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
202	The Four Gospels (Awetaran), 1685-1686	Venice	1685-1686.	EUR 3,500.00 - 4,500.00	Unknown
203	Missel pour le Saint Sacrifice (Khorhrdatetr), 1686	Venice	1686	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	Unknown
204	Missel pour le Saint Sacrifice (Khorhrdatetr), 1686	Venice	1686	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
205	Lectionary (Chashots`), 1686	Venice	1686-1688.	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Unknown
206	Lectionary (Chashots`), 1686	Venice	1686-1688.	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
207	Lectionary (Chashots`), 1686	Venice	1686-1688.	EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	Unknown
208	John of Constantinople (Yovhannes Kostandnowpolsets`i), Commen	Venice	1687	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
209	John of Constantinople (Yovhannes Kostandnowpolsets`i), Commen	Venice	1687	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
210	New Testament (Awetaran), 1668	Amsterdam	1668	EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	Unknown
211	Armenian Hymnary (Charagan, Sharaknots`), 1692	Amsterdam	1692	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
212	Moses of Khorene (Movses Khorenats`i), History of the Armenians	Amsterdam	1695	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Unknown
213	Moses of Khorene (Movses Khorenats`i), History of the Armenians	Amsterdam	1695	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
214	Khatchadour Arakelian (Khach`atowr Erzrowmets`i Arhak`elean), A Bri	Constantinople	1700-1701.	EUR 500.00 - 800.00	Unknown
215	Theophilus (T`eop`ilos), 1701	Livorno	1701	EUR 900.00 - 1,400.00	Unknown
216	Bible (Astowatsashownch`), 1705	Constantinople	1705	EUR 7,000.00 - 9,000.00	Unknown
217	Life of the Saints or Synaxary (Yaysmawowrk`), 1706	Constantinople	1706	EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	Unknown
218	Agathange (Agat`angeghos)	Constantinole	1709-1710.	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Unknown
219	Jacques Villotte, Dictionarium novum latino-armenium (Barhgir	Rome	1714	EUR 900.00 - 1,200.00	Unknown
220	Book called Collection (Zhoghovatsow girk`), 1717-1718	Constantinople	1166 (1717-1718).	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
221	Laurentius Stierner, Dissertatio academica de hodierno statu	Uppsala e(Sweden)		EUR 250.00 - 350.00	Unknown
222	Misvente sacri ordinis praedicatorum (Khorhrdatetr), 1728	Rome	1728	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	Unknown
223	Synaxary (Yaysmawowrk`), 1730	Constantinople	1730-1731.	EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	Unknown
224	The Bible (Astowatsashownch`), 1733	Venice	1733	EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	Unknown
225	The Bible (Astowatsashownch`), 1733	Venice	1733	EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	Unknown
226	Abbe Mekhitar de Sebaste (Mkhit`ar Sebastats`i), Commentary on t	Printed in Venice by Antonio Bortoli	1737	EUR 250.00 - 450.00	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.