Reiss & Sohn

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Recent Auction Results
(Hammer prices excluding buyer's premium)

A. J. B. A. Cadolle, Vues de Moscou Paris 1825 Splendid views of Moscow	Jean Baptist du Halde, Ausführliche Beschreibung des Chinesischen Reichs Rostock 1747-1756 First edition in German	Samuel Purchas, His Pilgrimes London 1625-1626 The most important collection of voyages in the English language
Auction Sale 156 (November 2012), Lot 2989 € 16,000 (c. US $ 20,800)	Auction Sale 157 (October 2012), Lot 2813 € 14,000 (c. US $ 18,200)	Auction Sale 157 (October 2012), Lot 2861 € 65,000 (c. US $ 84,500)

Kâtib Çelebi, Kitab-i Cihânnumâ Constantinople 1732 The first Ottoman geography	Nicolas de Nicolay, Les quatre premiers livres des navigations Lyons 1567 First edition, first issue	Fyodor Petrovich Litke, Viermalige Reise durch das nördliche Eismeer Berlin 1835 Exceedingly rare first edition
Auction Sale 155 (October 2012), Lot 4821 € 28,000 (c. US $ 36,400)	Auction Sale 155 (October 2012), Lot 4825 € 40,000 (c. US $ 52,000)	Auction Sale 156 (October 2012), Lot 2634 € 22,000 (c. US $ 28,600)

Christiaan Huygens, Systema Saturnium The Hague 1659 From the library of Carl Friedrich Gauss	Missale ecclesie Parisiense (Canon) Paris, c. 1540-50 Printed on vellum and delicately coloured by hand	Fracanzano da Montalboddo, Newe unbekanthe landte und ein newe weldte Nuremberg 1508 The route to the Indies
Auction Sale 154 (October 2012), Lot 1539 € 20,000 (c. US $ 26,000)	Auction Sale 155 (October 2012), Lot 4816 € 38,000 (c. US $ 49,400)	Auction Sale 155 (October 2012), Lot 4817 € 85,000 (c. US $ 110,500)

François Viète, Sammelband with 6 mathematical tracts Tours and Paris 1591-1600 The founder of modern algebra	C. J. Solinus, Ioannes Camertis in Polyistora ennarrationes Vienna 1520 Contains the earliest obtainable map to name 'America'	Frederik de Wit, Orbis maritimus ofte Zee Atlas Amsterdam, after 1680 Second edition of de Wit's maritime atlas
Auction Sale 151 (May 2012), Lot 4267 € 200,000 (c. US $ 260,000)	Auction Sale 151 (May 2012), Lot 4286 € 22,000 (c. US $ 28,600)	Auction Sale 152 (May 2012), Lot 2844 € 36,000 (c. US $ 46,800)

F. F. Runge, Der Bildungstrieb der Stoffe Oranienburg 1855 A pioneer in the use of paper chromatography	Horae B. M. V. ad usum Parisiensis Paris, last third of the 15th century Illuminated by a follower of Maître François	Plenarium. Epistolae et Evangelia (German) Augsburg 1474 Unsophisticated copy with contemporary colouring
Auction Sale 150 (May 2012), Lot 1454 € 20,000 (c. US $ 26,000)	Auction Sale 151 (May 2012), Lot 4222 € 32,000 (c. US $ 41,600)	Auction Sale 151 (May 2012), Lot 4249 € 170,000 (c. US $ 221,000)

Konrad Gesner, Vogelbuch - Thierbuch - Fischbuch Zurich 1557 & 1563 Famous zoological encyclopaedia	Eadweard Muybridge, Album with 12 original photographs After 1868 Spectacular views of the Yosemite	Paolo Forlani, Universale descrittione di tutta la terra Venice or Rome, 1570 Early and extremely rare world map
Auction Sale 147 (November 2011), Lot 4503 € 30,000 (c. US $ 39,000)	Auction Sale 148 (November 2011), Lot 2192 € 85,000 (c. US $ 110,500)	Auction Sale 148 (November 2011), Lot 2480 € 70,000 (c. US $ 91,000)

Nikolaus von Jacquin, Florae Austriacae Vienna 1773 Monument of the grand Austrian botanical book era	Jakob Bundi, Reiss Buch gen Jerusalem Switzerland (Monastery Disentis?), c. 1593/94 A pilgrimage to the Holy Land	Avicenna, Libri quinque canonis medicinae (arabice) Rome 1593 First edition of the Arabic original
Auction Sale 146 (November 2011), Lot 1116 € 42,000 (c. US $ 54,600)	Auction Sale 147 (November 2011), Lot 4368 € 120,000 (c. US $ 156,000)	Auction Sale 147 (November 2011), Lot 4502 € 150,000 (c. US $ 195,000)

List Map. Manuscript on Vellum 15th century World map from the time of Christopher Columbus	Vincenzo M. Coronelli, Terrestial Globe of 48 Gores Venice 1688 Complete set of the famous large globe	Johann Baptist Homann, Atlas Germaniae specialis Nuremberg 1753 Atlas of the Holy Roman Empire
Auction Sale 143 (May 2011), Lot 2095 € 50,000 (c. US $ 65,000)	Auction Sale 143 (May 2011), Lot 2115 € 24,000 (c. US $ 31,200)	Auction Sale 144 (May 2011), Lot 2604 € 10,000 (c. US $ 13,000)

Thomas Aquinas, Matthaeus de Cracovia & Antoninus Florentinus Mainz, c. 1469 & Cologne, c. 1470 Sammelband with three early incunabula	Sebastian Münster, Cosmographey Basle 1588 In contemporary colouring	C. P. Claret de Fleurieu, Neptune du Cattegatt Paris 1809 Magnificent atlas of the Baltic Sea
Auction Sale 142 (May 2011), Lot 2004 € 120,000 (c. US $ 156,000)	Auction Sale 142 (May 2011), Lot 2020 € 60,000 (c. US $ 78,000)	Auction Sale 143 (May 2011), Lot 2080 € 54,000 (c. US $ 70,200)

Pietro Andrea Mattioli, New Kreutterbuch Prague 1563 First edition in German	Horae B. M. V. ad usum Romanum South-Eastern France, c. 1460 Most spectacular illuminated manuscript	Hieronymus, Epistolae. Printed on Vellum Mainz 1470 'Un des plus parfaits exemplaires connus'
Auction Sale 141 (May 2011), Lot 1263 € 12,000 (c. US $ 15,600)	Auction Sale 142 (May 2011), Lot 1966 € 310,000 (c. US $ 403,000)	Auction Sale 142 (May 2011), Lot 1991 € 400,000 (c. US $ 520,000)

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan London 1651 First edition, first issue	Martin Zeiller & Matthäus Merian, Topographia Germaniae Frankfurt 1643 ff. Complete set	Plan de Luxembourg. Pen and Ink Drawing with Watercolour C. 1735, revised up to 1778 Large manuscript plan
Auction Sale 138 (October 2010), Lot 2189 € 10,000 (c. US $ 13,000)	Auction Sale 139 (October 2010), Lot 3261 € 90,000 (c. US $ 117,000)	Auction Sale 139 (October 2010), Lot 4445 € 28,000 (c. US $ 36,400)

Giovanni Botero, Theatrum principum orbis universi Cologne 1596 With 22 engraved maps	T. Lucretius Carus, De rerum natura libri sex Venice 1500 First Aldine edition	Marcus Élieser Bloch, Ichthyologie Berlin 1785-1797 An outstandingly beautiful copy
Auction Sale 136 (April 2010), Lot 3289 € 16,000 (c. US $ 20,800)	Auction Sale 138 (October 2010), Lot 898 € 24,000 (c. US $ 31,200)	Auction Sale 138 (October 2010), Lot 1611 € 60,000 (c. US $ 78,000)

Arithmetic booklet of the merchant Martin Peller Nuremberg 1618 Manuscript on vellum with 2 portraits	Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus célèbres tableaux de la Galerie Royale Dresden 1753-1757 Exemplaire Royale	Alexander Pushkin, Bakhchisaraysky fontan Moscow 1824 First edition
Auction Sale 135 (April 2010), Lot 718 € 12,000 (c. US $ 15,600)	Auction Sale 135 (April 2010), Lot 1740 € 22,000 (c. US $ 28,600)	Auction Sale 136 (April 2010), Lot 3228 € 28,000 (c. US $ 36,400)

G. Braun & F. Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum Cologne and Antwerp 1575-1618 The most famous town book	Jean-Baptiste Clouet, Maps of the Four Continents Paris and Cadiz 1776-1782 Exceptional rare set of baroque wall maps	Horae B. M. V. ad usum Parisiensis France, c. 1490 Book of Hours on vellum with 16 miniatures
Auction Sale 133 (October 2009), Lot 3031 € 230,000 (c. US $ 299,000)	Auction Sale 133 (October 2009), Lot 3233 € 22,000 (c. US $ 28,600)	Auction Sale 135 (April 2010), Lot 708 € 45,000 (c. US $ 58,500)

Pedanius Dioscorides, De medicinali materia Frankfurt 1549 One of the best 16th century editions	Jean-Baptiste Debret, Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil Paris 1834-1839 A splendid and monumental work	World Map. From the first printed illustrated Ptolemy Bologna 1477 A milestone in printing and cartography
Auction Sale 130 (October 2009), Lot 1660 € 24,000 (c. US $ 31,200)	Auction Sale 131 (October 2009), Lot 23 € 45,000 (c. US $ 58,500)	Auction Sale 132 (October 2009), Lot 2584 € 210,000 (c. US $ 273,000)

Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Seereisen des berühmten Captain Cook Reval & Leipzig 1780 The first book on Cook's death	F. Péron & L. Freycinet, Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes Paris 1807-1816 Extremely important travel account	Collective Manuscript with Tournament Book Nuremberg, c. 1620 With brightly coloured pen and ink drawings
Auction Sale 128 (April 2009), Lot 2707 € 110,000 (c. US $ 143,000)	Auction Sale 128 (April 2009), Lot 2714 € 30,000 (c. US $ 39,000)	Auction Sale 130 (October 2009), Lot 794 € 20,000 (c. US $ 26,000)

Titus Livius & Florus, Von Ankunfft und Ursprung des Römischen Reichs Strasbourg 1574 Splendid contemporary binding	Nikolaus von Jacquin, Plantarum rariorum descriptiones et icones Vienna 1797-1804 Jacquin's greatest work	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Leiden des jungen Werthers Leipzig 1774 First edition, first issue
Auction Sale 126 (April 2009), Lot 1089 € 22,000 (c. US $ 28,600)	Auction Sale 126 (April 2009), Lot 1641 € 130,000 (c. US $ 169,000)	Auction Sale 126 (April 2009), Lot 2346 € 10,000 (c. US $ 13,000)

Ptolemaeus, Geographicae enarrationis libri octo Strasbourg 1525 The best 16th century Ptolemy edition	Willem Barentsz, Map of the North Pole Region Amsterdam 1598 A milestone of polar cartography	Biblia germanica. Ninth German Bible Nuremberg 1483 In contemporary colouring
Auction Sale 124 (October 2008), Lot 3780 € 40,000 (c. US $ 52,000)	Auction Sale 124 (October 2008), Lot 3874 € 25,000 (c. US $ 32,500)	Auction Sale 126 (April 2009), Lot 994 € 55,000 (c. US $ 71,500)

Adam Riese, Rechenbuch uff Linien und Zyffren Zurich 1567 The foundation of mathematical didactics	C. J. Trew, Hortus nitidissimis floribus Nuremberg 1768-1772 The most colourful flowers in European gardens	Theodore de Pauly, Description ethnographique St. Petersburg 1862 Splendid costume book of the Russian Empire
Auction Sale 123 (October 2008), Lot 1745 € 21,000 (c. US $ 27,300)	Auction Sale 123 (October 2008), Lot 1985 € 40,000 (c. US $ 52,000)	Auction Sale 124 (October 2008), Lot 3605 € 22,000 (c. US $ 28,600)

Prayer to the 'Madonna in Glory' About 1475 Xylographical single leaf print	Hortus Sanitatis Augsburg 1486 Third edition in German	A. E. Gautier d'Agoty, Anatomie Paris 1745-1748 With 46 beautiful anatomical mezzotint plates
Auction Sale 122 (October 2008), Lot 660 € 6,500 (c. US $ 8,450)	Auction Sale 123 (October 2008), Lot 1048 € 38,000 (c. US $ 49,400)	Auction Sale 123 (October 2008), Lot 1362 € 70,000 (c. US $ 91,000)

Michael Heberer, Aegyptiaca servitus Heidelberg 1610 With rare map of Cyprus	J. Janssonius & H. Hondius, Atlas novus Amsterdam 1638 Complete set of the Latin edition	Christoph Chrieger, Lepanto Venice 1572 Extremely rare broadsheet
Auction Sale 120 (April 2008), Lot 2796 € 68,000 (c. US $ 88,400)	Auction Sale 120 (April 2008), Lot 2951 € 74,000 (c. US $ 96,200)	Auction Sale 120 (April 2008), Lot 3533 € 32,000 (c. US $ 41,600)

J. B. Audebert & L. J. P. Vieillot, Oiseaux dorès Paris 1800-1802 One of the most beautiful books of its era	N. Copernicus, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium Basle 1566 A landmark of human thought	Archimedes, Opera omnia Basle 1544 First collected edition
Auction Sale 118 (April 2008), Lot 1567 € 36,000 (c. US $ 46,800)	Auction Sale 119 (April 2008), Lot 1280 € 100,000 (c. US $ 130,000)	Auction Sale 119 (April 2008), Lot 1339 € 24,000 (c. US $ 31,200)

M. S. Merian, Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium Amsterdam 1705 The most beautiful book on flowers and butterflies	Opissanije koronowanija Alexandra III St. Petersburg 1883 Festival book on the coronation of Tsar Alexander III	Portolan Chart by Jose Fernandes Portugal Bahia 1779 Navigation chart of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans
Auction Sale 115 (October 2007), Lot 1047 € 35,000 (c. US $ 45,500)	Auction Sale 116 (October 2007), Lot 2432 € 40,000 (c. US $ 52,000)	Auction Sale 116 (October 2007), Lot 2701 € 26,000 (c. US $ 33,800)

Joan Blaeu, Groot Stedeboek van geheel Italie Den Haag 1724-1725 The Alberts' edition of the townbook of Italy	Hartmann Schedel, Das Buch der Chroniken Augsburg 1496 The 'Small Schedel' in contemporary colour	Michael Boym, Flora Sinensis Vienna 1656 Early natural history of China
Auction Sale 113 (April 2007), Lot 2408 € 75,000 (c. US $ 97,500)	Auction Sale 115 (October 2007), Lot 324 € 37,000 (c. US $ 48,100)	Auction Sale 115 (October 2007), Lot 942 € 65,000 (c. US $ 84,500)

Andreas Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica Basle 1555 The first modern treatise on anatomy	I. G. Pardies, Globi coelestis descriptio Paris 1674 Rare first edition	Balthasar Licht, Algorithmus linealis Leipzig 1500 On the use of the linear abacus
Auction Sale 109 (October 2006), Lot 985 € 35,000 (c. US $ 45,500)	Auction Sale 110 (October 2006), Lot 4014 € 19,000 (c. US $ 24,700)	Auction Sale 112 (April 2007), Lot 875 € 22,000 (c. US $ 28,600)

John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure London 1749 The first edition of 'Fanny Hill'	G. L. L. de Buffon, Histoire naturelle des oiseaux Paris 1771-1786 'Edition sur grand papier'	John Gould, Birds of Asia London 1850-1883 With 530 lithographed plates
Auction Sale 107 (October 2006), Lot 2967 € 38,000 (c. US $ 49,400)	Auction Sale 108 (October 2006), Lot 5696 € 230,000 (c. US $ 299,000)	Auction Sale 108 (October 2006), Lot 5700 € 130,000 (c. US $ 169,000)

Den rechten weg auß zu faren von Lißbona gen Kallakuth Nuremberg 1505/06 Vasco da Gama's new sea route to India	Maîtres de l'affiche Paris 1896-1900 Complete set with 240 lithographed plates	Theodor de Bry, Emblemata nobilitati Frankfurt 1593 Used as album amicorum
Auction Sale 105 (April 2006), Lot 1127 € 220,000 (c. US $ 286,000)	Auction Sale 105 (April 2006), Lot 1667 € 30,000 (c. US $ 39,000)	Auction Sale 107 (October 2006), Lot 1507 € 18,000 (c. US $ 23,400)

Horae B. M. V Paris, Vostre, c. 1508 Magnificently illuminated	A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum Amsterdam 1570 First edition of the first modern Atlas	Lorenz Fries, Underweisung und ußlegunge Strasbourg 1530 Explanation of Waldseemüller's 'Charta Marina'
Auction Sale 98 (April 2005), Lot 264 € 35,000 (c. US $ 45,500)	Auction Sale 102 (October 2005), Lot 6538 € 45,000 (c. US $ 58,500)	Auction Sale 105 (April 2006), Lot 878 € 65,000 (c. US $ 84,500)

Paul Eluard. Solidarité Paris 1938 With etchings by Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró	Zuda Rokashi. Buddhist World Map Kyoto 1710 Masterpiece of Japanese cartography	Stephan Fridolin, Schatzbehalter Nuremberg 1491 One of the masterpieces of the incunabular period
Auction Sale 95 (October 2004), Lot 1361 € 16,000 (c. US $ 20,800)	Auction Sale 96 (October 2004), Lot 3287 € 20,000 (c. US $ 26,000)	Auction Sale 98 (April 2005), Lot 223 € 60,000 (c. US $ 78,000)

Bauernartikel Printed before March 19th, 1525 One of the most important documents of German history	World Map by Isaac Verbiest Antwerp 1646 The second known copy of the second state	Cyprus. Woodcut Map by Hans Rogel Augsburg 1570 In contemporary colouring
Auction Sale 91 (October 2003), Lot 18 € 37,000 (c. US $ 48,100)	Auction Sale 91 (October 2003), Lot 2721 € 18,000 (c. US $ 23,400)	Auction Sale 93 (April 2004), Lot 3115 € 88,000 (c. US $ 114,400)

J. W. v. Goethe, Das Römische Carneval Berlin 1789 First edition	Canada. Engraving by F. G. Bressani 1657 The right half with the martyrdom scene	M. E. de Montaigne, Essais Bordeaux 1580 First edition
Auction Sale 82 (April 2002), Lot 206 € 28,000 (c. US $ 36,400)	Auction Sale 83 (April 2002), Lot 3676 € 55,000 (c. US $ 71,500)	Auction Sale 85 (October 2002), Lot 65 € 120,000 (c. US $ 156,000)