OSENAT: Books and Manuscripts, 160548, PARIS

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 15, 2025 - October 15, 2025
Page Size: 269 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
76 GOLOVIN (Ivan Gavrilovitch) .

3 autograph letters, one in German and two in French.

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 78.00
77 CHARBONIER (Joseph Francois Aymar) .

Autograph letter [to his cousin Joseph-Paul-Francois d'Audiffret].

Senegal 1791 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 845.00
78 STANISLAS I LESZCZYNSKI .

Signed "Stanislas roy".

Luneville 1749 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 1,040.00
79 TALLEYRAND-PERIGORD (Charles-Maurice de) .

Letter signed "ch. mau. talleyrand prince de benevent" to Francois Le Lievre de La Grange.

Warsaw 1807 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 585.00
80 APOLLINAIRE (Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, known as Guillaume) .

Autograph letter signed "Guillaume Apollinaire" [to Octave Beliard].

S.l. 1910 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 845.00
81 ARAGON (Louis) and Ella Kagan dite Elsa Triolet .

Joint letter, consisting of 2 pp. 3/4 autograph signed by Louis Aragon, and one p. 1/4 autograph by Elsa Triolet, [addressed to Georges Auric].

Zlatooust [100 km west of Chelyabinsk, Russia] 1932 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 845.00
82 ARTAUD (Antonin) .

Autograph letter signed "Antonin Artaud" to Jacques Prevel.

Ivry-sur-Seine 1947 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 650.00
83 BARTHES (Roland) .

Autograph manuscripts. In all 4 pp.

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 975.00
84 BATAILLE (Georges) .

Set of 3 autograph letters signed [to Joseph-Marie Lo Duca].

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 546.00
85 BATAILLE (Georges) .

Autograph letter signed "Georges Bataille" [probably addressed to Joseph-Marie Lo Duca].

Fontenay-le-Comte [in the Vendee department] EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 195.00
86 BAUDELAIRE (Charles) .

Autograph letter signed with his initials to his mother Caroline Dufays, Madame Aupick.

[Paris, according to postmark] 1860 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,600.00
87 BRECHT (Berthold) .

Letter signed with his initial, in German (3/4 p.

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 884.00
88 BRETON (Andre) .

Autograph card signed to his "dear friend".

S.l. 1919 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 286.00
89 CELINE (Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, known as Louis-Ferdinand) .

Autograph letter signed "LFC" [to Georges Geoffroy].

Copenhagen 1947 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,560.00
90 CHATEAUBRIAND (Francois-Rene de) .

Autograph letter signed "Chateaubriand" to Madame de Genlis, Stephanie-Felicite Du Crest.

Paris 1824 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 715.00
91 CHATEAUBRIAND (Francois-Rene de) .

Autograph letter signed "Chateaubriand" to Ferdinand Denois.

Rome 1829 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 416.00
92 COCTEAU (Jean) .

Autograph letter initialled with a star, addressed to Jean Marais.

S.l. [1939 or 1940] EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 910.00
93 COCTEAU (Jean) .

Autograph letter initialed with a star, [addressed to Jean Marais].

S.l. 1941 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 650.00
94 DESBORDES-VALMORE (Marceline) .

Autograph letter signed [probably to the writer Edmond de Favieres], including a long poetic excerpt (73 lines).

Lyon 1828 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 585.00
95 DESNOS (Robert) .

Autograph manuscript entitled "Night of September 26 to 2, 1922".

1922 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 2,860.00
96 DRIEU LA ROCHELLE (Pierre) .

Autograph letter to a woman.

S.l. [1936] EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 312.00
97 DUMAS pere (Alexandre) .

Signed piece with autograph signed apostille (9 words), and with apostilles from printer-librarian Charles Lahure and Alexandre Dumas's bankruptcy trustee, Auguste Lefrancois.

Paris 1856 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 390.00
98 ELUARD (Paul) .

Autograph manuscript, comprising 4 pp.

EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 325.00
99 FLAUBERT (Gustave) .

Autograph poem entitled "A Me *** qui avait une Venus de Milo dans son boudoir".

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 910.00
100 GIONO (Jean) .

Correspondence of 4 letters and a card, autograph signed, addressed to Roger Nimier.

1961-1962. EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 1,170.00
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