2009 Auctions

[Pierre Tavlitzki]

AUCTION HOUSES referred below :

AuctionArt Pierre Cardin Rémy Le Fur Site
Bloomsbury New York Site and News
Bonhams Site Press
Christie's Site Press
Gros et Delettrez Site Drouot Presse
Heritage Auction Galleries Site Press
Lafon Site Drouot Presse
Marie-Françoise Robert et Franck Baille Site Drouot Presse
Mathias Farrando Lemoine Baron Ribeyre Site Drouot Presse
Millon Cornette de Saint-Cyr Site Drouot Presse
Piasa Site Press
Profiles in History Site and Press
Reiss Site and Press
Sotheby's Site Press

NEXT SALES

Profiles in History, Los Angeles, December 16
ex Alice Liddell copy of Through the looking glass (est 150 K$)
ex Beatrix Potter copy of Peter Rabbitt (est 120 K$)
both shared by Reuters November 23

Bloomsbury, New York, December 3
1st edition of Champlain's Les Voyages (lot 67, est 250 K$) Shared by LiveAuctioneers
Release November 11

Christie's, New York, December 4
1st edition of Edgar Poe's Tamerlane (Sale 2153, lot 155, est 500 K$)
Autograph manuscript of The Original of Laura by Nabokov (Sale 2227, lot 95, est 400 K$)
Discussion
Release November 20

Gros et Delettrez, Paris, December 1
Les Fleurs du Mal by Baudelaire first issue (lot 80, est 120 K€)
Discussion
Release viewed October 17

PAST SALES

Sotheby's, New York, November 24
a decorated Esther Scroll, Venice, 1564 (lot 166, est 600 K$) (SOLD 600 K$ incl)
Discussion
13th century Torah Scroll from Spain (lot 142, est 300 K$) (SOLD 400 K$ incl)
Discussion
Sale N08606, Releases September 15 and November 3

Reiss, Königstein,
October 27
second edition of Basilius Besler’s ‘Hortus Eystettensis’ (Sale 130, lot 1644, est 180 K€) (UNSOLD)
October 28
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg: ‘Civitates Orbis Terrarum’ (Sale 133, lot 3031, est 260 K€) (SOLD 230 K€ excl)
Discussion
Release September

Lafon, Paris, October 16
a 13th Century Old French law manuscript (lot 20, est 60 K€) (SOLD 310 K€ incl)
Discussion
Release viewed July 19

Heritage, Dallas, October 16
first issue of Ian Fleming's Casino Royale (lot 37253, est 40 K$) (SOLD 50 K$ incl)
Discussion
Sale 6030, Release September 30

Millon Cornette de Saint-Cyr, Paris, July 7
the manuscript of the poem Liberté by Paul Eluard (lot 261, est 40 K€) (UNSOLD)
Release viewed June 20

Sotheby's, London, July 7
a mid-fifteenth century manuscript documenting the life of Emperor Sigismund (lot 26, est 1 M£) (SOLD 1.15 M£ incl)
Discussion
a minute illuminated Hours manuscript (lot 118, est 600 K£) (UNSOLD)
Discussion
Sale L09740, Release June 3 and 23

Christie's, New York, June 24
John Hill's the Vegetable System (lot 112, est 200 K$) (UNSOLD)
Discussion
Herbarium Apulei ca 1481-1482 (lot 15, est 50 K$) (UNSOLD)
Sale 2170, Release May 29

Sotheby's, Paris, June 17
the manuscript of the core chapter of Terre des Hommes by Saint Exupéry (lot 80, est 200 K€) (SOLD 310 K€ incl)
Discussion
Jazz by Matisse (lot 86, est 180 K€) (SOLD 215 K€ incl)
Discussion
Sale PF9005, Release April 7

Christie's, New York, June 12
a manuscript book recording civic spectacles of Renaissance Nuremberg (lot 309, est 80 K$) (SOLD 160 K$ incl)
Discussion
Sale 2178, Release May 19

Bonhams, New York, June 10
a first issue copy with jacket of The Great Gatsby (lot 3252, est 80 K$) (SOLD 150 K$ excl, 180 K$ incl)
Discussion
Sale 17109, Release viewed May 24

Piasa, Paris, May 12
Les Roses by Redouté, first edition (lot 82, est 150 K€) (SOLD 220 K€ incl)
Discussion
Release March 31

Mathias Farrando Lemoine Baron Ribeyre, Paris, April 29
a German illuminated psalter ca 1200 (lot 84, est 120 K€) (UNSOLD)
Du Côté de chez Swann by Proust bound by Paul Bonet (lot 132, est 100 K€) (SOLD 86 K€ excl, 104 K€ incl)
Discussion
Release viewed March 7

Reiss, Königstein, April 21/23
the 1490 edition of Ptolemy's 'Cosmographia' (lot 2939a, est 150 K€) (UNSOLD)
Discussion
Sale 128, Release viewed March 15

Sotheby's, Paris, April 8
Le Silence de la Mer by Vercors, first edition (lot 320, est 9 K€) (SOLD 17.5 K€ incl)
Discussion
Sale PF9021, Release March 26

AuctionArt Pierre Cardin Rémy Le Fur, Paris, April 6
Jules Verne's L'Ile Mystérieuse in a unique 1875 test binding (lot 72, est 40 K€) (SOLD 80 K€ excl)
Catalogue viewed April 4

Robert et Baille, Paris, April 4
Jules Verne's L'Ile Mystérieuse in a unique 1875 green binding (lot 124, est 20 K€) (SOLD 68 K€ excl, 82 K€ incl)
Discussion
Release viewed February 1

Heritage, Dallas, March 6
J. K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (lot 37163, est 8 K$) (SOLD 19 K$ incl)
Discussion
Sale 6020, Release February 16