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Auction Name BOOKS - FROM THE LIBRARY OF DR HENRI POLAILLON - OLD BOOKS AND MILITARY COSTUMES Total Sales (EUR) 473,280.00
Auction Date July 08, 2020 - July 08, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 175,250.00
Sale Number #105966 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 275,320.00
Total Lots 191
Sold Lots 181 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 190,930.00
% of Lots Sold 94.76% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 300,170.00
Unsold Lots 10 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 157.67%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
120 MERCURIALE, Girolamo

De arte gymnastica libri sex, In quibus exercitationum omnium vetustarum genera,...

 1573 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 36,343.00
116 MARTINET, Pierre [Troupes françaises, et autres]

Paris, Chez Martinet, rue du Coq, [1807-1814] 383 superbes planches de costumes...

 1807-1814 EUR 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 EUR 30,077.00
61 EDWARDS, George

Gleanings of Natural history exhibiting Figures of Quadrupeds, Birds, Insects, Plants......

 1758-1760-1764 EUR 12,000.00 - 16,000.00 EUR 27,570.00
54 DU FOUILLOUX, Jacques

La Vénerie de Jacques du Fouilloux, Gentilhomme, Seigneur dudit lieu, pays de Gastine,...

 1754 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 23,811.00
115 MARTINET, Pierre

Galerie des Enfans de Mars et Collection de divers Uniformes de tous les Corps composant...

 1807-1814 EUR 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 EUR 23,811.00
150 [REBOUL, Guillaume de, attr.]

Le Nouveau Panurge avec la Navigation en l'Isle imaginaire; son rajeunissement en...

 1614-1616 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 21,304.00
97 LAVALLÉE, Joseph, marquis de Boisrobert

Annales nécrologiques de la Légion d'honneur ou notices sur la vie, les actions...

 1807 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 14,036.00
162 SEELE, Johann Baptist et Johann VOLZ

[Characteristiche Darstellung der Vorzuglichsten Europaeischen Militairs] Augsbourg,...

 1800-1810 EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 13,785.00
189 WEILAND, Carl Ferdinand

Représentation des uniformes de l'armée impériale et royale française et de ses...

 1812 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 12,532.00
40

[CHRONICA CHRONICARUM]. Le Registre des ans passez puis la création du monde jusques...

 1532 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 10,652.00
183 VALLÉE, Geoffroy

La Béatitude des chrétiens ou le Fléo de la Foy [Paris], [1760-1780] Un moment dans...

 1760 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 9,660.00
187 VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet, dit

Œuvres complètes [Kehl], Société littéraire typographique, 1785-1789 Remarquable...

 1785 EUR 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 EUR 8,772.00
165 SEYSSEL, Claude de

Histoire du Roy Loys Douziesme, Père du Peuple Paris, Chez Jacques du Puis, à la...

 1587 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 7,519.00
33

[BIBLIOGRAPHIE]. [Cabinet du Roi]. Suite et arrangements des volumes d'estampes dont...

 1727 EUR 6,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 7,269.00
30 BRUGUIÈRE, J.-T

L'Oiseau et le petit chien, conte historique, en quatre chants Paris, Le Normant,...

 1810 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 6,266.00
105 LESAGE, Alain-René, Jacques-Philippe d'ORNEVAL et Louis Fuzelier

Le Théâtre de la foire ou l'opéra-comique. Contenant les meilleures pièces qui ont...

 1737 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 6,266.00
145 [POTRELLE] [Garde des Consuls]

Paris, chez Potrelle, rue Saint Honoré et chez Niodot, rue de Thionville, [1799-1804]...

 1799-1804 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 6,266.00
86 HORVARTH, Karl Christian

Uniformes de l'Armée de la République Française Potsdam, Chez Horvarth Libraire,...

 c.1790? EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 5,765.00
1 AGOSTÍN, Antonio

I Discorsi sopra le medaglie et altre anticaglie divisi in XI dialoghi con l'agiunta...

 1592 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,639.00
42 COLONNA, Fabio

Minus cognitarum rariorumque nostro coelo orientium stirpium ekphrasis... item de...

 1616 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 5,639.00
121 MILLIN de GRANDMAISON, Aubin-Louis, chevalier

Histoire métallique de Napoléon ou Recueil des médailles et des monnaies qui ont...

 1815, 1821 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 5,263.00
49 DORTOUS de MAIRAN, Jean-Jacques

Traité physique et historique de l'aurore boréale Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1733...

 1733 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 5,013.00
184 [VERRUË, Jeanne-Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes, comtesse de]

Catalogue des livres de feue madame la comtesse de Verruë dont la vente se fera...

 1737 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 5,013.00
101 LE POIS, Antoine

Discours sur les medalles et graveures antiques, principalement Romaines Paris,...

 1579 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 4,762.00
82 HERBERT, Thomas, 8e comte de PEMBROKE

Numismata Antiqua in tres partes divisa collegit olim et aeri incidi vivens curavit...

 1746 EUR 2,500.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,386.00
  • 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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    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
  • 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.
  • 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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