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Auction Info

Auction Name
Autographs and Manuscripts
Auction Date
12/21/2025 - 12/21/2025
Sale Number
#122125b
Total Lots
46
Sold Lots
14.0
Lots Sold
30.43%
Unsold Lots
32
Total Sales (EUR)
16,059.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
15,850.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
18,200.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
71,235.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
81,290.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
19.76%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
99816958

Superb photo signed and inscribed "To Evelyn" with the inscription "Much Love & thanks from Diana"

 1992 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,500.00 EUR 3,325.59
99863519

Ethiopische gebedsrol

 1790 EUR 1,100.00 - 1,300.00 EUR 3,298.34
99773466 Signe ; Napoleon Bonaparte

Nomination de Thomas Riboud - Canton de Bourg

 1804 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,880.25
99816999

Signed ; WILHELM II (1859-1941, German Emperor) --- 1891 --- Signed portrait dedicated to Captain

 1891 EUR 1,600.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,689.50
99817329 Louis Pasteur (1822-1895, French chemist)

Important Autograph Letter Signed about the Creation of the Pasteur Institute

 1888 EUR 1,600.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,362.50
99660374 Ernesto Che Guevara de la Serna

Original photograph Signed Autograph Che Guevara

 1960 EUR 900.00 - 1,100.00 EUR 1,062.75
99899523 VAUBAN (1633-1707) [Marechal de France de Louis XIV]

Lettre signee de la Citadelle de Lille

 1693 EUR 900.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 872.00
99817668 George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Autograph Letter Signed to Sir Arthur STREET

 1939 EUR 650.00 - 750.00 EUR 555.90
99817033 Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1900-2002)

Autograph Letter Signed to "Dearest Ava", Lady WAVERLEY

 1958 EUR 450.00 - 500.00 EUR 436.00
99817298 Gustave Dore (1832-1882) [French Painter]

Autograph Letter Signed with initials to 'My dear Leleux'

 1871 EUR 425.00 - 475.00 EUR 408.75
98729603 Signed ; Louis Armstrong (1900-1971) & Juliet Pannett

Charcoal Portrait and Signed Photo

 1956 EUR 700.00 - 800.00 EUR 382.59
99964129 Charles II de Savoie

Rare lettre signee au Sieur de Longecombe avec son sceau rouge

 1540 EUR 450.00 - 500.00 EUR 327.00
99879119 Italian scriptorium of the Middle Ages

Breviary illuminated leaf on vellum Italy Very big initial with burnished gold and colours

 1450/1480 EUR 350.00 - 400.00 EUR 283.40
99817607

Handwritten document related to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. Hand colored coat of arms in the

 1582 EUR 225.00 - 275.00 EUR 174.40
99842163

A pair of book covers in the Renaissance style, or 'Tavolette di Biccherna' cura late 19th century

 N/A EUR 2,200.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
99817247 Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980)

Autograph Letter Signed to Gaby Goldscheider

 1974 EUR 1,400.00 - 1,600.00 Not Sold
99817240 Arthur Rackham (1867-1939, Illustrator)

Collection of 8 Original Early Sketches by Arthur Rackham

 1896 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,200.00 Not Sold
99817310 Henry de Monfreid (1879-1974) [Messageries Maritimes]

Autograph letter and rare 1st english edition of his book 'Hashish'

 1935 EUR 475.00 - 525.00 Not Sold
99817571 Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) [Novelist & Poet]

Fine Autograph letter signed in full marked 'Private' to 'Dear Sir Charles'

 1922 EUR 850.00 - 950.00 Not Sold
99917320 George SAND

13 lettres autographes signees a son ami de jeunesse

 1849 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
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  • ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
    Open for Bidding 2-17 April
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.