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
126	LAMARTINE Alphonse de.	Toussaint Louverture, poeme dramatique.	Paris	1850	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
127	LAMENNAIS Felicite-Robert de.	Paroles d'un Croyant. Epreuves corrigees.	[Paris	1833-1834]	EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00	EUR 1,875.00
128	[LAPORTE Antoine].	La Flore pornographique. Glossaire de l'ecole Naturaliste, extrait des oeuvres de M. Emile Zola et de ses disciples.	Paris	1883	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 500.00
129	LECONTE DE LISLE Charles-Marie.	Poesies barbares.	Paris	1862	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 250.00
130	LORENTZ Alcide-Joseph.	Fiasque melee d'allegories. Illustre illustration d'illustres illustralises, illustree par un illustrissime illustrateur illustrement inillustre.	Paris	1840	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 750.00
131	LORENTZ Alcide-Joseph.	Polichinel [Louis-Philippe], ex-roi des Marionnettes devenu philosophe.	Paris	1848	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 375.00
132	LOTI Pierre et Samuel VIAUD.	Supremes visions d'Orient. Fragment de journal intime.	Paris	1921	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 625.00
133	LOUYS Pierre.	Nini rentre a 9h20. Poeme erotique autographe.	Sans lieu ni date,		EUR 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
134	LOUYS Pierre.	Trois filles de leur mere.		(1926]	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
135	LOUYS Pierre -- Georges GRELLET.	Les Chansons de Bilitis. Vingt-cinq d'entre elles ecrites et illustrees par Georges Grellet.	[Sans lieu	vers 1940]	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 2,500.00
136	[MACHART Edme Firmin Auguste].	Descarnado, ou Paris a vol de diable, par F. Darsigny.	Paris	1837	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
137	MAISTRE Joseph de.	Considerations sur la France.	Londres [Bale]	1797	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
138	MALLARME Stephane.	La Derniere mode. Gazette du monde et de la famille.	Paris	1874	EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	Not Sold
139	MALLARME Stephane et Emile VERHAEREN.	Correspondance autographe relative au monument en hommage a Verlaine. Lettre autographe signee de Verhaeren a Stephane Mallarme.	[Bruxelles]	11 decembre 1897	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 1,125.00
140	MATURIN Charles Robert.	Bertram, ou le Chateau de St-Aldobrand. Tragedie en cinq actes.	Paris	1821	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
141	MAUPASSANT Guy de.	Mlle Fifi.	Bruxelles	1882	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
142	MAUPASSANT Guy de.	Bel-Ami.	Paris	1885	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 4,125.00
143	MAUPASSANT Guy de.	La Petite Roque.	Paris	1886	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 1,125.00
144	MAUPASSANT Guy de.	Notre coeur.	Paris	1890	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 750.00
145	MAUPASSANT Guy de.	Les Dimanches d'un Bourgeois de Paris.	Paris	1904	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 375.00
146	MERIMEE Prosper.	La Jaquerie, scenes feodales, suivies de La famille de Carvajal, drame. Par l'auteur du Theatre de Clara Gazul.	Paris	1828	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
147	MERIMEE Prosper.	La Double meprise. Par l'auteur du Theatre de Clara Gazul.	Paris	1833	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
148	MERIMEE Prosper.	Colomba.	Paris	1841	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,000.00
149	MERIMEE Prosper.	Essai sur la guerre sociale.	Paris	1841	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 750.00
150	MERIMEE Prosper.	La Chambre bleue. Nouvelle dediee a Madame de la Rhune.	Bruxelles	1872	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 375.00

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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.