Auction Reports
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Auction Info
- Auction Name
- Autographs and Manuscripts
- Auction Date
- 12/07/2025 - 12/07/2025
- Sale Number
- #120725a
- Total Lots
- 26
- Sold Lots
- 14.0
- Lots Sold
- 53.85%
- Unsold Lots
- 12
- Total Sales (EUR)
- 12,143.70
- Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
- 13,250.00
- High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
- 16,400.00
- Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
- 36,725.00
- High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
- 44,450.00
- Total Sales as a % of High Est.
- 27.32%
Top twenty five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99286467 | Signe ; Napoleon Ier | Lettre signee au General Clarke [campagne Espagne / retraite anglaise] |
1809 | EUR 2,800.00 - 3,200.00 | EUR 4,469.00 |
| 99267122 | Saint Jean Bosco (1815-1888) | Saint Jean Bosco recherche un enseignant pour l'epauler dans son entreprise d'education des enfants |
1857 | EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 | EUR 981.00 |
| 99267125 | Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) | Portrait dedicace de Benito Mussolini, jeune, lisant un journal |
1928 | EUR 1,200.00 - 1,400.00 | EUR 882.90 |
| 99349481 | Signed ; Ernesto Che Guevara / Fidel Castro / Camilo Cienfuegos | Original photograph Signed |
1959 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 872.00 |
| 99268649 | San Pietro Apostolo / San Giovanni Apostolo | Pergamena, Messale, Manoscritto, Domenica Pasqua, Vangelo, |
1100 | EUR 650.00 - 750.00 | EUR 795.70 |
| 99322909 | Ernest Hemingway | Original Ernest Hemingway Signed Autograph La bodeguita del Medio coaster |
1961 | EUR 900.00 - 1,100.00 | EUR 740.11 |
| 98986156 | Divers | Coran manuscrit persan, moghol, Safavide, Reliure originale, enlumine d'or, et 2 feuillets doubles.. |
1620/1680 | EUR 325.00 - 400.00 | EUR 664.90 |
| 99285249 | Gilbert du Motier de, Marquis de LA FAYETTE | Lettre autographe signee << Lafayette >> |
N/A | EUR 550.00 - 700.00 | EUR 654.00 |
| 99305316 | Signed ; Che Guevara | War letter from La Sierra Maestra Che Needs medicine, food and shoes for his troops September 06 |
1959 | EUR 550.00 - 700.00 | EUR 513.39 |
| 99258133 | Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) / Alphonse Daudet (1840--1897) | 2 Autograph signed letters one to a Madame and one to a friend |
1890/1875 | EUR 700.00 - 850.00 | EUR 490.50 |
| 99267130 | Harry Truman (1884-1972), president americain de 1945 a 1953 | Portrait photographique d'Harry Truman dedicace au journaliste Neil MacNeil |
1950 | EUR 650.00 - 800.00 | EUR 370.60 |
| 98997156 | Tristan Tzara | Autograph letter signed |
1928 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 327.00 |
| 99163262 | H. Abbott | [manuscript / original drawings] Mr. Punch's Travels in Foreign Lands / Attitudes for Exits from the |
1865 | EUR 425.00 - 500.00 | EUR 250.70 |
| 99345396 | Di Claudio | Poesie D'amore Diverse di Claudio e Nina Manoscritto 2 Libri Finemente Rilegati XIX |
1800/1830 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | EUR 131.89 |
| 99151614 | Rare autograph of Pope Francis with a dry stamp from the Personal Secretariat of His Holiness. |
N/A | EUR 1,700.00 - 1,900.00 | Not Sold | |
| 99267141 | Charles Marie Alexandre Prevost D'Arlincourt | 1809-1813 : tres interessante correspondance de 24 lettres de l'aide camp de Murat, depuis Naples |
1809 | EUR 1,300.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 99298409 | Hans Joergen Christian Fisher Iversen ( collector of the signatures ) | Exceptional historical guestbook from the SS Jylland, 1937--1939 -- signed by world-renowned cultural |
1939/1937 | EUR 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 99354903 | Neil Armstrong | 1970, Neil Armstrong |
N/A | EUR 2,800.00 - 3,100.00 | Not Sold |
| 99286695 | Pierre-Paul PRUD'HON | Manuscrit autographe signe << Prud'hon pinxit >> [Mariage Napoleon Ier et Imperatrice Marie-Louise] |
1809 | EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 99280947 | Jean Genet | Provocatrice et insolente lettre autographe signee [Charles de Gaulle - Guerre Algerie] |
1958 | EUR 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 | 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 AprilSotheby’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.