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    Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000
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    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
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Bukowskis: Royal Memories – Photographs from the Collection of Cecilia af Klercker

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Auction Name Royal Memories – Photographs from the Collection of Cecilia af Klercker Total Sales (SEK) 144,217.50
Auction Date March 09, 2025 - March 09, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (SEK) 93,500.00
Sale Number #E1170 High Estimate of Lots Sold (SEK) 93,500.00
Total Lots 34
Sold Lots 31 Low Estimate of All Lots (SEK) 100,000.00
% of Lots Sold 91.18% High Estimate of All Lots (SEK) 100,000.00
Unsold Lots 3 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 144.22%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1621117 Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia

Russian imperial photographs, 2 pieces, one signed in person by Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia 1907.

1907 SEK 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 SEK 23,125.00
1621125 Grand Duke Dmitry and Grand Duchess Elizabeth.

Russian imperial photographs, 2 pieces, personally signed by Grand Duke Dmitry and Grand Duchess Elizabeth.

SEK 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 SEK 18,125.00
1621130 Maria Pavlovna

Maria Pavlovna

SEK 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 SEK 12,655.00
1620238 Prince Wilhelm and Princess Maria

Royal photographs, 2 pieces, personally signed by Prince Wilhelm and Princess Maria, dated 1908 and -09 respectively.

1908, 1909. SEK 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 SEK 10,500.00
1620236 Prince Wilhelm and Princess Maria

Royal photographs, 2 pieces, signed by Prince Wilhelm and Princess Maria, dated 1907 and 1908 respectively.

1907 and 1908 SEK 8,000.00 - 8,000.00 SEK 10,250.00
1620240 prins Wilhelm och prinsessan MAria

Kungliga fotografier, 3st, egenhandigt signerade av prins Wilhelm och prinsessan MAria, daterade 1908 resp -09.

1908, 1909. SEK 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 SEK 7,875.00
1620247 Prince Wilhelm and Princess Maria

Royal photographs, 4 pieces, personally signed by Prince Wilhelm and Princess Maria

SEK 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 SEK 7,562.50
1620264 Oscar II

Royal photograph of Oscar II in full regalia, personally signed and dated 4th March 1893.

1893 SEK 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 SEK 6,000.00
1620255 Queen Victoria of Sweden

Royal photographs, 2 pieces, signed by Queen Victoria of Sweden, dated 1891 and 1901.

1891 and 1901 SEK 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 SEK 5,125.00
1620207 Prince Wilhelm and Princess Maria.

Royal photographs, 3 pieces, personally signed by Prince Wilhelm and Princess Maria.

SEK 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 SEK 4,125.00
1620284

Collection of Swedish royal photographs, 6 pcs, signed by hand.

SEK 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 SEK 4,000.00
1620301 Prince Gustaf Adolf and Princess Margaret.

Royal photographs, 2 pieces, as well as a photogravure, personally signed by Prince Gustaf Adolf and Princess Margaret.

SEK 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 SEK 3,750.00
1620210 Prince Wilhelm and Princess Maria

Royal photographs signed by Prince Wilhelm and Princess Maria, dated 1908 and -09.

1908, 1909. SEK 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 SEK 3,250.00
1620266 Gustaf V and Queen Victoria

Royal photographs, personally signed by Gustaf V as crown prince and Queen Victoria as crown princess.

SEK 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 SEK 2,750.00
1621126

Various royal photographs, etc., approximately 30 pcs.

SEK 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 SEK 2,375.00
1620257 Queen Victoria of Sweden.

Royal photographs, 3 pcs, handwritten by Queen Victoria of Sweden.

SEK 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 SEK 2,375.00
1621110 Elizabeth Feodorovna.

Russian imperial photographs, 2 pieces, one signed in ink by Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna.

SEK 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 SEK 2,250.00
1620452 Queen Louise and King Frederick VIII of Denmark

Royal photographs, 2 pieces, signed by Queen Louise and King Frederick VIII of Denmark as Crown Prince couple.1897.

1897 SEK 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 SEK 2,250.00
1620259

Royal photographs, 2 pcs, of Gustaf V as crown prince and Victoria as crown princess, dated 1880 and 1901.

1880 and 1901. SEK 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 SEK 2,000.00
1620219 Prince Wilhelm and Princess Maria

Royal photographs, 2 pieces personally signed by Prince Wilhelm and Princess Maria, dated 1906 and 1909 respectively.

1906 and 1909 SEK 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 SEK 1,750.00
1620224 Prince Wilhelm and Princess Maria

Royal photographs, 2 pieces, signed by Prince Wilhelm and Princess Maria, respectively Maria with Lennart.

SEK 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 SEK 1,625.00
1621090 Frederick I and Louise of Baden

German royal photographs, 4 pcs, Frederick I and Louise of Baden, signed by hand.

SEK 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 SEK 1,625.00
1621070 Frederik and Louise of Denmark.

Danish royal photographs, 4 pieces, 2 of them signed by Frederik and Louise of Denmark.

SEK 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 SEK 1,500.00
1621021 Margherita of Savoy

Photograph of Margherita of Savoy, with handwritten signature, dated 20-II-06. Rome.

SEK 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 SEK 1,375.00
1621001

Two german royal photographs, signed and dated 1899 and 1988.

1899 and 1988. SEK 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 SEK 1,062.50
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    Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000
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    Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000
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    Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.
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    Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
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