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![<b>ALDE, Dec. 3:</b [PICASSO (PABLO)]. <i>Hommage à Pablo Picasso,</i> Paris, s.n., 1966. €8,000 to €10,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/f6ec5592-2bab-41b8-a105-7f0702d97750.jpg "<b>ALDE, Dec. 3:</b [PICASSO (PABLO)]. <i>Hommage à Pablo Picasso,</i> Paris, s.n., 1966. €8,000 to €10,000.")
ALDE, Dec. 3:Les Chants de Maldoror, Paris, Albert Skira, 1934. €30,000 to €40,000.ALDE, Dec. 3:Braque le Patron, Paris, Fernand Mourlot, 1945. €8,000 to €10,000.ALDE, Dec. 3:Le Soleil des eaux, Paris, Matarasso, 1949. €3,000 to €4,000.ALDE, Dec. 3:Des Hirondelles et de quelques oiseaux connus, méconnus, ou inconnus décrits par le Comte de Buffon et Dado, Fontfroide, 1988. €3,000 to €4,000.ALDE, Dec. 3:ALDE, Dec. 3:Ne coupez pas mademoiselle ou les erreurs des P.T.T., Paris, Galerie Simon, 1921. €5,000 to €6,000.ALDE, Dec. 3:Les Pélican, Paris, Galerie Simon, 1921. €4,000 to €5,000.ALDE, Dec. 3:Quatre histoires de blanc et noir, Paris, s.n., 1926. €15,000 to €20,000.ALDE, Dec. 3:Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu, Paris, Ambroise Vollard, 1931. €5,000 to €6,000.ALDE, Dec. 3:Hommage à Pablo Picasso, Paris, s.n., 1966. €8,000 to €10,000.ALDE, Dec. 3:Qu'est-ce que Thérèse ? C'est les maronniers en fleurs, Paris, Le Soleil Noir, 1974. €5,000 to €6,000.ALDE, Dec. 3:Traité des Excitants Modernes, Paris, Yves Rivière, 1989. €6,000 to €8,000.
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Auction November 24thKetterer, Nov. 24: M. Waldseemüller, Ptolemaeus auctus restitutus, 1520. Est: € 250,000Ketterer, Nov. 24: I. Newton, Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, 1687. Est: € 100,000Ketterer, Nov. 24: L. Feininger, Collection of 33 comic strips, 1906-1907. Est: € 8,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction November 24thKetterer, Nov. 24:H. Schedel, Liber chronicarum, 1493. Est: € 30,000Ketterer, Nov. 24: K. Bodmer, Personal Sketchbook with ca. 80 pencil drawings. Est: € 25,000Ketterer, Nov. 24: Collection of 18 postcards “Bauhaus-Ausstellung Weimar 1923.“ Est: € 40,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction November 24thKetterer, Nov. 24: Latin Book of hours on vellum, 1505. Est: € 12,000Ketterer, Nov. 24: G. Shaw & F. P. Nodder, Vivarium naturae, 1789-1813. Est: € 10,000Ketterer, Nov. 24: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943. First American edition. Est: € 6,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction November 24thKetterer, Nov. 24: Ibn Butlan, Tacuini sanitatis, 1531. Est: € 8,000Ketterer, Nov. 24: Hermann Hesse, Casa Camuzzi in Montagnola, 1927. Est: € 12,000Ketterer, Nov. 24: Pop Art portfolio Reality & Paradoxes, 1973. Est: € 12,000
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Auction Info
- Auction Name
- Books, Manuscripts and Maps
- Auction Date
- 11/02/2025 - 11/02/2025
- Sale Number
- #A1231
- Total Lots
- 376
- Sold Lots
- 269
- Lots Sold
- 71.54%
- Unsold Lots
- 107
- Total Sales (GBP)
- 159,025.00
- Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
- 68,400.00
- High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
- 111,300.00
- Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
- 91,400.00
- High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
- 147,500.00
- Total Sales as a % of High Est.
- 107.81%
Top twenty five by sale price
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price 300 CRICK, Francis Harry Compton Manuscript Three volumes of his daily diaries, 1938-39
Starts March 17, 1938, & ends: April 12, 1939 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 16,500.00 301 Francis CRICK SIGNED: Nobel Prize lecture: on the genetic code
1963 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 12,750.00 308 NIELS Henrik David BOHR (Nobel Prize winner) Birth of Nuclear Atom
1955-04-14 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 6,250.00 125 Gosse, Philip Henry Illustrations of the birds of Jamaica
1849 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 4,750.00 293 Stuart, Charles Edward Autograph Letter, Signed
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 4,687.50 71 Lilford, Lord With Autograph Letter: Colourd figures of the Birds of the British Islands
1891-7 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 4,000.00 98 Gray (George Robert & R. Bowdler Sharpe) Zoology of the Voyage of HMS of Erebus and Terror, Under the Command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, Birds
1846-75 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 3,062.50 108 Buller, Sir Walter Lawry Signed- A History of the Birds of New Zealand
1888 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,875.00 115 LEGGE, W Vincent A history of the birds of Ceylon
1880 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,500.00 184 Ian FLEMING Live and Let Die
1954 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,312.50 216 BROGLIE, Louis Victor, Prince of (Nobel Prize winner in Physics in 1929) Quantum physics- Inscribed & Signed by: Recherches sur la theorie des quanta
1925 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,000.00 32 ORTELIUS, Abraham WORLD ATLAS: Theatro del Mondo
20 September 1655 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,937.50 73 Bannerman, David A Fine Binding, Author SIGNED: The Birds of the British Isles
1953-1963 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,875.00 164 Dickens, Charles NONESUCH Press- DICKENS- The Nonesuch Dickens, 1937-38
1940-09-01 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 1,687.50 113 Willughby's Ornithology
1678 GBP 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,625.00 111 Cassin, John Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America
[1853]-1856 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,562.50 99 Buller, Sir Walter Lawry A History of the Birds of New Zealand
1873 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 1,562.50 110 Baedeker, Friedrich Wilhelm Justus Die Eier der Europaischen Vogel nach der Natur gemalt
1855-63 GBP 600.00 - 900.00 GBP 1,437.50 79 McKelvie Colin Laurie The Woodcock, Snipe, Grouse, Partridge, Pheasant, & Sporting Wildfowl
1988-1999 GBP 600.00 - 900.00 GBP 1,312.50 78 Lilford, Lord Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood
1895 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 1,312.50
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![<b>Swann, Nov. 25:</b> Cunard [Slavonia] / New York Mediterranean. Circa 1905. $3,000 to $4,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/4a5b5e65-4194-475f-9e08-b3fbbd8ece29.png "<b>Swann, Nov. 25:</b> Cunard [Slavonia] / New York Mediterranean. Circa 1905. $3,000 to $4,000.")
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Rare & Important Travel Posters
November 25, 2025Swann, Nov. 25: James Northfield. Australia / Koala. 1931. $800 to $1,200.Swann, Nov. 25: Mitsuharu Horiuchi. The North China Railway Co. Circa 1939. $3,000 to $4,000.Swann, Nov. 25: Cunard [Slavonia] / New York Mediterranean. Circa 1905. $3,000 to $4,000.Swann
Rare & Important Travel Posters
November 25, 2025Swann, Nov. 25: White Star Line / Types of World Famous Liners. Circa 1927. $2,500 to $3,500.Swann, Nov. 25: Visit the USSR. 1958. $1,000 to $1,500.Swann, Nov. 25: Stefan Norblin. Wilno. Circa 1930. $800 to $1,200.Swann
Rare & Important Travel Posters
November 25, 2025Swann, Nov. 25: Samuel Henchoz. Villars Chesières Suisse. 1948. $800 to $1,200.Swann, Nov. 25: Roger Broders. Marseille / Porte de l'Afrique du Nord. 1929. $5,000 to $7,500.Swann, Nov. 25: Arthur Vivian Farrar. Time is Money / Underground. Gouache maquette. 1930. $1,000 to $1,500.Swann
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November 25, 2025Swann, Nov. 25: Hawaii / Paradise of the Pacific. 1908. $800 to $1,200.Swann, Nov. 25: David Klein. New York / Fly TWA. 1956. $7,000 to $10,000.Swann, Nov. 25: Leslie Ragan. The New 20th Century Limited / New York Central System. 1939. $15,000 to $20,000. -
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The Sven A. Behrendt Collection
2 December 2025Sotheby’s, Dec. 2: Isaac Newton. The mathematical principles of natural philosophy..., London, 1729, first edition in English, 2 volumes, contemporary calf. £35,000 to £40,000.Sotheby’s, Dec. 2: Henri Abraham Chatelain. Atlas historique, Amsterdam, 1719-1721, 7 volumes, contemporary calf gilt. £7,000 to £9,000.Sotheby’s, Dec. 2: Sir Marc Aurel Stein. Serindia. Detailed Report of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China, Oxford, 1921, 6 volumes, original cloth. £7,000 to £10,000.Sotheby’s, Dec. 2: Joseph Stöcklein. Allerhand... Reis-Beschreibungen, 1726-55, 32 parts in 5 volumes, contemporary pigskin. £5,000 to £6,000.Sotheby’s, Dec. 2: Rudyard Kipling. The Complete Works in Prose and Verse, 1937-39, 35 volumes, publisher's tan morocco gilt, first volume signed by the author. £4,000 to £6,000.