Aguttes: Rare Books & Antiquarian Manuscripts
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Rare Books & Antiquarian Manuscripts | Total Sales (EUR) | 603,104.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | April 22, 2026 - April 22, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 226,740.00 |
| Sale Number | #177621 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 294,200.00 |
| Total Lots | 325 | ||
| Sold Lots | 281.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 253,590.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 86.46% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 328,100.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 44 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 183.82% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 115 | Claude Monet (1840-1926) | L.A.S., Hotel d’Angleterre a Rouen, 10 avril 1892, a M. HAMMAN |
1892 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 52,000.00 |
| 114 | Claude Monet (1840-1926) | L.A.S. « Claude Monet », Giverny [14 novembre 1887], a Gustave GEFFROY |
1887 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | EUR 49,400.00 |
| 113 | Claude Monet (1840-1926) | L.A.S., Giverny 6 aout 1866, a Leon CLAPISSON |
1866 | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 45,500.00 |
| 271 | Livre d'Heures, a l'usage non identifie |
c. 1450-1480 | EUR 18,000.00 - 20,000.00 | EUR 27,300.00 | |
| 286 | DESCARTES | Discours de la methode pour bien conduire sa raison. Plus la dioptrique, les meteores et la geometrie qui sont des essais de cette Methode.; Les Principes de la Philosophie, Escrits en latin… Et traduit en Francois par un de ses Amis. |
1637; 1647 | EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 23,379.00 |
| 145 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791); May Coates; Ernst Pauer (1826-1905); Wellington; Anna Maria Hall; Anne Thackeray; E.J. Cobbett; George Frederic Watts; John William Inchbold; Hubert von Herkomer; Jenny Lind-Goldschmitt; Stephen Heller; Thomas Hughes; | Meche de cheveux dans un album d’autographes |
N/A | EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 18,200.00 |
| 409 | Pablo Picasso | Eaux-fortes originales pour des textes de Buffon. |
1942 | EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | EUR 14,533.00 |
| 208 | Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) | L.A.S. |
1840 | EUR 1,300.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 8,450.00 |
| 262 | Louis XV (1710-1774) | L.A. |
1770 | EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | EUR 8,320.00 |
| 327 | Pierre Choderlos de Laclos | Les Liaisons dangereuses ou lettres recueillies dans une Societe, & publiees pour l'instruction de quelques autres |
1782 | EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 8,214.00 |
| 273 | Hugo de Prato Florido | Prato Florido |
1479 | EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 7,582.00 |
| 356 | [Suite de figures dessinees et peintes a l’encre. Galerie de costumes]. |
ND (ca 1700) | EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 7,582.00 | |
| 275 | Valere Maxime | Les Neuf livres de Valere le Grant, translatez du latin en francois par tres-reverend maistre Simon de Hesdin,... et achevez par Nicolas de Gonesse,... |
1489 | EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 7,329.00 |
| 288 | LA DOCTRINE DU PERE AU FILZ… |
c. 1528 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 6,824.00 | |
| 255 | Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) | L.A.S. « C. de Gaulle » |
1957 | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 5,720.00 |
| 274 | Nicolaus Salicetus | Liber meditationu[m] ac orationu[m] devotarum qui Anthidotarius anime dicitur cu[m] tabula insertus |
1494 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 5,307.00 |
| 272 | Pape Gregoire Ier | Les Omelies / saint Gregoyre / imprimez nouvellement a Paris |
1501 | EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 5,055.00 |
| 158 | Georges Bernanos (1888-1948) | MANUSCRIT autographe, [Journal d’un cure de campagne] (fragment) |
1935 | EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | EUR 4,680.00 |
| 144 | Alma Mahler-Werfel (1879-1964) | 6 L.A.S. « Alma Maria Mahler », « Alma » ou « Alma Maria », a un ami chef d’orchestre |
N/A | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 4,550.00 |
| 169 | Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand (1768-1848) | L.A. |
1814 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | EUR 4,550.00 |
| 230 | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) | L.S. « A. Einstein » |
1949 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 4,550.00 |
| 302 | Antoine Le Metel d’Ouville (1589-1656) | Les Contes aux heures perdues du Sieur d’Ouville. |
1644 | EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 4,170.00 |
| 205 | Charles de Secondat, baron de La Brede et de Montesquieu (1689-1755) | L.A.S. |
1736 | EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 4,160.00 |
| 243 | Charles I (1600-1649) | L.A.S. « Charles R » |
N/A | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 4,160.00 |
| 306 | Antoine Baudeau de Somaize | Le Grand dictionnaire des pretieuses, ou La clef de la langue des ruelles. |
1661 | EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 3,917.00 |
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Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000Forum, May 28: The Christ Child holding a crystal orb and surrounded by banderoles with devotional exhortations, on a leaf most probably from a Book of Hours, [Southern Netherlands, last decades of the fifteenth century]. £2,000-3,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Ribelles y Helip (José), Attributed to. An album comprising 33 finely executed watercolours of Spanish costume, bull-fighting scenes, and other genre subjects, [circa 1830]. £10,000-15,000 -
