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Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate PurchaseSotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. 11,135 USDSotheby’s: Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven and Other Poems, 1845. 33,000 USDSotheby’s: Leo Tolstoy, Clara Bow. War and Peace, 1886. 22,500 USDSotheby’s: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1902. 7,500 USDSotheby’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald. This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and Others, 1920-1941. 24,180 USD -
Doyle, Dec. 5: Minas Avetisian (1928-1975). Rest, 1973. $8,000 to $12,000.Doyle, Dec. 5: Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington (1876-1973). Yawning Tiger, conceived 1917. $3,000 to $5,000.Doyle, Dec. 5: Robert M. Kulicke (1924-2007). Full-Blown Red and White Roses in a Glass Vase, 1982. $3,000 to $5,000.Doyle, Dec. 5: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). L’ATELIER DE CANNES (Bloch 794; Mourlot 279). The cover for Ces Peintres Nos Amis, vol. II. $1,000 to $1,500.Doyle, Dec. 5: LeRoy Neiman (1921-2012). THE BEACH AT CANNES, 1979. $1,200 to $1,800.Doyle, Dec. 5: Richard Avendon, the suite of eleven signed portraits from the Avedon/Paris portfolio. $150,000 to $250,000.Doyle, Dec. 5: Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989). Flowers in Vase, 1985. $20,000 to $30,000.Doyle, Dec. 5: Edward Weston (1886-1958). Nude, 1936. $20,000 to $30,000.Doyle, Dec. 5: Edward Weston (1886-1958). Juniper, High Sierra, 1937.Doyle, Dec. 5: Steven J. Levn (b. 1964). Plumage II, 2011. $6,000 to $8,000.Doyle, Dec. 5: Steven Meisel (b. 1954). Madonna, Miami, (from Sex), 1992. $6,000 to $9,000. -
ALDE, Dec. 9: BLAEU (JOAN) ET BORGOGNIO (GIO TOMASO). Theatre des Estats de son Altesse Royale le duc de Savoye…, La Haye, 1700. €25,000 to €30,000.ALDE, Dec. 9: BROWNE (JAMES D. HOWE). Ten Scenes in the last Ascent of Mont Blanc including five Views from the Summit. London, 1853. €6,000 to €8,000.ALDE, Dec. 9: FELLOWS (CHARLES). A Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont-Blanc. London, 1827. €30,000 to €40,000.ALDE, Dec. 9: HACQUET (BELSAZAR). Physikalisch= Politische Reise aus den Dinarischen durch die Julischen…, Leipzig, 1785. €3,000 to €4,000.ALDE, Dec. 9: HAWES (BENJAMIN). A Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont-Blanc made during the summer of 1827 by Mr. William Hawes and Mr. Charles Fellows, 1828.ALDE, Dec. 9: MARTEL (PIERRE) ET WINDHAM (WILLIAM). An account of the glacieres or ice Alps in Savoy, in two letters…, London, 1744. €6,000 to €8,000.ALDE, Dec. 9: PITSCHNER (WILHELM). Der Mont Blanc Darstellung des Besteigung desselben am 31 Juli, 1 und 2 August 1859…, Berlin, 1860-1864. €8,000 to €10,000.ALDE, Dec. 9: SCHEUCHZER (JOHANN JACOB). Natur-Geschichte des Schweizerlandes, samt seinen Reisen über die Schweitzerische Gebürge. Zurich, 1746. €3,000 to €4,000.ALDE, Dec. 9: STUMPF (JOANNES). Gemeiner loblicher Eydgnosschaft Stetten, Landen, und Völckeren Chronicwirdiger Thaatenbeschreybung. Zurich, Christoph Froschauer, 1548. €2,500 to €3,500.ALDE, Dec. 9: WALTON (ELIJAH) ET BONNEY (THOMAS GEORGE). The Peaks and valleys of the Alps. London, 1868. €3,000 to €4,000.ALDE, Dec. 9: WYTTENBACH (JACOB SAMUEL). Vues remarquables des montagnes de la Suisse, avec leur description. Amsterdam, 1785. €15,000 to €20,000. -
![<b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Rare First Edition of a Classic Work. [Stafford (Thos.)] <i>Pacata Hibernia, Ireland Appeased and Reduced…,</i> 1633. €1,500 to €2,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/2bfa5105-2bf9-4a52-8ab5-45f3ef7b1eb4.jpg "<b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Rare First Edition of a Classic Work. [Stafford (Thos.)] <i>Pacata Hibernia, Ireland Appeased and Reduced…,</i> 1633. €1,500 to €2,000.")
![<b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Heaney (Seamus). <i>Eleven Poems,</i> Belfast (Festival publications - Queens University) [1965], First Edn., (First Issue) Signed. €2,500 to €3,500.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/d8cd5291-2e7d-4a24-8d22-f316554ec8f8.jpg "<b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Heaney (Seamus). <i>Eleven Poems,</i> Belfast (Festival publications - Queens University) [1965], First Edn., (First Issue) Signed. €2,500 to €3,500.")
Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: A Rare Complete Run of the Cuala Press Broadsides. €5,500 to €7,000.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Rare First Edition of a Classic Work. [Stafford (Thos.)] Pacata Hibernia, Ireland Appeased and Reduced…, 1633. €1,500 to €2,000.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Yeats (W.B.) The Poems of W.B. Yeats, 2 vols. Lond. (MacMillan & Co.) 1949. Signed by author, limited edition. €1,250 to €1,750.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Fishing: Literal Translation into English of the Earliest Known Book on Fowling and Fishing, Written originally in Flemish and Printed at Antwerp in 1492. London (Chiswick Press) 1872. €1,500 to €2,000.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Fishing: Blacker's - Art of Fly Making, etc., Comprising Angling & Dying of Colours..., Rewritten & Revised. Lond. 1855. €250 to €350.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Joyce (James). Finnegans Wake,, London (Faber & Faber Ltd.) 1939, Lim. Edn. No. 269 (425) copies, Signed by the Author (in green pen). €3,000 to €4,000.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Synge (J.M.) & Yeats (Jack B.) illus. The Aran Islands,, D. (Maunsel & Co. Ltd.) 1907, Signed Limited Edn. €4,000 to €5,000.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Meyer (Dr. A.B.) Unser Auer -, Rackel-Und Birkwild und Seine Abarten, Wien (Verlag Von Adolph W. Kunast) 1887. €2,500 to €3,500.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Carve (Thomas). Itinerarium R.D. Thomas Carve Tripperariensis, Sacellani Maioris in Fortisima iuxta…,, Moguntia (Mainz) impriemebat Nicolaus Heyll, 1639. €1,500 to €2,000.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Grose (Francis). The Antiquities of Ireland, 2 vols. folio London (for S. Hooper) 1791. First Edition. €3,000 to €5,000.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Heaney (Seamus) & Le Brocquy (Louis) artist. Ugolino, D. (Dolmen Press) 1979, Signed Limited Edition No. 87 (125) Copies. €3,500 to €4,500.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Heaney (Seamus). Eleven Poems, Belfast (Festival publications - Queens University) [1965], First Edn., (First Issue) Signed. €2,500 to €3,500.
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Galerie Bassenge: Valuable Books - part I
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Valuable Books - part I | Total Sales (EUR) | 255,385.60 |
| Auction Date | April 16, 2024 - April 16, 2024 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 171,780.00 |
| Sale Number | #123WB | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 171,780.00 |
| Total Lots | 688 | ||
| Sold Lots | 282 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 425,920.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 40.99% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 425,920.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 406 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 59.96% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 218 | Zeiller, Martin und Merian, Matthaus | Topographia Germaniae |
1643-1656. | EUR 9,000.00 - 9,000.00 | EUR 38,400.00 |
| 214 | Weinart, Benjamin Gottfried | Topographische Geschichte der Stadt Dresden |
1777 | EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 12,800.00 |
| 82 | Blaeu, Johannes | Theatrum Belgicae |
1649 | EUR 9,000.00 - 9,000.00 | EUR 11,520.00 |
| 606 | Lenin, Wladimir Iljitsch | Ekonomitscheskie etjudy i stati (rossice: Okonomische Studien und Beitrage) |
1899 | EUR 12,000.00 - 12,000.00 | EUR 10,240.00 |
| 598 | Maier, Michael | Arcana Arcanissima |
1614 | EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 8,960.00 |
| 346 | Fraunhofer, Joseph | Bestimmung des Brechungs- und Farbenzerstreuungs-Vermogens verschiedener Glasarten |
1817 | EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 6,144.00 |
| 361 | Rontgen, Wilhelm Konrad | Ueber eine neue Art von Strahlen |
1895-1896. | EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 5,888.00 |
| 64 | Kampfer, Engelbert | Geschichte und Beschreibung von Japan. |
1777-1779. | EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 | EUR 3,328.00 |
| 11 | Mercator, Gerhard | Atlas Minor. 1631 |
1631 | EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 3,072.00 |
| 342 | Chevreul, Michel Eugene | Des couleurs et de leurs applications aux arts industriels a l'aide des cercles chromatiques |
1864 | EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 | EUR 2,816.00 |
| 81 | Bellin, Jacques Nicolas | Description geographique du Golfe de Venise et de la Moree |
1771 | EUR 2,200.00 - 2,200.00 | EUR 2,560.00 |
| 16 | Prevost d'Exiles, Abbe Antoine Francois | Histoire generale des voyages |
1746-1780. | EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 2,432.00 |
| 391 | Pflanzenzeichnungen | Zwei Skizzenbucher |
ca. spates 18. Jahrhundert. | EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 | EUR 2,432.00 |
| 452 | Tschi Pai-Schi | Yong Baocai xin-zhi-shih jien-pu. 2 Blockbucher |
1952 | EUR 450.00 - 450.00 | EUR 2,432.00 |
| 365 | Steding, Johann Nicolaus | Musaeum Mathematicum oder Mathematisches Kunst-Cabinet |
1746 | EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 2,304.00 |
| 591 | Anhorn, Bartholomaus | Magiologia |
1674 | EUR 2,400.00 - 2,400.00 | EUR 2,304.00 |
| 85 | Braun, Georg und Hogenberg, Frans | Venetia. Kolorierte Kupferstichkarte wohl aus "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" |
1570-1624. | EUR 2,300.00 - 2,300.00 | EUR 2,176.00 |
| 574 | Richard, Francois | Airs de cour, a quatre parties |
1637 | EUR 240.00 - 240.00 | EUR 2,176.00 |
| 25 | Volkstrachten vom Orient. Agypten | Und: Orient Band II |
1902 | EUR 450.00 - 450.00 | EUR 2,048.00 |
| 76 | Aveline, Pierre | Bale |
um 1730. | EUR 750.00 - 750.00 | EUR 2,048.00 |
| 2 | Baumgarten, Siegmund Jacob | Uebersetzung der Algemeinen Welthistorie |
1744-1814. | EUR 2,200.00 - 2,200.00 | EUR 1,920.00 |
| 211 | Supplement der Topographisch-militairische Charte | Teutschland in 204 Blattern. 45 Kupferstichkarten in 12 Umschlagen. |
1814 | EUR 1,600.00 - 1,600.00 | EUR 1,920.00 |
| 336 | Zwinger, Jakob | Principiorum Chymicorum Examen |
1606 | EUR 500.00 - 500.00 | EUR 1,920.00 |
| 338 | Bode, Johann Elert | Vorstellung der Gestirne |
1782 | EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 1,920.00 |
| 399 | Sowerby, James | English botany |
1790-1811. | EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 | EUR 1,920.00 |
![<b>Dominic Winter, Dec. 12:</b> Bible [English]. <i>[The Holie Bible conteynyng the Olde Testament and the Newe,</i> 1568]. £3,000 to £5,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/73871a8f-7c5e-4b80-933d-0d0161d4363c.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, Dec. 12:</b> Bible [English]. <i>[The Holie Bible conteynyng the Olde Testament and the Newe,</i> 1568]. £3,000 to £5,000.")
