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Heritage Auctions: The Maurice Car Collection featuring Rare Books and Manuscripts

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Auction Name The Maurice Car Collection featuring Rare Books and Manuscripts Total Sales (USD) 1,277,319.50
Auction Date September 04, 2019 - September 04, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 340,240.00
Sale Number #6218 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 510,360.00
Total Lots 243
Sold Lots 237 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 347,040.00
% of Lots Sold 97.53% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 520,560.00
Unsold Lots 6 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 245.37%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
45150

Sir Isaac Newton. Autograph Manuscript, Notes on Physics and Solid Geometry, with Two Diagrams. In Latin. [Oxford: 1694].

1694 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 399,000.00
45091

Tristan Tzara. Autograph Manuscripts on Dada. [Paris?]; [circa 1920s].

circa1920s USD 16,000.00 - 24,000.00 USD 68,750.00
45112

Raymond Radiguet. Le diable au corps. Typed Manuscript with Holograph corrections.

USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 40,000.00
45034

Paul Gauguin. Autograph Manuscript.

USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 USD 37,500.00
45070

[Francis Picabia]. Marie de la Hire, FRANCIS PICABIA. Paris: La Cible Gallery, [1920]. First edition.

1920 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 36,250.00
45065

Henri Matisse. Autograph Manuscript Signed. "Henri Matisse." Fifteen pages [rectos only] in French, entitled "Notes d'un peintre", 7.77" x 12.25" [pages 1-8] and 8" x 10.5" [pages 9-15], n.p.; [1908].

1908 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 31,250.00
45072

Pablo Picasso. Original Abstract Ink Drawing. One page, 8.25" x 10.5", n.p. [Paris]; 1942.

1942 USD 3,200.00 - 4,800.00 USD 30,000.00
45036

Paul Gauguin. Tahitian or Polynesian-French Dictionary. AM. Four pages (both sides of two separate sheets), 8" x 12.25"; [Tahiti?]; [ca. 1890s]. Gauguin probably created this manuscript during one of the two periods of time he lived in Tahiti. There are a

[ca.1890s]. USD 6,400.00 - 9,600.00 USD 27,500.00
45011

Paul Cezanne. Autograph Letter Signed With Sketches. ALS. "Paul Cezanne." One page in French, with two sketches, 5.5" x 8.75", Aix; October 19, 1906.

1906 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 21,250.00
45032

Paul Gauguin. Autograph Letter Signed.

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 18,750.00
45074

[Picasso]. Honoré de Balzac. LE CHEF-D'OEUVRE INCONNU. Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1931. Limited and extra-illustrated edition based on the 1831 first edition.

1931 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 16,250.00
45099

Ezra Pound. Archive of Letters.

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 15,000.00
45114

Paul Verlaine. Autograph Letter Signed and Drawing Signed.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 12,500.00
45035

Paul Gauguin. Autograph Manuscript. "On Ugliness:...".

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 11,875.00
45089

Paul Signac. Three Autograph Letters Signed, with Two Theatre Programs.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 11,875.00
45110

Raymond Radiguet. Album of print and manuscript poems. Twenty-three leaves, 8" x 10.75", half leather binding, [Paris?]; [circa 1923].

circa1923. USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 11,875.00
45151

Louis Pasteur. Group of Six Letters Concerning Rabies, 1871-1890.

1871-1890. USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 USD 11,250.00
45015

Jean Cocteau. Three Part Manuscript and the Limited Numbered Edition of L' Ode à Picasso. Inscribed by Cocteau to Fanny Car with a full page drawing. Numerous holograph corrections in ink and pencil to the manuscript.

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,625.00
45073

Pablo Picasso. Autograph Letter Signed.

USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 10,625.00
45025

Eugène Delacroix. Autograph Manuscript.

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 10,312.50
45031

Paul Gauguin. Autograph Letter Signed.

USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 USD 10,312.50
45033

Paul Gauguin. Autograph Manuscript.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 10,000.00
45152

Louis Pasteur. Group of Twelve Letters and a Photograph, 1857-1889.

1857-1889. USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 USD 10,000.00
45012

Paul Cezanne. Autograph Letter Signed. "Paul Cezanne." Two pages (of a bifolium) in French, 5"x 8", Aix; April 2, 1902.

1902 USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 USD 9,687.50
45123

Albert Einstein. Typed Letter Signed. "A. Einstein."

USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 9,375.00
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
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    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.
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    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
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    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
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    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
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    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
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