OSENAT: Books and Manuscripts, 160548, PARIS

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 15, 2025 - October 15, 2025
Page Size: 269 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 GRIS (Jose Victoriano Gonzales, known as Juan) .

Autograph letter signed to painter and engraver Demetrius Galanis.

Les Fourneaux a Beaulieu-les-Loches (Indre-et-Loire) 1920 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 780.00
27 MAGRITTE (Rene) .

Autograph letter signed with his initials to his "dear friend".

Brussels 1962 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 1,430.00
28 MONET (Claude) .

Autograph letter signed "Claude Monet" [to Georges Clemenceau].

Giverny (Eure) 1912 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 14,300.00
29 [MONET (Claude)] . - GUITRY (Sacha) .

2 autograph letters signed to Claude Monet.

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 2,080.00
30 PICASSO (Pablo) .

Autograph letter signed "Picasso" to his maid Ines Sassier.

Cannes [according to postmark] 1863 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,210.00
31 PISSARRO (Camille) .

Autograph letter signed to his wife Julie Vellay.

Paris 1901 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 585.00
32 QUENEDEY (Edme) .

Autograph letter signed to the mayor of the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, Jean-Rodolphe Quatrefages de La Roquette.

Paris 1806 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 65.00
33 RENOIR (Auguste) .

Autograph letter signed "Renoir" to his "dear friend".

Louveciennes July 21 [1895] EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 1,755.00
34 RODIN (Auguste) .

Autograph letter signed to Pierre Louys.

S.l.n.d . EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 1,105.00
35 RODIN (Auguste) .

Signed letter to Frantz Jourdain.

Paris (at his address on rue de Varenne) 1912 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 364.00
36 SISLEY (Alfred) .

Autograph letter signed "A. Sisley" to physician and collector Georges de Bellio.

S.l.n.d . EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 520.00
37 VLAMINCK (Maurice de) .

Autograph letter signed "Vlaminck" to a "Dear Sir".

La Tourilliere a Rueil-La-Gadeliee (Eure-et-Loir) EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 208.00
38

BEAUX ARTS. - Set of fifteen stamp plates and thirty cards and first-day covers, all signed by the artists who illustrated the stamps.

EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,690.00
39 ABOUKIR . - BRUEYS D'AIGALIERS (Joseph-Henri de) .

Autograph letter signed to Jean-Baptiste de Charrier-Moissard.

Tresques [in the Gard department] an VII 1798 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 195.00
40 ABRANTES (Laure Permon, wife of Junot, Duchess of) .

Autograph letter signed to a duke.

S.l. 1831 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 65.00
41

ANCIEN REGIME, mainly. - Set of around 180 printed documents. Beautiful set documenting various aspects of the Ancien Regime and its provinces, through its legislation: letters patent, edicts, declarations, as well as Conseil d'Etat rulings, parliamentary

EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 390.00
42 BLUM (Leon) .

Signed letter to the left-wing pacifist journalist and writer Georges Pioch.

Paris 1945 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 156.00
43 BONAPARTE (Joseph) .

Autograph draft of a letter to Marshal Bertrand Clauzel.

London 1840 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 494.00
44 BOUGAINVILLE (Louis-Antoine de) .

Autograph letter signed to Athanase-Louis-Marie Clement de Ris.

S.l. EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 260.00
45 CAMPAIGN OF EGYPT . - Charrier-Moissard (Jean-Baptiste-Lacroix de) .

Autograph letter signed "Ch." to his brother the Marquis Jean-Baptiste de Charrier-Moissard

Port vieux d'Alexandrie a bord du chebeck de la Republique Good Union 1801 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 195.00
46 LAVOLLE .

Autograph letter signed to his parents in Bracieux [near Blois], Loir-et-Cher.

Gratz [in southeastern Austria] EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 260.00
47 PASSY (Hippolyte) .

Autograph letter signed to his mother Jacquette Daure in Brussels.

Konigsberg [now Kaliningrad in Russia] . EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 234.00
48 CATHERINE DE MEDICIS .

Autograph letter signed "Caterine" to the French ambassador to Spain, Raymond de Beccarie, sieur de Fourquevaux.

Lyons-la-Foret [in today's Eure departement] 1571 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 3,640.00
49 CAULAINCOURT (Armand-Louis-Augustin de) .

Autograph letter signed to Ange d'Esterno.

Mojaisk September 5 [1812] EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 910.00
50 CHARLES X (Charles-Philippe de Bourbon, comte d'Artois and future king) .

Signed "Charles-Philippe" as Colonel General of the Swiss and Grisons, countersigned by Philippe-Frederic de Dietrich as Secretary General of the Swiss and Grisons.

Versailles 1781 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 156.00
  • 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.
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  • 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.