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Auction Name Ancient and Modern Books Total Sales (EUR) 84,302.00
Auction Date September 24, 2024 - September 24, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 55,800.00
Sale Number #155651 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 78,940.00
Total Lots 285
Sold Lots 167 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 97,360.00
% of Lots Sold 58.60% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 139,170.00
Unsold Lots 118 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 60.58%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
274

Derriere le miroir.

1946-1982 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 6,319.00
20 DIDEROT (Denis) - ALEMBERT (D').

Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers, par une societe de gens de lettres.

1751-1777 ; 1765-1768 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 6,066.00
17 DALECHAMPS (Jacques).

Histoire generale des plantes, contenant XVIII livres egalement departis en deux tomes : ...

1615 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,274.00
221 ERNST (Max) - PERET (Benjamin).

La Brebis galante.

1949 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,895.00
93 [PANORAMA].

Panorama de Paris. Boulevards cote gauche - Boulevards cote droit.

EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,769.00
120 [BLOY (Leon)] - BOLLERY (Joseph).

Cahiers Leon Bloy.

1924-1939 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,769.00
23 DU VAL (Pierre).

La Geographie universelle contenant Les Descriptions, les cartes, et le Blason des principaux Pais du Monde.

1682 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,642.00
275

Derriere le miroir.

1956-1978 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 1,642.00
11 BUFFON (Georges-Louis Leclerc de).

Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere. [Suivi de] : Histoire naturelle des oiseaux. [De] : Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere, Servant de suite a la Theorie de la Terre,...

1770-1785 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 1,516.00
14 [CORMONTAIGNE (Louis de)].

Architecture militaire, ou l'art de fortifier, Qui enseigne d'une maniere courte & facile La Construction de toutes sortes de Fortifications Regulieres & Irregulieres ; ....

1741 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 1,390.00
69 CHARTON (Edouard).

Le Tour du monde. Nouveau journal des voyages.

1860-1894 ; 1895-1906 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,263.00
133 DELTEIL (Joseph).

La Fayette.

1928 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 1,263.00
256 MIRO (Joan) - TORREILLES (Pierre).

Errantes graminees.

1971 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,263.00
105 VISCONTI (Sigismond) - DUFOUR (Auguste-Henri).

Tableaux du systeme planetaire.

1830 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 1,200.00
268 PICASSO (Pablo) - SABARTES (Jaime).

A Los toros avec Picasso.

1961 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 1,137.00
168

[RELIURE - RESTAURATION]. Important ensemble de plus de 800 feuilles entieres de papier marbre moderne.

EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,105.00
30 LA FORGE (Jean de).

Le Cercle des femmes scavantes, Dedie a Madame la comtesse de Fiesque.

1663 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 1,074.00
257 [MIRO (Joan)].

Joan Miro Lithographe.

1972; 1975-1992 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,011.00
173

L'Assiette au beurre.

1901-191 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 947.00
10 BRUCE (James).

Cartes et figures du voyage en Nubie et en Abyssinie.

1792 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 821.00
111 [ART DECO].

Ensemble de 4 ouvrages et revues : - ALMANACH DU MASQUE D'OR. Deuxieme annee 1922. Illustre par Edouard Halouze.

1922 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 821.00
283 VILLERS (Andre) - BUTOR (Michel).

Pliages d'ombres.

1977 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 821.00
170

[RELIURE - RESTAURATION]. Ensemble de 50 peaux pour reliure, dont 20 de veau ou demi-veau, 5 de chagrin, 2 de << chevre crispee >>, 17 de maroquin, 4 de box (3 noirs et 1 blanc) et 2 peaux de velin.

EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 715.00
255 MIRO (Joan).

Les Essencies de la terra.

1968 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 695.00
44 [MORIN (Pierre)].

Instruction facile, pour connoistre toutes sortes d'orangers et citronniers.

1674 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 631.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    17th July 2025
    Forum, July 17: Lucianus Samosatensis. Dialogoi, editio princeps, second issue, Florence, Laurentius Francisci de Alopa, 1496. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, July 17: Boccaccio (Giovanni). Il Decamerone, Florence, Philippo di Giunta, 1516. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, July 17: Henry VII (King) & Philip the Fair (Duke of Burgundy). [Intercursus Magnus], [Commercial and Political Treaty between Henry VII and Philip Duke of Burgundy], manuscript copy in Latin, original vellum, 1499. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, July 17: Bible, English. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New, Robert Barker, 1613. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, July 17: Bond (Michael). A Bear Called Paddington, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1958. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    17th July 2025
    Forum, July 17: Yeats (William Butler). The Secret Rose, first edition, with extensive autograph corrections, additions and amendments by the author for a new edition, 1897. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, bound in dark green morocco elaborately tooled in gilt and with 3 watercolours to fore-edge, by Fazakerley of Liverpool, 1841. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, July 17: Miró (Juan), Wassily Kandinsky, John Buckland-Wright, Stanley William Hayter and others.- Spender (Stephen). Fraternity, one of 101 copies, with signed engravings by 9 artists. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Sowerby (George Brettingham). Album comprising 22 leaves of original watercolour drawings of fossil remains of Cheltenham and Vicinity, [c.1840]. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Mathematics.- Blue paper copy.- Euclid. De gli Elementi, Urbino, Appresso Domenico Frisolino, 1575. £12,000 to £18,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Geek Week
    2-17 July | New York
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Buzz Aldrin's FLOWN Apollo 11 Crew-Signed NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Cover. $15,000 to $20,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Lunar Surface Flown Mission Emblem Presented to Tom Stafford by John Young. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 17: Albert Einstein. Typed Letter Signed ("A. Einstein."), to Ann Morrisett, Affirming a Pacifist's Right to Self-Defense, March 21, 1952. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Geek Week
    2-17 July | New York
    Sotheby’s, July 17: Operating and Maintenance Manual for the BINAC Binary Automatic Computer Built for Northrop Aircraft Corporation. Philadelphia, 1949. $30,000 to $50,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 17: Steve Jobs Apple Computer Business Card, c. 1977. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Extensive Chronology of Spacecraft From Apollo to Skylab, Signed by a Member of Every Crewed Apollo Flight and the Commanders of Each Skylab Mission. $5,000 to $8,000.
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  • DOYLE
    Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
    July 23, 2025
    DOYLE, July 23: WALL, BERNHARDT. Greenwich Village. Types, Tenements & Temples. Estimate $300-500
    DOYLE, July 23: STOKES, I. N. PHELPS. The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909. New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1915-28. Estimate: $3,000-5,000
    DOYLE, July 23: [AUTOGRAPH - US PRESIDENT]FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. A signed photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Estimate $500-800
    DOYLE, July 23: [ARION PRESS]. ABBOTT, EDWIN A. Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions. San Francisco, 1980. Estimate $2,000-3,000.
    DOYLE, July 23: TOLSTOY, LYOF N. and NATHAN HASKELL DOLE, translator. Anna Karénina ... in eight parts. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [1886]. Estimate: $400-600
    DOYLE, July 23: ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. London: Bloomsbury, 2000. Estimate $1,200-1,800