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Ketterer Kunst Doerling: Rare Books

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Auction Name Rare Books Total Sales (EUR) 2,250,889.00
Auction Date November 24, 2025 - November 24, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 1,355,550.00
Sale Number #599 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 1,355,550.00
Total Lots 493
Sold Lots 353.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 1,624,400.00
% of Lots Sold 71.60% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 1,624,400.00
Unsold Lots 140 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 138.57%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
20 Isaac Newton

Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica.

EUR 100,000.00 - 100,000.00 EUR 327,200.00
12 Martin Waldseemuller

Ptolemaeus auctus restitutus. 2 Teile in 1 Band.

1520 EUR 250,000.00 - 250,000.00 EUR 203,200.00
17 Karl Bodmer (1809-1893)

Eigenhandiges Skizzenbuch. Mit zusammen ca. 80 teils farbigen Bleistiftzeichnungen,

um 1832-1834 (eine 1857) EUR 25,000.00 - 25,000.00 EUR 83,820.00
51

Bauhaus-Postkarten . Bauhaus-Ausstellung Weimar 1923. Sammlung von 18 Orig.-Postkarten verschiedener Bauhaus-Kunstler.

1923 EUR 40,000.00 - 40,000.00 EUR 71,120.00
560 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Eigenhandiger Brief mit Unterschrift "JWvGoethe". Weimar, "Mittwoch", 26. Januar 1831. 1/2 S. (auf Doppelblatt).

1831 EUR 8,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 63,500.00
44 Lyonel Feininger

Sammlung von 33 Comicstrips aus den Serien Kin-der-Kids und Wee Willie Winkie's World . Zusammen 33 Einzelblatter aus der Chicago Tribune .

1906-1907. EUR 8,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 44,450.00
1 Hartmann Schedel

Liber chronicarum.

EUR 30,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 40,640.00
564 Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)

Eigenhandiger Brief mit Unterschrift "Sch."

 1795 EUR 16,000.00 - 16,000.00 EUR 38,100.00
559 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Brief von Schreiberhand (J. A. F. John) mit eigh. A. F. John) mit eigh. Schlussformel "und so fortan", eigh. Ort und Datum.

1830 EUR 8,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 35,560.00
6 Ibn Butlan (Abu'l-Hasan al-Muchtar)

Schachtafelen der Gesuntheyt .. verteutscht durch D. Michael Hero.

1533 EUR 7,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 33,020.00
503 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Eigenhandiger Brief mit Unterschrift "J. W. v. Goethe".

1787 EUR 12,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 30,480.00
506 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Eigenhandiger Brief mit Unterschrift "G".

1790 EUR 12,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 30,480.00
5 Ibn Butlan (Abu'l-Hasan al-Muchtar)

Tacuini sanitatis .. Albengnefit De virtutibus medicinarum & ciborum. Iac. Aldindus De rerum gradibus. 3 Teile in 1 Band.

1531 EUR 8,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 25,400.00
59 Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Little Prince. Translated from the French by Katherine Woods.

1943 EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 20,320.00
505 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Eigenhandiger Brief mit Unterschrift "Goethe".

1790 EUR 10,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 19,050.00
25 George Shaw und Frederick Polydore Nodder

Vivarium naturae .. The naturalist's miscellany: or, colored figures of natural objects, drawn and described immediately from nature.

(1789-1813). EUR 10,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 17,780.00
26 Johann Andreas Naumann

Naturgeschichte der Vogel Deutschlands.

1820-1860. EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 17,780.00
500 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Eigenhandiger Brief mit Unterschrift "Goethe".

1780 EUR 10,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 17,780.00
513 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Eigenhandiger Brief mit Unterschrift "Goethe".

1801 EUR 10,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 17,780.00
36 Friedrich Engels

Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England. Nach eigener Anschauung und authentischen Quellen.

1845 EUR 10,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 16,510.00
55 Hermann Hesse

Casa Camuzzi in Montagnola. Orig.-Aquarell uber Bleistiftzeichnung.

1927 EUR 12,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 16,510.00
508 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Eigenhandige Exzerpte aus Zeitungen.

1793 EUR 8,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 16,510.00
526 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Brief von Schreiberhand (F. W. Riemer), eigenhandig signiert "G".

1806 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 16,510.00
562 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Eigenhandiger Brief mit Unterschrift "G". Weimar, 6. Januar 1832. 1 S. (auf Doppelblatt).

1832 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 15,240.00
146 Witelo

Peri optikes (graecae), id est de natura, ratione, & proiectione radiorum visus, luminum, colorum atque formarum, quam vulog perspectivam vocant, libri X. Nunc primum opera mathematicorum Georgii Tanstetter & P. Apiani in lucem aedita.

1535 EUR 10,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 13,970.00
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    Lot 11. Blaeu's Superb World Map on a Polar Projection (1695) Est. $5,500 - $7,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 36. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 49. One of the First Lunar Globes to Show the Far Side of the Moon (1963) Est. $1,000 - $1,300
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 5. The First World Map with Lavish Allegorical Vignettes of the Continents (1594) Est. $15,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 55. Anti-British Propaganda Map with Churchill as an Octopus (1942) Est. $2,000 - $2,300
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 197. One of the Most Influential Maps of Westward Expansion (1846) Est. $9,500 - $12,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 10. Scarce Pitt Edition of Carte-a-Figures Map of the World (1680) Est. $9,500 - $11,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 220. A Fine, Early Rendering of San Francisco (1874) Est. $2,200 - $2,500
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 707. Hand-Colored Image of the Presentation of Jesus with Gilt Highlights (1450) Est. $1,600 - $1,900
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 80. One of the Most Important Maps Perpetuating the Myth of the Island of California (1680) Est. $3,250 - $4,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 725. Homann's Atlas Featuring 26 Folio-Sized Maps in Original Color (1715) Est. $4,500 - $5,500
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 169. One of the Earliest Maps to Show Philadelphia (1695) Est. $4,750 - $6,000