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Stockholms Auktionsverk: Books, Maps and Manuscripts

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Auction Name Books, Maps and Manuscripts Total Sales (EUR) 394,605.00
Auction Date June 13, 2024 - June 13, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 220,382.00
Sale Number #61324 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 268,937.00
Total Lots 259
Sold Lots 205 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 270,716.00
% of Lots Sold 79.15% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 329,348.00
Unsold Lots 54 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 119.81%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
194 ALBERT EINSTEIN (1879-1955).

4 autograph letters signed (A. Einstein) to Herman Muntz, all handwritten in German, on thin paper, two with envelopes. All signed A. Einstein.

EUR 43,821.00 - 52,585.00 EUR 54,641.25
215

Astronomical compendium, probably 17th century, not signed.

EUR 4,383.00 - 5,259.00 EUR 20,072.50
163 (EHRENSVAER, C. A.).

Travel to Italy 1780, 1781, 1782. Written 1782 in Stralsund. Text and plans.

in 1786. EUR 877.00 - 1,052.00 EUR 19,515.00
259 WATSON, JAMES DEWEY (b.1928) - CRICK, FRANCIS HARRY COMPTON (1916-2004).

Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids. A Struktur for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid. Off-print from: Nature, vol. 171

1953 EUR 6,135.00 - 7,012.00 EUR 12,825.00
256 THROW, HENRICK.

1. Tredie Urtegaard, orlige och diligent tilhobe af de beste och lerdiste Lagers Boger,

1557 EUR 1,315.00 - 1,753.00 EUR 10,593.75
94 PUFENDORF, SAMUEL VON.

See books from Thaten Carl Gustavs Konigs in Sweden...

1697 EUR 2,630.00 - 3,506.00 EUR 8,363.75
2 DAHLBERG, PLUM.

Sweden Antiqua and Hodierna. I-III och Indeks.

About 1680-1718. EUR 2,192.00 - 2,630.00 EUR 7,806.25
171 BERGMAN, INGMAR.

"A Lesson in Love, a Film Comedy by Ingmar Bergman".

Undated, but probably 1953-54. EUR 4,383.00 - 5,259.00 EUR 7,806.25
7 E. J. BENNETT (Attributed).

4 watercolours, dated 1854, c.140x225 mm. 2 signed EJB. All with later note in pencil on cardboard "By E. J. Bennett, Baltic, Sept 1854".

1854 EUR 351.00 - 439.00 EUR 6,702.50
150 NEGROS, FRANCESCO.

Viaggio settentrionale fatto, e descritto dal molto reverendo sig. D. Francesco Negri of Ravenna.

1701 EUR 3,944.00 - 4,383.00 EUR 6,691.25
181 (NOREN, LARS).

"'ORDER' (working title)".

1976---77. EUR 8,765.00 - 10,517.00 EUR 6,691.25
10 VISENTINI, ANTONIO (1688-1782) - CANALETTO, ANTONIO (1697-1768).

Urbis Venetiarum prospectus celebriores, ex Antonii Canal tabulis XXXVIII. Aere expressi from Antonio Visentini in three parts distributi. Second edition. I-III.

1751, 1751, 1742. EUR 3,506.00 - 4,383.00 EUR 6,133.75
242 SWEDISH BOTANY.

Band I-XI: booklet 1-9. Ed. J. W. Palmstruch (bands 1-6) and G. J. Billberg (bands 7-8) and Kongl. Swedish Academy of Sciences (band 9-11).

1802-1830 EUR 2,630.00 - 3,506.00 EUR 5,576.25
53 JOHANNES MAGNUS.

(Historia Ioannis Magni gothi sedes apostolocae legati Svetiae et Gotiae primatis ac archiepiscopi Upsaliensis ...

1554 EUR 1,578.00 - 1,753.00 EUR 5,353.75
71

Biblia thet ahr all then halga schrifft in SWENSKA with different verses sampt j width concordantier.

EUR 1,315.00 - 1,753.00 EUR 4,907.50
179 SILFVERSTOLPE, MALLA (1782-1861), Swedish author and salon hostess.

MALLA MONTGOMERY SILFVERSTOLPE'S DIARY FOR THE YEAR 1800.

EUR 702.00 - 877.00 EUR 4,683.75
104 SNAKE, NIELS - GRAM, HIS.

The greatest king Christian the Fierd king of Danmnark and Norway,... history... ed. Peter Fogh,

1749 EUR 1,052.00 - 1,315.00 EUR 4,461.25
113 (GOLDENPOLE [WEXIONIUS], MICHAEL O.).

Epitome descriptionis Sueciae, Gothiae, Fenningiae, et subjectarum provinciarium. Accuratius quam unquam antehac editae.

1650 EUR 3,506.00 - 4,383.00 EUR 4,461.25
190 TWO MEMORIAL ALBUMS -

2 MEMORIAL ALBUM/GUEST ALBUM, with drawings and poems, one belonging to the court lady Marie von Stedingk, provenance Samuel af Ugglas.

EUR 702.00 - 877.00 EUR 4,461.25
185 STRINDBERG, AUGUST (1849-1912).

A handwritten and signed letter from [friend August Strindberg] to Gustaf Brand in Belgium,

1898 EUR 439.00 - 526.00 EUR 4,243.75
52 HOMER (HOMEROS).

Opera, in Greek = Iliad [&] Ulyssea. Batrachomyomachia. Anthem XXXII. I-II.

1524 EUR 2,630.00 - 3,068.00 EUR 4,240.00
175 Gustav III (1746-1792), King of Sweden 1771-1792.

Self-written and signed letter dated "Drotningholm, d. 16-Aug.)

1752 EUR 2,630.00 - 3,506.00 EUR 4,237.50
245 WRIGHT, MAGNUS, - WILHELM, - FERDINAND VON.

Swedish birds after nature and on stone drawn by M., W. and F. von Wright. Themed text by Einar Lonnberg.Handcolored edition. I-III.

1925-29. EUR 2,630.00 - 3,068.00 EUR 4,015.00
6 BAUER, JOHN (1882---1918).

Troll. Ten original lithographs.

1915 EUR 3,068.00 - 3,506.00 EUR 3,568.75
75 WULFIL.

D. N. Jesu Christi ss. Evangelia ab Ulfila gothorum in Moesia episcopo circa annum a nato Christo CCCLX ex graco gothice translata,

1671 EUR 439.00 - 526.00 EUR 3,401.25
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