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
30 by Marcelle Vermont,

Pedaleuse hardcover, 1897

1897 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 126.00
31 Remy Saint-Maurice, aka Perigourdin Maurice Diard (1864-1918)

Hardcover "Le Recordman"

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 100.80
32 by Anatole Jakovsky, drawings by F. Leger,

Paperback "La Petite Reine, Louise",

1950 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 100.80
34

Lot of 5 fascicules or books including:

EUR 60.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
35 Miguel Zamacois,

Le velocipede a travers les ages

1893 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 100.80
36 MARS (aka Maurice Bonvoisin)

Album Mars "Mesdames les Cyclistes"

1900 EUR 120.00 - 180.00 EUR 252.00
37 Marie de Grandmaison (widow Melchior, 1846-1933)

Le Tour de France, by Marie de Grandmaison (widow Melchior, 1846-1933), ill. by J. Maurel and P. Weber,

circa 1895 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 113.40
38

Two dies for tire advertising engravings from the 1900s:

1900s EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
39

Lot of two large vintage photographs (Boldo) of cyclists: - Gersois Georges Seres (1884-1951) . - Leon Didier (1881-1931)

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 126.00
40 Auguste Villiers

Les voyages impossibles, La traversee de l'Afrique en velocipede, by Auguste Villiers, ill. by Tellier,

1892 EUR 100.00 - 140.00 EUR 126.00
41 H.O. Duncan,

Twenty years of practical cycling,

1897 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 151.20
42

CYCLO-GUIDES MIRAN ILLUSTRES - "Environs de Paris (Ouest)",

1896 EUR 100.00 - 140.00 EUR 113.40
43 Jean Bertot.

"La France en bicyclette. Etapes d'un touriste de Paris a Grenoble et Marseille"

1894 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 63.00
44

Two major, complementary books in paperback:

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 151.20
45

Jour de fete" book, based on Jacques Tati's 1949 film, illustrations by E. Lamotte. Lamotte.

EUR 60.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
47

Set of 12 original silver press photographs from the heart of the 1911-12-13-14 Tours,

1911-12-13-14 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 100.80
48

Cycles Le Globe" letterpress poster, 1911

1911 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
49 Henri Desgrange and Victor Goddet

Lot of 11 items between 1908 and 1956 on the Parc des Princes velodrome stadium created in 1897

1897 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
50

Lot of 7 original pieces on or about the father of the Tour and "L'Auto", including:

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 126.00
51

Set of 12 original press photographs, silver prints from the 1907-1909 Tours.

1907-1909 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
52

Weekly magazine "Le Muscle", issue 2 (January 16, 1927) Front page:

1927 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
54

Italian-style photo album featuring 5 postcards and over 60 photographs, hardcover

EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 315.00
55

Gustave GARRIGOU winner of Milan-San Remo and the Tour de France 1911, on an Alcyon bicycle

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 252.00
56

"Tour de France 1927, 1er FRANTZ sur bicyclette Alcyon - pneus Dunlop"

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 189.00
57

Rare hand-painted (red and blue) advertising cardboard: "Un triomphe du materiel et des coureurs, Maillot des Jeunes de PARIS-NORMANDIE, ...

EUR 250.00 - 350.00 EUR 315.00
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