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Auction Name: The Odfjell Collection | Polar - History - Ornithology - Colour Plate Books
Auction Date: 12/04/2025 - 12/04/2025
Sale Number: #120425
Total Lots: 112
Sold Lots: 92.0
Lots Sold: 82.14%
Unsold Lots: 20

Total Sales (SEK): 6,121,620.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (SEK): 3,424,200.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (SEK): 4,870,000.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (SEK): 4,615,700.00
High Estimate of All Lots (SEK): 6,457,000.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 94.81%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
27	ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]	Aurora Australis	1908	SEK 700,000.00 - 900,000.00	SEK 1,875,000.00
70	SNORRE STURLASSON -- (MATTIS STORSSON)	Norske Kongers Kronicke oc bedrifft [...]	1594	SEK 800,000.00 - 1,200,000.00	SEK 1,300,000.00
3	ROALD AMUNDSEN	Sydpolen [ The South Pole]	1912	SEK 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	SEK 425,000.00
28	ERNEST SHACKLETON	The heart of the Antarctic	+ SUPPLEMENT	SEK 200,000.00 - 300,000.00	SEK 325,000.00
6	AMUNDSEN & NANSEN	Fram over Polhavet [Farthest North]	1897	SEK 80,000.00 - 100,000.00	SEK 162,500.00
60	WILHELM MAXIMILLIAN CARPELAN	Voyage pittoresque aux Alpes Norvegiennes.	1821-23	SEK 160,000.00 - 220,000.00	SEK 150,000.00
56	ANDREAS SPARRMAN	Museum Carlsonianum [...]	1786-89	SEK 150,000.00 - 200,000.00	SEK 137,500.00
112	JAMES JOYCE	Ulysses	1922	SEK 60,000.00 - 80,000.00	SEK 125,000.00
108		Den Norske Turistforenings Arbog for 1868. FIRST YEARBOOK IN AN EXTREMELY RARE GIFT-BINDING	c.1868	SEK 60,000.00 - 80,000.00	SEK 106,250.00
82	[OLAUS MAGNUS]	Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus [...].	1555	SEK 70,000.00 - 90,000.00	SEK 100,000.00
29	[SHACKLETON] MURRAY & MARSTON	Antarctic Days	1913	SEK 60,000.00 - 80,000.00	SEK 87,500.00
83	[OLAUS MAGNUS]	Historien, Der Mittnachtigen Lander [...]	1667	SEK 60,000.00 - 90,000.00	SEK 76,250.00
33	SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]	The South Polar Times	I-III1902-1911.	SEK 80,000.00 - 120,000.00	SEK 75,000.00
62	PETER C.F. WERGMANN	Norge, fremstillet i lithographerede Billeder efter Naturen.	1837-37	SEK 70,000.00 - 100,000.00	SEK 62,500.00
90	KNUD LEEM	Beskrivelse over Finmarkens Lapper [...]	1767	SEK 60,000.00 - 80,000.00	SEK 55,000.00
18	FRIDTJOF NANSEN	The Norwegian North Polar Expedition 1893-1896	1900-05	SEK 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	SEK 55,000.00
92	SOREN KIERKEGAARD	Enten -- Eller. [Either-Or],	1843	SEK 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	SEK 55,000.00
7	AMUNDSEN & JOHANSEN	Selv-Anden paa 86deg 14' [With Nansen in the North]	1898	SEK 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	SEK 55,000.00
58	VON WRIGHT & LONNEBERG	Svenska faglar efter naturen [...]	1924-1929]	SEK 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	SEK 45,000.00
2	ROALD AMUNDSEN	Sydpolen [ The South Pole]	1912	SEK 30,000.00 - 50,000.00	SEK 45,000.00

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ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.