Books and Autographs

Koller Auctions holds two sales annually of books, manuscripts and autographs in Zurich.
These auctions attract a large international clientele. Seasoned collectors as well as young book lovers will find rare editions and beautiful bindings, alongside autographs and manuscripts and a large selection of modern illustrated books.
 
Next auction in Zurich: 4 December 2010
The Emanuel Stickelberger Library, part II

Preview
20 to 28 November 2010



KOLLER ZURICH: Books - Auction 25 & 26 June 2010 / Highlights Press release  

Baroque
2078  

A153/239
Mathäus Merian
"Topographia Germaniae."
Complete 16-volume set. Frankfurt, 1703.
With circa 1 000 copper engraved maps.

Sold for CHF 204 000 buyer's premium incl

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Autographs
2078  

A153/55
Hermann Hesse, Zwölf Gedichte.
Autogrpah signed manuscript. Dedication to Emanuel Stickelberger, [Montagnola], August 1928. Gr.-8°. 12 watercolours and 12 munuscript pages.

Sold for CHF 21 600 buyer's premium incl

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Early Printed Books
2078  

A153/185
Hartmann Schedel / Anton Koberger.
"Buch der Chroniken und Geschichten." Nurnberg, 1493.

Sold for CHF 96 000 buyer's premium incl.

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2078  

A153/155
Erasmus von Rotterdam, Desiderius.
In Novuum Testamentum ab eodem denuo recognitum, Annotationes. Basel, J. Froben, March 1519.

Sold for CHF 114 000 buyer's premium incl.

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Helvetica
2078  

A153/368
Homanns Erben - Gabriel Walser
"Schweitzer Geographie" - Samt den Merkwürdigkeiten in den Alpen und hohen Bergen. Zur Erläuterung der Homannischen Charten herausgegeben. Zurich, Orell, Gessner and Comp., 1770. Fol.

Sold for CHF 13 200 buyer's premium incl.

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German Literature
2078  

A153/499
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
"Das römische Carneval." Berlin, 1789.

Sold for CHF 7 200 buyer's premium incl.

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International Literature
2078  

A153/738
François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
"Oeuvres complètes" - Avec des avertissments et des notes par Condorcet. 70 vol.

Sold for CHF 42 000 buyer's premium incl.

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Varia
2078  

A153/746
Exlibris - Collectio insignium dictorum ex libris E. Stickelberger.
Important collection of ca. 6100 ex-libris.

Sold for CHF 66 000 buyer's premium incl.

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20th c. Illustrated Books, Miscellaneous
2078  

A153/842
PAN. Hrsg. von der Genossenschaft Pan.
Otto Julius Bierbaum and Julius Meier-Graefe. I, I-V and II, I-IV in 4 volumes. Berlin, F. Fontane & Co., 1895-1896. Fol.

Sold for CHF 21 600 buyer's premium incl.

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