Sothebys: Continental Books and Manuscripts, LN8669,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- December 03, 1998 - December 03, 1998
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 301 | Rimbaud (Arthur) | Une saison en enfer | Brussels | 1873 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 4,140.00 |
| 302 | Rivius (Johannes) | Various | GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 1,610.00 | ||
| 303 | Saavedra Fajardo (Diego de) | Idea principis christiano-politici, centum symbolis expressa | Brussels | 1649 |
USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 304 | Sulpizio (Giovanni Verulano) | Carmen iuuenile... de moribus puerorum praecipue in mensa serva[n]dis carmen iuuenile paucis explanatum incipit | [Poitiers] | [c. 1520] |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold |
| 305 | Tasso (Torquato) | La Gierusalemme liberata... con le figure di G. Piazzetta | Venice | 1745 |
GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 5,175.00 |
| 306 | Tolstoy (Lev Nikolaevich, Count) | Voina i Mir [War and Peace] | Moscow | 1868-1869 |
USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 307 | Tolstoy (Lev Nikolaevich, Count) | Anna Karenina | Moscow | 1878 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 7,820.00 |
| 308 | Tory (Geofroy) | L'art & science de la vraye proportion des lettres attiques, ou antiques, autrement dictes, romaines, selon le corps & visaige humain | Paris | 1549 |
USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 309 | Tricasso da Ceresari (Patricio, translator) | Expositione de gli insomni secondo la interpretatione de Indy Persi et Egyptii. Tradute de greco in latino per Leone Toschano | Venice | 1541 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,035.00 |
| 310 | Vivaldi (Giovanni Ludovico) | Opus regale in quo continent infrascripta opuscula [etc.] | Saluzzo | 1507 |
GBP 100,000.00 - 120,000.00 | 106,000.00 |
| 311 | Vegetius Renatus (Flavius) | De re militari libri quator [and other works] | Paris | 1553 |
USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 312 | Vertot (Rene d'Aubert de) | Histoire des Chevaliers Hospitaliers du S. Jean de Jerusalem | Paris | 1726 |
USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 313 | Zola (Emile) | J'Accuse...! Lettre au President de la Republique, in 'L'Aurore', deuxieme annee, numero 87 | Paris | 13 January 1898 |
USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 314 | Andersen (Hans Christian) | Autograph list of works including Three Stories of My Life and Das Mahrchen meines Lebens | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 315 | Baudelaire (Charles) | Autograph letter signed | no place [Paris] | no date [c.December 1858] |
USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 316 | Breguet (Abraham Louis, 1747-1823, clockmaker) | Nine autograph notebooks containing a combination of diary entries, accounts, calculations, scientific drawings and notes | November 1798 to April 1804 where dated |
GBP 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 | 10,350.00 | |
| 317 | Cenci family. | Three documents signed by Cristoforo (one) and Bernardo Cenci (two), brothers of Beatrice Cenci | Rome and Naples | 1596 to 1606 |
USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 318 | Charles VII (Holy Roman Emperor) | Two documents signed and letter signed | Frankfurt | 15 March 1742 |
USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 319 | Committee of Public Safety | . Document signed by Saint-Just, Prieur and Lindet | Paris | 2 thermidor an II (20 July 1794) |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 460.00 |
| 320 | Danton (Georges) | Document signed | Paris | 19 August 1792 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 517.00 |
| 321 | Dix (Otto) | Fine signed photograph of Otto Dix | GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 460.00 | ||
| 322 | Duse (Eleonore) | Collection of some sixty autograph letters signed to Grafin Christiane Thun-Waldstein | Berlin, Vienna, Dresden, Chicago, Venice, London and elsewhere | 1902 to 1923 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 2,070.00 |
| 323 | Egypt. | Five letters addressed to Ismail Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt | London, Paris, Cairo, Vienna, Laeken | 18 June to 10 October 1866 |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold |
| 324 | Egypt-Suez Canal. | Paris | 18 July 1864 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 517.00 | |
| 325 | Einstein (Albert) | Autograph postcard signed | New York | 12 December 1930 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 1,207.00 |
| 326 | Einstein (Albert) | Typed letter signed | Princeton | 23 April 1935 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,265.00 |
| 327 | Elisabeth (Empress of Austria) | Four pairs of gloves and a pair of dancing shoes belonging to the Empress Elisabeth | GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 4,600.00 | ||
| 328 | Engels (Friedrich) | Autograph letter signed | 122 Regent's Park Road, London | 25 September 1872 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 1,725.00 |
| 329 | Ferdinand V of Castile | Letter signed | 13 January 1475 |
USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 330 | Frederick William III (King of Prussia) | Letter signed | Garetz | 4 October 1803 |
USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 331 | Frederick William IV (King of Prussia) | Autograph letter signed as Crown Prince | Berlin | Christmas Day 1837 |
USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 332 | Frederick II | Important diplomatic correspondence comprising twenty-nine letters signed | Potsdam, Rheinsberg, Berlin | 12 July 1746 to 10 March 1773 |
GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 10,350.00 |
| 333 | French Art. | Collection of letters by painters and sculptors | nineteenth century |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 517.00 | |
| 334 | French Art. | Letters and documents signed by Jacques-Louis David | 1885 and 1907 |
GBP 700.00 - 800.00 | 667.00 | |
| 335 | French Art. | Twelve autograph and typed letters | USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 336 | French Cinema. | Letters and documents signed by French film directors | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 920.00 | ||
| 337 | French History. | Collection of letters by politicians, diplomats, lawyers, military commanders and scientists | nineteenth century |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 977.00 | |
| 338 | French Literature. | Three autograph letters signed by Jean Cocteau | GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 460.00 | ||
| 339 | French Military Commanders -Lafayette (Gilbert du Motier, marquis de) | Various | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 632.00 | ||
| 340 | French Science. | Three letters by Georges Cuvier (as Secretary of the Academy of Sciences | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 667.00 | ||
| 341 | Freud (Sigmund) | Autograph postcard | autograph address on verso, stamped and postmarked, Vienna | 3 January 1922 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 1,322.00 |
| 342 | German Art. | Four autograph and typed letters signed | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,035.00 | ||
| 343 | Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von) | Autograph note at the foot of a list of ten Roman coins and medals | no place | no date |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,265.00 |
| 344 | Guillaume (Charles Edouard, 1861-1938, physicist) | Some fifty autograph and typed letters signed to Paul Ditisheim and other members of his family | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 575.00 | ||
| 345 | Heine (Heinrich) | Autograph letter signed | no place | 17 April, no year [possibly 1834 or 1835] |
GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 6,440.00 |
| 346 | Horology- | An album of French early nineteenth-century drawings and lithographs | GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 5,175.00 | ||
| 347 | Ibsen (Henrik) | Photograph of Ibsen | [Oslo] | 16 September 1897 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 575.00 |
| 348 | Jung (C.G.) | Typed letter signed | printed heading, Kusnacht-Zurich | 31 January 1933 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 977.00 |
| 349 | Lafayette (Gilbert du Motier, marquis de) | Autograph letter signed | La Grange | 19 May 1822 |
USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 350 | Lagerlof (Selma) | Document signed | 14 October 1898 |
USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 351 | Lamartine (Alphonse de) | Various | GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 517.00 | ||
| 352 | Lenbach (Franz von) | Twenty autograph letters signed | Munich | 21 September 1894 to 2 September 1902 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 353 | Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich) | Various | GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 7,475.00 | ||
| 354 | Loti (Pierre, pseudonym of Julien Viaud) | Some forty-seven autograph letters signed | Rochefort, Hendaye, Rosporden, Jerusalem, Morocco, Indo-China and elsewhere | [1871-1905] |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,322.00 |
| 355 | Loti (Pierre, pseudonym of Julien Viaud) | Twenty-five autograph letters signed | Etat-major du G.A.C., "aux armees", Rochefort, Hendaye, Paris | 1915 to April 1920 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 632.00 |
| 356 | Louis XV-War of Austrian Succession. | Three letters signed | Menin, Strasbourg and Versailles | 29 May 1744 to 12 February |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,840.00 |
| 357 | Louis XVI. | Remarkable autograph letter signed | Versailles | 26 October 1784 |
USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 358 | Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. | Three statements of account submitted by Robin, clockmaker in the Galerie du Louvre | Paris | August 1792 to August 1793 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 805.00 |
| 359 | Mann (Thomas) | Various | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 1,380.00 | ||
| 360 | Magritte (Rene) | Eight autograph letters signed | Jette-Bruxelles | 10 November 1949 to 9 November 1953 where dated |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 361 | Marie Antoinette. | Autograph letter signed | no place | no date ("samedi") |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 4,370.00 |
| 362 | Mata Hari (Margarethe Macleod Zelle, executed as a spy in 1917) | Autograph letter signed | on headed notepaper of the Victoria Hotel, Amsterdam | 18 September 1914 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 920.00 |
| 363 | Matisse (Henri) | Autograph receipt, signed | Paris | 8 July 1948 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 862.00 |
| 364 | Miro (Joan) | Two illustrated autograph letters signed | 1950 to 1963 |
GBP 700.00 - 800.00 | 2,300.00 | |
| 365 | Mussolini (Benito) | Seven autograph manuscripts of articles | [Rome] | most items dated on versos (12 September 1921-8 September 1922) [early 1920s] |
USD 6,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 366 | [Mussolini (Benito)]-D'Annunzio (Gabriele) | Various | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 367 | [Mussolini (Benito)]-D'Annunzio (Gabriele) | Various | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 2,875.00 | ||
| 368 | Napoleon I. | Letter signed | Madrid | 10 December 1808 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 517.00 |
| 369 | Olavide y Jauregui (Pablo, 1725-1803) | Manuscript account of Olavide's appearance before the Inquisition | Seville | 1778 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 3,220.00 |
| 370 | Oscar I (King of Sweden) | Various | GBP 600.00 - 700.00 | 805.00 | ||
| 371 | Passports. | Four French passports | GBP 600.00 - 700.00 | 1,092.00 | ||
| 372 | Peron (Juan and Eva) | Various | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 1,035.00 | ||
| 373 | Piranesi (Francesco, Italian engraver and sculptor) | Autograph letter signed | Rome | 20 January 1795 |
USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 374 | Potemkin (Prince Grigori Alexandrovich) | Autograph letter signed | no place | no date |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 747.00 |
| 375 | Rilke (Rainer Maria) | Various | USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 376 | Rilke (Rainer Maria) | Autograph letter signed | Munich | 19 May 1919 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 632.00 |
| 377 | Robin (Robert) | Memoire presente a l'Academie Royale des Sciences de Paris, sur les dimensions des horloges de chateau ou gros volume | [Paris] | 1787 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 402.00 |
| 378 | Russia | Three letters by Boris Pasternak (in his idiosyncratic English | GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 2,185.00 | ||
| 379 | Sand (George) | Various | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 380 | Sisley (Alfred) | Two autograph letters signed | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 690.00 | ||
| 381 | Stael-Holstein (Germaine de) | Various | GBP 250.00 - 300.00 | 402.00 | ||
| 382 | Sweden. | Letters signed by Kings of Sweden | seventeenth to twentieth century |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 575.00 | |
| 383 | Tolstoy (Leo) | Letter signed | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,265.00 | ||
| 384 | Vienna-Saar (Ferdinand von) | Fifteen autograph letters signed to Grafin Christiane Thun-Waldstein | Vienna and elsewhere | 1891 to 1908 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 690.00 |
| 385 | Volta (Alessandro, physicist) | Document signed on behalf of his brother Luigi | Milan | 7 July 1784 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,035.00 |
| 386 | Yevtushenko (Yevgeny) | Autograph manuscripts of three of his best-known and most controversial poems | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 2,875.00 | ||
| 387 | Zola (Emile) | Autograph letter signed | Medan | 19 September 1899 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | 2,530.00 |
| 388 | Zola (Emile) | Various | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 389 | Zweig (Stefan) | The autograph manuscript of his essay on Rodin | [August 1940] |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 1,380.00 | |
| 390 | Zweig (Stefan) | Thirty-eight autograph letters and postcards signed | Paris, Zurich, London and Salzburg | 29 January 1917 to 10 December 1937 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 10,925.00 |
| 391 | Zweig (Stefan) | Forty-two autograph and typed letters signed to Simon Kra, a Paris manuscript dealer | Salzburg, Paris, Zurich and elsewhere | 13 January 1923 to 11 November 1935 where dated |
GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 8,625.00 |
| 392 | Zweig (Stefan) | Collection of autograph manuscripts and typescripts of articles, lectures and radio broadcasts | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | 3,105.00 | ||
| 393 | Zweig (Stefan) | Various | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 4,140.00 | ||
| 394 | Zweig (Stefan) | Various | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 1,380.00 | ||
| 395 | Zweig (Stefan) | Two corrected typescripts of his lecture History of Tomorrow | GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 1,495.00 | ||
| 396 | Zweig (Stefan) | Various | GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 1,495.00 | ||
| 397 | Breton (Andre) | The original autograph manuscript of his celebrated Surrealist novel Nadja hitherto unknown and unrecorded, presented by Breton to Henri-Louis Mermod in December 1928 | [1927] |
GBP 150,000.00 - 200,000.00 | 386,500.00 | |
| 398 | Aragon (Louis) | Autograph manuscript of a collection of nine essays | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 10,350.00 | ||
| 399 | Claudel (Paul) | The autograph manuscripts of three essays on Far Eastern subjects | [1899] |
USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold |
