Christies: Rare Books and Manuscripts, 23810, Paris

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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 05, 2025 - November 05, 2025
Page Size: 200 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26

[MER DES HISTOIRES] Le premier volume de la mer des histoires

Paris [20 decembre] 1550 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 15,240.00
27 MOLINO, Giovanni (actif dans la premiere moitie du XVIIe siecle)

Dittionario della lingua italiana, turchesca raccolto da Giovanni Molino interprete con l'Indice delli vocabuli turcheschi, e breui rudimenti di letta lingua

Rome 1641 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,778.00
28 MONTAIGNE, Michel Eyquem de (1533-1592)

Essais

Bordeaux 1582 EUR 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 EUR 27,940.00
29 MORE, Thomas (1478-1535)

[UTOPIA :] De optimo reip. statu deque nova insula Utopia libellus vere aureus...

EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 EUR 57,150.00
30

OISEAUX. A Mademoiselle de Bassemont

EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 7,620.00
31 OLIVA, Giovanni Paolo (1600-1681)

Lettere di Gian Paolo Oliva Della Compagnia di Giesu

Rome 1681 EUR 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 6,096.00
32 PIC DE LA MIRANDOLE (1463-1494)

[Ioannis Pici Mirandulae Omnia Opera 1 & 2]

Venise 1498 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 17,780.00
33 PINE, John (1690-1756)

The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords: representing the several engagements between the English and Spanish fleets in the memorable year 1588

London 1739 EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
34 [RENOU, Jean Baptiste (mort en 1701)]

Nouvelle methode pour apprendre facilement les langues hebraique et chaldaique

Paris 1708 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,556.00
35 SAINT BONAVENTURE, Bonaventure de Bagnoregio dit (c. 1217-1274)

Vita del serafico S. Francesco

Venise 1598 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,905.00
36 SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514)

Liber chronicarum

Nuremberg 12 juillet 1493 EUR 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 EUR 40,640.00
37 SOLIN, Caius Julius Solinus dit (c. IIIe siecle) et Pomponius MELA (Ier siecle)

Polyhistor, rerum toto orbe memorabilium thesaurus locupletissimus...

Bale 1538 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 7,620.00
38 [TURGOT, Michel-Etienne (1690-1751)] et Louis BRETEZ (mort en 1738)

Plan de Paris, commence l'annee 1734, dessine et grave sous les ordres de Messire Michel Etienne Turgot

[Paris] 1739 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 11,430.00
39 BEARDSLEY, Aubrey Vincent (1872-1898) et Oscar WILDE (1854-1900)

Salome. A Tragedy in One Act: Translated from the French

Londres 1894 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,715.00
40 BULLER, Walter Lawry, Sir (1838-1906)

A History of the Birds of New Zealand et Supplement to the "Birds of New Zealand"

Londres [1888-1889] et [1905-1906] EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,048.00
41 CLERCQ, Louis de (1837-1901)

Ensemble des Voyage en Orient et Voyage en Espagne

S.l.n.n. 1859-1860 EUR 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 EUR 82,550.00
42

CURIOSA-CHINE. Deux albums de peintures erotiques

Chine XIXe siecle EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,540.00
43 DAUMIER, Honore (1808-1879) et Charles PHILIPON (1800-1862)

Les Robert Macaires, galerie morale des voleurs, speculateurs, dupeurs, tireurs, enfonceurs et blagueurs divers que nous rencontrons dans Paris

Paris [1836-1838] EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
44 DAVID, Armand (1826-1900) et Emile OUSTALET (1844-1905)

Les oiseaux de la Chine

Paris 1877 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,778.00
45 DUPERREY, Louis Isidore (1786-1865)

Voyage autour du monde, Execute par Ordre du Roi sur la corvette de sa Majeste la Coquille pendant les annees 1822, 1823, 1824, 1825

Paris [1826-1830] EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 33,020.00
46 ELSKAMP, Max (1862-1931)

L'Eventail japonais

S.l. [Anvers] n.d. [1886] EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 8,890.00
47

[GALERIE ROYALE DE COSTUMES] Series des costumes espagnols et portugais, mexicains, argentins et peruviens, et valaques

Paris [1842-1848] EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,016.00
48 GODMAN, Frederick Du Cane (1834-1919)

A Monograph of the Petrels (Order Tubinares)

Londres 1907-1910 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,826.00
49 GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco Jose de (1746-1828)

Los Desastres de la Guerra

[Madrid] [1863] EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 22,860.00
50 GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco Jose de (1746-1828)

Los Proverbios

Madrid 1875 EUR 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 EUR 27,940.00
  • 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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