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Auction Name Books and Manuscripts Total Sales (EUR) 235,156.00
Auction Date December 10, 2019 - December 10, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 117,900.00
Sale Number #3998 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 180,600.00
Total Lots 175
Sold Lots 54 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 379,400.00
% of Lots Sold 30.86% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 576,400.00
Unsold Lots 121 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 40.80%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
108 RABELAIS, François

Le Quart livre des Faicts et dicts Héroiques du bon Pantagruel

 1552 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 56,869.00
134 [RABELAIS, François].– PINGRET, Édouard

Recueil de dessin pour « Les Songes drolaticques de Pantagruel ».

[1756 ?] EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 18,200.00
71 [JUSTINIEN]

Quinquaginta librorum Digestorum sive Pandectarum Iuris Caesarei.

 1540 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 15,165.00
37 DES PERIERS, Bonaventure

Les Nouvelles Recreations et joyeux devis de feu Bonavanture des Periers valet de chambre de la Royne de Navarre.

 1558 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 13,901.00
72 L'ESPINE DU PONT-ALLAIS, Jean de

Contredictz de Songecreux.

 1530 EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 10,110.00
75 LE MOYNE, Pasquier

Le Couronnement du roy François premier.

 1520 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 9,478.00
99 [Ordre du Saint-Esprit]

Le Livre des statuts et ordonnances de l'ordre du benoist sainct esprit, estably par le très-chrestien Roy de France & de Pologne Henry troisiesme de ce nom.

[1579] EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 9,478.00
76 LEMAIRE DE BELGES, Jean

Les Illustrations de Gaulle et singularitez de Troye, contenant troys parties […]. Avec plusieurs autres additions.

 1548-1549 EUR 4,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 9,099.00
32 [COEUR DE PHILOSOPHIE]

S'Ensuyt le cueur de Philosophie […]. Avec le traictié de lespere du monde et le compost et kalendrier touchant le cours du soleil et de la lune, des festes fixes et le bissexte. Le tout figuré. XXX.C.

 [vers 1533] EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 7,583.00
69 GUEVARA, Antonio de

Le Favory de Court, contenant plusieurs advertisseme[n]s & bonnes doctrines, pour les favoris des Princes, & autres seigneurs & gentilsho[m]mes qui hantent la cour. Nouvellement traduict d'Espaignol en Françoys par maistre Jaques de Rochemore.

 1556 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 7,583.00
166 TELIN, Guillaume

Bref sommaire des sept vertus, sept ars libéraulx, sept ars de poésie, sept ars méchaniques, des philozophies, des quinze ars magicques.

 1533 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 7,583.00
89 MAROT, Jean

Le Recueil.

 [vers 1534] EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 6,319.00
19 [BOUCHET, Jean]

Triomphes, du treschrestien, trespuissant, & invictissime, roy de France, François premier de ce nom : contenant la différence des nobles.

1549-1550 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,055.00
51 ÉRASME, Didier

Hyperaspistes diatribae adversus Servum Arbitrium Martini Lutheri. [suivi de :] Hyperaspistae liber secundus.

 1526 ; 1527 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,055.00
87 MAROT, Clément

Les Oeuvres de Clément Marot, de Cahors, valet de chambre du Roy.

 1546 EUR 4,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 5,055.00
150 RABELAIS, François.– DERAIN, André

Les Horribles et espouvantables faitz et prouesses du très renommé Pantagruel.

 1943 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 3,791.00
152 [RABELAIS]. FISCHART, Johannes

Affentheurlich Naupengeheurliche Geschichtklitterung von Thaten und Rhaten […] Grandgoschier Gorgellantua […] und Pantagruel […]. Etwan von M. Frantz Rabelais Französisch .enttworffen. Grenflug in Gänsserich

1590 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,791.00
30 CHARTIER, Alain

Les Faictz et dictz de feu de bonne mémoire Maistre Alain Chartier […]. Nouvellement imprimé, reveu et corrigé […]. Adjouste le débat du gras et du maigre. On les vend à

 1526 EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,286.00
14 [BIBLE]

Tes Kaines Diathekes hapanta. [Novum Testamentum ex bibliotheca regia].

 1549 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,780.00
160 [SIEYÈS, abbé Emmanuel-Joseph]

Qu'est-ce que le Tiers-État ?

1789 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,780.00
6 BAIF, Jean-Antoine de

Les Mimes, enseignemens et proverbes […]. À Monseigneur de Joieuse.

 1581 EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 2,528.00
5 AUGUSTIN, Saint

[Opuscula plurima, videl. Meditationes, Soliloquia, etc].

 1483, EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,896.00
49 EGINHARD

Vita et gesta Karoli Magni.

 1521 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,896.00
33 CONDORCET, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de

Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progrès de l'esprit humain ; suivie de Réflexions sur l'esclavage des nègres.

 1822 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,517.00
40 DU BELLAY, Joachim

Tumulus Henrici secundi.

 1549 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,517.00
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Modern First Editions
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
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