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Auction Name Une Vie de Bibliophile - bidstart 5/2 Total Sales (EUR) 952,056.00
Auction Date May 12, 2022 - May 12, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 565,540.00
Sale Number #21395 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 821,250.00
Total Lots 177
Sold Lots 129 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 901,290.00
% of Lots Sold 72.88% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 1,299,100.00
Unsold Lots 48 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 73.29%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
135 PICASSO, Pablo, André SALMON et Jean COCTEAU

Le manuscrit trouvé dans un chapeau.

1919 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 69,300.00
136 PICASSO, Pablo et OVIDE

Les Métamorphoses.

1931 EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 EUR 56,700.00
131 MIRÓ, Joan, Ilia Zdanevitch, dit ILIAZD et Adrien de MONLUC

Le Courtisan grotesque.

1974 EUR 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 EUR 50,400.00
139 PICASSO, Pablo et Paul ÉLUARD

La Barre d’appui.

1936 EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 EUR 50,400.00
79 ILIAZD, Ilia Zdanevitch dit, Pablo PICASSO, Henri MATISSE, Alberto Giacometti, Joan MIRÓ, Georges BRAQUE, Hans ARP, Camille BRYEN, Jacques VILLON, Jean METZINGER, Sophie TAEUBER-ARP, Albert GLEIZES, Henri LAURENS, Raoul HAUSMANN, Alberto MAGNELLI, Fernand

Poésie de mots inconnus.

1919 et 1949 EUR 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 EUR 37,800.00
113 MATISSE, Henri et Stéphane MALLARMÉ

Poésies.

1932 EUR 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 EUR 37,800.00
39 DUBUFFET, Jean et Francis PONGE

Matière et mémoire ou les lithographes à l'école.

1945 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 35,280.00
140 PICASSO, Pablo et Ilia Zdanevitch, dit ILIAZD

Afat. Soixante-seize sonnets.

1940 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 32,760.00
74 HOCKNEY, David

Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm with original etchings by David Hockney.

1970 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 30,240.00
126 MIRÓ, Joan, Max ERNST, Yves TANGUY et Tristan TZARA

L'Antitête.

** Minuits pour Géants. EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 30,240.00
27 CHAGALL, Marc

Poèmes.

1968 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 25,200.00
144 PICASSO, Pablo et Ilia Zdanevitch, dit ILIAZD

Pismo Lettre.

1948 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 25,200.00
82 JOHNS, Jasper et Samuel BECKETT

Foirades. Fizzles.

1976 EUR 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 EUR 23,940.00
61 GIACOMETTI, Alberto et André BRETON

L’Air de l’eau.

1934 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 21,420.00
138 PICASSO, Pablo et Honoré de BALZAC

Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu.

1931 EUR 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 EUR 20,160.00
149 PICASSO, Pablo

Recordant el Doctor Reventós (Homenatge dels seus amics).

1969 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 18,900.00
150 PICASSO, Pablo et Ilia Zdanevitch, dit ILIAZD

Pirosmanachvili 1914.

1972 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 18,900.00
53 ERNST, Max

La femme 100 têtes.

1929 EUR 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 EUR 17,640.00
100 LÉGER, Fernand et Blaise CENDRARS

La Fin du monde filmée par l'Ange N.-D.

1919 EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 17,640.00
134 PICASSO, Pablo et Max JACOB

Le Siège de Jérusalem. Grande tentation céleste de Saint Matorel.

1914 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 16,380.00
50 DUFY, Raoul et Guillaume APOLLINAIRE

Le poète assassiné.

1926 EUR 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 EUR 15,120.00
101 LÉGER, Fernand et Paul ÉLUARD

Liberté, j'écris ton nom.

1953 EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 15,120.00
141 PICASSO, Pablo et Georges HUGNET

Non vouloir.

1942 EUR 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 EUR 15,120.00
177 WOLS, Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze

33 pointes-sèches originales,

1960 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 15,120.00
40 DUBUFFET, Jean et Eugène GUILLEVIC

Les Murs.

1950 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 12,600.00
  • 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.
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