Mirabaud-Mercier Auctioneers: MODERN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS ANCIENT AND NINETEENTH CENTURY BOOKS, 127854, PARIS
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 22, 2022 - June 22, 2022
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 225 | FIELDING (Henry). | Julien l'Apostat, ou Voyage dans l'autre monde Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris, Le Jay, 1768, 2 parties en un volume in 12, demi basane havane, dos lisse orné (rel. |
De la fin du XVIIIe. | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 226 | FIELDING (Henry). | Tom Jones, ou L'Enfant trouvé. |
Paris | 1828 | EUR 100.00 - 120.00 | Unknown |
| 227 | FILIPPINI (Anton Pietro). | Istoria di Corsica. |
Pise | 1827 1831, | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown |
| 228 | STRADA (Famianus). | Histoire de la guerre de Flandre. |
Suivant la copie imprimée à Paris | 1665 | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | Unknown |
| 229 | Floquet. | Histoire du privilège de saint Romain. |
N/A | EUR 50.00 - 0.00 | Unknown | |
| 230 | FLORIAN (Louis Pierre Claris de). | Galatée, roman pastoral ; imité de Cervantès. |
Paris | 1783 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 231 | FONTAINE (Pierre Marie)]. | La Muse normande. |
Cologne [Rouen] | s.D. 1736 | EUR 100.00 - 120.00 | Unknown |
| 232 | GANDERAX (Charles). | Recherches sur les propriétés physiques, chimiques et médicinales, des eaux minérales de Bagnères de Bigorre. |
Paris | 1827 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 233 | GARCIA SAAVEDRA (Juan). | De Hispanorum nobilitate et exemptione Pintiae |
[Valladolid] | 1588 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown |
| 234 | GAUTIER. | Almanach de la bonne duchesse |
Marseille | 1832 | EUR 200.00 - 250.00 | Unknown |
| 235 | GEORGEL (Jean François)]. | Réponse à un écrit anonyme, intitulé : Mémoire sur les rangs et les honneurs de la Cour. |
Paris | 1771 | EUR 500.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 236 | GIOVENAZZI (Vito Maria). | Della città di Aveia ne Vestini ed altri luoghi di antica memoria dissertazione |
Rome | 1773 | EUR 200.00 - 250.00 | Unknown |
| 237 | GLEIZES (Vénuste). | Mémoire sur l'état actuel des bagnes en France. |
Paris | 1840 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 238 | GUERRE DE SUCCESSION D'AUTRICHE] Plans et dessins des constructions et décorations ordonnées par la ville de Paris, pour les réjouissances public à l'occasion de la publication de la paix le 12 février 1749. |
[Paris] | 1749 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 239 | GUICHARD PRINTEMPS (A.). | Airs anciens et modernes des chansons de Mr. P. J. De Béranger |
Paris | 1822 | EUR 200.00 - 250.00 | Unknown |
| 240 | GUISCHARDT (Charles). | Mémoires militaires sur les Grecs et les Romains, pour servir de suite et d'éclaircissement à l'Histoire de Polybe |
Lyon | 1760 | EUR 200.00 - 250.00 | Unknown |
| 241 | GUYON (Louis Henri de). | Legatio inclitae civitatis Avenionis ad Clementem IX |
Rome | 1668 | EUR 200.00 - 250.00 | Unknown |
| 242 | HANSTEEN (Christoph). | Souvenirs d'un voyage en Sibérie |
Paris | 1857 | EUR 300.00 - 350.00 | Unknown |
| 243 | HARTHAUSEN (Auguste de). | Etudes sur la situation intérieure, la vie nationale et les institutions rurales de la Russie. |
Hanovre | 1847 1853 | EUR 400.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 244 | HEROUVILLE (Abbe de). | Imitation de la tres Sainte Vierge. |
Paris | 1819 | EUR 70.00 - 100.00 | Unknown |
| 245 | HORNEMANN (Friedrich Konrad). | Voyages dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, pendant les années 1797, 1798 |
Paris | 1802 | EUR 200.00 - 250.00 | Unknown |
| 246 | HOZIER (Pierre d'). | Généalogie des seigneurs de la Dufferie, sortis d'un puisné de l'illustre maison des Baglions ou Baglioni, seigneurs souverains de Pérouse en Italie |
Paris | 1662 | EUR 500.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 247 | HUGO (Victor). | Le Retour de l'Empereur. |
Paris | 1840 | EUR 300.00 - 350.00 | Unknown |
| 248 | IFFLAND (August Wilhelm). | Mémoires d'un auteur et comédien allemand, avec une notice sur les ouvrages de cet acteur. |
Paris | 1823 | EUR 400.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 249 | IMPRESSION de SAUMUR] [HUISSEAU (Isaac d')]. | La Discipline des Eglises Réformées de France |
[Saumur] | 1655 | EUR 300.00 - 350.00 | Unknown |
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Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000. -
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The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000 -
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The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000