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Auction Name Books and Manuscripts Total Sales (EUR) 473,700.00
Auction Date April 29, 2021 - April 29, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 223,200.00
Sale Number #113832 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 306,450.00
Total Lots 171
Sold Lots 159 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 234,000.00
% of Lots Sold 92.98% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 321,000.00
Unsold Lots 12 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 147.57%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
64 DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN. - ROMME (Charles Gilbert)

DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN. - ROMME (Charles Gilbert) Autograph notes (about 6 columns, mostly in ink) on a manuscript entitled "Declaration of the Rights of Man in Society, of the Rights of Society over its Members, and of Nations among themselves

 1793 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 36,250.00
4 BAUDELAIRE (Charles)- POE (Edgar Allan)

Extraordinary stories.

1856 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 25,000.00
23 PICASSO (Pablo) - BENOIT (Pierre-André)

Stones.

1958 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 16,250.00
114 RILKE (Rainer-Maria)

RILKE (Rainer-Maria) 3 autographed letters, 2 of which to ANDRÉ GIDE.

1914-1926 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 14,375.00
30 SCHMIED (François-Louis) - SUETONE.

The Twelve Caesars.

1928 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 12,500.00
124 ZOLA (Émile)

ZOLA (Émile) Autograph manuscript signed entitled "Correspondance de Paris".

1879 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 12,500.00
68 EINSTEIN (Albert)

EINSTEIN (Albert) Autograph letter signed, in German, addressed to his son Hans-Albert Einstein.

1938 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 11,250.00
69 EINSTEIN (Albert)

EINSTEIN (Albert) Autograph letter signed with his initials, in alle_x005F_x0002_mand, addressed to Ernst Gabor Straus.

1950 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 11,250.00
78 GAUGUIN (Paul)

GAUGUIN (Paul) Autograph letter signed to Émile Schuffenecker.

1890 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 11,250.00
102 MONET (Claude)

MONET (Claude) 9 missives, namely: 7 autograph letters signed, one autograph bil_x005F_x0002_let on a visiting card, and one handwritten letter in dictation.

1882-1923. EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 10,000.00
83 HEMINGWAY (Ernest)

HEMINGWAY (Ernest) Autograph letter signed with his nickname "Pap_x005F_x0002_pa" to Charles [Thompson].

1933 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 9,125.00
59 CLAIRAUT (Alexis-Claude)

CLAIRAUT (Alexis-Claude) Autograph letter [to Émilie Du Châtelet].

1741 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 8,750.00
7 BRETON (André)

L'Amour fou.

1937 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 8,500.00
100 MALRAUX (André)

MALRAUX (André) Set of 7 mock-ups with layout indications and autograph corrections, and one set of proofs, covering the entire second edition of his major collection of essays on art, Les Voix du silence.

EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 8,500.00
67 EINSTEIN (Albert)

EINSTEIN (Albert) Autograph letter signed, in German, addressed to Reta Anschütz-Kaempfe.

1924 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 8,125.00
74 FRANCK (César)

FRANCK (César) Autograph musical manuscript signed in 2 places, in_x005F_x0002_titled " Les Djinns ".

EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 8,125.00
28 SCHMIED (François-Louis) - FORT (Paul)

The French Ballads. Mountain. Forest. Plain. Mer.

1927 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 7,250.00
33 EVENINGS OF MEDAN (THE)

Paris, G.

1880 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 6,875.00
29 SCHMIED (François-Louis) - MARDRUS ( Joseph-Charles)

Ruth and Boaz.

1930 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 6,000.00
65 DELACROIX (Eugène)

DELACROIX (Eugène) 2 autograph letters to Madame de Pron. RARISSIMES LETTRES D'AMOUR DU PEINTRE EN SES JEUNES. To see you again, charming enchantress...

n.d. EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 6,000.00
9 CHAGALL (Marc)

Drawings for the Bible, in Verve, n° 37-38.

1960 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 5,625.00
31 SCHWABE (Carlos) - LA MENNAIS (Félicité Robert de)

Words of a believer.

1908 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 5,125.00
10 CHAR (René)

Against a dry house.

1975 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 5,000.00
94 LISZT (Franz)

LISZT (Franz) Autograph letter signed [TO HECTOR BERLIOZ].

1854 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,750.00
76 GAINSBOURG (Lucien Ginsburg, known as Serge)

GAINSBOURG (Lucien Ginsburg, known as Serge) Autograph manuscript in preparation for the organization of his album Aux Armes et cætera.

1979 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 4,500.00
  • 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
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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    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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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
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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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