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	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
226	LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 5]	[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de]. Document signé par William Russel Forster et Morgan Neville Cincinnati, 11 mai	1825	EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Unknown
227	LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 11]	Document autographe signé Frankfort, Kentucky, [14 mai	1825	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
228	LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 5]	[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de]. Anonyme [Kentucky], avant le 7 mai	1825	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
229	LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 5]	[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de]. Lettre signée au nom des citoyens du comté de Shelby, Shelbyville, Kentucky, 7 mai	1825	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
230	LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 5]	[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de] Document signé par Sam Churchill et les autres membres du Committee Louisville, 11 mai	1825	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
231	LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 5]	[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de] Document signé par A. Meredith, John C. Richarason, Benjamin Wasfield, Joseph Robb, Leslie Courbs Lexington, Kentucky, [mai	1825	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
232	LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 5]	[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de]. Lettre autographe signée du colonel David Meade Chaumière des Prairies, Kentucky,	1825	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
233	LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 5]	[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de]. Lettre signée par Heman Bowmar et deux autres citoyens de Versailles. Versailles, 13 mai	1825	EUR 500.00 - 800.00	Unknown
234	BLESCOE, Jesse	Lettre autographe signée à Georges Washington Lafayette Lexington,	1825	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
235	LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 5]	LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Document manuscrit, copie sans doute par Levasseur [Cincinnati], [19 mai	1825	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
236	LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 12]	Document autographe Washington, Pennsylvania, 25 mai	1825	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
237	LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 5]	[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de]. Lettre autographe signée de Mary Austin Holley au marquis de Lafayette Lexingon, Kentucky,	1825	EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Unknown
238	LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 5]	[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de] Lettre autographe signée de John H. Farnham Cincinnati,	1825	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
239	LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 5]	[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de] Lettre autographe signée de Bakewell Page Bakewell Pittsburgh, 31 mai	1825	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
240	LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 14]	Document autographe signé Buffalo, 4 juin	1825	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
241	LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 5]	[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de] Lettre signée par les membres du Steuben Monument committee Utica, New York 8 juin	1825	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
242	LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 5]	[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de] [Toast 15] Document manuscrit, probablement de la main de Levasseur Rochester, 7 juin	1825	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
243	LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 5]	[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de] Lettre autographe signée de Moses Bissel Canandaigua, 7 juin	1825	EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	Unknown
244	LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 5]	[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de] Document signé par Paul Willard, Clerc du Sénat Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 11 juin	1825	EUR 500.00 - 800.00	Unknown
245	LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 5]	[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de] Documents signés par Richard Riker (2) 14 juin	1825	EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Unknown
246	LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 5]	[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de] Lettre signée par Daniel Jackson, Francis Green et Robert Williams Boston,	1825	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	Unknown
247	[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de]	Lettre manuscrite [17 juin	1825	EUR 50.00 - 70.00	Unknown
248	[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de]	[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de] Lettre signée par les douze membres du ?Committee? d'Albany Albany, 23 juin	1825	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	Unknown
249	[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de]	LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast	1825	EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	Unknown
250	[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de]	[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de] Lettre autographe signée par Joseph Evelett Boston,	1825	EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Unknown

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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.

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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.
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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
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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.
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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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