Ader: Autographed Letters and Manuscripts - Part I, 177752, PARIS
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 20, 2026 - May 20, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 58 | Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais | Document on the Rights of Dramatic Authors |
Paris | 1791 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 4,220.00 |
| 59 | Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) | Zeitschrift fur Sozialforschung |
Paris | 1934 | EUR 250.00 - 300.00 | EUR 1,121.00 |
| 60 | Tristan Bernard (1866-1947) | Bloch de Chicago |
1933; 1909 | EUR 250.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 61 | Jean BOUHIER (1673-1746) | Autograph Letter to Abbe d'Olivet |
Dijon | 1735 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 462.00 |
| 62 | Jacques CAZOTTE (1720-1792) | Profession of Faith |
N/A | EUR 700.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 63 | Louis-Ferdinand CELINE (1894-1961) | Autograph Letter Signed to Paul Marteau |
Korsor | 1951 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 1,055.00 |
| 64 | Jean CHAPELAIN (1595-1674) | Letter to Messieurs de Valois |
1660 | EUR 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold | |
| 65 | Marie-Joseph CHENIER (1764-1811) | Application to the Societe du Portique republicain |
1800 | EUR 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 66 | Jean COCTEAU (1889-1963) | 25 Dessins d'un Dormeur |
Lausanne | 1929 | EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 4,616.00 |
| 67 | Benjamin CONSTANT (1767-1830) | Letter to M. Cadet de Gassicourt |
Paris | 1818 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | EUR 1,319.00 |
| 68 | Rene DAUMAL (1908-1944) | Postcard to Jean Darquet |
Pelvoux | 1942 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 290.00 |
| 69 | Jean DESBORDES (1906-1944) | Les Tragediens |
1931 | EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 70 | Jean DESBORDES (1906-1944) | Les Forcenes |
1937 | EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 72 | Edouard Drumont (1844-1917) | L'Antisemitisme, Rothschild et Puybaraud |
1895 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 2,110.00 | |
| 73 | Alexandre Dumas fils (1824-1895); Francois Coppee | Letter to Mme Blanche Canamisi |
1893; 1906 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 237.00 | |
| 74 | Marius Bourges (1842-1921) | Sounet, odo e cantadis subre Dieu, lou Criste, la santo Viergi, Sant et Santo dou Paradis e subre la doutrino crestiano |
Ais de Prouvenco | 1917 | EUR 500.00 - 700.00 | EUR 1,253.00 |
| 75 | Louis-Antoine de Noailles (1651-1729) | Reponse de Mgr l'Archevesque de Paris a Mgr l'Archevesque de Cambray |
1698 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 1,319.00 | |
| 76 | Ernest Feydeau (1821-1873) | Le Secret du bonheur |
1863-1864 | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 1,714.00 | |
| 77 | Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) | L.A.S. to a writer |
Croisset near Rouen | 1867 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 989.00 |
| 78 | Andre Becq de Fouquieres (1875-1959) | Talk on the automobile |
1936 | EUR 100.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold | |
| 79 | Pierre-Paul Fournier | Miscellanees, suivies des "Petits Dialogues usuels et vecus" |
circa 1920 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 80 | Anatole France (1844-1924) | L.A.S. to Madeleine Lemaire |
N/A | EUR 100.00 - 120.00 | EUR 264.00 | |
| 81 | Theophile Gautier (1811-1872) | L.A.S. to a "dear Master" |
N/A | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 82 | Theophile Gautier | L.A.S. to actor Charles Fechter |
1862 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 382.00 | |
| 83 | Gustave Geffroy (1855-1926) | Renoir |
N/A | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 1,055.00 |
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Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000. -
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Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
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July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000 -
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July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
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July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
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July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
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July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000