ALDE: Original Bindings & Modern Illustrated Books, 120325, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 03, 2025 - December 03, 2025

Page Size: 300 items in 12 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
26	[BATAILLE (Georges)]	Histoire de l'OEil par Lord Auch	Paris	1928	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 6,500.00
27	JANNEAU (Guillaume)	L'Art cubiste	Paris	1929	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
28	MERIMEE (Prosper)	Carmen	Paris	1929	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 500.00
29	SCHWOB (Marcel)	Vies Imaginaires	Paris	1929	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 4,000.00
30	BRILLAT-SAVARIN (Jean-Anthelme)	Physiologie du gout	Paris	1930	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 3,625.00
31	CHATEAUBRIAND (Francois-Rene de)	Les Aventures du dernier Abencerage	Paris	1930	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 4,000.00
32	GUERIN (Maurice de)	Le Centaure et la Bacchante, poemes en prose	Paris	1931	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
33	LAUTREAMONT (Comte de)	Les Chants de Maldoror	Paris	1934	EUR 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	EUR 41,250.00
34	VERLAINE (Paul)	La Bonne chanson	Paris	1936	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 625.00
35	BAUDELAIRE (Charles)	Le Spleen de Paris	Paris	1940	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 3,750.00
36	BERTRAND Louis, dit Aloysius	Gaspard de la nuit. Fantaisies a la maniere de Rembrandt et de Callot	Paris	1943	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
37	RABELAIS (Francois)	Les Horribles et espouvantables faictz et prouesses du tres renomme Pantagruel...	Paris	s.d. [1943]	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
38	MISTRAL (Frederic)	Mireille. Poeme provencal	Cannes	1945	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
39	PAULHAN (Jean)	Braque le Patron	Paris	1945	EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	EUR 11,750.00
40	APOLLINAIRE (Guillaume)	Ombre de mon amour	Vesenaz pres Geneve	1947	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 875.00
41	LAMBRICHS (Georges)	Chaystre ou les plaisirs incommodes	Paris	1948	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
42	VOLTAIRE	La Princesse de Babylone	Paris	1948	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
43	CHAR (Rene)	Le Soleil des eaux	Paris	1949	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 6,500.00
44	RIMBAUD (Arthur)	Les Illuminations	Paris	1949	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 1,750.00
45	CHAR (Rene)	Arriere-histoire du Poeme pulverise	Paris	1953	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 2,500.00
46	CERVANTES (Miguel de)	L'Ingenieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche	Paris	1957-1960	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 1,875.00
47	ERNST (Max)	Le Poeme de la femme 100 tetes	Paris	1959	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
48		BIBLE. Biblia sacra vulgata editionis	Milan	1967-1969	EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 8,125.00
49	NOEL (Bernard) et Andre VELTER	La Chute d'Icare	Montpellier	1976	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 1,875.00
50	BUFFON (Comte de)	Des Hirondelles et de quelques oiseaux connus, meconnus, ou inconnus decrits par le Comte de Buffon et Dado	Fontfroide	1988	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 4,375.00

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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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.