ALDE: A few books from the library of a great enthusiast and various others, 121025, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 10, 2025 - December 10, 2025

Page Size: 77 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	BUFFON (Georges-Louis Leclerc de).	Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere. Nouvelle edition, accompagnee de notes.	Paris	an VII [1799]-1808.	EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	Unknown
2	BUFFON (Georges-Louis Leclerc de).	OEuvres completes, mises en ordre par M. le comte de Lacepede. Seconde edition.	Paris	1819-1822.	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Unknown
3	CABINET DES FEES (Le),	ou Collection choisie de contes de fees, et autres contes merveilleux. Amsterdam [puis] Geneve, Barde, Manget & Cie, et Paris, rue et hotel Serpente,		1785-1789.	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
4	CASAS (Bartolome de las).	La Decouverte des Indes occidentales par les Espagnols.	Paris	1697	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	Unknown
5	CORNEILLE (Pierre).	Theatre choisi.	Paris	1783	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Unknown
6	[COURTILZ DE SANDRAS (Gatien de)].	Memoires de M. d'Artagnan, capitaine-lieutenant de la premiere compagnie des mousquetaires du roi, contenant quantite de choses particulieres et secrettes qui se sont passees sous le regne de Louis le Grand.	Cologne	1700-1701.	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Unknown
7	HISTOIRE UNIVERSELLE,	depuis le commencement du monde jusqu'a present. Amsterdam et Leipziz, Arkstee & Merkus puis	Paris	1747-1802.	EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	Unknown
8	JOINVILLE (Jean de).	Histoire et cronique du tres-chrestien roy sainct Loys, IX. du nom.	Paris	1609	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	Unknown
9	LA FONTAINE (Jean de).	Fables choisies.	Paris	1755-1759.	EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	Unknown
10	[LACLOS (Pierre Choderlos de)].	Les Liaisons dangereuses. Lettres recueillies dans une societe, et publiees pour l'instruction de quelques autres. Londres, [Paris], s.n.,	Londres, [Paris]	1796	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
11	LEIBNIZ (Gottfried Wilhelm).	OEuvres philosophiques latines et francoises.	Amsterdam et Leipzig [Hanovre	1765, [1764].	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Unknown
12	LESAGE (Alain-Rene).	Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane.	Paris	an III [1795].	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
13	LUTHER (Martin).	Geistliches neuvermehrtes Altenburgisches Gesang- und Gebetbuch. -- Des Konigs und Propheten Davids Psalter.	Altenburg		EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
14	[MARIE-ANTOINETTE]. SONNENFELS (Josef von).	Premier discours prononce apres la mort de Marie-Therese, traduit de l'original allemand par M. de Rivals.	La Haye et Paris	1781	EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	Unknown
15	MOLIERE.	Le Mariage force. Paris, [Claude Blageart pour]	Paris	1668	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
16	MOLIERE.	OEuvres. Nouvelle edition. Paris, [Pierre Prault],	Paris	1734	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
17	MOLIERE.	OEuvres.	Paris	1791	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Unknown
18	MONCRIF (Francois-Augustin Paradis de).	Essai sur la necessite et les moyens de plaire.	Paris	1738	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Unknown
19	OFFICE DE LA QUINZAINE DE PASQUE,	latin-francois, a l'usage de Rome et de Paris, pour la Maison de Mgr le duc d'Orleans.	Paris	1745	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	Unknown
20	[PLAN DE TURGOT]. BRETEZ (Louis).	Plan de Paris commence l'annee 1734. [Paris, 1739].	[Paris	1739].	EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	Unknown
21	RABELAIS (Francois).	OEuvres, avec des remarques historiques et critiques de Mr Le Duchat. Nouvelle edition.	Amsterdam	1741	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
22	RACINE (Jean).	OEuvres.	Paris	1783	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Unknown
23	RETZ (Cardinal de).	Memoires, contenant ce qui s'est passe de remarquable en France pendant les premieres annees du regne de Louis XIV. Amsterdam, J.-F. Bernard, 1731. 4 vol. -- JOLY (Guy). Memoires. Ibid., 1738-1739. 2 vol. -- NEMOURS (Marie de). Memoires. Ibid., 1738. 1 vo	Amsterdam	1731, 1738.	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
24	SEVIGNE (Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de).	Lettres a sa fille et a ses amis.	Paris	1806	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
25	SUETONE.	Caius Suetonius Tranquillus cum annotationibus diversorum.	Amsterdam	1650	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	Unknown

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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.

Swann
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.

Swann
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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.
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: 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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Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

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.