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
101 Jean Marie Carzou - Audiberti (Jacques) Lagune Herissee Paris

1958

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 308.00
102 Antoni Clave and others Paris Ages et Visages: Poemes choisis par G. Jean-Aubrey et Paulette Rault Paris

1943

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
103 Antoni Clave - Merimee (Prosper) Lettres d'Espagne Peris

1944

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
104 Antoni Clave - Voltaire (F. M. Arouet de) Candide Paris

1947

USD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
105 Jean-Gabriel Daragnes - Schwob (Marcel) La Croisade des Enfants Paris

1930

USD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
106 Jean-Gabriel Daragnes - Valery (Paul) Le Cimetiere Marin Paris

1947

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 110.00
107 Edgar Degas - Valery (Paul) Degas Danse Dessin Paris

1936

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 385.00
108 Edgar Degas - Halevy (Ludovic) La Famille Cardinal Paris

1938

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 198.00
109 Roger FerreRO - Maupassant (Guy de) Boule de Suif Zurich

1945

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 165.00
110 Leon Gischia - Beze (Theodore de) Abraham Sacrifiant Paris

1943

USD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
111 Edouard Goerg - Danti Alighieri L'Enfer Paris

1950

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
112 Edouard Goerg Le Livre de Job Paris

1946

USD 175.00 - 225.00 Not Sold
113 Marcel Gromaire - Baudelaire (Charles) Petits Poemes en Prose Paris

1926

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 110.00
114 Marcel Gromaire - Shakespeare (William) Macbeth Paris

1958

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 187.00
115 Marcel Gromaire - Bertrand (Aloysius) Dix Contes de Gaspard de la Nuit Paris

1962

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 154.00
116 Abram Krol - Gide (Andre) Theseae Paris

1963

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
117 Paul Pierre Lemagny - Baudelaire (Charles) Les Fleurs du Mal Paris

1949

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 110.00
118 Baltasar Lobo - Rivas (Reyna) Dialogos con la Piedra Paris

1961

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
119 Jean Lurcat - La Tour du Pin (Patrice de) Bestiaire Fabuleux

1951

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 110.00
120 Jean Lurcat - Whitman (Walt) Six Poemes Paris

1919

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 110.00
121 Jules Pascin - Morand (Paul) Ferme le Nuit Paris

1925

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 418.00
122 Paul Rebeyrolle - Sautreau (Serge) and Andre Velter Conte Rouge pour Paloma Paris

1975

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 110.00
123 Auguste Rodin - Mirbeau (Octave) Le Jardin des Supplices Paris

1902

GBP 500.00 - 600.00 770.00
124 Andre Villeboeuf - Fargue (Leon-Paul) Contes Fantastiques Paris

1944

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
125 Hans Henning Voigt Alastair - Wedekind (Frank) Erdgesit Munich

[1917-1920]

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 352.00
126 Hans Henning Voigt Alastair - Merimee (Prosper) Carmen Zurich

1920

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 352.00
127 Hans Henning Voigt Alastair - Crosby (Harry) Red Skeletons Paris

1927

GBP 175.00 - 225.00 253.00
128 Hans Henning Voigt Alastair - Prevost d'Exiles (A. F., Abbe) Manon Lescaut Alastair, New York

1931

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 132.00
129 Leon Bakst - Alexandre (Arsene) and Jean Cocteau The Decorative Art of Leon Bakst

1913

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 220.00
130 George Barbier - La Guirlande des Alois Troisieme Annee Paris

[1918]

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 165.00
131 George Barbier Le Bonheur du Jour pour 1920 Paris

1920-24

GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 825.00
132 George Barbier Le Bonheur du Jour pour 1920 Paris

1920-1924

GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 880.00
133 George Barbier Ink and watercolour drawing of a girl standing in the sea holding a crab

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 198.00
134 George Barbier and Georges Lepape - Louys (Pierre) Aphrodite Paris

1954

GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 880.00
135 George Barbier and others Gazette du Bon Ton Paris

[1923]

USD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
136 Andre Beaudin and others - Limbour (Georges) Andre Beaudin Munich

1970

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 132.00
137 Pierre Bonnard - Roger-Marx (Claude) Bonnard Lithographe Monte Carlo

1952

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 143.00
138 Paul Bonnard - Dauberville (Jean and Henry) Bonnard Paris

1965-74

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 682.00
139 Georges Braque Die Beruhmten Maler Zwemmer

1955

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 121.00
140 Georges Braque Catalogue de l'Oeuvre de Georges Braque Paris

1959-73

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 440.00
141 Alexander Calder La Proue de la Table Paris

1967

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 462.00
142 Marc Chagall Verve Paris

1960

GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 1,100.00
143 Marc Chagall Verve 37/38: Dessins pour la Bible Paris

1960

GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 1,210.00
144 Marc Chagall - Mourlot (Fernand) Chagall Lithographe Monte Carlo

1960-74

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,155.00
145 Marc Chagall - Mourlot (Fernand) Chagall Lithographe Monte Carlo

1960-1974

GBP 500.00 - 750.00 616.00
146 Marc Chagall - Leymarie (Jean) The Jerusalem Windows

1962

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 330.00
147 Marc Chagall and others XXe Siecle Paris

1962-66

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 198.00
148 Marc Chagall and others Derriere Le Miroir

1952-1979

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 187.00
149 Jules Cheret - Champseur (Felicien) Lulu Paris

1888

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 165.00
150 Jules Cheret and others - Maindron (Ernest) Les Affiches Illustrees

1886

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 374.00
151 Aubrey Beardsley and others - Bauwens (M.) and others Les Affiches etrangeres Illustrees Paris

1898

GBP 600.00 - 800.00 550.00
152 L'Image Paris

1896-1897

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 330.00
153 Cocorico Paris

1898-1902

USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
154 Camille Pissarro and Auguste Renoir - Delteil (Loys) Le Peintre-Graveur Illustre Paris

1923

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 297.00
155 edouard Chimot - Talon (Jean-Louis) La Belle Carolina Paris

1936

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 220.00
156 Giorgio de Chirico - Ciranna (Alfonso) Giorgio de Chirico Roma

1969

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 121.00
157 Michel Ciry Nouvelle Decouverte de l'Amerique

1964

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
158 Jean Cocteau Dessins Paris

1923

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 308.00
159 Lovis Corinth - Swift (Jonathan) Gullivers Reise ins Land der Riesen Berlin

1922

GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 858.00
160 Lovis Corinth and others Der Venuswagen Berlin

1919-1920

GBP 600.00 - 800.00 660.00
161 Salvador Dali Metamorphosis of Narcissus New York

1937

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 176.00
162 Dada 3 Zurich

1918

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 550.00
163 Edgar Degas - Lemoisne (P. A.) Degas et son Oeuvre Paris

1946-49

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 462.00
164 Edgar Degas - Louys (Pierre) Mimes des Courtisanes de Lucien Paris

1935

USD 350.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
165 Sonia Delaunay - Lohte (Andre), Blaire Cendrars Sonia Delaunay Paris

[c.1925]

GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 1,815.00
166 Andre Derain - Vlaminck (Maurice) A la Sante du Corps Derain

1919

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
167 Derriere le Miroir Paris

1946-1982

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
168 Raoul Dufy - Apollinaire (G.) Le Bestiaire ou Cortege d'Orphee Paris

1919

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 121.00
169 Edmund Dulac - Guyot (Charles) La Toison d'Or

1962

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
170 Jean Dubuffet Catalogue des Travaux de Jean Dubuffet Paris

1964-1981

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 330.00
171 Max Ernst La Femme 100 Tetes Paris

1929

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 726.00
172 Max Ernst Une Semaine de Bonte [Paris]

1934

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 286.00
173 Max Ernst and others XXe Siecle New York

1971

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 132.00
174 Jean Fautrier - Paulhan (Jean) Fautrier l'Enrage Paris

1949

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 286.00
175 Roger Ferrero - Maupassant (Guy de) Contes Choisis Lausanne

1947

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 44.00
176 D. Galanis - Gonimeau (Comte de) Akrivie Phrangopoulo Paris

1924

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 121.00
177 Paul Gauguin Noa Noa Berlin

1926

GBP 500.00 - 750.00 550.00
178 Natalia Gontcharova - Vuillermoz (Emile) Clothilde et Alexandre Sakharoff Lausanne

1933

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 60.00
179 Francisco Goya y Lucientes - Harris (Tomas) Goya Oxford

1964

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 253.00
180 Eugene Grasset Calendrier pour le "Bon Marche" 1886

[1885]

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 187.00
181 Juan Gris Mariposa Madrid

1903

USD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
182 Rudolf Grossmann Herbarium Munich

1918

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 242.00
183 George Grosz Hintergrund Berlin

1928

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 462.00
184 Paul Iribe Choix Montrouge

1930

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
185 Willi Jaeckel Das Buch Siob Berlin

1917

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 198.00
186 Alfred Jarry Ubu Roi Paris

1896

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 418.00
187 Oskar Kokoschka - Shakespeare (William) King Lear Ganymed

1963

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 330.00
188 Chas. Laborde - Mac Orlan (Pierre) Malice Paris

1924

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
189 Andre Lambert Veterum Latinorum Poematum Lyricorum Florilegium Paris

1920

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
190 Pierre Laprade - Colette (S. G. ) Flore et Pomone Paris

1943

USD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
191 Marie Laurencin - Bloch (Jean-Richard) Dix Filles dans un Pre Paris

1926

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 220.00
192 Henri Laurens - Theocritus Les Idylles Paris

1945

USD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
193 Fernand Leger - Cendrars (Blaise) La Fin du Monde filmee par FAnge N.D Paris

1919

GBP 350.00 - 500.00 495.00
194 Fernand Leger Mes Voyages Paris

1960

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 330.00
195 Georges Lepape Modes et Manieres d'Aujourd'hui Paris

1921

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 187.00
196 Georges Lepape Modes et Manieres d'Aujourd'hui Paris

1921

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 187.00
197 Berthold Mahn and others - Daudet (Alphonse) Oeuvres Completes Illustrees Paris

1930-1931

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
198 Aristide Maillol - Longus Daphnis et Chloe Paris

1937

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 418.00
199 Aristide Maillol - Virgil Les Georgiques Paris

1937-1943

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 572.00
200 Aristide Maillol - Horace Odes Paris

1939

GBP 500.00 - 750.00 484.00
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