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Christies: Highlights from the Erotic Library of Tony Fekete

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Auction Name	Highlights from the Erotic Library of Tony Fekete	Total Sales (GBP)	1,282,125.00
Auction Date	November 18, 2014 - November 18, 2014	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	649,200.00
Sale Number	#10773	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	961,700.00
Total Lots	221
Sold Lots	181	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	783,200.00
% of Lots Sold	81.90%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	1,166,100.00
Unsold Lots	40	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	109.95%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
179	[SADE, Donatien Alphonse FranA§ois, marquis de (1740-1814).]	La Nouvelle Justine, ou les malheurs de la vertu, suivie de l'histoire de Juliette, sa soeur.	1797 1799, 1801.	GBP 70,000.00 - 100,000.00	GBP 86,500.00
32	BELLMER, Hans (1902-1975)	Les jeux de la poupAe. Text by Paul Eluard.	1949	GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00	GBP 62,500.00
180	[SADE, Donatien Alphonse FranA§ois, marquis de (1740-1814).]	Justine ou les Malheurs de la Vertu.		GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	GBP 47,500.00
196	STYRSKY, Jindrich (1899-1942)	Emilie prichazi ka mne ve snu. [Emily Comes to Me in a Dream.] Additional text by Bohuslav Brouk.	1933	GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	GBP 47,500.00
192	SOMOV, Konstantin Andreevich (1869-1939)-- [BLEI, Franz (1781-1942)and others.]	Le Livre de la Marquise.	1918	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	GBP 43,750.00
95	[FREUDENBERGER, Sigmund (1745-1801).]	An album of erotic miniatures, France or Switzerland, late 18th century.	late 18th century.	GBP 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	GBP 40,000.00
22	[ASHBEE, Henry Spencer (1834-1900), attributed to.]	My Secret Life.	c.1888-c.1894.	GBP 25,000.00 - 35,000.00	GBP 32,500.00
134	[MONTORGUEIL, Bernard (dates unknown), pseudonym.]	Four manuscript books with original drawings: Dressage, Une Brune piquante, Une AprA..s-midi de Barbara, and Les Quat' jeudis.	1920s-1930s.	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	GBP 30,000.00
12	[ANDREA DE NERCIAT, AndrA-Robert (1739-1800).]	Les Aphrodites ou Fragmens thali-priapiques pour servir a l'histoire du plaisir.	1793	GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	GBP 25,000.00
2		AN ALBUM OF EROTIC WATERCOLOURS, painted on card,	mid-19th century.	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	GBP 23,750.00
171	ROJAN [also ROJANKOVKSY, Feodor (1891-1970)] -- [LOUYS, Pierre (1870-1925).]	Manuel de civilitA.	1926	GBP 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	GBP 21,250.00
178		RUSSIA - Illuminated manuscript: Povestvovanie o chudesnem zhitii i preslavutykh rytserstvakh khrabrago vitiazia Popiraia Podvigaevich. [Narrative of the wonderous Life of the Noted Chivalrous Courageous Knight Popirai Podvigaevich.]	early 19th century.	GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00	GBP 21,250.00
197	[STYRSKY, Jindrich (1899-1942) and TOYEN (1902-1980).]	Eroticka revue. Volume 1, numbers 1-4 [complete]	1930 -1931.	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	GBP 21,250.00
172	ROJAN [also ROJANKOVKSY, Feodor (1891-1970)] -- RADIGUET, Raymond (1903-1923)	Vers Libres. Nogent	ca. 1937.	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 20,000.00
208	VAN MAELE -- [LIGNE, Charles Joseph, Prince de (1735-1814).]	Sens devant derriA..re.	1867	GBP 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	GBP 20,000.00
71	DALI, Salvador (1904-1989)	La Femme visible.	1930	GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	GBP 18,750.00
174		ROMANTIC ALBUM -- An exceptional and finely bound collection of 19th-century erotic prints.	19th-century	GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	GBP 18,750.00
30	BELLMER -- [BATAILLE, Georges (1897-1962), writing as:]	LORD AUCH. Histoire de l'oeil.	1940	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 15,000.00
35		Bigarrures.	ca.1790.	GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00	GBP 15,000.00
37	[BOYER d'ARGENS, Jean-Baptiste (1703-1771), attributed to.]	ThArA..se philosophe, ou MAmoires Pour servir A l'Histoire de D. Dirrag, & de Mademoiselle Aradice.	1748	GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	GBP 13,750.00
99	[GERVAISE DE LA TOUCHE, Jean-Charles (1715-1782).]	Histoire de Dom B*****. Portier des Chartreux, Ecrite par lui-mAame.	1748	GBP 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	GBP 13,750.00
175		ROMANTIC ALBUM - A collection of 19th-century erotic plates from the Galitzin collection.	19th-century	GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00	GBP 13,750.00
181	[SADE, Donatien Alphonse FranA§ois, marquis de (1740-1814).]	Justine, ou les Malheurs de la Vertu. TroisiA..me Adition.	1800	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 13,750.00
89	FETISH - BILBREW, Gene (1923-1974), STANTON, Eric (1926-1999), JIM, and others.	A collection of original drawings for various fetish publications, including Exotique,	1950s-1960s.	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 12,500.00
201		TELENY -- Des Grieux. (The Prelude to "Teleny".) Vol. I [all published]	1899	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 12,500.00

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€

Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€

Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €

Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€

Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€

Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€

Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€

Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500

Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000
Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
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Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD

Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD

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Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR

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