Vermot de Pas: 500 Autographs and Small Collections, 173948, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Date
December 10, 2025 - December 10, 2025
Page Size: 383 items in 16 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
118 BENGALE - KALIGHAT SCHOOL

Original gouache and watercolor drawing depicting a mythological scene featuring a god from the Hindu Pantheon,

circa 1880 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Unknown
119 Philippe ROUART

Original graphite drawing on laid paper (23 x 31 cm),

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
120

1910 FLOODS Rare set of 54 vintage postcards on the 1910 Seine floods in the Paris suburbs,

1910 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
121

EGYPT Set of 44 antique postcards from the 1900s,

1900s EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Unknown
122

VICTOR HUGO POST MORTEM Set of 7 documents: 1deg) Commemorative brooch sold on the occasion of Victor Hugo's state funeral: gilded medal (2.2 cm dia) surmounted by 2 enamelled tricolour flags with mourning crepe

EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Unknown
123 Charles FUSTER

POETRY - Correspondence of 8 autograph letters signed,

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
124 ECOLE DES BEAUX-ARTS Years 1900

Suite of 2 large sheets of academic studies in pencil by a student of Ecole des Beaux-Arts (recto and verso): female nude and bust (48 x 63 cm)

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
125 Reine MARIE-ANTOINETTE

"Marie-Antoinette devant le cercueil du Roi Louis XVI",

EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Unknown
126

MADAGASCAR - INDOCHINA Set of 13 positive photographs on glass plates,

EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Unknown
129 Robert WEST

Original drawing executed in his own hand in gouache and watercolor,

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
131 William NOTMAN

Suite of 3 vintage prints: 1deg) Photograph in original print,

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
132 BRASSENS

"L'oeuvre poetique de Georges BRASSENS" illustrated with 24 lithographs by Pierre CADIOU,

1983 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Unknown
133 BRASSENS

"Inedits,

EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Unknown
134 PROUST - Andre or Andor SZEKELY de DOBA

Original etching from the period,

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
135

BOSTON Original anonymous watercolor on paper depicting Boston's "Trinity Church",

EUR 50.00 - 70.00 Unknown
136 Elton JOHN

Album-programme of his world tour "Wotld Tour" of 1989-1990,

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
137 Kylie MINOGUE

Deluxe album-program of her 2008 "KylieX" world tour,

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
138 Kylie MINOGUE

Deluxe album-program of her 2002 world tour "Kyliefever",

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
139 David BOWIE

Program album for his 1983 "Serious Monlight" world tour,

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
140 Nicolas VIAL

Suite of 2 original woodcuts,

EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Unknown
141 Robert FUZIER

Fort ensemble de matrices typographiques en zinc de ses dessins d'illustrations de feuilletons populaires des Annees 50,

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
142

DESIGN FORMAG 1970 Rare portable dressing table (make-up kit) produced by FORMAG circa 1970,

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
148 Jules GERVAIS-COURTELLEMONT

Original photogravure,

EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
149 Pearl BAILEY

Original photograph (fine unsigned print) which she dedicated and signed toMaurice CHEVALIER

EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
151 IMPERIAL RUSSIA

Set of5 original photographs on postcards:1 ofTsarNicolas II; 2 ofTsarina Alexandra Feodorowna; 1 of theTzarina with the Tsarevich; 1 of theTsarevich

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
  • SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
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    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.
  • Sotheby’s
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    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.
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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.
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    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.
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    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.
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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.