Gros & Delettrez: Travel: Books and Cartography, 164806, PARIS

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 23, 2025 - April 23, 2025

Page Size: 332 items in 14 pages

Auction Lot Books
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
76		[Photographie]. [Allemagne]. ZUR ERINNERUNG an den 10		1861	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
77	HERRGOTT (Marquardt)	[Autriche]. Genealogia diplomatica augustae gentis Habsburgicae...	Vienne	1737	EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Unknown
78	GOETHALS (Georges)	[Belgique]. Plan van Gend gemeeten en gegraveerd in 't jaar 1796	Gend	1796	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
79		[Royaume-Uni]. ORDNANCE SURVEY OF WEYMOUTH and district	Southampton	1935	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
80		[Royaume-Uni - Armee - Priestley & Sons]. [Photographie]	Liscard	ca. 1920	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
81		[Photographie]. [Norvege]		[1889]	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
82	ESCOSURA (Patricio de la) ; VILLAMIL (Perez)	[Espagne]. Espana artistica y monumental	Paris	1842-1844	EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00	Unknown
83	LABORDE (Cte Alexandre de)	[Espagne ; Seville]. Descripcion de un pavimento en mosayco, descubierto en la antigua Italica, hoy Santiponce, en las cercanias de Sevilla...	Madrid	1806	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
84		[Suisse]. [Manuscrit]. [Plan terrier manuscrit de Piere Gimel (canton de Vaud, district de Morges)]	S.l.	[XVIIIe siecle]	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	Unknown
85	STERN (A.)	[Suisse]. [Gravure]. [Recueil de vues de la Suisse]	Zurich	[v. 1870]	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,400.00	Unknown
86		[Suisse]. [Gravure]. [VUES DE SUISSE]	A Paris	[v. 1836]	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,400.00	Unknown
87		[Suisse]. [Gravure]. SOUVENIRS DE LA SUISSE	Geneve	[v. 1840]	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Unknown
88	[ROSSI (Patrizio de')]	[Italie]. [Manuscrit]. Relazione del...	[Italie]	[XVIIe]	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	Unknown
89	DEGOIX (Celestino, 1825-apres 1890) ; NESSI (Antonio, 1834-1907)	ITALIE. [Photographie]. Album "Vues d'Italie. Genes. Come", ca. 1860-1880		1860-1880	EUR 250.00 - 400.00	Unknown
90	INCORPORA (Giuseppe) ; SOMMER (Giorgio)	[Sicile - Malte]. [Photographie]. [Album de photographies Palerme, Catane, Messine, Taormina, Syracuse, Malte]		N/A	EUR 240.00 - 360.00	Unknown
91		[Italie]. LINASSI. Ferdinando Ie Maria...		N/A	EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	Unknown
92	ARMANI (Basilio)	[Italie]. Feste secolari del Concilio di Trento con solenne rito celebrate nei giorni 12, 13, e 14 Decembre 1845 descritte, ed illustrate		N/A	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
93	AMBROSOLI (Francesco)	[Italie]. Monumento a Francesco Primo in Vienna	Milano	[1846]	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Unknown
94	MENDEL (Giacomo)	[Italie]. [Bijouterie]. Descrizione dei due magnifici quadri interamente eseguiti in brillanti [...] Beschreibung zweier prachtvollen, ganz aus Brillanten	Milano	[1838]	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
95	DE LA RUE ; BERNARD (Robert)	[Italie]. Histoire naturelle, volcans		[1772]	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
96	DE LA RUE ; BERNARD (Robert)	[Italie]. Histoire naturelle, vue de la Soufriere qui est pres de Pouzzole au Royaume de Naples appellee Solfatara	[Paris]	[ca. 1751-1772]	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
97	FER (Nicolas de)	Le duche de Milan et les etats du duc de Savoye...	[Paris]	1703	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
98		[Messine]. [Manuscrit]. Plano de la plaza de Mesina y de su ciudadel y castiglios		N/A	EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	Unknown
99		[Venise]. [Gravure]. [Vue de la Place Saint-Marc a Venise]		N/A	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
100	VASCELLINI (Gaetano)	[Italie]. Raccolta dei Disegni delle Fabbriche regie de'Bagni di Montecatini nella Valdinievole	Firenze, s.n.	1787	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown

Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Galileo Galilei. Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo tolemaico, e copernicano. Firenze, 1632

Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Saverio Manetti. Storia naturale degli uccelli. Firenze, 1771-76

Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Fortunato Depero. Depero futurista. Rovereto, 1927

Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Nicolas Visscher. Atlas minor sive totius orbis terrarum contracta delineat ex conatibus. Amsterdam, circa 1649-95

Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Andreas Vesalius. Anatomia. Addita nunc. Antiquorum Anatome. Venezia, 1604

Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Tristan Tzara and Salvador Dalì. Grains et Issues. Parigi, 1935
June 25, 2026

Doyle, June 25: Houdini's biography, boldly signed. $3,000 to $5,000.

Doyle, June 25: A volume from Abraham Lincoln's library, signed just before heading to Washington for his inauguration. $20,000 to $30,000.

Doyle, June 25: A very early Confederate recruiting manual belonging to the chief commissary in Lee's Army. $600 to $800.

Doyle, June 25: Rare hand-colored lithographs of the life of Napoleon. $20,000 to $30,000.

Doyle, June 25: The "Holster Atlas" of the American Revolution. $5,000 to $8,000.

Doyle, June 25: Jewish ceremonies in fine hand-colored engravings. $7,000 to $10,000.

Doyle, June 25: A very rare work on Turkish military costume. $1,000 to $1,500.

June 25, 2026

Doyle, June 25: The most important illustrated work on the Mexican-American War. $10,000 to $15,000.

Doyle, June 25: The finest illustrated book on Afghanistan. $10,000 to $15,000.

Doyle, June 25: Henry Justice Ford St. George rescues the Princess from the horrible Dragon. $2,000 to $3,000.

Doyle, June 25: A rare work of Prussian Army uniforms under Frederick William II, with exquisite hand-colored engravings. $800 to $1,200.

Doyle, June 25: Lenny Bruce typed letter signed to a Village bohemian during his obscenity trials, with a manuscript note and drawing. $300 to $500.

Doyle, June 25: Schiff's scarce Shanghai Sketchbook. $300 to $500.

Doyle, June 25: The first accurate published representation of the American flag. $2,000 to $4,000.
Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 123. Celebrate 250 Years of Independence with Original Stars and Stripes (1790) Est. $1,400 - $1,700

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 20. Keulen's Spectacular Chart of the World Featuring California as an Island (1728) Est. $12,000 - $15,000

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 42. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 591. Matching Set of 3 Stunning Globe Gores of Eastern Asia from Coronelli's 3.5 Foot Globe (1688) Est. $5,500 - $7,000

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 9. Speed's Popular World Map with Allegorical Representations of the Elements (1651) Est. $14,000 - $17,000

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 168. First Separate Map of Kansas & Nebraska Territories (1854) Est. $5,500 - $7,000

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 43. Only Macrobius Map with Britain Attached to Europe (1515) Est. $800 - $950

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 250. Rare Map of Boston and One of the Earliest Maps of the Revolutionary War (1775) Est. $2,000 - $2,300

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 79. Schenk's Uncommon Map Featuring Two Figurative Title Cartouches (1696) Est. $1,200 - $1,500

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 681. Hand-Colored Image of the Annunciation to the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950
Sotheby's Book Week
2 June - 9 July

Sotheby’s, June 25: Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations, on its 250th anniversary. $180,000 to $250,000.

Sotheby’s, June 17: Fontana, Lucio. Concetto Spaziale. 1967. Leporello en papier doré. Bel exemplaire signé. €4,000 to $€,000.

Sotheby’s, June 25: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”. $150,000 to $200,000.

Sotheby’s, June 25: Washington, George (as First President). Washington decries “an ostentatious imitation, or mimickry of Royalty” in his Presidency. $250,000 to $500,000.

Sotheby’s, June 17: Lope de Vega. Rare manuscrit autographe signé de la préface dédicatoire de "El Cardenal de Belen" (le cardinal de Bethléem), pièce composée en 1610. €40,000 to €60,000.