Christies: Rare Books and Manuscripts, 23810, Paris

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Auction Date
November 05, 2025 - November 05, 2025
Page Size: 200 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51 LAFORGUE, Jules (1860-1887)

Manuscrit autographe signe pour Salome [1885]

EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 6,350.00
52 LEGGE, William Vincent Captain (1841-1918)

A History of the Birds of Ceylon

Londres 1880-1881 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
53

LIVRE TISSE. Livre de prieres tisse d'apres les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siecle

Lyon 1886 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 20,320.00
54 MARSHALL, Charles Henry Tillson (1843-1924), et George Frederick Leycester (1841-1927)

A Monograph of the Capitonidae, or Scansorial Barbets

Londres 1870-1871 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 4,064.00
55 MEYER, Adolf Bernhard (1840-1911) et Lionel William WIGLESWORTH (1865-1901)

The birds of Celebes and the neighbouring islands

Berlin 1898 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,651.00
56 POE, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) et Charles BAUDELAIRE, trad. (1821-1867)

Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires

Paris 1857 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,270.00
57 RIMBAUD, Arthur (1854-1891)

Une saison en enfer

Bruxelles 1873 EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 9,525.00
58 ROBERTS, David (1796-1864)

Egypt & Nubia. From drawings made on the spot....with historical descriptions by William Brockedon

Londres 1846-1849 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 50,800.00
59 ROTHSCHILD, Lionel Walter (1868-1937)

Extinct birds

Londres 1907 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 7,620.00
60 SCLATER, Philip Lutley (1829-1913)

A Monograph of the Jacamars and Puff-Birds, or Families Galbulidae and Bucconidae

Londres [1879-1882] EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,159.00
61 SEEBOHM, Henry (1832-1895)

A monograph of the turdidae or family of thrushes...

Londres [1898]-1902 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,794.00
62 WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900)

Salome

Paris - Londres 1893 EUR 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 EUR 825,500.00
63 ALBERS, Josef (1888-1976)

Interaction of Color

New Haven and London 1963 EUR 2,400.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 10,795.00
64 ALECHINSKY, Pierre (ne en 1927) et Michel BUTOR (1926-2016)

Le reve de l'ammonite

Montpellier [1975] EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,048.00
65 ALECHINSKY, Pierre (ne en 1927) et Karel APPEL (1921-2006)

Suite a deux

Bougival 1978 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 6,985.00
66 ANNENKOV, Jurii (1889-1974)

1/4 deviatogo ("Huit heures et quart")

Segodnia s.d. [1919] EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 762.00
67 APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume (1880-1918)

Les Peintres cubistes

Paris 1913 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,397.00
68 APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume (1880-1918)

Le poete assassine

Paris 1916 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 4,826.00
69 APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume (1880-1918)

Calligrammes. Poemes de la paix et de la guerre (1913-1916)

Paris 1918 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 50,800.00
70 ARP, Hans (1886-1966) et Tristan TZARA (1896-1963)

Vingt-cinq poemes

Zurich 1918 EUR 2,400.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
71 ARP, Hans (1886-1966) et Georges HUGNET (1906-1974)

La sphere de sable

Paris 1943 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 6,350.00
72 BACON, Francis (1909-1992) et Michel LEIRIS (1901-1990)

Miroir de la tauromachie

Paris 1990 EUR 24,000.00 - 35,000.00 EUR 27,940.00
73 BAJ, Enrico (1924-2003) et Roberto SANESI (1930-2001)

De rerum natura

Milan 1958 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
74 BAKST, Leon (1866-1924), Arsene ALEXANDRE (1859-1937), et Jean COCTEAU (1889-1963)

The Decorative Art of Leon Bakst

London 1913 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 5,715.00
75 BARBIER, George (1882-1932)

Dix-sept dessins sur le Cantique des Cantiques

Paris 1914 EUR 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 8,255.00
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