Venator and Hanstein: Old Books, Autographs, and Manuscripts, 181, Köln

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Auction Report
Auction Date
September 26, 2025 - September 26, 2025
Page Size: 563 items in 23 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
527 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Reinecke Fuchs. 12 Lieferungen in 10 Heften.

Munchen 1846 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 453.60
528 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Reineke Fuchs. Zeichnungen von Wilhelm von Kaulbach, gestochen von R. Rahn und A. Schleich.

Stuttgart o EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 756.00
529 Johann Wolfgang von (u. Marianne von Willemer) Goethe

West-oestlicher Divan.

Stuttgart 1819 EUR 800.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,071.00
530 Hans Jakob Christoffel von) (Grimmelshausen

Der stoltze Melcher/ Sambt einer Besprecknuss Von das Frantzoss Krieg Mit der Holland.

(Molsheim 1672 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,520.00
531 Claude-Adrien) (Helvetius

De l'esprit.

Paris 1759 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
532 Justus Christian Hennings

Verjahrte Vorurtheile in verschiedenen Abhandlungen.

Riga 1778 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
533 William Howitt

2 Werke in 2 Banden.

London 1841-42 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
534 Alain Rene Le Sage

Le diable boiteux. Nouvelle edition. 2 Bde.

Paris 1737 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
535 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Theodicaea, oder Versuch und Abhandlung, wie die Blute und Gerechtigkeit Gottes ...

Amsterdam EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 252.00
536 Eleazar, de) M(auvillon

Memoires d'un honnete-homme Revus, corriges, augmentes d'un second volume, Et imprimes sur un nouveau manuscrit de l'auteur.

Dresden 1753 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
537 Moses Mendelssohn

Jerusalem oder uber die religiose Macht und Judentum.

Berlin 1783 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 378.00
538 Mirabeau. -

Mirabeau. - Briefe des Grafen von Mirabeau an einen Freund in Deutschland.

O. O. u. Dr. 1792 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 176.40
539 Karl Philipp von) (Moritz

Beitrage zur Philosophie des Lebens aus dem Tagebuche eines Freimaurers.

Berlin 1780 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,260.00
540 Christiane Benedicte Eugenie) (Naubert

Geschichte der Grafin Thekla von Thurn, oder Scenen aus dem dreyssigjahrigen Kriege. 2 Bde.

Frankfurt und Leipzig 1789 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 226.80
541 Publius Ovidius Naso

L'art d'aimer et remede d'amour. Nouvelle edition. Trad. d'Ovide [par Joseph de Cuers de Cogolin].

Amsterdam 1757 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
542 Persius Flaccus, Aulus.

In Persii satiras. Liber commentarius; eivsdem Persiana Horatij imitatio.

Paris 1615 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 EUR 327.60
543 Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Collection complete des oeuvres. 15 Bde.

Genf 1782 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 504.00
544 Johann Gottlieb) (Schummel

Fritzens Reise nach Dessau.

Leipzig 1776 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 252.00
545 Johann Gottlieb) (Schummel

Spitzbart eine komi-tragische Geschichte fur unser padagogisches Jahrhundert. Tubingen

1779 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
546 Seume, Johann Gottfried

Gesammelte Schriften. Hrsg. v. J. P. Zimmermann. 5 Bde. in 3.

Wiesbaden 1823-26. EUR 400.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
547 Spee von Langenfeld, Friedrich

Trvtz Nachtigal, Oder Geistlichs=Poetisch Lust-Vvaldlein, Dessgleichen noch nie zuvor in Teutscher sprach gesehen.

Koln 1649 EUR 7,500.00 - 7,500.00 Not Sold
548 Stael-Holstein, Anne Louise Germaine, Baronne de

Delphine. 4 Bde. Genf

1802 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 378.00
549 (Sterne, Laurence)

Yorick's empfindsame Reise durch Frankreich und Italien. Aus dem Englischen ubersetzt [von Johann Joachim Bode].

Bremen 1776/75 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
550 Tasso, Torquato

Il Goffredo, ovvero Gerusalemme liberata. Nuova edizione arricchita di figure in rame, e d'annotazioni colla vita dell' autore.

Venedig 1760-61 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
551 Waiblinger, Friedrich Wilhelm:

Phaethon. 2 Teile in 1 Bd.

Stuttgart 1823 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,890.00
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