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Auction Name Books and Manuscripts Total Sales (EUR) 551,669.00
Auction Date December 04, 2017 - December 04, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 258,340.00
Sale Number #3332 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 368,050.00
Total Lots 328
Sold Lots 206 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 564,880.00
% of Lots Sold 62.80% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 819,650.00
Unsold Lots 122 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 67.31%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
366 Emile Zola 1840-1965

Fonds des plaques de verre negatives realisees par Emile Zola, 1894-1902

EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 EUR 49,400.00
333 Emile Zola 1840-1932

Denise - 1898 ou 1899 Portraits.

EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 35,100.00
5 Pierre de RONSARD 1524-1585

Les OEuvres de P. de Ronsard gentilhomme vandomois

1584 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 24,011.00
32 Max ERNST 1891-1976

La Femme 100 têtes

1929 EUR 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 EUR 14,533.00
1

Livre d'heures

vers 1470. EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 13,000.00
325 Emile Zola 1840-1924

Denise et Jacques Histoire vraie par Emile Zola Juin - Septembre 1897

EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 13,000.00
336 Emile Zola 1840-1935

Jacques - 1898 ou 1899 Etudes de portraits avec et sans virage

EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 13,000.00
367 Emile Zola 1840-1965

OEuvre photographique d'Emile Zola, 1894-1902

EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 11,310.00
20 Octave MIRBEAU 1848-1917

Le Journal d'une femme de chambre

1900 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 10,742.00
350 Daguerreotypiste non identifie

Emile Zola a l'age de quatre ans - 1844

EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 10,400.00
330 Emile Zola 1840-1929

Denise - 1898 ou 1899 Portraits.

EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 9,750.00
341 Emile Zola 1840-1940

Emile Zola, Jeanne Rozerot et leurs deux enfants, Denise et Jacques a Verneuil - Circa 1896-1900

EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 9,360.00
329 Emile Zola 1840-1928

Denise et Jacques - 1898 ou 1899 Portrait. Variations de virages.

EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 9,100.00
337 Emile Zola 1840-1936

Jacques - 1898 ou 1899 Portraits. Variations.

EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 9,100.00
326 Emile Zola 1840-1925

Denise et Jacque Juin - Septembre 1897

EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 8,450.00
327 Emile Zola 1840-1926

Portraits des enfants Denise et Jacques 1896-1899

EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 8,450.00
338 Emile Zola 1840-1937

Jacques - 1898 ou 1899 Portraits.

EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 8,450.00
3

La Grande Pronostication des laboureurs durant a tousjoursmais, faicte et composee par les anciens par usage de scavoir

vers 1520-1530 ? EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 8,214.00
351 Emile Zola 1840-1950

Nature morte au daguerreotype d'Emile Zola enfant a 4 ans - Circa 1895

EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 7,800.00
363 Emile Zola 1840-1962

Autoportraits d'Emile Zola - Circa 1900

EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 6,760.00
352 Daguerreotypiste non identifie

Emile Zola et son pere Francois Zola Circa 1846

EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 6,500.00
342 Emile Zola 1840-1941

La vie a Verneuil - ete 1899

EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 6,240.00
37 Georges HUGNET Hans BELLMER 1906-1974 & 1902-1975

OEillades ciselées en branche Œillades ciselées en branche

1939 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 6,066.00
303 Emile Zola 1840-1902

Album de la vie a Medan Circa 1895-1900

EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,850.00
343 Emile Zola 1840-1942

Paris. Verneuil - Circa 1899

EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,460.00
  • 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
  • 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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