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
126	JALABERT (Francois).	Vue du Prieure et de la vallee de Chamouni du cote du glacier des Bois Geneve, 1777.			EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 6,250.00
127	JOANNE (Adolphe).	Itineraire descriptif et historique de la Suisse, du Jura francais, de Baden-Baden et de la Foret-Noire, de la Chartreuse de Grenoble et des eaux d'Aix, du Mont-Blanc, de la vallee de Chamouni, du Grand-Saint-Bernard et du Mont-Rose.	Paris	1841	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 1,250.00
128	King (Samuel William).	The Italian Valleys of the Pennine Alps : a tour through all the romantic and less-frequented "vals" of the northern Piedmont, from the Tarentaise to the Gries.	Londres	1858	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 563.00
129	LE BLOND (Elizabeth Alice France).	High life and towers of silence. By the author of "The high Alps in winter".	Londres	1886	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 375.00
130	LESCHEVIN (Philippe-Xavier).	Voyage a Geneve et dans la vallee de Chamouni en Savoie ; ayant pour objet les sciences, les arts, l'histoire, le commerce, l'industrie, les moeurs des habitans, etc, etc.	Paris; Geneve	1812	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 750.00
131	LIDDIARD (William).	Three months' tour in Switzerland and France illustrated with plates, descriptive of mountain scenery, and interspersed with poetry; with a route to Chamouni, the bernese Alps, etc.	Londres	1832	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
132	LINCK (Jean-Antoine) et HACKERT (Carl Ludwig).	Vue d'Argentiere, de son glacier et du Mont Blanc.	Geneve	vers 1805.	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 1,250.00
133	LONCHAMP (Frederic Charles.).	Manuel du bibliophile Suisse.	Paris et Lausanne,	1922	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 500.00
134	Longman (William).	A lecture on Switzerland.	Londres	1857	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
135	LOPPE (Gabriel) et al.	Souvenirs de Chamounix.	Geneve	vers 1860.	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 875.00
136	LORRIA (August) et Oscar ECKENSTEIN.	The Alpine Portfolio. The Pennine Alps, from the Simplon to the Great St. Bernard.	s.l.	[1889].	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 4,000.00
137	LORY (Mathias Gabriel).	Cascade du Nant d'Arpenas.	Paris	1815	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
138	LUSCHER-STRECKEINSEN (Carl).	Bergwanderungen und Hochgebirgstouren 1876-1898.	Bale	1916	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
139	MACGREGOR (John).	My note book. Switzerland.	Francfort	1837	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 750.00
140	MAHLY (Jean-Frederic).	La route du Simplon.		Vers 1820.	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 875.00
141	MALTEN (Baron de).	Taschenbuch fur Reisende nach Chamouny, um den Mont Blanc, auf den Grossen und kleinen Bernhard.	Aarau	1829	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 375.00
142	Manget (Jacques Louis).	Description et itineraire des bords du lac de Geneve, ou Manuel du voyageur dans la vallee du Leman.	Geneve	1822	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 250.00
143	Manget (Jacques Louis).	Chamounix, le Mont-Blanc et les deux St. Bernard.	Geneve	1840	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,875.00
144	Manget (Jacques Louis).	La vallee de Sixt en 1840.	Geneve	1840	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 188.00
145	MANUSCRIT.	Journal d'un voyage en Suisse.	Geneve	1819	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 875.00
146	MANUSCRIT.	Letters written from Switzerland in 1883.	S. L.	1883	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 500.00
147	MARTIN (Francois Joseph).	Itineraire descriptif de la vallee de Sixt.	Geneve	1821	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
148	Mathews (Charles Edward).	The annals of Mont Blanc. A monograph.	Londra	1898	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 1,750.00
149	MATHEY (Andre).	Les bains de Saint-Gervais, pres du Mont-Blanc, (en Savoie).	Geneve	1818	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
150	MECHEL (Chretien de).	Vue perspective de la Vallee de Chamouni, du Mont-Blanc et des Montagnes adjacentes dans le Haut Faucigny en Savoie, ou l'on a indique la route qu'a tenue au mois d'Aout 1787 Mr. le Professeur de Saussure.	Bale	1790	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 6,250.00

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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.

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

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

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

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Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
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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
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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.
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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.