Furniture and objets d'art
Friday 31 May 2024 at 13:30
Salle 1 - Hôtel Drouot, 9, rue Drouot, 75009 Paris
346 lots
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43 - SCHILLER: Sammtliche Werke in zwolf Baden. Stuttgart, Tubingen, 1838; 12 vols in 12; half anthracite chagrin with corners, ornate spine. Fine edition; portrait of the poet on frontispiece of volume 1. Freckles
Estimate €100 - €200 -
44 - GREAT WAR. "France! How your name caresses my ear". In-folio manuscript collection written in October 1914 in Holland by a young French officer born in Paris, comprising 5 pp. He declaims his love for France: "France! how your name caresses my ear, sweet and bewitching as the voice of the nightingale enchants the nights of May... For centuries you have been the Chosen One, the alma mater, supreme guide of world taste. Listen no longer to the deranged words of those who judge you to be behind the
Estimate €150 - €200 -
45 - MILITARIA. Collection of plates from the Encyclopedia, 18th century edition. - L'arquebusier, 3 pages, six plates, the first folding; Art Militaire, 7 pages, five plates of costumes, then fifteen plates of tactics, seventeen plates of fortifications; Artificier, 2 pages, seven plates. The whole set is preserved in a folio volume, half unbleached cloth, red chagrin title page. 19th century binding
Estimate €300 - €400 -
46 - GOLDSMITH (Lewis): Histoire secrète du Cabinet de Napoléon Buonaparte et de la Cour de Saint-Cloud. Paris, 2nd edition, 1814; two volumes bound into one in 8°, half fawn calf, smooth spine, green calf title-piece. Contemporary binding. A fine copy.
Estimate €100 - €200 -
47 - VILLON (Jacques): OEuvre gravé. Paris, Galerie Louis Carré, 1954; in 4° paperback, illustrated cover. Exhibition catalog, with a fine handwritten letter from the artist, dated and signed
Estimate €80 - €100 -
48 - BAZIN (Hervé): La Mort du Petit Cheval. Paris, Grasset, 1950; in 12, paperback, printed cover. First edition. One of 75 numbered copies on Montval vellum, forming the first edition, number 3. Untrimmed, in excellent condition.
Estimate €120 - €150 -
49 - PONTUS HULTEN (Karl Gunnar) :THE MACHINE. As seen at the end of the mechanical age. New York, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), 1968; in 4° square, embossed metal binding, boards mounted on hinges, top cover decorated with a color composition designed by Anders OSTERLIN, based on a photograph by the famous photographer Alicia LEGG. This is the only edition of the catalog of this famous exhibition, featuring works by numerous artists, including BUGATTI, DELAUNAY, DUCHAMP, Max ERNST, CALDER, MAN RAY,
Estimate €200 - €300 -
50 - GOBINEAU (Comte de): Nouvelles asiatiques. Paris, Les Bibliolâtres de France, 1957; large in 4°, brown calf, ribbed spine decorated with a repeated fleuron, gilt head, slipcase. A fine, pure copy of this reprint of Nouvelles asiatiques. It is illustrated with black woodcuts above and below the text. The woodcut title vignette is in red and black. Edition of 1,200 copies, all numbered, on BFK de Rives vellum, this one numb
Estimate €120 - €150 -
51 - DROZ (Gustave): Autour d'une source. Paris, Hetzel, s. d. ; in 12, brown half-maroquin with corners, ribbed spine, gilt head. First edition. Handwritten letter from the author. GAVARNI: Album Pittoresque. 1st and 2nd series. Paris, 1849; two vol. in 8°, contemporary half cloth.
Estimate €100 - €200 -
52 - EPARVIER (Jean): A paris sous la botte des nazis. Paris, Ed. Schall, 1944; in 4°, illustrated cover. Fine copy, despite a very slight crack at the top of the spine.
Estimate €100 - €200 -
53 - TURKEY - "Viage a Constantinopla en el ano de 1784, escrito de orden superior", in Madrid, 1790. In-4. Preface by Joseph Moreno, illustrated title page, 24 hors-texte plates (including 1 double), 360 pages + 33-page Appendix. Imprimerie Real de Madrid, under D. Lazaro Gavguer. Text in Spanish. First edition. Bound with titled spine. 29.5 x 21 cm. Book recounting the voyage of D. Gabriel de Aristizabal's flotilla to Constantinople with the motif of the company of the peace treaty between the Otto
Estimate €500 - €700 -
54 - MATISSE (Henri), 1869-1954: Thèmes et Variations. Dessins, Thèmes et Variations. Paris, Martin Fabiani Editeur, 1943; in 4° (332 x 264 mm) sheets, in red printed filled cover and ribbon flap folder, red printed on top cover and spine. Preceded by a 40-page text, Matisse-en France, by Louis Aragon. It is illustrated with a linocut on a black background as a frontispiece, three ornamental lithographs in black and 158 reproductions of full-page drawings in hors-texte. One of 920 copies on vellu
Estimate €1,200 - €1,500 -
55 - Set of two modern illustrated books. -BALZAC (Honoré de): La fille aux Yeux d'Or. Paris La Tradition, 1946, in 8°, on ff in folder and double slipcase. Illustrated with original etchings by Maurice Leroy. Ex num 302 -OVIDE : Métamorphoses. Paris. Devambez 1930; in 4°, on ff in folder and double slipcase. Illustrated with 16 color etchings and 45 woodcuts by A. Lambert. One of the ex num. on velin de Rives. (case missing)
Estimate €100 - €200 -
55-1 - Set of banter works, in sheets in folder and double slipcase: - Histoire d'un livre marqué: Le Portier des Chartreux. Ed. du Cercle du Livre Précieux, 1960; in 8° in ff. under ch. and double slipcase. - LAWRENCE: Lady Chatterley. Ill. by André COLLOT. Ed. des Deux-Rives, 1946; in 8° on ff. in jacket and double slipcase. - BERRY (André): Florilège des Poésies amoureuses du XIIème au XVIIIème siècle. Ill. by Sylvain SAUVAGE. Paris, Le Vasseur; in 8° on ff in jacket and double slipcase
Estimate €200 - €300 -
55-2 - SAINT-EXUPERY (Antoine de ): set of seven volumes of the OEuvres, ed. Rombaldi, Guilde des Bibliophiles. Each copy is one of 150 ex. num. on vélin de Rives and bears the num. 25, and includes a suite of illustrations; each is paperback, illustrated cover, suite in folder, in double slipcase: - Courrier Sud. Ill. by Pierre-Eugène CLAIRIN. - Le Petit Prince. Ill. by the author and Félix LACROIX.
Estimate €200 - €300 -
56 - REBATET (Lucien): Les Décombres. Paris, Denoël, 1942; in 8° paperback. ORIGINAL EDITION of this important work of memoir and analysis of public life at the time. One of 10 numbered Hors-Commerce copies, printed on laid paper. Copy in mint condition
Estimate €1,200 - €1,500 -
56-1 - Jean THUILE. Goldsmiths of Languedoc. T. &F Schmied, Paris, 1964, 1965 and 1966. Three volumes in quarto, publisher's boards. Minor damage to spine of volume 2.
Estimate €150 - €200 -
56-2 - LA PLEIADE. Thirteen volumes (Musset, Kafka, Gide, Prévert, Montesquieu, Corneille, Hugo, La Fontaine, Rousseau, Rimbaud, Proust, Cocteau and Saint-Exupéry).
Estimate €80 - €120 -
56-3 - Orléans and its region. Lot of books and documentation including: Inventaire de châteaux de Sologne, l'histoire de la marine de Loire and others (18 volumes).
Estimate €20 - €30 -
57 - PESKOFF (Georges): Arc-en-Ciel. Illustrated with woodcuts by Robert Altmann. Paris, chez l'auteur, Vadus, Brunidor, 1968. In-4° sheets, in publisher's gray slipcase. First edition. Georges Peskoff is the literary pseudonym of Hélène Deicha. Translation from the Russian with 36 woodcuts by Robert Altmann. 150 copies on Arches paper, all signed by the author and illustrator. This copy is no. 114 on Arches vellum.
Estimate €80 - €100 -
58 - DRUILLET (Philippe): set of two volumes published in Paris by Dargaud, one in 1975 and the other in 1974: - Urm le Fou. 1975. First edition. - Les Six Voyages de Lone Sloane. 1974. First edition. Set of two albums. Each in perfect condition, with a fine blue ink drawing signed and dedicated by Druillet.
Estimate €80 - €100 -
59 - SAINT-EXUPERY (Antoine de) : Lettres de jeunesse. Paris, Gallimard, NRF, 1953; in 8° paperback. Posthumous first edition. One of 320 numbered copies on vellum, no. 66.
Estimate €100 - €200 -
60 - KESSEL (Joseph) - ALEXEIEFF (Alexandre) : Les Nuits de Sibérie. Paris, Ernest Flammarion, 1928; in 4° paperback, illustrated cover. ORIGINAL EDITION illustrated with six original etchings by ALEXEIEFF, including a vignette on the cover, a frontispiece and four fine black engraved plates hors-texte. One of 40 hors-commerce copies, numbered 4xxx. A fine copy.
Estimate €200 - €300 -
61 - LOT OF 2 ANCIENT ENGRAVINGS: 1-"Jupiter en pluie d'or", c.1767, etching engraved by Jean Daullé (1703-1763) and Levesque, after François DE TROY (1645-1730). Proof with the letter, on laid paper. A Paris, chez Ve Daullé". Margins. 48 x 57 cm. Mounted on cardboard, marginal stains, subject in good condition. 2-"Renouvellement d'alliance entre la France et les Suisses fait dans l'église de Nostre Dame de Paris par le Roy Louis XIV et les Ambassadeurs des XIII cantons et de leurs alliez le XVII
Estimate €50 - €100 -
62 - LOT OF 3 ANCIENT ENGRAVINGS: 1-"Les suites d'un naufrage", etching and burin engraved after J. VERNET by C.E. Cousinet. Proof with letter. 41 x 60 cm. Condition B/C (formerly mounted on frame back). 2-"Hercules and Omphale", engraving by Nicolas de Larmessin. 29 x 34 cm with frame. Condition C/D (very damaged, not examined outside its frame). 3-"Mucius Scaevola devant Porsenna". 1776. Engraved by J.M Schmutzer (1733-1811), after RUBENS. 59 x 49 cm. Attached is a facsimile after Edouard DETAILLE
Estimate €50 - €100 -
63 - LOT of about 50 gallery & other posters. Rolled. Condition B/D (most damaged, as is).
Estimate €50 - €100 -
64 - RUSSIAN IMAGERY - [Saint George slaying the dragon]. 19th century. Chromolithography. Proof on fine cream wove paper, with the letter in Russian and published in Moscow. Margins. 42 x 31 cm. Condition A (well preserved).
Estimate €100 - €150 -
65 - RUSSIA - Lot of 2 lithographs on wove paper, dealing with Russia and its monumuents. - "Details of the capital and pedestal in monument bronze with the granite base" (H. 59 x W. 43.4 cm), and "View of the entire work and erection of a column on the southern portico" (H. 45.2 cm x W. 61.4 cm) - by Aug. de Montferant - Lithographs by Arnout - Impression Thierry Frères. - Circa 1850 - Condition A (foxing and marginal folds, minor soiling without affecting the subject). (Set of 2 plates)
Estimate €200 - €300 -
65-1 - RUSSIA - "Views of Wilna, Dominican Street and the Institut des Nobles", from "Album de Wilna" ("Widoki Wilna, ulica dominikanska i instytut szlachetney mlodzi") by Jean Kasimir Wilczinski, 2nd series, 3rd book. - Lithograph by Arnout Père, on wove paper - Dedicated to the students of the Institut des Nobles - Printed by Lemercier in Paris - Publisher J.K. Wilczinski. - Circa 1850 - Dimensions: H.39,8 x W.56,9 cm - Condition A (Some foxing and soiling in the margins).
Estimate €200 - €300 -
65-2 - RUSSIA - "View of the Red Gate, Moscow" - Lithograph on wove paper - Lithography by Arnout after Vivien - Printed by Lemercier in Paris - Published by G. Daziaro, in Moscow and St. Petersburg - Circa 1850 - Dimensions: H.40 x W. 46.8 cm - Condition A (Some soiling in the margins).
Estimate €200 - €300 -
66 - PARIS (75) - "VUE de l'incendie de la Foire St Germain à Paris - Vue de la Porte de la Treille de l'incendie de la Foire St Germain à Paris, arrivé la nuit du 16 au 17 mars 1762". 18th century. Optical view. Etching in old colors. Proof on watermarked laid paper. A Pars, chez Basset, rue St Jacques à Ste Geneviève. Margins. 32 x 47 cm. Condition A (rare scattered foxing in the lightly sunned margins). Attached is a letter on parchment (damaged). 24 x 36 cm. Set of 2 pieces.
Estimate €80 - €100 -
67 - PARIS - TOURISM POSTER signed Roger CHAPELAIN-MIDI and printed on the occasion of the bi-millennium of the city of Paris celebrated in 1951. Commissioned by the city. Lithograph, printed in color on wove paper. Signed in the plate. Printed by Courbet, Paris. 60 x 39 cm. Condition B (one tear reaching the subject at the foot, some soiling and handling marks, rare short tears at the edges of the sheet, trace of wetness on verso barely visible on recto).
Estimate €80 - €100 -
68 - CÔTES D'ARMOR (22) - ST BRIEUC - "St Brieuc / View from the Railway Viaduct". 19th century. Sketch in pencil on grey wove paper. Located in gray pencil lower left. Provenance: Fonds of the Charpentier workshop run by Pierre-Henri (1788-1854) and his son Henri-Désiré (1806-1883), printers and publishers based in Paris, then in Nantes (from 1854). 22 x 31.5 cm. Condition A (good state of preservation).
Estimate €600 - €800 -
69 - CÔTES D'ARMOR (22) - "DINAN, View from the donkey jump". 19th century. Pencil drawing probably by Félix Benoist (1818-1896), on fine wove paper. Preparatory drawing for the lithograph published by Charpentier. Provenance: Fonds of the Charpentier workshop run by Pierre-Henri (1788-1854) and his son Henri-Désiré (1806-1883), printers and publishers based in Paris, then in Nantes (from 1854). 27 x 40.5 cm. Condition A (slight marks of handling on edges, good condition).
Estimate €600 - €800 -
70 - MANCHE (50) - "LE MONT SAINT MICHEL". 19th century. Pencil drawing on wove grey paper. Provenance: Fonds of the Charpentier workshop run by Pierre-Henri (1788-1854) and his son Henri-Désiré (1806-1883), printers and publishers based in Paris, then in Nantes (from 1854). 24.8 x 32.5 cm. Condition A (good state of preservation).
Estimate €800 - €1,000 -
71 - HAUTS-DE-SEINE (92) - [View of the former Château de BELLEVUE - MEUDON]. 19th century. Pencil drawing by CHAPUY, on wove paper, with white gouache highlights. Signed and dated in pencil lower right. Preparatory drawing for Eugène Cicéri's 1861 lithograph, published in "Paris dans sa splendeur" by Charpentier. Provenance: Fonds of the Charpentier workshop run by Pierre-Henri (1788-1854) and his son Henri-Désiré (1806-1883), printers and publishers based in Paris, then in Nantes (from 1854).
Estimate €800 - €1,000 -
72 - ARAB HORSE - VERNET Carle - "MAMELUCK en Eclaireur". Aquatint engraved by JAZET (1788 - 1871), after a drawing by Carle Vernet (1758 - 1836). Proof with the letter, on wove paper, with the address "A Paris, chez Jazet, Rue de Lancry n°7 et chez Aumont, Rue J.J. Rousseau n°10". Good margins. 43.5 x 53 cm. Condition B (some foxing and small, rather marginal stains, trace of old mounting on verso).
Estimate €300 - €400 -
73 - ARAB HORSE - VERNET - "Arabian Horse". Original lithograph by Carle VERNET (1758 - 1836). Signed in the plate. Proof with the letter, on wove paper. Ref: Dayot n°225.3, printed by G. Engelmann, rue Cassette n°18, Paris. Good margins. 42.2 x 58.3 cm. B condition (some foxing and rare small stains).
Estimate €300 - €400 -
74 - ARAB HORSE - Pencil drawing on paper. Late 19th-early 20th century. Unidentified signature. 50.5 x 65 cm. Condition B/C (rare short tears on the edges of the sheet, a few stains and handling creases, partially unstained).
Estimate €300 - €400 -
75 - BOXING - "The great match between Randal and Martin" (boxing match). Etching by IR Cruikshank (1789-1856). Antique color proof, published in London by Fores. Good margins. Framed piece. 28 x 41 cm for the subject. 43 x 62 cm with frame. Condition A (not examined outside its frame, good condition).
Estimate €100 - €200 -
76 - BALLON - MONTGOLFIERE - "Experiments du Vaisseau volant de Mr Blanchard le 28 février 1784". Etching engraved by Martial DENY (b. 1745). Proof on laid paper, with the autograph signature of "Blanchard" in brown ink and an unidentified collector's mark. Ref: I.F.F 18ème, n°73. Carte d'admission au départ du voyage en ballon de M. Blanchard. Rare. 11.5 x 18 cm. Condition B (cut on subject, some scattered foxing and handling marks, traces of old mounting on verso).
Estimate €1,200 - €1,500 -
77 - JAPANESE ESTAMPE - Kunisada, TOYOKUNI III (1786 - 1864) - [Prince Genji in the garden at night]. c.1862. Format ōban, triptych. Color woodcut. Signature: Ôju ki-ô Toyokuni ga in Toshidama cartouche Japanese print signed by Kunisada, depicting Prince Genji and beauties by a stream in a garden. Toyokuni III was a pupil of Toyokuni and took the name Kunisada. He was appreciated for his depictions of actors and beautiful women, and in his day was the best-known ukiyo-e artist. Approx. 34.8 x 24.3
Estimate €400 - €500 -
78 - JAPANESE ESTAMPE - Toyohara KUNICHIKA (1835-1900) - [Beauties and the art of calligraphy]. c.1864. Format ōban, triptych. Color woodcut. Signature: Kunichika ga in Toshidama cartouche. Japanese print signed by Kunichika Toyohara, depicting young beauties engaged in elegant pastimes, such as calligraphy, perhaps writing poetry, on a moonlit terrace; poems are inscribed above their heads. Each leaf approx. 35.5 x 24 cm. Condition A (well preserved).
Estimate €400 - €500 -
79 - BEHAM Hans Sebald (1500 † 1550) - "Eight boys" (Puttis). Burin. Signed with the artist's monogram. Ref: Bartsch, no. 210, Hollstein, no. 212. Proof on laid paper. 5.3 x 5.3 cm (round subject). Condition B (cut at subject, small epidermis on verso).
Estimate €1,500 - €2,000 -
80 - BOL Hans (1534 - 1593) - "Landscape with a castle". c.1575. Burin. New Hollstein, no. 235. Hollstein, no. 576. Proof with "Joh Sad excu" address, on laid paper. 20.6 x 27 cm. Condition B (a few formerly restored tears, a small printing crease at the bottom of the subject, cut at the border or on the copper mark).
Estimate €600 - €800 -
81 - COCK Hieronymus (c.1510 - 1570) - "Landscape with ruins, Saint Jerome penitent". 1552. Etching and burin after Van Heemskerck. Signed and dated "Cock fecit 1552" in the subject. Ref: Hollstein, no. 427. Proof on laid paper. 22.5 x 33.6 cm. Condition B (cut at the border of the subject at the top and left, very slightly inside the subject at the right and bottom, a few restored tears, printing fold at the bottom of the subject, a very short tear at the edge of the sheet at the top).
Estimate €1,000 - €1,500 -
82 - DÜRER Albrecht (1471 - 1528) - "The Adoration of the Magi". c. 1503. Original wood engraving. Signed with the artist's monogram lower right. Ref: Meder & Hollstein, no. 199. Bartsch, no. 87. Plate 12 from the series "La Vie de la Vierge". Proof from the 1511 edition without the text on the reverse. Proof on watermarked laid paper (ornamental fish bladder motif, ca. 1580). Beautiful impression. 29.8 x 21 cm. Condition B/C (cut at the edge of the square line, green stain at the lower left cor
Estimate €1,500 - €2,000 -
83 - MAITRE AU DE (Born in the early 16th century, pupil of Marc Antonio Raimondi, active in Rome from 1532 to 1550) - "Frieze with putti marching and playing music". Burin after Raphael. Artist's monogram lower right in the plate. Ref: Bartsch, no. 36. Proof on laid paper, with the address "Nicolo van aelst formis". 10 x 39.7 cm. Condition A/B (cut on the subject, a few printing folds, a small thinning of the paper on the reverse).
Estimate €400 - €600 -
84 - DEMARTEAU Gilles (1722 - 1776) - [Portrait of a young girl, left profile]. 18th century. Pencil engraving after CLERMONT, printed in red chalk. Proof on laid paper, with the address "A Paris chez Demarteau, rue de la Pelterie à la Cloche". Small margins. 31 x 26 cm for the subject. 52 x 46 cm with frame. Condition A (not examined outside its frame).
Estimate €200 - €300 -
85 - THOMASSIN Henri Simon (1688 - 1741) - "Pan and Syrinx". 1715. Etching and burin after the painting by Louis de SILVESTRE. Ref: Le Blanc, n°39. Proof with letter and address "A Paris chez l'auteur". 45 x 55 cm for the subject. 60 x 70 cm with the marie-louise. Condition A/B (formerly glued by the edges to a frame back and a brown stain in the upper left corner).
Estimate €50 - €100
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