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Auction Name Books and Manuscripts Total Sales (EUR) 324,878.00
Auction Date November 03, 2021 - November 03, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 168,050.00
Sale Number #116017 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 219,500.00
Total Lots 274
Sold Lots 178 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 349,820.00
% of Lots Sold 64.96% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 444,660.00
Unsold Lots 96 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 73.06%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
152 SOLVYNS Frans Balthazar

Les Hindoûs, ou Description de leurs moeurs, coutumes et cérémonies

 1808-1812. EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 53,077.00
70 PROUST Marcel

ÉPREUVES corrigées avec corrections et additions autographes pour Du côté de chez Swann (1913); cahier in-8 de 16 pages (273-288).

 1913 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 48,100.00
147 MANET Édouard

Le Fleuve. Eaux-fortes d'Édouard Manet

 1874 EUR 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 EUR 21,483.00
41 ARAGON Louis

Ici Critique, manuscrit autographe signé 1930. In-4, pleine reliure souple noire, dos à cinq nerfs, titré or, ensemble monté sur onglets, emboîtage titré or, étui (Arper, Genève).

 1930 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 18,200.00
160 GOYA Y LUCIENTES Francisco

La Tauromachie. Recueil de quarante estampes représentant différentes manières et feintes de l'art de combattre les taureaux, inventées et gravées à l'eau-forte, à Madrid.

 1876 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 15,796.00
142 ILIAZD Ilia Zdanevitch,

Rogelio Lacourière pêcheur de cuivre

 1968 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 9,099.00
122 KESSEL Joseph

Ensemble de 9 éditions originales, la plupart avec envois autographes signés:

 1927 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 7,077.00
148 [PICASSO Pablo

Pablo Picasso

 1932-1986 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 6,571.00
71 PROUST Marcel

L.A.S. adressée à Jacques RIVIÈRE. S.l.n.d. (26 avril 1920).

 1920 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 6,326.00
107 MOLIÈRE. POQUELIN Jean-Baptiste,

Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, comédie. Faite à Chambord pour le Divertissement du Roy.

 1670 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 6,318.00
50 CHARDONNE JACQUES

CORRESPONDANCE AUTOGRAPHE signée à Ginette

 1950-1968 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 4,940.00
74 SAINT-EXUPÉRY Antoine

MANUSCRIT autographe. [1938?]; 6 pages in-4 à l'encre noire.

 1938?; 6 pages in-4 à l'encre noire. EUR 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,550.00
57 GIDE André

MANUSCRIT autographe, [Poèmes de Walt Whitman]; 12 pages in-4

 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 4,481.00
53 FLAUBERT Gustave

L.A.S. «Gve Flaubert» adressée à Ernest FEYDEAU. [Croisset]

 1860 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 4,420.00
8 GAUGUIN Paul

Lettre autographe (minute) adressée à Léonce BRAULT.

 1903 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 4,349.00
32 Napoléon Ier

P.S. «Napoleon», Bayonne 24 juin 1808; contresignée par CAMBACÉRÈS, Archi-Chancelier de l'Empire

 1808 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 4,349.00
151 SCHWABE Carlos

Le Rêve. Illustrations de Carloz Schwabe et L. Métivet

 1892 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,296.00
56 GARY ROMAIN

Malraux conquérant de l'impossible, tapuscrit signé avec de nombreuses corrections autographes

 Circa 1975 EUR 1,250.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,900.00
121 FLAUBERT Gustave

Salammbô

 1863 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,538.00
12 MATISSE Henri

L.A.S. avec 2 CROQUIS, Nice 18 novembre 1924, à Christian ZERVOS; 2 pages et demie in-8, en-tête Brasserie de la Marne.

 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 3,510.00
43 BAUDELAIRE Charles

L.A.S. «C.B», [Paris 18 mai 1860], à son éditeur Auguste POULET

 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,426.00
120 CHATEAUBRIAND François-René

Mémoires d'outre-tombe

 1849-1850 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 2,989.00
156

[ALBUM] Souvenirs de Napoléon ou Choix des Principales. Epôques de sa vie

 1833 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,906.00
15 PICASSO Pablo

Note autographe signée sur une lettre dactylographiée adressée à lui par Nicole Lévy des Éditions du Pont-Royal, 22 novembre [1962]; 1 page in-4.

 1962 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 2,899.00
37 SAINT-SIMON Louis de

L.A.S. «Le Duc de St Simon», Paris 12 mai 1745, au comte d'ARGENSON, ministre secrétaire d'État; sur une page in-4 (cachet des Archives d'Argenson).

 1745 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 2,470.00
  • 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.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Modern First Editions
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
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