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Arenberg Auctions: Collection Isy Brachot on Surrealism, a Collection of Books

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Auction Name Collection Isy Brachot on Surrealism, a Collection of Books Total Sales (EUR) 320,960.00
Auction Date October 07, 2021 - October 07, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 145,920.00
Sale Number #2110a High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 200,120.00
Total Lots 513
Sold Lots 382 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 184,480.00
% of Lots Sold 74.46% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 253,600.00
Unsold Lots 131 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 126.56%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
27 [ARAGON, Louis]

Le con d'Irène.

1928 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 33,750.00
231 HUIDOBRO, Vicente

Tour Eiffel. Poème par Vicente Huidobro. Peintures par Robert Delaunay.

1918 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 21,250.00
254 MICHAUX, Henri

Peintures. Sept poèmes et seize illustrations. Avant-propos de Louis Cheronnet.

1939 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 18,125.00
155 DUBUFFET, Jean ; PAULHAN, Jean

La métromanie ou Les dessous de la capitale. Calligraphié et orné de dessins par son ami Jean Dubuffet.

1949 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 16,250.00
189 ÉLUARD, Paul

Les nécessités de la vie et les conséquences des rêves, précédé d'Exemples. Note de Jean Paulhan. Orné de douze dessins de René Magritte.

1946 EUR 7,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 15,625.00
118 [CLOSE, Chuck]

The Chuck Close mezzotint « Keith » 1972. A documentation with ten photographic etchings of the work in progress.

1972 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 8,750.00
316

Verve. Revue artistique et littéraire paraissant quatre fois par an [...].

1937-1960 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 7,250.00
489

Autograph booklet of musicians.

1931-1987 EUR 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 7,250.00
147 DANTE ALIGHIERI

La divine comédie. Illustrations de Salvador Dalí.

1959-1963 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 5,250.00
475 BESANCENOT, Jean

Costumes et types du Maroc. Ouvrage illustré de soixante gouaches reproduites en fac-similé et en camaïeu.

1942 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 5,000.00
265 PÉRET, Benjamin ; ARAGON, Louis

1929.0

1929 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,750.00
127 COCTEAU, Jean

La voix humaine. [Pointes sèches originales de] Bernard Buffet.

1957 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,250.00
168 [ÉLUARD, Paul] sous le pseud. DESROCHES, Didier

Le temps déborde.

1947 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 4,000.00
140 CREVEL, René

Dalí ou L’anti-obscurantisme.

1931 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,750.00
328 SCUTENAIRE, Louis

Pointes. Suite de 17 gravures [de] Pierre Alechinsky.

1972 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,750.00
384 FLAUBERT, Gustave

Madame Bovary. Moeurs de province.

1857 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 3,750.00
176 ÉLUARD, Paul

"Blason des fleurs et des fruits. 25 nov. 1940". Manuscrit autographe signé.

EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,500.00
169 [ÉLUARD, Paul] sous le pseud. DESROCHES, Didier

Le temps déborde.

1947 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,250.00
312

Proverbe. Feuille mensuelle. Directeur Paul Éluard.

1920-1921 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,250.00
86 BUFFET, Bernard

St Cast. Souvenirs d'enfance. Pointes-sèches originales gravées par Bernard Buffet.

1962 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,750.00
409

Albums de la Pléiade.

1960-2019 EUR 2,400.00 - 2,700.00 EUR 2,500.00
1 ALECHINSKY, Pierre

Comme à la maison.

1974 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,375.00
28 [ARAGON, Louis]

Paris la nuit. Les plaisirs de la capitale. Ses bas fonds ses jardins secrets. Par l'auteur du Libertinage, de la Bible dépouillée de ses longueurs, du mauvais plaisant, etc.

1923 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 2,375.00
91 CÉLINE, Louis-Ferdinand

À l’agité du bocal.

1948 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 2,250.00
183 ÉLUARD, Paul

Facile.

1935 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,250.00
  • 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
    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
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    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
  • 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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