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Galerie Bassenge: Rare Books, Theology

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Auction Name Rare Books, Theology Total Sales (EUR) 205,382.40
Auction Date April 08, 2025 - April 08, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 152,810.00
Sale Number #125ADT High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 152,810.00
Total Lots 260
Sold Lots 142 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 274,790.00
% of Lots Sold 54.62% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 274,790.00
Unsold Lots 118 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 74.74%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
717 Biblia germanica

Das naw testament nach lawt der Christlichen Kirchen bewerten text

1527). EUR 15,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 12,800.00
901 Puckler-Muskau, Hermann

Andeutungen uber Landschaftsgartnerei

1834). EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 12,160.00
737 Galenus, Claudius

Pergamensis medicorum omnium fere principis opera.

1529 EUR 4,500.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 8,320.00
706 Petrus, Frater

Legenda Sanctae Catharinae.

2.VII.1500. EUR 9,000.00 - 9,000.00 EUR 7,680.00
768 Pighius, Stephanus Winandus

Hercules prodicius.

1587 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 7,040.00
925 Winckelmann, Johann Joachim

Monumenti antichi inediti spiegati ed illustrati.

1767-1772. EUR 6,500.00 - 6,500.00 EUR 7,040.00
741 Horae BMV

Gedrucktes Stundenbuch auf Pergament.

1510 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,632.00
885 Kircher, Athanasius

Sphinx mystagoga

1676 EUR 3,500.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 5,632.00
750 Luther, Martin

Parvus Catechismus pro pueris in schola.

1531 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 5,376.00
764 Passio Deutsch

mit erclerung des texs der vier ewangelisten.

1506 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 5,376.00
838 Schonleben, Johann Ludwig

Feyertaglicher Erquick-Stunden.

1669-1670 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 4,864.00
762 Palladio, Andrea

I quattro libri dell'architettura.

1581 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 4,352.00
934 Codex Etschmiadzin

Codex 2374 der Bibliothek Mashtots Matenadaran in Eriwan.

2001 EUR 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 4,352.00
732 Blindgepragter Schweinslederband

aus der Privatbibliothek des Mainzer Kurfursten Wolfgang X. von Dalberg.

1599 EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 4,096.00
904 Aquila, Francesco Faraone und Raffael Santi d'Urbino

Picturae Raphaelis sanctij urbinatis.

1722 EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,840.00
704 Humbertus de Romanis

Auslegung uber Sankt Augustins Regel, deutsch

um 1488. EUR 2,400.00 - 2,400.00 EUR 3,584.00
788 Themeswar, Pelbartus de

Stellarium Corone benedicte marie virginis.

1502 - EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,584.00
740 Grisone, Federico

Kunstlicher Bericht und allerzierlichste beschreybung.

1580 EUR 3,500.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 2,816.00
804 Buxtorf, Johannes d. A. und Biblia hebraica

Concordantiae Bibliorum Hebraicae.

1632 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,816.00
858 Busuttil, Salvatore

Origine e istituzione della processione del Corpus Domini.

um 1838 EUR 2,200.00 - 2,200.00 EUR 2,816.00
701 Cicero, Marcus Tullius und Bologna, Guidotto da

Rhetorica ad C. Herennium, Rhetorica nova Il Fiore di rettorica.

um 1472-1473. EUR 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 2,560.00
705 Farina, Domenico

Epigrammata elegiae et genethliacum urbis Romae.

1498 EUR 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 2,560.00
779 Schaufelein, Hans und Pinder, Ulrich

Speculum passionis domini nostri Ihesu christi. Daraus 17 Holzschnitte.

wohl 1507 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,560.00
927 Abenteuer der Kreuzritter, Die

Faksimile und Begleitband.

2007 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,560.00
742

Hortulus anime

um 1512. EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 2,432.00
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€
    Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€
    Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€
    Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€
    Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€
    Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
  • Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    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.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    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.
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000
    Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000
  • Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.
    Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.
    Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.
    Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.
    Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.
    Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.
    Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.
  • Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
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