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Galerie Bassenge: Literature 17th-19th Century

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Auction Name Literature 17th-19th Century Total Sales (EUR) 177,756.25
Auction Date October 18, 2013 - October 18, 2013 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 141,250.00
Sale Number #102D High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 141,250.00
Total Lots 683
Sold Lots 346 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 287,310.00
% of Lots Sold 50.66% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 287,310.00
Unsold Lots 337 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 61.87%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1933 Lenz, J. M. R.

Die Freunde machen den Philosophen

1776 EUR 3,500.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 5,000.00
1779 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang v.

Vornehmste Werke

1793 EUR 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 4,250.00
1727

Einbande Guldener Himmels-Schlussel. Pergamentband mit S...

1732 EUR 3,500.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 3,125.00
2220 Disney, Walt

Cel Toons - Original hand-painted movie film ce...

um 2000-2005 EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,125.00
1653 Bonzonnet, Claudine

Pastorales

1661 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,000.00
2239

Kleines Bilder-Cabinet zur Erlernung der Vier Sprachen

1735 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,000.00
2129 Veen, Otto v.

Les emblemes de l'amour humain.

1667 EUR 2,600.00 - 2,600.00 EUR 2,500.00
1828 Grimmelshausen, H. J. C. v.

Der Aus dem Grab ::: erstandene Simplicissimus:...

1684 [ 1683] EUR 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 2,250.00
2214 Carroll, Lewis

Alice's Abenteuer im Wunderland.

1869 EUR 2,200.00 - 2,200.00 EUR 2,250.00
1719 Eichendorff, Joseph v.

Ahnung und Gegenwart

1815 EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 2,125.00
1759 Fuchs, Paul

Loretten, Grisetten und Demi Monde Russland's

1862 EUR 800.00 - 800.00 EUR 2,000.00
1898 Kleist, Heinrich v.

Erzahlungen (Teil I) + Beigabe

1810 EUR 750.00 - 750.00 EUR 2,000.00
2114 Tieck, Ludwig

Schriften

1828-1854 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,000.00
2187 Pestalozzi, J. H.

Figuren zu meinem ABC Buch. Basel 1797

1797 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,000.00
1810 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang v.

Zur Farbenlehre, Tubingen 1810

1810 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,875.00
2005 Perrault, Charles

Les contes

1862 EUR 750.00 - 750.00 EUR 1,875.00
2108 Swift, Jonathan

Travels into several remote nations of the world

1726 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 1,875.00
1606 Moritz, Karl Philipp

Mythologischer Almanach fur Damen

1792 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,750.00
2198 Benois, A. N.

Azbuka v kartinach. St. Petersburg

-1904 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,625.00
1753 Fontane, Theodor

Der Stechlin

1899 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 EUR 1,500.00
1899 Kleist, Heinrich v.

Die Schlacht bei Fehrbellin

1822 EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,500.00
1978 Montaigne, Michel de

Les essais

1635 EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,500.00
2200 Geissler, Rudolf

Das deutsche ABC-Buch

1869 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,500.00
1641 Boccaccio, Giovanni

Il Decamerone. Londra" (d. i. Paris), o. Dr., 1757

1757 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,375.00
1658

Bremisches Magazin zur Ausbreitung der Wissenschaften, Kunste und ...

1758-1765 EUR 350.00 - 350.00 EUR 1,375.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
  • 19th Century Shop
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    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
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    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
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