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Giquello: 19th Century and Modern Books - Autographs

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Auction Name 19th Century and Modern Books - Autographs Total Sales (EUR) 212,858.00
Auction Date June 02, 2022 - June 02, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 150,180.00
Sale Number #125770 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 198,470.00
Total Lots 198
Sold Lots 100 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 349,640.00
% of Lots Sold 50.51% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 461,970.00
Unsold Lots 98 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 46.08%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
30 DEBUSSY (Claude).

Correspondence with André Messager.

1902-1910. EUR 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 23,400.00
185 JOYCE (James).

Ulysses.

1922 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 20,852.00
155

[REVIEW]. La Revue Fantaisiste.

1861 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 12,006.00
184 HARAUCOURT (Edmond). - SCHWABE (Carlos). - LUNOIS (Alexandre). - COURBOIN (Eugène). - RUDNICKI (Léon). - Séon (Alexandre).

The Effort. The Madonna. The Antichrist. Immortality. The End of the World.

1894 EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 10,868.00
197 PÉRET (Benjamin) - TANGUY (Yves).

Sleeping in the Stones. Drawings by Yves Tanguy.

1927 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 10,110.00
200 SAINT-JOHN PERSE (Alexis Léger, dit).

Anabase.

1924 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 8,846.00
41

WAR 14-18 - CARICATURES.

1916 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 6,500.00
195 MICHAUX (Henri).

Apparitions.

1946 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 5,687.00
103 VERLAINE (Paul).

Autograph letter signed to Irénée Decroix,

1877 EUR 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 5,200.00
25 COCTEAU JEAN (1889-1963).

Beautiful set of two autograph drawings, dedicated, dated and signed,

1961 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 5,070.00
110 CHATEAUBRIAND (François-René de).

Mémoires d'outre-tombe.

1849-1850. EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 5,055.00
33 FLAUBERT (Gustave).

Autograph letter signed to Théophile Gautier,

1859 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,940.00
26 COCTEAU JEAN (1889-1963).

Beautiful drawing in black ink, entitled "La mémoire", "Villefranche sur mer", dated "juin ".

1935 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,510.00
53 [HUGO VICTOR]. BOURDELLE Emile-Antoine (1861-1929).

Autograph letter signed to dear friends [Monsieur and Madame Dispan],

1885 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,250.00
165 STENDHAL (Henri Beyle, dit).

Racine and Shakspeare [sic].

1823 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,159.00
61 MADAME DE LA FAYETTE Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, comtesse de Lafayette dite (1634-1693).

Autograph letter to Gilles Menage,

1662 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,860.00
104 ZWEIG Stefan (1881-1942).

Autograph letter signed to Mr.

1926 EUR 900.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,860.00
191 MALRAUX (André).

The Struggle with the Angel. Novel.

1943 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 2,780.00
125 GRANDVILLE.

Les Fleurs animées.

1847 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,528.00
127 GRANDVILLE (Jean-Jacques). - LA FONTAINE (Jean de).

Fables.

1838 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 2,401.00
176 VIGNY (Alfred de).

Servitude and military greatness.

1835 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,401.00
101 VERLAINE Paul (1844-1896).

Autograph sonnet signed

n.d. EUR 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,340.00
133 JANIN (Jules).

Un Hiver à paris.

1843 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,275.00
63 LÉGER (Fernand).

Autograph letter signed to Léonce Rosenberg,

1918 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,210.00
103B WAGNER (Richard)

Lettre autographe en allemand signée au chef d'orchestre Rudolf Schöneck,

1853 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,210.00
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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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