Hungry for Poetry?
At the upcoming book auction, we pay tribute to Scandinavian poetry ranging from 19th century Danish golden age poetry to the later modern poetic breakthroughs and eruptions of creativity. Letters, sounds, words and sentences. Buy, read and consume the poetry!
Scientific Poetry from the Danish Golden Age
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One of the rarities at this auction is a well-preserved presentation copy of Hans Christian Ørsted's great epos on nature entitled Luftskibet (The Airship) from 1836. Ørsted is probably remembered first and foremost for his ground-breaking discovery of electromagnetism in 1820, but he was also a lively participant in the cultural life and literary debates of the Danish Golden Age, and his joy of poetry was greatly strengthened through a long-lasting friendship with people such as Adam Oehlenschläger. Of Ørsted's own poetic attempts, the best-known example is exactly Luftskibet, which was published as a cycle of poems in various verse forms. Ørsted wrote Luftskibet as an attempt at a poetic presentation of science. Among the auction’s modern poetry, a signed and illustrated copy of the Swedish Nobel Prize winner Tomas Tranström's POÉMES, printed in Paris in 1998, deserves to be highlighted. Several first editions of the Finnish-Swedish poet Edith Södergran have also found their way to the auction. |
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The Photographer's Own Library
Once more a large number of art books will roll across the computer screen, including a larger collection of books on photography that belonged to photographer, architect and author Andreas Trier Mørch (1944-2021). Trier Mørch's collection, built over many decades, contains several hundred books and magazines about both vintage and modern photographs and photographers.
The auction also includes a string of modern, illustrated works with original prints, such as Arnaldo Pomodoro and Luis Borges’ Siete Poemas Sajones. Seven Saxon Poems (1974) originating from the painter and graphic artist Berta Grete Countess Moltke-Huitfeldt's book collection.
At this auction, we also conclude the sale of the large book collection belonging to Flemming Erik Pedersen (1931–2020), honorary member of the Danish Bibliophile Club. Both early book prints from the 16th and 17th centuries as well as various journals with first prints by Hans Christian Andersen will come under the hammer from this collection. As always, we are also selling books in the areas of topography, science, fiction, vintage photography, magazines as well as letters and manuscripts by people such as Halldor Laxness, Dan Turèll, Martin A. Hansen, Karl Gjellerup and more. In addition, the auction also offers a large number of presentation copies from Erik Lindegren, Asger Jorn, Thorbjørn Egner, Dan Turèll and more.
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Visit the Preview in Glostrup!
The preview of the book auction will take place at our new premises at Paul Bergsøes Vej 20B, 2600 Glostrup, on Monday 20 June at 10 am – 5 pm and Tuesday, June 21 at 10 am – 5 pm.
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