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Vermot de Pas: 600 Autographs, Photographs, Drawings and Small Collections

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Auction Name	600 Autographs, Photographs, Drawings and Small Collections	Total Sales (EUR)	15,859.20
Auction Date	November 13, 2024 - November 13, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	12,140.00
Sale Number	#158806	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	15,220.00
Total Lots	515
Sold Lots	138	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	46,630.00
% of Lots Sold	26.80%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	58,630.00
Unsold Lots	377	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	27.05%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Estimate	Actual Price
33	Josephin PELADAN Andre TAPONIER (1869-1930)	1deg) Suite of 4 original glass plate negatives	EUR 120.00 - 150.00	EUR 896.00
78	Michel GYARMATHY	FOLIES BERGERE - DECORS - Important set of approx. 60 original drawings of set designs (some 20 of which are set elements intended for 3-dimensional staging of the maquettes	EUR 600.00 - 650.00	EUR 742.40
600		GOLDEN BOOK of the Galerie du Vieux-Belfort (owned by painter Marc Hudier)	EUR 120.00 - 150.00	EUR 691.20
77	Michel GYARMATHY	FOLIES BERGERE - COSTUMES - Important set of around 80 original drawings: costume projects	EUR 500.00 - 550.00	EUR 614.40
34	Josephin PELADAN	1deg) Set of over 30 album pages compiled by actor Samson FAINSILBER (1904-1983) containing press clippings and various documents from his theatrical creations in the 1920s	EUR 220.00 - 250.00	EUR 576.00
493		CYCLING - Important collection of 3,660 autographs of professional cyclists from 2007 to 2014	EUR 450.00 - 500.00	EUR 512.00
510	Paul GAUDIN	Important collection of over 300 drawings and crobars by Paul Gaudin - The interest in Paul Gaudin is twofold: he is an important figure in the history of the Chemin de Fer	EUR 350.00 - 400.00	EUR 384.00
84	Guy FERRANT	Set of 16 scores that belonged to him: Anonymous (Souvenir	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	EUR 281.60
136	Leon BOURGEF	Large lot of signed autograph music manuscripts (over 150 p of music): preludes	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	EUR 256.00
587		PARIS-VIVANT Important set of 23 interior posters using the covers of this magazine to promote it	EUR 220.00 - 250.00	EUR 256.00
470	CHATELAILLON	Autograph manuscript of a historical article about the discovery of burials and sarcophagi in Chatelaillon	EUR 180.00 - 200.00	EUR 192.00
594	AIN	Private archive of 142 Belle-Epoque (1900-1910) postcards received by Jean-Marie Degoutte	EUR 180.00 - 200.00	EUR 192.00
599	Paul LEBIEZ	Booklet produced by the collector	EUR 100.00 - 120.00	EUR 185.60
394	Pierre-Jean de BERANGER	Chansons collected in a suite of 5 in-12 volumes (9.5 x 15.5 cm) embellished with 98 steel-engraved out-of-text illustrations by the great names of the period (Bellange	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	EUR 172.80
451	Ignace Joseph SILBERMANN	Autograph manuscript signed in the text (third-person letterhead)	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	EUR 166.40
459	[Helena RUBINSTEIN] -	WALDORF-ASTORIA Exceptional "directory book" from the 1930s	EUR 150.00 - 180.00	EUR 166.40
540	[Paul VERLAINE] - Leon VANIER	Fragment autograph by Vanier of the account book Vanier kept with Verlaine	EUR 150.00 - 180.00	EUR 166.40
506		CURIOSITY - Miracle of GONESSE	EUR 150.00 - 180.00	EUR 160.00
541		Morceaux choisis	EUR 120.00 - 150.00	EUR 160.00
182	Henri BIZETTE	Important joint work by these 3 physicists on over 70 sheet pages: autograph manuscripts by each of them reporting their work	EUR 130.00 - 150.00	EUR 153.60
406		Signed autograph manuscript	EUR 150.00 - 180.00	EUR 153.60
71	BEAUX-ARTS - Jeanne BAUDOT	Autograph pneumatic card signed	EUR 50.00 - 70.00	EUR 147.20
460		JUDAICA - La Presse antiraciste sous l'occupation hitlerienne - 1940-1944	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 140.80
226		Guestbook in the form of a large 4-page folio insert (32 x 49.5 cm) commemorating a gallery opening in 1963	EUR 120.00 - 150.00	EUR 134.40
490		ALGERIE Set of 10 works from the library of colonial officer and explorer Octave Meynier (1874-1961): 1deg) Du Congo au Tchad par le Lieutenant Camille AVON de l'escadron des spahis du Tchad	EUR 120.00 - 150.00	EUR 128.00

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Specimen book of type faces. Job composition department, Philadelphia gazette publishing company .

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD

Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD

Sotheby’s: William Golding.
Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD

Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD

Sotheby’s: John Milton.
Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD