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Auction Name Rare Books and Manuscripts Total Sales (EUR) 1,283,576.00
Auction Date May 27, 2020 - May 27, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 731,200.00
Sale Number #19122 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 1,060,750.00
Total Lots 182
Sold Lots 147 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 965,600.00
% of Lots Sold 80.77% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 1,388,450.00
Unsold Lots 35 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 92.45%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
128 GIDE, André (1869-1951)

Médaille de son prix Nobel de littérature

1947 EUR 120,000.00 - 180,000.00 EUR 150,000.00
53 HIPPOCRATE (c. 460 - 377 av JC) - DURET, Louis (1527-1586)

Hippocratis magni coacae Praenotiones. Opus admirabile, in tres libros tributum. Interprete et enarratore Ludovico Dureto, segusiano, ad Henricum III, Galli et Polonia regem Christianisimum, cum rerum commemorabilium Indice amplissimo..

1588 EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 EUR 93,750.00
111 DUCHAMP, Marcel (1887-1968)

De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy (la Boîte-en-valise)

1968-1971. EUR 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 EUR 68,750.00
50 VILLON, François (1431-après 1463)

Les Œuvres de maistre Francoys Villlon. Le monologue du franc archier de Baignollet. Le Dyalogue des seigneurs de Mallepaye & Baillevent.

1532 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 47,500.00
97 BELLMER, Hans (1902-1975) - ÉLUARD, Paul (1895-1952)

Les Jeux de la Poupée. Illustrés de textes par Paul Éluard

1949 EUR 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 EUR 47,500.00
133 ILIAZD, Ilia Zdanevitch, dit (1894-1975) – PICASSO, Pablo (1881-1973)

Le Frère mendiant o Libro del Conocimiento. Los viajes en Africa publicados antiguamente por Bergeron Margry y Jimenez de la Espada e ilustrados ahora y compaginados por Pablo Picasso e Iliazd.

1959 EUR 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 EUR 40,000.00
112 DUCHAMP, Marcel (1887 – 1968)

La Mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires même

1934 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 25,000.00
166 PICASSO, Pablo (1881-1973) – DOMNIGUIN, Luis Miguel (1926-1996)

Toros y Toreros.

1961 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 25,000.00
36 RABELAIS, François (1494-1553)

Les Œuvres de M. François Rabelais, Docteur en Médecine, Contenans la vie, faicts & dicts Heroïques de Gargantua, & de son filz Pantagruel. Avec la Prognostication Pantagrueline.

1556 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 22,500.00
96 ARAGON, Louis (1897-1982)

Traité du style.

1928 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 22,500.00
132 ILIAZD, Ilia Zdanevitch, dit (1894-1975) -- PICASSO, Pablo (1881-1973) -- MONLUC, Adrian de (1571-1646)

La Maigre.

1952 EUR 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 EUR 22,500.00
52 VOLTAIRE, François-Marie Arouet, dit (1694-1778)

Lettre autographe signée "V." à Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand. Ferney, le 26 mars 1774.

1774 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 21,250.00
63 BAUDELAIRE, Charles (1821-1867)

Les Fleurs du mal

1857 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 21,250.00
100 [BRETON, André (1896-1966)].

La Révolution surréaliste

1924-1929. EUR 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 EUR 20,000.00
5 [COOK, James (1728-1779)] -- HAWKESWORTH, John (1715-1773)

Relation des voyages entrepris pas ordre de Sa Majesté britannique,... pour faire des découvertes dans l'Hémisphère Méridional..

1774 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 17,500.00
17 [LA FAYETTE, Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de (1634-1693)].

La Princesse de Cleves.

1678 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 17,500.00
35

POÉSIE PERSANE. Iran safavide, Shiraz, daté 948 en années hégiriennes, soit 1541 du calendrier grégorien.

1541 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 17,500.00
141 ILIAZD, Ilia Zdanevitch, dit (1894-1975) – MIRÓ, Joan (1893-1983) – MONLUC, Adrien de (1571-1646)

Le Courtisan grotesque

1974 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 17,500.00
148 LE CORBUSIER, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret dit (1887-1965)

Poème de l'angle droit

1955 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 16,875.00
142 ILIAZD, Ilia Zdanevitch, dit (1894-1975) -- MIRÓ, Joan (1893-1983) -- MONLUC, Adrien de (1571-1646)

Le Courtisan grotesque

1974 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 16,250.00
163 PICASSO, Pablo (1881-1973) – BUFFON, Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de (1707-1788)

Eaux-fortes originales pour des textes de Buffon

1942 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 16,250.00
73 HUGO, Victor (1802-1885)

Marine au trois-mâts. Dessin original signé.

Sans date [circa 1856 ?]. EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 15,000.00
165 PICASSO, Pablo (1881-1973) – GONGORA, Luis de (1561-1627)

Vingt poèmes

1948 EUR 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 EUR 15,000.00
10 EURIPIDE (circa 484-406 av. J.C.)

Tragoedia septendecim, en grec.

1503 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 13,750.00
105 APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume (1880-1918) – CHIRICO, Giorgio de (1888-1978)

Calligrammes. Lithos de Chirico.

1930 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 13,750.00
  • Sotheby’s
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
  • 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.
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