# Basil Besler - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T21:22:52.872Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 14
- Lots with prices: 12
- First auction date: 2004-04-03
- Latest auction date: 2023-12-02
- Median realised price: $1,000
- Price range: $375 to $1,800

## Market Takeaway
Basil Besler has 14 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,000. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($1,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($717 to $1,100\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 33.3% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 66.7% (8 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2023-12-02
- Days since latest sale: 878
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Arader Galleries: 6 lots
- Neal Auction Company: 2 lots
- Auction Gallery of the Palm Beaches: 1 lots
- Concept Art Gallery: 1 lots
- Doyle New York: 1 lots
- New Orleans Auction Galleries: 1 lots
- Shapiro Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Winter Associates, Inc.: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2023-12-02 | 3 Basil Besler hand colored engravings Hortus Eystettensis | Concept Art Gallery | $1,000
2. 2018-12-05 | Basil Besler \(German, 1561\-1629\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | A$540
3. 2017-01-28 | Hand\-colored copperplate engraving by Basil Besler | Arader Galleries | $1,800
4. 2017-01-28 | Hand\-colored copperplate engraving by Basil Besler | Arader Galleries | $1,600
5. 2017-01-28 | Hand\-colored copperplate engraving by Basil Besler | Arader Galleries | $1,600
6. 2017-01-28 | Hand\-colored copperplate engraving by Basil Besler | Arader Galleries | $1,000
7. 2016-11-05 | Beautiful Engravings by Basil Besler | Arader Galleries | $1,100
8. 2016-11-05 | Beautiful Engravings by Basil Besler | Arader Galleries | $1,100
9. 2013-05-20 | Basil Besler \(German, 1561\-1629\), c. 1600 botantical print, plate 276, "Cnicus Sativus", from Besler's acclaimed botanical treatise,.. | Winter Associates, Inc. | $375
10. 2013-02-23 | Basil Besler \(German, 1561\-1629\) | Neal Auction Company | $717
11. 2012-11-30 | Basil Besler\(German, 1561\-1629\) | New Orleans Auction Galleries | N/A
12. 2010-11-23 | BASIL BESLER \(German. 1561\-1629\) | Auction Gallery of the Palm Beaches | N/A
13. 2007-04-17 | Basil Besler OROBANCHE; CICUTA MAXIMA; SPARGANIUM Hand\-colored engraving | Doyle New York | $720
14. 2004-04-03 | Basil Besler | Neal Auction Company | $1,035

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