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Christian Hesse Auktionen: Books, Autographs and Prints

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Auction Name Books, Autographs and Prints Total Sales (EUR) 700,999.68
Auction Date November 18, 2017 - November 18, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 316,398.00
Sale Number #16 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 453,080.00
Total Lots 854
Sold Lots 519 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 506,972.00
% of Lots Sold 60.77% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 716,420.00
Unsold Lots 335 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 97.85%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
584 Georg Trakl.

Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift.

[1906] EUR 13,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 25,600.00
17 Francisco de Goya y Lucientes.

Los desastres de la guerra.

1863 EUR 5,300.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 24,320.00
711 Rolf Dieter Brinkmann -

Sammlung der Katalognummern 711-736

EUR 16,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 20,480.00
750 Günter Brus.

Patent merde.

1969 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 EUR 20,480.00
18 Francisco de Goya y Lucientes.

Los desastres de la guerra.

1863/1903 EUR 1,300.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 16,640.00
16 Francisco de Goya y Lucientes.

Los caprichos.

1799 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 14,080.00
534 Thomas Mann.

Der Tod in Venedig.

1912 EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 12,800.00
672 Salvador Dalí - René Crevel.

Dali.

1931 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 12,160.00
613 Franz Kafka.

Betrachtung.

1913 EUR 4,500.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 8,960.00
241

Sammelband mit fünf Holzschnittwerken des 16. Jahrhunderts.

1553 EUR 6,600.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 8,320.00
751

Die Schastrommel. Nr. 2.

1970 EUR 660.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 8,320.00
19 Francisco de Goya y Lucientes.

Los Proverbios.

1930 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 7,680.00
641 George Grosz.

Interregnum.

1936 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 7,680.00
83 Pablo Picasso.

Sueño y mentira de Franco.

1937 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 7,040.00
141

Mappenwerke - Artists & Photographs.

1970 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 6,400.00
627 Rudolf von Laban.

Figurinen.

EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 6,144.00
329

Faksimile - Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile.

1951–1983 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 5,888.00
754 Eduardo Chillida - Aischylos.

Die Perser.

1978 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,888.00
155 Gerhard Richter.

Schweizer Alpen.

1969 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 5,760.00
812 Kaldewey Press - Samuel Beckett.

Quatre Poèmes · Four Songs.

1986 EUR 1,300.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 5,632.00
451 Bauhaus - Herbert Bayer.

Bauhaus-Ausstellung Weimar Juli–August–September 1923.

1923 EUR 4,500.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,504.00
638 George Grosz.

Prostitutionens Profeter.

[1924] EUR 2,400.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 5,376.00
77 Max Pechstein.

Fünf Armstudien.

1904 EUR 3,800.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 4,864.00
705 Pablo Picasso.

Carnet de la Californie.

1959 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,864.00
56 Erich Heckel.

Dunkle Sonnenblumen.

1954 EUR 3,400.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 4,608.00
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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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