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
45	New Testament in Persian (Farsi), 1841	Calcutta	1841	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
46	Letter from King Alfonso V, 1476		1476	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
47	[Spanish Inquisition]		1556, 1640	EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	Unknown
48	Six pages of a Portuguese antiphonary	Portugal	17th century.	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Unknown
49	P. Antonio PIMENTA, Sciographia Da nova Prostimasia celeste,	Lisbon	1665	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
51	Spanish manuscript of religious songs, 1774		1774	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	Unknown
52	French manuscript from the 18th century		1772	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
53	Compendio da Historia de Portugal		1856	EUR 500.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
54	Gaspard FOSSATI, Aya Sofia, Constantinople, as	London	1852	EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
55	Autograph of Geronimo			EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	Unknown
162	Two illuminated leaves with Armenian inscriptions, 13th cent		13th century	EUR 6,000.00 - 7,000.00	Unknown
163	Illuminated leaf from an Armenian gospel Armenia, probably 1		15th-17th century	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
164	Three leaves from an Armenian lectionary or synaxary (16th-1		16th-17th centuries)	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
165	A liturgical compilation, bringing together various prayers,		16th or 17th century.	EUR 1,800.00 - 2,500.00	Unknown
166	Illuminated leaf from an Armenian compilation (Zhoghovatsow)	Hamadan, Iran	17th century.	EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	Unknown
167	Armenian dictionary, 1706		1706	EUR 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	Unknown
168	Armenian manuscript, 1742		1742	EUR 500.00 - 800.00	Unknown
169	Manuscript collection of three theological treatises, 1779		1779	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
170	The Pastoral Staff (Ts`owp K`ahanayits`), early 19th century		early 19th century	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
171	Two patriarchal bulls of blessing known as Kondak (Kondak)		1796 and 1818-1819	EUR 600.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
172	Patriarchal bull of blessing known as Kondak (Kondak)		1866	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
173	Medical manuscript on remedies for eye diseases (late 18th -		late 18th - early 19th century	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
174	Sermons on Purgatory (late 18th - early 19th century)		(late 18th - early 19th century)	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
175	Armenian prayer scroll known as Hmayil (hmayil )	Probably Constantinople	18th century.	EUR 500.00 - 800.00	Unknown
176	Armenian prayer scroll known as Hmayil (hmayil)	Constantinople or Ottoman Armenia	18th century.	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

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.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.