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Henri Godts Books and Prints Auctions: Books

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Auction Name Books Total Sales (EUR) 376,576.80
Auction Date December 17, 2013 - December 17, 2013 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 171,700.00
Sale Number #121713 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 214,100.00
Total Lots 451
Sold Lots 343 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 238,270.00
% of Lots Sold 76.05% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 296,620.00
Unsold Lots 108 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 126.96%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
324 RIMBAUD, Arthur

Les Illuminations. Notice par Paul Verlaine.

 1886 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 18,450.00
323 RIMBAUD, Arthur

Une Saison en enfer.

 1873 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 14,760.00
32

Recueil de 3 suites de lithographies romantiques libres, soit 36 planches au total (+ 1 ajoutee).

 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 12,300.00
116 [GUEUDEVILLE, Nicolas; CHATELAIN, Zacharie]

Atlas historique, ou nouvelle introduction a l'histoire, a la chronologie et a la geographie ancienne et moderne representee dans de nouvelles cartes [...].

 1721 -1737. EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 11,070.00
162 LEEUWENHOEK, Antoni van

Ontledingen en Ontdekkingen [...] vervat in verscheyde Brieven, geschreven aaan [sic] de wyt-vermaarde Koninglijke Wetenschap-zoekende Societeit, tot Londen in Engeland. [Tweede [...] -Sevende vervolg der Brieven [...]. Send-brieven [...]].

 1684 -1718. EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 9,225.00
317 MALLARME, Stephane

Oxford, Cambridge. La Musique et les Lettres.

 1895 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 9,225.00
4

Recueil de 7 catalogues de ventes aux encheres de livres organisees, de 1790 a 1792, par Jean-Francois Van Overbeke, imprimeur, editeur et libraire a Louvain.

 1790 a 1792 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 8,610.00
378 PROUST, Marcel

A la recherche du temps perdu. Du cote de chez Swann.

 1914 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 7,995.00
445 [SAUMERY, Pierre-Lambert; CRASSIER, G. de]

Les Delices du Pais de Liege, ou Description geographique, topographique et chorographique des monumens sacres et profanes [...].

 1738 -1744. EUR 6,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 7,995.00
415

"Gruunendaele" "Le Couvent de Groenendaele a deux lieues de Bruxelles".

 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 6,150.00
21 HEYDEN, Pieter van der (c. 1530-apres 1572) [d'apres Jerome BOSCH]

"Die blau Schuyte".

 1559 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 5,904.00
166 ROPS, Felicien

Lettre autographe signee, a propos de l'illustration d'un livre.

 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 5,658.00
427

Le grand Theatre sacre du duche de Brabant [...].

 1729 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 5,166.00
22 HEYDEN, Pieter van der (c. 1530-apres 1572) [d'apres Jerome BOSCH]

"Celebration du Mardi Gras".

 1567 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 4,920.00
136 PALISOT DE BEAUVOIS, Ambroise-Marie-Francois-Joseph

Flore d'Oware et de Benin, en Afrique [...].

 1804 -1821. EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,674.00
431 BRIL, Paul (1554-1626)

"Seven boerne" [Sept Fontaines, Alsemberg].

 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 4,428.00
327 SCHWOB, Marcel

Le Roi au Masque d'or.

 1893 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 4,059.00
20 [Attribue a ACHTSCHELLINCK, Lucas (1629-1699)]

Grand paysage vallonne boise avec vue sur un village avec clocher.

 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,690.00
105 KIRCHER, Athanase

Toonneel van China, door veel, zo geestelijke als werreltlijke, geheugteekenen, verscheide vertoningen van de natuur en kunst, en blijken van veel andere gedenkwaerdige dingen, geopent en verheerlykt.

 1668 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,690.00
114 CARY, G. & W

"New Terrestrial Globe delineated from the best authorities extant; exhibiting the late discoveries towards the North Pole [...]."

 1821 EUR 900.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 3,690.00
413 DERONS, F.I

"Dit is het Castiel van den baron van Pouderle, nu toe behoorende aen mavrouw Cort achter Lacken [Laken], achter den meulen bij de beck, 1732".

 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,690.00
283 CUSTINE, marquis Astolphe de

Ethel.

 1839 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 3,567.00
376 PEGUY, Charles

Le mystere de la charite de Jeanne d'Arc [-Le porche du mystere de la deuxieme vertu,-Le mystere des saints innocents].

 (1910 -1912). EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 3,444.00
325 RIMBAUD, Arthur

Reliquaire. Poesies. Preface de Rodolphe Darzens.

 1891 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 3,321.00
142 SELIGMAN, Jean Michel

Recueil de divers oiseaux etrangers et peu communs qui se trouvent dans les ouvrages de Messieurs Edwards et Catesby, representes en taille douce et exactement colories par J.M. Seligman.

 1768 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,075.00
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
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