ALDE: The Library of Peter Obergfell iI - Precious Books about Mountains, 100825, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 08, 2025 - October 08, 2025

Page Size: 247 items in 10 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
226	VALLINO (Domenico).	Album d'un alpinista. A Gressoney per Val d'Andorno.	Biella	1877	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 5,000.00
227	VALLINO (Domenico).	Album d'un alpiniste. Dans la Vallee d'Aoste.	Biella	1880	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 2,125.00
228	VALLOT (Joseph et Henri).	Chemin de fer des Houches au sommet du Mont-Blanc. Projet Saturnin Fabre. Etudes preliminaires et avant-projet.	Paris	1899	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 438.00
229	VALLOT (Joseph).	Recueil de brochures.		1887 - 1892.	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 375.00
230	VALLOT (Joseph).	Annales de l'observatoire meteorologique du Mont-Blanc (altitude 4358 m).	Paris	1893-1911.	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 3,000.00
231	VALLOT (Joseph).	Evolution de la cartographie de la Savoie et du Mont-Blanc.	Paris	1922	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 625.00
232	VENDOME (Henriette de Belgique, duchesse de).	Fleurs des Alpes.	Lausanne	1928	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 3,000.00
233	VERNES (Francois).	Voyage episodique et pittoresque aux glaciers des Alpes, suivi de la Duchesse de la Valliere, tragedie en cinq actes en vers ; et des Aveugles de Franconville, comedie en prose.	Paris	1807	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 375.00
234	VIALARDI (Alberto Luigi).	La photographie au percement des Alpes. Album historique.	Paris; Turin; et Florence; Londres	[1868].	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 1,375.00
235	VILLENEUVE (Louis Jules Frederic).	Vue de la Jungfrau et de la Fete des Bergers celebree en 1808 au pied du Chateau d'Unspunnen.	Paris	vers 1820.	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
236	WALCHER (Joseph).	Nachrichten von den Eisbergen in Tyrol	Vienne	1773	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 625.00
237	WEBER (Friedrich).	Vue du Mont Blanc et du Pont St. Martin.	Paris	vers 1820.	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 1,000.00
238	WEBER (Friedrich).	Ansicht des Montblanc.	Augsbourg	vers 1850.	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
239	WEY (Francis).	La Haute Savoie, recits de voyage et d'histoire.	Geneve	1866	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 1,375.00
240	WHITE (Walter).	To Mont Blanc and back again.	Londres	1854	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
241	WHYMPER (Edward).	Scrambles amongst the Alps in the years 1860-69.	Londres	1871	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 4,250.00
242	WHYMPER (Edward).	Scrambles amongst the Alps in the years 1860-69.	Londres	1893	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 875.00
243	WHYMPER (Edward).	Chamonix and the range of Mont-Blanc. The Valley of Zermatt and the Matterhorn.	Londres	1896-1897.	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 250.00
244	WILLS (Alfred).	"The Eagle's Nest" in the Valley of Sixt ; a Summer Home along the Alps. Together with some Excursions among the Great Glaciers.	Londres	1860	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,500.00
245	WILLS (Alfred).	Wanderings among the high Alps.	Londres	1856, 1860	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 500.00
246	WUNDT (Theodor).	Wanderungen in den Ampezzaner Dolomiten.	Berlin	[1893].	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 563.00
247	YOSI (Ann).	Switzerland, as now divided into Nineteen Cantons ; interspersed with historical anecdotes, local customs, and a description of the present state of the Country ; the Cantons are severally described, and also the County of Neuchatel, the Rebublic of Genev	Londres	1815	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 250.00

Rare Book Hub is now mobile-friendly!
Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.
SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.

SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.