• Sotheby’s, June 26: Poe, Edgar Allan. Tamerlane — the most poignant rarity in American literature. 400,000 - 600,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: The Declaration of Independence. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..." 2,500,000 - 5,000,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: William Blake. “Poems with very wild and interesting pictures” 1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: Thomas Taylor [artist]. The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. 400,000 - 600,000 USD
  • Finarte, July 4-5: FERMI, ENRICO. Letters, 1923. €30,000 to €40,000.
    Finarte, July 4-5: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. The comedy, 1477. €45,000 to €50,000.
    Finarte, July 4-5: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. The Comedy [Commentary by Christophorus Landinus]. Addition: Marsilius Ficinus, Ad Dantem gratulatio [in Latin and Italian], 1487. €40,000 to €60,000.
    Finarte, July 4-5: ASTRONOMIA - CALENDARIO - REGIOMONTANUS, JOHANNES (MÜLLER, JOHANN, OF KÖNIGSBERG) Kalendarium, 1483. €5,000 to €7,000.
    Finarte, July 4-5: CATERINA II DI RUSSIA, Parchment diploma granted by Catherine II of Russia, 1778. €15,000 to €20,000.
    Finarte, July 4-5: VICO, GIAMBATTISTA New Science Principles, 1725.
  • Bonhams, June 25: Vesalius, Andreas. 1514-1564. De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. $200,000 - $300,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Gersdorff, Hans Von. 1455-1529. Feldtbuch der wundartzney. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Pare, Ambroise. C.1509-1590. La Methode Curative des Playes, et Fractures de la Teste humaine. Avec les pourtraits des Instruments necessaires pour la curation d'icelles. $25,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Reisch, Gregor. 1470-1525. Margarita Philosophica. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Bright, Richard. 1789-1858. Reports of Medical Cases, Selected with a View of Illustrating the Symptoms and Cure of Diseases by a Reference to Morbid Anatomy. $12,000 - $18,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Berengario da Carpi, Giacomo. C. 1460-1530. Tractatus de fractura calve sive cranei. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Vicq D'Azyr, Felix. 1748-1794. Traite d'antomie et de physiologie. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Croce, Giovanni Andrea Della. 1509?-1775. Chirurgia libri septem... $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Bruno Da Longburgo. 1200-1286. La cyrogia di Maistro Bruno: Expertissimo in quella. Tradutta in vulgare. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Schwann, Theodor. 1810-1882. Mikroskopische Untersuchungen uber die Ubereinstimmung in der Struktur und dem Wachsthum der Thiere und Pflanzen. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Cowper, William. 1666-1709. The Anatomy of Humane Bodies, with Figures Drawn after the Life… $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Bidloo, Govard. 1649-1713. Anatomia humani corporis, centum & quinque tabulis, per artificiossis. G. de Lairesse ad vivum delineatis. $6,000 - $9,000
  • Case Antiques
    2024 Summer Fine Art & Antiques
    July 6-7, 2024
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Audubon Birds of America, 1st Octavo Edition; 5 vols plus Journals, ex. J.J. Pringle. $4,000 to $4,800.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: American Ornithology Plates Folio in 2 Vols, A. Wilson and C. Bonaparte. $3,400 to $3,800.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: 23 CP Railroad Photographs c. 1883 by O.B. Buell. $1,800 to $2,200.
    Case Antiques
    2024 Summer Fine Art & Antiques
    July 6-7, 2024
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Cormac McCarthy, Signed 1st Editions, The Passenger & Stella Maris Box Set. $1,700 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Oliver Buell Cabinet Photograph, Chief Crowfoot. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Colton's Atlas of the World, 1856, in Two Volumes; plus Africa / Mahdist War Map. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques
    2024 Summer Fine Art & Antiques
    July 6-7, 2024
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: 1805 Thomas Jefferson Inaugural Speech. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Barflies and Cocktails, Harry McElhone, First Edition Mixology Book. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: 1861 U. S. Grant Broadside Proclamation, Paducah, KY. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques
    2024 Summer Fine Art & Antiques
    July 6-7, 2024
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: 2 John Overton Signed Letters, 1803, re: TN Statehood. $800 to $900.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Simon Wastell "Microbiblion or The Bibles Epitome: in Verse" 1629. $600 to $700.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Thomas Lewis Family Letter Archive; Boston, Massachusetts. $400 to $500.

Vermot de Pas: 500 Autographs, Photographs and Drawings, 151328, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 03, 2024 - April 03, 2024
Page Size: 500 items in 20 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Princesse Lucien MURAT

Princesse Lucien MURAT (Marie de Rohan-Chabot, 1876-1951, woman of letters, married for the second time to Charles de Chambrun) / Suite of 2 autograph letters signed,

1930s EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 64.00
2

LUXURY / Set of 4 luxury catalogs for major watch brands: Audemars Piguet, Baume & Mercier, Breguet and Vacheron Constantin and, 1990s (prestige presentation, cardboa

1990s EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
3 Herve BAZIN

(Envois) Herve BAZIN / Suite de 2 volumes en editions originales, tous 2 avec envois autographes signes: 1deg) "Un feu devore un autre feu", Editions du Seuil, 1978, pa

1978 EUR 70.00 - 90.00 Not Sold
4

VICTOR HUGO POST MORTEM / Set of 7 documents: 1deg) Commemorative brooch sold on the occasion of Victor Hugo's state funeral: gilded medal (2.2 cm dia) surmounted by 2

EUR 180.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
5 Louis BERARD

NUMISMATIQUE - 1deg) Louis BERARD (1783-1859, engineer, industrialist and great numismatist, in 1816 created a company whose aim was to mint commemorative medals, the "

1830 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 102.40
6

LE MANS (Sarthe) / Resident member's diploma of the "Societe Royale des Arts du Departement de la Sarthe", "whose work is aimed at the progress of the Sciences and Ar

1828 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
7

DEUX-SEVRES (79) / Important archive concentrated on the commune of Saint-Martin-de-Sanzay, in the canton of Thouars, mainly from the GIRARDEAU, POIRAULT and COTILLEA

18th-19th century EUR 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
8 Herve BAZIN

(Envois) Herve BAZIN / Suite de 3 publications dans la Collection "Le Livre de Poche" des Editions Grasset, tous avec envois autographes signes: "Vipere au poing" (19

EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
9 Louis PECHENARD-WARY

REIMS (Marne) - Louis PECHENARD-WARY (1872-1959, Reims sculptor, collaborator and son-in-law of the sculptor Joseph Wary, to whom we owe many ornamental creations in

1910s EUR 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
10 HUSSEIN OF JORDAN

HUSSEIN OF JORDAN (1935-1999, King of Jordan from 1952 to his death) / Greeting card signed by himself and Queen Noor (his fourth wife, born in 1951, Lisa Najeeb Hala

1951 EUR 120.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
11 Allen GINSBERG

LITERATURE USA - Allen GINSBERG (1926-1997, American poet and founder of the "Beat Generation", instigator of the hippie movement and American counterculture) / Invit

1979 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 102.40
12 Leon URIS

LITERATURE USA / Set of 4 autographs by American writers: 1deg) Leon URIS (1924-2003, American writer), Autograph bill signed, 1 p in-8 oblong, 1979, on his letterhead,

1979 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
13 Frank Gill SLAUGHTER

LITERATURE USA - Set of 3 autographs: 1deg) Frank Gill SLAUGHTER (1908-2001, best-selling medical novelist), autograph letter signed, 1 p in-12, on his letterhead, 1979

EUR 100.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
14 Irving WALLACE

LITERATURE USA / Set of 4 autographs by American writers: 1deg) Irving WALLACE (1916-1990, best-selling American novelist), Autograph bill signed, 1 p in-8 oblong, on h

1979 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
15 Imre KERTESZ

NOBEL PRIZE - Imre KERTESZ (1929-2016, Hungarian writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002) / Handwritten and signed dedication, 1 p in-8 (12.5 x 20 cm on bristol pap

EUR 70.00 - 90.00 Not Sold
16 GEORGE VI

Visit of King GEORGE VI to Paris 1938 / Set of official invitations and program for the Gala Evening at the Theatre National de l'Opera on July 20, 1938 (large in-fol

1938 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
17 Georges MUSSET

CHATELAILLON (Charente Maritime) - Georges MUSSET (attributed to, local historian and future Mayor of Chatelaillon) / Autograph manuscript of a historical article abo

1886 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
18 Georges LE CORDELIER

MADAGASCAR / Set of 2 volumes: 1deg) "Le Malgache alimentaire", text by Georges LE CORDELIER and illustrations by Joseph PINCHON, story with colonialist connotations, L

1904 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
19

AEROSTATION / "Navigation aerienne", poster plate no. 172 from the Bouasse-Lebel Encyclopedia (71.5 x 54 cm, folds, has been laminated, some chipping at edges), circa

1875 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
20

COMMERCE / Set of 7 catalogs from the 30's / "Au Bon Marche" (2 catalogs "Vacances!..", 1 "Nouveautes d'hiver") - "Au Printemps Paris 1935" - "Old England" - "Succurs

EUR 100.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
21

COMMERCE / Set of 17 catalogs and advertisements from the 1930s: "Galeries Lafayette" ("l'Art d'offrir", "Pour la Mer et la Campagne") - "Aux Trois Quartiers" (1 cata

1930s EUR 100.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
22

GASTRONOMY / Set of 4 documents: 1deg) Advertising-price list of 4 p in-4 (22 x 28 cm, folds and chips) from Maison Geismar in Boulogne-sur-Mer for April 1914, "Chicken

1914 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
23

GASTRONOMY / Set of 3 books: 1deg) "Luculla1911-1912", collection in 1 volume of the 24 issues of the "Luculla" magazine for 1911 and 1912, bound in gray half-percaline

1911 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
24

MONT SAINT MICHEL / "Groupement National de la Baie du Mont-Saint-Michel": Rare 1927 "part de fondateur au porteur" share of this company, which wanted to develop the

1927 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 102.40
25

USSR / Kosmos cigarette box with 5 full packs of 20 cigarettes each, issued for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the 1917 Revolution, illustrating Soviet propaganda for th

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
  • Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Keats, John] Spenser, Edmund: The Works of that Famous English Poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser. $50,000 - $80,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: (Walton, Izaak): The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: Thomas, Gabriel: An Historical and Geographical Account of the Province and Country of Pensilvania; and of West-New-Jersey in America. $25,000 - $35,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Carroll, Lewis]: The Game of Alice in Wonderland. $2,000 - $3,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: Athias, Joseph, et al.: Biblia Hebraica. $7,000 - $10,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Warhol, Andy, and Jens Quistgaard] Dansk Designs Salesman's Presentation Catalogue. $2,500 - $3,500.
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