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Added value with Marx: 60.000,- € hammer for “The capital”
This year’s fall auctions at auction house Reiss & Sohn yielded sensational top prices. Thomas Malthus’ Essay on the principle of population from 1798 together with the Hortus Eystettensis by Basilius Besler ranked first with a hammer price of 80,000 euro each.
The second place with 65,000 Euros went to a Continue reading “Added value with Marx: 60.000,- € hammer for “The capital””
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.
Browse 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 Continue reading “Rare Map of Southeast Asia at Auction soon”