ALDE: Fine Antiquarian Books, 110525, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 05, 2025 - November 05, 2025

Page Size: 347 items in 14 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
151	VAN LOON (Gerard).	Histoire metallique des XVII Provinces des Pays-Bas, depuis l'abdication de Charles-Quint, jusqu'a la Paix de Bade en 1716.	La Haye	1732-[1737].	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
152	VOLTAIRE.	OEdipe, tragedie.	Paris	1719	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 438.00
153	VOLTAIRE.	Zadig, ou la Destinee. Histoire orientale.	S.l.n.n. [Paris; Nancy	1748	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 1,000.00
154	VOLTAIRE.	Collection complette des oeuvres. Premiere edition.	S.l.n.n. [Geneve	1756-1757.	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
155	VOLTAIRE.	La Pucelle d'Orleans.	Paris	an III [1795].	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 813.00
156	WALLACE (Robert).	Dissertation historique et politique sur la population des anciens tems, comparee avec celle du notre, dans laquelle on prouve qu'elle a ete plus grande autrefois qu'elle ne l'est de nos jours.	Amsterdam et Paris	1769	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 188.00
157	ADANSON (Michel).	Histoire naturelle du Senegal. Coquillages. Avec la relation abregee d'un voyage fait en ce pays pendant les annees 1749-1753.	Paris	1757	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,125.00
158	ADANSON (Michel).	Familles des plantes.	Paris	1763	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 500.00
159	[AFRIQUE].	Environ 40 ouvrages du XIXe et du XXe siecle sur l'Afrique. Detail des titres : ALIS (Harry). A la conquete du tacha.	Paris	1891	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 875.00
160	AMATI (Don Giacinto).	Peregrinazioni al Gran San Bernardo. Losana, Friburgo, Ginevra con una corsa a Lione, Parigi e Londrea.	Milan	1838	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
161	ANSON (George).	Voyage autour du monde.	Amsterdam et Leipzig	1749	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 875.00
162	BABIN (Jacques-Paul).	Relation de l'etat present de la ville d'Athenes ancienne capitale de la Grece, batie depuis 3400 ans. Avec un abrege de son histoire et de ses antiquites.	Paris	1854	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
163	BUFFON (Georges-Louis Leclerc de).	Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere. Oiseaux.	Deux-Ponts	1785-1787.	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
164	BUFFON (Georges-Louis Leclerc de).	Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere.	Paris	an VIII [1799]-1808.	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 5,625.00
165	BUFFON (Georges-Louis Leclerc de).	OEuvres completes, mises en ordre et precedees d'une notice historique par A. Richard.	Paris	1827	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 813.00
166	CUVIER (Georges).	Le Regne animal distribue d'apres son organisation, pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction a l'anatomie comparee.	Paris	[1836-1849].	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
167	ENGRAMELLE (Jacques-Louis) et Jean-Jacques ERNST.	Papillons d'Europe, peints d'apres nature.	Paris	1779-1792.	EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
168	HAUY (Rene-Just).	Traite de mineralogie.	Paris	1801	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
169	HUC (Evariste-Regis).	Souvenirs d'un voyage dans la Tartarie, le Thibet et la Chine, pendant les annees 1844, 1845 et 1846.	Paris	1850	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 688.00
170	HUMBOLDT (Alexander von).	Vues des cordilleres, et monumens des peuples indigenes de l'Amerique.	Paris	s.d. [1816-1824].	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 875.00
171	JONSTON (Jan).	Historiae naturalis de quadrupedibus [-- de insectis, -- de exanguibus aquaticis, -- de avibus, -- de serpentibus, -- de piscibus et cetis].	Amsterdam		EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
172	LA PEROUSE (Jean-Francois Galaup de).	Voyage autour du monde, publie conformement au decret du 22 avril 1791, et redige par M. L.-A. Milet-Mureau.	Paris	1797	EUR 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	EUR 17,500.00
173	LANTE (Louis-Marie) et Pierre de LA MESANGERE.	Costumes des femmes de Hambourg, du Tyrol, de la Hollande, de la Suisse, de la Franconie, de l'Espagne, du royaume de Naples, etc.	Paris	1827	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 875.00
174	LESSER (Friedrich Christian).	Theologie des insectes, ou demonstration des perfections de Dieu dans tout ce qui concerne les insectes.	Paris	1745	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
175	LEVAILLANT (Francois).	Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique.	[Paris; Paris	1805-1808] ; 1824	EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	Not Sold

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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