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Tessier & Sarrou and Associates: Books and Manuscripts

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Auction Name Books and Manuscripts Total Sales (EUR) 317,363.00
Auction Date June 23, 2022 - June 23, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 236,700.00
Sale Number #124913 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 319,700.00
Total Lots 267
Sold Lots 113 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 584,700.00
% of Lots Sold 42.32% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 767,500.00
Unsold Lots 154 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 41.35%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
66 CHAMPLAIN Samuel de

Les voyages de la Nouvelle France Occidentale, dicte Canada.

1632 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 23,040.00
93 BLAEU Guillaume et Jean

The theater of the world or new Atlas. Third part.

1644 EUR 7,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 18,560.00
40 MOLIERE Jean Baptiste Poquelin dit

La critique de l'école des femmes.

1663 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 14,080.00
2

Set of three incunabula bound in one volume.

circa1479 EUR 15,000.00 - 18,000.00 EUR 12,800.00
32 RABELAIS François

Tiers livre des faictz et dictz héroïques du noble Pantagruel.

1546 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 11,520.00
141 FLAUBERT Gustave

Salammbô. Michel Lévy publisher Paris 1863.

1863 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 10,240.00
13 SIDOINE APOLLINAIRE / Caius Sollius APOLLINARIS SIDONIUS

Sidoni apollinaris poema aureum eiusdem[que] epistolae.

1498 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 9,600.00
36 SALLUSTE / Gaius Sallustius Crispus

Coniuratio Catilinae et Bellum Iuguthinum.

1570 EUR 7,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 8,960.00
42 MOLIERE Jean-Baptiste Poquelin dit

Le sicilien ou l'amour peintre.

1668 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 8,704.00
6 BROMYARD Johannes de

Summa predicantum. Volume I (of 2).

1484 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 7,680.00
8 (APULEE) APULEIUS Lucius

Opera.

1488 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 7,680.00
20 COMMINES Philippe de

Cronique et hystoire faicte et composée par feu messire Philippe de Commines Chevalier, seigneur Dargenton, contenant les choses advenues durant le regne du roy Loys XI. tant en France, Bourgongne, Flandres Arthois Angleterre, que Espaigne et lieux circon

1526 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 7,168.00
5 HYGINUS Gaius Julius

De astronomia.

1485 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 7,040.00
94 MORNAS Abbé Claude Buy de

Atlas methodique et élémentaire de géographie et d'histoire dedicated to Monsieur le Président Hénault.

1761-1762 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 6,144.00
198 DALI Salvador / DANTE Alighieri

The divine comedy. Editions d'art Les heures claires, printing house Daragnes Paris 1959-1963.

1959-1963. EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 6,144.00
111 [Marie LECZINSKA] CONDAMINE Charles-Marie de La

Journal of the voyage made by order of the king, to the Equator, serving as a historical introduction to the measurement of the first three degrees of the meridian.

1751 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 5,888.00
100 [MURAT] LABAT Père

Voyage du Père Labat aux isles de l'amérique contenant une exacte description de toutes ces isles, des arbres, des plantes, des fleurs, des fruits, des animaux, des habitants, de leurs mœurs, du commerce.

1724 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,760.00
89 CHOISEUL-GOUFFIER Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de

Voyage pittoresque de la Grèce.

1782-1822 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 5,376.00
126 [NAPOLEON Ier] PONS-d'HOSTUN L.H.

L'écuyer des dames, ou lettres sur l'équitation, contenant des principes et des exemples sur l'art de monter à cheval.

1806 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 4,992.00
1

Manuscript book of hours.

EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 4,864.00
74 CHARDIN Jean dit Chevalier Chardin

Travels in Persia and other places of the East.

1711 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,864.00
28 LLORIS Guillaume de et MEUNG Jean de

The Rose Novel.

1531 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 4,608.00
44 MOLIERE Jean Baptiste Poquelin dit

La fameuse comédienne ou l'histoire de La Guerin.

1688 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 4,480.00
3 VORAGINE Jacques de

Legenda sanctorum. LA LEGENDE DOREE.

1479 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,840.00
23 LE MAIRE DE BELGES Jehan

Illustrations of Gaul and singularities of Troy.

1528 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,840.00
  • 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.
  • 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
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    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
  • 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.
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