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Vermot de Pas: Books and Manuscripts, Erotic Library, Art Books

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Auction Name Books and Manuscripts, Erotic Library, Art Books Total Sales (EUR) 46,550.70
Auction Date June 25, 2020 - June 25, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 22,880.00
Sale Number #64419 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 30,240.00
Total Lots 300
Sold Lots 205 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 30,120.00
% of Lots Sold 68.33% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 39,660.00
Unsold Lots 95 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 117.37%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 BUFFON

Histoire naturelle générale et particulière.

1749-1786. EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 7,560.00
7 CICERON

M. Tullii Ciceronis opera omnia.

 1724 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 3,276.00
2 MONTAIGNE (M. de)

Les Essais. Edition nouvelle enrichie d'annotations en marge…

 1617 (probablement) EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,890.00
8 PALLAS

Voyages de M.P.S. Pallas en différentes provinces de l'Empire de Russie et dans l'Asie spetentrionale.

 1788 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 1,512.00
5

[LIVRE aux ARMES] Episcopus e fastigio cathedrae pontificalis sponte secedens ad subsellia regularium bene vinus in Ecclesia Catholica...

 1708 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,071.00
262

Exemplaire Unique Un volume de format in-4 demi-chagrin noir à cons, renfermant 10 dessins originaux très libres, accompagnés de poésies érotiques, dédiées à divers personnages (Proust, Haraucourt, Rodin).

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,033.20
14 LAHARPE

Lycée ou cours de littérature ancienne et moderne.

1829 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 882.00
233 ANONYME

Réunion de 4 rares lithographies en couleurs à Systèmes du XIXe siècle présentant des scènes très libres, dans le goût d'Achille Dévéria.

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 882.00
285

[UNICA] Manuscrit titré: Le dict de vénuseté à l'usage des bons braguetards…

 sans date. EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 882.00
6

ALMANACH ROYAL pour l'année 1791.

 1791 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 819.00
238 Léon COURBOULEIX

Quelques vers: Pour toi, pour moi.

sans date (vers 1935). EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 819.00
9 [RELIURE] Bréviaire romain.

Partie de printemps et d'été.

1756 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 504.00
247 VARLEY (Helena)

Une jeune fille à la page.

sans date. EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 504.00
259

Florilège. Edition originale. Vingt gravures dur cuivre de Madame***.

Sans date. EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 504.00
271

Volets clos.

1933 EUR 120.00 - 150.00 EUR 466.20
35 MUSIC

L'Œuvre graphique.

1988 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 441.00
215 LOUYS (Pierre)

Petites scènes amoureuses.

s.d. EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 441.00
265 CAYLUS

La fée paillardine ou la princesse ratée.

1931 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 441.00
47

[RELIURE] Office de la Semaine Sainte.

1738 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 403.20
218 [Pierre LOUYS]

Le Trophée des vulves légendaires.

1948 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 403.20
244 RIMBAUD (A.)

Les Stupra. Sonnets.

1943 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 403.20
22 CHAGALL (Marc)

réunion de 3 vol.

EUR 120.00 - 150.00 EUR 390.60
4 Ion.

Rosini Romanorum antiquitatum…

 1701 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 378.00
26 [MAEGHT éditeur]

lot de 2 ouvrages in-4 brochés, couv. -Derrière le Miroir, consacré à Fernand Léger; -Noise n°8.

 1955, 1988 EUR 120.00 - 150.00 EUR 378.00
277

Jean Baize et Mlle Craquette Jouissances.

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 378.00
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
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