Vermot de Pas: Sporlympique XII: On the Themes of Sport and Olympism, 168558, Paris

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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 07, 2025 - November 07, 2025
Page Size: 174 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
2 Pierre Ambrogiani (1907-1985)

110-meter hurdler, circa 1960

circa 1960 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 100.80
3

A canvas showing the arrival in Bordeaux of the first car, Louis Renault's number 3. Illustrated by F.S. Spence from a photograph.

EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 100.80
4

Important set on the great F1 period (80s):

80s EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 75.60
5

Set of 6 important pieces: - Maserati "La Bora" press kit, 1985

1985 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 75.60
7 by Adolfo R. Aviles (1898-1971)

Firpo" sheet music, Tango for piano

Circa 1924, EUR 120.00 - 180.00 EUR 163.80
10

Two pieces about the mythical, rigged match between the first black heavyweight world champion Jack Johnson (1878-1946) and the cursed poet Arthur Cravan (1887-1918):

EUR 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
11

Lot of boxing documentation:

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
12 Robert Decremps, alias DERO (1920-2000)

Two caricatures: Joe Gans and Stanley Ketchel

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
13 Robert Decremps, alias DERO (1920-2000)

Cartoon of Jack Johnson

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
14 Robert Decremps, alias DERO (1920-2000)

Set of 3 caricatures: Eugene Criqui alias "Gegene la Gueule cassee", Benny Leonard, Marcel Thil

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 126.00
15 Robert Decremps, alias DERO (1920-2000)

Cartoon by Georges Carpentier

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 75.60
16 Robert Decremps, alias DERO (1920-2000)

Two caricatures: Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 75.60
17 Robert Decremps, alias DERO (1920-2000)

Panama Al Brown cartoon

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 113.40
18 Robert Decremps, alias DERO (1920-2000)

Two cartoons: Primo Carnera and Henry Armstrong

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 75.60
19 Robert Decremps, alias DERO (1920-2000)

Two cartoons: Archie Moore and Willie Pep

EUR 60.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
20 Robert Decremps, alias DERO (1920-2000)

Two caricatures: Joe Louis and Joe Walcott

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
21 Robert Decremps, alias DERO (1920-2000)

Caricature of Marcel Cerdan

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 100.80
22 Robert Decremps, alias DERO (1920-2000)

Caricature of Ray "Sugar" Robinson

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 100.80
23 Robert Decremps, alias DERO (1920-2000)

Caricature of Rocky Marciano

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
24 Robert Decremps, alias DERO (1920-2000)

Cartoon by Jose Napoles

EUR 60.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
25 Robert Decremps, alias DERO (1920-2000)

Two Muhammad "Clay-Ali" caricatures

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 126.00
26 Robert Decremps, alias DERO (1920-2000)

Two caricatures: Carlos Monzon and Jean-Claude Bouttier

EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 100.80
27

A set of some twenty large- and medium-format photos of 1960s wrestling fashions, including the Miss Catch 61-62-63-64 elections (in Beauvais).

1960s EUR 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
28 Carlo Bourlet (1866-1913)

Nouveau traite des bicycles et bicyclettes , 1898

1898 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 63.00
29 by M. Baudry de Saunier

"L'art de bien monter a bicyclette" , preface Maurice Martin, illus. Genilloud, bound, 1891, 160 p., 17x11

EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 63.00
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