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Artcurial: French Literature of the 19th and 20th Centuries

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Auction Name French Literature of the 19th and 20th Centuries Total Sales (EUR) 962,083.00
Auction Date November 19, 2019 - November 19, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 541,400.00
Sale Number #4002 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 776,000.00
Total Lots 266
Sold Lots 140 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 1,282,100.00
% of Lots Sold 52.63% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 1,838,400.00
Unsold Lots 126 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 52.33%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
209 BALZAC, Honoré de (1799-1850)

La Comédie humaine

1842-1848. EUR 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 EUR 65,715.00
252 FLAUBERT, Gustave (1821-1880)

Correspondance autographe à Guy de Maupassant

1870-1880 EUR 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 EUR 57,200.00
202 [ALBUM AMICORUM. - HUGO, VICTOR] (1802-1885)

Album Amicorum de Elisa Denain comprenant 51 dessins, dont 8 par Victor HUGO

EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 40,300.00
416 PROUST, Marcel (1871-1922)

À la recherche du temps perdu

1914-1927 EUR 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 EUR 37,913.00
464 ZOLA, Émile (1840-1902)

Manuscrit autographe signé intitulé "Édouard Manet"

n.d. 1883-1884 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 35,100.00
271 HUGO, VICTOR (1802-1885)

Dessin original signé, légendé « Maisons à mi-côte »

EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 31,200.00
259 GOYA, Franscisco de (1746-1828)

Los Desastres de la guerra

1863 EUR 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 30,330.00
442 STENDHAL (1783-1842)

Le Rouge et le Noir

1831 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 29,066.00
359 [HUGO, Victor] - DROUET, Juliette (1802-1885) - (1806-1883)

Réunion de 44 lettres autographes à Victor Hugo et de 2 feuillets de compte

1857-1882 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 23,400.00
441 STENDHAL (1783-1842)

Manuscrit autographe pour Rome, Naples et Florence

1824 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 22,750.00
444 UZANNE, Octave (1851-1931)

The Fan

1884 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 21,484.00
272 HUGO, Victor (1802-1885)

Étude d’éléments architecturaux Renaissance

EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 20,800.00
217 BAUDELAIRE, Charles (1821-1867)

Les Fleurs du mal

1857 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 20,220.00
332 HUGO, Victor (1802-1885)

Quatrevingt-treize

1874 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 20,220.00
432 RIMBAUD, Arthur (1854-1891)

Une Saison en enfer

1873 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 16,429.00
315 HUGO, Victor (1802-1885)

Les Misérables

1862 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 15,165.00
446 VERLAINE, Paul (1844-1896)

Fêtes galantes

1869 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 15,165.00
281 HUGO, Victor (1802-1885)

Notre-Dame de Paris

1831 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 14,533.00
466 ZOLA, Émile (1840-1902)

Manuscrits autographes signés : Mon Père. - François Zola. - François Zola (suite)

1898-1900 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 14,300.00
406 PERGAUD, Louis (1882-1915)

La Guerre des Boutons

1912 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 13,901.00
407 PROUST, Marcel (1871-1922)

Les Plaisirs et les Jours

1896 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 13,901.00
433 RIMBAUD, Arthur (1854-1891)

Une Saison en enfer

1873 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 12,638.00
427 [PROUST, Marcel] - RUSKIN, John (1871-1922) - (1819-1900)

Placard d'épreuves corrigées pour La Bible d'Amiens

1903 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 11,700.00
320 HUGO, Victor (1802-1885)

Épreuves corrigées pour Les Chansons des rues et des bois

1865 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 11,374.00
258 GIDE, André (1869-1951)

Si le grain ne meurt

1920 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 11,121.00
  • 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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    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.
  • 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
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    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
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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.
    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.
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