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

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.