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Auction Name
The Empire at Fontainbleau
Auction Date
04/27/2025 - 04/27/2025
Sale Number
#164823
Total Lots
54
Sold Lots
47
Lots Sold
87.04%
Unsold Lots
7
Total Sales (EUR)
63,895.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
34,150.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
45,000.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
53,850.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
70,950.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
90.06%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
312 APPERT (Nicolas).

L'Art de conserver, pendant plusieurs annees, toutes les substances animales et vegetales.

 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 10,400.00
212 Bonaparte (Napoleon)

Bonaparte (Napoleon). Letter signed "Bonaparte" as General-in-Chief of the Army of the East to General Charles-Francois-Joseph Dugua

 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 9,230.00
224

EXPEDITION FROM EGYPT and miscellaneous. - Set of 14 letters and pieces.

 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 5,460.00
211 BONAPARTE (Napoleon)

BONAPARTE (Napoleon). Autograph Apostille signed "Buonaparte" as brigadier general (2 autograph words, "certifie conforme") on the handwritten copy of a decree of the conventionnels on mission in the Midi.

 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,420.00
223 ENGHIEN (Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon, Duc d')

ENGHIEN (Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon, Duc d'). Autograph manuscript.

EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,770.00
295

The 1st Consul passes through Lyon, 26 Nivose an 10.

 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,600.00
416

French Army. Album containing twenty photographs by Cremallere et Cie Halfstaengl 28 rue Laval in Paris.

 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,275.00
206 BERTHIER (Louis-Alexandre)

BERTHIER (Louis-Alexandre). Letter signed "mal Ale Berthier" as major-general of the Grande Armee, addressed to Jerome Bonaparte.

EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,210.00
214 BONAPARTE (Pauline)

BONAPARTE (Pauline). Autograph letter signed to Jean-Jacques Regis Cambaceres.

 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 2,145.00
217 DANTON (Georges-Jacques)

DANTON (Georges-Jacques). Signed as a member of the Provisional Executive Council.

 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,950.00
289

Napoleon by the grace of God and the Constitutions, Emperor of the French. Letter patent on parchment.

 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,430.00
320 Napoleon Louis Bonaparte.

Fragmens historiques 1688 et 1830 by Prince Napoleon Louis Bonaparte.

EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,300.00
288

Letter of pardon signed by Emperor Napoleon I.

 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,300.00
222 DUMOURIEZ (Charles-Francois)

DUMOURIEZ (Charles-Francois). Correspondence of 9 letters, 8 autographed signed and one autographed, addressed to Louis de Sade.

 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,170.00
286

Captain's certificate for "Cen FOURNIER Francois" with details of services, campaigns, actions and wounds.

 EUR 700.00 - 800.00 EUR 975.00
376

Special license number 92 and 11 34

 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 910.00
216 CAULAINCOURT (Auguste-Jean-Gabriel de)

CAULAINCOURT (Auguste-Jean-Gabriel de). Autograph letter signed as Grand Esquuyer of the Kingdom of Holland to the Grand Master of the Household of King Louis Bonaparte, Paul-Gabriel d'Alichoux de Senegra.

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 845.00
218 DAVOUT (Louis-Nicolas)

DAVOUT (Louis-Nicolas). Autograph letter signed to his wife Aimee Leclerc.

EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 845.00
220 DAVOUT (Louis-Nicolas)

DAVOUT (Louis-Nicolas). Autograph letter signed to his wife Aimee Leclerc.

 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 780.00
285

French Republic. Brevet sur parchemin de chef de bataillon, for citizen "CHARRIERE Louis" with details of services, campaigns, actions and wounds.

 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 780.00
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    Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.
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    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
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