The binding of a 1908 edition of Nietzsche’s Also Sprach Zarathustra sold for €82,000 (£72,160) at Ketterer Kunst.
Running up a total of over €2m on 600 lots, a smaller number than usual, the May 27 sale held by Ketterer Kunst (23/21% buyer’s premium) in Hamburg produced the book department’s best-ever results.
On top of the price list at €245,000 (£215,600) was a 1513 Strassburg edition of the Ptolemaeus Geographie… with its 27 double-page woodcut maps, all bar one of them double-page.