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
227	Baghdassar Dpir, Armenian Grammar (K`erakanowt`iwn), 1736-1738	Constantinople	1736-1738.	EUR 700.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
228	Abbe Mekhitar de Sebaste (Mkhit`ar Sebastats`i), Dictionnaire de		1749	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Unknown
229	Reunion of 3 engraved maps, 1749	Venice	1749	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
230	P. Carlo Risoli, The Eternal Truth (Chshmartowt`iwn yawitenakan	Venice	1750	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	Unknown
231	Saint James of Nisibe (Yakob Mtsbnats`i), Sermons (Charhk`), 1756	Rome	1756	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
232	The Four Gospels (Awetaran), 1759	Venice	1759	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
233	The Four Gospels (Awetaran), 1769	Constantinople	1769	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	Unknown
234	Movses Baghramian (Movses Baghramean), Exhortation (Yordorak)	Madras	1772	EUR 9,000.00 - 12,000.00	Unknown
235	Psalter (Tonats`oyts`), 1773	Etchmiadzine	1773	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
236	Matteos de Tokat, The Mystery of Divine Worship (Khorhowrd as	Venice	1775	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
237	Priest Mesrop (Mesrop Erets`), History of the Armenians and Ge	Madras (India)	1775	EUR 2,500.00 - 4,500.00	Unknown
238	Liturgical Manual of the Holy Mass (Khorhrdatetr Srbazan Pata	Rome	1777	EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
239	Book of the Diaconate and Choir for the Celebration of Mass	Rome	1777	EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
240	Selected sermons (K`sawerios Dorhneants`), 1781	Venice	1781	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
241	Armenian alphabets, 1782	Paris and Liege	1782	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
242	P. Mikayel Tchamchian (Mik`ayel Ch`amch`eants`), Histoire de l'Arme	Venice	1784-1786.	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
243	Beautiful map of Europe with Armenian captions, 1786		1786	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
244	Liturgy of the Gospels (Awetaran Chashow) and Synaxary (Tonats`o	St. Petersburg	1786	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	Unknown
245	Patriarch Hagop Nalian, The Spiritual Armor (Zen hogewor), 1	Constantinople	1787	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	Unknown
246	Armenian-Russian Dictionary (Hay-rhowseren barharan) & Sai	St. Petersburg	1788	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Unknown
247	Saint Nerses the Gracious (Sowrb Nerses Shnorhali), General E	St. Petersburg (Russia)	1788	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Unknown
248	The Psalms of David and the Abridged Calendar, 1789	Venice	1789	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
249	Map of the Ottoman Empire in its European parts, captioned i	Venice (not Moscow)	1791	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
250	The Four Gospels (Awetaran), 1796	Constantinople	1245/1796	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Unknown
251	Nuovo compendio della vita, martirio, morte, miracoli, e tre	Rome	1796	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown

Heritage Auctions
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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.
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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.