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De Baecque and Associes: André and Françoise Kostolany Collection

Auction Reports

Auction Name	André and Françoise Kostolany Collection	Total Sales (EUR)	81,978.50
Auction Date	January 24, 2026 - January 24, 2026	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	20,010.00
Sale Number	#174603	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	30,870.00
Total Lots	78
Sold Lots	72.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	21,160.00
% of Lots Sold	92.31%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	32,620.00
Unsold Lots	6	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	251.31%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
32	DREYFUS (Alfred).	FIVE YEARS OF MY LIFE.	1894-1899.	EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 9,906.00
43	LAW (John).	AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED February 19, 1720, Paris.	1720	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 6,350.00
59	[QUESNAY (Francois)].	DISCUSSIONS ET DEVELOPPEMENS SUR QUELQUES-UNES DES NOTIONS DE L'ECONOMIE POLITIQUE to serve as the second part of the collection entitled: Physiocratie.	1767	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 6,350.00
29	(Curiosa).	L'ARETIN D'AUGUSTIN CARRACHE ou Recueil de postures erotiques d'apres les gravures a l'eau-forte de cet artiste celebre, avec un texte explicatif des sujets considerablement augmente et un frontispice nouveau.	1871	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 3,810.00
40	LAW (John).	CONSIDERATIONS SUR LE COMMERCE ET SUR L'ARGENT.	1720	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 3,556.00
187		In five large drawing boards, a very important set, mainly of prints and reproductions:		EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 3,556.00
61	ROUFF (Marcel).	THE LIFE AND PASSION OF DODIN-BOUFFANT.	1920	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 3,175.00
66	TURGOT (Anne-Robert-Jacques).	AUTOGRAPH LETTER to his secretary Caillard dated April 20, 1778 in Paris.	1778	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	EUR 3,048.00
71	ZOLA (Emile).	L'ARGENT.	1891	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 2,794.00
49	MARX (Karl).	LE CAPITAL.	(1875).	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 2,540.00
18	BOUCHER (Jean).	L'USURE ENSEVELIE OU DEFENCE DES MONTS DE PIETE...	1628	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 2,286.00
175	HOLLAND SCHOOL circa 1720	De verslagen actionist in de stoel met riniels, overreeden geweeft van't geLau werd paard van troje - ...	circa 1720	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 2,032.00
41	LAW [Debacle of].	HET GROOTE TAFEREEL DER DWAASHEID, VERTOONENDE DE OPKOMST, VOORTGANG EN ONDERGANG DER ACTIE, BUBBEL EN WINDNEGOTIE, IN VRANKRYK, ENGELAND, EN DE NEDERLANDEN, gepleegt in den jaare MDCCXX.	1720	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 1,905.00
42	LAW (John).	AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED January 31, 1720, Paris.	1720	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 1,905.00
72	ZOLA (Emile).	L'ARGENT.	1891	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 1,905.00
30	Curiosa) - [BALLU (Jacques-Nicolas)].	LE PRETRE, by a Dr. de Sorbonne.	Year Ten (1802).	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,397.00
31	(Curiosa) - [WICHERSKI (Felix Ponyan)].	LES SUPERCHERIES DE SATAN DEVOILEES or the confusion of unbelievers by a red eminence.	1867	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 1,206.50
357		Set of approximately thirty-five engravings and reproductions featuring: portraits, assignats, genre scenes, views of European stock exchanges and caricatures related to finance, advertisements...	19th and 20th centuries.	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 1,143.00
15	BUDE (Guillaume).	DE ASSE ET PARTIBUS EIUS LIBRI V.	1542	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 1,079.50
2	AGRICOLA (G).	DE MENSURIS & PONDERIBUS ROMANORUM ATQUE GRAECORUM.	1550	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 1,016.00
45	[LE MERCIER DE LA RIVIERE (P.)].	THE NATURAL AND ESSENTIAL ORDER OF POLITICAL SOCIETIES.	1767	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 1,016.00
74	KOSTOLANY (Andre).	Set of 15 nicely bound in-8 books. KOSTOLANY'S NOTIZBUCH.	1988	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 1,016.00
4	(Anonymous).	LES JESUITES MARCHANDS, USURIERS, USURPATEURS, et leurs cruautes dans l'ancien et nouveau Continent.	1759	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 952.50
65	[TURGOT (A.R.J.)] - VIRGILE.	DIDON, poeme en vers metriques hexametres, divise en trois chants ; traduits du quatrieme livre de l'Eneide de Virgile ; avec le commencement de l'Eneide, et les seconde, huitieme et dixieme Eglogues du meme auteur ; le tout accompagne du texte latin.	1778	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 952.50
9	BEROALDE DE VERVILLE.	L'IDEE DE LA REPUBLIQUE - DIALOGUE DE LA VERTU.	1584	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	EUR 889.00

Books & Autographs
Wednesday 25 March

Koller, Mar. 25: KAFKA, FRANZ, SCHRIFTSTELLER. Eigenh. Brief mit Unterschrift. Prag, 20. Oktober [19]15. CHF 30,000-40,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Zwei eigenhändige Briefe an Ernst Gabor Straus, unterschrieben "A.E" bzw. "A. Einstein". [Princeton], [19]45. und [1950]. CHF 30,000-40,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: HORTENSE DE BEAUHARNAIS, MUTTER VON NAPOLEON III. Album aus ihrem Besitz mit 69 Aquarellen und Pinselzeichnungen in Sepia oder Grau… CHF 14,000-18,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: ZOOLOGIE - ORNITHOLOGIE - Seligmann, Johann Michael. Verzameling van uitlandsche en zeldzaame Vogelen. Teile 1-8 (von 9) in 2 Bänden. Mit 421 prächtig altkolorierten Kupfertafeln. CHF 14,000-20,000

Koller, Mar. 25: BOTANIK - Berlèse, Lorenzo und Johann Jakob Jung. Iconographie du genre camellia... 3 Bände. Mit 300 Farbstichtafeln "a la poupée.” Paris, [1839-]1841-1843. CHF 12,000-18,000.
Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.