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Galerie Bassenge: Rare Books, Geography, Medicine, Science, Music, Politics

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Auction Name Rare Books, Geography, Medicine, Science, Music, Politics Total Sales (EUR) 284,808.00
Auction Date October 13, 2016 - October 13, 2016 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 180,180.00
Sale Number #108A High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 264,880.00
Total Lots 738
Sold Lots 367 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 322,540.00
% of Lots Sold 49.73% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 468,550.00
Unsold Lots 371 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 60.79%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
589 Volkamer, Johann Christoph

Nürnbergische Hesperides [und] Continuation

1708-1714. EUR 25,000.00 - 40,000.00 EUR 38,400.00
398 Chambers, Ephraim

Cyclopaedia

1728 EUR 6,600.00 - 7,500.00 EUR 6,000.00
23 Cailliaud, Frédéric

Voyage à Méroé, au Fleuve Blanc. Mit ATLAS

1826-27. EUR 4,500.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,400.00
472 Clusius, Carolus

Rariorum plantarum historia + Exoticorum libri decem

1601 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 EUR 5,400.00
724 Weigel, Christoph

Beschreibung der Schmelzhütten

1721 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 5,040.00
562 Rösel von Rosenhof, August Johann

Der monatlich herausgegebenen Insecten-Belustigung + Kleemann

1746-1761. EUR 2,800.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,320.00
19 Sammeltatlas

Sammelatlas mit 53 Karten

ca.1740-1780. EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 4,200.00
126 Saur, Abraham

Stätte-Buch. Frankfurt 1658

1658 EUR 2,500.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,080.00
603 Eisenberg, Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von

Pferde. Wohleingerichtete Reitschule

1766 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 3,840.00
618 Faujas de Saint-Fond, Barthélemy

Description des espériences

1783-1784. EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 3,600.00
158 Zeiller, Martin und Merian, Matthaeus

Topographia Westphaliæ. Erste Ausgabe

1647 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 3,360.00
687 Boilat, P. David.

Esquisses sénégalaises

1853 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 3,360.00
107 Zeiller, Martin und Merian, Matthaeus

Topographia Provinciarum Austriacarum

1736 EUR 2,500.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,240.00
86 Falda, Giovanni Battista

Le fontane di Roma nelle piazze, e luoghi publici

1691 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,120.00
403 Fludd, Robert

Integrum morborum mysterium

1630-1631 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 3,120.00
490 Ausführliche und accurate Beschreibung

einiger vorhin fabelhafter Geschöpfe

1784 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 3,120.00
157 Zeiler, Martin und Merian, Matthaeus - Illustr.

Topographia und eigentliche Beschreibung

um1660. EUR 2,800.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,000.00
63 Balzer, Anton

Das Riesengebirge nebst einigen Gegenden von Adersbach

um1792. EUR 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 EUR 2,880.00
69 Bodenehr, Gabriel

Force d'Europe

ca.1730. EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,880.00
516 Klein, Jacob Theodor

Naturalis dispositio Echinodermatum

1734 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 2,880.00
39 Stedman, John Gabriel

Narrative, of a five years' expedition against the revolted negroes of Surinam

1796 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,640.00
489 Esper, Eugenius Johann Christoph

Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen

1801 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 2,640.00
308 Bidloo, Govard

Anatomia humani corporis

1685 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,520.00
22 Cadalvène, Edmond de

L'Egypte et la Nubie

1841 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,200.00 EUR 2,400.00
159 Fluhr und Lagebuch über die Fluhr-Marckung Möhra Anno 1719

Deutsche Handchrift auf Papier

1719 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 2,400.00
  • 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
    Catalogue 198 just published
    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:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    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
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    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
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    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.
  • 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
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    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
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