ALDE: Literary Library of an Amateur, 101525, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 15, 2025 - October 15, 2025

Page Size: 246 items in 10 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	APOLLINAIRE Guillaume.	[L'Heresiarque et Cie]. Billet manuscrit, date et signe.	Sans lieu	juillet 1910	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 625.00
2	APOLLINAIRE Guillaume.	Calligrammes. Poemes de la paix et de la guerre (1913-1916).	Paris	1918	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 3,750.00
3	APOLLINAIRE Guillaume.	Le Poete assassine.	Paris	1916	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 2,250.00
4	APOLLINAIRE Guillaume.	Les Mamelles de Tiresias. Drame surrealiste en deux actes et un prologue. Avec la musique de Germaine Albert-Birot et sept dessins hors texte de Serge Ferat.	Paris	1918	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 1,750.00
5	ASSELINEAU Charles.	Charles Baudelaire. Sa vie et son oeuvre.	Paris	1869	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 1,250.00
6	BALLANCHE Pierre Simon.	Du Sentiment considere dans ses rapports avec la litterature et les arts.	Lyon; Paris	1801	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 425.00
7	BALLANCHE Pierre Simon.	Antigone. - L'Homme sans nom.	Paris	1814-1820	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,063.00
8	BALLANCHE Pierre-Simon.	Essais de Palingenesie Sociale.	Paris	1827-1829	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 500.00
9	BALZAC Bernard-Francois.	Memoires sur plusieurs grands objets d'utilite publique.	Tours	1809	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
10	BALZAC Honore de.	Physiologie du mariage ou Meditations de philosophie eclectique sur le bonheur et le malheur conjugal publiees par un jeune celibataire.	Paris	1830	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
11	[BALZAC Honore de].	Jane la pale.	Paris	1836	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 813.00
12	BALZAC Honore de.	Histoire de la grandeur et de la decadence de Cesar Birotteau, parfumeur.	Paris	1838	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 750.00
13	BALZAC Honore de.	Le Cabinet des antiques. Scene de la vie de province.	Paris	1839	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
14	BALZAC Honore de.	Une fille d'Eve. Scene de la vie privee.	Paris	1839	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 563.00
15	BALZAC Honore de.	Le Martyr calviniste. Catherine de Medicis expliquee.	Paris	1845	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 438.00
16	BALZAC Honore de.	OEuvres completes - La Comedie humaine.	Paris	1842-1855	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 6,000.00
17	[BALZAC Honore de].- DUPUIS Charlemagne	Recueil de Poesies legeres.	Saumur	1839	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
18	[Balzac]. MOLIERE.	OEuvres completes, ornees de trente vignettes dessinees par Deveria et gravees par Thompson.	Paris	1826	EUR 500.00 - 800.00	EUR 625.00
19	BANVILLE Theodore de.	Odes funambulesques.	Alencon	1857	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 375.00
20	BANVILLE Theodore de.	Nouvelles Odes Funambulesques. Etudes Lyriques.	Paris	1869	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
21	BARBEY D'AUREVILLY Jules.	Un Pretre marie.	Paris	1865	EUR 500.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,625.00
22	BARBEY D'AUREVILLY Jules.	Poesies commentees par lui-meme.	Sans lieu [Bruxelles	1870	EUR 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
23	BARBEY D'AUREVILLY Jules.	Les Diaboliques.	Paris	1874	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 438.00
24	BARBEY D'AUREVILLY Jules.	Lea.	Evreux	1907	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 938.00
25	BARRES Maurice.	Colette Baudoche. Histoire d'une jeune fille de Metz.	Paris	1909	EUR 500.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,875.00

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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.
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.