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15 OCTOBER 2015

THE LIBRARY OF STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ

Auction at Sotheby’s in Paris on 15 October 2015

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Les fleurs du mal, Charles Baudelaire, Poulet-Malassis and De Broise, 1861

Mallarmé's copy with the 6 banned poems that he hand-wrote at the age of 19
Second copy, partially original

REVUE - STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ
La Dernière Mode. Gazette du Monde et de la Famille
September 6th to December 20th 1874

Rare complete collection, corrected by Mallard’s hand, with the specimen number

EDOUARD MANET, EDGAR ALLAN POE, STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ
Le Corbeau
Paris, Richard Lesclide, 1875

Sumptuous copy, probably the most complete known, with illustrations on Holland, China and Japan. Original copy of Mallarmé’s translation
Four lithographs by Manet on three and four different papers, with the rare prospectus

EDGAR DEGAS
Stéphane Mallarmé and Auguste Renoir
Original photograph. December 16th 1895

Vintage silver print
One of the most famous portraits of Mallarmé

STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ
Jamais [sic] un coup de Dés n’abolira le Hasard
Autograph model for Firmin-Didot, printer of Ambroise Vollard. [April or beginning May 1897]

Exceptional autograph manuscript, with layout indications, 24 pages