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Auction Name Modern Illustrated Books and Original Bindings Total Sales (EUR) 329,312.50
Auction Date June 26, 2020 - June 26, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 174,430.00
Sale Number #25929 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 225,240.00
Total Lots 277
Sold Lots 193 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 235,500.00
% of Lots Sold 69.68% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 304,020.00
Unsold Lots 84 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 108.32%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
49 LECUIRE (Pierre).

Ballets-minute.

1954 EUR 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 32,500.00
25 ÉSOPE.

Dix fables.

1928 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 19,375.00
120 SIMA (Joseph).

Portrait de Léon Pierre-Quint.

1928 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 12,500.00
184 HOMÈRE.

L'Odyssée.

1930-1933. EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 12,500.00
122 BOFA (Gus).

Recueil de 43 dessins originaux, intitulé Contacts.

EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 9,750.00
189 BALZAC (Honoré de).

Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu.

1931 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 9,750.00
46 KIPLING (Rudyard).

La Chasse de Kaa.

1930 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 8,125.00
162 GOULDEN (Jean).

Salonique, la Macédoine, l'Athos.

1922 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 6,875.00
243 MALRAUX (André).

La Tentation de l'Occident.

s.d. [1962]. EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 6,875.00
48 LA FONTAINE (Jean de).

Les Fables.

1929 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 6,375.00
240 SABARTÉS (Jaime).

Picasso. Les Ménines et la vie.

1958 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 6,250.00
10 BAUDELAIRE (Charles).

Quinze histoires d'Edgar Poë.

1897 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 6,000.00
57 MAETERLINCK (Maurice).

La Vie des abeilles.

1908 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 5,750.00
242 PICASSO (Pablo).

Carnet de la Californie.

1959 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,625.00
119 [MÉHEUT (Mathurin)].

Livre d'or du château de la Ribellerie.

[1920-1955]. EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 5,250.00
186 LOTI (Pierre).

Un Pèlerin d’Angkor.

1930 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 4,750.00
60 MEUNIER (Charles).

La Flore Ornementale appropriée aux décors des reliures.

1938 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,375.00
108 KESSEL (Joseph).

Les Nuits de Sibérie.

1928 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 4,375.00
247 BATAILLE (Georges).

Madame Edwarda.

1965 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,375.00
139 TINGUELY (Jean).

Merci pour la [clé de sol] de Boulez. Lettre autographe signée à Claude Pompidou.

1985 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,000.00
187 MARDRUS (Jean Charles).

Ruth et Booz.

1930 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 4,000.00
97 DEVAMBEZ (André).

Auguste a mauvais caractère.

s.d. [1913]. EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 3,750.00
133 DU BOUCHET (André).

Dans leur voix les eaux.

1980 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,750.00
157 MOT (Le).

Collection complète de la revue.

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 3,750.00
106 CHERONNET (Louis).

Extra-Muros.

1929 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 3,500.00
  • 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.
  • 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
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