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De Baecque and Associes: Ancient and Modern Books

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Auction Name Ancient and Modern Books Total Sales (EUR) 277,518.75
Auction Date January 20, 2021 - January 20, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 240.00
Sale Number #111329 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 320.00
Total Lots 127
Sold Lots 112 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 240.00
% of Lots Sold 88.19% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 320.00
Unsold Lots 15 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 86724.61%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
13 BAUDELAIRE (Charles)

Les Fleurs du mal.

1857 Not Available EUR 25,125.00
80 MAITRES DE L'AFFICHE (Les)

Publication mensuelle contenant la reproduction des plus belles affiches illustrées des grands artistes, français et étrangers. Éditée par l'Imprimerie Chaix.

1896-1900. Not Available EUR 25,000.00
7 AUDEBERT (Jean-Baptiste) - VIEILLOT (Louis-Pierre)

Oiseaux dorés ou à reflets métalliques. Histoire naturelle et générale des colibris, oiseaux-mouches, jacamars et promerops. - Histoire naturelle et générale des grimpereaux et des oiseaux de paradis.

1801-1802. Not Available EUR 23,750.00
77

[LIVRE D'HEURES TISSÉ] - LIVRE DE PRIÈRES TISSÉ SUR SOIE d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle.

1886 Not Available EUR 21,250.00
45 ESTAMPE MODERNE (L')

Publication Mensuelle contenant quatre estampes originales inédites en couleurs et en noir des principaux Artistes modernes Français et Étrangers.

1897-1899. Not Available EUR 14,375.00
70 LA FONTAINE (Jean de)

FABLES CHOISIES, mises en vers.

1755-1759. Not Available EUR 12,250.00
22 BUFFON.

Histoire naturelle générale et particulière avec la description du cabinet du Roy.

1770-1789. Not Available EUR 11,750.00
37 DUBOIS DE MONTPEREUX (Frédéric)

Voyage au Caucase, chez les Tcherkesses et les Abkhases en Colchide, en Géorgie, en Arménie et en Crimée. Atlas.

1843 Not Available EUR 9,000.00
25 [CHAGALL]. CAIN (Julien) - MOURLOT (Fernand)

Chagall lithographe. Avant-propos de Marc Chagall. Notices de F. Mourlot.

(1960). Not Available EUR 5,000.00
85 PLACE (Victor)

Ninive et l'Assyrie. Ouvrage publié d'après les ordres de l'Empereur, avec des essais de restauration par Félix Thomas.

1867-1870. Not Available EUR 4,750.00
107 VOLTAIRE.

OEuvres complètes.

 1785-1789 Not Available EUR 4,500.00
54 GUIGNES (Ch. Louis-Joseph de)

Voyages à Peking, Manille et l'Ile de France faits dans l'intervalle des années 1784 à 1801.

 1808 Not Available EUR 4,125.00
48 FEUILLETS D'ART (Les)

Recueil de littérature et d'art contemporain.

1919-1922. Not Available EUR 4,000.00
87 REPTON (Humphry)

Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, including some remarks on Grecian abd gothic architecture.

 1805 Not Available EUR 3,875.00
5

ARTS ET METIERS GRAPHIQUES.

1927-1939. Not Available EUR 3,750.00
114 LE RICHE (Henri)

Pages bibliques. Traduction par Édouard DHORME.

n.d. [1938] Not Available EUR 3,750.00
6

ATLAS MODERNE ou Collection de cartes sur toutes les parties du Globe Terrestre.

(après 1771). Not Available EUR 3,625.00
58 HOGG (Robert)

The Herefordshire Pomona, containing original figures and descriptions of the most esteemed kinds of Apples and Pears.

1876-1885. Not Available EUR 3,625.00
59 ICART (Louis)

Gestes de femmes. Guerre de 1914-16.

(1917). Not Available EUR 3,500.00
93 TAYLOR (Isidore) - NODIER (Charles)

Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France : NORMANDIE

 1820-25. Not Available EUR 3,500.00
60 JAUME SAINT-HILAIRE (Jean-Henri)

Plantes de la France décrites et peintes d'après nature.

1808-1809. Not Available EUR 3,375.00
44

[ENTREE SOLENNELLE]. FÊTES DONNÉES PAR LA VILLE DE STRASBOURG pour la convalescence du Roi à l'arrivée et pendant le séjour de Sa Majesté en cette ville.

(1745). Not Available EUR 3,250.00
115 LOUS (Pierre)

Les Chansons de Bilitis.

n. d. [1925] Not Available EUR 3,250.00
46 ESTAMPE MODERNE (L')

Ensemble de 31 estampes in folio (41 x 30,5 cms) en couleurs ou en noir portant le cachet à froid de l'Estampe Moderne et accompagnées d'une serpente sur laquelle figure un poème ou texte d'un auteur célèbre en lien avec l'image.

 1897 Not Available EUR 2,850.00
57 HERTZOG (Bernhard)

Chronicon Alsatiae.

1592 Not Available EUR 2,750.00
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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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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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    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
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    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
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    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
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    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
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