Tajan: Books, Manuscripts and Prints, 2540, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 03, 2025 - December 03, 2025
Page Size: 228 items in 10 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 KESSEL (Joseph).

Afghanistan.

EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
27 KESSEL (Joseph).

Avant-propos Nagaika.

EUR 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
28 KESSEL (Joseph).

Introduction a La Muraille.

EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,312.00
29 KESSEL (Joseph).

Istrati.

EUR 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
30 KESSEL (Joseph).

Kermesse aux etoiles.

EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 399.00
31 KESSEL (Joseph).

Le grand naufrage.

EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
32 KESSEL (Joseph).

Le Jour le plus long.

EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,197.00
33 KESSEL (Joseph).

Le premier guet.

EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
34 KESSEL (Joseph).

Preface Reiner.

EUR 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
35 KESSEL (Joseph).

Tous n'etaient pas des anges. Avant-propos.

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,197.00
36 SOULAGES (Pierre).

Correspondance adressee a Gerard Guillot-Chene, conservateur du Musee d'Evreux :

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 809.00
37 DESCOURTILZ (Michel-Etienne).

Flore pittoresque et medicale des Antilles,

EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
38 PLUMIER (Pere Charles).

Description des plantes de l'Amerique.

EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 3,823.00
39 TUSSAC (Francois Richard de).

Flore des Antilles, ou Histoire generale botanique, rurale et economique des vegetaux indigenes des Antilles.

EUR 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 Not Sold
40 BUFFON.

OEuvres completes.

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 319.00
41 CARICATURES DU XIXe s. - STOP (Louis MOREL-RETZ, sous le pseudonyme).

Aventures de Mr Verdreau. Album de dessins originaux, non signes (environ 320 x 15 cm). Vers 1850. In-8 oblong, chagrin vert de l'epoque.

Vers 1850. EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 3,280.00
42 CHANTS et chansons populaires de la France.

Paris, H.-L. Delloye, 1843-1844. 3 vol. in-8, demi-chagrin rouge, dos a nerfs orne, couvertures conservees sans les dos (Rel. leg. posterieure).

1843-1844. EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
43 CHATEAUBRIAND.

Atala.

EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 104.00
44 DESCARTES.

Principia philosophiae. Amsterdam, Ludovic et Daniel Elzevier, 1656 ; titre, (18) ff., 222 pp. - Specimina philosophiae seu Dissertatio de methodo. Ibid., id., 1656 ; (8) ff., 248 pp. - Passiones animae. Ibid., id., 165

Amsterdam, 1656 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 784.00
45 DORE (Gustave).

Des-agrements d'un voyage d'agrement.

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 612.00
46 DORE (Gustave).

La Menagerie parisienne.

EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 637.00
47 DORE (Gustave).

Les differents publics de Paris.

EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 637.00
48 GAUTIER (Theophile).

Le Petit Chien de la Marquise.

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 323.00
49 GAUTIER (Theophile).

Poesies de Th. Gautier qui ne figureront pas dans ses oeuvres, precedees d'une autobiographie ornee d'un portrait singulier.

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
50 HOREAU (Hector).

Panorama d'Egypte et de Nubie avec un portrait de Mehemet-Ali.

EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 7,901.00
  • 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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