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	Unknown
18	Two (2) gold plaques from Ethiopia of the same provenance 1-		probably 17th or 18th century	EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
19	P. Goncalo GONZALEZ, Relatione della Religione et Stato del		17th-century (probably 1638)	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	Unknown
20	Ethiopian or Sudanese Koran, 1773		1773	EUR 20,000.00 - 25,000.00	Unknown
21	Early 19th-century Ottoman manuscript		1812	EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
22	Euchologion in Arabic	Egypt	18th century.	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
23	Greek hymnal (irmologion)	Constantinople	circa 1790.	EUR 400.00 - 800.00	Unknown
24	Two leaves from the Gospel of St. Mark in Greek	Constantinople	17th century.	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	Unknown
25	Collection of homilies with the life of Saint Basil the Grea	Russia	circa 1830.	EUR 500.00 - 800.00	Unknown
26	Gospel in Slavonic (Ievanghieliie na tsierkovno- slavianskom iazyke		circa 1838	EUR 400.00 - 700.00	Unknown
27	Irmologion	the Bogolioubovo monastery near Vladimir	1798	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
28	Christian Breviary in Arabic, 1777	Syria or Lebanon	1777	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Unknown
31	Saint Dimitri of Rostov, Spiritual Alphabet (Alfavit dukhovny		1725	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
32	The Bible (Evangeliia) in Slavonic		1624	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
33	Two illuminated pages from a Russian religious manuscript.	Russia	second half of the 18th century	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Unknown
34	Letters in Russian from 1895		1895	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	Unknown
35	[Russian Church in Harbin, China]	China	1931-1942.	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	Unknown
37	Psalterion or the Book of David's Psalms	Constantinople	1827	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	Unknown
38	The Bible in Swedish (Biblia Thet ar All then Helgha Scrifft	Uppsala	1541	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
39	La Bibbia, cioe i libri del Vecchio e del Nuovo Testamento,	Geneva	1607	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
40	La Sacra Bibbia, 1641	Geneve	1641	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
41	The Bassandyne Bible, 1576-1579	Edinburgh (Edinburgh)	1576-1579	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
42	St. Wenceslas Bible in Czech (Bibli czeska), 1715	Prague	1715	EUR 900.00 - 1,200.00	Unknown
43	Misvente Romanum, 1802	Naples	1802	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
44	Ottoman Bible, 1827	Paris	1827	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown

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Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

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