De Baecque and Associes: Antiquarian and Modern Books, 167453, Lyon

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 04, 2025 - December 04, 2025

Page Size: 276 items in 12 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
51	FRANKLIN (Benjamin)	EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON ELECTRICITY MADE IN PHILADELPHIA, AMERICA.	Paris	1752	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 286.00
52	(BINDING)	POESIES SACREES de Monsieur L* F****, divisees en quatre livres. Tome 3 (By Lefranc de Pompignan).	Paris	1754	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 650.00
53	[MENON].	LA CUISINIERE BOURGEOISE, suivie de l`office, a l`usage de tous ceux qui se melent de depenses de maisons.	Brussels	1756	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	EUR 110.50
54	BARTLET (Jean)	LE GENTILHOMME MARECHAL, drawn from the English of M. Jean Bartlet... par M. Dupuy Demportes.	Paris	1756	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	EUR 117.00
55		ROYAL ALMANACH for the year 1757.	Paris	1757	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 260.00
56	MONTESQUIEU.	MONTESQUIEU. OEUVRES.	Amsterdam and Leipzig	1758	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 325.00
57	[PATTULO].	ESSAY ON LAND IMPROVEMENT.	Paris	1759	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 195.00
58	SCHINDLER (C)	L'ART D'ESSAYER LES MINES ET LES METAUX, published in German by M. Schindlers, and translated into French by the late M. Geoffroy le fils, of the Royal Academy of Sciences.	Paris	1759	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 130.00
59	DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU (Henri-Louis)	DE L'EXPLOITATION DES BOIS ou moyens de tirer un parti avantageux des coppis, demi-futaies et hautes-futaies, et d'en faire une juste estimation; avec la description des arts qui se pratiquent dans les forets.	Paris	1764	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 715.00
60	GEOFFROY (Et. Louis)	.HISTOIRE ABREGEE DES INSECTES, dans lequel ces animaux sont ranges suivant un ordre methodique.	Paris	1764	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 286.00
61		MANIFESTO of the Confederate Republic of Poland of November 15, 1769.	Sans lieu ni nom (Paris)	1770	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
62		OFFICE DE LA SEMAINE SAINTE.	Paris	1771	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 390.00
63	[MAILLY (Jean-Baptiste)].	L'ESPRIT DE LA FRONDE, ou histoire politique et militaire des troubles de France pendant la minorite de Louis XIV.	Paris, La Haye	1772, 1773	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 195.00
64	[BECKET (J.B.)	AN ESSAY ON ELECTRICITY, containing a series of experiments.	Bristol	1773	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 260.00
65		LA DEVOTION DES PREDESTINEES or the Stations of Jerusalem.	Dijon	1773	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 624.00
66	HAWKESWORTH (John)	MAPS AND FIGURES OF VOYAGES undertaken by order of his British Majesty, now reigning, to make discoveries in the southern hemisphere, and successively executed by Commodore Byron, Captain Carteret, Captain Wallis, & Captain Cook, ...	Paris	1774	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 416.00
67	[LE BERRYAIS (Rene)].	TRAITE DES JARDINS, OU LE NOUVEAU DE LA QUINTINYE, containing 1deg. The description and cultivation of fruit trees; 2deg. Vegetable plants; 3deg. Flowers; 4deg. Ornamental trees and shrubs.	Paris	1775-1785-1788-1789.	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 364.00
68	[L'EPEE (Abbe de)].	INSTITUTION DES SOURDS ET MUETS par la voie des signes methodiques. Ouvrage qui contient le projet d'une langue universelle, par l'entremise des signes naturels...	Paris	1776	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
69		ENCYCLOPEDIE OU DICTIONNAIRE RAISONNE DES SCIENCES, DES ARTS ET DES METIERS, par une societe de gens de lettres. Mis en ordre & publie par M. Diderot ; et quant a la partie mathematique, par M. D'Alembert.	Geneve et Neufchatel	1778-1781.	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 5,460.00
71	FERGUSON (Giacomo)	INTRODUZIONE ALLA ELETTRICITA, con tavole in Rame.	Firenze	1778	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 104.00
72	SIGAUD DE LA FOND (J. Aignan)	ESSAI SUR DIFFERENT ESPECES D'AIR, qu'on designe sous le nom d'air fixe, pour servir de suite et de supplement aux elemens de physique du meme auteur.	Paris	1779	EUR 200.00 - 250.00	EUR 325.00
73	(BINDING)	VARIOUS MAXIMS. (by J.J. Rousseau).	Without place	(circa 1780).	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 286.00
74	ROZIER (Abbe)	COURS COMPLET D'AGRICULTURE theorique, pratique, economique, et de medecine rurale et veterinaire. Suivi d'une methode pour etudier l'agriculture par principes ou dictionnaire universel d'agriculture.	Paris	1781-1800.	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 871.00
75		ROYAL ALMANACH for the year 1782.	Paris	(1782).	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 520.00
76	MARAT (J.-P.)	PHYSICAL RESEARCH ON ELECTRICITY...	Paris	1782	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 312.00

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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