• Auction 19706

    Selections from the Library of Mr. & Mrs. John H. Gutfreund 834 Fifth Avenue

    14 January 2021 - 29 January 2021, New York

    SALE TOTAL: 921,375 (USD)
115 Lots for Sale 19706
Lot 1
History of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Count of Maurepas' copy, 1740
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$2,250
Lot 2
Medals of Louis XIV
Bound with royal arms of France, 1702
estimate
$3,000 - $4,000

price realized
$10,625
Lot 3
The Coronation of Alexander II
St Petersburg, 1856
estimate
$20,000 - $30,000

price realized
$22,500
Lot 4
Charming French almanac
Paris, 1788
estimate
$3,000 - $4,000

price realized
$5,250
Lot 5
Books on Ancient Rome
8 works, 1587-1759.
estimate
$2,000 - $4,000

price realized
$6,250
Lot 6
Two works on trees
Duhamel du Monceau, 1755 & 1758
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$3,250
Lot 7
Aristotle's works in Latin
Giunta edition, 1560
estimate
$3,000 - $4,000

price realized
$6,875
Lot 8
Anthology of French poetry
Bound for the Duchesse de Berry, 1824
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$5,250
Lot 9
L'Art decoratif de Bakst
Alexandre & Cocteau, 1913
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$6,250
Lot 10
Exercice spirituel
Fanfare binding by Padeloup, 1648
estimate

This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 11
Balocchi's La Primavera Felice
Bound for the Duchesse de Berry, 1816
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$1,250
Lot 12
Pansies
Barillet & Lesemann, 1869
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$750
Lot 13
Admiranda Romanarum antiquitatum
Bartoli, 1693
estimate
$3,000 - $4,000

price realized
$2,250
Lot 14
Lansdown Tower
Beckford & Maddox, 1844
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$4,375
Lot 15
Petit Blondel
Paris, 1771-77
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$4,000
Lot 16
Book of Hours on vellum
Northern France, 15th century
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$13,750
Lot 17
Watercolors of flowers and plants
Bound manuscript, c.1850
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,500
Lot 18
Treatise on Miniature Painting
C. Boutet, 1696
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,250
Lot 19
Natural history drawing manuals
G. Brookshaw, 1819
estimate
$3,000 - $4,000

price realized
$2,500
Lot 20
A French aristocratic woman's library
Manuscript catalogue, 1786
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$7,500
Lot 21
Histoire amoureuse des Gaules
Bussy-Rabutin, 1665
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$1,875
Lot 22
Chabert's scientific voyage
The Duc de Choiseul-Praslin copy, 1753
estimate

This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 23
Cosway Bindings
Dickens and Watson
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$6,000
Lot 24
Le Musée français
Croze-Magnan, 1803-1809
estimate
$3,000 - $4,000

price realized
$8,750
Lot 25
Dissertation on Acupuncture
J.-J. Déidié, 1787
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$5,000
Lot 26
The Great Exhibition of 1851
Dickinson Brothers, 1854
estimate
$3,000 - $4,000

price realized
$12,500
Lot 27
Two Dubuisson Bindings
Paris, 1739 & 1748
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$18,750
Lot 28
The Compleat Florist
London, 1747
estimate
$1,500 - $2,000

price realized
$3,750
Lot 29
The New Botanic Garden
Syndenham Edwards, 1812
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$4,000
Lot 30
Sistine Vulgate Bible in olive green morocco
Cologne, 1679
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$2,000
Lot 31
Psalms in French, in decorated vellum binding
Neuchâtel, 1704
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,875
Lot 32
Finely bound German Bible
Tübingen, 1730
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$2,500
Lot 33
Blank account book in red morocco gilt
France, 18th century
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$1,500
Lot 34
Chronique, bound by Paul Bonet
Saint Jean Perse, 1960
estimate
$15,000 - $20,000

price realized
$13,750
Lot 35
Templum Vaticanum
Fontana, 1694
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$25,000
Lot 36
Frederick the Great's daily reading
C. Dantal, 1791
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$3,500
Lot 37
The Book of Gems poetry anthology
With fore-edge paintings, 1836-38
estimate
$3,000 - $4,000

price realized
$15,000
Lot 38
Collection of engraved portraits
C.-E. Gaucher, c.1770-1800
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$5,250
Lot 39
Chroa-Génésie ou génération des couleurs
Gautier D'Agoty, 1750-51
estimate
$3,000 - $4,000

price realized
$8,125
Lot 40
English heraldry, hand-colored copy
J. Guillim, 1638
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$2,250
Lot 42
Heraldry of the City of Paris
J.-L. Chevillard, c.1735
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$11,250
Lot 43
History of the nobility of southeastern France
J.A. Pithon-Curt, 1743-50
estimate
$3,000 - $4,000

price realized
$12,500
Lot 44
France and its dominions
H. Rosnel, 1773
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$2,500
Lot 46
The Beauties of Flora
E.E. Gleadall, 1834
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$3,500
Lot 47
Hôtel royal des Invalides
Edicts and ordinances, 1744-72
estimate
$3,000 - $4,000

price realized
$4,750
Lot 48
JAR Jewelry
2002
estimate
$200 - $300

price realized
$625
Lot 49
Kipling's Jungle Book
Illustrated by P. Jouve & F.-L. Schmied, 1919
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$21,250
Lot 50
The Flowers of Holland
J. Kops, 1800-14
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$2,125
Lot 51
Réhabilitation de la chirurgie dentaire
Presentation binding to Empress Eugenie, 1859
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,625
Lot 52
Cent cinq costumes des départemens de la Seine inférieure
Lanté & Gatine, c.1830
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$1,250
Lot 53
Lapie's map of Russia and environs
Bound with royal arms of France, 1812
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$4,750
Lot 54
The Compleat Gard'ner
Quintinye, 1693
estimate
$3,000 - $4,000

price realized
$6,875
Lot 55
Literature
French & English, 19th & 20th centuries
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$4,375
Lot 56
Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal
Livre d'artiste, 1928
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$4,750
Lot 57
The Botanical Cabinet
Conrad Loddiges, 1817-22
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$15,000
Lot 58
Daphnis and Chloe
Longus, 1745
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$2,750
Lot 59
Ordinances and edicts of Louis XIV, 1667-73
Le Fèvre Caumartin copy
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$3,000
Lot 60
Coronation of Louis XV in Reims Cathedral in 1722
Festival book in contemporary binding
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$5,250
Lot 61
Coronation of Louis XV in Reims Cathedral in 1722
Bound by Padeloup le jeune
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$17,500
Lot 62
Coronation of Louis XV in Reims Cathedral in 1722
Contemporary red morocco binding
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$6,250
Lot 63
Della natura della cose, after Cochin
Lucretius, 1754
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,375
Lot 64
Maimbourg's 1686 History of Pope Gregory the Great
Colbert family copy
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$6,000
Lot 65
The North American Sylva
Michaux & Nuttall, 1871
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,750
Lot 66
Louis XIV's military campaigns in Flanders
Contemporary manuscript with maps, c.1677
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$27,500
Lot 67
Militaria, in French armorial bindings
Two works, London and Paris
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$6,875
Lot 68
Pickering's Diamond Classics
Bound in morocco by Capé, 1821-31
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$8,125
Lot 69
Modern Literature
American, 20th century
estimate
$2,500 - $4,500

price realized
$3,000
Lot 70
The Queen's Closet Opened, her book
M.W., 1658
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$2,750
Lot 71
Salomon's 1713 opera, Médée et Jason
Bound for the Duchesse du Maine
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,125
Lot 72
Songs from 18th-century France
Comtesse du Barry's copy, c.1780s
estimate
$400 - $600

price realized
$3,250
Lot 73
String quartets from the Classical age
Benincori, Cambini, Davaux et al., c.1795-1810
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$1,125
Lot 74
Books on Napoleon
4 works, 1788-1906
estimate
$2,500 - $4,500

price realized
$6,250
Lot 75
Nash's Picturesque Views of Paris
Large paper copy, 1820-23
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$1,875
Lot 76
Flowers in hand-colored lithographs
R.H. Nimmo, 1826-32
estimate
$3,000 - $4,000

price realized
$4,000
Lot 77
Ordre du Saint-Esprit statutes
Red morocco binding, 1788
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$1,875
Lot 78
Hints on Ornamental Gardening
J.B. Papworth, 1823
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$2,750
Lot 79
Teatro delle nobili et virtuose donne
Isabella Parasole, 1636
estimate
$6,000 - $8,000

price realized
$3,750
Lot 80
Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris
J. Parkinson, 1629
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,500
Lot 81
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library catalogue
No. 143 of 150 sets, 1940
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$2,125
Lot 82
Pillone Library Binding
Cartari's Le imagini de i dei, 1580
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$81,250
Lot 83
Grassins Prize Binding
D. Godefroy, 1622
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$1,875
Lot 84
Historical Romances
17th century
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,625
Lot 85
L'Entrée triomphante
Louis XIV & Marie Thérèse d'Austriche, 1662
estimate
$6,000 - $8,000

price realized
$3,750
Lot 87
Description des festes données par la ville de Paris
Paris, 1740
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$2,125
Lot 88
French operas at Fontainebleau, 1770
Bound in citron morocco
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$1,000
Lot 89
1781 French play by Joseph Patrat
King Louis XVIII's copy
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$1,125
Lot 90
The Daschkaw family of Russia
Album of watercolors, c.1873-1903
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$37,500
Lot 91
Russian armorial bindings
Red morocco, 1740-1822
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$6,875
Lot 92
The art of verifying dates
The Duchesse de Berry copy, 1818
estimate
$3,000 - $4,000

price realized
$4,750
Lot 93
Sauvan's Picturesque Tour
Empress Marie Louise's copy, 1821
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$8,125
Lot 94
Etched portraits of eminent philosophers
King of Sardinia's copy, 1760-66
estimate
$3,000 - $4,000

price realized
$7,500
Lot 95
Engraved views of Bohemia
Pauline von Schwarzenberg, 1804-5
estimate
$3,000 - $4,000

price realized
$5,000
Lot 96
Silver binding
Swiss Bible in German, 1752
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,000
Lot 97
Tridentine missal
Italian binding with silver accents, 1763
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$2,375
Lot 98
Studies of Flowers from Nature
Miss Smith, c.1818
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$4,750
Lot 99
Antiquities of Russia
Moscow, 1849-53
estimate
$3,000 - $4,000

price realized
$68,750
Lot 100
The Faerie Queene, illustrated by Kent
Spenser, 1751
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$3,750
Lot 101
Prodromus seu praeambulare lumen portentosae magnificentiae theatri
Stampart & Prenner, 1735
estimate
$6,000 - $8,000

price realized
$3,750
Lot 102
Iconography of Manhattan Island
I.N. Phelps Stokes, 1915-28
estimate
$3,000 - $4,000

price realized
$6,000
Lot 103
Cistineae
R. Sweet, 1825-1830
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$1,625
Lot 104
Textile Sample Book
D. Le Marechal Fils, 18th centurt
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,500
Lot 105
Festivals and Theatre
6 works, 1757-1824
estimate
$2,000 - $4,000

price realized
$1,375
Lot 106
Tontine Coffee House constitution, 1796
The Streeter copy
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$30,000
Lot 107
Travel
18th and 19th centuries
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$3,000
Lot 108
Nummi antiqui familiarum romanarum
J.F. Vaillant, 1703
estimate
$400 - $600

price realized
$2,000
Lot 111
Relation de la feste de Versailles
A. Félibien, 1679
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$1,125
Lot 112
Description de la Grotte de Versailles
A. Félibien, 1679
estimate
$6,000 - $8,000

price realized
$7,500
Lot 113
The Labyrinth at Versailles
S. Le Clerc, 1679
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$10,625
Lot 114
Regulations for France's first philanthropic society
Duc de Charost's copy, c.1784
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$6,875
Lot 115
Two works on botanical drawing
H.-A. Vincent, 1814
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$6,875
Lot 116
The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne
G. White, 1789
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$2,125
Lot 117
Streetcar named Desire
T. Williams, 1947
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$3,500
Lot 118
The Genus Rosa
E. Willmott, 1914
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$4,000
Lot 119
Presentation copy to E.M. Forster
Virginia Woolf, 1925
estimate
$6,000 - $8,000

price realized
$68,750
Lot 120
Classic treatise on deer hunting
Duc d’Angoulême copy, 1788
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$43,750
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