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

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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