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Vermot de Pas: Ancient and Modern Books, Illustrated Books, Manuscripts and Vintage Paper

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Auction Name Ancient and Modern Books, Illustrated Books, Manuscripts and Vintage Paper Total Sales (EUR) 60,390.40
Auction Date March 10, 2025 - March 10, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 35,340.00
Sale Number #162656 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 46,670.00
Total Lots 359
Sold Lots 167 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 85,280.00
% of Lots Sold 46.52% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 113,600.00
Unsold Lots 192 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 53.16%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
315

LA VIE PARISIENNE - Collection of 16 in-folio bound volumes (different bindings)

EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 5,376.00
178 GAUGUIN (Paul)

Carnet de Tahiti

1954 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,584.00
348

Jules Pascin (1881-1969) for Cinderella by Charles PERRAULT

EUR 2,700.00 - 3,200.00 EUR 3,584.00
49

RELIGION - ROUEN - COLPORTAGE - L'Utile et plaisant passe-temps pour tous les fideles chretiens, voulant connaitre que c'est que de verite en toutes choses

s.d. (1615) EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,560.00
183 GUITRY (Sacha)

From Joan of Arc to Philippe Petain

1944 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,560.00
38

MILITARY MANUSCRIPT - SUCCESSION WAR of Spain

1697 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 2,304.00
322

LA VIE PARISIENNE - Reunion of 17 vol. in-folio bound in period half-chagrin...

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 2,048.00
361

DANTE - The Divine Comedy...

EUR 1,300.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,792.00
103

ANONYMOUS - Antar, heroic Arabic poem from ante-Islamic times

1898 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,664.00
241

[CHOISEUL-GOUFFIER, Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste, comte de, et Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de CHAMFORT] Discours preliminaire du voyage pittoresque de la Grece

1783 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,472.00
317

COMOEDIA ILLUSTRE - Reunion of 11 in-4 volumes in publisher's binding (not always the same leather, various states...)

EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 1,216.00
181 GIRAUDOUX (Jean)

Combat avec l'image

1941 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,088.00
114 BOUILLY (F.)

FREEMASONRY - Explanation of the twelve escutcheons representing the emblems and symbols of the twelve philosophical grades of the Scottish rite called ancient and accepted

5838 (1837) EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 934.40
264

REGION PARSIENNE - Reunion of 3 well-bound in-12 volumes...

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 832.00
150 CELINE (L.-F.)

Mort a credit

1952 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 793.60
295

ARTS ET METIERS GRAPHIQUES

EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 768.00
19

CHAMPAGNE - LANGRES - MANUSCRIT - Confrerie de Saint-Pierre

EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 704.00
132 JOUHANDEAU (Marcel)

Antisemitism - Le peril juif

s.d. EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 704.00
144 CAMUS (Albert)

La Peste

1947 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 640.00
149 CELINE (L.-F.)

Feerie pour une fois, II. Normance

1955 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 614.40
35

Antique COPTE manuscript produced on a parchment scroll and set in an ornate gilded copper ring

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 576.00
36

Early COPTE manuscript on a parchment scroll

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 576.00
151 CELINE (L.-F.)

Journey to the End of the Night

1952 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 576.00
313

CARICATURE - Le SIFFLET. 1872 - 1877

1898 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 576.00
354 LAURENS (Jean-Paul) and THIERRY (Augustin)

Reunion of seven volumes of Les Temps Merovingiens...

EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 563.20
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    27th March 2025
    Forum, Mar. 27: Dürer (Albrecht) Hierin sind begriffen vier bücher von menschlicher Proportion, 4 parts in 1, first edition, Nuremberg, Hieronymus Andreae for Agnes Dürer, 1528. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum, Mar. 27: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, illuminated manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 26 fine hand-painted miniatures, 17th century dark brown morocco, [Lyon], [c. 1475 and later c. 1490-1500]. £25,000 to £35,000.
    Forum, Mar. 27: Brontë (Emily) The North Wind, watercolour, [1842]. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, Mar. 27: Titanic.- Mudd (Thomas Cupper, one of the youngest victims of the sinking of the Titanic, 1895-1912) Autograph Letter signed on board RMS Titanic to his mother, April 11th 1912. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    27th March 2025
    Forum, Mar. 27: [Austen (Jane)] Emma: A Novel, 3 vol., first edition, for John Murray, 1816. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, Mar. 27: Picasso (Pablo).- Ovid. Les Metamorphoses, one of 95 copies, signed by the artist, Lausanne, Albert Skira, 1931. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, Mar. 27: America.- Ogilby (John) America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World..., all maps with vibrant hand-colouring in outline, probably by an early hand, 1671. £15,000 to £25,000.
    Forum, Mar. 27: Iceland.- Geological exploration.- Bright (Dr. Richard )and Edward Bird. Collection of twenty original drawings from travels in Iceland with Henry Holland and George Mackenzie, watercolours, [1810]. £20,000 to £30,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    The Library of Barry Humphries
    26th March 2025
    Forum, Mar. 26: Beckford (William) [Vathek] An Arabian Tale, first (but unauthorised) edition, Lady Caroline Lamb's copy with her signature and notes, 1786. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Forum, Mar. 26: Baudelaire (Charles) Les Fleurs du Mal, first edition containing the 6 suppressed poems, first issue, contemporary half black morocco, Paris, 1857. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, Mar. 26: Beardsley (Aubrey).- Pope (Alexander) The Rape of the Lock, one of 25 copies on Japanese vellum, Leonard Smithers, 1896. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, Mar. 26: Douglas (Lord Alfred) Sonnets, first edition, the dedication copy, with signed presentation inscription from the author to his wife Olive Custance, The Academy, 1909. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Forum Auctions
    The Library of Barry Humphries
    26th March 2025
    Forum, Mar. 26: Crowley (Aleister) The Works..., 3 vol. in 1 (as issued)"Essay Competition" issue on India paper, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1905-07. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum, Mar. 26: Rodin (Auguste).- Mirbeau (Octave) Le Jardin des Supplices, one of 30 copies on chine with an additional suite, bound in dark purple goatskin, Paris, 1902. £3,000 to £4,000.
    Forum, Mar. 26: Pellar (Hans) Eight original book illustrations for 'Der verliebte Flamingo' [together with] a published copy of the first edition of the book, 1923. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, Mar. 26: Cretté (Georges, binder).- Louÿs (Pierre) Les Aventures du Roi Pausole, 2 vol., one of 99 copies, with 2 original drawings, superbly bound in blue goatskin, gilt, Paris, 1930. £3,000 to £4,000.
  • Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
  • Swann
    Printed & Manuscript African Americana
    March 20, 2025
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 7: Thomas Fisher, The Negro's Memorial or Abolitionist's Catechism, London, 1825. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 78: Victor H. Green, The Negro Travelers' Green Book, New York, 1958. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 99: Rosa Parks, Hand-written recollection of her first meeting with Martin Luther King Jr., autograph manuscript, Detroit, c. 1990s. $30,000 to $40,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 154: Frederick Douglass, Autograph statement on voting rights, signed manuscript, 1866. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 164: W.E.B. Du Bois, What the Negro Has Done for the United States and Texas, Washington, circa 1936. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann
    Printed & Manuscript African Americana
    March 20, 2025
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 263: Susan Paul, Memoir of James Jackson, Boston, 1835. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 267: Langston Hughes, Gypsy Ballads, signed translation of García Lorca's poetry, Madrid, 1937. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 274: Malcolm X, Collection from Alex Haley's estate, 38 items, 1963-1971. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 367: Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave, Auburn, NY, 1853. $2,500 to $3,500.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 402: Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice from the South, Xenia, OH, 1892. $2,000 to $3,000.
  • Koller, Mar. 26: Wit, Frederick de. Atlas. Amsterdam, de Wit, [1680]. CHF 20,000 to 30,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: Merian, Maria Sibylla. Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung, und sonderbare Blumennahrung. Nürnberg, 1679; Frankfurt a. M. und Leipzig, 1683. CHF 20,000 to 30,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON. Faust. Ein Fragment. Von Goethe. Ächte Ausgabe. Leipzig, G. J. Göschen, 1790. CHF 7,000 to 10,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: Hieronymus. [Das hochwirdig leben der außerwoelten freünde gotes der heiligen altuaeter]. Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger d. Ä., 9. Juni 1497. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.
    Koller, Mar. 26: BIBLIA GERMANICA - Neunte deutsche Bibel. Nürnberg, A. Koberger, 17. Feb. 1483. CHF 40,000 to 60,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: HORAE B.M.V. - Stundenbuch. Lateinische Handschrift auf Pergament, Kalendarium französisch. Nordfrankreich (Rouen?). CHF 25,000 to 40,000