RESULTS | Important Books and Manuscripts from the Library of Jean A. Bonna - London, 16 June 2015
Important Books and Manuscripts from the Library of Jean A. Bonna
London, Tuesday, 16 June 2015, Sale 10456
[All sold prices include buyer’s premium]
130 lots sold | Total: £3,561,650/$5,563,297/€4,907,953 | 79% sold by lot | |||||
165 lots offered | $1.562 = £1 / €1.378 =£1 | 79% sold by value | |||||
Lot | Description | Estimate (£) | Price Realised | Buyer | |||
1 | DIGULLEVILLE, Guillaume de. Le Pèlerinage de Vie Humaine, in the French prose translation commissioned by JEANNE DE LAVAL, illuminated manuscript on vellum made for CHARLOTTE OF SAVOY [Tours or Angers, c.1470]. | 350,000 - 500,000 | £422,500 $659,945 €582,205 | European private | |||
162 | MATISSE, Henri (1869-1954). Jazz. Paris: Tériade, 1947. | 150,000 - 250,000 | £338,500 $528,737 €466,453 | European private | |||
45 | FUCHS, Leonhard (1501-1566). De Historia Stirpium Commentarii insignes. Basel: Michael Isingrin, 1542. | 50,000 - 70,000 | £194,500 $303,809 €268,021 | European trade | |||
55 | VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-64). De humani corporis fabrica, lib. VII. Lyons: Jean de Tournes, 1552. | 70,000 - 100,000 | £158,500 $247,577 €218,413 | European trade | |||
64 | GILLES, Nicolas. Annales et croniques de France depuis la destruction de Troyes iusques au temps du Roy Louys onziesme, iadis composées par feu maistre Nicole Gilles, en son vivant Secrettaire, Iudiciaire du Roy, & Controlleur en son Tresor. Paris: Guillaume le Noir, 1562. | 10,000 - 15,000 | £139,300 $217,586 €191,955 | European Private | |||
150 | BAUDELAIRE, Charles (1821-1867). Les Fleurs du mal. Seconde édition augmentée de trente-cinq poèmes nouveaux. Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1861. | 60,000 - 90,000 | £120,100 $187,596 €165,497 | US Trade | |||
106 | DESCARTES, René (1596-1650). Autograph letter signed (‘Descartes’) to [M. de Flessel, vicomte de Brégy], Stockholm, 15 January 1650. | 90,000 - 120,000 | £116,500 $181,973 €160,537 | European Private | |||
86 | RAMELLI, Agostino (c. 1531-after 20 August 1608). Le diverse et artificiose machine ... nelle quali si contengono uarij et artificiosi mouimenti, degni di grandissima speculatione, per cauarne beneficio in ogni sorte d'operatione. Composte in lingua italiana et francese. Paris: by the author, 1588. | 20,000 - 30,000 | £104,500 $163,229 €144,001 | European Trade | |||
79 | PARE, Ambroise (c.1510-1590). Discours d'Ambroise Paré ... A sçavoir de la mumie, des venins, de la licorne et de la peste. Paris: Gabriel Buon, 1582. | 60,000 - 80,000 | £98,500 $153,857 €135,733 | Private | |||
149 | POE, Edgar Allan (1809-1849). Histoires extraordinaires … nouvelle édition, translated by Charles Baudelaire. Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, 1857. | 50,000 - 70,000 | £86,500 $135,113 €119,197 | US Trade | |||
Margaret Ford, International Head of Books and Manuscripts, said: “A Spitfire propeller presided over the room, emphasising the international flair of the sale. A choice selection from a connoisseur’s library attracted a full room, a long bank of active telephones bidding, and Christie’s Live bringing bidders remotely to the room from around the world. World records were set for books, old and modern, and for a Descartes letter, his last surviving. We look forward to our next sale on 15 July, in which we offer the exceptional 9th-century Gospels of Queen Theutberga. The Spitfire will be offered in our forthcoming Exceptional Sale on 9 July, 2015.” |
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