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Galerie Bassenge: Manuscripts, Incunabula and Books

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Auction Name Manuscripts, Incunabula and Books Total Sales (EUR) 165,281.25
Auction Date October 17, 2017 - October 17, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 96,860.00
Sale Number #110c High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 96,860.00
Total Lots 208
Sold Lots 101 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 234,350.00
% of Lots Sold 48.56% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 234,350.00
Unsold Lots 107 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 70.53%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1090

Biblia germanica, Dat ys: de gantze hillige Schrifft

1545 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 25,830.00
1106

Biblia, Das ist: die gantze heilige Schrifft

1544-1545 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 18,450.00
1003 Tura, Cosmé, Umkreis

Steinigung des Heiligen Stephanus

EUR 10,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 13,530.00
1086 Wollick, Nikolaus

Opus Aureum. Musice castigatissimum. Erste Ausgabe

1501 EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 7,380.00
1006

In nativitate Domini ad missam in nocte. Introitus

um 1520 EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,535.00
1062 Münster, Sebastian

Cosmographia universale

1575 EUR 1,400.00 - 1,400.00 EUR 4,920.00
1018 Turpetin, François-Michel

Voyage fait en la Terre Sainte par maître

um 1745 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 3,444.00
1039 Corlieu, François de

Instruction pour tous estats.

1556 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 3,444.00
1199

Libro d'ore Visconti

2003 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 3,444.00
1032 Bauhin, Johann

Historia novi et admirabilis fontis balneique B...

1598 EUR 2,800.00 - 2,800.00 EUR 3,198.00
1066 Pfister, Matthaeus

Ein kurtz Resoluier-Büchlein

1596 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 3,198.00
1074 Rupert von Deutz

Commentariorum in Evangelium Iohannis et Apokal...

1526 EUR 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 3,198.00
1020 Morgenstern, Johann Christoph

Nachrichten Einiger nützlichen Lacc-Fürnissen

1726 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,952.00
1102 Schirmer, Johann Michael

Immerwährender Hauß- und Kirchen-Calender

(um 1750) EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 2,460.00
1130

Compositions de grands peintres modernes, ou recueil d'estampes

1787 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 EUR 2,337.00
1063 Ovidius Naso, Publius

Metamorphoseon Libri XV.

1556 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,091.00
1115 Hutten, Ulrich von

Ulrichi ab Hutten cum Erasmo Roterodamo, Presby...

1523 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,968.00
1155 Parisis, Joseph-Dionys

Quaestio Theologica. Promotionsthese im Monumen...

1769 EUR 800.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,968.00
1033 Bonaventura

Die Legend des heyligen vatters Francisci.

1512 EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,845.00
1097

Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine 26 Werke zur Brüdergemeinde Herrnhut

1742 EUR 2,200.00 - 2,200.00 EUR 1,845.00
1123 Plutarch

Plutarchus Teutsch. Von den Leben und Ritterlic...

1534 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,845.00
1147 Maillard, Pière-Etienne

Quaestio Theologica. Baccalaureatsthese im Monu...

1768 EUR 700.00 - 700.00 EUR 1,599.00
1060 Menz, Balthasar

Stambuch und kurtze Erzehlung.

1598 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,537.50
1023

Koranhandschrift

1813 EUR 800.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,476.00
1047 Franck, Sebastian

Germaniae chronicon. Augsburg 15. XI. 1538

15 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,476.00
  • 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
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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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
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