Beaussant Lefevre: Letters, Books and Manuscripts, 120736, Paris

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Auction Date
December 15, 2021 - December 15, 2021
Page Size: 83 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51 RIPA (Cesare).

Historiæ et allegoriæ projectæ et designatæ. [Sur le premier faux-titre :] Allerley Künsten, und Wissenschaften, dienlicher Sinnbildern, und Gedancken.

Augspurg 1758-1760. EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
52 VERRIEN (Nicolas).

Recueil d'emblèmes, devises, médailles, et figures hiéroglyphiques. A

  Paris 1696 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
53 LUDOLF (Hiob) et al.

Illustration gravée sur cuivre hors texte et dans le texte, entre autres par Romein De Hooge.

 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
54 MUCHA. FLERS (Robert de).

Ilsée princesse de Tripoli.

Paris 1897 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
55 [PERRAULT (Charles) et Isaac de Benserade].

[PERRAULT (Charles) et Isaac de Benserade]. Le Labyrinthe de Versailles. A 

 Paris 1679 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
56 PERRONET (Jean-Rodolphe).

[Description des projets et de la construction des ponts de Neuilly, de Mantes, d'Orléans et autres, du projet du canal de Bourgogne pour la communication des deux mers par Dijon et de celui de la conduite des eaux de l'Yvette et de Bièvre à Paris]. [

 Paris 1782 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
57 Prévost (Antoine-François).

Histoire du chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut.

Amsterdam 1753 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
58 RACINE (Jean).

Ouvres. Suivant la copie de Paris,

Amsterdam 1678 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
59 ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques).

Ouvres complètes.

Paris 1788-1793. EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Unknown
60 SCARRON (Paul).

Dom Japhet d'Armenie. Comedie.

Paris 1654 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
61

ENFANTINA et divers. XIXe siècle-début du XXe.  Ensemble d'environ 30 volumes reliés.

 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
62

GASTRONOMIE et thérapeutique. Ensemble de 5 volumes reliés, très usagés, taches, mouillures et restaurations, parfois des travaux de vers.

 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Unknown
63  [Néel (Louis-Balthazar)].

Histoire de Maurice comte de Saxe.

 Dresde 1752 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Unknown
64

 [Institutes]. D[omini] Justiniani sacratissimi principis institutionum.

Lugduni Batavorum Leyde. 1646 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Unknown
65  Pougens (Charles).

Jocko. Notice d'Anatole France.

Paris 1881 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Unknown
66

LITTERATURE et divers. XVIIIe siècle. Ensemble de

 1747 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 Unknown
67  Maquet (Adrien).

Bougival et La Celle-Saint-Cloud. Recherches historiques.

Paris 1884 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
68

LITTERATURE et divers. xixe-xxe siècles. Ensemble de 36 volumes reliés. 13 de ces volumes portent des envois autographes signés, soit 11 à Robert de Flers et 2 à François de Flers

 xixe-xxe siècles. EUR 400.00 - 500.00 Unknown
69

MUSIQUE. XIXe siècle.  Ensemble de 19 volumes reliés.

 XIXe siècle EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Unknown
70  Sarcey (Francisque).

Le Siège de Paris. Impressions et souvenirs. Paris, E. Lachaud,

 1871 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 Unknown
71 Gérard (Armand de).

Le Véritable chrestien qui combat les abus du siècle.

Paris 1679 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 Unknown
72

 Ouvrages sur l'algèbre, le calcul des probabilités, le calcul infinitésimal, la géodésie, la mécanique, la physique, la statique.  Etc.

 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
73

SCIENCES.  MEDECINE divers. XVIe-XVIIe siècle.  Ensemble de 10 volumes reliés. Bacci (Andrea). Discorso dell'alicorno.

Fiorenza 1582 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
74

Divers. XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles, principalement. Ensemble de 11 volumes reliés, en état médiocre. [Cotolendi (Charles)]. La Vie de tres-haute et tres-puissante princesse Henriette-Marie de France, reyne de la Grand'Bretagne.

 Paris, 1640 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
75

DIVERS. Fin du XVIIIe siècle-XIXe.  4 volumes et 2 cartes. Dufour (Auguste-Henri). Carte administrative et physique de la France, indiquant [ ] les chemins de fer avec leurs stations.

Paris 1857 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
  • Sotheby's Fine Books & ManuscriptsAvailable for Immediate Purchase Sotheby’s: Balthus, Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights, New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1993. 6,600 USD. Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. Complete Works, Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company & Chapman & Hall, LD, 1850. Limited Edition set of 30 volumes. 7,500 USD. Sotheby’s: John Lennon, Yoko Ono. Handwritten Letter from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to their Chauffer. 1971. 32,500 USD. Sotheby’s: Winston Churchill. First edition of War Speeches, Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1941. Set of 7 volumes. 5,500 USD. Sotheby’s: Andy Warhol, Julia Warhola. Holy Cats First Edition, Signed by Andy Warhol. 1954. 30,000 USD.
    Sotheby's Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Balthus, Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights, New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1993. 6,600 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. Complete Works, Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company & Chapman & Hall, LD, 1850. Limited Edition set of 30 volumes. 7,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: John Lennon, Yoko Ono. Handwritten Letter from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to their Chauffer. 1971. 32,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Winston Churchill. First edition of War Speeches, Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1941. Set of 7 volumes. 5,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Andy Warhol, Julia Warhola. Holy Cats First Edition, Signed by Andy Warhol. 1954. 30,000 USD.
  • Forum AuctionsOnline: IndiaEnds 19th February 2026 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 40Ramasvami (Kavali Venkata). A Digest of the Different Castes of India, 83 charming hand-coloured lithographed plates, Madras, 1837. £5,000-7,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 50Watson (John Forbes) & John William Kaye. The People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations...of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan, 8 vol., 480 mounted albumen prints, 1868-75. £4,000-6,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 53Afghanistan.- Elphinstone (Hon. Mountstuart). An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, first edition, hand-coloured aquatint plates, a fine copy, 1815. £2,000-3,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 57[Album and Treatise on Hinduism], manuscript treatise on Hinduism in French, 31 watercolours of Hindu deities, Pondicherry, 1865. £3,000-4,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 62 Allan (Capt. Alexander). Views in the Mysore Country, [1794]. £2,000-3,000 Forum AuctionsOnline: IndiaEnds 19th February 2026 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 76Bird (James). Historical Researches on the Origin and Principles of the Bauddha and Jaina Religions..., first edition, lithographed plates, Bombay, American Mission Press, 1847. £3,000-4,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 100Ceylon.- Daniell (Samuel). A Picturesque Illustration of the scenery, animals, and native inhabitants, of the Island of Ceylon: in twelve plates, 1808. £5,000-7,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 123D'Oyly (Charles). Behar Amateur Lithographic Scrap Book, lithographed throughout with title and 55 plates mounted on 43 paper leaves, [Patna], [1828]. £3,000-5,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 139Gandhi (known as Mahatma Gandhi,) Fine Autograph Letter signed to Jawaharlal Nehru, Sevagram, Wardha, 1942, emphasising the importance of education in rural communities. £10,000-15,000 Forum AuctionsOnline: IndiaEnds 19th February 2026 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 140Gantz (John). Indian Microcosm, first edition, Madras, John Gantz & Son, 1827. £10,000-15,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 146Grierson (Sir George Abraham). Linguistic Survey of India, 11 vol. in 20, folding maps, original cloth, Calcutta, Superintendent Government Printing, 1903-28. £2,000-3,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 195Madras.- Fort St. George Gazette (The), No.276-331, pp.493-936 and Index to all of 1834 at end, modern half calf, Madras, 2nd July - 31st December 1834. £2,000-3,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 205Marshall (Sir John) and Alfred Foucher. The Monuments of Sanchi, 3 vol., first edition, 141 plates, most photogravure, [Calcutta], [1940]. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    Online: India
    Ends 19th February 2026
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 40
    Ramasvami (Kavali Venkata). A Digest of the Different Castes of India, 83 charming hand-coloured lithographed plates, Madras, 1837. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 50
    Watson (John Forbes) & John William Kaye. The People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations...of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan, 8 vol., 480 mounted albumen prints, 1868-75. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 53
    Afghanistan.- Elphinstone (Hon. Mountstuart). An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, first edition, hand-coloured aquatint plates, a fine copy, 1815. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 57
    [Album and Treatise on Hinduism], manuscript treatise on Hinduism in French, 31 watercolours of Hindu deities, Pondicherry, 1865. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 62 Allan (Capt. Alexander). Views in the Mysore Country, [1794]. £2,000-3,000
    Forum Auctions
    Online: India
    Ends 19th February 2026
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 76
    Bird (James). Historical Researches on the Origin and Principles of the Bauddha and Jaina Religions..., first edition, lithographed plates, Bombay, American Mission Press, 1847. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 100
    Ceylon.- Daniell (Samuel). A Picturesque Illustration of the scenery, animals, and native inhabitants, of the Island of Ceylon: in twelve plates, 1808. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 123
    D'Oyly (Charles). Behar Amateur Lithographic Scrap Book, lithographed throughout with title and 55 plates mounted on 43 paper leaves, [Patna], [1828]. £3,000-5,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 139
    Gandhi (known as Mahatma Gandhi,) Fine Autograph Letter signed to Jawaharlal Nehru, Sevagram, Wardha, 1942, emphasising the importance of education in rural communities. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Online: India
    Ends 19th February 2026
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 140
    Gantz (John). Indian Microcosm, first edition, Madras, John Gantz & Son, 1827. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 146
    Grierson (Sir George Abraham). Linguistic Survey of India, 11 vol. in 20, folding maps, original cloth, Calcutta, Superintendent Government Printing, 1903-28. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 195
    Madras.- Fort St. George Gazette (The), No.276-331, pp.493-936 and Index to all of 1834 at end, modern half calf, Madras, 2nd July - 31st December 1834. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 205
    Marshall (Sir John) and Alfred Foucher. The Monuments of Sanchi, 3 vol., first edition, 141 plates, most photogravure, [Calcutta], [1940]. £3,000-4,000
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    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: HAMILTON, Sir William (1730-1803) - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: [Pietro Fabris], 1776, 1779. € 30.000 - 50.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: [MORTIER] - BLAEU, Joannes (1596-1673) - Het Nieuw Stede Boek van Italie. Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, 1704-1705. € 15.000 - 25.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: TULLIO D'ALBISOLA (1899-1971) - Bruno MUNARI (1907-1998) - L'Anguria lirica (lungo poema passionale). Roma e Savona: Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia, senza data [ma 1933?]. € 20.000 - 30.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: IL MANOSCRITTO RITROVATO DI IPPOLITA MARIA SFORZA. TITO LIVIO - Ab Urbe Condita. Prima Decade. Manoscritto miniato su pergamena, metà XV secolo. € 280.000 - 350.000