Catawiki B. V.: French Literature & Illustrated, 32026a, LA Assen,

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
March 20, 2026 - March 20, 2026
Page Size: 39 items in 2 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101264147 Raymond Moretti / Jacques Brel

Oeuvre Poetique de Jacques Brel. Illustre de 30 lithographies originales de Raymond Moretti

1986 EUR 450.00 - 550.00 EUR 196.20
101448013 Esope / Aegidius Sadeler

Les Fables d'Esope, gravees par Sadeler, avec un discours preliminaire, & les Sens Moraux

1743 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 660.54
101636288 Jean De La Fontaine / Borel

Les Amours de Psyche et de Cupidon [tirage unique]

1899 EUR 450.00 - 550.00 EUR 45.78
101773218 Boris Vian / Boo

L'Equarrissage pour tous / L'Herbe rouge

1950 EUR 700.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
101795932 Alfred de Musset / Illustrations de Luc-Olivier Merson et Adolphe Giraldon

Les Nuits [reliure mosaiquee signee + ex. avec suites]

1911 EUR 850.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 654.00
101798154 Foujita

Legendes Japonaises [1/100 de tete sur Japon]

1922 EUR 650.00 - 800.00 EUR 555.90
101804151 Dr. J.-C. Mardrus; Mohammed Racim; Leon Carre

Le livre des Mille Nuits et une Nuit

1926/1932 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
101807705 Charles De Coster / Amedee Lynen [reliure de Janssens]

La legende d'Ulenspiegel [1/75 sur Japon Imperial]

1914 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
101823225 Michel de Saint-Pierre / Raoul Dufy

Les Cotes Normandes. Illustrations de Raoul Dufy

1941 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 377.14
101836720 Dubois / Vishnu Sharma

Le Pantcha-Tantra. Fables Indiens

1826 EUR 450.00 - 550.00 Not Sold
101837786 Eluard, Paul; Fernand Leger, ill.

Liberte, j'ecris ton nom

1953 EUR 750.00 - 900.00 EUR 492.68
101846666

La Guirlande (1920) - 12 Pagine Art Deco (3 fogli intonsi) - Guy Arnoux & Pochoir

1920 EUR 425.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
101866577 Beaumarchais / Montassier

Le Mariage de Figaro [ex ndeg1 sur Japon + dessin original aquarelle + reliure signee]

1927 EUR 425.00 - 500.00 EUR 485.05
101887434 Eugene Burnand [ Tres belle reliure editeur art Nouveau ]

Le Sermon sur la Montagne [ Rare : un des 50 sur Whatmann deux suites en deux etats ]

1913 EUR 300.00 - 375.00 EUR 109.00
101889585 Francois-Louis F.-L. Schmied / J. C. Mardrus

Le Livre de la Verite de Parole

1926 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 EUR 1,744.00
101889893 J. Merodack Peladan dit le Sar Peladan [ reliure esoterique de Blanchetiere ]

Comment on devient Fee [ rare exemplaire en edition originale ]

1893 EUR 300.00 - 375.00 EUR 148.24
101890053 Gustave Kahn [ ouvrage symboliste fondateur ]

Les Palais Nomades [ Tres rare avec envoi autographe signe ]

1887 EUR 300.00 - 375.00 EUR 63.22
101902754

Comoedia [annees 1911 a 1914, puis 1919 a 1924]

1911/1924 EUR 550.00 - 650.00 Not Sold
101907493 Signe ; Max Ernst / Paul Eluard

A l'interieur de la vue 8 poemes visibles [signe par Eluard]

1948 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
101908323 Charles Baudelaire / Arthur Rimbaud / Paul Verlaine / Valadie

Oeuvres Poetiques en 7 volumes

1980 EUR 325.00 - 400.00 EUR 408.75
101937554 Ansaldi

Les Grands Troubadours [avec suite et dessin original]

1981 EUR 900.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
101951789 Marie LAURENCIN (illustratrice). Louis CODET, Jean PELLERIN, Roger ALLARD, Andre BRETON, Francis

EVENTAIL, dix gravures de Marie Laurencin accompagnees de poesies nouvelles de Louis CODET, Jean |

1922 EUR 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
101951806 Arthur RIMBAUD | Pierre THOMAS (illustrateur) | Pierre FANLAC (editeur)

Les illuminations d'Arthur Rimbaud | Tirage unique a 130 exemplaires | Poemes en Prose. Compositions

1944 EUR 700.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
101951820 ANONYME [Jean Marie BOURGOIGNIE, alias Jean Marie SIXTE] | AXE alias Raymond

Exemplaire Jacques Prevert | DIVAGATIONS EROTIQUES. TEXTE Icules de J. M. Sixte. Douze Dessins de

1955 EUR 700.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
101951835 Guy de Maupassant

La Vie errante [1/5 exemplaire de tete sur Japon]

1890 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
  • Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 123. Celebrate 250 Years of Independence with Original Stars and Stripes (1790) Est. $1,400 - $1,700
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 20. Keulen's Spectacular Chart of the World Featuring California as an Island (1728) Est. $12,000 - $15,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 42. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 591. Matching Set of 3 Stunning Globe Gores of Eastern Asia from Coronelli's 3.5 Foot Globe (1688) Est. $5,500 - $7,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 9. Speed's Popular World Map with Allegorical Representations of the Elements (1651) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 168. First Separate Map of Kansas & Nebraska Territories (1854) Est. $5,500 - $7,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 43. Only Macrobius Map with Britain Attached to Europe (1515) Est. $800 - $950
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 250. Rare Map of Boston and One of the Earliest Maps of the Revolutionary War (1775) Est. $2,000 - $2,300
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 79. Schenk's Uncommon Map Featuring Two Figurative Title Cartouches (1696) Est. $1,200 - $1,500
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 681. Hand-Colored Image of the Annunciation to the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950
  • Sotheby's Book Week
    2 June - 9 July
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations, on its 250th anniversary. $180,000 to $250,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 17: Fontana, Lucio. Concetto Spaziale. 1967. Leporello en papier doré. Bel exemplaire signé. €4,000 to $€,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”. $150,000 to $200,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Washington, George (as First President). Washington decries “an ostentatious imitation, or mimickry of Royalty” in his Presidency. $250,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 17: Lope de Vega. Rare manuscrit autographe signé de la préface dédicatoire de "El Cardenal de Belen" (le cardinal de Bethléem), pièce composée en 1610. €40,000 to €60,000.
  • Leland Little, June 12: The First Illustrated Edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
    Leland Little, June 12: John Morton, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Signed Pennsylvania Land Survey.
    Leland Little, June 12: The Scarce Jansson Edition of a Remarkable Early View of London.
    Leland Little, June 12: Signed Limited Edition of The Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
    Leland Little, June 12: Faden’s Important and Scarce Map of the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution.
    Leland Little, June 12: William J. Tate (NC, 1869-1953), Archive of the "Original host to the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk.”
  • Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Galileo Galilei. Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo tolemaico, e copernicano. Firenze, 1632
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Saverio Manetti. Storia naturale degli uccelli. Firenze, 1771-76
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Fortunato Depero. Depero futurista. Rovereto, 1927
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Nicolas Visscher. Atlas minor sive totius orbis terrarum contracta delineat ex conatibus. Amsterdam, circa 1649-95
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Andreas Vesalius. Anatomia. Addita nunc. Antiquorum Anatome. Venezia, 1604
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Tristan Tzara and Salvador Dalì. Grains et Issues. Parigi, 1935
  • June 25, 2026
    Doyle, June 25: Houdini's biography, boldly signed. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A volume from Abraham Lincoln's library, signed just before heading to Washington for his inauguration. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A very early Confederate recruiting manual belonging to the chief commissary in Lee's Army. $600 to $800.
    Doyle, June 25: Rare hand-colored lithographs of the life of Napoleon. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, June 25: The "Holster Atlas" of the American Revolution. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Doyle, June 25: Jewish ceremonies in fine hand-colored engravings. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A very rare work on Turkish military costume. $1,000 to $1,500.
    June 25, 2026
    Doyle, June 25: The most important illustrated work on the Mexican-American War. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, June 25: The finest illustrated book on Afghanistan. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, June 25: Henry Justice Ford St. George rescues the Princess from the horrible Dragon. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A rare work of Prussian Army uniforms under Frederick William II, with exquisite hand-colored engravings. $800 to $1,200.
    Doyle, June 25: Lenny Bruce typed letter signed to a Village bohemian during his obscenity trials, with a manuscript note and drawing. $300 to $500.
    Doyle, June 25: Schiff's scarce Shanghai Sketchbook. $300 to $500.
    Doyle, June 25: The first accurate published representation of the American flag. $2,000 to $4,000.