Books & manuscripts
This is how libraries were born, and how online auctions of books and manuscripts followed, bringing together antiquarian and modern books, illustrated books, comic strips, letters, autographs, maps and postcards.
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Books & manuscripts
“A book is someone. Don’t trust it. A book is a mechanism,” wrote Victor Hugo. From Books of Hours — those manuscripts richly illuminated with azure and gold — to works by Surrealists like André Breton and Paul Eluard, the gems of auction sales are original editions on “grand papier,” prized for three key qualities: period bindings or those by great designers, prestigious provenance, and an “envoi” — a handwritten dedication by the author. Collectors compete for manuscripts and letters from the cursed poets Baudelaire, Verlaine, and Rimbaud, for Proust’s autographed pages, travel books, and old maps. But online auctions also spotlight the ninth art, with luxury editions and limited printings of classic comic books from the great trio: Hergé’s Tintin, Franquin’s Gaston Lagaffe, and Uderzo and Goscinny’s Astérix and Obélix. Albums by new-generation illustrators such as Hugo Pratt, Moebius, and Enki Bilal are also featured. A refreshing breath of art. Find the finest online auctions of books and manuscripts on Drouot.com — in Paris, across France, and internationally (United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, United States, etc.)
