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Auction Name Royalty at Versailles Total Sales (EUR) 131,508.00
Auction Date November 09, 2025 - November 09, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 40,620.00
Sale Number #172027 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 55,300.00
Total Lots 49
Sold Lots 38.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 45,270.00
% of Lots Sold 77.55% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 61,540.00
Unsold Lots 11 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 213.70%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
23

CONSTITUTIONS DES TREIZES ETATS-UNIS DE L'AMERIQUE.

1783 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 22,100.00
15 BERTIN Rose.

Facture manuscrite.

1er avril 1786 -- 30 juillet 1787 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 16,250.00
12 EON Charles [ou Charlotte] de Beaumont.

Reunion de 8 comptes de depenses d'habillement.

1763-1777 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 14,950.00
9 EON Charles [ou Charlotte] de Beaumont.

Lettre autographe (minute corrigee), adressee au Comte de Vergennes.

29 aout 1777 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 11,960.00
10 EON Charles [ou Charlotte] de Beaumont.

Lettre autographe (minute corrigee) signee en tete, adressee au baron de Bon, ministre de France a Bruxelles, ancien colonel de Dragons.

28 octobre 1777 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 11,440.00
11 EON Charles [ou Charlotte] de Beaumont.

Lettre autographe signee (adressee a James Christie fils).

11 mai 1796 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 10,140.00
13 HOMBERG Octave -- Fernand JOUSSELIN.

Le Chevalier d'Eon (1728 -- 1810) d'apres des documents inedits.

1904 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 7,150.00
16 [ALMANACH]

La Pythonisse de Lutece ou les secrets a demi decouverts. - Almanach orne de jolies gravures.

Jubert, 1789 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 6,500.00
53 Lieven CRUYL (Gand 1634 - 1720)

Vue aerienne du chateau de Versailles

EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 6,240.00
20 LOUIS XVI et MARIE-ANTOINETTE.

Testaments en lithographie.

1815] EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 3,640.00
17

GARDE-ROBE DU COMTE D'ARTOIS (Etat de la) pour l'annee 1787.

1787 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,250.00
27 MONTFAUCON (Bernard de).

Les Monumens de la monarchie francoise qui comprennent l'histoire de France, avec les figures de chaque regne que l'injure des tems a epargnees.

1730 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 2,600.00
21 GILLE Philippe.

Versailles et les deux Trianons.

1899 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,470.00
26 DE COURTILZ DE SANDRAS (Gatien)

Le Grand Alcandre

EUR 1,100.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,430.00
50

AUX ORIGINES DE LA MONARCHIE CONSTITUTIONNELLE : LA CHARTE DE 1814 DE LOUIS XVIII

EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,300.00
223

Souvenir de Marie-Antoinette. Grand sous-main a deux volets

EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,235.00
37

REGIMENT DE ROYAL-PIEMONT, CAVALERIE

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 1,170.00
28 MONICART (J.-B. DE)

Versailles immortalise ou les merveilles parlantes de Versailles...

1720 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,040.00
24 LA RUELLE (Claude).

[Pompe funebre de Charles III de Lorrain

[1611] EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 975.00
40

CHATEAU DE MARLI Ensemble de 7 gravures anciennes

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 780.00
22 LOUIS XIV. --- BEAUVAIS (Catherine-Henriette Bellier, baronne de)

Lettre autographe signee a une altesse royale.

n.d. EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 650.00
29 Claude BASIRE (1764-1794)

Lettre autographe signee, le 29 novembre 1792 a Paris

1792 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 650.00
170 FAMILLE DE POLIGNAC

Grande et belle nappe en lin blanc armoirie au blason de la famille

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 650.00
43 AUGUSTIN DE SAINT-AUBIN (1736-1807), D'APRES

Portrait de Jacques NECKER (1732-1804)

EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 416.00
30 Famille D'ORLEANS

Pantheon des illustrations francaises au XIXe siecle

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 325.00
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