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Galerie Bassenge

Auction Info

Sale Name
Incunabula; Books Before 1600
Auction Date
04/18/2012 - 04/18/2012
Year of Sale
2012
Sale Number
#99c
Total Lots
252
Sold Lots
133
Lots Sold
52.8%
Unsold Lots
119
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (EUR)
406,400.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
332,590.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
332,590.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
991,050.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
991,050.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
41.01%
Currency
EUR
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
611,505.00

Top twenty five by sale price

View All Auction Lots.
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
656 Schedel, Hartmann Das buch der Chroniken.

1496

 EUR 30,000.00 - 30,000.00 50,000.00
628 Bernardus Claravallensis Sermones de tempore. Mainz, Peter Schoffer, 1475

1475

 EUR 30,000.00 - 30,000.00 26,250.00
627 Rainerius de Pisis Pantheologia. Augsburg, Gunther Zainer, 1474

1474

 EUR 14,000.00 - 14,000.00 22,500.00
631 Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius Epistolae. Venedig, Antonio Miscomini, 22. I. 1476

1476

 EUR 10,000.00 - 10,000.00 17,500.00
633 Vergilius Maro, Publius L'Eneida in prosa italian. Vicenza 1476

1476

 EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 15,000.00
636 Breviarium Romanum

1478

 EUR 15,000.00 - 15,000.00 15,000.00
660 Horatius Flaccus, Quintus Opera.

1498

 EUR 4,500.00 - 4,500.00 11,875.00
657 Saltzer, Ambrosius Sammelband mit 2 Inkunabeln und 3 Dr. 1497-1507

1497

 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 11,875.00
634 Cepio, Coriolanus Petri Mocenici imperatoris gesta. 1477

1477

 EUR 12,000.00 - 12,000.00 11,250.00
625 Jodocus Erfordensis Vocabularius utriusque iuris. Basel, um 1473

1473

 EUR 10,000.00 - 10,000.00 10,000.00
658 Pontificale Romanum

1497

 EUR 12,000.00 - 12,000.00 10,000.00
640 Eusebius Caesariensis Chronicon.

1483

 EUR 7,000.00 - 7,000.00 10,000.00
632 Thomas von Aquin Catena aurea. Basel, Michael Wenssler, 1476

1476

 EUR 12,000.00 - 12,000.00 9,750.00
654 Justinianus, Laurentius Della vita monastica.

1494

 EUR 8,000.00 - 8,000.00 8,750.00
624 Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius Epistolae. Rom, Sixtus Riessinger um 1467

1467

 EUR 8,000.00 - 8,000.00 8,125.00
652 Ptolemaeus, Claudius Liber quadripartitus etc.

1493

 EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 8,125.00
651 Priscianus Lydus Opera.

1492

 EUR 8,000.00 - 8,000.00 7,500.00
666 Agricola, Georg De re metallica libri XII

EUR 8,000.00 - 8,000.00 7,500.00
629 Leonardus de Utino Sermones quadragesimales. Koln, Winters, 1475

1475

 EUR 7,000.00 - 7,000.00 6,875.00
826 Goldene Evangelienbuch von Echternach

1982

 EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 6,750.00
635 Chroniques de St. Denis Paris, Pasquier Bonhomme, 1477

1477

 EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 6,250.00
735 Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius De institutione. 1542 Lous Hague Einband

1542

 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 6,250.00
758 Valla, Laurentius Opera uigilijs & iudicio quorundam eruditis

1543

 EUR 2,200.00 - 2,200.00 5,625.00
762 Zwingli, Ulrich Leerbiechlein wie man die Knaben. Augsb. 1524

1524

 EUR 1,400.00 - 1,400.00 5,500.00
650 Johannes de Sacro Bosco Sphaera mundi.

1490

 EUR 3,800.00 - 3,800.00 5,000.00
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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
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    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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    Heritage Auctions
    Rare Books Signature Auction
    December 15, 2025
    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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