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
26	VALMONT DE BOMARE (Jacques-Christophe).	Dictionnaire raisonne universel d'histoire naturelle, contenant l'histoire des animaux, des vegetaux et des mineraux, et celle des corps celestes, des meteores, et autres principaux phenomenes de la nature.	Paris	1768	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
27	[BOUGAINVILLE (Louis-Antoine de)].	Voyage autour du monde, par la fregate du roi La Boudeuse, et la flute L'Etoile, en 1766-1769.	Paris	1771	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 5,000.00
28	[CONDILLAC (Etienne Bonnot de)].	Essai sur l'origine des connoissances humaines.	Amsterdam	1746	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,000.00
29	DIDEROT (Denis) et Jean Le Rond D'ALEMBERT.	Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers.	Paris; et Neuchatel	1751-1765.	EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	EUR 25,000.00
30	[DIDEROT (Denis)].	[SHAFTESBURY (Anthony Ashley, comte de)]. Principes de la philosophie morale ; ou Essai de M. S*** sur le merite et la vertu. Avec Reflexions.	Amsterdam	1745	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
31	[DIDEROT (Denis)].	Les Bijoux indiscrets.	Au Monomotapa		EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 250.00
32	DIDEROT (Denis).	La Religieuse.	Paris	1797	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
33	[GALIANI (Abbe Ferdinando)].	Dialogues sur le commerce des bleds. Londres [Paris], s.n. [Merlin],		1770	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
34	[MONTESQUIEU (Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de)].	De l'esprit des loix ou du rapport que les loix doivent avoir avec la constitution de chaque gouvernement, les moeurs, le climat, la religion, le commerce, etc.	Geneve	s.d.	EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 20,625.00
35	MONTESQUIEU (Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de).	OEuvres. Nouvelle edition plus correcte et plus complette que toutes les precedentes.	Paris	1788	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
36	ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques).	Emile, ou de l'education.	La Haye	1762	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 3,875.00
37	ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques).	OEuvres completes. Nouvelle edition, classee par ordre de matieres. S.l.n.n. [Paris, Poincot],	S.l.n.n. [Paris	1788-1793.	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
38	[VOLTAIRE].	Zadig, ou la destinee. Histoire orientale. S.l.n.n. [Paris, Prault ; Nancy, Leseure],	S.l.n.n. [Paris; Nancy	1748	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 1,875.00
39	VOLTAIRE.	OEuvres completes. S.l. [Kehl],	Societe litteraire typographique		EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
40	[VOLTAIRE].	Estampes pour l'illustration des oeuvres de Voltaire, par J. Moreau le Jeune et autres artistes.	Paris et Bouillon	1778-1825.	EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 11,250.00
41	BALZAC (Honore de).	Histoire de la grandeur et de la decadence de Cesar Birotteau, parfumeur.	Paris	1838	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
42	BAUDELAIRE (Charles).	Les Fleurs du Mal.	Paris	1857	EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 16,250.00
43	BAUDELAIRE (Charles).	Les Fleurs du Mal.	Paris	1861	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 688.00
44	CHATEAUBRIAND (Francois Rene de).	Memoires d'outre-tombe.	Paris	1849-1850.	EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 14,500.00
45	CLEMENCEAU (Georges).	L'Iniquite.	Paris	1899	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 4,250.00
46	CLEMENCEAU (Georges).	Vers la reparation.	Paris	1899	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 4,375.00
47	CLEMENCEAU (Georges).	Contre la Justice.	Paris	1900	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 4,750.00
48	CROS (Charles).	Le Fleuve.	Paris	1874	EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	Not Sold
49	DUMAS (Alexandre).	Henri III et sa Cour. Drame historique en cinq actes et en prose.	Paris	1829	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
50	DUMAS (Alexandre).	Praxede, suivi de Don Martin de Freytas et Pierre-le-Cruel.	Paris	1841	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 500.00

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000

Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000

Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800

Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
Sotheby’s
Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
27 January 2026

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.

Sotheby’s
Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
27 January 2026

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.