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Ketterer Kunst Doerling: Rare Books - Evening Sale

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Auction Name Rare Books - Evening Sale Total Sales (EUR) 1,817,750.00
Auction Date November 25, 2019 - November 25, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 1,531,700.00
Sale Number #491a High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 1,684,870.00
Total Lots 92
Sold Lots 75 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 1,825,200.00
% of Lots Sold 81.52% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 2,009,370.00
Unsold Lots 17 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 90.46%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
11 BIBLIA LATINA

Biblia latina, 2 Bände, 1462.

1462 EUR 1,000,000.00 - 1,100,000.00 EUR 1,050,000.00
26 CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS

Geographie opus, 1513.

1513 EUR 100,000.00 - 110,000.00 EUR 100,000.00
67 MAX BECKMANN

Brentano, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924.

1924 EUR 10,000.00 - 11,000.00 EUR 62,500.00
83 MARC CHAGALL

Bible, 2 Bände, 1956.

1956 EUR 35,000.00 - 38,500.00 EUR 60,000.00
56 RAINER MARIA RILKE

Typoskript, Korrekturfahnen, 6 Briefe und 1 eigh. Gedicht zu "Les Roses", in 1 Band, 1925-1927.

1925-1926. EUR 10,000.00 - 11,000.00 EUR 30,000.00
14 JACOBUS DE THERAMO

Teutsch Belial, 1487.

1487 EUR 28,000.00 - 30,800.00 EUR 28,750.00
10 AEGIDIUS CARLERIUS

Sporta Fragmentorum. 2 Bde. in 1, 1478-1479.

1478-79. EUR 25,000.00 - 27,500.00 EUR 27,500.00
28 JACOB ZIEGLER

Quae intus continentur. Syria ... regionem, 1532.

1532 EUR 10,000.00 - 11,000.00 EUR 23,750.00
6 CLEMENS V.

Constitutiones, 1471.

1471 EUR 14,000.00 - 15,400.00 EUR 16,250.00
62 OSKAR KOKOSCHKA

Die träumenden Knaben, 1917.

1917 EUR 10,000.00 - 11,000.00 EUR 15,000.00
33 FREDERICK DE WIT

Nova et accurata totius Europae tabula (Wandkarte), 1700.

1700 EUR 15,000.00 - 16,500.00 EUR 13,750.00
41 GREGORY MCALISTER MATHEWS

Birds of Australia. 12 Bände, 1910-1927.

1910-27. EUR 7,000.00 - 7,700.00 EUR 13,750.00
75 FRANZ KAFKA

Der Prozess, 1925.

1925 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,300.00 EUR 13,750.00
71 PABLO PICASSO

Max Jacob, Le Siège de Jérusalem, 1914.

1914 EUR 10,000.00 - 11,000.00 EUR 12,500.00
1

Niederl. Gebetbuch um 1500

Anfang des 16. Jahrhunderts. EUR 6,000.00 - 6,600.00 EUR 11,875.00
25 ZACHARIAS LILIUS

Orbis breviarium, 1493.

1493 EUR 10,000.00 - 11,000.00 EUR 11,875.00
34 GABRIEL BODENEHR

Europens Pracht und Macht, 1720.

um 1720. EUR 8,000.00 - 8,800.00 EUR 11,875.00
36 PHILIPP JOHANN VON STRAHLENBERG

Das Nord und Ostliche Theil von Europa und Asia Vorbericht 1 Landkarte Tattariae Magnae, 1730.

1730 EUR 4,000.00 - 4,400.00 EUR 11,875.00
8 JACOBUS RUBEUS

Breviarium Romanum, 1474.

1474 EUR 10,000.00 - 11,000.00 EUR 11,250.00
23

Biblia germanica, 1564.

1564 EUR 9,000.00 - 9,900.00 EUR 10,625.00
92

Die Andere Bibliothek. 403 Bände, 1985-2018.

1985-2018. EUR 5,000.00 - 5,500.00 EUR 10,625.00
18 STUNDENBUCH

Hore intemerate. Paris, Thielman Kerver, 1503.

1503 [recte 1504]. EUR 6,000.00 - 6,600.00 EUR 10,000.00
68 TRISTAN TZARA

Cinéma calendrier, 1920.

1920 EUR 8,000.00 - 8,800.00 EUR 10,000.00
13 JOHANNES REUCHLIN

Vocabularius breviloquus, 1486.

1486 EUR 6,000.00 - 6,600.00 EUR 9,375.00
21 JOHANNES GEILER VON KAISERSBERG

Das Irrig schafe. - Angeb: Passion, 1514.

1514 EUR 10,000.00 - 11,000.00 EUR 9,375.00
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    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
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    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
  • Sotheby’s
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
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