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Auction Info

Auction Name
Books, Manuscripts and Prints
Auction Date
12/03/2025 - 12/03/2025
Sale Number
#2540
Total Lots
228
Sold Lots
146.0
Lots Sold
64.04%
Unsold Lots
82
Total Sales (EUR)
174,581.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
108,510.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
150,890.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
208,290.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
294,050.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
59.37%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
160 Joan MIRO (1893-1983)

La Reine des ephemeres, 1975

1975 EUR 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 32,800.00
96 PLEIADE.

Exceptionnel ensemble de 287 volumes de La Pleiade.

EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 7,901.00
50 HOREAU (Hector).

Panorama d'Egypte et de Nubie avec un portrait de Mehemet-Ali.

EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 7,901.00
187 Francis BACON (1909 - 1992)

OEdipe et le Sphinx d'apres Ingres, 1984

1984 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 6,650.00
64 ROMAN NOIR. - SHELLEY (Mary Wollstonecraft).

Frankenstein : or, the modern Prometheus.

EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 6,626.00
161 Joan MIRO (1893 - 1983)

La Femme aux bijoux. 1968

1968 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,904.00
25 KESSEL (Joseph).

[Au Grand Socco]. Le rezzou. Le Petit ane blanc.

EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,904.00
95 PLEIADE.

81 albums - dont plusieurs sont des doubles ou triples -, en bel etat, avec jaquettes et etui.

EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,097.00
171 Pablo PICASSO (1881 - 1973) D'APRES

Pierrot et arlequin

EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 4,986.00
38 PLUMIER (Pere Charles).

Description des plantes de l'Amerique.

EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 3,823.00
41 CARICATURES DU XIXe s. - STOP (Louis MOREL-RETZ, sous le pseudonyme).

Aventures de Mr Verdreau. Album de dessins originaux, non signes (environ 320 x 15 cm). Vers 1850. In-8 oblong, chagrin vert de l'epoque.

Vers 1850. EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 3,280.00
51 INCUNABLE.

VERGILIUS (Polydorus). Proverbiorum libellus.

EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,225.00
21 JACOB (Max).

Lettres a Andre Lefevre. - Exceptionnel ensemble de 47 lettres autographes signees (avec une carte de visite non datee et 2 enveloppes), datees du 31 decembre 1920 au 31 decembre 1943.

1920-1943. EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,755.00
168 Pablo PICASSO (1881 - 1973) D'APRES

Mousquetaire de la serie des "Portraits imaginaires "

EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,696.00
173 Pablo PICASSO (1881 - 1973) D'APRES

Mousquetaire de la serie des "Portraits imaginaires "

EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,624.00
77 DANTE.

La Divine Comedie. Enfer. Purgatoire. Paradis.

EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,549.00
170 Pablo PICASSO (1881 - 1973) D'APRES

Mousquetaire de la serie des "Portraits imaginaires "

EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,995.00
119 Charles MAURIN (1856-1914)

Portrait de Toulouse Lautrec, 1893

1893 EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,837.00
118 Edouard VUILLARD (1868-1940)

Le Pliage du linge, 1893

1893 EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,618.00
106 Rembrandt VAN RIJN (1606 - 1669)

Jesus chassant les marchands du temple

EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,574.00

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    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
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    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
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    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
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    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
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    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
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