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
101 HUGO (Victor) .

Poetic quotation.

EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 780.00
102 HUGO (Victor) .

Autograph letter signed "Victor Hugo" to lawyer Nicolas-Gilles Bouche-Durmont.

S.l. 1832 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 650.00
103 HUGO (Victor) .

Autograph letter signed with his initial to his "excellent friend".

S.l. EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 650.00
104 LOUYS (Pierre Louis, known as Pierre) .

Set of 12 letters and pieces including 3 autographs by Pierre Louys.

1893 and n.d. EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 1,430.00
105 MALLARME (Stephane) .

Autograph card signed to Felix Feneon.

Paris 1888 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,118.00
106 MAUPASSANT (Laure Le Poittevin, Madame de) .

Autograph letter signed "Laure de Maupassant" to M. Leroux.

Santa-Marherita-Ligure 1881 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 650.00
107 MAUPASSANT (Laure Le Poittevin, de) .

Autograph card signed "L. de M." to Zelie de Sauteyron de Saint-Clement.

Chalet des Alpes in Antibes 1886 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 455.00
108 NERVAL (Gerard Labrunie, known as Gerard de) .

Autograph letter signed "Gerard" to Eugene de Stadler.

S.l. 1854 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 845.00
109 PREVERT (Jacques) .

Autograph letter signed "Jacques" to Alexandre Trauner and his wife, Sari.

S.l. n.d EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,105.00
110 PROUST (Marcel) .

Autograph letter signed "Marcel Proust" [to Henry Bernstein].

[S.l. 1908 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 8,060.00
111 SAGAN (Francoise) .

Autograph letter signed [probably to Roger Nimier].

S.l. n.d EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 520.00
112 SAINT-EXUPERY (Antoine de) .

Autograph manuscript.

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 1,300.00
113 SEVERIANIN (Igor Vasilyevich) .

Autograph poem signed entitled "Ananasy v shampanskom".

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 2,600.00
114 SIENKIEWICZ (Henryk) .

Autograph letter signed, in French, to the Marquis d'Eguilles.

Warsaw 1906 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 2,860.00
115 SIMENON (Georges) .

Autograph signed.

Paris 1957 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,235.00
116 STAEL (Germaine Necker, Baroness de) .

Autograph letter signed "Necker Stael de Holstein" to Johann-Gottfried Schweighausen.

Coppet [in the Pays de Vaux, Switzerland] [probably 1801] EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 585.00
117 STAEL (Germaine Necker, Baroness de) .

Dictated handwritten letter, probably to her steward Eugene, addressed to Joseph Fouche.

Lyon 1806 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 884.00
118 VERLAINE (Paul) .

Autograph letter signed to Henri de Regnier.

Paris 1887 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 2,860.00
119 ZOLA (Emile) .

Autograph letter signed [to M. Duport].

Paris 1864 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 598.00
120 ZOLA (Emile) .

Autograph letter signed Emile Zola.

Medan [in the present-day departement of Yvelines] 1882 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 416.00
121 BARTOK (Bela) .

Autograph card signed, in Hungarian, to Janos Busitia.

Biskra 1913 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 780.00
122 BERLIOZ (Hector) .

Autograph letter signed "H.

Berlioz" to Humbert Ferrand . EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,950.00
123 BERLIOZ (Hector) .

Corrected printed extract.

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 1,690.00
124 DEBUSSY (Claude) .

Autograph letter signed "Claude Debussy" to music publisher Eugene Fromont.

S.l. [perhaps early May 1902] EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,040.00
125 DEBUSSY (Claude) .

Autograph letter signed "Cl. Debussy" to music publisher Eugene Fromont.

EUR 700.00 - 900.00 EUR 910.00
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