Sothebys: Artist Books, pf2543, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 23, 2025 - October 23, 2025

Page Size: 37 items in 2 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Bellmer, Hans	Die Puppe.	Karlsruhe	1934	EUR 60,000.00 - 80,000.00	EUR 63,500.00
2	Bellmer, Hans -- Georges Bataille	Histoire de l'oeil.	Seville [Paris	1940, [1946].	EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	Not Sold
3	Bellmer, Hans	Mode d'emploi.	[Paris]	1967	EUR 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	Not Sold
4	Boetti, Alighiero	Classifying the Thousand Longest Rivers in the World.		1977	EUR 3,500.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 3,810.00
5	Boetti, Alighiero	1986		1987	EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 8,255.00
6	Braque, Georges -- Rene Char	Cinq poesies en hommage a Braque.	Geneve	1958	EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	Not Sold
7	Dali, Salvador - Giacomo Casanova	Dali illustre Casanova.	Paris	1967	EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	EUR 12,700.00
8	Delaunay, Robert --- Anatole Jakovski [sous le pseudonyme d'Anatole Delagrave]	Clefs des paves.	Paris	1939	EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 4,445.00
9	Dubuffet, Jean	La Metromanie, ou les dessous de la capitale.	Paris	1949	EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 3,302.00
10	Giacometti, Alberto	Le Moteur blanc.	Paris	1956	EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 6,096.00
11	Jorn, Asger - Guy Debord	Fin de Copenhague.	Copenhague	mai 1957.	EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 6,985.00
12	Kawada, Kikuji	Chizu (The Map).	Tokyo	1965	EUR 16,000.00 - 20,000.00	EUR 27,940.00
13	Lam, Wifredo - Rene Char	De la Sainte Famille au Droit a la paresse.	Paris	1976	EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 6,096.00
14	Man Ray	Mr and Mrs Woodman.	La Haye	1970	EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	EUR 12,065.00
15	Matisse, Henri -- Stephane Mallarme	Poesies.	Lausanne	1932	EUR 35,000.00 - 45,000.00	EUR 48,260.00
16	Miro, Joan --- Max Ernst --- Kurt Seligmann --- Yves Tanguy --- Wifredo Lam --- Stanlay Hayter --- Roberto Matta	Brunidor Portfolio ndeg 1.	New York	1947	EUR 50,000.00 - 60,000.00	EUR 57,150.00
17	Miro, Joan -- Rene Char	Nous avons.	Paris	1959	EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	EUR 24,130.00
18	Miro, Joan	Cantic del sol.	Barcelone	1975	EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	EUR 9,144.00
19	Mucha, Alfons	Documents decoratifs.	Paris	1902	EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	EUR 11,430.00
20	Moriyama, Daido --- Takuma Nakahira --- Yutaka Takanashi --- Koji Taki	Provoke. Rare collection complete (ndeg 1-5).	Tokyo	1968-1969.	EUR 12,000.00 - 16,000.00	Not Sold
21	Moriyama, Daido	Kiroku [Record], ndeg 1-5.	Tokyo	1972-1973.	EUR 13,000.00 - 15,000.00	Not Sold
22	Moriyama, Daido	Another Country in New York.	[L'Auteur]	1974	EUR 16,000.00 - 20,000.00	Not Sold
23	Picasso, Pablo - Andre Salmon	Le Manuscrit trouve dans un chapeau.	Paris	1919	EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	EUR 33,020.00
24	Picasso, Pablo	Contree.	Paris	1944	EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	EUR 25,400.00
25	Picasso, Pablo	Mostra di Pablo Picasso. Catalogo della mostra.	Rome	1953	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 7,620.00

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.