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Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 20, 2025 - November 20, 2025
Page Size: 383 items in 16 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
251 Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques-Henri

Paul et Virginie

Paris 1838 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
252 Cortes, Ferdinand

Die Eroberung Mexikos von Ferdinand Cortes mit 112 federlithographien von Max Slevogt

Berlin 1918 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
253 Davillier, Baron Jean Charles

L'Espagne par le Baron Ch. Davillier illustree de 309 gravures dessinees sur bois par Gustave Dore

Paris 1874 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
254

Two Elzevir duodecimos

Leiden, Amsterdam 1641-1671 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
255 (Gray, Thomas)

An Elegy in a Country Churchyard

Boston [1883] USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
256 Hope, Laurence

The Garden of Kama and other Love Lyrics from India

London 1902 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
257 Kugler, Francis

History of Frederick the Great

London n.d. USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
258 Lemonnier, Camille

La Belgique

Paris 1888 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
259 Mery, Francois Joseph Pierre Andre and Le Comte Foelix

Les Etoiles Derniere feerie par J.-J. Grandville, texte par Mery, Astronomie des dames par les Comte Foelix

Paris [1849] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
260 Mery, Francois Joseph Pierre Andre and Le Comte Foelix

Perles et parures: Les Parures Fantaisie par Gavarni, texte par Mery, histoire de la mode par Le Cte Foelix [with] Les Joyaux Fantaisie par Gavarni, texte par Mery, mineralogie des dames par Le Cte Foelix

Paris [1850] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
261 Moring, Michel

Album du Jeune Voyageur

Paris [1853] USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
262 D'Houville, Gerard

Le Diademe de Flore

Paris 1928 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
263 Picard, le Commandant [Louis-Auguste]

L'Armee en France et a l'Etranger

Tours 1897 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
264

Annales Romantiques. Recueil de Morceaux Choisis de Litterature Contemporaine

Paris 1831 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
265 [Puckle, James]

The Club: In a Dialogue Between Father and Son

London [1897] USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
266 Retz, Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de

Memoires du Cardinal de Retz

Paris [c.1880s] USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
267 Riva Palacio, Vicente and Juan de Dios Peza

Tradiciones y Leyendas Mexicanas: por Vicente Riva Palacio y Juan de Dios Peza

Mexico City c. 1885 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
268 Elliot, Frances

Old Court Life in France

New York - London [1927] USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
269 Schmidt, Friedrich von

Konig Wilhelm von Wurttemberg in seinen landlichen Beschaftigungen. Mit Illustrationen in Farblithographie und Holzschnitt nach Julius Schnorr und dem Tiermaler Anton Braith, unter technischer und kunstlerischer Leitung des Ersteren

Stuttgart 1865 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
270 Schoenhaupt, Louis, illustrator

Gedenktafeln des Christlichen Glaubens [Album of the Christian Faith]

Strasburg [1867] USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
271 Swift, Jonathan

Gulliver's Travels

London; New York; Toronto [c. 1900] USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
272 Jackson, Joseph Henry, editor

San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Committee on Permanent Headquarters United Nations Organization [with] Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations

San Francisco [1945] USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
273 Uzanne, Octave

La Francois du Siecle

Paris 1886 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
274 Uzanne, Octave

Son Altesse la Femme

Paris 1885 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
275 Andrews, Thomas A.

Two titles by Thomas Andrews

1992, 2001 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
  • 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.
  • 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.
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