Highlights of past auction sales
March 2023
A. Duncker, Castles and Residences of the Prussian Province
With 839 mostly coloured original lithographs mounted on cardboard.
Estimate: 30.000 € / Hammer price: 39.000 €
September 2022
Biblia latina.
Paris, mid-13th century. Manuscript on parchment.
Estimate: 40.000 € / Hammer price: 38.000 €
March 2022
Pablo Picasso. – Fernando de Rojas: La Célestine
With 66 full-page etchings and aquatints by Pablo Picasso.
Estimate: 20.000 € / Hammer price: 22.000 €
September 2021
David Roberts, Egypt & Nubia.
3 vols. London 1846-49.
Estimate: 30.000 € / Hammer price: 40.000 €
March 2021
Anointing of David by Samuel.
Historiated initial "F" from Bible. Southwest Germany(?), mid 12th century.
Estimate: 20.000 € / Hammer price: 39.000 €
September 2020
Roy Lichtenstein. Red Barn. 1969.
Colour serigraph. Signed, dated and numbered. Ex. 81/250.
Estimate: 12.000 € / Hammer price: 26.000 €
March 2020
Die Schammade
Publ. by Max Ernst u. Joh. Th. Baargeld. No. 1 (all published). Cologne, 1920.
Estimate: 3.000 € / Hammer price: 7.000 €
September 2019
Albrecht Duerer. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Ca. 1498.
Woodcut. - Meder 167, Single print before the Text, b.
Estimate: 22.000 € / Hammer price: 44.000 €
March 2019
(Pseudo-)Hieronymus: Vitas patrum (German) - Leben der heiligen Altväter.
Strasbourg, Printer of the 'Entkrist', not after 1482. - GW M50904.
Estimate: 40.000 € / Hammer price: 115.000 €
September 2018
Edvard Munch. Girl at the window (Pike ved vinduet). 1894.
Drypoint. Signed and inscribed "2 Tryk". Probably unique copy. - Schiefler 5, II.
Estimate: 45.000 € / Hammer price: 45.000 €
March 2018
Charles Darwin. Letters to the botanist Friedrich Hildebrand.
Collection of 16 partly autograph letters. 1862-1879.
Estimate: 30.000 € / Hammer price: 60.000 €
September 2017
Max Klinger. Ein Leben. Opus VIII. 1884.
Portfolio with 14 (of 15) etchings in state proofs.
Estimate: 20.000 € / Hammer price: 40.000 €
March 2017
J. Paulhan / Wols, Le Berger d'Ecosse. Paris 1948.
With 5 signed drypoints and a suite of the etchings by Wols. Undescribed special edition from the edition of 120 copies.
Estimate: 7.000 € / Hammer price: 44.000 €
September 2016
Album amicorum of Erasmus Furtenbach from Lindau.
Genoa and Milan, 1577-1579.
Estimate: 10.000 € / Hammer price: 14.000 €
March 2016
J. L. Vives, De institutione foeminae christianae libri tres.
Antwerp: M. van Hochstraten for F. Birkmann, 1524.
Estimate: 12.000 € / Hammer price: 35.000 €
September 2015
John Gould, The Birds of Europe.
5 vol. London: R. and. J. E. Taylor for the Author, (1832-)1837.
Estimate: 60.000 € / Hammer price: 70.000 €
March 2015
Antiphonary. Florence, 1st half of the 14th century.
Latin manuscript on vellum. Circle of Pacino di Bonaguida.
Estimate: 12.000 € / Hammer price: 760.000 €
September 2014
Maximilian Prince of Wied, Reise in das innere Nord-America.
2 volumes of text with coloured "Vignettes". Koblenz 1839-1842.
Estimate: 20.000 € / Hammer price: 38.000 €
March 2014
Rainer Maria Rilke, Das Marien-Leben
Leipzig: Insel-Verlag [1913]. Variant binding by H. van de Velde. - With autograph dedication poem by Rilke to Lucy von Goldschmidt.
Estimate: 5.000 € / Hammer price: 16.000 €
September 2013
Statuta Angliae
Latin and Anglo-Norman manuscript on vellum. England, first half of the fourteenth century.
Estimate: 15.000 € / Hammer price: 65.000 €
March 2013
Philipp Otto Runge. Die vier Tageszeiten (Die Zeiten)
1803-05. Series of 4 etchings. - One of 25 copies of first state
Estimate: 40.000 € / Hammer price: 260.000 €
September 2012
J. W. von Goethe, Regeln für Schauspieler
Manuscript of Pius Alexander Wolff. First transcript. Weimar 1803.
Estimate: 10.000 € / Hammer price: 15.000 €
March 2012
M. Welser, Tabula itineraria ex illustri Peutingerorum bibliotheca
Antwerp 1598. - First edition of the Tabula Peutingeriana.
Estimate: 15.000 € / Hammer price: 22.000 €
September 2011
Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal
Paris 1857. First print of first edition. Presentation copy with Baudelaire's holograph corrections.
Estimate: 30.000 € / Hammer price: 140.000 €
March 2011
Book of Hours
Latin manuscript on vellum. Probably Rouen, ca 1470-80.
Estimate: 35.000 € / Hammer price: 55.000 €
October 2010
Antoni Tàpies. Without title
Oil and pencil on black cardboard.
Estimate: 5.000 € / Hammer price: 20.000 €
March 2010
Liber consuetudinis Normanie
Normandy, ca 1300. Manuscript on vellum.
Estimate: 9.000 € / Hammer price: 55.000 €
September 2009
El Lissitzky. Suprematisch worden van twee kwadraten.
Den Haag, De Stijl, 1922.
Estimate: 2.700 € / Hammer price: 13.000 €
March 2009
Composite manuscript with sermons of Geert Grote.
Lower Rhine or Northern Netherlands, beginning of 15th century.
Estimate: 9.000 € / Hammer price: 26.000 €
September 2008
Pair of Globes by Vincenzo Coronelli
Vincenzo Coronelli (Venice 1650-1718).
Terrestrial and celestial globe. Diam. 48 cm.
Estimate: 50.000 € / Hammer price: 120.000 €
March 2008
Hölderlin. Der Tod des Empedokles.
Offenbach/M.: Ernst-Engel-Presse 1924-25.
Binding by Ignatz Wiemeler.
Estimate: 5.000 € / Hammer price: 28.000 €
September 2007
Antoni Clavé (* 1913 Barcelona)
Deux Gants. 1972. Mixed media and collage.
Estimate: 12.000 € / Hammer price: 13.000 €
March 2007
Otto Dix. Werden.
Portfolio with woodcut title and 5 signed woodcuts. 1921.
Estimate: 20.000 € / Hammer price: 60.000 €
September 2006
A Picture of St. Petersburg
London, ca 1826. With 20 coloured aquatint views.
Estimate: 6.000 € / Hammer price: 20.000 €
March 2006
Novalis, Schriften.
2 vol. Berlin 1802. - The Carlowitz copy.
Estimate: 2.700 € / Hammer price: 14.000 €
September 2005
Book of Hours
Latin manuscript. Brugge, ca 1460-1470.
Estimate: 15.000 € / Hammer price: 28.000 €
September 2003
Charles-Othon-Frédéric Comte de Clarac (1777-1847)
Forêt vierge du Brésil. Watercolour, 1817-19.
Estimate: 30.000 € / Hammer price: 48.000 €
April 2003
Napoleon I. and members of his family
Document signed.
Estimate: 1.800 € / Hammer price: 6.400 €
September 2001
Caspar Scheuren (1810-1887)
"Stolzenfels-Album". 50 watercolours, 1842/43.
Estimate: 60.000 DM / Hammer price: 165.000 DM