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Ketterer Kunst Doerling: Valuable Books
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Valuable Books | Total Sales (EUR) | 1,291,933.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | May 18, 2026 - May 18, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 851,000.00 |
| Sale Number | #604 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 851,000.00 |
| Total Lots | 403 | ||
| Sold Lots | 255.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 1,738,300.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 63.28% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 1,738,300.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 148 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 74.32% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Johannes Bamler (um 1435-1504) | Gebetbuch |
1498 | EUR 25,000.00 - 25,000.00 | EUR 63,500.00 |
| 58 | Maurits Cornelis Escher | Predestination |
1951 | EUR 18,000.00 - 18,000.00 | EUR 43,180.00 |
| 38 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Eigh. Brief an Boie |
1774 | EUR 15,000.00 - 15,000.00 | EUR 40,640.00 |
| 39 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 3 eigh. Briefe m. U. an Germaine de Stael |
1803-1804 | EUR 25,000.00 - 25,000.00 | EUR 39,370.00 |
| 6 | Hartmann Schedel | Liber chronicarum |
1493 | EUR 35,000.00 - 35,000.00 | EUR 38,100.00 |
| 14 | Biblia | Biblia, sirech knigi vetkhago i novago saveta |
1581 | EUR 18,000.00 - 18,000.00 | EUR 33,020.00 |
| 62 | Pablo Picasso | Torros y toreros |
1961;1964 | EUR 15,000.00 - 15,000.00 | EUR 27,940.00 |
| 18 | Joan Blaeu | Geographiae Blauianae Vol. Tertium |
1662 | EUR 15,000.00 - 15,000.00 | EUR 22,860.00 |
| 331 | Marie-Antoinette | Eigh. Brief |
1789 | EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 22,860.00 |
| 45 | Franz Kafka | Der Heizer |
1913 | EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 17,780.00 |
| 47 | Hermann Hesse | Montagnola |
1931 | EUR 10,000.00 - 10,000.00 | EUR 17,780.00 |
| 57 | Max Ernst | Sammlung von Briefen und Postkarten |
1915-1916;1946-1951;1954-1956;1964;1967;1968 | EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 17,780.00 |
| 63 | Pablo Picasso | Linolschnitte |
1962;1963 | EUR 10,000.00 - 10,000.00 | EUR 17,780.00 |
| 249 | Albert Einstein | 3 masch. Briefe m. U. an Prof. Ludwig Hopf, Mathematiker |
1932;1933 | EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 17,780.00 |
| 113 | Ortolff von Bayrlandt | Arzneibuch |
1488 | EUR 12,000.00 - 12,000.00 | EUR 16,510.00 |
| 363 | Gustav Klimt | Eine Nachlese |
1946 | EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 16,510.00 |
| 54 | Else Lasker-Schuler | Theben |
1923 | EUR 8,000.00 - 8,000.00 | EUR 13,970.00 |
| 397 | Salvador Dali | Moise et Monotheisme |
1974 | EUR 8,000.00 - 8,000.00 | EUR 13,970.00 |
| 37 | Immanuel Kant | Eigh. Brief. m. U. an Prof. Samuel Gottlieb Wald |
1791 | EUR 15,000.00 - 15,000.00 | EUR 12,700.00 |
| 42 | O. J. Bierbaum; J. Meier-Graefe | PAN |
1895-1900 | EUR 12,000.00 - 12,000.00 | EUR 12,700.00 |
| 48 | Hermann Hesse | Gedichte |
1919 | EUR 10,000.00 - 10,000.00 | EUR 12,065.00 |
| 10 | Johannes Glogoviensis | Introductorium compendiosum in tractatum spere |
1513 | EUR 8,000.00 - 8,000.00 | EUR 11,430.00 |
| 24 | Otto Brunfels | Kreuterbuch contrafayt; Herbarum imagines vivae |
1534;1535 | EUR 10,000.00 - 10,000.00 | EUR 11,430.00 |
| 161 | Willem Janszoon; Joan Blaeu | Atlas Novus |
1645 | EUR 10,000.00 - 10,000.00 | EUR 11,430.00 |
| 374 | Friedrich Nietzsche | Gesamtausgabe. 7 Werke in 5 Banden |
1883-1893 | EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 11,430.00 |
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Freeman’s
How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
June 30Freeman’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. $8,000/12,000Freeman’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. $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] [Mantle, Mickey] Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000/12,000Freeman’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. $10,000/15,000Freeman’s
How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
June 30Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776! $15,000/25,000Freeman’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. $40,000/60,000Freeman’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. $60,000/80,000Freeman’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. $100,000/200,000Freeman’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 JuneSotheby’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.