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Auction Name: Napolean: An Historical Collection
Auction Date: 06/25/2025 - 06/25/2025
Sale Number: #pf2591
Total Lots: 10
Sold Lots: 7
Lots Sold: 70.00%
Unsold Lots: 3

Total Sales (EUR): 865,759.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 443,000.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 718,000.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 563,000.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 908,000.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 95.35%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
108	Napoleon Ier	Premier codicille du premier testament de Napoleon Ier. Manuscrit autographe signe "Nap."		EUR 300,000.00 - 500,000.00	EUR 482,600.00
22	Fesch, cardinal	Copie du certificat de mariage religieux de l'Empereur Napoleon et l'Imperatrice Josephine.	6 Nivose an X [27 decembre 1804].	EUR 30,000.00 - 50,000.00	EUR 165,100.00
77	Percier, Charles - Pierre Fontaine	Description des ceremonies et des fetes qui ont eu lieu pour le mariage de S.M. l'Empereur Napoleon avec S. A. I. Madame l'Archiduchesse Marie-Louise d'Autriche.	1810	EUR 80,000.00 - 120,000.00	EUR 114,300.00
105	Rollin, Charles	Histoire romaine...	1772	EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	EUR 57,150.00
5	[Berthier, Louis-Alexandre]	Relation de la Bataille de Marengo...	an XII.	EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	EUR 38,100.00
28		Part of a black morocco portfolio belonging to the Minister of the Treasury, Francois Barbe-Marbois, circa 1801-1806, possibly containing the 1803 Louisiana Purchase Treaty	circa 1801-1806	EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 4,445.00
42	Napoleon Ier	Jeu de plume evoquant une toile d'araignee.		EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 4,064.00
65	[Beauharnais, Eugene de]	Codice di Napoleone il Grande pel Regno d'Italia.	1806	EUR 50,000.00 - 80,000.00	Not Sold
66	[Beauharnais, Eugene de]	Copies des actes de naissance et de bapteme d'Auguste et d'Amelie de Leuchtenberg, enfants d'Eugene de Beauharnais, vice-roi d'Italie, et d'Augusta-Amelie de Baviere. Tres precieux manuscrits sur peau de velin dans de somptueuses reliures brodees aux arme	1810, 1811	EUR 30,000.00 - 50,000.00	Not Sold
113	[Retour des cendres] - Francois Marie Sosthene Fabre Lamaurelle	Itineraire du voyage a Ste-Helene. [1er juillet-30 novembre 1840]. Manuscrit autographe. L'ultime voyage de l'Empereur : le retour des cendres. Tres precieux journal tenu par Fabre Lamaurelle, membre de l'equipage de la Belle Poule.	1840	EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	Not Sold

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