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
26	BAUDELAIRE Charles.	Les Fleurs du mal.	Paris	1857	EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	EUR 18,750.00
27	BAUDELAIRE Charles.	Les Paradis artificiels. Opium et Haschisch.	Paris	1860	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
28	BAUDELAIRE Charles.	Les Epaves.	Amsterdam [Bruxelles]	1866	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 1,500.00
29	[BAUDELAIRE Charles]. LA FIZELIERE Albert de.	Essais de bibliographie contemporaine. I. Charles Baudelaire.	Paris	1868	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 438.00
30	BAUDELAIRE Charles.	OEuvres completes.	Paris	1868-1870	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 4,250.00
31	BAUDELAIRE Charles.	Carnet inedit de Charles Baudelaire.	Paris	1920	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
32	BERANGER Pierre-Jean de.	OEuvres completes. (2 vol. de [4]-xl-407-[1] pp. et [4]-401-[3] pp.) - Dernieres chansons de 1834 a 1851 avec une preface de l'auteur ([4]-iii-374-[2] pp.) - Ma Biographie (...) ([4]-416 pp.)	Paris	1847-1860	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 563.00
33	BERLIOZ Hector.	Voyage musical en Allemagne et en Italie. Etudes sur Beethoven, Gluck et Weber.	Paris	1844	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
34	BERTRAND Louis, dit Aloysius.	Gaspard de la nuit. Fantaisies a la maniere de Rembrandt et de Callot. Precede d'une notice par M. Sainte-Beuve.	Angers; Paris	1842	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 3,625.00
35	BONAPARTE Louis.	Essai sur la versification, par le comte de Saint-Leu.	Rome, Florence	1825, 1826	EUR 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
36	[BONAPARTE Joseph].	Moina ou la Villageoise du Mont-Cenis.	Paris	An VII (1799)	EUR 500.00 - 800.00	EUR 625.00
37	BOREL Petrus.	Champavert. Contes immoraux.	Paris	1833	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,000.00
38	[BRILLAT-SAVARIN Jean Anthelme].	Physiologie du gout, ou Meditations de gastronomie transcendante ; ouvrage theorique, historique et a l'ordre du jour, dedie aux gastronomes parisiens.	Paris	1826	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 1,375.00
39	BRUNNE Claire, Caroline Petiniaud MARBOUTY, dite.	Amour et philosophie, poesie.	Paris	1855	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
40	BUGUET Henry & Edmond BENJAMIN.	L'Univers dans Paris. Illustre par A. Choubrac.	Paris	1889	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
41	CHAMPFLEURY Jules Fleury, dit.	Les Chats. Edition de luxe. Cinquieme edition augmentee de planches en couleurs et d'eaux-fortes.	Paris	1870	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
42	CHAMPSAUR Felicien.	Lulu, roman clownesque.	Paris	1901	EUR 500.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,000.00
43	CHAMPSAUR Felicien.	[Manuscrit]. Tuer les vieux. Jouir ! Roman vache et narquois (moeurs du temps).	Paris	1925	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
44	CHARRIERE Isabelle van Zuylen, Madame de.	Lettres ecrites de Lausanne.	Geneve, Paris	1788	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 625.00
45	[CHARRIERE Isabelle van Zuylen, Madame de].	L'Abbe de la Tour. Recueil de nouvelles et autres ecrits divers.	Leipsic [Zurich]	1798-1799	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 2,125.00
46	[CHATEAUBRIAND Francois-Rene, vicomte de].	Almanach des muses 1790.	Paris	1790	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 538.00
47	CHATEAUBRIAND Francois Rene, vicomte de.	Atala.- Rene.	Paris	1805	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 625.00
48	CHATEAUBRIAND Francois Rene, vicomte de.	Les Martyrs, ou le Triomphe de la religion chretienne.	Paris	1809	EUR 500.00 - 800.00	EUR 625.00
49	CHATEAUBRIAND Francois Rene, vicomte de.	Memoires d'outre-tombe.	Bruxelles	1848-1850	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
50	CHATEAUBRIAND Francois Rene, vicomte de.	Memoires d'outre-tombe.	Paris	1849-1850	EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	EUR 8,750.00

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Swann
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.