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Gros & Delettrez: Modern Illustrated Books - Collection of an amateur bookbinder
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Modern Illustrated Books - Collection of an amateur bookbinder | Total Sales (EUR) | 10,010.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | July 03, 2026 - July 03, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 6,470.00 |
| Sale Number | #182467 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 9,350.00 |
| Total Lots | 152 | ||
| Sold Lots | 81.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 24,140.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 53.29% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 33,720.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 71 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 29.69% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88 | Loti Pierre | Madame Prune’s Third Youth |
1926 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 624.00 |
| 26 | Char Rene | Pour nous Rimbaud |
1956 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 520.00 |
| 13 | Blum Leon | Memoirs on the Affair |
1935 | EUR 180.00 - 200.00 | EUR 455.00 |
| 59 | Giono Jean | Le haut pays |
1965 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 416.00 |
| 129 | Lyautey Marshal | Letters from Tonkin |
1928 | EUR 80.00 - 100.00 | EUR 364.00 |
| 152 | Zola Emile | Work |
1901 | EUR 500.00 - 700.00 | EUR 325.00 |
| 12 | Blum Leon | Le sopha |
1935 | EUR 650.00 - 750.00 | EUR 286.00 |
| 45 | Dulac Jean | Behind the Scenes of Half a Century |
N/A | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 260.00 |
| 91 | Louys Pierre | The Songs of Bilitis |
1943 | EUR 180.00 - 220.00 | EUR 260.00 |
| 113 | Nemirovsky Irene | The Ball |
1930 | EUR 180.00 - 200.00 | EUR 260.00 |
| 151 | Yourcenar Marguerite | Acceptance speech by Marguerite Yourcenar upon her election to the Academie Francaise and response by Jean d'Ormesson |
1981 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 260.00 |
| 149 | Villefosse Heron de | The Bohemian Epic |
1959 | EUR 30.00 - 50.00 | EUR 234.00 |
| 122 | Rimbaud Arthur | Illuminations |
1978 | EUR 100.00 - 200.00 | EUR 221.00 |
| 128 | Sandoz Maurice | The House Without Windows |
1949 | EUR 150.00 - 250.00 | EUR 208.00 |
| 42 | Dorgeles Roland | Les croix de bois |
1947 | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 195.00 |
| 148 | Verne Jules | From the Earth to the Moon |
1964 | EUR 100.00 - 200.00 | EUR 195.00 |
| 83 | Julie's Missteps |
1932 | EUR 100.00 - 200.00 | EUR 169.00 | |
| 55 | Gautier Theophile | The Mummy’s Novel |
1945 | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 156.00 |
| 94 | Mac Orlan Pierre | Surprising Faces of Paris |
1952 | EUR 80.00 - 100.00 | EUR 156.00 |
| 100 | Merimee Prosper | The Souls in Purgatory |
N/A | EUR 80.00 - 100.00 | EUR 156.00 |
| 108 | Montherlant Henri de | Sous les drapeaux morts |
1929 | EUR 120.00 - 150.00 | EUR 156.00 |
| 109 | Montorgueil Georges | Life in Montmartre |
1899 | EUR 80.00 - 100.00 | EUR 156.00 |
| 150 | Villon Francois | Les Lais; Le testament |
1948 | EUR 80.00 - 100.00 | EUR 156.00 |
| 97 | Maran Rene | The Book of the Bush |
1947 | EUR 30.00 - 50.00 | EUR 143.00 |
| 30 | Chateaubriand Francois-Rene de | Atala |
1948 | EUR 80.00 - 100.00 | EUR 130.00 |
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Sotheby’s Geek Week
14-15 JulySotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000. -
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The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000