PIASA: Editions - Bidstart 4/19, 114453, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Date
April 27, 2021 - April 27, 2021
Page Size: 238 items in 10 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 Paul Rebeyrolle

To ask the real questions - 1998

1998 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
27 Zao Wou Ki and Atelier de Segries (publisher)

Orchid

N/A EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
28 Jan Voss

Untitled

N/A EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
29 Carl-Henning Pedersen

Living bird - 1995

1995 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
30 Carl-Henning Pedersen

The Adoration

N/A EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
31 Francis Picabia (after)

Excursions and Visits Dada, Un Culte Nouveau, 1st Visit Church Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre, Paris 14. April (1921) at 3 am

1921 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
32 André Masson

Portrait of Marcel Proust

N/A EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
33 Marcel Gromaire

The Queen's Folly - 1958

1958 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
34 Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita

The Enchanted River, self-portrait with Kimiyo -1951

1951 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
35 Paul César Helleu

Elegant - circa 1900

circa1900 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 Unknown
36 Kees Van Dongen

Jean-Marie in the harbour - 1950

1950 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 Unknown
37 Max Ernst

A Whim of Nature - 1961

1961 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
38 Raoul Dufy (after)

The Orchestra - 1949

1949 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 Unknown
39 Albert Marquet (after)

La Frette sur Seine (1945) - 1962

(1945) - 1962 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 Unknown
40 Le Douanier Rousseau (Henri Rousseau, dit) (after)

Exotic Landscape (1910) - 1976

1976 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
41 Le Douanier Rousseau (Henri Rousseau, known as)

Landscape of a virgin forest (1910) - 1976

(1910) - 1976 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
42 Umberto Brunelleschi

Coralline -1914

N/A EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
43 Marcel Vertès

Dance - 1922

1922 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
44 Leonor Fini

Portrait of a child

N/A EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
45 Leonor Fini

The cats

N/A EUR 400.00 - 500.00 Unknown
46 Jean-Pierre Cassigneul

The big cape - 1976

1976 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
47 Julio Larraz

The Poet King - 2007

2007 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
48 Julio Larraz

In Cuba - 2007

2007 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
49 Jean Messagier

Portrait of the Marquis de Sade - 1996

1996 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
50 Jean Messagier

Without title - 1990

1990 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
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    25 June – July 7
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000.
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    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
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    Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000
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    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500
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    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000
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    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000
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    Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
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    Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
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    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000
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    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
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