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Fall Auctions 2018 – Catalogues Now Online
The new auction catalogues for auctioneers Reiss & Sohn’s Fall Sales, which will take place October 30th to November 1st, 2018, are now online. About 3300 rare and valuable books, autographs, manuscripts, early travel photographies, maps, views, and prints are offered for sale.
At the focus of the auctions will be a significant collection of about 400 works of economic theory from the 16th to the 20th century, including first editions of works by Cantillon, Hobbes, Keynes, Locke, Malthus, Marx, Owen, Ricardo, Schumpeter, Smith, Walras etc.
Navigate the new web catalogue. Reiss & Sohn is looking forward to to your inquiries
Printed catalogues are available on request (charges apply).
Rare Map of Southeast Asia at Auction soon
An extremely desirable cartographic item will be at auction in Königstein/Taunus at Reiss & Sohn. The map shows the southern Pacific Islands between part of the coasts of Australia (“Beach”) and Sumatra, the Philippines with the adjoining Asian coasts, New Guinea and extending eastwards to the Solomon Islands. “One of the most fabulous charts ever produced of the East Indies and one of the rarest, shows the Spice Islands at a level never previously seen.” (Parry, East Indian Islands.). The full catalogues of the Autumn sales will soon be online.
The First European Gardening Book
Walahfrid Strabo (808-849), Abbot of the Abbey of Reichenau at the Lake of Constance, wrote a famous didactic poem, which became the founding work of medieval monastic horticulture. The so called “Hortulus” is the first book of gardening literature in Europe and one of the most important botanical books. A copy of the first illustrated edition printed in Nuremberg in 1512 now features in the fall auctions of Reiss & Sohn in Königstein/Taunus. Full catalogues with many more rare items will be published shortly.