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Auction Name Bibliophilia and Autographs Total Sales (EUR) 82,028.00
Auction Date December 07, 2017 - December 07, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 33,660.00
Sale Number #88089 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 46,480.00
Total Lots 156
Sold Lots 85 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 71,370.00
% of Lots Sold 54.49% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 99,660.00
Unsold Lots 71 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 82.31%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
3 Claude DEBUSSY (1862-1918).

Manuscrit musical autographe signé, [Par les rues et les chemins], 1908

1908 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 48,488.00
71 GIDE André et DENIS Maurice

Le voyage d'Urien

 1893 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,479.00
25 BARRELIER R.P. Jacques

Plantae per Galliani hispaniam et italiam observatae, i conibus aeneis exhibitae.

1714 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,485.00
26 BATAILLE Georges - LORD AUCH

Histoire de l'oeil. Séville, 1940

 1944 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,485.00
76 HEURES

Heures à l'usage de Rome.

 1502 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,113.00
56

DICTIONNAIRE de la noblesse contenant les généalogies, l'histoire & la chronologie des familles nobles de France, l'explication de leurs armes, & l'état des grandes terres du royaume.

1770 à 1778 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 1,988.00
95 MISSEL GOTHIQUE

Missale ad usum ecclesie peroptime ordinarium…

1500 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 1,864.00
75

HERBIER Suite de planches d'herbiers manuscrites et aquarellées par le Docteur F. BARTHEZ datées de 1853.

 1853 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,615.00
136 WARNOD André,

Les peintres mes amis

 1965 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,615.00
98 MONTORGUEIL

La Vie à Montmartre

 1899 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 1,491.00
58 DIDEROT Denis - D’ALEMBERT Jean

Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire des sciences, des arts et des métiers par une Société de Gens de Lettres.

 1778-1779 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,056.00
77 HEURES

Livre d'heures à l'usage de Rome.

 s.d. EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 994.00
91

MANUSCRIT Cours de mathématiques.

 1633 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 932.00
16 OPERA

Belle et grande photographie du KRONPRINZ GUILLAUME DE PRUSSE,

 1908 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 766.00
32 BOFFRAND Germain

Description de ce qui a été pratiqué pour fondre en bronze d'un seul jet la figure équestre de Louis XIV,

1743 EUR 600.00 - 700.00 EUR 746.00
43 COCTEAU Jean

Vaslav Nijinsky. Six vers de Jean Cocteau, six dessins de Paul Iribe.

 1910 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 683.00
60 DU CHOUL

Discours de la religion des anciens Romains, de la castrametation & discipline militaire d'iceux.

1581 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 497.00
23 AUBÉRY

Mémoires pour l'histoire du Cardinal duc de Richelieu.

 1667 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 435.00
51 DANSE DES MORTS

Chorea ab eximio Macabro versibus alemanicis edita. Paris, Guy Marchand pour Geoffroy de Marnef, 1490.

1490 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 435.00
57

DICTIONNAIRE Généalogique, Héraldique, Chronologique et Historique,

1757 à 1765 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 435.00
27 BERNOULLI Jean

Essay d'une nouvelle théorie de la manœuvre des vaisseaux, Avec quelques lettres sur le même sujet.

 1714 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 373.00
69 FROTIER DE LA MESSELIERE Henri (Vicomte),

Filiations bretonnes, 1650-1912, recueil des filiations directes des représentants actuels des familles nobles,

1965 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 373.00
99 MONTRICHARD (Comte Roland de),

Trois siècles de parentés, 1640-1940.

1953 EUR 120.00 - 150.00 EUR 373.00
39 CERVANTÈS SAAVEDRA Miguel (de) - DORÉ Gustave

L'ingénieux hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche. Traduction de Louis Viardot.

 1869 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 348.00
128 STAMMA Philippe

Essai sur le jeu des échecs.

 1737 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 348.00
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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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