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Auction Name Ancient and Modern Books Total Sales (EUR) 735,150.00
Auction Date April 14, 2022 - April 14, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 302,150.00
Sale Number #117441 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 401,700.00
Total Lots 275
Sold Lots 225 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 370,630.00
% of Lots Sold 81.82% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 495,600.00
Unsold Lots 50 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 148.34%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
120 DUPRÉ (Louis).

Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople, ou collection de portraits, de vues et de costumes grecs et ottomans.

1825-1838 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 65,000.00
68 CHAMPLAIN (Samuel de).

Les Voyages de la Nouvelle France occidentale, dicte Canada, faits par le Sr de Champlain... Où se voit comme ce pays a été premierement descouvert par les François, sous l'authorité de nos Roys tres-Chrestiens, iusques au regne de sa Majesté à présent re

1632 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 52,500.00
27 [ISMAEL II, jeweler of the Shah of Persia].

Album of drawings of decorations and orders of the Kingdom of Persia (Orders of the Lion and the Sun).

after 1836 (first half of the 19th century?). EUR 2,000.00 - 2,200.00 EUR 47,360.00
169 CÉLINE (Louis-Ferdinand).

Voyage au bout de la nuit.

1932 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 18,750.00
4

Funeral scene (Scène funèbre). Leaf from a book of hours, Office of the Dead.

circa 1460-1470, EUR 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 12,800.00
235 FEL (William) - VALÉRY (Paul).

Poetry of Paul Valéry.

1929 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 12,250.00
147 ROSTAND (Edmond).

Cyrano de Bergerac.

1898 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 11,875.00
88 PASCAL (Blaise).

Pensées de M. Pascal Sur la religion et sur quelques autres sujets, qui ont été trouvées après sa mort parmy ses papiers.

1670 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 10,625.00
118 DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU (Henri Louis).

Nouveau traité des arbres fruitiers

1850 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 10,250.00
128 HUGO (Victor).

The Art of being a grandfather.

1877 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 10,000.00
138 MAUPASSANT (Guy de).

Miss Harriet.

1884 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 10,000.00
67

The Roman Breviary, in Latin and French. According to the reformation of the S. Council of Trent. Printed by the order of Pope Pius V revised & first corrected by Clement VII & since by Urban VIII. In which are inserted the Offices of all the New Saints,

1688 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 9,375.00
62 ARRAS (Jean d').

Newly printed melusine.

1624 1625 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 8,750.00
100 ABD AL-LATIF AL-BA?D?D? (Muwaffaq al-D?n).

Relation de l'Égypte par Abd-Alatif, médecin de Bagdad; suivie De divers Extraits d'Écrivains Orientaux, et d'un État des Provinces et des Villages de l'Égypte dans le XIVe siècle.

1810 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 8,625.00
195 MICHAUX (Henri).

Mes propriétés.

1929 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 8,500.00
155 ZOLA (Émile).

L'Œuvre.

1886 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 8,125.00
172 CHAR (René).

Le Tombeau des secrets.

1930 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 8,125.00
135 LOTI (Pierre).

In Morocco.

1890 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 8,000.00
244 JOUVE (Paul) - DEMAISON (André).

The Book of the beasts which one calls wild.

1934 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 7,500.00
17

Commerce général et étranger de la France dans les 4 parties du monde pendant l'année 1753 commencée le premier octobre 1752 et finie le dernier septembre 1753 [General and foreign trade of France in the four parts of the world during the year 1753, which

ca. 1753 or shortly thereafter. EUR 900.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 7,040.00
89 [PERRAULT (Charles)].

Labyrinte de Versailles.

1679 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 7,000.00
77 HOMER.

The Iliad, new translation.

1776 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 6,875.00
239 FOUJITA (Léonard) - MORAND (Paul).

Foujita, with childhood memories of the artist and a commentary by Ch.-Ale. Cingria.

1928 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 6,875.00
233 DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC (André) - DORGELÈS (Roland).

Les Croix de bois.

1921 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 6,500.00
190 MAETERLINCK (Maurice) - SCHWABE (Carlos).

La Vie des abeilles.

1908 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 6,250.00
  • 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.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    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.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    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.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    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.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    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.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • 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
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    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
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