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.
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