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Doyle, Nov. 5: The Director's copy of the first edition of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, inscribed by Beckett. $7,000 to $10,000.Doyle, Nov. 5: Don McLean's personal test pressing of American Pie before mass production, gifted in 1971. $8,000 to $12,000.Doyle, Nov. 5: The important and extensive archive of original fashion photographs of model Dorothy Rice, 1945-58. $20,000 to $30,000.Doyle, Nov. 5: A Charles Adams theater advertisement. $8,000 to $12,000.Doyle, Nov. 5: A Small Patinated Bronze Bust of Marlene Dietrich. $800 to $1,200.Doyle, Nov. 5: Marlene Dietrich Studio Photograph. $100 to $200.Doyle, Nov. 5: The very large and uncommon British Quad for Hitchcock's The Birds. $500 to $800.Doyle, Nov. 5: An Original Crystal "Sputnik" from the 1966 Met Opera Chandelier. $3,000 to $5,000.Doyle, Nov. 5: The rare poster from the first American performances of Endgame, 1958. $1,000 to $1,500.Doyle, Nov. 5: The original Coconut Grove Playhouse poster for Waiting for Godot, possibly unique. $3,000 to $5,000. -
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Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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![<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i> First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/cc3f4f98-f195-4049-aca6-329c27fdd27c.png "<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i> First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000.")
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Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate PurchaseSotheby’s: William Shakespeare. The Temple Shakespeare. Housed in Custom Bookcase. $6,365.Sotheby’s: Frederick Douglass. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1845. $14,000.Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol. London: William Heinemann, 1915. $2,900.Sotheby’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald. First Edition Set, Including This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and others. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1920 – 1941. $24,180.Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000.
Galerie Bassenge: Old Prints and Manuscripts
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Old Prints and Manuscripts | Total Sales (EUR) | 344,422.40 |
| Auction Date | October 07, 2025 - October 07, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 234,060.00 |
| Sale Number | #126AD | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 234,060.00 |
| Total Lots | 268 | ||
| Sold Lots | 139 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 412,000.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 51.87% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 412,000.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 129 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 83.60% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1062 | Haly Abenragel | Das Ritman-Exemplar der Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica zu Amsterdam |
4.VII.1485 | EUR 36,000.00 - 36,000.00 | EUR 70,400.00 |
| 1064 | Schedel, Hartmann | Das Buch der Chroniken und Geschichten |
23. XII. 1493 | EUR 25,000.00 - 25,000.00 | EUR 46,080.00 |
| 1007 | Theologische Sammelhandschrift |
15. Jahrhundert | EUR 34,000.00 - 34,000.00 | EUR 35,840.00 | |
| 1013 | Nurnberger Predigten |
1472-1498 | EUR 15,000.00 - 15,000.00 | EUR 23,040.00 | |
| 1195 | Tengler, Ulrich | Laien-Spiegel |
1510 | EUR 10,000.00 - 10,000.00 | EUR 13,440.00 |
| 1015 | Fragment Nurnberger Predigten |
1478-1492 | EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 10,240.00 | |
| 1175 | Pfintzing, Melchior | Die geuerlicheiten und eins teils der geschichten des Ritters Tewrdannkhs |
1519 | EUR 4,500.00 - 4,500.00 | EUR 7,680.00 |
| 1016 | Muleysen, Johannes | Nurnberger Predigten, Fragment einer Handschrift aus dem Dominikanerinnenkloster St. Katharina in Nurnberg |
1478-1492 | EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 7,040.00 |
| 1017 | Buxheimer Gebetsubungen |
um 1485 | EUR 4,500.00 - 4,500.00 | EUR 7,040.00 | |
| 1269 | Schmuck, Friedrich Wilhelm | Fasciculus admirandorum naturae |
1679-1683 | EUR 4,500.00 - 4,500.00 | EUR 7,040.00 |
| 1012 | Seligenthaler Gultbuch |
1467 | EUR 2,400.00 - 2,400.00 | EUR 6,656.00 | |
| 1060 | Erster Druck der Bibeleditionen "Fontibus ex Graecis" |
1479 | EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 6,144.00 | |
| 1036 | Evangeliaire de l'ordre de Saint Benoit. Lateinische Handschrift auf Pergament |
o.J. (Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts) | EUR 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 | EUR 4,864.00 | |
| 1111 | Bock, Hieronymus | , Darin underscheidt Nammen und Wurckung Kreutter, Stauden, Hecken und Baumen, mit ihren Fruchten, so in Teutschen Landen wachsen ... gemehret, durch ... Melchiorem Sebizium |
1595 | EUR 3,500.00 - 3,500.00 | EUR 4,096.00 |
| 1235 | Earlom, Richard | Liber veritatis; or a collection of prints, after the original designs of Claude Lorrain; in the collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire |
(1777-1819) | EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 3,840.00 |
| 1136 | Fronsperger, Leonhardt | Von Kayserlichem Kriegssrechten |
1573 | EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 | EUR 3,584.00 |
| 1236 | Feoli, Vincenzo | Veduta generale |
-1790 | EUR 3,500.00 - 3,500.00 | EUR 3,200.00 |
| 1010 | Kreuzigung Christi |
um 1460 | EUR 400.00 - 400.00 | EUR 3,072.00 | |
| 1026 | Hafis, Mohammed Schemseddin | Diwan. Persische Farsi-Handschrift auf Papier |
wohl 17. oder 18. Jahrhundert (1626?) | EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 2,560.00 |
| 1179 | Rabelais, Francois | Les oeuvres |
1573 | EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 2,560.00 |
| 1032 | Joseph II., rom.-dt. Kaiser | Adelsbrief fur Ferdinand Kuechl in Linz ob der "Linz ob der Enz und in Freystadt" |
1708 | EUR 2,200.00 - 2,200.00 | EUR 2,048.00 |
| 1138 | Gomara, Francisco Lopez de | Historia de Mexico, con el descubrimiento dela nueua Espana |
EUR 2,400.00 - 2,400.00 | EUR 2,048.00 | |
| 1169 | Ortelius, Abraham | Indiae Orientalis insularumque adiacientium Typus |
um 1575 | EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 2,048.00 |
| 1135 | Francolin, Johann von | ThurnierBuch. Warhafftige Beschreibunge aller kurtzweil und Ritterspil |
1566 | EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 1,920.00 |
| 1285 | Corpus-Christi-Apokalypse, Die. Ms. 20 der Parker Library des College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary in Cambridge |
2012-2013 | EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 1,920.00 |
![<b>Dominic Winter, Nov. 5:</b> Aquinas (Thomas). <i>[Summa Theologica], Secunda Parte,</i> Venice, 1496. £700 to £1,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/b69c37e7-f18c-4417-b08b-f00e9b97a413.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, Nov. 5:</b> Aquinas (Thomas). <i>[Summa Theologica], Secunda Parte,</i> Venice, 1496. £700 to £1,000.")
