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Auction Name Literature of the 20th Century - Aristophil Collection Total Sales (EUR) 509,903.00
Auction Date June 17, 2020 - June 17, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 262,700.00
Sale Number #4041 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 392,500.00
Total Lots 127
Sold Lots 95 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 797,000.00
% of Lots Sold 74.80% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 1,233,800.00
Unsold Lots 32 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 41.33%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
493 [SURRÉALISME]

La Petite Anthologie poétique du Surréalisme.

1934 EUR 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 EUR 35,100.00
409 DEBORD, Guy Ernest

Correspondance à Maurice Wyckaert.

1er mars 1958 - 6 décembre 1960 EUR 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 EUR 27,300.00
430 HESSE, Herman

Zwölf Gedichte.

1949 EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 24,700.00
464 PROUST, Marcel

Correspondance autographe signée.

1907-1917 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 24,700.00
392 CÉLINE, Louis-Ferdinand

Réunion de 49 lettres autographes signées.

1932-1937 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 22,100.00
397 CHAR, René

Manuscrit autographe signé pour Artine.

22 septembre 1930 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 20,800.00
481 SAINT-EXUPÉRY, Antoine de

Manuscrit autographe inédit sur l’angoisse.

[Vers 1942 ?] EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 19,500.00
444 LOUŸS, Pierre

Manuscrit autographe pour Aphrodite.

1896] EUR 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 15,600.00
490 SIMENON, Georges

Manuscrit autographe signé intitulé « L’auberge d’Ingrannes ».

31 octobre 1950 EUR 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 EUR 14,300.00
445 LOUŸS, Pierre

Recueil de correspondances et documents manuscrits érotiques.

EUR 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 13,650.00
469 PROUST, Marcel

Deux dessins autographes.

EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 13,650.00
371 APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume

Lettre autographe signée « G. » comportant deux poèmes.

23 juin 1915 EUR 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 13,000.00
491 SIMENON, Georges

Manuscrit autographe.

[vers 1969] EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 13,000.00
470 [PROUST, Marcel].- SCHIFF, Violet.

Lettres autographes et dactylographiées signées.

1922-1949 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 12,350.00
398 CHAR, René

Manuscrit autographe pour Moulin premier.

1935-1936 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 11,050.00
384 BEAUVOIR, Simone de

Manuscrit autographe.

[vers 1966] EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 9,100.00
427 GUITRY, Sacha

Manuscrit autographe paraphé, accompagné d’une dactylographie signée.

[1945] EUR 800.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 8,320.00
385 BLOY, Léon

Correspondance amoureuse à Johanne Molbech.

29 août 1889-[8 avril] 1890 EUR 1,800.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 8,060.00
426 GUITRY, Sacha

Manuscrit autographe signé.

15 avril 1945 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 8,060.00
423 GIDE, André

Manuscrit autographe signé intitulé Le Renoncement au voyage.

EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 7,280.00
466 PROUST, Marcel

Lettre autographe signée.

[vers 1917-1918] EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 7,280.00
443 LOUŸS, Pierre

Astarté.

1891 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 6,890.00
472 ROUAULT, Georges

Important ensemble de manuscrits.

1940 EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 6,890.00
465 PROUST, Marcel

Lettre autographe signée.

[26 mars 1908] EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 6,760.00
399 CHAR, René

Réunion de 34 lettres autographes, dont 33 signées.

1937 EUR 2,800.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 6,240.00
  • 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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