OSENAT: Royalty at Versailles, 172027, VERSAILLES

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 09, 2025 - November 09, 2025

Page Size: 49 items in 2 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
9	EON Charles [ou Charlotte] de Beaumont.	Lettre autographe (minute corrigee), adressee au Comte de Vergennes.	Paris,	29 aout 1777	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 11,960.00
10	EON Charles [ou Charlotte] de Beaumont.	Lettre autographe (minute corrigee) signee en tete, adressee au baron de Bon, ministre de France a Bruxelles, ancien colonel de Dragons.	Paris,	28 octobre 1777	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 11,440.00
11	EON Charles [ou Charlotte] de Beaumont.	Lettre autographe signee (adressee a James Christie fils).	Oxford,	11 mai 1796	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 10,140.00
12	EON Charles [ou Charlotte] de Beaumont.	Reunion de 8 comptes de depenses d'habillement.	Paris et Londres,	1763-1777	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 14,950.00
13	HOMBERG Octave -- Fernand JOUSSELIN.	Le Chevalier d'Eon (1728 -- 1810) d'apres des documents inedits.	Paris,	1904	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 7,150.00
14	LUSSAN Marguerite de.	Annales galantes de la cour de Henri second.	Amsterdam,	1749	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
15	BERTIN Rose.	Facture manuscrite.	Paris,	1er avril 1786 -- 30 juillet 1787	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 16,250.00
16	[ALMANACH]	La Pythonisse de Lutece ou les secrets a demi decouverts. - Almanach orne de jolies gravures.	Paris,	Jubert, 1789	EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 6,500.00
17		GARDE-ROBE DU COMTE D'ARTOIS (Etat de la) pour l'annee 1787.		1787	EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 3,250.00
18		ECHANSONNERIE DE LA REINE. MARIE-ANTOINETTE. Brevet de pension.	Versailles,	1er janvier 1788	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
20	LOUIS XVI et MARIE-ANTOINETTE.	Testaments en lithographie.	[Paris,	1815]	EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 3,640.00
21	GILLE Philippe.	Versailles et les deux Trianons.	Tour,	1899	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 2,470.00
22	LOUIS XIV. --- BEAUVAIS (Catherine-Henriette Bellier, baronne de)	Lettre autographe signee a une altesse royale.	S.l.	n.d.	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 650.00
23		CONSTITUTIONS DES TREIZES ETATS-UNIS DE L'AMERIQUE.	Philadelphie ; et se trouve a Paris,	1783	EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 22,100.00
24	LA RUELLE (Claude).	[Pompe funebre de Charles III de Lorrain		[1611]	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 975.00
25	SALABERRY (Charles-Marie d'Irumberry de).	Ensemble de 10 manuscrits			EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 195.00
26	DE COURTILZ DE SANDRAS (Gatien)	Le Grand Alcandre			EUR 1,100.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 1,430.00
27	MONTFAUCON (Bernard de).	Les Monumens de la monarchie francoise qui comprennent l'histoire de France, avec les figures de chaque regne que l'injure des tems a epargnees.	Paris,	1730	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 2,600.00
28	MONICART (J.-B. DE)	Versailles immortalise ou les merveilles parlantes de Versailles...	Ganeau,	1720	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 1,040.00
29	Claude BASIRE (1764-1794)	Lettre autographe signee, le 29 novembre 1792 a Paris		1792	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 650.00
30	Famille D'ORLEANS	Pantheon des illustrations francaises au XIXe siecle			EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 325.00
31		Ordonnance sur l'exercice et les evolutions de la cavalerie			EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 195.00
32		LITTERATURE ANGLAISE Ensemble comprenant : -The letters and works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu	Londres,	1837	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
33	ECOLE ALLEMANDE VERS 1660	L'entree de Louis XIV et de la reine Marie-Therese d'Autriche a Paris le 26 aout 1660 apres leur mariage.			EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 221.00
34		GRAVURE ANCIENNE Portrait d'Henri IV, roi de France (1553-1610)			EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 195.00

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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.

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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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