Event Date11 DEC 2019 | Live auction 17705

Shakespeare and Goethe: Masterpieces of European Literature from the Schøyen Collection

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Sale Total GBP 948,375

11 DEC 2019

Shakespeare and Goethe: Masterpieces of European Literature from the Schøyen Collection

Closed: 11 Dec 2019

Closed: 11 Dec 2019

Lot 101
[SHAKESPEARE, William]. Manuscript part for a contemporary analogue to Henry IV, part I, n.p. [perhaps Oxford or London], n.d. [c.1580s-before c.1620].
EstimateGBP 25,000 - 35,000
Price RealisedGBP 118,750
Lot 102
SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Late, and much admired play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre . [London: William Jaggard] for T[homas] P[avier], 1619.
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000
Price RealisedGBP 43,750
Lot 103
SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Comedie of Errors [extracted from: Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies . London: Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623].
EstimateGBP 12,000 - 18,000
Price RealisedGBP 20,000
Lot 104
SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies. The second Impression . Edited by John Heminge (d. 1630) and Henry Condell (d. 1627). London: Printed by Thomas Cotes, for Robert Allot, 1632.
EstimateGBP 120,000 - 180,000
Price RealisedGBP 150,000
Lot 105
SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616) & John FLETCHER (1579-1625). The Two Noble Kinsmen: presented at the Blackfriers by the Kings Maiesties servants, with great applause . London: Tho. Cotes for John Waterson, 1634.
EstimateGBP 22,000 - 28,000
Price RealisedGBP 47,500
Lot 106
[SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616)] – DAVENANT, Sir William (1606-1668) and John DRYDEN (1631-1700). The Tempest, or the Enchanted Island. A comedy as it is now acted at His Highness the Duke of York's Theatre . London: by J. Macock for Henry Herringman, 1676.
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500
Price RealisedGBP 3,250
Lot 107
[SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616)] – SEDLEY, Charles (1639-1701). Antony and Cleopatra: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Dukes Theatre . London: printed for Richard Tonson, 1677.
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500
Price RealisedGBP 1,250
Lot 109
[SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616)] – CROWN[E], John (1641-1712). Henry the Sixth, The First Part. With the Murder of Humphrey Duke of Glocester. As it was Acted at the Dukes Theatre . – Henry the Sixth, The Second Part. Or the Misery of Civil War . London: Printed for R. Bentley and M. Magnes, 1681.
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000
Price RealisedGBP 2,500
Lot 110
SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. As it is now Acted at his Highness the Duke of York's Theatre . London: for H. Heringman and R. Bentley, 1683.
EstimateGBP 60,000 - 90,000
Price RealisedGBP 75,000
Lot 111
[SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616)] – TATE, Nahum (1652-1715). The History of King Lear. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. Reviv'd with alterations. By N. Tate . London: for E. Flesher, to be sold by R. Bentley and M. Magnes, 1681.
EstimateGBP 5,000 - 8,000
Price RealisedGBP 6,250
Lot 112
SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, never before Printed in Folio. The Fourth edition . Edited by John Heminge (d. 1630) and Henry Condell (d. 1627), except for Pericles and six other plays added by the publisher of the Third Folio, Philip Chetwind (d. 1680). London: Printed [by Robert Roberts and others] for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, 1685.
EstimateGBP 50,000 - 80,000
Price RealisedGBP 137,500
Lot 113
SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. As it is now Acted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majesties Servants . London: printed for H. Herringman, and R. Bentley; and sold by R. Bentley, J. Tonson, T. Bennet, and F. Sanders, 1695. [ bound with :] RAVENSCROFT, Edward (1654-1707). Titus Andronicus, or the Rape of Lavinia. Acted at the Theatre Royall, A Tragedy, Alter’d from Mr Shakespears Works, By Mr. Edw. Ravenscroft . London: printed by J. B. for J. Hindmarsh, 1687. [ and :] 8 other contemporary plays.
EstimateGBP 8,000 - 12,000
Price RealisedGBP 13,750
Lot 114
[SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616)] – SHADWELL, Thomas (1642-1692). The History of Timon of Athens, the Man-Hater. As it is acted at the Duke’s Theatre . London: printed by J[ohn]. M[acock]. for Henry Herringman, 1688. [ and :] – The History of Timon of Athens, the Man-Hater. As it is acted by His Majesties Servants. London: printed by Tho. Warren, for Henry Herringham, 1696.
EstimateGBP 500 - 800
Price RealisedGBP 625
Lot 115
SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. As it is now acted by Her Majesties Servants . London: printed for Rich. Wellington and E. Rumball, 1703.
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000
Price RealisedGBP 5,000
Lot 116
SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616) [and John FLETCHER (1579-1625)] – THEOBALD, Lewis (1688-1744). Double Falshood; or, The Distrest Lovers. A Play, As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane . London: J. Watts, 1728.
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000
Price RealisedGBP 2,375
Lot 117
SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). [Six plays in one volume]. London: 1777-1780.
EstimateGBP 300 - 500
Price RealisedGBP 1,000
Lot 118
SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare . Philadelphia: printed and sold by Bioren and Madan, 1795-1796.
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500
Price RealisedGBP 2,750
Lot 119
SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare revised by George Steevens . London: W. Bulmer and Co., Shakespeare Printing-Office, for John and Josiah Boydell, George and W. Nicol, from the types of W. Martin, 1802.
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500
Price RealisedGBP 2,750
Lot 120
[SHAKESPEARE, William] – William Henry IRELAND (1775-1835). Autograph manuscripts, in his own hand and that of 'William Shakespeare', n.p., dated 1797 [apparently after 1804], comprising:
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000
Price RealisedGBP 11,250
Lot 121
[SHAKESPEARE, William – Sir Thomas PHILLIPPS (1792-1872)]. A collection of manuscript notes and printed pedigree documents for the families of Shakespeare and Phillipps, c.1854-c.1864.
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000
Price RealisedGBP 3,750
Lot 122
SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Original Leaves from the First Four Folios of the Plays of William Shakespeare, 1623, 1632, 1663, 1685 . San Francisco: Grabhorn Press for David Magee, 1935.
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000
Price RealisedGBP 4,750
Lot 123
[GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)]. Von Deutscher Baukunst . [Frankfurt:] 1773 [but 1772].
EstimateGBP 12,000 - 18,000
Price RealisedGBP 15,000
Lot 124
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Götz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand. Ein Schauspiel. [Darmstadt: Eylau for the author and Merck,] 1773.
EstimateGBP 7,000 - 10,000
Price RealisedGBP 8,750
Lot 125
[GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)]. Götz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand. Ein Schauspiel . [No place or publisher]: 1773.
EstimateGBP 400 - 600
Price RealisedGBP 500
Lot 126
[GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)]. Die Leiden des jungen Werthers . Leipzig: Weygand, 1774.
EstimateGBP 15,000 - 20,000
Price RealisedGBP 37,500
Lot 127
[GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)]. Die Leiden des jungen Werthers . Erster [-Zweyter] Teil . Leipzig: Weygand, 1774.
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000
Price RealisedGBP 1,500
Lot 129
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Götter Helden und Wieland. Eine Farce. Auf Subscription . Leipzig: 1774.
EstimateGBP 800 - 1,200
Price RealisedGBP 500
Lot 130
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). [A group of 5 works]. Various places, publishers: 1774-1793.
EstimateGBP 700 - 1,000
Price RealisedGBP 750
Lot 132
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. (1749-1832). Goethe’s Schriften. Vienna and Leipzig: J. Stahel and G. J. Göschen, 1787-1790.
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000
Price RealisedGBP 3,750
Lot 136
[GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)]. Das Römische Carneval . Berlin: Johann Friedrich Unger, and Weimar and Gotha: Carl Wilhelm Ettinger, 1789.
EstimateGBP 20,000 - 30,000
Price RealisedGBP 37,500
Lot 137
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Faust. Ein Fragment... Ächte Ausgabe. Leipzig: Georg Joachim Göschen, 1790.
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000
Price RealisedGBP 25,000
Lot 138
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Faust. Eine Tragödie . Tübingen: Cotta, 1808.
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000
Price RealisedGBP 10,000
Lot 139
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Faust. Eine Tragödie. Zweyter Theil in fünf Acten . Stuttgart and Tübingen: J.G. Cotta, 1833.
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000
Price RealisedGBP 15,000
Lot 140
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären . Gotha: Wilhelm Ettinger, 1790.
EstimateGBP 800 - 1,200
Price RealisedGBP 500
Lot 142
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre. Ein Roman . Berlin: Johann Friedrich Unger, 1795-1796.
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500
Price RealisedGBP 5,250
Lot 143
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Hermann und Dorothea [in:] Taschenbuch für 1798 . Berlin: F. Vieweg, [1797].
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000
Price RealisedGBP 4,375
Lot 146
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). [A group of 5 works]. Stuttgart and Tübingen: Cotta, 1802-1850.
EstimateGBP 800 - 1,200
Price RealisedGBP 500
Lot 149
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832, editor). Winkelmann und sein Jahrhundert . Tübingen: J.G. Cotta, 1805.
EstimateGBP 400 - 600
Price RealisedGBP 250
Lot 151
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Die Wahlverwandtschaften. Ein Roman . Tübingen: Cotta, 1809.
EstimateGBP 800 - 1,200
Price RealisedGBP 1,000
Lot 152
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Zur Farbenlehre . Tübingen: J.G. Cotta, 1810.
EstimateGBP 7,000 - 10,000
Price RealisedGBP 27,500
Lot 155
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Autographa . [Weimar: privately printed by Carl Bertuch at the Landes-Industrie-Comptoir for the collector, December 1811].
EstimateGBP 20,000 - 30,000
Price RealisedGBP 25,000
Lot 156
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Philipp Hackert. Biographische Skizze, meist nach dessen eigenen Aufsätzen entworfen . Tübingen: J.G. Cotta, 1811.
EstimateGBP 500 - 800
Price RealisedGBP 625
Lot 157
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. (1749-1832). Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit. Erster [-dritter] Theil . [With:] Sweyter Abteilung Erster-Sweyter Theil [‘Italienische Reise]. Auch ich in Arcadien! [And with:] Sweyter Abteilung Fuenfter Theil. Auch ich in der Campagne!. Tübingen: Cotta, 1811-1822.
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000
Price RealisedGBP 1,875
Lot 158
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Autograph manuscript signed ('Goethe') of a poetic riddle, 'Logogryph', Berka, 21 June 1814.
EstimateGBP 8,000 - 12,000
Price RealisedGBP 10,000
Lot 159
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). [A group of 6 works]. Various places, publishers: 1814-1906.
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500
Price RealisedGBP 625
Lot 163
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Zur Kenntniss der böhmischen Gebirge. [In ‘Zur Naturwissenschaft überhaupt, besonders zur Morphologie’ 1. 1., Stuttgart and Tübingen: Cotta, 1817]. [Bound with:] Der Kammerberg bey Eger. [Stuttgart and Tübingen: Cotta, 1820].
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000
Price RealisedGBP 17,500
Lot 164
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Zur Naturwissenschaft überhaupt, besonders zur Morphologie. Erfahrung, Betrachtung, Folgerung durch Lebensereignisse verbunden. Stuttgart und Tübingen, Cotta. 1817-1824.
EstimateGBP 5,000 - 8,000
Price RealisedGBP 5,000
Lot 165
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Autograph manuscript signed ('Goethe'), a poem, 'Da sieht man wie die Menschen sind', Carlsbad, 5 September 1818.
EstimateGBP 20,000 - 30,000
Price RealisedGBP 21,250
Lot 166
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). West-oestlicher Divan . Stuttgart: J.G. Cotta, 1819.
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000
Price RealisedGBP 3,750
Lot 169
[GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. (1749-1832)]. Die Feier des siebenten Novembers 1825 dankbar zu erwiedern. [Jena: Fromann, 1827].
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000
Price RealisedGBP 1,250
Lot 172
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Autograph manuscript signed ('J.W. v. Goethe'), the first stanza of the poem 'Zum Neuen Jahr', Weimar, 24 June 1823.
EstimateGBP 12,000 - 18,000
Price RealisedGBP 11,250
Lot 173
[GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. (1749-1832)]. Am acht und zwanzigsten August 1826 . [Jena: Fromann, 1826].
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,500
Price RealisedGBP 1,000
Lot 179
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS II, King of Saxony (1797-1854) and J. W. von GOETHE (1749-1832). Pflanzen und Gebirgsarten von Marienbad, gesammelt und beschreiben von Seiner Hoheit ... und von ... J. W. von Goethe; erganzt, und mit einem Anhange uber die andern naturhistorischen Verhaltnisse des Curortes von C. J. Heidler . Prague: Kronberger & Weber, 1837.
EstimateGBP 600 - 900
Price RealisedGBP 375

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