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Galerie Bassenge: Literature, Children's Books

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Auction Name Literature, Children's Books Total Sales (EUR) 94,021.20
Auction Date October 18, 2017 - October 18, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 82,410.00
Sale Number #110d High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 82,410.00
Total Lots 327
Sold Lots 178 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 136,300.00
% of Lots Sold 54.43% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 136,300.00
Unsold Lots 149 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 68.98%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1696 Shakespeare, William

Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies

1632 EUR 25,000.00 - 25,000.00 EUR 19,680.00
1566 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Zur Farbenlehre, Tübingen 1810

1842 EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 7,995.00
1626 Lenz, Jakob Michael Reinhold

Anmerkungen übers Theater

1774 EUR 1,600.00 - 1,600.00 EUR 3,444.00
1748 Zindel, Christian Siegmund

Der Eislauf oder das Schrittschuhfahren

1825 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,829.00
1701 Spee von Langenfeld, Friedrich

Trutz-Nachtigall, Oder Geistlichs-Poetisch Lus...

1649 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,706.00
1758 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts

1821 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,722.00
1762 Kant, Immanuel

Critik der practischen Vernunft

1788 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,722.00
1770 Nietzsche, Friedrich

Die Geburt der Tragödie

1872 EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,599.00
1790 Tiedemann, Lotte

Tim's Tier ABC. Original-Entwurf

um 1930 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,599.00
1709 Storm, Theodor

Der Schimmelreiter

1888 EUR 450.00 - 450.00 EUR 1,168.50
1751 Bloch, Ernst

Gesamtausgabe, daraus 5 Bände, 2 mit Widmungen

1968 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,107.00
1560 Frey, Janus Cäcilius

Knickknackius ex Floilandia. Flo¨ia cortum vers...

1625 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 1,045.50
1749 Zürcher Neujahrsblätter

der Künstler-Gesellschaft von 1805-1840

1804-1839 EUR 750.00 - 750.00 EUR 1,045.50
1551 Fontane, Theodor

Gesammelte Romane und Novellen

um 1895 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 984.00
1781 Bartholomaei, Friedrich Eduard

Lehrreiches Bilderbuch

um 1870 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 861.00
1791

Zweites deutsches ABC- und Lesebuch für artige Knaben und Mädchen

um 1845 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 861.00
1512 Balde, Jacob

Iephtias

1654 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 799.50
1799 Enßlin & Laiblin

Konvolut von 52 Orig.-Entwürfen und 11 Andrucken für Einbände und Textillustrationen der Kinder- und Jugendbuchreihe "Bunte Bücher".

1900-1935 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 738.00
1658 Nestroy, Johann

Freiheit in Krähwinkel

1849 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 676.50
1788 Stöwer, Willy

Marine ABC

um 1905 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 676.50
1824 Speckter, Otto

Das Märchen vom gestiefelten Kater

1843 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 676.50
1676 Raabe, Wilhelm

Die Chronik der Sperlingsgasse

1877 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 615.00
1741 Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de

Questions sur l'encyclopédie

1159 EUR 240.00 - 240.00 EUR 590.40
1567 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Faust. Ein Trauerspiel (mit unechtem Titelblatt)

1787 (d. i. 1790/1800). Goedeke IV/3 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 565.80
1572 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Pandora. Ein Taschenbuch für das Jahr 1810 (Dop...

1810 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 565.80
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
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    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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    Modern First Editions
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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
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