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
152 Leonhard Zubler

Fabrica et usus instrumenti chorographici

Basel 1625 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
153 J. C. Berger

Tractat einer ausfuhrlichen Anleitung zu der Arithmetica

Neuruppin 1753 EUR 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
154 Maurice Bressieu

Metrices astronomicae libri quatuor

Paris 1581 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
155 Robert Boyle

Experiments and considerations about the porosity of bodies in two essays

London 1684 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
156 Robert Boyle

Medicina Hydrostatica: Or, Hydrostaticks Applyed to the Materia Medica

London 1690 EUR 3,500.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 3,810.00
157 Johann Jakob Marinoni

De astronomica specula domestica

Wien 1745 EUR 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 4,318.00
158 Samuel Richter

Samtliche philosophisch- und chymische Schrifften

Leipzig; Breslau 1741 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 889.00
159 Eberhard Welper

Neu-vermehrte Welperische Gnomonica

Nurnberg 1708 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,270.00
160 Sebastian de Pontault de Beaulieu

Les glorieuses conquestes de Louis le Grand

Paris 1694-1697 EUR 20,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
161 Willem Janszoon; Joan Blaeu

Atlas Novus

Amsterdam 1645 EUR 10,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 11,430.00
162 Willem Janszoon Blaeu

Hollandia comitatus

Amsterdam 1635-1638 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
163 Roland Bonaparte

Collection du Prince Roland Bonaparte

Paris ca. 1882-1889 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,651.00
164 Karl V.

Carta executoria

Valladolid 1548 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,159.00
165 Jacob Colom

L'ardante ou flamboyante Colom de la mer, nouvellement augmentee

Amsterdam 1662 EUR 40,000.00 - 40,000.00 Not Sold
166 Vincenzo Maria Coronelli

Memoires historiques & geographies du royaume de la Moree

Amsterdam 1686 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
167 Vincenzo Maria Coronelli

Beschreibung der Reiche Morea und Negroponte

Frankfurt 1686-1687 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
168 Vincenzo Maria Coronelli

Neu-vermehrte Beschreibung der trefflichen Halb-Insel, Morea

Nurnberg 1687 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
169 Vincenzo Maria Coronelli

Courte description du roiaume de la Moree et des places maritimes

Antwerpen 1687 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
170 Caspar Danckwerth

Newe Landesbeschreibung der zwey Hertzogthumer Schleswich und Holstein

Husum 1652 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 4,572.00
171 Johann Christoph von Dreyhaupt

Pagus neletici et nudzici

Halle 1749-1750 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,016.00
172 Dionysius Lardner

Edinburgh Cabinet Library

Edinburgh; London 1831-1849 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
173 Giovanni Battista Falda

Fontane di Roma, Teile II und III

Rom 1691 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
174 Joseph Jean Francois Ferraris

Carte chorographique des Pays-Bas Autrichiens

1777-1778 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
175 Antonio Maria Graziani

De bello Cyprio

Rom 1624 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
176 Griechenland

Konvolut Griechenland und Zypern

1625-1888 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 5,080.00
  • 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