Tajan - Books, Manuscrits, autographs and Photographs

BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPHS AND PHOTOGRAPHS

Our Books, Manuscripts, Autographs, Photographs , supervised by Eric Masquelier helped by our expert Jacques Benelli organized ten or so sales in 2006. The good results of this department follow from the selling of important bookshelves and from the frequency of our sales. This hard work allows Tajan to develop clientele loyalty and to offer affluent sales.

Our best sales since 2006 :

Fernand LEGER
Contrastes. 13 aquarelles, gouache, lavis, crayon. Prï¿½face Aragon. P., Au Vent d'Arles, 1959. In folio en ff. Chemise toile, 1ï¿½ plat illustrï¿½
Tirage ï¿½ 300 exemplaires

Estimation: 5 000-6 000 ï¿½
Vendu : 6 055 ï¿½
le 21 mai 2008

CREMIï¿½RE & NADARD
L. Album in -4 oblong: Animaux de concours (bovidï¿½s).
14 tirages de Cremiï¿½re (13 x 18,5 cm), circa 1860. 3
0 contretypes (20,5 x 28,5 cm)

Estimation: 2 000-2 500 ï¿½
Vendue 37 176 ï¿½
le 21 mai 2008

SADE La philosophie dans le boudoir ( philosophy in the boudoir). London 1795. 2 vol. in-12; sheepskin, smooth decorated back. Golden slices. Extremly rare original publishing, unsigned..[Gay III-730 : "C'est l'ouvrage le plus cyniquement obsï¿½ne de ce triste fou libertin, il ne s'adresse qu'aux esprits forts et aux analystes qui ï¿½tudient les fï¿½lures de l'esprit humain...Ex-libris Chauveau et Sex-libris Roger Peyrefitte. " ( It is the most cynically obscene work of this insane libertine, he applies exclusively to strong-minded people and to experts of the troubled minds")]
Sold 42, 200 euros on April 19th, 2007.

BANDE ï¿½ BONNOT
Collection of 200 photographs of different sizes, in an oblong album .
Sold 11, 715 euros on May 15th, 2007.

WATTEAU (Antoine)
Landscape figures and nature drawings. Paris, Andran, s.d. [1735]. 2 vol. in-folio. Red pastiche bookbinding, beginning of the 20th century, lace. Sold 13, 865 euros on May 15th, 2007. Foujita/Hï¿½RON de VILLEFOSSE La riviï¿½re enchantï¿½e (the enchanted river).
Sold 36, 172 euros, on July 7th, 2006, Hï¿½tel Drouot, Room 11

THOMAS CHILD, China circa 1880, 2 big oblong albums .
Sold 16, 648 euros, on November 14th, 2006, Hï¿½tel Drouot

DALï¿½ (Salvador). Conquest of the irrational.
Sold 13, 350 euros, on October 4th, 2006, Espace Tajan

DUCHAMP (Marcel). Eau & Gaz ï¿½ tous les ï¿½tages.
Sold 12 715 euros, on October 4th, 2006, Espace Tajan

Utrillo/VERTEX (Jean). The yeasty village.
History of Montmartre Bohemia.
Sold 12, 660 euros, on July 7th, 2006, Hï¿½tel Drouot

LA FONTAINE. Verse stories. Amsterdam, 1762. 2 vol. in-8.
Sold 11, 816 euros, on January 24th , 2006, Hï¿½tel Drouot

ï¿½ Parisian caricatures ï¿½, Le goï¿½t du jour, Garde ï¿½ vous; Exlibris armoriï¿½ Ph.-L. de Bordes de Fortage.
Sold 11, 816 euros, on July 7th , 2006, Hï¿½tel Drouot

INDOCHINE, ALGERIE, ADEN, EGYPTE Big oblong album titled with gold
" Indochina campaign 1884-1886 ".
Sold 11, 099 euros, on November 14th , 2006, Hï¿½tel Drouot

INDOCHINE, ALGERIE, ADEN, EGYPTE
Big oblong album titled with gold ï¿½ Indochina campaign 1884-1886 ï¿½.
131 prints in an album ( a lot of them suffered from humidity )
Average size : 17,5 x 21,5 cm
and a few small sizes

Est. 6 000/7 000 euros
Sold 11 098 euros
on November 14th, 2006

DALï¿½ (Salvador). Conquest of the irrational.
New York, Julien Levy, Publisher, 1935, 15, 6 x 12 cm,
cloth binding, 25 p., 33 One of the 35 exemplaries is on Holland paper.
Original drawing from the artist on the front page. Exemplary dedicated to Joella and Julien Levy.

Est. 3 000 euros
Sold 13 350 euros
October 4th, 2006

VEGECE. eterinary treaty in Italian. Veterinary treaty in Italian. ï¿½ Larte de la medicina de le bestie ï¿½
Manuscript from the middle of the fifteenth century.
Sold 19, 115 euros, on March 24th, 2006 Hï¿½tel Drouot Fotokarten von Herbert Bayer, 1932.
Sold 16, 887 euros, on October 4th , 2006, Espace Tajan

Est. 10 000/ 15 000 euros
Sold 19 114 euros
on March 24th, 2006

For any further information, please contact:

Eric Masquelier ([email protected])
+33 (0)1 53 30 30 79