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Auction Name The Odfjell Collection | Polar - History - Ornithology - Colour Plate Books Total Sales (SEK) 6,121,625.00
Auction Date December 04, 2025 - December 04, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (SEK) 3,424,200.00
Sale Number #120425 High Estimate of Lots Sold (SEK) 4,870,000.00
Total Lots 112
Sold Lots 92.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (SEK) 4,615,700.00
% of Lots Sold 82.14% High Estimate of All Lots (SEK) 6,457,000.00
Unsold Lots 20 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
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
18 FRIDTJOF NANSEN

The Norwegian North Polar Expedition 1893-1896

1900-05 SEK 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 SEK 55,000.00
90 KNUD LEEM

Beskrivelse over Finmarkens Lapper [...]

1767 SEK 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 SEK 55,000.00
92 SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Enten -- Eller. [Either-Or],

1843 SEK 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 SEK 55,000.00
2 ROALD AMUNDSEN

Sydpolen [ The South Pole]

1912 SEK 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 SEK 45,000.00
58 VON WRIGHT & LONNEBERG

Svenska faglar efter naturen [...]

1924-1929] SEK 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 SEK 45,000.00
71 [PEDER CLAUSSEN]

Snorre Sturlesons Norske Kongers Chronica.

1633 SEK 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 SEK 43,750.00
16 FRIDTJOF NANSEN

Nord i Takeheimen [In Northern Mists]

1911 SEK 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 SEK 37,500.00
53 SVEN NILSSON

Illuminerade figurer till Skandinaviens fauna

1832-40. SEK 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 SEK 37,500.00
64 ALFRED SMITH

Sketches in Norway and Sweden.

1847 SEK 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 SEK 37,500.00
84 [OLAUS MAGNUS]

Historia Olai Magni Gothi [...]

1567 SEK 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 SEK 37,500.00
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