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

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 21, 2025 - December 21, 2025
Page Size: 147 items in 6 pages
Lot Number Author Name 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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