Ketterer Kunst Doerling: Valuable Books, 604, Hamburg

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Auction Report
Auction Date
May 18, 2026 - May 18, 2026
Page Size: 403 items in 17 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Manuskripte

Antiphonar mit Prachtinitiale

Lombardei ca. 1480 EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
2 Ambrosius

Hexameron

Augsburg 1472 EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,588.00
3 Johannes Bamler (um 1435-1504)

Gebetbuch

Augsburg 1498 EUR 25,000.00 - 25,000.00 EUR 63,500.00
4 Biblia

Biblia cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra

Nurnberg 1485 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,810.00
5 Petrus Lombardus

Sententiarum libri IV

Nurnberg 1491 EUR 8,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 8,890.00
6 Hartmann Schedel

Liber chronicarum

Nurnberg 1493 EUR 35,000.00 - 35,000.00 EUR 38,100.00
7 Petrus Lombardus

Sententiarum

Nurnberg 1500 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
8 Anton Koberger

Biblia latina cum concordantia

Nurnberg 1501 EUR 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 2,540.00
9 Gregor Reisch

Margarita philosophica

Basel 1508 EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
10 Johannes Glogoviensis

Introductorium compendiosum in tractatum spere

Krakau 1513 EUR 8,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 11,430.00
11 Gregor von Nazianz

Orationes lectissimae XVI

Venedig 1516 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,286.00
12 Biblia

Das new Testament

Leipzig 1528 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 10,160.00
13 Johannes Mathesius (1504-1565)

Simplex & plana Catechismi explicatio in Ecclesia Vallensi

St. Joachimsthal 1551-1554 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 10,414.00
14 Biblia

Biblia, sirech knigi vetkhago i novago saveta

Ostrog 1581 EUR 18,000.00 - 18,000.00 EUR 33,020.00
15 Jan Huygen van Linschoten

Navigatio ac itinerarium in orientalem; Descriptio totius Guineae

Den Haag 1599 EUR 80,000.00 - 80,000.00 Not Sold
16 Matthias Quad

Geographisch Handtbuch; America, oder die Neuwe Welt, oder West-India

Koln; Oberusel 1600;1605 EUR 40,000.00 - 40,000.00 Not Sold
17 Georg Braun; Franz Hogenberg

Civitates orbis terrarum

Koln 1635-1638 EUR 80,000.00 - 80,000.00 Not Sold
18 Joan Blaeu

Geographiae Blauianae Vol. Tertium

Amsterdam 1662 EUR 15,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 22,860.00
19 Globus

Newton's New and improved terrestrial globe

London 1840 EUR 3,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
20 Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (1677-1750)

Himmel- und Erdglobus

Nurnberg 1730 EUR 15,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
21 Conrad Gesner

Thierbuch; Vogelbuch; Fischbuch

Zurich 1557;1563 EUR 14,000.00 - 14,000.00 Not Sold
22 Georg Wolfgang Knorr

Verlustiging der oogen en van den geest

Amsterdam 1770-1775 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 8,255.00
23 Rene Primavere Lesson (1794-1849)

Histoire naturelle des colibris, suivie d'un supplement; Les trochilidees

Paris 1830-1833 EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,905.00
24 Otto Brunfels

Kreuterbuch contrafayt; Herbarum imagines vivae

Strassburg; Frankfurt 1534;1535 EUR 10,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 11,430.00
25 Basilius Besler (1561-1629)

Hortus Eystettensis

Eichstatt; Nurnberg 1640 EUR 180,000.00 - 180,000.00 Not Sold
  • Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Queen Anne's War] Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York Accomplished to Queen Anne. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Mormonism] A Unique Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words Offered to His Congregation, the Day Before his Violent Death, 1844. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] [Mantle, Mickey] Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Declaration of Independence] One of the First Printed Announcements of American Independence, Subscriber Ebenezer Hazard's Copy, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000/15,000
    Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776! $15,000/25,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [War of 1812] "We Have Met the Enemy and They are Ours": The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry is Appointed Master Commandant in the United States Navy, 1812. $40,000/60,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Star-Spangled Banner] Eyewitness Account of the Shelling of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812, in a Manuscript Logbook from the HMS Trave, Present at the Battles of Baltimore and New Orleans, 1814-16. $60,000/80,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Thomas Jefferson at the Birth of a New Nation: An Important Letter Carried by a Jewish Patriot Communicating the Definitive Treaty of Paris, January 16, 1784. $100,000/200,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Colonial America] [Plymouth Colony] Plymouth Colony Seeks a Royal Charter: A Rare and Important Plymouth Colony Document, 1690/91. $6,000/9,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Selections from The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin
    Live Sale 24 June
    Sotheby’s, June 24: (Benjamin Franklin). The founding—and funding—of the Pennsylvania Hospital. $150,000 to $200,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, "the Day of the Declaration of Independence is everywhere annually celebrated”. $80,000 to $120,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, “probably the most fundamental thing ever done in the field of electricity”. $75,000 to $125,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin. One of Franklin's very earliest surviving letters. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Roger More and Benjamin Franklin. The only complete copy known of Poor Roger. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: John Jerman. The American Almanack ... for 1731 — the only known copy in private hands. $25,000 to $35,000.