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Pierre Berge and Associes: Library of Genevieve and Jean Paul Kahn

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Auction Name Library of Genevieve and Jean Paul Kahn Total Sales (EUR) 5,760,341.00
Auction Date November 07, 2019 - November 07, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 2,777,100.00
Sale Number #99721 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 3,656,600.00
Total Lots 290
Sold Lots 276 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 3,177,100.00
% of Lots Sold 95.17% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 4,228,600.00
Unsold Lots 14 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 136.22%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
277 Paul ÉLUARD.

À toute épreuve.

1958 EUR 150,000.00 - 200,000.00 EUR 385,855.00
237 Jean GENET.

Tonnerre de Brest.

1945 EUR 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 EUR 182,000.00
151 André MAUROIS.

Le Peseur d'âmes précédé d'un frontispice et suivi de huit illustrations de Francis Picabia.

1931 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 164,288.00
181 Hans BELLMER.

La Poupée.

1936 EUR 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 EUR 151,650.00
76 André BRETON & Philippe SOUPAULT.

Champs magnétiques.

1919 EUR 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 EUR 117,000.00
185 Paul ÉLUARD.

La Barre d'appui.

1936 EUR 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 EUR 116,265.00
275 René CREVEL.

La Bague d'aurore.

1957 EUR 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 111,210.00
106 Louis ARAGON.

Une vague de rêves.

1924 EUR 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 EUR 93,518.00
220 Yves TANGUY.

Sans titre.

1939 EUR 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 EUR 91,000.00
29 Alfred JARRY.

Ubu Roi.

1896 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 83,408.00
153 Tristan TZARA.

L'Homme approximatif.

1931 EUR 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 EUR 78,353.00
75 Max ERNST.

Fiat modes, pereat ars.

1919 EUR 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 EUR 72,034.00
187 Georges HUGNET.

La Septième Face du dé.

1936 EUR 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 EUR 72,034.00
116 André BRETON.

Carnet de notes pour Nadja.

1926 EUR 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 EUR 71,500.00
159 René CREVEL.

Les Pieds dans le plat.

1933 EUR 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 EUR 60,660.00
281 Joan MIRÓ et André BRETON.

Constellations.

1959 EUR 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 EUR 60,660.00
18 Gérard de NERVAL.

Fragment d'Aurélia.

Vers 1855 EUR 50,000.00 - 60,000.00 EUR 58,500.00
54 Jean ARP.

Dessin automatique.

1916 EUR 30,000.00 - 35,000.00 EUR 58,500.00
60 Guillaume APOLLINAIRE.

L'Horloge de demain.

1917 EUR 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 EUR 58,500.00
265 René MAGRITTE.

Portrait formé de chiffres.

1952 EUR 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 58,500.00
170 Man RAY.

Explosante fixe.

1934 EUR 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 EUR 57,200.00
96

[SURREALISME].

1921-1939 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 56,869.00
163 Tullio Mazzotti dit D'ALBISOLA.

L'Anguria lirica (lungo poema passionale).

1933 ? EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 56,869.00
65 Francis PICABIA.

391.0

1917-1924 EUR 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 EUR 55,605.00
70 Guillaume APOLLINAIRE.

Calligrammes. Ondes - Étendards- Case d'Armons - Lueurs des tirs - Obus couleur de lune - La Tête étoilée.

1918 EUR 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 EUR 47,391.00
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
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