L'Autographe Auctions: A Legacy in Ink: A Rare Book & Autograph Sale, 6, London

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
July 07, 2025 - July 07, 2025
Page Size: 273 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
76 "AN UNUSUALLY CHEERFUL VERDI

AN INVITATION TO SANT'AGATA"

Genova 24 aprile 1880 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
77 "VERDI, GHISLANZONI, AND RICORDI

SOLIDARITY AMONG OPERA GIANTS"

Genova 2 del 92 [2.1.1892] GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
78 "VERDI'S FINAL GESTURE TO GHISLANZONI

A FAREWELL AMID TRIUMPHS AND SORROW"

Genova 20 marzo 1893 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
79 "WAGNER'S FIGHT FOR RECOGNITION

THE ANXIETY OVER HIS RIGHTS"

Bayreuth 27 Sept. 1873 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
80 "WAGNER FROM NAPLES

DREAMS OF TRIUMPH IN PARIS"

Villa d'Angri, Posillipo, Neapel 16 Juli 1880 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,080.00
81 ZANDONAI Riccardo (Rovereto, 1883-Pesaro, 1944)

Photographic portrait with autograph dedication signed

Roma 7 Genn. 1940. XVIII GBP 180.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
82 Louis de Broglie

Waves and Quanta in a Nobel Letter

Paris le 19 Fevrier 1946 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
83 Jean-Baptiste Charcot

The Explorer's Bust in the Making

14. XII. 10 GBP 120.00 - 200.00 GBP 169.00
84 Auguste Comte

Positivist Receipt Signed by the Philosopher

28 Mars 1850 GBP 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
85

Physical, sexual, and natural religion in the time of Queen Victoria.

London April 27/81" by the British physician freethinker and advocate of contraception GBP 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
86

"BETWEEN RAIN AND SCIENCE - THE EUROPEAN YOUTH OF ENRICO FERMI"

Gottingen 7. 6. 1923 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
87

Julian Huxley on Tour - Science Between Lectures and Humanism

Nov 18th 1954 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
88

Extraordinary letter to Giuditta Pasta from one of Stendhal's best friends

Paris 31 Juillet 1824 GBP 2,200.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
89

Le Verrier - The Mathematician Who Discovered Neptune Sends an Invitation

Paris le 13 Avril 1864 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 130.00
90

"MARCONI TO MURRAY - THE SECRETS BEHIND THE BIRTH OF RADIO"

(1889 ca.) GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,300.00
91

"MORSE AND THE REVOLUTION OF THOUGHT - TELEGRAPHY IN COLLAGES"

Washington March 6th 1845 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,430.00
92

Serge Voronoff - Appointment with the Surgeon of Eternal Youth

[28.10.1926] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
93

Exceptional Signed First Edition of Truman Capote's Debut Novel - Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948)

New York 1948 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
94 ENZENSBERGER Hans Magnus (1929-2022)

Ausgewahlte Gedichte, signed

Eurographica 1988 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
95 GREENE Graham (1904-1991)

Yes and No, a play in one act, signed

Eurographica 1984 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 65.00
96 IONESCO Eugene (1909-1994)

Les Chaises, with autograph, signed

Eurographica 1989 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
97 "RARE EUROGRAPHICA SIGNED EDITIONS

MASTERS OF 20tH CENTURY LITERATURE"

Eurographica 1989 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
98 LESSING Doris (1919-2013)

Three Stories, signed

Eurographica 1988 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
99 MILOSZ Czeslaw (1911-2004)

Selected Poems, signed

Eurographica 1986 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 65.00
100 MORAVIA Alberto (1907-1990)

L'imbroglio e altri racconti, signed

Eurographica 1986 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
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