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Auction Name
The Imperial Collections of Count and Countess Charles-André Colonna Walewski, and Miscellaneous
Auction Date
06/22/2025 - 06/22/2025
Sale Number
#160612
Total Lots
30
Sold Lots
22
Lots Sold
73.33%
Unsold Lots
8
Total Sales (EUR)
92,203.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
51,900.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
67,450.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
54,550.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
71,100.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
129.68%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
72 NAPOLEON I.

Autograph letter "to Princess Pauline" [his sister Pauline Borghese].

"mardy a midi" [s.d., perhaps December 26, 1809] EUR 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 20,325.00
76 NAPOLEON I.

Letter signed "Np" to the Archchancellor of the Empire Jean-Jacques-Regis CAMBACERES.

November 11, 1812. EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 15,583.00
74 NAPOLEON IER.

Letter signed "Np" to the Archchancellor of the Empire Jean-Jacques-Regis CAMBACERES.

November 6, 1812. EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 11,924.00
75 NAPOLEON IER.

Letter signed "Np" to the Archchancellor of the Empire Jean-Jacques-Regis CAMBACERES.

November 7, 1812. EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 9,485.00
73 NAPOLEON I.

Letter signed "Np" to the Archchancellor of the Empire Jean-Jacques-Regis CAMBACERES. Viazma

November 1, 1812 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 9,214.00
77 SARDA (JOSEPH).

Signed autograph manuscript. 1806-1847.

1806-1847 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 8,401.00
23 Charles PERCIER (1764 -1838)

Project to create the apartments of Napoleon I at the Musee

1806 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 8,401.00
97

.NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH MANUFACTURE. Wallpaper representing an important Napoleonic trophy

EUR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 1,897.00
86

REVOLUTION AND CONSULATE. Set of 4 letters and pieces.

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 1,017.00
7 Jean-Baptiste ISABEY, (1767-1855), after; GODEFROY, engraver

Bonaparte, First Consul, in front of the Chateau de Malmaison (1802)

Early 19th-century EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 949.00
84 PRINCE IMPERIAL (LOUIS-NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, KNOWN AS LE).

Autograph letter signed "Napoleon" to Louis MARCHAND.

May 26, 1873 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 813.00
88 BONAPARTE (MATHILDE).

Set of 7 autograph letters signed, one in pencil. 1841-1847 and s.d. With typed transcriptions.

1841-1847 and s.d. EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 475.00
85

SECOND EMPIRE AND MISCELLANEOUS. Set of 3 bound volumes.

1873 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 475.00
83 PELISSIER (AMIABLE).

Autograph letter signed as Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the East [probably to General Jacques Aupick].

November 27 [1855]. EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 475.00
80 EUGENIE (IMPERATRICE).

Autograph letter signed to explorer Samuel Baker.

April 6 [1874, according to postmark]. EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 475.00
87 Future Field Marshal Francois Certain de CANROBERT, future Field Marshal Elie-Frederic FOREY

SECOND EMPIRE. Set of 2 pieces.

EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 407.00
67 CAMBACERES (JEAN-JACQUES REGIS).

Signed as Second Consul, countersigned by Hugues-Bernard MARET as Minister Secretary of State and Lazare CARNOT as Minister of War.

7 messidor an VIII [26 juin 1800]. EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 407.00
66 BONAPARTE (NAPOLEON).

Signed "Bonaparte" (secretary), countersigned by Hugues-Bernard MARET as Minister Secretary of State and Louis-Alexandre BERTHIER as Minister of War.

30 fructidor an XI [17 september 1803]. EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 407.00
82 NAPOLEON III.

Autograph letter signed to Constant Thuillier.

March 29, 1865 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 299.00
81 NAPOLEON III.

Letter signed "Napoleon" to Marshal Aimable PELISSIER, "DUC DE MALAKOFF".

August 30, 1856. EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 299.00

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