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Auction Name Books and Manuscripts Total Sales (EUR) 173,664.00
Auction Date November 08, 2022 - November 08, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 113,500.00
Sale Number #2455 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 154,600.00
Total Lots 186
Sold Lots 90 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 236,520.00
% of Lots Sold 48.39% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 320,130.00
Unsold Lots 96 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 54.25%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
172 [PICASSO].– BUFFON

Eaux-fortes originales pour des textes de Buffon.

1942 EUR 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 17,840.00
93 BUFFON (Georges-Louis Leclerc de)

[Histoire naturelle des oiseaux].

1770-1783; 1783-1786]. EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 10,832.00
101 GONÇALÉS DE MENDOCE (Ivan)

GHistoire du grand royaume de la Chine, situé aux Indes orientales.

1588 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 10,194.00
157 LEGER Fernand

LEGER Fernand Cirque.

[1950]. EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 10,194.00
138 [DUFY].– DAUDET (Alphonse)

Aventures prodigieuses de Tartarin de Tarascon.

1937 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 9,184.00
123 [CHAGALL].– PAULHAN (Jean)

De mauvais sujets.

1958 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 6,372.00
95 [CARTES]

Ensemble, 24 boîtes en maroquin à grain long vert Empire, pièces de titre rouges, chiffre K en pied.

EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 5,248.00
187 ZAO (Wou-ki)

L'Encre, l'eau, l'air, la couleur.

2008 EUR 800.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,823.00
130 [DELVAUX].– ROBBE-GRILLET (Alain)

Construction d'un temple en ruine à la déesse Vanadé.

1975 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,568.00
180 [TAL-COAT].– DU BOUCHET (André)

Laisses.

1975 EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,568.00
144 HAKEWILL (James)

A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica, from drawings made in the years 1820 and 1821.

1825 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,441.00
39 [ENLUMINURE.– LIVRE D'HEURES]

Feuillet extrait d'un livre d'heures, avec une enluminure présentant une « Mise au tombeau ».

vers 1425-1435 (?). EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,411.00
83 TINGUELY (Jean)

TINGUELY (Jean) Lettre autographe signée à Cécile [Balsem].

n. d. EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,149.00
96 CASTRONIUS (Benedictus Maria)

Horographia universalis, seu sciatericorum omnium planorum.

1728 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,549.00
119 [BRAUNER].– GOLL (Yvan)

Le Char Triomphal de l'Antimoine.

EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,549.00
158 [LÉGER].– CENDRARS (Blaise)

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

1919 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,549.00
184 [VAN VELDE].– JULIET (Charles)

Au long de la spirale.

1975 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,549.00
84 TINGUELY (Jean)

Lettre autographe signée à Philip [Mathews].

14 février 1975. EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,493.00
142 FLAUBERT (Gustave)

[Contes]. Hérodias.– Un cœur simple.– La Légende de Saint Julien l'hospitalier.

1892, 1894, 1895 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,493.00
181 [TIBER PRESS].– COLLECTIF

Abstract Expressionism.

1960 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 2,421.00
13 CÉLINE (Louis-Ferdinand)

Manuscrit de travail pour « Féerie pour une autre fois. II. Normance ».

[environ 1952-1954]. EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 2,362.00
55 MICHEL (Louise)

MICHEL (Louise) Lettre autographe signée à Georges Clemenceau.

7 août 1886. EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,230.00
113 [BARBIER].– VERLAINE (Paul)

Fêtes galantes.

1928 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,911.00
94 BUFFON (Georges-Louis Leclerc de)

Histoire naturelle générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi.

1749-1767, 1774-1789; 1788-1789. EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,784.00
152 [LA NÉZIÈRE].– RIVIÈRE (P.-Louis)

Poh-Deng. Scènes de la vie siamoise.

1913 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,784.00
  • 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
    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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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