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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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.

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