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Christian Hesse Auktionen: Anniversary Sale - Part 2 : Private Press Books from The Bear Press, Burgart Presse, Kaldewey Press, et al.

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Auction Name Anniversary Sale - Part 2 : Private Press Books from The Bear Press, Burgart Presse, Kaldewey Press, et al. Total Sales (EUR) 147,372.00
Auction Date November 23, 2019 - November 23, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 83,694.00
Sale Number #20b High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 124,250.00
Total Lots 223
Sold Lots 153 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 180,074.00
% of Lots Sold 68.61% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 258,520.00
Unsold Lots 70 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 57.01%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
475 Veronika Schäpers - Durs Grünbein.

26° 57,3' N, 142º 16,8'E.

2007 EUR 530.00 - 800.00 EUR 5,040.00
362 The Bear Press - Franz Kafka.

Betrachtung. Radierungen von Jan Peter Tripp.

2014 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 4,800.00
519 Unikatbücher - Christoph Meyer.

Paul Celan 22 Aquarelle, mit Tusche überarbeitet. 2015. 55 : 33 cm. Auf dem letzten Aquarell signiert und als »Malerunikat« bezeichnet, monogrammiert und datiert. Als Buch gebunden.

EUR 2,200.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 4,800.00
481 The Bear Press - Oscar Wilde.

Die Nachtigall und die Rose. Drei Märchen. Übertragen und mit einem Nachwort versehen von Wolfram Benda. Mit vier Radierungen von Peter Klitsch.

1982 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 2,880.00
451 Kaldewey Press - Seamus Heaney and James Joyce.

Sandymount Strand. Etchings by Felim Egan.

1993 EUR 670.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,640.00
501 Quetsche - Arno Holz.

Dafnis. Lyrisches Porträt aus dem 17. Jahrhundert mit 7 originalgemalten Bildern von Gisela Mott-Dreizler.

1992 EUR 670.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,640.00
479 The Bear Press - Jean Paul.

Des Luftschiffers Giannozzo Seebuch herausgegeben und mit einem Nachwort versehen von Wolfram Benda. Mit vier Kaltnadelradierungen von Caspar Walter Rauh.

1980 EUR 670.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,400.00
480 The Bear Press - E. T. A. Hoffmann.

Signor Formica. Radierungen von Caspar Walter Rauh.

1981 EUR 530.00 - 800.00 EUR 2,280.00
498 Quetsche - Bertolt Brecht.

Vergnügungen.

1989 EUR 670.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,280.00
312 The Bear Press - Ernst Jünger.

Flugträume. Holzschnitte von Jürgen Wölbing.

1983 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 2,160.00
341 The Bear Press - Arno Schmidt.

Seelandschaft mit Pocahontas. Radierungen von Eberhard Schlotter.

2002 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 2,160.00
360 The Bear Press - Paul Mersmann.

Nachtfenster. Träume aus 50 Jahren. Radierungen von Paul Mersmann.

2013 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 2,160.00
500 Quetsche - Christoph Martin Wieland.

Prinz Biribinker. Versehen mit neun farbigen Kaltnadelradierungen von Gisela Mott-Dreizler.

1990 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,160.00
381 Burgart-Presse -

Reflexionen. I [bis] X.

1985–1997 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,040.00
461 Kaldewey Press - Gunnar A. Kaldewey.

At 75:

2011 EUR 600.00 - 900.00 EUR 2,040.00
457 Kaldewey Press - Henry David Thoreau.

Time. Seven Quotations from the Journal.

2003 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,920.00
497 Quetsche - August Stramm.

»Du.« Liebesgedichte. Zeichnungen von Helge Leiberg.

1987 EUR 670.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,920.00
442 Kaldewey Press - Gunnar Kaldewey.

New York 1977.

1977/78 EUR 670.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,800.00
324 The Bear Press - Heinrich von Kleist.

Ueber das Marionettentheater. Farbholzschnitte von Hanns Studer.

1990 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,680.00
358 The Bear Press - H. C. Artmann.

Allerleirausch. Neue schöne Kinderreime. Radierungen & Einband von Uwe Bremer.

2013 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,680.00
446 Kaldewey Press - John Eric Broaddus.

Sphinx and the bird of paradise.

1981–1991 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,560.00
460 Kaldewey Press - Henry David Thoreau.

October, or autumnal Tints. Excerpts. With a Fragment from an unpublished Manuscript.

2010 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,560.00
486 Faber & Faber -

Die graphischen Bücher. Erstlingswerke deutscher Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts. 38 Bände [alles Erschienene, dazu eine »Dublette«]. – Vier graphische Supplementkassetten.

1992–2010 EUR 1,300.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,560.00
343 The Bear Press - Wolfgang Hildesheimer.

Bericht einer Reise. Radierungen von Paul Mersmann.

2002 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,440.00
345 The Bear Press -

Frühlingsnacht. Chinesische Übertragungen von Günter Eich. Farbholzschnitte von Hanns Studer.

2004 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,440.00
  • 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.
  • Sotheby’s
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
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  • 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.
  • 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.
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