Vermot de Pas: Ana And James Melikian Collection, Part I: Armenia, Ethiopia, Greece, Russia, 171319, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 21, 2025 - December 21, 2025

Page Size: 147 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
11	Ethiopian prayer book Manuscript on parchment with 5 full-pa	Ethiopia	late 19th - early 20th century.	EUR 500.00 - 800.00	EUR 945.00
18	Two (2) gold plaques from Ethiopia of the same provenance 1-		probably 17th or 18th century	EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
19	P. Goncalo GONZALEZ, Relatione della Religione et Stato del		17th-century (probably 1638)	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
20	Ethiopian or Sudanese Koran, 1773		1773	EUR 20,000.00 - 25,000.00	Not Sold
21	Early 19th-century Ottoman manuscript		1812	EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
22	Euchologion in Arabic	Egypt	18th century.	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
23	Greek hymnal (irmologion)	Constantinople	circa 1790.	EUR 400.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
24	Two leaves from the Gospel of St. Mark in Greek	Constantinople	17th century.	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
25	Collection of homilies with the life of Saint Basil the Grea	Russia	circa 1830.	EUR 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
26	Gospel in Slavonic (Ievanghieliie na tsierkovno- slavianskom iazyke		circa 1838	EUR 400.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
27	Irmologion	the Bogolioubovo monastery near Vladimir	1798	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
28	Christian Breviary in Arabic, 1777	Syria or Lebanon	1777	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
31	Saint Dimitri of Rostov, Spiritual Alphabet (Alfavit dukhovny		1725	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 1,134.00
32	The Bible (Evangeliia) in Slavonic		1624	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 5,166.00
33	Two illuminated pages from a Russian religious manuscript.	Russia	second half of the 18th century	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 1,197.00
34	Letters in Russian from 1895		1895	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
35	[Russian Church in Harbin, China]	China	1931-1942.	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 315.00
37	Psalterion or the Book of David's Psalms	Constantinople	1827	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
38	The Bible in Swedish (Biblia Thet ar All then Helgha Scrifft	Uppsala	1541	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 2,016.00
39	La Bibbia, cioe i libri del Vecchio e del Nuovo Testamento,	Geneva	1607	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 2,444.40
40	La Sacra Bibbia, 1641	Geneve	1641	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
41	The Bassandyne Bible, 1576-1579	Edinburgh (Edinburgh)	1576-1579	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
42	St. Wenceslas Bible in Czech (Bibli czeska), 1715	Prague	1715	EUR 900.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
43	Misvente Romanum, 1802	Naples	1802	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
44	Ottoman Bible, 1827	Paris	1827	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 1,890.00

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Koller, Mar. 25: KAFKA, FRANZ, SCHRIFTSTELLER. Eigenh. Brief mit Unterschrift. Prag, 20. Oktober [19]15. CHF 30,000-40,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Zwei eigenhändige Briefe an Ernst Gabor Straus, unterschrieben "A.E" bzw. "A. Einstein". [Princeton], [19]45. und [1950]. CHF 30,000-40,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: HORTENSE DE BEAUHARNAIS, MUTTER VON NAPOLEON III. Album aus ihrem Besitz mit 69 Aquarellen und Pinselzeichnungen in Sepia oder Grau… CHF 14,000-18,000.

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Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

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Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

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Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

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Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

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