Tajan: Books, Manuscripts and Prints, 2540, Paris

Auction Details

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
51	INCUNABLE.	VERGILIUS (Polydorus). Proverbiorum libellus.			EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 3,225.00
52	JUSTINIEN.	[Oeuvres].			EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 718.00
53	LABORDE.	Choix de chansons mises en musique. Dediees a Madame la Dauphine.			EUR 500.00 - 800.00	EUR 645.00
54	MORIN (Edmond).	Les Enfants Imprudents. Illustres par Morin.			EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
55	MUSEE DANTAN.	Galerie des charges et croquis des celebrites de l'epoque, avec texte explicatif et biographique.			EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
56	NORDEN (Frederic-Louis).	Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie.			EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 784.00
57	PERRAULT (Charles).	Les Contes du temps passe.			EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 433.00
58	PIRANESI.	Descrizione e designo dell'Emissario del lago Albano.			EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 1,306.00
59	POSTE.	Etat general des postes du royaume de France, suivi de la carte geometrique des routes desservies en poste, avec designation des relais et desdistances			EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
60	RABELAIS (Francois).	Les OEuvres de M. Francois Rabelais Docteur en Medecine.			EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 65.00
61	ROMAN NOIR. - [BYRON]. - FRERE (John Hookham).	Prospectus and Specimen of an Intended National Work, by William and Robert Whistlecraft (...) relating to King Arthur and his Round Table.			EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
62	ROMAN NOIR. - GODWIN (William).	Mandeville, histoire anglaise du XVII? siecle.			EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 1,274.00
63	ROMAN NOIR. - LEWIS (M. G.).	The Monk : a romance. In three volumes.			EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 510.00
64	ROMAN NOIR. - SHELLEY (Mary Wollstonecraft).	Frankenstein : or, the modern Prometheus.			EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 6,626.00
65	ROMAN NOIR. - WOLLSTONECRAFT (Mary).	Original stories from real life ; with conversations calculated to regulate the affections and form the mind to truth and goodness.			EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 261.00
66	RONDELET (Jean).	Traite theorique et pratique de l'art de batir.			EUR 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
67	[SAMS (William)].	A tour through Paris, illustrated with seventeen colored plates accompanied with descriptive letter-press.			EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 287.00
68	THIARD de BISSY (Henri de).	Mandement et instruction pastorale de Monseigneur l'eveque de Meaux sur le jansenisme			EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
69	ART DE FRANCE.	Revue annuelle de l'art ancien et moderne, numeros 1 a 4. Paris, Pierre Beres et Andre Chastel, 1961 a 1964. 4 vol. in-folio, cartonnage editeur.	Paris,	1961 a 1964.	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 1,045.00
70	BAUDELAIRE (Charles).	Petits poemes en prose. Paris, Societe du livre d'art, 1934. In-4, broche, chemise et etui de l'editeur.	Paris,	1934	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 839.00
71	fBRAQUE. - ELGAR (Frank).	Resurrection de l'Oiseau. Paris, Maeght, 1959.	Paris,	1959	EUR 1,500.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
72	fBUFFET (Bernard).	La Passion de Christ. [Paris, Henri Creuzevault, 1954].	[Paris,	1954	EUR 700.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 894.00
73	fCASSIGNEUL (Jean-Pierre). - SAGAN (Francoise).	Toquades. Paris, Mazo Lebouc, 1991.		1991	EUR 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
74	fCHAGALL (Marc).	Dessins et lavis. Paris, Maeght editeur, 1964.	Paris,	1964	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 647.00
75	CLAUDEL (Paul).	Sainte Genevieve. Poeme.			EUR 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold

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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