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Sothebys: The Library of Pierre Berge: The Final Chapter - online 10/14

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Auction Name The Library of Pierre Berge: The Final Chapter - online 10/14 Total Sales (EUR) 2,134,680.00
Auction Date October 28, 2024 - October 28, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 996,400.00
Sale Number #pf2433 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 1,431,950.00
Total Lots 228
Sold Lots 227 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 997,000.00
% of Lots Sold 99.56% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 1,432,750.00
Unsold Lots 1 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 148.99%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
122 [Stendhal, Henri Beyle dit] - Germaine de Stael

Considerations sur les principaux evenemens de la Revolution francoise, ouvrage posthume, publie par M. le duc de Broglie et M. le baron de Stael.

1818 EUR 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 EUR 168,000.00
179 Gide, Andre

[Les Cahiers d'Andre Walter]. Manuscrit autographe.

ni date [1890]. EUR 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 EUR 108,000.00
38 Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de

Lettres persanes.

1721 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 102,000.00
17 Sceve, Maurice

Microcosme.

1562 EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 EUR 78,000.00
185 Jarry, Alfred

Ubu roi. Drame en cinq actes en prose restitue en son integrite tel qu'il a ete represente par les marionnettes du Theatre des Phynances en 1888.

1896 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 78,000.00
125 Stendhal, Henri Beyle dit

Promenades dans Rome.

1829 EUR 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 EUR 72,000.00
177 Garcia Lorca, Federico

Oda a Walt Whitman.

1933 EUR 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 EUR 72,000.00
142 Whitman, Walt

Leaves of Grass.

1855 EUR 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 EUR 57,600.00
75 Flaubert, Gustave

Salammbo.

1863 EUR 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 EUR 50,400.00
222 Stravinsky, Igor

Le Sacre du printemps [...] Reduction pour piano a quatre mains par l'auteur.

1913 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 42,000.00
88 Hugo, Victor

Lettres a la fiancee. 1820-1822.

1901 EUR 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 38,400.00
9 Colonna, Francesco

Hypnerotomachie, ou Discours du songe de Poliphile, deduisant comme Amour le combat a l'occasion de Polia. Soubz la fiction de quoy l'aucteur monstrant que toutes choses terrestres ne sont que vanite, traicte de plusieurs matieres profitables, & dignes de

1546 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 33,600.00
76 Flaubert, Gustave

La Tentation de saint Antoine.

1874 EUR 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 EUR 33,600.00
111 Pouchkine, Alexandre

Poltava [Poltava].

1829 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 33,600.00
44 [Sade, Donatien Alphonse Francois, marquis de] - Andre-Robert Andrea de Nerciat

Felicia ou Mes fredaines.

1792 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 31,200.00
155 Buffet, Bernard --- Jean Giono

Recherche de la purete.

1953 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 31,200.00
13 Montaigne, Michel de

Essais. Cinquiesme edition augmentee d'un troisiesme livre : et de six cens additions aux deux premiers.

1588 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 28,800.00
52 Balzac, Honore de

Physiologie du mariage ou Meditations de philosophie eclectique, sur le bonheur et le malheur conjugal [...].

1834 EUR 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 EUR 28,800.00
152 Berard, Christian - Henri Sauguet

Les Forains. Ballet. Reduction pour piano.

1946 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 26,400.00
175 Garcia Lorca, Federico

Primer romancero gitano (1924-1927).

1929 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 21,600.00
207 Proust, Marcel

Le Lundi. Revue artistique & litteraire.

1887-1888. EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 21,600.00
62 [Berry, duchesse de] - Honore de Balzac - Alexandre Dumas pere - Alexandre Dumas fils - George Sand

17 ouvrages provenant de la bibliotheque de la duchesse de Berry a Brunnsee.

1837-1857. EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 20,400.00
115 Sand, George

Consuelo. [Avec :] La Comtesse de Rudolstadt.

1842-1844. EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 20,400.00
145 Apollinaire, Guillaume

Alcools. Poemes (1898-1913).

1913 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 20,400.00
3 Boiardo, Matteo Maria

Sonetti e Canzone del Poeta Clarissimo Matthe[o] Maria Boiardo Co[n]te di Scandiano.

1499 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 19,200.00
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