Sothebys: The Library of Jean-Paul Morin/Never Lost at Sea, pf2585, Paris

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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 20, 2025 - November 20, 2025
Page Size: 160 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 [Davity, Pierre]

Nouveau theatre du monde concernant les Estats, empires, royaumes, et principautez...

Paris 1660-1661 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 3,048.00
102 [Gargot, Nicolas] - Pierre Groyer

Memoires de la vie et des aventures de Nicolas Gargot, Capitaine de la Marine

[La Rochelle ?] [1668] EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 9,525.00
103 Dralse de Grand-Pierre

Relation de divers voyages faits dans l'Afrique, dans l'Amerique, & aux Indes occidentales

Paris 1718 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
104

[Compagnie des Indes] Traite du commerce de la Compagnie francoise des Indes

[Vers 1724] EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 16,510.00
105 Gemelli Careri, Giovanni Francisco

Voyage du tour du monde

Paris 1727 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,016.00
106 Lebreton, Francois

Manuel de botanique, a l'usage des amateurs et des voyageurs

Paris 1787 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,413.00
107 Vancouver, George

Voyage de decouvertes, a l'ocean Pacifique du Nord, et autour du monde

Paris An VIII [1800] EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
108 Thevenard, Antoine-Jean-Marie

Memoires relatifs a la marine

Paris 1800 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 635.00
109 Audebert, Jean-Baptiste - Louis-Pierre Vieillot

Oiseaux dores ou a reflets metalliques

Paris 1801-1802 EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 Not Sold
110 [Anonyme]

Moeurs et coutumes des peuples, ou Collection de tableaux representant les usages remarquables [...] des diverses nations du monde

Paris 1811-1814 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,048.00
111 Maldonado, Lorenzo Ferrer

Voyage de la Mer Atlantique a l'Ocean Pacifique par le Nord-Ouest dans la mer glaciale

Plaisance 1812 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,778.00
112 Engelmann, Godefroy - G. Berger

Porte-feuille geographique et ethnographique

Mulhouse-Paris 1816-1820 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,810.00
113 Arago, Jacques

[Promenade autour du monde sur les corvettes du roi l'Uranie et la Physicienne]

Paris 1822 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,651.00
114 Roquefeuil, Camille de

Journal d'un voyage autour du monde, pendant les annees 1816, 1817, 1818 et 1819

Paris 1823 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
115 Charles-Alfred Dutuit

[Marine] - Campagne en Espagne, Portugal et aux cotes d'Afrique...

1823-1824 et 1826 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 1,270.00
116 Lesson, Rene Primevere

Voyage medical autour du monde sur La Coquille de 1822 a 1825...

Paris 1829 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,143.00
117 Dumont d'Urville, Jules Sebastien Cesar

4 lettres autographes signees a Francois Mongin de Montrol, notes et manuscrits

Juin -- septembre 1837 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,334.00
118 Paris, Francois-Edmond -- Casimir Henricy

Album pittoresque d'un voyage autour du monde

Paris [vers 1840] EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 1,270.00
119 Sainte-Claire Deville, Charles

Voyage geologique aux Antilles et aux iles de Teneriffe et de Fogo

Paris [1848-1860] EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,032.00
120 Leconte, Francois

Memoires pittoresques d'un officier de marine

Brest et Paris 1851 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 889.00
121 Arias Montanus, Benedictus

Antiquitatum iudicarum libri IX...

Leyde 1593 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 4,826.00
122 Bricaire de la Dixmerie, Nicolas

Le sauvage de Taiti aux Francais

Londres 1770 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 889.00
123

[Taitbout] Essai sur l'isle d'Otahiti, situee dans la mer du Sud, et sur l'esprit et les moeurs de ses habitants

Avignon et se trouve a Paris 1779 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 762.00
124 Fleurieu, Charles-Pierre Claret d'Eveux, comte de

Decouvertes des Francois en 1768 et 1769, dans le sud-est de la Nouvelle Guinee...

Paris 1790 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 635.00
125 Francois-Pascal Delattre

[La Perouse] - Rapport sur la recherche a faire de M. de La Perouse fait a l'Assemblee nationale...

Paris 1791 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 889.00
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