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Bruun Rasmussen: Books from Valdemar's Castle; Bookbinder Mogens Dichow, Anker Kyster's Succesor; Books and manuscripts; Modern Art and Design -Prints

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Auction Name Books from Valdemar's Castle; Bookbinder Mogens Dichow, Anker Kyster's Succesor; Books and manuscripts; Modern Art and Design -Prints Total Sales (DKK) 1,901,437.50
Auction Date March 14, 2023 - March 14, 2023 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (DKK) 6,623,100.00
Sale Number #2311 High Estimate of Lots Sold (DKK) 7,022,200.00
Total Lots 332
Sold Lots 282 Low Estimate of All Lots (DKK) 7,941,900.00
% of Lots Sold 84.94% High Estimate of All Lots (DKK) 8,415,700.00
Unsold Lots 50 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 22.59%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
525 Michael Kvium

“Contemporary Clowns”.

2016 DKK 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 DKK 57,500.00
6109

Collection of theoligical works from 17th century.

 DKK 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 DKK 55,000.00
6056

Biblia, Þad er øll heiløg ritning Ritning Utløgd a Norrønu [...].

1747 DKK 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 DKK 52,500.00
6117 Anker Kyster

Anker Kyster: 4 folio albums with hand drawn and water coloured sketches and cliché prints used for book binding.

DKK 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 DKK 52,500.00
6157 Hans Christian Andersen

Autographed poem signed by Hans Christian Andersen [H.C. Andersen].

1868 DKK 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 DKK 45,000.00
6168

Armamentarium Chirurgicum XLIII. Tabvlis æri Elegantissime Incisis, nec ante hac visis, exornatum.

1655 DKK 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 DKK 40,000.00
6158 Isaac Newton

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. Edition tertia aucta et emendate.

1726 DKK 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 DKK 37,500.00
6003

Biblia Det er den gantske Hellige Scrifft/ udsæt paa Danske. [...].

1550 DKK 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 DKK 35,000.00
6156 Johan Blaeu

Le Grand Atlas: "ATLAS MAIOR, sive cosmographia blauiana qua solum, salum, coelum, accuratissime describuntur.

1665 DKK 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 DKK 35,000.00
633 Christine Swane

View over rooftops.

DKK 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 DKK 33,750.00
6006 Nicolas Sanson d'Abbeville:

Description de tout L'Univers en plusieurs cartes, et en divers traitez de Geographie et d'Histoire [...].

1700 DKK 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 DKK 27,500.00
6105 Jean Calvin

Ioannis Calvini: Vigilantissimi Pastoris, Et Fidelissimi Doctoris Ecclesiæ Geneuensis, Institvtio Christianæ Religionis, [...].

1576 DKK 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 DKK 26,250.00
6108

Collection of theoligical works from 18th century.

 DKK 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 DKK 26,250.00
6175 Lewis Carroll

B/w photographic self-portrait. Inscribed and signed by Lewis Carroll to Gertrude Caroline Samuels.

1875]. DKK 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 DKK 23,125.00
6057 Thormod Torfæus

Orcades seu Rerum.

1697 DKK 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 DKK 21,875.00
628 Hans Scherfig

“Ensom elefant” (Lonely Elephant).

1966 DKK 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 DKK 21,875.00
6171

A collection of more than 250 b/w photographies from Greenland, a.o. Egedesminde (today Aasiaat) and Godthåb (today Nuuk).

1921–1923. DKK 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 DKK 20,000.00
6000 Albrecht von Haller

Allgemeine Historie der Natur [...].

1750 DKK 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 DKK 19,375.00
6021 Johan Christian Lünig

Das Teutsche Reichs-Archiv.

1713–1722. DKK 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 DKK 19,375.00
579 Poul Anker Bech

Landscape.

DKK 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 DKK 19,375.00
6009 Hermann Hamelmann

Oldenburgische Chronicon. Das ist, Beschreibung Der Löblichen Uhralten Grafen zu Oldenburg und Delmenhorst/ ec.

1599 DKK 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 DKK 18,750.00
6160 Marcel Duchamp

Du Cubisme.

1947 DKK 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 DKK 18,750.00
6019 W.H.F. Abrahamson

Friendship book for W.H.F Abrahamson.

1770–1781. DKK 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 DKK 17,500.00
6118

A large archival collection from the Anker Kyster bookbindery comprising comprising more than 500 orig. sketches, frottages, letters, notes, drawings, prints, photographs, etchings, articles, a.o.

DKK 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 DKK 17,500.00
6162 Asger Jorn

Die Geschichte vom teuren Brot.

1972 DKK 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 DKK 16,875.00
  • 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.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • 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.
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