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Auction Name Aristophil Collection - 33 - Literature Total Sales (EUR) 1,461,321.00
Auction Date November 17, 2020 - November 17, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 656,900.00
Sale Number #107347 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 868,800.00
Total Lots 230
Sold Lots 170 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 1,147,700.00
% of Lots Sold 73.91% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 1,517,100.00
Unsold Lots 60 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 96.32%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
107 VERLAINE Paul (1844 1896)

Cellulairement, autograph manuscript of 32 poems, with an unpublished autograph letter from Verlaine to Sivry illustrated with an ORIGINAL DRAWING

1873-1875 EUR 80,000.00 - 100,000.00 EUR 214,500.00
79 RIMBAUD Arthur (1854 1891)

Bonne pensée du matin, autograph poem

1872 EUR 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 EUR 145,600.00
224

The Deserter. Lyrics and music by Boris Vian.

1954 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 66,300.00
37 CAMUS Albert (1913 1960)

Correspondence of 89 signed autograph letters addressed to Blanche BALAIN From December 7, 1937 to June 27, 1959.

1937-1959 EUR 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 EUR 50,700.00
17 BAUDELAIRE Charles (1821 1867)

Portrait of Jeanne DUVAL, original drawing

EUR 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 EUR 40,300.00
115 VIAN Boris

Importante correspondance de 52 lettres autographes signées et 1 carte autographe signée, adressées à sa femme Michelle.

1941-1954 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 39,000.00
192 VIAN Boris

[Heartbreaking] Les Fillettes de la reine, autograph manuscripts and typescripts signed by L'Arrache-Coeur.

1951 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 36,400.00
113 VIAN Boris (1920 1959)

79 signed autograph letters addressed to his mother

1939-1940 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 35,750.00
57 GAUGUIN Paul (1848 1903)

Signed autograph letter addressed to Daniel de Monfreid

1901 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 27,300.00
228

I'm a snob. Words of Boris Vian. Music by Jimmy Walter.

1955 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 24,700.00
124 VIAN Boris

L'Écume des Jours, preparatory manuscripts with original drawings

1946 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 24,050.00
49 DELACROIX Eugène (1798 1863) BAUDELAIRE Charles (1821 1867)

Original drawing, preparatory study sheet for The Sultan of Morocco

EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 23,400.00
2 APOLLINAIRE Guillaume (1880 1918)

Alcohol. Poems (1898-1913). , accompanied by a portrait of the author by Pablo PICASSO

1913 EUR 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 EUR 22,746.00
189 VIAN Boris

Le Goûter des généraux, autograph manuscripts and typescripts.

1951 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 20,800.00
230

[Dentist's Blues] Dentist's gown. Words of Boris Vian. Music by Henri Salvador.

1958 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 18,200.00
80 RIMBAUD Arthur (1854 1891)

Autograph manuscript

circa 1877 EUR 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 16,900.00
214 VIAN Boris

En avant la zizique, autograph manuscript

1958 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 16,900.00
137 VIAN Boris

Jelly cantilenas, manuscripts

EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 16,250.00
19 BAUDELAIRE Charles (1821 1867)

Signed autograph letter addressed to Auguste POULET-MALASSIS

1858 EUR 7,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 15,600.00
25 CAMUS Albert (1913 1960)

Study on The Plague after Thucydides and Lucretia, autograph manuscript

Mid 1940s. EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 15,600.00
227

We're not here to be yelled at.

EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 14,300.00
59 GAUGUIN Paul (1848 1903)

Signed autograph letter addressed to Camille PISSARRO

n.d. 1882 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 12,350.00
201 VIAN Boris

Mademoiselle Julie, by August Strinberg, autograph manuscript

Circa 1950 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 11,700.00
139 VIAN Boris

Jazz in Paris], autograph manuscript and corrected typescript

1948-1949 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 11,050.00
143 VIAN Boris

The Werewolf. Une pénible histoire, autograph manuscript

1952 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 11,050.00
  • 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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