Sothebys: MODERN CONTINENTAL ILLUSTRATED BOOKS INCLUDING MANY UNIQUE COPIES ACCOMPANIED BY DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS THE PROPERTY OF A CONTINENTAL COLLECTOR, ENSEMBLE,

Auction Details

Auction Date: January 24, 1983 - January 24, 1983

Page Size: 532 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Jacques Cartier and others	Les Gentilshommes de Mer	Paris	1969-1971	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	143.00
2	Adolphe Lalauze - Broglie (Duc de)	La Journee de Fontenoy		1897	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	242.00
3	Pierre Laprade - Fontainas (Andre)	Vers l'Azur	Paris	1961	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	121.00
4	Alex Lunois - Marbot (General Baron de)	Austerlitz	Paris	1905	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	242.00
5	J. B. Poqueun Moliere	Oeuvres Completes	Paris	1968-1972	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	242.00
6	Jules Noriac	Le 101e Regiment	Paris	1904-1905	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	308.00
7	Paul Aizpiri and others	Montherlant (Henry de)	Paris	1965-1966	USD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
8	Paul Aizpiri - Gerson (Jehan)	La Passion de Notre Seigneur	Paris	1960	USD 750.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
9	Yvette Alde - Musset (Alfred de)	Lorenzaccio	Paris	1967	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
10	Arnaud Ansaldi - Villon (Francois)	Les Ballades	Nice	1967	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,640.00
11	Arnaud Ansaldi	Sinbad Le Marin	Nice	1970	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
12	Arnaud Ansaldi - Rolland (Romain)	Colas Breugnon	Nice	1973	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,375.00
13	George Barbier and others	Les Artistes du Livre	Paris	1928-1933	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	495.00
14	Gaston Barret	Le Roman de Renart	Paris	1970	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	715.00
15	Lucy Boucher and Georges Bronner - Marie de France	Lai de Guigemar	Nice	1960	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
16	Lucy Boucher	Adam de la Halle	Nice	1962	USD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
17	Lucy Boucher and Georges Bronner - Marie de France	Le Conte de Lanval	Nice	1965	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,750.00
18	Lucy Boucher - Perrault (Charles) and others	Contes de perrault et du temps jadis	Nice	1968	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,980.00
19	Georges Braque - Elgar (Frank)	Resurrection de l'Oiseau	Paris	1959	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	902.00
20	Georges Braque - Moliere (J. B. P.)	Le Tartuffe	Paris	1970-1971	USD 350.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
21	Yves Brayer - Bosco (H.)	Lumieres de Provence		1973	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	572.00
22	Yves Brayer and others	Napoleon I. Memoires	Paris	1969	USD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
23	Raymond Brenot and others	Voltaire (F. M. Arouet de)	Paris	1971	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
24	Georges Bronner - L'Ecclesiaste	ou le Livre du Roi Salomon	Nice	1959	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
25	Bernard Buffet - Jeux de Dame	22 large lithographs by Buffet	Paris	1970	GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00	1,650.00
26	Carzou - Rey (Robert)	Carzou: L'Apocalypse	Paris	1959	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	220.00
27	Carzou - Rimbaud (Arthur)	Les Illuminations		1969	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
28	Marc Chagall and others	L'Academie Goncourt	Monte Carlo	1962	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	12,760.00
29	Jean Chiese - erasme	eloge de la Folie	Paris	1967	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	110.00
30	Jean Commere - La Varende (Jean de)	Venerie	Paris	1965	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
31	Jean Commere and others - Achard (Marcel) and others	Beautes de L'Europe	Paris	1971	USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00	Not Sold
32	Gabriel Dauchot - Radiguet (Raymond)	Le Diable au Corps	Paris	1961	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
33	H. Da Ros - La Perouse (J. F. G. de)	Le Voyage Extraordinaire	Nice	1971-1972	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
34	H. Da Ros - Montaigne (Michel Eyquem DE)	Les Essais	Nice	1973-74	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
35	Salvador Dali	Tristan et Iseult		1970	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
36	Marc Dautry	Le Livre de Job	Nice	1961	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
37	Albert Decaris - Claudel (Paul)	Le Livre de Christophe Colomb	Paris	1956	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
38	Albert Decaris - Plutarque	Les Vies des Hommes Illustres	Paris	1967	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
39	Andre Dignimont - Mac-Orlan (Pierre) and others	Femmes	Paris	1968	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	220.00
40	Raoul Dufy - Saint Pierre (Michel de)	Les Cotes Normandes	Paris	1961	GBP 1,750.00 - 2,250.00	2,090.00
41	Raoul Dufy - Witold (Jean)	Concert des Anges	Paris	1963	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
42	Andre Dussarthou - Joinville (Jean Sieur de)	Histoire de Saint Louis	Paris	1970	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
43	Andre Dussarthou - Froissart (Jean)	Chroniques	Paris	1972	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
44	Hans Erni - Peyre (Joseph)	Sang et Lumieres	Paris	1962	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
45	Georges Feher - Saint-Exupery (A.de)	Oeuvres Completes	Paris	1963	USD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
46	Leonor Fini - Shakespeare (William)	La Tempete	Paris	1965	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
47	Leonor Fini - Verlaine (Paul)	Parallelement	Paris	1969	GBP 1,250.00 - 1,750.00	1,870.00
48	Serge Fiorio - Giono (Jean)	La Belle Hotesse	Paris	1973	USD 1,250.00 - 1,750.00	Not Sold
49	Leonard Foujita and others - Fargue (Leon-Paul)	Au Temps de Paris	Paris	1964	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	550.00
50	Leonard Foujita - Fournier (Albert)	Petits Metiers et Gagne-Petit		1960	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,500.00	7,700.00
51	Leonard Foujita - Cocteau (Jean)	La Mesangere	Paris	1963	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,500.00	15,950.00
52	D. Charles Fouqueray - Thomazi (Commandant)	La Peche en Mer	Paris	1962	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
53	Bernard Gantner - Verhaeren (emile)	Florilege du Plat Pays	Paris	1969	GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00	770.00
54	Jean Gradassi - Nostradamus	Les Merveilleuses Centuries et Propheties	Nice	1961	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	770.00
55	Jean Gradassi and Arnaud Ansaldi - Ferrieres (Henry de)	Le Livre du Roy	Nice	1963	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	Not Sold
56	Jean Gradassi - Aniante (Antonio)	Les Merveilleux Voyages de Marco Polo	Nice	1963	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	3,080.00
57	Jean Gradassi - Pardo (Joseph)	Les Romans de la Table Ronde	Nice	1967-1969	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,870.00
58	Jean Gradassi - Shakespeare (William)	Les Chefs-D'Oeuvre	Nice	1969-1974	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
59	Hobi - Vialar (Paul)	La Grande Meute	Paris	1971	USD 750.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
60	Andre Hubert - De Meung (Jean)	Le Roman de la Rose	Paris	1969	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,320.00
61	C. P. Josso - Genevoix (Maurice)	Routes de L'Aventure	Bourg-la-Reine	1963	USD 1,250.00 - 1,750.00	Not Sold
62	Paul G. Klein - De Coster (Charles)	La Legende	Damme	1965	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	Not Sold
63	Gilbert L'Heritier - Hoffmann (E.T.A.)	Contes Fantastiques	Paris	1973	USD 1,250.00 - 1,750.00	Not Sold
64	Gilbert L'Heritier - De l'Isle-Adam (Villiers)	Barbey d'Aurevilly	Paris	1974	USD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
65	Andre Masson and others - Camus (Albert)	Oeuvres Completes	Paris	1962-1965	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
66	Andre Masson and others - Hemingway (Ernest)	Oeuvres Completes	Paris	1963-1965	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
67	Henri Matisse and others	Grand Prix des Meilleurs Romans du Demi-Siecle	Paris	1950-1951	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
68	Genia Minache - La Fayette (Marie Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne)	La Princesse de Cleves	Paris	1972	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
69	Moretti - Rimbaud (Arthur)	Le Bateau Ivre	Nice	1966	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
70	Tavy Notton - Buffon (Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, Comte de)	Les Chants de la Foret	Geneva	1968	USD 1,750.00 - 2,250.00	Not Sold
71	Pablo Picasso and others	Grand Prix des Meilleurs Romans du XIXe Siecle	Paris	1952-54	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
72	Pablo Picasso and others	Grand Prix des Meilleurs Romans etrangers	Paris	1955-57	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
73	Roger Somville - Careme (Maurice)	Une Vie	Brussels	1972	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
74	Charles Samson - Feltin (S. E. le Cardinal)	Notre-Dame de Paris	Paris	1968	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
75	Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac - Villefosse (Rene Heron de)	L'Ile de France	Paris	1966	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
76	Walter Spitzer - Malraux (Andre)	Oeuvre Romanesque	Paris	1960-1962	USD 750.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
77	Walter Spitzer - Satre (Jean-Paul)	Oeuvre Romanesque	Paris	1964-1965	USD 750.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
78	Aime D. Steinlen - Verhaeren (Emile)	Les Flamandes	Paris	1962	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
79	Aime D. Steinlen	La Passion selon Saint Luc	Paris	1959	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	825.00
80	R. E. Thomas - Regnier (Henri de) and others	Venise Eternelle	Paris	1969	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
81	Pierre Yves Tremois - Vialar (Paul)	La Grande Meute	Paris	1945	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
82	Pierre Yves Tremois - La Fontaine (Jean de)	Adonis	Paris	1955	GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00	495.00
83	Pierre Yves Tremois - Ovide	Metamorphoses	Paris	1968	USD 7,500.00 - 10,000.00	Not Sold
84	Pierre Yves Tremois - Bosquet (Alain), Marcel Bealu, and others	Le Livre d'Eros [an anthology of French poetry]	Paris	1970	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
85	Pierre Yves Tremois - Rostand (Jean)	Les Limites de l'Humain	Monaco	1971	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	Not Sold
86	Pierre Yves Tremois - Tournier (Michel)	Mythologie	Pamela Verlag	1971	USD 12,500.00 - 17,500.00	Not Sold
87	Pierre Yves Tremois and others	Grand Prix des Meilleurs Romans d'Amour	Paris	1957-1958	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
88	Pierre Yves Tremois and others	Histoire de la France	Paris	1963	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
89	Pierre Yves Tremois and others - Montherlant (Henri de)	Oeuvre Romanesque	Paris	1963-1964	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
90	Serge Vandercam - Meuris (Jacques)	Ethnographies	Brussels	1971	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
91	Kees Van Dongen - Baudelaire (Charles)	Les Fleurs du Mal	Pans	1968	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	1,650.00
92	Ignasi Vidal - Rabelais (Francois)	Gargantua	Nice	1965-1966	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
93	Maurice de Vlaminck - Ayme (Marcel)	La Table aux Creves	Paris	1960	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
94	Jacques Villon - Pichette (Henri)	Dents de Lait	Paris	1959	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
95	Volti - Verhaeren (Emile)	Belle Chair	Paris	1964	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
96	Paul Aizpiri - Shakespeare (William)	La Sauvage Apprivoisee	Paris	1957	USD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
97	Paul Aizpiri - Corneille (Pierre)	Le Cid	Paris	1960	USD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
98	Mario Avati - Rothschild (Philippe de)	A l'Aube d'une Guerre	Paris	1950	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
99	Pierre Bonnard	Correspondances	Paris	1948-1955	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	99.00
100	Alexandre Bonnier - Pieyre de Mandiargues (Andre)	Jacinthes	Paris	1967	USD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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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.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

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.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

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.