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Bruun Rasmussen: Books and Manuscripts

Auction Reports

Auction Name Books and Manuscripts Total Sales (EUR) 47,286.25
Auction Date January 28, 2014 - January 28, 2014 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 45,340.00
Sale Number #1405c High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 59,485.00
Total Lots 237
Sold Lots 38 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 114,102.00
% of Lots Sold 16.03% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 156,627.00
Unsold Lots 199 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 30.19%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
6001 G. C. Oeder og Johan Lange

Fabulous Flora Danica: Oeder a.o. (eds.): Aftegninger paa de Planter [...] Flora Danica.

EUR 13,500.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 11,750.00
6006 F. L. Norden

F.L. Norden: Travels in Egypt and Nubia [...].

1757 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,350.00 EUR 3,500.00
6003 Thomas Stearns Eliot

Major work of Modernism: T.S. Eliot: Poems.

1919 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,700.00 EUR 3,187.50
6007 Niels Bohr

Inscribed by Niels Bohr: Determination of the Surface-Tension of Water by the Method of Jet Vibration.

1909 EUR 2,700.00 - 2,700.00 EUR 2,625.00
6009

First edition of Boswell's biography on Samuel Johnson: James Boswell: The Life of Samuel Johnson.

1791 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,625.00
6002 James Joyce og Tom Kristensen

From James Joyce to Tom Kristensen: James Joyce: Anna Livia Plurabelle.

1930 EUR 2,700.00 - 2,700.00 EUR 2,375.00
6000 Oluf Host

Kunsthandlere onsker jeg doden: 15 autograph letters and letter cards, all signed by Oluf Host.

EUR 1,050.00 - 1,350.00 EUR 2,125.00
6004 Tom Kristensen

Jastrau's anxiety - "Som en Bisse med blodige Haender": Hitherto unknown stanzas of famous poem by Tom Kristensen.

[No date]. EUR 1,350.00 - 1,350.00 EUR 1,750.00
6011

First edition of White's history of Selborne: [Gilbert White]: The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne.

1789 EUR 1,050.00 - 1,350.00 EUR 1,437.50
6012

Inscribed by Hans Christian Andersen: H.C. Andersen: Die zwei Baronessen.

1848 EUR 1,050.00 - 1,350.00 EUR 1,437.50
6038

Stars from the 1960s: Collection of more than 300 autographs from various persons, mostly actors. Mostly Danish.

EUR 400.00 - 670.00 EUR 1,250.00
6008 Henrik Ibsen

First editions by Henrik Ibsen: Collection of 9 1st editions by Henrik Ibsen incl. Hedda Gabler.

1890 EUR 1,350.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,175.00
6010 Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens: Our Mutual Friend.

1964-1965. EUR 1,350.00 - 1,350.00 EUR 1,175.00
6015 Soren Kierkegaard

First edition of Kierkegaard's Either-Or: Victor Eremita [pseud. for Soren Kierkegaard]: Enten-Eller.

1843 EUR 1,350.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,175.00
6035

Famous Italian Romantic composer: Autograph and signed letter by G[iuseppe] Verdi.

1898 EUR 1,350.00 - 1,600.00 EUR 1,175.00
6027 Walt Disney

Anders And & Co. 1949-57 komplet. Indbundet i 17 bind. Samt Peter Pan og Kaptajn Klo m.fl.

1953-1955 EUR 670.00 - 670.00 EUR 1,006.25
6019 Tom Kristensen

Early autograph poetry by Tom Kristensen: Note book with more than 20 autograph poems by Tom Kristensen from Pafuglefjeren, published 1922 + 1 vol.

EUR 1,050.00 - 1,350.00 EUR 918.75
6013 Rainer Maria Rilke, Thorkild Bjornvig og Paul la Cour

Inscribed by Rilke and Bjornvig: Rainer Maria Rilke: Das Buch der Bilder.

[1907]. EUR 805.00 - 1,050.00 EUR 706.25
6016 Thomas Stearns Eliot

The Waste Land: T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land.

1923 EUR 535.00 - 805.00 EUR 637.50
6023 James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a young Man: James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a young Man.

1916 EUR 270.00 - 400.00 EUR 637.50
6034

17th century engravings: Valentin Le Febre: Opera Selectiora quae Titianus Vecellius Cadubriensis [...].

1682 EUR 805.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 568.75
6039 Robert Jacobsen og Poul Borum (CD)

Robert Jacobsen, Poul Borum: Collection of 20 orig. illustrations by Robert Jacobsen to the work "44 fabler".

 EUR 270.00 - 400.00 EUR 537.50
6025 Barry Lereng Wilmont, Henrik Nordbrandt og Dan Turell (CD)

Barry Wilmont, Henrik Nordbrandt and Dan Turell: Ulysses spejl.

1981 EUR 400.00 - 670.00 EUR 337.50
6030 Palle Nielsen

Palle Nielsen: Orfeus og Eurydike.

1959-70. EUR 535.00 - 535.00 EUR 337.50
6032

Iceland: Sagan af Gunnlaugi Ormstungu ok Skalld-Rafni [...].

1775 EUR 270.00 - 400.00 EUR 337.50
  • 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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    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
  • 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.
  • 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.
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