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De Baecque and Associes: Popular and Modern Art

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Auction Name Popular and Modern Art Total Sales (EUR) 8,343.90
Auction Date December 11, 2025 - December 11, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 2,860.00
Sale Number #167430 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 4,240.00
Total Lots 28
Sold Lots 21.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 3,660.00
% of Lots Sold 75.00% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 5,620.00
Unsold Lots 7 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 148.47%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
181B Johan Peter Lamy (1790-1840)

Monsieur de Saussure's ascent to the summit of Mont Blanc in August 1785

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,397.00
172 Charles Eugene PERRON (1837-1919)

Relief plan of the Mont Blanc range in plaster at 1:100,000.

EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 901.70
170 After Roger SOUBIE (1898-1984) - Imp. E. Baudelot

Col D'Aubisque and Pic du Ger - Route des Pyrenees

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 762.00
288 Vittorio SELLA (1859-1943)

Siniolchu, from the Zemu glacier, (Himalayas, India), circa 1900

circa 1900 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 698.50
230 Joanny Drevet (1889-1969)

Argentieres, hamlet of the islands

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 660.40
283 Rene BASSET (1919-2021)

Summer and winter alpine excursions, 1946-1947

1946-1947 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 660.40
292 Georges II TAIRRAZ (1900-1975)

>Skier sur les cretes, circa 1950

circa 1950 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 533.40
287

Reunion of stereoscopic views circa 1860/1870 Alps and Pyrenees

circa 1860/1870 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 444.50
261 After SAMIVEL (1907-1992)

New world - Stopover - Ghosts - Waiting - For Melisande - Blizzard - Escape - High - Forest and spells

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 419.10
228 Joanny DREVET (1889-1969)

Pralognan-la-Vanoise, Chemin de Peclet

EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 317.50
169 Henri GANIER-TACONVILLE (1845-1936) - Imp. Courmont Freres i

Uriage les Bains

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 279.40
229 Joanny DREVET (1889-1969)

Tignes

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 228.60
280 Rene BASSET (1919-2021)

La Meije from La Grave, 1959

1959 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 165.10
281 Rene BASSET (1919-2021)

Souvenir d'une escapade a la Barre des Ecrins, July 14, 1947

1947 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 152.40
282 Rene BASSET (1919-2021)

South face of La Meije seen from the Grande Ruine, 1946

1946 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 152.40
279 Rene BASSET (1919-2021)

Morning mist from Cret de la Neige (Ain), 1991

1991 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 127.00
178 After Georges Louis LE ROUGE (18th century)

Map of the Duchy of Savoy, following new observations

EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 114.30
285

Meeting of photographs on glass in projection plate format

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 114.30
181 After Jean-Pierre SAINT OURS (1752-1809), by Charles Pradier

Portrait of Horace Benedict de Saussure

EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 101.60
242 LAMY GENEVE

View of the Staubbach, Canton Bern - View of the village of Lauterbrunnen

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 63.50
284

Strong lot of ten (10) photographic prints of the Alps 1880/

1880/1965 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.80
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000