Viewing days Auction 27 this Friday, Saturday and Sunday! 

Auction 27
20 - 24 June 2022, 07:00 p.m. 


Part I - 20, 21, 22 June: Open for public
 Part II & III - 23 and 24 June: Behind closed doors

Live stream with camera via Invaluable (all sessions) and Lot-tissimo (23 and 24 June only)

Our Zwiggelaar Auctions Sale  - with combined sales of Books, Comics, Photography, Fine Arts, Friedländer Circus Posters and Late 20th cent. Artists' Books Editions and Ephemera - is now available for online viewing.

Location: De Burcht, Henri Polaklaan 9, Amsterdam
Lots will be on view at the Burcht van Berlage from Friday 17 until Sunday 19 June  from 10:00 to 17:00 p.m. Public is welcome and appreciated! (Bookings are no longer required.)  You can find the digital catalogue on our website: session 1, session 2,                 
session 3session 4 and session 5



Bidding has started via our website zwiggelaarauctions.nl. Live bidding is available through Invaluable.com (all sessions) and Lot-tissimo. (23 and 24 June only) Please contact us in case you wish to increase your credit line.


Check our website for more information about shipment and pick-up of purchases (bookings are required for this purpose). 
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Part 1 - session 1, 2 and 3 (20 - 22 June) 

  • First part of an impressive first and special editions comic book collection
  • Private library on 16th and 17th century secular and libertine literature
  • The Winterink Ex Libris collection part I



A few other highlights:

  • 15th-17th century works including: Johannes de Amerbach, Margarita Poetics 1495 in Monastic binding and an exceptional copy in private binding of the Hogenberg Geschichtsblätter 1620
  • Erotic Art and Ephemera, with the earliest known printed condom, ca. 1820.
  • Complete and rare comic book series in first edition by Hergé, Willy Vandersteen, Edgar P. Jacobs
  • Caricatural maps and 17th - 19th century atlases
  • A fine collection of 20th century glass and applied arts

Part 2, session 4 (23 June)

A stunning number of 464 breathtaking and well-preserved Adolph Friedländer Circus Posters, originating from the famous Erdwin Schirmer/Jaap Best collection. Themes ranging from Animal Dressage and Magic and Illusionism to Human Zoo and Freakshows, all produced between 1870 and 1930.



Part 3, session 5 (24 June)

We proudly present the third catalogue with late 20th century Artists' Books, Editions, Concrete Poetry, Fluxus and Counterculture including the Mazdak Wahedi library of Situationists.

A few highlights: 

  • Caroline Schneemann, ABC, we print anything in the cards
  • Fluxus art with special focus on Ben Vautier 
  • Rare ephemera and catalogues on Jenny Holzer, Agnes Martin, Barbara Kruger, Gordon Matta Clark, Basquiat, Keith Haring and more
  • A vast archive of over 12000 flyers and gadgets on the Dutch 1990s Techno scene. 
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