Ketterer Kunst, Art auctions, Book auctions Munich, Hamburg & Berlin

+ Graphikmappe des schweizerischen Kunstvereins
Graphikmappe, 1975
Sold: € 6,985 / $ 8,102
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+ Miller, John
Illustratio systematis sexualis Linnaei, 1792
Sold: € 7,620 / $ 8,839
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+ Zocchi, Giuseppe
Vedute delle ville Toscana - Scelta die XXIV vedute della Firenze, 1744
Post auction sale: € 18,000 / $ 20,880
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+ Hesse, Hermann
Casa Camuzzi in Montagnola, 1927
Sold: € 16,510 / $ 19,151
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+ Bauhaus-Postkarten
"Bauhaus-Ausstellung Weimar 1923". 18 Orig.-Postkarten, 1923
Sold: € 71,120 / $ 82,499
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+ Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Eigh. Brief aus Rom an C. A. Hardenberg, 1787
Sold: € 30,480 / $ 35,356
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+ Waldseemüller, Martin
Ptolemaeus auctus restitutus, 1520
Sold: € 203,200 / $ 235,711
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+ Newton, Isaac
Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, 1687
Sold: € 327,200 / $ 379,552
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+ Feininger, Lyonel
Printed comic pages from the Chicago Tribune, 1906
Sold: € 44,450 / $ 51,562
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Ptolemy in old color

Magnificient copy of the first modern atlas. Sold for € 203.000,- (incl. surcharge)
in our 599th auction of Rare Books and manuscripts on November 24, 2025.

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Bauhaus Exhibition Weimar 1923

The almost complete series of Bauhaus postcards, a kaleidoscope of geometry, color, and typography.
Sold for € 71.120,- (incl. surcharge) in our 599th auction of Rare Books and manuscripts on November 24, 2025.

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The greatest work in the history of Science

First edition of the most important work in the history of natural science, Newton's magnum opus "Principia" from 1687.
Sold for € 327.200,- (incl. surcharge) in our 599th auction of Rare Books and manuscripts on November 24, 2025

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Art meets comic

Feininger's famous strips between Art Nouveau and later Bauhaus aesthetics.
Sold for € 44.450,- (incl. surcharge) in our 599th auction of Rare Books and manuscripts on November 24, 2025.

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Significant Goethe collection from Germany

The exceptional collection of over 50 Goethe autographs was successfully auctioned off in its entirety at our
599th auction of valuable books and manuscripts on November 24, 2025.

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Bible Manuscript of the 12th century

Latin manuscript on vellum, of greatest rarity.
Offered in our Auction 509 Rare Books and Manuscripts on 30 November 2020.

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The highest auction result for a Bible in Germany

€ 1,050,000 for a Bible

The Book of Books from Gutenberg's press - Printed in 1462, seven years after the Gutenberg bible, the great bible by Gutenberg's successors Fust and Schöffer is considered the finest masterwork in the first decades of book printing

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