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Galerie Bassenge: Collection Private Press Books

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Auction Name Collection Private Press Books Total Sales (EUR) 64,292.10
Auction Date October 19, 2017 - October 19, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 61,930.00
Sale Number #110g High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 61,930.00
Total Lots 400
Sold Lots 191 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 118,778.00
% of Lots Sold 47.75% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 118,778.00
Unsold Lots 209 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 54.13%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
2859 Neufeld, Wilhelm

Gedichte und Bilder vom Glockengießer

1986 EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 2,337.00
2857 Homerische Hymnos, Der

vom grossen Pan

1985 EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 2,214.00
2849 Neufeld, Wilhelm

Heraklit der Dunkle

1979 EUR 800.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,845.00
2832 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Faust II. (VA mit Goldlettern)

1932 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,722.00
2619 Bear Press

Konvolut von 14 Einblattdrucken

1988-2005 EUR 1,300.00 - 1,300.00 EUR 1,353.00
2609 Meckel, Christoph

you're welcome

1969 EUR 1,700.00 - 1,700.00 EUR 1,230.00
2918 Kafka, Franz

Betrachtung

1990 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,230.00
2772 Bayrle, Thomas

1-10 Eins bis Zehn. 10 lithographische Tafeln

1964 EUR 450.00 - 450.00 EUR 1,107.00
2698 Édition Séparée

22 Bde. der Folge (jeweils in der Vorzugsausgabe)

1996-2001 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 984.00
2851 Neufeld, Wilhelm

Heraklit der Dunkle

1986 EUR 800.00 - 800.00 EUR 984.00
2866 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Paralipomena zur Klassischen Walpurgisnacht

1990 EUR 750.00 - 750.00 EUR 984.00
2854 Sailer, Michael

Deutsche Sprichwörter

1983 EUR 700.00 - 700.00 EUR 861.00
2863 Neufeld, Wilhelm

Schattenspiel

1987 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 861.00
2860 Khayyam, Omar

Das Sinngedicht

1986 EUR 650.00 - 650.00 EUR 836.40
2853 Neufeld, Wilhelm

Farbenspiel

1983 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 799.50
2862 Neufeld, Wilhelm

Der Seiltänzer

1986 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 799.50
2913 Novalis

Fabeln

1979 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 EUR 799.50
2747 Grieshaber, HAP

Engel der Geschichte

1964-1981 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 EUR 738.00
2752 Grieshaber, HAP

Der Totentanz von Basel

1966 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 738.00
2681 Müller, K. Richard

Zwanzig Gedichte

1984 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 676.50
2852 Neufeld, Wilhelm

Bilder zu Mozarts Zauberflöte

1980 EUR 550.00 - 550.00 EUR 676.50
2868 Kleist, Heinrich von

Extrablatt

1992 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 676.50
2916 Quadflieg, Roswitha

Traumalphabet

1985-1986 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 EUR 676.50
2846 Bremer, Uwe

Erlkönigs Tochter oder Uwe Bremers kleine Balla...

1981 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 EUR 639.60
2655 Furtwängler, Felix Martin

Stur

1995 EUR 750.00 - 750.00 EUR 615.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
  • 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
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
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