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Christian Hesse Auktionen: Books, Autographs and Art

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Auction Name Books, Autographs and Art Total Sales (EUR) 395,628.80
Auction Date January 16, 2021 - January 17, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 161,540.00
Sale Number #22 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 232,000.00
Total Lots 422
Sold Lots 313 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 199,310.00
% of Lots Sold 74.17% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 287,210.00
Unsold Lots 109 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 137.75%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
894 Paul Celan

Der Sand aus den Urnen.

1948 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 11,520.00
968 Stéphane Mallarmé

Herodias.

1905 EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 11,520.00
701 Ronald Searle

Germany. Berlin Wall. Holiday.

1963 EUR 1,700.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 10,240.00
687 Emil Nolde

Hamburg, Alsterbassin.

1910 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 8,960.00
925 Ernest Hemingway

Ken.

1938 - 1939 EUR 260.00 - 400.00 EUR 8,960.00
976 Thomas Mann

Der Tod in Venedig.

1913 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 8,320.00
724 Tim Gidal

Pin ups on the Ceiling of the Sheikh of Kuwait’s Room.

1942 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 5,376.00
648 Hans Bellmer

Petit traité de morale.

EUR 3,600.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,248.00
647 [Georges Bataille] Lord Auch

Histoire de l’oeil.

1940 [1944]. EUR 3,600.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,120.00
764 Joost Schmidt

Feier des 5. Bauhausjahres.

1924 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 5,120.00
709 Hermann Struck

Amerikanische Reisebilder.

1922 EUR 1,300.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,864.00
923 Hamburger Sezession

Katalog der ersten Ausstellung der Hamburgischen Sezession. Katalog der zweiten Ausstellung der Hamburgischen Secession.

1921 EUR 340.00 - 500.00 EUR 4,864.00
786 Georgius Agricola

De re metallica

1657 EUR 1,700.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 4,608.00
841

Ziegelroter Ecrasélederband von Otto Dorfner, Weimar,

1912 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 4,608.00
693 Pablo Picasso

Nègre, nègre, nègre .. Portrait d`Aimé Césaire.

1949 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 4,352.00
665 Horst Janssen

Jahrmarktscene (Varieté-Szene).

1951 EUR 2,800.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,096.00
668 Horst Janssen

Vogelkäfig.

1958 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 4,096.00
843

Senfgelber Maroquinband von Otto Dorfner, Weimar,

1921 EUR 550.00 - 800.00 EUR 4,096.00
633 Walasse Ting

One Cent Life.

1964 EUR 2,400.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,840.00
685 Gerhard Marcks

Das Wielandslied

1923 EUR 2,800.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,840.00
686 Emil Nolde

Petri- und Jacobikirche, Hamburg.

1910 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,840.00
688 Emil Nolde

Hamburg, Kran.

1910 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,840.00
940 Richard Janthur

Das Blumenboot der Nacht.

1921 EUR 500.00 - 750.00 EUR 3,840.00
897 Julien Cain, Fernand Mourlot und Charles Sorlier

Chagall Lithographe.

1960-1986. EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,328.00
674 Horst Janssen

Brief an Mirjam.

1984 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 3,072.00
  • 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
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    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
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • 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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