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Auction ANDRE BECKER COLLECTION - Exceptional collection of historical carriages, sleds, books and accessories concerning driving, from the 18th to the 19th century - Paris

Bid on the lot list Daguerre : 13 July 2021 - Salle 9 - Hôtel Drouot - Paris

ANDRE BECKER COLLECTION - Exceptional collection of historical carriages, sleds, books and accessories concerning driving, from the 18th to the 19th century

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ANDRE BECKER COLLECTION - Exceptional collection of historical carriages, sleds, books and accessories concerning driving, from the 18th to the 19th century
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Lot n° 1

Lot of about sixty books on driving:...

Lot of about sixty books on driving: Germany, France, England, Italy, 1990-2020.

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Lot n° 2

Horse & Driving, ca. 1970-1980,...

Horse & Driving, ca. 1970-1980, lot of magazines. Included are copies of Achse Rad und Wagen. About 60 copies.

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Lot n° 3

Carriage Journal, a batch of about...

Carriage Journal, a batch of about thirty magazines from the 80s.

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Lot n° 4

Lot of auction catalogues: Saumur,...

Lot of auction catalogues: Saumur, Reading and various.

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Lot n° 5

Lot of about thirteen reproductions...

Lot of about thirteen reproductions of cars on leather. A stained glass window decorated with a sedan, modern work.

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Lot n° 6

Lot of well-bound facsimile works...

Lot of well-bound facsimile works of car hardware makers. Three books in Laget re-edition around 1980 (Wheelwrights and coachbuilders, Wheelwrights and blacksmiths, Wheelwrights and saddlers) are attached.

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Lot n° 7

L'art du menuisier carrossier by...

L'art du menuisier carrossier by Roubo le fils, Paris 1775. Modern photocopies of the in folio copy. A set of engravings at the end of the 19th and 20th century concerning the carriage.

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Lot n° 8

About twenty engravings from all...

About twenty engravings from all periods, concerning the carriage, including L.Vallet, Vernet, Marcillac. An engraving by Perrelle, View of the Pont Neuf, early 18th century, is attached.

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Lot n° 9

Arrest du Conseil d'état du roi...

Arrest du Conseil d'état du roi portant nouveau règlement sur le roulage, 28 December 1783. A decree concerning the exercise of the privileges of the concessions of the messengers, diligences, carriages and other public cars of 1775, a decree of 1776...

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Lot n° 10

History of terrestrial locomotion,...

History of terrestrial locomotion, the car, the cycle, the automobile. Book in publisher's binding, L'Illustration, 1936. Numerous illustrations including engravings after V. Adam. Copy probably complete. Some pages detached. Spine to be restored.

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Lot n° 11

Military carriages, Pierre Mac-Orlan....

Military carriages, Pierre Mac-Orlan. Collection Les équipages, Compagnies des arts graphiques, Paris 1944, first edition. Numerous color plates. Voitures et attelages, Paris 1942.

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Lot n° 12

Carriages and gala sleighs of the...

Carriages and gala sleighs of the Palace of Versailles and the Museum of Cluny. Armand Guerinet ed, Paris, ca. 1940. Set of photographs of these two French museums. Folio file containing forty-four photographs.

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Lot n° 13

Exhibition catalogue of the cars...

Exhibition catalogue of the cars of the Casa Real of Portugal, volume 1. Paperback, rare copy dated 1905, illustrated with numerous photographs. Attached is a rare catalogue of the Historic Carriage Procession of the City of Lisbon in January 1934,...

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Lot n° 14

Four paperback books on carriage...

Four paperback books on carriage driving and animal traction: Les transports dans l'histoire de Paris by G. Day, Mese édit. 1947; La force motrice by Lefebvre des Noëttes, 1924; Au bon vieux temps des diligences by D. Dalmeras, 1931 and À pied, à cheval,...

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Lot n° 15

Histoire de chars, carrosses, omnibus,...

Histoire de chars, carrosses, omnibus, by Ramee, Paris 1856. Le voyage en France à travers les siècles by L. Bonnard, Paris, 1927, two paperback volumes.

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Lot n° 16

Liste générale des postes de France...

Liste générale des postes de France par le comte d'Argenson, Paris, chez Jaillot, géographe ordinaire du roi vers 1760. 1 vol. in-4 in its original binding with folding map. Rare copy.

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Lot n° 17

Nouvel itinéraire portatif de France...

Nouvel itinéraire portatif de France by Simencourt, Paris 1828. A book on Les maîtres de la Poste aux chevaux de Lille by Dr Benoist, 1935, is attached.

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Lot n° 18

Rare map of the Post Office of...

Rare map of the Post Office of France, Paris by Sieur Jaillot. Nice canvas copy with its original slipcase. Three beautiful itinerary maps of France, Paris chez Vignon, marchand de cartes rue Dauphin, dated 1783, nice original canvas copy.

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Lot n° 19

DIDEROT and D'ALEMBERT, Rare fascicle...

DIDEROT and D'ALEMBERT, Rare fascicle of the great encyclopedia devoted to carpenters. Complete with its table and thirty plates in folio, circa 1750, later binding.

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Lot n° 20

DIDEROT and D'ALEMBERT, Rare booklet...

DIDEROT and D'ALEMBERT, Rare booklet dedicated to the saddlers of the carriage industry. Copy complete with its table and twenty-five plates, fourteen of which are duplicates (foxing). Bound in contemporary paperback, edition circa 1750.

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Lot n° 21

Johann Christian GINZROT, Die Wagen...

Johann Christian GINZROT, Die Wagen und Fahrwerke der Griechen und Römer, Munich 1818. Rare, well-bound copy of this study in German on the chariots and carriages of antiquity. With a letter of dispatch from the author. More than thirty plates HT. Volume...

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Lot n° 22

Octave OZANNE, La locomotion à...

Octave OZANNE, La locomotion à travers l'Histoire, Paris 1900, Société d'édition littéraire et artistique. Numerous illustrations in color and folding by Eugène Courboin. Ex libris Malejowce. Marcevaux, Du char antique à l'automobile, Librairie de Paris,...

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Lot n° 23

Equipments and cars, two albums...

Equipments and cars, two albums published by the Car and Tourism Museum in 1935. Numerous photos and engravings.

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Lot n° 24

William Adams Birmingham body parts...

William Adams Birmingham body parts catalogue and Mills and sons London car catalogue, both facsimile but well bound.

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Lot n° 25

Wilhem RAUSCH, Der Wagen Fabrikant,...

Wilhem RAUSCH, Der Wagen Fabrikant, atlas and text, well-bound facsimile of this rare German-language treatise on bodywork.

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Lot n° 26

Cortège historique des moyens de...

Cortège historique des moyens de transport, 1835-1885, Brussels 1886, ed. Rozez. Beautifully bound, with numerous plates.

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Lot n° 27

Notice on the centennial exhibition...

Notice on the centennial exhibition of means of transport, Universal Exhibition of 1900. Paris, Hachette, 1901. One volume bound in full vellum (many leaves loose but present), as is.

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Lot n° 28

Stanley HARRIS, Old coaching days,...

Stanley HARRIS, Old coaching days, London 1882, period publisher's binding (worn). Numerous engravings.

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Lot n° 29

J DELTON, Album of the carriages...

J DELTON, Album of the carriages of Mühlbacher et fils. Rare album commissioned by one of the most famous Parisian coachbuilders to the most famous horse photographer of Paris. Original percaline cover containing twenty-three silver photographs of the...

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Lot n° 30

W. FELTON, Coach maker, a treatise...

W. FELTON, Coach maker, a treatise of carriages, London 1796. Rare work that this treatise of the English carriage making in the XVIIIth century. Numerous illustrations (accidents). Alexander GORDON, Historical and practical treatise upon elemental locomotion,...

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Lot n° 31

J. DELTON, Album of the Desouches-Touchard...

J. DELTON, Album of the Desouches-Touchard cars. Rare album commissioned by one of the most famous Parisian coachbuilders to the most famous photographer of the equestrian world in Paris. Original percaline cover. Thirty-two pictures. Pictures 11 x 17...

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Lot n° 32

Album of the main cars exhibited...

Album of the main cars exhibited in 1878 at the Champ-de-Mars Palace during the Universal Exhibition of 1878. Designed and published by Ch. Gourdin, car designer, Paris, 99 rue St Dominique. Very nice set of eighty cars representative of the forty-five...

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Lot n° 33

Album of the main cars appearing...

Album of the main cars appearing at the 1889 Universal Exhibition in Paris. Designed and published by Charles Gourdin, car designer, 35, av. de la Bourdonnais. Very nice set of fifty cars representing the best coachbuilders of the world represented in...

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Lot n° 34

Louis BERTHAUX, Le parfait carrossier...

Louis BERTHAUX, Le parfait carrossier ou traité complet des ouvrages fait en carrosserie et sellerie, Dijon 1845. Rare copy in its period binding with numerous plates and notably the exhaustive description of the "grande messagerie" (public coach with...

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Lot n° 35

Louis BERTHAUX, Le parfait carrossier...

Louis BERTHAUX, Le parfait carrossier ou traité complet des ouvrages fait en carrosserie et sellerie, Dijon 1845. Rare copy in poor condition but very moving because it bears the stigmata of a daily use in a body shop in Paris or in province (incompl...

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Lot n° 36

C. Felber et fils in Paris, 163...

C. Felber et fils in Paris, 163 boulevard Haussmann, illustrated album of the coachbuilder's luxury cars, dated 1889. Later binding. Thirty-two cars represented with their price list in pen.

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Lot n° 37

Luxury and fancy harnessed cars....

Luxury and fancy harnessed cars. Album n°12 of the manufacture of cars RETIF et COMPAGNIE around 1906. Nice set of about 50 cars represented in colors

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Lot n° 38

Bedel, coachbuilder in Avranches,...

Bedel, coachbuilder in Avranches, album du carrossier normand. About sixty cars including the pony car section.

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Lot n° 39

Bedel, coachbuilder in Avranches,...

Bedel, coachbuilder in Avranches, album du carrossier normand. Approximately sixty cars including the pony car section. With prices and annotations in pen.

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Lot n° 40

Manufacture of cars Colzy and Cochard...

Manufacture of cars Colzy and Cochard in Arnage, beautiful album including twenty-six cars of the coachbuilder sarthois.

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Lot n° 41

Jamet car factory, La Guerche....

Jamet car factory, La Guerche. Manufacture of cars in white and car bodywork. Thirteen models offered and a self-propelled body mobile bodywork.

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Lot n° 42

Retif à Sancoins, a beautiful later...

Retif à Sancoins, a beautiful later bound album of one of the most famous coachbuilders of the province, sixty-six color engravings representing the range of production, circa 1880 (stains).

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Lot n° 43

Very complete little album from...

Very complete little album from the Bodybuilder's Guide. About one hundred and twenty pages of cars described sometimes with their dimensions. Commissioned work for the documentation of a coachbuilder. Circa 1880.

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Lot n° 44

Manufacture de voitures Lemaitre...

Manufacture de voitures Lemaitre à Alençon, small album in color of English carts of this important coachbuilder in province, successor of Laguogue.

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Lot n° 45

Viguier Frères in Castres, beautiful...

Viguier Frères in Castres, beautiful album well bound of this coachbuilder containing the representation in color of the sixty models of the house.

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Lot n° 46

S. Chicot, 78 rue des arts, Paris,...

S. Chicot, 78 rue des arts, Paris, Levallois, album n°8 of French-American cars. Thirty-six pages.

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Lot n° 47

Ehler, Jeantaud succ. catalogue...

Ehler, Jeantaud succ. catalogue circa 1891 of one of the most famous coachbuilders in Europe, supplier to the European courts. Forty-two cars shown with the red Jeantaud stamp. Price list attached.

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Lot n° 48

Bail l'aîné, catalogue of the Parisian...

Bail l'aîné, catalogue of the Parisian coachbuilder, twenty-four cars shown in sepia for two- and four-wheel models, later binding.

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Lot n° 49

Desouches Touchard, a rare presentation...

Desouches Touchard, a rare presentation album of the house comprising about sixty representations mainly of coupés, most of them in color and enhanced with gouache, bearing the dry stamp of the manufacture. Presence of three original drawings by Desouches....

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Lot n° 50

Belvalette frères à Paris, Paperback...

Belvalette frères à Paris, Paperback catalogue of the coachbuilder. About thirty cars are represented, covering a large part of the company's models, including an advertisement for two cars, a page of prices and above all an interesting appendix on the...

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