Christies: From the Collection of Léon Parcé, 24211, Paris

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Auction Date
November 19, 2025 - November 19, 2025
Page Size: 97 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 DION CASSIUS (vers 163 - vers 235)

Romaikon istorion eikositria biblia. Dionis Romanarum historiarum libri XXIII, a XXXVI ad LVIII usque.

Paris 1548 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,778.00
27 DONDE, Antoine

Les Figures et l'abbrege de la vie, de la mort, et des miracles de Saint Francois de Paule. [Relie avec :] Les Portraits de quelques personnes signalees en piete de l'Ordre des Minimes.

Paris 1671; 1668 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 762.00
28 DU VERGER DE HAURANNE, abbe de saint-Cyran, Jean (1581-1643)

Lettres chrestiennes et spirituelles.

Paris 1645-1647. EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 1,206.00
29 ESPRIT FLECHIER, Valentin (1632-1710)

Histoire du Cardinal Ximenes.

Paris 1693 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
30 FERMAT, Pierre de (1601-1665)

Varia opera matematica.

Toulouse 1679 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 82,550.00
31 GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642)

Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche, intorno a due nuove scienze attenenti alla mecanica & i movimenti locali.

Leyde 1638 EUR 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 EUR 139,700.00
32 GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642), Johannes KEPLER (1571-1630) et Paolo Antonio FOSCARINI (1565-1616)

Systema cosmicum: in quo dialogis iv. de duobus maximis mundi systematibus, Ptolemaico & Copernicano, rationibus utrinque propositis indefinite disseritur.

Lyon 1641 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 9,525.00
33 GILLES, Nicole (1420-1503)

Les treselegantes & copieuses Annales, des tres chrestiens et excellens moderateurs des belliqueuses Gaules.

Paris 1547 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,524.00
34 GLISSENTI, Fabio (1542-1615)

Discorsi morali dell'eccellente s. Fabio Glissenti, contra il dispiacer del morire...

Venise 1596 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 6,604.00
35 DELACROIX, Eugene (1798-1863) et Johann Wolfgang von GOETHE (1749-1832)

Faust, tragedie, traduite en francais par Albert Stapfer.

Paris 1828 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,794.00
36 GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco Jose de (1746-1828)

[Los Caprichos.

Madrid 1855 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 20,320.00
37 GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco Jose de (1746-1828)

Coleccion de las diferentes suertes y actitudes del arte de lidiar los toros.

Madrid 1855 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 20,320.00
38 GREBAN, Simon (actif au milieu du XVe siecle) et Louis CHOCQUET

Le premier (-second) volume des Catholicques oeuvres et actes des apostres... [Relie avec:] L'Apocalypse Sainct Jehan...

Paris 1541 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
39 HEURES IMPRIMEES

[HORAE Beatae Mariae Virginis.] Ad usum Romane curie.

[Paris vers 1488-1492 (almanach pour 1488-1508)]. EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 10,795.00
40 [HOLBEIN, Hans dit le Jeune (1497-1543)]

Les simulachres & historiees faces de la mort, autant elegamme[n]t pourtraictes, que artificiellement imaginees.

Lyon 1538 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 40,640.00
41 HUYGENS, Christiaan (1629-1695)

Traite de la lumiere...

Leide 1690 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 48,260.00
42 KEPLER, Johannes (1571-1630)

De Cometis libelli tres I. astronomicus, theoremata continens de motu cometarum ubi demonstratio apparentiarum et altitudinis cometarum qui annis 1607 et 1618 conspecti sunt... II. physicus continens physiologiam cometarum... III. astrologicus de signific

Augsbourg 1619-1620. EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 15,240.00
43 HUYSMANS, Joris-Karl (1848-1907)

A rebours.

Paris 1884 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,080.00
44 LA FONTAINE, Jean de (1621-1695)

Fables nouvelles, et autres poesies.

Paris 1671 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,016.00
45 LA FONTAINE, Jean de (1621-1695)

Fables choisies, mises en vers.

Paris 1678 [1678-1679-1692-1694]. EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 8,255.00
46 LA FONTAINE, Jean de (1621-1695)

Fables choisies mises en vers.

Paris 1765-1775. EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 19,050.00
47 LEGRAND, Louis (1863-1951)

Le Livre d'heures de Louis Legrand.

Paris 1898 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,302.00
48 LEMAIRE DE BELGES, Jean (1473-1524)

Les illustrations de Gaule et singularitez de Troye, par maistre Jean Lemaire de Belges. Avec la Couronne Margaritique, & plusieurs autres oeuvres de lui, non jamais encore imprimees.

Lyon 1549 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,524.00
49 LEPAUTRE, Jean (1618-1682), Gabriel PERELLE (1604-1677) et d'autres

Recueil composite de 208 planches d'architecture.

Paris [v. 1670-1690]. EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,810.00
50 LOPEZ DE HARO, Alonso (mort en 1632)

Nobiliario genealogico de los reyes y titulos de Espana [Relie avec Segunda parte...].

Madrid 1622 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 7,620.00
  • SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
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    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.
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    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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    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.
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    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.
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    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.