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Giquello: Historical Memories

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Auction Name Historical Memories Total Sales (EUR) 118,069.00
Auction Date January 21, 2023 - January 21, 2023 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 22,950.00
Sale Number #133927 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 31,780.00
Total Lots 131
Sold Lots 121 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 27,860.00
% of Lots Sold 92.37% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 38,790.00
Unsold Lots 10 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 304.38%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
226

Lot of numerous vouchers and assignats from the revolutionary period, of various amounts; lot of trompe l'oeil engravings, some of which are enhanced and depict assignats.

 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 19,500.00
309 Félix Vallotton

Paris intense. L. Joly, 1893.

 1893 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 6,500.00
97

[Fête de la Fédération]

 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 4,550.00
36

Rare caricature engraving of André Boniface Louis Riquetti de Mirabeau (1754-1792), also known as "Mirabeau Tonneau" or "Mirabeau-Cravates", cut out, watercolored, and pasted on a hinged assembly forming a small moving mannequin.

 1754-1792 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 4,030.00
263 Giuseppe Scolari

Saint George slaying the dragon

 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,900.00
228

Rare engraved cardboard of a lotto game probably from the Royal Family. With three headings titled Mercury, Victory and Venus, surmounted by a rectangular cartouche with allegorical decoration, engraved by St Aubin after Cochin in 1779. On the back a hand

 1779 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 3,705.00
62

[National Assembly]

 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,860.00
58

Pair of engravings featuring black women in ovals, titled "Moi égal à toi" and "En liberté comme toi".

 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 2,600.00
59

Colored engraving, titled "Me free too", showing a black slave in bust in a medallion, in right profile, wearing a red cap. Curved wooden frame.

 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 2,275.00
96

Engraved and watercolored poster, inscribed "Ici on s'honore du titre de citoyen". Framed.

 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 2,145.00
198

Assignats. Framed with a 200 livres voucher assignat, a 5 livres voucher from the Catholic army and a signed bill dated August 1793.

 1793 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 2,145.00
144

Carved wooden frame with revolutionary attributes containing a warrant of release of the citizen Duverger, partly handwritten and signed, 17 thermidor of the year II, as well as tickets of which that of the medal of Palloy.

 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 2,015.00
94

Engraved poster, inscribed "On s'honorore ici du titre de citoyen". Framed.

 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 1,950.00
250 Angelo Falconetto

Mermaids, naiads and tritons

 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 1,690.00
317 Henri Rivière

Calendar for 1900 : "Decorative Prints in Colors / The Aspects of Nature / Twelve compositions of Henri Rivière" illustrated with "Clair de Lune à Landmélus".

 1900 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 1,690.00
57

Declaration of the rights of man and citizen.

 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 1,560.00
249 Hans Baldung Grien

Group of Seven Wild Horses, 1534

 1534 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 1,560.00
55

Constitution of June 24, 1793. Beautiful engraving, titled "Tables des Droits de l'Homme", in Paris by Daguet. Framed.

 1793 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 1,430.00
203 François Charette de La Contrie

Engraving representing him in an oval, titled, by F. Bonneville. Under glass with three embroidered fleur-de-lys of the period. Framed.

 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 1,365.00
31 (FRANC-MAÇONNERIE)

Master's apron printed on vellum and enhanced with polychrome watercolor, with symbolic decoration depicting the Temple of Solomon (first temple in Jerusalem to house the Ark of the Covenant), surrounded by the two columns "J and B" (Jakin and Boaz), and

EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,300.00
54

[Human Rights]

 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 1,300.00
56

Declaration of the rights of man and citizen.

 EUR 120.00 - 150.00 EUR 1,300.00
235

Enhanced engraving, titled: "Guillotine raised in place of the Carrousel on August thirteenth, 1792" on a background of the Tuileries Palace. Under glass. In Paris at Fillon and Valmont, revolutionary period.

 1792 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 1,300.00
323 Henri Rivière

Street in Tréboul, pl. 2 of Beau Pays de Bretagne (1902)

 1902 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 1,300.00
84

View of the plan of the Champ de Mars as it was decorated for the Confederation of July 14, 1790.

 1790 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 1,170.00
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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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