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Auction Name Royalty at Versailles Total Sales (EUR) 10,857.00
Auction Date May 05, 2024 - May 05, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 7,080.00
Sale Number #148107 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 9,500.00
Total Lots 26
Sold Lots 18 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 12,100.00
% of Lots Sold 69.23% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 16,050.00
Unsold Lots 8 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 67.65%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
8 PAUL III (ALESSANDRO FARNESE, KNOWN AS).

PAUL III (ALESSANDRO FARNESE, KNOWN AS). Autograph letter signed with his initial ".A.", TO KING FRANCOIS I

 February 8, 1541 [1540 c. s.] EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,659.00
1 BARNAVE (Antoine).

BARNAVE (Antoine). Autograph letter signed.

March 23, 1792 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,531.00
9 LESZCZYNSKA (Marie).

LESZCZYNSKA (Marie). Autograph letter signed "Marie" to principal minister Andre-Hercule de Fleury.

[July 3, 1729]. EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,276.00
91 Gabriel FAURE (1845-1924)

Pavane pour orchestre et choeur by Gabriel FAURE (1845-1924) dedicated to the Comtesse Greffulhe.

 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 1,148.00
7

MENUS - Set of 2 manuscripts, ONE SIGNED BY LE COMTE DE PROVENCE, FUTUR LOUIS XVIII.

 1621 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 829.00
3 CHAUMETTE (Pierre-Gaspard).

CHAUMETTE (Pierre-Gaspard). Autograph letter signed to his friend Jean-Eugin Thomas.

 n.d. EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 561.00
2 BRISSOT DE WARVILLE (Jacques-Pierre Brissot, known as Jacques-Pierre).

BRISSOT DE WARVILLE (Jacques-Pierre Brissot, known as Jacques-Pierre). Autograph letter signed to Camille Desmoulins.

 [1790 or 1791]. EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 536.00
77 EPITOME BARONII (Cesare Baronio 1538-1607)

Annales Ecclesiastici ex XII Tomis.

 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 510.00
65 Georges ROSE(1895-1951). French school

Chantilly Castle.

 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 485.00
85 Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne (1756-1819)

Autograph letter signed and dated November 18, 1790, addressed to a newspaper editor, pleading for the publication of his verse poem committed to the Revolution.

1790 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 383.00
87

In cardboard folder titled "Jubilee Day 1897" (Queen Victoria's Jubilee for her Sixtieth Anniversary of Reign), set of eight albumen prints mounted on cardboard.

 1897 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 383.00
4 CONDE(Louis de Bourbon, prince de).

CONDE(Louis de Bourbon, prince de). Autograph letter signed "Louis de Bourbon" to the Duc de Longueville.

December 23, 1654. EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 357.00
92

ALMANACH ROYAL, annee MDCCXXXIX

1739 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 332.00
95

ALMANACH ROYAL year 1762. Le Breton, 1762.

 1762 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 319.00
52 Francois-Seraphin DELPECH (1778-1825) and Nicolas-Eustache MAURIN (1778-1850)

Bust portrait with oval view of Baron Guillaume DUPUYTREN (1777-1835), anatomist and surgeon, physician to Charles X and his brother Louis XVIII, president of the Paris Anatomical Society and the French National Academy of Medicine.

 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 191.00
53 After a drawing by Pierre BOUILLON (Thiviers 1776 - Paris 1831)

Portrait of King Louis XVIII

EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 153.00
88 Edme-Bonaventure Courtois (1754-1816)

Autograph letter signed by Edme-Bonaventure Courtois (1754-1816), dated April 20, 1792, addressed to his friend Monsieur Jourdain on rue de Savoie.

1792 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 102.00
90 Rare British passport dated 1830.

British passport; or authorization to travel on French territory, numbered 2273; issued to British citizens Mr and Mrs Grun.

 November 12, 1830 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 102.00
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