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Sale Name: Bibliotheque Daniel Filipacchi - Deuxieme partie:Livres, manuscrits, ...
Auction Date: 10/21/2005 - 10/21/2005
Year of Sale: 2005
Sale Number: #5410
Total Lots: 208
Sold Lots: 164
Lots Sold: 78.8%
Unsold Lots: 44
Price Unknown: 0

Total Sales (EUR): 5,314,420.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 3,729,200.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 5,005,800.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 5,192,200.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 6,921,800.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 76.78%
Currency: EUR
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars: 6,735,000.00

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
122	Max ERNST	A l'interieur de la vue. 8 poemes visibles		EUR 300,000.00 - 400,000.00	572,000.00
76	Giorgio DE CHIRICO -- Guillaume APOLLINAIRE	Calligrammes		EUR 400,000.00 - 500,000.00	364,800.00
120	Max ERNST	Les Malheurs des Immortels		EUR 150,000.00 - 200,000.00	314,400.00
181	Benjamin PERET -- Joan MIRO	Au Paradis des fantomes		EUR 180,000.00 - 220,000.00	191,200.00
199		Contribution au dossier de certains intellectuels a tendance revolutionnaire.		EUR 100,000.00 - 150,000.00	168,000.00
111	Rene MAGRITTE, Paul COLINET, Irene HAMOIR, Marcel LECOMTE, Jean SCUTENAIRE, Georgette MAGRITTE.	Cahier de souvenir collectif pour Paul Eluard.		EUR 120,000.00 - 150,000.00	144,000.00
176	Benjamin PERET -- Max ERNST	Au 125 du boulevard Saint-Germain		EUR 80,000.00 - 100,000.00	144,000.00
84	Salvador DALI -- Comte de LAUTREAMONT	Les Chants de Maldoror.		EUR 80,000.00 - 100,000.00	138,000.00
62	Andre BRETON & Paul ELUARD	Dictionnaire abrege du surrealisme		EUR 120,000.00 - 150,000.00	138,000.00
4	Hans BELLMER	La maquette preparatoire aux		EUR 100,000.00 - 140,000.00	120,000.00
209	Tristan TZARA	L'Antitete.		EUR 100,000.00 - 130,000.00	110,400.00
197		Enquete sur l'amour		EUR 100,000.00 - 150,000.00	108,000.00
18	Hans BELLMER	9 dessins originaux libres signes dont 7 inedits de 1946.		EUR 40,000.00 - 50,000.00	108,000.00
123	Max ERNST -- Lewis CARROLL	La Chasse au Snark		EUR 50,000.00 - 60,000.00	98,400.00
177	Benjamin PeRET - Max ERNST	Je sublime.		EUR 60,000.00 - 80,000.00	90,000.00
66	Andre BRETON	Le Cadavre Exquis. Son exaltation		EUR 70,000.00 - 90,000.00	84,000.00
58	Andre BRETON & Paul ELUARD	L'Immaculee conception.		EUR 35,000.00 - 45,000.00	81,600.00
81	Rene CREVEL -- Alberto GIACOMETTI	Les Pieds dans le plat		EUR 50,000.00 - 60,000.00	72,000.00
179	Benjamin PERET -- Pablo PICASSO	De derriere les fagots		EUR 40,000.00 - 50,000.00	72,000.00
204	Tristan TZARA -- Alberto GIACOMETTI	Ramures		EUR 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	68,400.00
116	[Paul ELUARD] -- Didier DESROCHES	Le Temps deborde		EUR 60,000.00 - 70,000.00	67,200.00
23	Hans BELLMER -- Heinrich von KLEIST	Les Marionnettes.		EUR 40,000.00 - 50,000.00	64,800.00
89	Robert DESNOS	Le Parterre d'Hyacinthe.		EUR 20,000.00 - 25,000.00	60,000.00
6	Hans BELLMER.	La Poupee	1936	EUR 45,000.00 - 60,000.00	57,600.00
152	MAINS D'ARTISTES	Recueil de dessins de mains et de signatures d'artistes		EUR 20,000.00 - 25,000.00	55,200.00

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
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Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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