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Auction Name Autograph Letters + Manuscripts, Books, Prints and Photographs Total Sales (EUR) 570,834.00
Auction Date May 17, 2022 - May 17, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 251,970.00
Sale Number #124530 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 331,380.00
Total Lots 300
Sold Lots 232 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 327,450.00
% of Lots Sold 77.33% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 430,550.00
Unsold Lots 68 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 132.58%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
165

[HEURES] Book of hours in Latin and French for the use of Rouen, a book of standards produced by the joint work of Robert Boyvin and Jean Serpin, Rouen around 1500.

 around 1500 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 52,000.00
28 ELUARD Paul

Manuscript-painting, confronting verses of Michaux, in the hand of Paul Éluard and 9 original gouaches, entitled "Some animals of Henri Michaux". 10 ff. in-12 square (16.5 x 12.6 cm). Bound in full orange box, author and title stamped in gold on the first

 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 27,300.00
241 MOLIÈRE.

The Misantrope. Comedy.

 1667 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 25,634.00
219 [CHASSE] ARCUSSIA.

Falconry, divided into three books.

 1598 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 23,378.00
114 PROUST Marcel.

Long L.A.S. [Paris], June 26 [1918]. 19 pp. in-12 square. Mention of a reply from Calmann-Lévy dated July 1, 1918.

 1918 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 18,200.00
119 ROUSSEAU Jean-Jacques.

Autograph manuscript entitled "Idea on Friendship", 24 pages in-4.

 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 14,300.00
164

Small manuscript on paper, probably incomplete, with nine lines of text per page in Arabic, in naskhi calligraphy in black ink, the side and middle lines in larger thuluth characters. Double frontispiece in unwân illuminated in gold and polychrome with fi

 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 13,180.00
230 [LEPAUTRE].

[Fourteen plates of plans, sections and elevations of the church of the Invalides].

 1687 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 11,373.00
231 FELIBIEN DES AVAUX, Jean-François.

Description of the Royal Church of the Invalides.

 1706 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 11,373.00
166 FOPPA Cristoforo.

L.A.S., Rome, February 15, 1495, addressed to Ludovico Maria SFORZA, il Moro, duke of Milan. Address on the back, traces of red seal. 1 page in-folio (stains, folds, traces of seal). In Italian.

 1495 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 9,750.00
76 HUGO Victor.

Head of a man in profile

 Ink and brown wash EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 9,100.00
90 COCTEAU Jean

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED. 1923

1923 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 8,567.00
133 VERLAINE Paul.

Set of 8 M.A.S. and bound for Bonheur. Hôpital Cochin, Broussais or Vincennes, May, August and November 1887, January 3, 1889 and n.d.. 14 pp. small in-4 or in-8, mounted in paper frames. Pencil, brown or red ink. Bound in-4 in red morocco, framed with gi

 1887 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 8,060.00
19 GAUGUIN PAUL.

L.A.S., addressed to the famous art critic Albert Aurier. Pont Aven, s.d. [1889]. 1 p. in-8. Traces of tabs on the back of the second leaf.

 s.d EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 7,249.00
15 DALI Salvador.

L.A.S. "Salvador Dali", s.l., 1947, addressed to a friend. 3 pages in-4, header "Del Monte Lodge. Pebble Beach, California".

 1947 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 7,150.00
14 CÉZANNE PAUL.

L.A.S. "P. Cézanne", Tholonet, September 8, 1897, addressed to Emile SOLARI

 1897 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 6,590.00
57 CÉLINE Louis-Ferdinand.

Set of about 25 L.A.S. of which two are incomplete, mostly addressed to his lawyer Thorvald Mikkelsen. S.l.n.d. [Circa 1948]. About 77 pp. mostly folio.

 Circa 1948 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 6,500.00
169 FREUD, Sigmund.

L.D.S. addressed to his nephew Edward Bernays (1891-1995), Austrian-American publicist and lobbyist. Semmering, Villa Schüler, July 22, 1925. 2 pp. large in-4. Printed letterhead "Prof. Dr. Freud" with his Viennese address. In German. Small cracks at the

1925 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 6,500.00
67 FLAUBERT, Gustave.

L.A.S. "he who loves you", addressed to Louise Colet. S.l., [7 December] 10 December 1846 "Monday 11 o'clock in the evening". 4 pp. in-8. Minor tear at the head, without damage to the text or missing.

 1846 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 6,240.00
167 FITZGERALD.F. Scott.

Signed typewritten document, 20 ½ pages, on legal letterhead, Culver City, California, August 21, 1937, also signed by an executive of Metro Goldwyn Mayer.

 1937 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 5,850.00
263

Set of 8 books. DUDAN (Pierre). The gigantic fear of Mr. Mediocre. Illustrations by Dubout. 1947

 1947 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 5,383.00
50 BAUDELAIRE Charles.

L.A.S. "Charles", s.l., Friday, July 1, 1853, addressed to HER MOTHER.

 1853 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,200.00
136 VOLTAIRE François-Marie Arouet dit.

L.A.S. to the playwright and actor Philippe Nericault-Destouches (1680-1754), in Fort-Oiseau. Paris, "rue Traversière", s.d. "17 may" [1732]. 1 p. ½ in-4. Address on verso of the second leaf. Old paper restorations without affecting the text, creasing.

 1732 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 5,200.00
26 MATISSE HENRI.

L.A.S "Henri Matisse", Vence, November 12, 1944, addressed to [Henry de MONTHERLANT]. 6 pages in-8 (erasures).

 1944 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,008.00
175

Set of autograph letters signed by the emperors and empresses of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, archdukes and dukes of Lorraine, 1665-1823.

 1665-1823 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,008.00
  • 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
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