Koller Auctions: Books
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Books | Total Sales (CHF) | 1,053,760.00 |
| Auction Date | September 17, 2025 - September 17, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (CHF) | 720,300.00 |
| Sale Number | #A214 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (CHF) | 1,050,200.00 |
| Total Lots | 185 | ||
| Sold Lots | 128.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (CHF) | 875,600.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 69.19% | High Estimate of All Lots (CHF) | 1,288,300.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 57 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 81.80% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4130 | Newton, Isaac. | Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. |
1687 | CHF 250,000.00 - 350,000.00 | CHF 320,000.00 |
| 4109 | Ortelius, Abraham. | Theatrum orbis terrarum. |
1612 | CHF 120,000.00 - 160,000.00 | CHF 128,000.00 |
| 4157 | Schedel, Hartmann. | Buch der Chroniken und Geschichten. |
1493 | CHF 25,000.00 - 40,000.00 | CHF 51,200.00 |
| 4042 | Beckmann, Max. | Apokalypse. |
1943 | CHF 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | CHF 44,800.00 |
| 4034 | Boisseree, Sulpiz. | Ansichten, Risse und einzelne Theile des Doms von Koln. |
1821-1831. | CHF 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | CHF 35,840.00 |
| 4002 | Schaffner, E[lias] E[manuel]. | Panorama des Inn Thales Ober-Engadin gezeichnet auf der Hohe Muottas des Mittelberges bey Samaden. |
1833 | CHF 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | CHF 30,720.00 |
| 4224 | Schiller, Friedrich von, Dichter (1759-1805). | Eigenhandiges Manuskript-Fragment. |
Undatiert. | CHF 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | CHF 24,320.00 |
| 4071 | Picasso, Pablo - Iliazd (d.i. Ilya Zdanevic). | Afat. Soixante-seize sonnets. |
1940 | CHF 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | CHF 15,360.00 |
| 4066 | Lissitzky, El - | Suprematisch worden van twee kwadraten in 6 konstrukties (Pro dva kvadrata, ndl.). |
1922 | CHF 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | CHF 12,800.00 |
| 4119 | Dumont d'Urville, Jules-Sebastien-Cesar. | Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Oceanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zelee. |
1841-53. | CHF 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | CHF 12,800.00 |
| 4083 | Patent Urinoir. Otto Muehl gewidmet. |
1968 | CHF 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | CHF 10,240.00 | |
| 4225 | Spitteler, Carl, Schriftsteller und Nobelpreistrager (1845-1924). | Umfangreiche Sammlung von 22 eigenh. Briefen und 34 eigenh. Post- und Briefkarten, jeweils mit Unterschrift. |
1911-1920. | CHF 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | CHF 10,240.00 |
| 4074 | Schmied, Francois-Louis - Kipling, Rudyard. | Kim. |
1930 | CHF 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | CHF 9,600.00 |
| 4059 | Haring, Keith - | Keith Haring. |
1982 | CHF 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | CHF 8,960.00 |
| 4129 | Ramelli, Agostino. | Le diverse et artificiose machine... |
1588 | CHF 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | CHF 8,960.00 |
| 4150 | Maximilian I. - Pfinzing, Melchior. | Die geuerlicheiten eins teils der geschichten des loblichen streitbaren und hochberumbten helds und Ritters Tewrdannckhs. |
1519 | CHF 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | CHF 8,320.00 |
| 4010 | Zurlauben, Beat Fidel Baron de. | Tableaux topographiques, pittoresques, physiques, historiques, moraux, politiques, litteraires de la Suisse. |
1780-1786. | CHF 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | CHF 7,680.00 |
| 4072 | Poliakoff, Serge - Platon. | Parmenide. Dialogue de Platon. |
1964 | CHF 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | CHF 7,680.00 |
| 4120 | [Bayer, Johann]. | [Uranometria]. |
1639 oder 1661. | CHF 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | CHF 7,680.00 |
| 4145 | Hortus Sanitatis - | Hortus sanitatis, quatuor libris haec quae snbsequuntur [!] complectens. |
1536 | CHF 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | CHF 7,680.00 |
| 4147 | [Ortolf von Bayern]. | Ein arczney buch von allen gepraszten der menschen wye man den helffen sol zu irer gesuntheyt und stercke. |
1488 | CHF 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | CHF 7,296.00 |
| 4101 | [Beverley, Robert]. | The History and Present State of Virginia. |
1705 | CHF 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | CHF 7,040.00 |
| 4213 | Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Dichter (1749-1832). | Brief mit eigenh. Empfehlungsformel "Ew Wohlgeb. ergebenster Diener JWvGoethe". |
1821 | CHF 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | CHF 7,040.00 |
| 4219 | Liebermann, Max, Maler (1847-1935). | Eigenhandiger Brief mit kleiner Federzeichnung. |
1924 | CHF 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | CHF 7,040.00 |
| 4220 | Lincoln, Abraham, 16. Prasident der USA (1809-1865). | Prasidiale Urkunde mit eigenh. Unterschrift. |
1864 | CHF 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | CHF 6,784.00 |
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/0a99416d-9c0f-4fa3-afdd-7532ca8a2b2c.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a077b4a5-0477-4c47-9847-0158cf045843.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/6363a735-e622-4d0a-852e-07cef58eccbe.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/3ee16d5b-a2ec-4c03-aeb6-aa3fcfec3a5e.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/d5f50485-7faa-423f-af0c-803b964dd2ba.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/fb024365-7d7a-4510-9859-9d26b5c266cf.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a7c0eda0-9d8b-43ac-a504-58923308d5a4.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.")
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/00d5fd41-2542-4a80-b119-4886d4b9925f.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.")
