Catawiki B. V.: French Literature & Illustrated, 50126b, LA Assen,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 01, 2026 - May 01, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 102805681 | Oscar Wilde | Poemes [1/11 de tete signe sur Hollande, seul grand papier, rarissime] |
1907 | EUR 1,500.00 - 1,700.00 | Not Sold | |
| 102856472 | Alexandre Dumas | Les Trois Mousquetaires [4 vol., Bruxelles, Meline, Cans et Compagnie, 1845] |
1845 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 102913321 | Victor Hugo | Oeuvres Completes — exceptionnel 1/50 de tete sur Grand Japon 25 volumes Edition Nationale |
1885/1895 | EUR 1,100.00 - 1,300.00 | EUR 1,090.00 | |
| 102933884 | Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly / Lobel-Riche | Les Diaboliques. Librairie de la collection des dix, A. Romagnol. |
1910 | EUR 550.00 - 700.00 | EUR 174.40 | |
| 102962516 | Pierre Boulle [1/50 du tirage de tete sur Alfa] | La Planete des Singes [edition de luxe] |
1963 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 2,943.00 | |
| 102969346 | Signe ; ROBERT ANTELME | L’Espece humaine [avec rarissime envoi dedicace de Robert Antelme] |
1947 | EUR 2,200.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 102969515 | JACQUES PREVERT / ALEXANDER CALDER [MAEGHT] | FETES [1/50 sur papier Auvergne, tirage de tete] |
1971 | EUR 11,000.00 - 13,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 102983493 | Paul Morand / Georges Gaudion | Poemes (1914-1924) |
1924 | EUR 400.00 - 450.00 | Not Sold | |
| 102986377 | Henri Matisse ; Paul Eluard ; Leonor Fini ; Brassai | [revue] Hommage. 2 juin 1944. Dessins de Matisse. |
1944 | EUR 950.00 - 1,050.00 | Not Sold | |
| 103018262 | Signe ; Paul Eluard / Pablo Picasso | Le Visage de la paix par Picasso et Eluard |
1951 | EUR 900.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 708.50 | |
| 103019820 | Francois-Louis F.-L. Schmied / Dr. Lucien Graux | L'agneau du Moghreb |
1941 | EUR 550.00 - 650.00 | EUR 545.00 | |
| 103024903 | Paul Eluard / Yves Tanguy | Comme deux gouttes d'eau [Exemplaire avec corrections d'Eluard] |
1933 | EUR 2,200.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 103026954 | Antoine de Saint-Exupery | Le Petit Prince [1ere edition francaise numerotee — tres bel etat de conservation] |
1945 | EUR 1,100.00 - 1,300.00 | EUR 1,199.00 | |
| 103059027 | Albert Cohen [reliure d'art signee Florent Rousseau] | Belle du Seigneur [1/55 de tete sur velin pur fil] |
1968 | EUR 35,000.00 - 40,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 103073242 | Boris Vian / Boo | L'Equarrissage pour tous / L'Herbe rouge |
1950 | EUR 650.00 - 750.00 | Not Sold | |
| 103079744 | Henri Barbusse / Edouard Chimot | L'Enfer. Edition definitive illustree de 24 eaux-fortes originales par Edouard Chimot |
1921 | EUR 650.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 103085845 | Pierre Joseph Antoine Lebout de La Mesangere | Le Journal des Dames [avec 131 planches coloriees a la main] |
1820 | EUR 550.00 - 650.00 | EUR 599.50 | |
| 103097625 | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra / Charles-Antoine Coypel (illustrations) / Bernard Picart le Romain | Les principales avantures de l’admirable Don Quichotte, representees en figures par Coypel, Picart |
1746 | EUR 550.00 - 650.00 | EUR 408.75 | |
| 103117037 | Signe ; Mathurin Meheut / Pierre Gueguen | [aquarelle originale et envoi de Meheut] Bretagne au bout du monde |
1930 | EUR 450.00 - 550.00 | EUR 1,068.20 | |
| 103123500 | Louis BARTHOU / Georges ROBERT | Les Amours d’un Poete - Bibliophiles Franco-Suisses [RELIURE MAROQUIN DOUBLEE signee CANAPE et |
1933 | EUR 750.00 - 850.00 | Not Sold | |
| 103123682 | Paul REBOUX / Almery LOBEL-RICHE | La Maison de danses [1/150 ex. avec suite - RELIURE MAROQUIN SIGNEE Lisette Godart] |
1928 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,100.00 | Not Sold | |
| 103136593 | CASANOVA / Henry LEMARIE | L'aventure a Venise - Exemplaire H-C avec une suite |
1997 | EUR 1,100.00 - 1,300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 103137415 | Christine de Pizan | Imago Editore - Epitre d’Othea (anno 1460): edizione facsimile |
2023 | EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 1,037.68 | |
| 103137689 | MONTESQUIEU / DA ROS | De l’esprit des lois - Un des 150 exemplaires numerotes avec 2 ORIGINAUX, une suite et une PLANCHE |
1990/1989 | EUR 700.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 103156122 | Jules Verne [tres rare cartonnage Dos au phare, au portrait colle] | Les Indes Noires / Le Chancellor / Martin Paz |
1894 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 1,635.00 |
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Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000. -
Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000 -
Freeman’s, June 30. Thomas Jefferson’s “Birth of the New Nation” letter, carried to Paris with the Treaty of Peace, by a Jewish patriot. $100,000-200,000.Freeman’s, June 30. “The rockets’ red glare.” A British midshipman’s log recording the bombardment of Fort McHenry. $60,000-80,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry Commission signed by James Madison, 1812. $40,000-60,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776. $15,000-25,000.Freeman’s, June 30. One of the Earliest Printed Announcements of American Independence, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000-15,000.Freeman’s, June 30. "The Two Big Guns of the N.Y. Yanks": A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. A Unique Contemporary Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words to His Followers, the Day Before his Violent Death. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The State of Minnesota Officially Certifies the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution Of the United States. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York to Queen Anne from the Colony of New York. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. A Call to Arms in the Months Following the Declaration of Independence: An Early Continental Army Recruitment Poster. $6,000-9,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Samuel Jones, the Statesman Behind the Newly Discovered "Jones Declaration": His Annotated Set Used in His Working Law Library. $6,000-9,000.