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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 250 | INCUNABLE MAYENCE] Statuta provincialia vetera et nova. | S.L. |
[Strasbourg] | vers 1485 | EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Unknown |
| 251 | JÉSUITES. | Extinction des Jésuites par le Parlement de Paris |
Paris | 1763 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 252 | KEEPSAKES] Paris Londres. | Keepsake français [Avec :] Paris. Illustrations |
Paris | 1837 1838 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 253 | LA COMBE DE VRIGNY]. | Relation en forme de journal, d'un voyage fait en Danemarc, à la suite de Monsieur l'envoyé d'Angleterre |
Rotterdam | 1707 | EUR 400.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 254 | LA FOY (Guillaume de)]. | De la Constitution du Duché ou Etat souverain de Normandie. |
[Rouen] | 1789 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 255 | LA HAYE DES COUTAUX (Jean de). | Les Mémoires et recherches de France, et de la Gaule Aquitanique |
Poitiers | 1643 | EUR 400.00 - 450.00 | Unknown |
| 256 | LA MURE (Jean Marie de). | Histoire ecclésiastique du diocèse de Lyon |
Lyon | 1671 | EUR 300.00 - 350.00 | Unknown |
| 257 | LA ROULIERE (Louis de). | Traite de la chasse du lievre a courre en Poitou. |
Paris | 1888 | EUR 180.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 258 | LA TRAMBLAYE (Amable Robin de)]. | Sur quelques contrées de l'Europe |
Londres | 1788 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 259 | LADREYT (Eugène). | Les Chasseurs parisiens. |
vers 1880. | EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 260 | LASSAY (Marquis de). | Recueil de différentes choses. |
Lausanne | 1756 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown |
| 261 | LATOUCHE LOISY (Jacques Ignace de)]. | Explications des emblèmes héroïques, inventées par M. Le chevalier D*** pour la décoration des arcs de triomphe érigez aux portes de Reims lors de la cérémonie du Sacre de Louis XV Roy de France & de Navarre. |
Reims, | 1722 | EUR 100.00 - 120.00 | Unknown |
| 262 | LE CLERC (Sébastien). | Recüeil de diverses figures turques, gravées par Seb. Le Clerc. |
Paris | après 1670. | EUR 2,500.00 - 2,800.00 | Unknown |
| 263 | LE COUTEUR (John). | Letters chiefly from India |
Londres | 1790 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 264 | LE PAYS (René). | Amitiez, amours, et amourettes Suivant la copie de Paris, à Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1668, in 12, vélin à rabats (reliure de l'époque). |
Amsterdam, | 1668 | EUR 100.00 - 120.00 | Unknown |
| 265 | LEMERCIER (Charles Nicolas). | Convoi funèbre des victimes de l'attentat du 28 juillet 1835 |
Paris | 1835 | EUR 500.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 266 | LITTERATURE POISSARDE]. | Riche en gueule, ou Le Nouveau Vadé |
Paris | 1821 | EUR 100.00 - 120.00 | Unknown |
| 267 | LLORENTÉ (Juan Antonio). | Histoire critique de l'Inquisition d'Espagne, depuis l'époque de son établissement par Ferdinand V jusqu'au règne de Ferdinand VII |
Paris | 1818 | EUR 200.00 - 250.00 | Unknown |
| 268 | LÖWENSTERN (Isidore). | Le Mexique. Souvenirs d'un voyageur. |
Paris; Leipzig | 1843 | EUR 300.00 - 350.00 | Unknown |
| 269 | MAISTRE (Joseph de)]. | Considérations sur la France. |
Londres [Bâle] | 1797 | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown |
| 270 | MALHERBE. | Les OEuvres. |
Paris | 1631 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 271 | MALLET (Paul Henri). | Histoire de Dannemarc. Troisième édition revue, corrigée & considérablement augmentée. |
À Genève; Et à Paris | 1787; 1788 | EUR 400.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 272 | MANGIN (Arthur). | Les Jardins, histoire et description. |
Tours | 1867 | EUR 200.00 - 250.00 | Unknown |
| 273 | MANUSCRIT PÊCHEURS DE TOULON] Extrait des registres du Conseil d'Etat. |
avril 1778. | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | ||
| 274 | MANUSCRIT SIEGE DE TOULON] Evénement malheureux arrivé à Mr Roux père, com[missai]re de marine, et à son fils aîné |
vers 1801 | EUR 500.00 - 600.00 | 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