Biblia latina. Illuminated latin manuscript on vellum, late 13th century
Book of Hours, Flanders 1480-1490
Remarkable hammer prices from our recent spring sales
K. Marx & F. Engels, Kommunistisches Manifest
First edition, First printing - Hitherto unknown copy
Estimate: 70,000€ - Hammer Price: 300,000€
Book of Hours for the Use of Metz, 1320-1340
Estimate: 50,000€ - Hammer Price 100,000€
Autumn Sales 2022: Consignment offers welcome
P. Claudel. L'homme et son desir. Petropolis & Paris 1917. Paper cuts by Audrey Parr
S. Freud. Die Traumdeutung. Leipzig & Vienna 1900
Preserving Or.-Printed Wrappers
Estimate: 15,000€ - Hammer Price 18,000€
Maximilian von Wied-Neuwied
Reise in das Innere Nord-America. Atlas
Auction Sales 205-207
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Reiss & Sohn was founded 1971 and is a specialized company for auctioning, buying and selling of rare antiquarian books, manuscripts, maps, prints and photography. Read more about the company
Next book auctions: rare books, manuscripts and maps taking place april 28th-30th 2020. Consignment offers welcome now.
Items from our anniversary auction catalogue spring 2021
1,28 Mio € – Highest ever Auction Result for a Printed Book at a German Auction
At an auction sale of Reiss & Sohn in 2017 the very first printing of Martin Luther’s “95 Theses”, published in 1517 and marking the beginning of the protestant reform was called up at an estimated price of
150,000 €. After a fierce bidding contest between room and telephones this “milestone-of-printing” went to a proud buyer who participated by telephone and realized a total of 1,28 Mio €, a record price in the history of German book auction sales.1 Million Euro for an Incunabulum at Auction
In fall 2021 the book auction house Reiss & Sohn sold a copy of the rare first incunable edition of “Rudimentum Novitiorum” (publ. 1475) from the presses of the famous prototypographer and Luebeck printer Lucas Brandis. Besides useful and up-to-date knowledge for the young clergyman and student the work comprises a number of important early maps, representing the medieval knowledge of the world. The auction was 1 Million Euro (incl. buyer’s premium), which is the highest price received for this work at auction.
We are happy to receive consignment offers for our autumn sales 2021. Please direct all offers in written form or give us a call.
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