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Galerie Bassenge: Autograph Letters on Literature, Science, Art and Music

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Auction Name Autograph Letters on Literature, Science, Art and Music Total Sales (EUR) 229,068.00
Auction Date October 15, 2016 - October 15, 2016 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 141,040.00
Sale Number #108E High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 204,160.00
Total Lots 894
Sold Lots 419 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 324,910.00
% of Lots Sold 46.87% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 460,580.00
Unsold Lots 475 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 49.74%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
3092 Chagall, Marc

Derrière le Miroir Nr 66-68

1954 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 9,000.00
3787

Verve. Revue artistique et littéraire.

1928-1960 EUR 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 EUR 7,200.00
3127 Deltor, Fred

Jeu de massacre

um1928 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,500.00 EUR 6,240.00
3725 Meyrink, Gustav

Der Golem

1916 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 5,760.00
3366 Grasset, Eugène

La plante et ses applications ornementales

1896 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 4,320.00
3647 Labé, Louise

Die vierundzwanzig Sonette (Übertragen von Rilke)

1928 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 4,320.00
3535 Verlaine, Paul

Chansons pour Elle (Vorzugsausgabe, 1 von 20)

1939 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,840.00
3505 Lasker-Schüler, Else

Theben. Gedichte und Lithographien

1923 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 3,600.00
3845

Gazette du Bon Ton. Jg. I. (12 Hefte). Paris und Berlin 1912-13

1912-13 EUR 2,800.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 3,360.00
3514 Liebermann, Max

Buch Ruth

1924 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,240.00
3552 Joyce, James (Illustr. Henri Matisse)

Ulysses

1935 EUR 2,500.00 - 2,800.00 EUR 3,240.00
3120 Ronsard, Pierre de

Les amours de Cassandre

1968 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 3,120.00
3110

Das Buch Judith (VA)

1910 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 2,880.00
3518 Heine, Heinrich

Der Rabbi von Bacherach

1923 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,800.00 EUR 2,880.00
3765 Ting, Walasse

1 Cent Life. Edited by Sam Francis

1964 EUR 1,400.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,880.00
3115 Crevel, René

Feuilles Éparses

1965 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,400.00
3465 Kafka, Franz

Das Schloss (mit Original-Schutzumschlag)

1926 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,400.00
3792

Vingtième Siècle

1957-1980 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,400.00
3602 Heine, Heinrich

Das Buch Le Grand

1914 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 2,280.00
3259 Kaiser, Georg

Der Schuss in der Öffentlichkeit

1939 EUR 600.00 - 900.00 EUR 2,160.00
3349

Derrière le Miroir. No 127

1961 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 2,160.00
3842

Form, Die. Zeitschrift für gestaltende Arbeit

1927-1934 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 2,160.00
3144 Montfort, Eugène

La belle-enfant ou l'amour à quarante ans

1930 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,920.00
3440 Rilke, Rainer Maria

Duineser Elegien

1923 EUR 500.00 - 750.00 EUR 1,920.00
3524 Lorca, Federica García

Primer romancero gitano

1924-1927 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,920.00
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • 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
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
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