Pierre Berge and Associes: Jean Patou fashion, bibliophile and collector: Manuscripts Lafayette and America, 23563, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Date
May 22, 2015 - May 22, 2015
Page Size: 377 items in 16 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 BASSANTIN (Jacques)

Astronomical discourse

A Lion 1557 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
2

[BIBLE]. Biblia, Das ist: Die ganze Heilige Schrift. Alten und Neuen Testaments, nach der Ubersetzung und mit den Borreden un Randglossen D. Martin Luthers [...]

Tubingen 1729 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
3 [MOUTONNET-CLARFONS (Julien-Jacques)]

Anacreon, Saphon, Bion et Moschus. Traduction nouvelle en Prose

Paris 1780 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
4 [LULLY (Jean-Baptiste)]

[MUSIC]. Manuscript collection of 319 pages containing: Atis, Phaeton, Armide, Bellorophon, l'Idille de Sceaux, la Grotte de Versailles (suivie d'un Ballet), Roland, le Temple de la Paix, Amadis, and Thetis et Pelee by Colasse

S.l. n.d. EUR 700.00 - 800.00 Unknown
5 AUBERT (Jacques)

[MUSIC]. Sonates a violon seul et Basse Continue [...]

Se vend a Paris s. d. [1737 & 1721] EUR 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
6 LACASSAGNE (Joseph)

[MUSIC]. Traite general des elements du chant, dedicated to Monseigneur de Dauphin [...]

A Versailles 1766 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 Unknown
7 RAMEAU (Jean-Philippe)

[MUSIC]. Les Fetes d'Hebe ou Les Talents Liriques

Paris s. d. [1739] EUR 700.00 - 800.00 Unknown
8 SALOMON (Francois-Joseph)

[MUSIC]. Medee et Jason. Tragedie en musique, dediee au Roy [...]

Paris s. d. [1713] EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
9 [SAXE (Maurice de)]

ESPAGNAC (Jean Baptiste d'). Histoire de Maurice de Saxe, duc de Courlande et de Semigalle [...]

A Paris 1775 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
10

CONDAMNATIONS. Collection of 18 "Arrest de la Cour de Parlement" documents. 1722-1789

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
11 GAUTIER d'AGOTY (Jacques-Fabien)

Observations on natural history, physics and painting (...)

A Paris 1752-1757 EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
12 HELVETIUS (Claude Adrien)

Oeuvres complettes

A Paris 1795 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
13

HELVETIUS. De l'Esprit

A Paris 1758 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 Unknown
14 HERBELOT (Barthelemy de Molainville)

Bibliotheque orientale ou Dictionnaire universel contenant generalement tout ce qui regarde la connoissance des peuples de l'Orient [...]

A Maetricht 1776 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
15 LA FONTAINE (Jean de)

Contes et nouvelles en vers

[Paris] 1762 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
16 LA FONTAINE (Jean de)

Fables choisies mises en vers (...)

EUR 700.00 - 800.00 Unknown
17 LA SERRE (Jean Puget de)

Le Breviere des courtisans (...)

A Brusselles 1630 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 Unknown
18 LOUIS XVI & MARIE-ANTOINETTE

Facsimile will

(February-April 1816) EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
19 MAROT (Clement)

Les OEuvres [...]

1700 EUR 700.00 - 800.00 Unknown
20 (Charles-Louis de SECONDAT DE)

MONTESQUIEU Le Temple de Gnide [...]

A Paris 1772 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
21

NIMES. Reunion of 2 works

Amsterdam 1767 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
22

NIMES. Reunion of 4 works...

A Nismes An X (1802) EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
23 PEREFIXE (Paul-Philippe de)

History of King Henry the Great (...)

Paris 1821 EUR 800.00 - 850.00 Unknown
24 RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE (Nicolas Edme)

Le nouvel Abeilard ; ou Lettres de deux amans qui ne se sont jamais vus

A Paris 1778 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
25 ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques)

Letters written from the mountain

A Amsterdam 1764 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
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