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Giquello: In conjunction with Sotheby's: ROMANTIC LITERARY WORKS, ORIGINAL EDITIONS, R. B.L.'S COLLECTION

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Auction Name In conjunction with Sotheby's: ROMANTIC LITERARY WORKS, ORIGINAL EDITIONS, R. B.L.'S COLLECTION Total Sales (EUR) 1,794,957.00
Auction Date October 10, 2017 - October 10, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 863,350.00
Sale Number #87065 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 1,240,100.00
Total Lots 261
Sold Lots 152 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 1,286,150.00
% of Lots Sold 58.24% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 1,823,900.00
Unsold Lots 109 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 98.41%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
219 HUGO (Victor)

Carnet autographe, 81 pages in-16 (105 x 65 mm),

1834 EUR 70,000.00 - 90,000.00 EUR 226,000.00
240 HUGO (Victor)

[Gibet de Montfaucon].

1847 EUR 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 EUR 195,000.00
242 HUGO (Victor)

[Burg].

Sans date EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 156,000.00
170 DUMAS (Alexandre)

Les Trois Mousquetaires.

1844 EUR 50,000.00 - 80,000.00 EUR 94,785.00
119 BALZAC (Honoré de)

[Lettres à Louise]. 23 lettres autographes (la dernière est signée Walter),

1836-1837 EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 EUR 71,500.00
167 DUMAS (Alexandre)

Henri III et sa cour; Drame historique en cinq actes et en prose. Deuxième édition.

1829 EUR 35,000.00 - 45,000.00 EUR 44,233.00
241 HUGO (Victor)

[Voilier à la dérive dans un estuaire].

Sans date EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 40,300.00
139 BOREL (Petrus)

Madame Putiphar.

1839 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 37,914.00
337 STENDHAL

Armance ou Quelques scènes d'un salon de Paris en 1827.

1827 EUR 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 EUR 37,914.00
340 STENDHAL

Le Rouge et le Noir. Chronique du XIXe Siècle.

1831 EUR 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 EUR 37,914.00
345 STENDHAL

La Chartreuse de Parme. Par l'auteur de Rouge et Noir.

1839 EUR 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 EUR 37,914.00
213 HUGO (Victor)

Notre-Dame de Paris.

1831 EUR 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 EUR 35,386.00
224 HUGO (Victor)

Lettre autographe signée Totor, à Claire Pradier ornée d'un dessin original à l'encre.

vers 1837 Not Available EUR 29,900.00
243 HUGO (Victor)

[Paysage].

1837 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 28,600.00
341 STENDHAL

Le Rouge et le Noir. Chronique du XIXe Siècle.

1831 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 25,276.00
128 BALZAC (Honoré de)

Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées.

1842 EUR 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 22,748.00
235 HUGO (Victor)

L'Année terrible.

1872 EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 22,748.00
109 BALZAC (Honoré de)

La Peau de chagrin.

1831 EUR 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 EUR 20,221.00
239 HUGO (Victor)

Dessins. Texte par Théophile Gautier.

1863 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 20,221.00
263 MERIMEE (Prosper)

Lettre autographe à Stendhal,

1835 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 20,150.00
245 HUGO (Victor)

[Paysage]. Dessin original signé V. Hugo.

Sans date EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 19,500.00
324 SAND (George)

[À propos de Victor Hugo, L'Année terrible]. Manuscrit autographe signé,

1872 EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 19,500.00
279 MUSSET (Alfred de)

Recueil de lettres, manuscrits et documents

EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 17,693.00
200 HEINE (Henri)

Lettre autographe signée à Hector Berlioz,

1848 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 15,600.00
329 STENDHAL

Vie de Haydn, de Mozart et de Métastase.

1817 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 15,166.00
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
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    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
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    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
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    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
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    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
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    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
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