The second auction day of the major Reiss & Sohn autumn auctions 2024 also ended with great success. On Wednesday, 633 books from the fields of law, astronomy, botany, old prints, incunabula, manuscripts and autographs, among others, were called. One of the highlights was the hammer price of 55,000 euros for a German manuscript on vellum, a Nuremberg prayer book for Apollonia Volckamer. (Nuremberg 1500). The first German edition of H. Schedel’s ‘Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten’ (Nuremberg, A. Koberger, 23 Dec. 1493) was also convincing with a hammer price of 55,000 euros after a bidding war on the telephone. An extremely rare and remarkable manuscript with several important writings by the Roman philosopher Seneca ‘Epistolae et alia’ (spine title), probably from the first half of the 14th century, doubled its estimate and found a new owner for a hammer price of 42,000 euros.
Also worth mentioning is the hammer price for a magnificent contemporary Sammelband of astronomical, astrological and horological prints by J. Schöner, P. Apian, S. Münster and others from the years 1533-45 (hammer price 30,000 euros), as well as a copy of the summer part of the famous legends of the saints by the Dominican Jacobus von Voragine in a beautifully preserved German manuscript from around 1460-80 (hammer price 32,000 euros). The catalogues for the next two auction days, as well as the results, the meeting schedule and information on the various bidding options can be found as usual at our website.
