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Dorotheum : Imperial Court Memorabilia and Historical Objects

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Auction Name Imperial Court Memorabilia and Historical Objects Total Sales (EUR) 54,975.00
Auction Date October 30, 2017 - October 30, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 16,700.00
Sale Number #12764 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 26,150.00
Total Lots 50
Sold Lots 47 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 17,600.00
% of Lots Sold 94.00% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 27,550.00
Unsold Lots 3 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 199.55%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
103

Emperor Francis Joseph I of Austria surrounded by his huntsmen with a shot royal stag

 1912 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 6,250.00
80

Imperial Austrian court – 2 shooting lists

 1911, 1917-18 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 3,500.00
130

Empress Elisabeth of Austria – letter in the empress’s own hand

 1890 EUR 600.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 3,000.00
170

Viribus Unitis – the emperor’s book

 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,750.00
62

Emperor Francis Joseph I of Austria - Personal Reference for the Imperial Army and Navy 1908

 1908 EUR 800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 2,500.00
179

Archduke Francis Ferdinand

 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,175.00
120

Empress Elisabeth of Austria – portrait of the empress with diamond stars in her hair

 1865 EUR 900.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,125.00
113

Empress Elisabeth of Austria

 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,030.00
123

Empress Elisabeth of Austria – Receipt of the "Pin Money" with the empress’s signature

 1869 EUR 600.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,000.00
81

Imperial Austrian Court – 2 invitations to the 1850 court hunt

 1850 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,875.00
198

Emperor Charles I of Austria – photo album

 1917 EUR 400.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,875.00
212

King Ludwig II of Bavaria – Court and State Manual (Hof- und Staatshandbuch) of the Kingdom of Bavaria (1880)

 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,625.00
178

Austrian Imperial House – photos (mixed lot)

 17 cm, mostly with support, (Lu) EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 1,500.00
162

Imperial Austrian Court - 6 invitations

 1900 and 1904, 1903 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 1,375.00
85

Wilhelm Unger (Hanover 1847-1932 Innsbruck) – Emperor Francis Joseph I of Austria

 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 1,188.00
55

Emperor Francis Joseph I with his brothers

 1864 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,125.00
66

Emperor Francis Joseph I of Austria

 1875 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,125.00
184

Sophie, Duchess von Hohenberg (1868-1914)

 1910 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 1,063.00
194

Emperor Charles I of Austria – list of visitors from the vestibule to the audience chamber on 23 June 1917 – 28 August 1918

 1917 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,063.00
197

Emperor Charles I as King of Hungary (Charles IV)

 1918 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,063.00
161

Effigies of the emperor

 1900 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,000.00
57

Emperor Francis Joseph I of Austria – 7 dispatch envelopes

 c. 1900 EUR 400.00 - 800.00 EUR 813.00
79

Emperor Francis Joseph I with a shot royal stag surrounded by his huntsmen

 1912 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 813.00
87

Emperor Francis Joseph I of Austria

 1908 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 750.00
116

Emperor Francis Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth

 1861 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 750.00
  • 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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