Ketterer Kunst Doerling: Valuable Books, 604, Hamburg

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 18, 2026 - May 18, 2026
Page Size: 403 items in 17 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Manuskripte

Antiphonar mit Prachtinitiale

Lombardei ca. 1480 EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
2 Ambrosius

Hexameron

Augsburg 1472 EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,588.00
3 Johannes Bamler (um 1435-1504)

Gebetbuch

Augsburg 1498 EUR 25,000.00 - 25,000.00 EUR 63,500.00
4 Biblia

Biblia cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra

Nurnberg 1485 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,810.00
5 Petrus Lombardus

Sententiarum libri IV

Nurnberg 1491 EUR 8,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 8,890.00
6 Hartmann Schedel

Liber chronicarum

Nurnberg 1493 EUR 35,000.00 - 35,000.00 EUR 38,100.00
7 Petrus Lombardus

Sententiarum

Nurnberg 1500 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
8 Anton Koberger

Biblia latina cum concordantia

Nurnberg 1501 EUR 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 2,540.00
9 Gregor Reisch

Margarita philosophica

Basel 1508 EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
10 Johannes Glogoviensis

Introductorium compendiosum in tractatum spere

Krakau 1513 EUR 8,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 11,430.00
11 Gregor von Nazianz

Orationes lectissimae XVI

Venedig 1516 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,286.00
12 Biblia

Das new Testament

Leipzig 1528 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 10,160.00
13 Johannes Mathesius (1504-1565)

Simplex & plana Catechismi explicatio in Ecclesia Vallensi

St. Joachimsthal 1551-1554 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 10,414.00
14 Biblia

Biblia, sirech knigi vetkhago i novago saveta

Ostrog 1581 EUR 18,000.00 - 18,000.00 EUR 33,020.00
15 Jan Huygen van Linschoten

Navigatio ac itinerarium in orientalem; Descriptio totius Guineae

Den Haag 1599 EUR 80,000.00 - 80,000.00 Not Sold
16 Matthias Quad

Geographisch Handtbuch; America, oder die Neuwe Welt, oder West-India

Koln; Oberusel 1600;1605 EUR 40,000.00 - 40,000.00 Not Sold
17 Georg Braun; Franz Hogenberg

Civitates orbis terrarum

Koln 1635-1638 EUR 80,000.00 - 80,000.00 Not Sold
18 Joan Blaeu

Geographiae Blauianae Vol. Tertium

Amsterdam 1662 EUR 15,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 22,860.00
19 Globus

Newton's New and improved terrestrial globe

London 1840 EUR 3,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
20 Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (1677-1750)

Himmel- und Erdglobus

Nurnberg 1730 EUR 15,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
21 Conrad Gesner

Thierbuch; Vogelbuch; Fischbuch

Zurich 1557;1563 EUR 14,000.00 - 14,000.00 Not Sold
22 Georg Wolfgang Knorr

Verlustiging der oogen en van den geest

Amsterdam 1770-1775 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 8,255.00
23 Rene Primavere Lesson (1794-1849)

Histoire naturelle des colibris, suivie d'un supplement; Les trochilidees

Paris 1830-1833 EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,905.00
24 Otto Brunfels

Kreuterbuch contrafayt; Herbarum imagines vivae

Strassburg; Frankfurt 1534;1535 EUR 10,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 11,430.00
25 Basilius Besler (1561-1629)

Hortus Eystettensis

Eichstatt; Nurnberg 1640 EUR 180,000.00 - 180,000.00 Not Sold
  • Sotheby’s
    Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
    25 June – July 7
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000