Portraits contemporains, 1874. Exemplaire truffé de 38 lettres et billets autographes — Gautier, Théophile

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Estimate: €6,000–€8,000 hammer ≈ $7,302–$9,736
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Sale: Sotheby's — Bibliothèque littéraire Hubert Heilbronn, Paris · 11 May 2021
Record ID: TB-2026-4924170
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Théophile Gautier, Portraits contemporains, 1874. Exemplaire truffé de 38 lettres et billets autographes. Sotheby's, 11 May 2021, lot 104. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4924170.

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Théophile Gautier, Portraits contemporains, 1874. Exemplaire truffé de 38 lettres et billets autographes. Sotheby's, 11 May 2021, lot 104. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4924170.

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From the same sale Bibliothèque littéraire Hubert Heilbronn · May 2021

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2 portraits photographiques de Méry Laurent. Tirages d'époque, fixés …	Mallarmé, Stéphane. 1842-1898.	€1,000–€1,500
La Banquet. Collection complète (8 fasc.), 1892-1893. Bradel de l'épo…	Proust, Marcel. 1871-1922.	€3,000–€5,000
Lettre sur les aveugles. [Paris], 1749. In-12. Edition originale. Exe…	Denis Diderot	€5,000–€7,000
Cinq années de ma vie. 1901. Ed. originale. Exemplaire sur Japon, ave…	Alfred Dreyfus	€6,000–€8,000
Œuvres... 1826. Chagrin rouge de Simier. Ed. originale de cette biogr…	—	€1,500–€2,000
Correspondance amoureuse de 9 lettres à Alfred de Vigny. 1837-[1838].	—	€5,000–€7,000

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