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Auction Name Books and Manuscripts Total Sales (EUR) 178,776.00
Auction Date November 16, 2019 - November 16, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 80,950.00
Sale Number #100413 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 109,200.00
Total Lots 130
Sold Lots 107 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 241,450.00
% of Lots Sold 82.31% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 340,900.00
Unsold Lots 23 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 52.44%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
42 FRANÇOIS DE SALES.

Lettre autographe signée à l'évêque de Montpellier Pierre de Fenouillet.

1616 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 10,660.00
116 SCIENCES, fin du XVIIIe siècle-XXe.

– Ensemble d'environ 50 lettres et pièces.

EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 6,500.00
127 HUGNET (Georges).

Onan

EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 6,500.00
70 MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY (Félix).

Lettre autographe signée [à la cantatrice Jenny Lind].

1846 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 6,240.00
107 LITTÉRATURE, XIXe siècle.

– Ensemble d'environ 60 lettres et pièces.

EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 5,200.00
77 MOULIN (Jean).

Lettre autographe signée à sa mère Blanche Pègue et à sa sœur Laure Moulin.

1940 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,940.00
84 PUCCINI (Giacomo).

Manuscrit autographe signé, daté du 21 février 1885.

1885 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 4,940.00
78 NEWTON (Isaac).

Pièce signée « Isaac Newton » contresignée par Hopton Haynes.

1718 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 4,550.00
111 LITTÉRATURE, XXe siècle.

– Ensemble d'environ 60 lettres et pièces.

XIXe-XXe siècles EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 4,550.00
38 EINSTEIN (Albert).

Lettre signée à William Roth.

1953 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 4,225.00
113 MUSIQUE, seconde moitié du XIXe siècle.

– Ensemble d'environ 70 lettres et pièces.

, seconde moitié du XIXe siècle. EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,225.00
114 MUSIQUE, XXe siècle.

– Ensemble d'environ 80 lettres et pièces.

XXe siècle. EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 4,225.00
59 JOUVE (Paul). – LA FONTAINE (Jean de).

Fables.

1929 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 4,160.00
5 APOLLINAIRE (Wilhelm de Kostrowitzky, dit Guillaume).

Lettre autographe signée « Gui » à Louise de Coligny.

1915 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 4,030.00
37 EINSTEIN (Albert).

Carte autographe signée « Albert », en allemand, à Auguste Hochberger.

1913 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 3,640.00
44 FREUD (Lucian).

3 missives, soit 2 autographes signées « dad » et une autographe, adressées à sa fille Annabel.

1974-1976. EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,640.00
63 LAWRENCE (Thomas Edward).

Lettre autographe signée de ses initiales à Ernest MacLeod Dowson.

1925 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,640.00
90 RILKE (Rainer-Maria).

Lettre autographe signée, en allemand, à Richard Batka.

1901 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 3,640.00
43 FREUD (Sigmund).

Carte autographe signée à un « cher collègue » émigré comme lui à Londres.

1938 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 3,250.00
95 SARTRE (Jean-Paul).

Lettre autographe signée [probablement à Olga Kosakiewicz].

n.d. EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,120.00
67 MALRAUX (André).

Ensemble de notes en partie autographes pour son discours prononcé au Palais des sports à Paris au nom de l'association « Pour la Ve République » le 15 décembre 1965.

1965 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,860.00
91 ROLAND (Jeanne-Marie Philipon, madame).

Lettre autographe signée au chimiste et naturaliste Henri Albert Gosse.

1785 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,730.00
28 CURIE (Marie).

Lettre signée à Emmanuel Brousse.

1920 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 2,600.00
109 LITTÉRATURE et divers, XIXe-XXe siècles.

– Ensemble d'environ 30 lettres et pièces.

XIXe-XXe siècles EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 2,600.00
130 COCTEAU (Jean).

Dessin original, avec annotations...

EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,340.00
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • 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
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
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