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Stockholms Auktionsverk: Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts

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Auction Name Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts Total Sales (SEK) 2,204,387.50
Auction Date December 10, 2020 - December 10, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (SEK) 1,362,000.00
Sale Number #121020 High Estimate of Lots Sold (SEK) 1,648,000.00
Total Lots 170
Sold Lots 129 Low Estimate of All Lots (SEK) 1,957,000.00
% of Lots Sold 75.88% High Estimate of All Lots (SEK) 2,359,000.00
Unsold Lots 41 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 93.45%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
6051 RUDBECK, OLOF.

Rudbecks imponerande Atlantica från Ericsberg

SEK 70,000.00 - 80,000.00 SEK 196,000.00
6137 DUMAS PÈRE, ALEXANDRE.

Dumas manuscript on The Three Musketeers

c. 1845 SEK 70,000.00 - 80,000.00 SEK 91,875.00
6018

Första upplagan av Manuale Lapponicum 1648

1648 SEK 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 SEK 79,625.00
6104 MERCATOR, GERHARD - HONDIUS.

Mercator - Hondius Atlas sive Cosmographicae 1632

1632 SEK 50,000.00 - 60,000.00 SEK 67,375.00
6053 PORATH, CONRAD DIDRIK VON.

First Swedish book on fencing by von Porath 1693

1693 SEK 50,000.00 - 60,000.00 SEK 61,250.00
6025 (TESSIN, CARL GUSTAF).

Carl Gustaf Tessin till Gustav III 2 volymer

1751 SEK 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 SEK 53,900.00
6049 GUSTAV III BAND.

Band för Gustav III - Regeringsformen 1772

1772 SEK 7,000.00 - 8,000.00 SEK 46,550.00
6118

Scientiarum Upsaliensis 4 v.

1773-84 SEK 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 SEK 44,100.00
6160

Fotografier av sångare och musiker ca 1860-80

1860-80 SEK 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 SEK 41,650.00
6002 ANDREAE, ANTONIUS.

Andreae Questiones printed in Venice 1491

1491 SEK 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 SEK 39,200.00
6073 ADAM, ALBRECHT.

Napoleon's campaign to Russia in 1812 by Adam

1827 (- 1833) SEK 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 SEK 36,750.00
6112

Niels Bohr, three dedication copies to von Koch

1911 SEK 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 SEK 36,750.00
6131 SPARMAN, ANDREAS (adlad PALMCRON).

Sparmans Sundhetzens spegel 1642

1642 SEK 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 SEK 34,300.00
6151 PAGE, THÉOGÈNE FRANÇOIS (1807-1867),

Letters regarding French colonies 1840-50ies

1840-50ies SEK 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 SEK 34,300.00
6067 RUSSIA - NOBEL OIL INDUSTRY (2).

Two works on Nobel Oil 1909

1909 SEK 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 SEK 31,850.00
6074 ALBIZZI, ANTONIO.

Rare genealogical work by Albizzi 1627

1627 SEK 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 SEK 31,850.00
6078 DAHLBERG, ERIK.

Erik Dahlberg Suecia antiqua et hodierna

C. 1660-1718 SEK 18,000.00 - 20,000.00 SEK 31,850.00
6111 ASCANIUS, PEDER.

Rare natural plates by Peder Ascanius

1772 SEK 15,000.00 - 18,000.00 SEK 31,850.00
6154 FERSEN DEN YNGRE, AXEL VON (1755-1810).

Axel von Fersen egenhändigt signerat brev

1791 SEK 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 SEK 31,850.00
6166

1890-1900

c. 1900 SEK 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 SEK 31,850.00
6110 RARE WORK ON SURVEYING.

Ardüser Geometriae 1627

1627 SEK 26,000.00 - 28,000.00 SEK 29,400.00
6126 LINNÉ, CARL VON.

Linnés Öländska och Gotländska resa 1745

1745 SEK 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 SEK 29,400.00
6141 TAUBE, EVERT.

Taube Balladen om Gustaf Blom, manuskript

SEK 7,000.00 - 8,000.00 SEK 29,400.00
6005 LOCHMAIER MICHAEL (d. 1499).

Lochmaier printed in Hagenau 1498

1498 SEK 18,000.00 - 20,000.00 SEK 26,950.00
6109 ALDROVANDI, ULUSSES.

Aldrovandi Quadrupedum omnium 1621

1621 SEK 25,000.00 - 28,000.00 SEK 25,725.00
  • 19th Century Shop
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    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    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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  • 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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