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

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Auction Report
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
51 FLAUBERT (Gustave)

Madame Bovary.

Paris 1857 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,250.00
52 FLAUBERT (Gustave).

Salammbo.

Paris 1863 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 500.00
53 FLAUBERT (Gustave).

Bouvard et Pecuchet.

Paris 1881 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
54 LAUTREAMONT.

Les Chants de Maldoror.

Paris et Bruxelles 1874 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
55 MAUPASSANT (Guy de).

OEuvres completes.

Paris 1908-1910. EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,375.00
56 MIRBEAU (Octave).

Dingo.

Paris 1913 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
57 PROUST (Marcel).

A la recherche du temps perdu. Paris, Bernard Grasset [puis]

Editions de la Nouvelle Revue francaise EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 22,500.00
58 STENDHAL.

Memoires d'un touriste. Paris, Michel Levy, 1854. 2 vol. -- Promenades dans Rome. Ibid., 1858. 2 vol. -- Rome, Naples et Florence.

Paris 1854 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,250.00
59 VERLAINE (Paul).

Femmes. Imprime << sous le manteau >> et ne se vend nulle part [Bruxelles, Henry Kistemaeckers],

[Bruxelles 1890 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
60 ZOLA (Emile).

Les Rougon-Macquart.

Paris 1871-1893. EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 56,250.00
61 ZOLA (Emile).

L'Assommoir.

Paris 1877 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,500.00
62 ZOLA (Emile).

L'Argent.

Paris 1891 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,250.00
63 ZOLA (Emile).

L'Affaire Dreyfus. La Verite en marche.

Paris 1901 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,500.00
64 ZOLA (Emile).

Verite.

Paris 1903 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 525.00
65 BALZAC (Honore de).

OEuvres completes.

Paris 1912-1940. EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
66 [BALZAC (Honore de)].

MAUROIS (Andre). Promethee, ou la vie de Balzac.

Paris 1965 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 188.00
67 BOCCACE.

Les Dix journees.

Paris 1873 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
68 BOILEAU (Nicolas).

OEuvres.

Amsterdam 1772 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
69 BONNARDOT (Alfred).

Des petits chiens des dames, specialement de l'epagneul nain.

Paris 1856 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 125.00
70 BRILLAT-SAVARIN (Jean-Anthelme).

Physiologie du gout.

Paris 1864 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
71 DULAURE (Jacques-Antoine).

Histoire physique, civique et morale de Paris, depuis les premiers temps historiques jusqu'a nos jours.

Paris 1821-1825. EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
72 FLAVIUS JOSEPHE.

Histoire des Juifs.

Paris 1744 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
73 FREDERIC II DE PRUSSE.

OEuvres posthumes. Amsterdam, s.n.,

Amsterdam 1789 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
74 GRANDVILLE (Jean-Jacques).

Vie privee et publique des animaux.

Paris 1880 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
75 [JAUFFRET (Louis-Francois)].

Le Panier de fruits, ou descriptions botaniques et notices historiques des principaux fruits cultives en France.

Paris 1807 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 250.00
  • 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.
  • 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