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Auction Name Hubert Heilbronn Library: Mailings - Provenances - Bindings Total Sales (EUR) 1,886,094.00
Auction Date May 11, 2021 - May 11, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 1,007,300.00
Sale Number #pf2133 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 1,485,900.00
Total Lots 319
Sold Lots 271 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 1,165,200.00
% of Lots Sold 84.95% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 1,717,400.00
Unsold Lots 48 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 109.82%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
39 [SADE, Donatien Alphonse François, marquis de]

La Philosophie dans le boudoir, ouvrage posthume de l'auteur de Justine. La mère en prescrira la lecture à sa fille.

1795 EUR 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 EUR 50,400.00
124 [Huysmans, Joris-Karl -- Édouard Manet]

Exposition des œuvres de Édouard Manet.

1884 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 44,100.00
179 Tocqueville, Alexis de

De la démocratie en Amérique.

1835-1840. EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 42,840.00
301 Proust, Marcel

Le côté de Guermantes II. Sodome et Gomorrhe I. [Et :] Sodome et Gomorrhe II.

1921 et 1922. EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 42,840.00
176 [Stendhal, Henri Beyle dit]

Le Rouge et le Noir, chronique du XIXe siècle.

1831 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 41,580.00
95 Dumas, Alexandre

Les Trois mousquetaires.

1844 EUR 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 EUR 37,800.00
167 [Stendhal, Henri Beyle dit] -- Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues

Œuvres complètes […] Nouvelle édition augmentée. Tome I.

1806 EUR 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 EUR 35,280.00
316 Valéry, Paul

Le Cimetière marin.

1920 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 30,240.00
85 Corbière, Tristan

Les Amours Jaunes.

1873 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 25,200.00
295 Proust, Marcel

Du côté de chez Swann.

1913 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 25,200.00
10 [Constitution]

La Constitution française.

1791 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 23,940.00
136 Mallarmé, Stéphane -- Edgar Allan Poe

Les Poèmes d’Edgar Poe.

1888 EUR 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 EUR 23,940.00
182 Verlaine, Paul

Les Poètes maudits. Épreuves corrigées.

1888 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 23,940.00
67 Barbey d'Aurevilly, Jules

Le Chevalier des Touches.

1886 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 22,680.00
168 [Stendhal, Henri Beyle dit] -- Germaine de Staël

De l’Allemagne.

1814 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 22,680.00
1

Almanach royal pour l’année 1789.

1788 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 18,900.00
55 Balzac, Honoré de

Une princesse parisienne.

1840 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 18,900.00
146 Mérimée, Prosper

Lettre autographe à Stendhal.

1833 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 17,640.00
171 [Stendhal, Henri Beyle dit]

Vies de Haydn, de Mozart et de Métastase.

1817 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 17,640.00
220 Breton, André

Nadja.

1928 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 17,640.00
86 Cros, Charles

Le Coffret de santal.

1879 EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 16,380.00
251 De Gaulle, Charles

Mémoires de guerre. Tomes I, II et III.

1954 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 16,380.00
296 Proust, Marcel

Du côté de chez Swann.

1913 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 16,380.00
252 Dreyfus, Alfred

Cinq années de ma vie.

1901 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 15,120.00
66 Barbey d'Aurevilly, Jules

Une Histoire sans nom.

1882 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 13,860.00
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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.
    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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  • 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.
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