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Auction Name Michel Wittock Collection Total Sales (EUR) 445,187.50
Auction Date November 14, 2017 - November 14, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 294,400.00
Sale Number #25868 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 390,800.00
Total Lots 195
Sold Lots 137 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 427,100.00
% of Lots Sold 70.26% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 563,400.00
Unsold Lots 58 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 79.02%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
7 ALAMANNI (Luigi).

Opere toscane.

1542 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 25,000.00
4 SADOLET (Jacques).

Interpretatio in Psalmum Miserere mei Deus.

1533 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 18,750.00
129 GIDE (André).

La Tentative amoureuse, ou le traité du vain désir.

1921 EUR 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 13,750.00
21 ARRIANUS (Flavius).

Ponti Euxini & maris Erythræi periplus.

1577 EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 12,500.00
105 GOETHE (Johann Wolfgang von) et Franz SCHUBERT.

Le Roi des aulnes.

1904 EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 12,500.00
48 HORST (Tieleman van der) et Jacob POLLEY.

Theatrum machinarum universale, of keurige verzameling van verscheide grote en zeer fraaie waterwerken, schutsluizen, waterkeringen, ophaal- en draaibruggen.

1736-1737. EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 10,000.00
176 LAMBERT (Jean-Clarence).

Les Folies françaises d'après « Elle ».

1964-1966. EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 10,000.00
12 DION CASSIUS.

??? ????????? ????????? ??????????? ??????. Romanarum historiarum libri XXIII, à XXXVI ad LVIII usque. Ex bibliotheca regia.

1548 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 9,375.00
190 BUTOR (Michel).

Sous le noir.

1991 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 8,875.00
89 MALLARMÉ (Stéphane).

L’Après-midi d’un faune. Églogue.

1876 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 8,750.00
106 MIKHAËL (Ephraïm).

Halyartès. Poème en prose.

1904 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 7,500.00
123 MARINETTI (Filippo Tommaso).

Les Mots en liberté futuristes.

1919 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 7,500.00
92 GRUEL (Léon).

Manuel historique et bibliographique de l’amateur de reliures.

1887-1905. EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 7,250.00
153

ÉVANGILE SELON SAINT MATHIEU.

1928 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 6,875.00
23 BARA (Jerôme de).

Le Blason des armoiries, auquel est monstree la maniere de laquelle les Anciens & Modernes ont usé en icelles.

1581 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 6,250.00
59 LA FONTAINE (Jean de).

Contes et nouvelles en vers.

1762 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 6,250.00
3 [NANNI (Giovanni)].

Fragmenta vetustissimorum autoru[m].

1530 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,625.00
107 VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM (Auguste).

Akëdysséril.

1906 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 5,625.00
2 MARULLE (Michel).

Epigrammata et Hymni.

1529 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,250.00
88 COPPÉE (François).

Poésies.

1864-1869. EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 5,250.00
175 ARAGON (Louis).

Le Fou d’Elsa. Poème.

1963 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,250.00
8

HORÆ in laudem beatissimæ Virginis Mariæ, ad usum Romanum.

1543 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 5,000.00
34 MAGNON (Jean).

Tite. Tragicomédie.

1660 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,000.00
73 LACLOS (Pierre Choderlos de).

Les Liaisons dangereuses. Lettres recueillies dans une société, et publiées pour l'instruction de quelques autres.

1796 [i.e. vers 1812] EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 5,000.00
148 MONTESQUIEU (Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de).

Lettres persanes.

1926 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,000.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
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