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Pierre Berge and Associes: Ancient and Modern Books

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Auction Name Ancient and Modern Books Total Sales (EUR) 462,832.00
Auction Date October 18, 2017 - October 18, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 232,980.00
Sale Number #86501 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 344,590.00
Total Lots 234
Sold Lots 141 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 337,730.00
% of Lots Sold 60.26% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 498,290.00
Unsold Lots 93 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 92.88%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
234 VERLAINE, Paul

Parallèlement

1900 EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 EUR 101,581.00
204 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Faust

1828 EUR 14,000.00 - 18,000.00 EUR 43,862.00
146 DIDEROT (Denis) - ALEMBERT (D')

Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une société de gens de lettres.

1751-1780 EUR 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 EUR 36,343.00
235 ZOLA, Émile

Mes Haines. Causeries littéraires et artistiques

1866 EUR 14,000.00 - 18,000.00 EUR 30,077.00
220 [POPOVA, Liubov, Alexandra Exter, Alexandre Vesnine, Alexandre Rodtchenko et Varvara Stepanova]

5 x 5 = 25 [Moscou, 1921]

1921 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 25,064.00
192 CARAMEL [LAVERRIÈRE, Hippolyte Léon]

RECUEIL UNIQUE DE 277 DESSINS ORIGINAUX. CARICATURE DU TOUTPARIS ARTISTIQUE ET POLITIQUE DES ANNÉES 1870

ANNÉES 1870 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 13,138.00
175

PORTRAITS INÉDITS D'APOLLINAIRE ET DE PICASSO PAR MAX JACOB. UN POÈME AUTOGRAPHE SIGNÉ DE RENÉ DALIZE AU VERSO Dessins originaux sur 1 page in-4 (312 x 200mm), encre et mine de plomb sur papier fi n.

EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 12,880.00
200 FRANCE, ANATOLE

L'Affaire Crainquebille Paris, Édouard Pelletan, 1901

1901 EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 11,028.00
190 BRETON, André

Nadja Paris, Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1928

1928 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 10,652.00
173 AJALBERT, Jean

n Amour

1890 EUR 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 9,524.00
188 BILLE, Edmond

Une Danse macabre

1919 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 8,146.00
216 MIRBEAU, Octave

Sébastien Roch

1890 EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 7,519.00
231 TZARA, Tristan

L'Arbre des voyageurs

1930 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 6,517.00
174 APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume, Blaise Cendrars, Jean Cocteau, Max Jacob, Pierre Reverdy et André Salmon

6 poèmes [Paris, 1916]

1916 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 6,015.00
77 BOSSUET (Jacques Bénigne)

Justification des réflexions sur le nouveau testament, Imprimées de l'autorité de Monseigneur l'Evêque & Comte de Châlons, & approuvées par Monseigneur le Cardinal de Noailles, Archevêque de Paris. Composée en 1699 contre le Problème Ecclesiastique &c.

1710 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 5,514.00
224 Perrault, Charles

Les Contes

1862 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,514.00
205 HAHN, Reynaldo

Five Little Songs (Cinq petites Chansons)

1916 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 4,386.00
149 FLAUBERT (Gustave)

Hérodias. Préface par Anatole France. - Un coeur simple. Préface par A. de Claye. - La Légende de Saint

EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,760.00
199 DURET, Théodore

Critique d'avant-garde Paris, G. Charpentier et Cie, 1885

1885 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,760.00
228 REVERDY, Pierre

Le Voleur de Talan [Paris], 1917

1917 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,509.00
108 BOSSUET (Jacques Bénigne)

Collection des 6 principales oraisons funèbres de Bossuet:

EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,384.00
152 GUERIN (Maurice de) - BARBIER (George)

Poèmes en prose précédés d'une petite lettre sur les mythes par Paul Valéry.

1928 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,384.00
100 BOSSUET (Jacques Bénigne)

Instruction sur les estats d'oraison, Où sont exposées les erreurs des faux mystiques de nos jours: Avec les actes de leur condamnation.

1697 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,258.00
12 PROUST (Marcel)

Lettre adressée à Jacques Rivière. Paris, sans date [de la main de Rivière: entre le 23 et le 30 mai 1919].

1919 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 3,220.00
225 RILKE, Rainer Maria

Das Buch der Bilder

1923 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 3,133.00
  • Sotheby’s
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    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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    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.
  • 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.
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