Ader: Autographed Letters and Manuscripts - Part II, 177753, PARIS

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 21, 2026 - May 21, 2026
Page Size: 287 items in 12 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
183 Charles-Alexis Alexandre (1759-1825)

Precis sur Ch. Al. Alexandre chef de la premiere Legion de la garde nationale

1792 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 528.00
184

14 Paper Currency Bills

1780; 1861-1862; 1862; 1863; 1905; 1909; 1917 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 264.00
185 M. de Saint-Jean

14 L.A.S. from M. de SAINT-JEAN to M. Le Cavelier

1776-1777 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,374.00
186 Joseph-Mathias Gerard de Rayneval (1736-1812)

L.A.S. from Joseph-Mathias Gerard de Rayneval

1782 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 369.00
187 Louis Arcambal; A. Gillot

Certificate of existence and life for citizen Melanie Le Boucher

1794; 1795 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 290.00
188 Anne-Marie d'Orleans (1669-1728)

L.A. to the Duchess of Ventadour

Paris 1661; 1716 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
189

Livre des fondations de L'Arbresle

1611-1685 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 659.00
190 Marc-Rene de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson (1652-1721); Marc-Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson

10 L.S. from the Comte d'Argenson and his son

1718-1720; 1744-1757 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
191 Pierre Augereau (1757-1816)

L.A.S. to Dr. Raymond

1811 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
192 Charles Archduke of Austria (1771-1847)

L.S. with autograph compliment

1809 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 106.00
193 Antoine-Louis-Francois de Besiade d'Avaray (1759-1811)

Flight of the future Louis XVIII

1791 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
194 Andre Aude (1765-1824)

Massacres in AVIGNON

1791 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,319.00
195 Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736-1793)

On his duties as Mayor of Paris

Paris 1790 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 317.00
196

Fould & Oppenheim Bank Correspondence

1815-1816 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 1,319.00
197 Francois de Bassompierre (1579-1646)

Payment of 900 livres tournois to Maurice Desvieulx

Paris 1635 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 198.00
198 Francois Ravaisson-Mollien

Prise de la BASTILLE

1789; 1874; ND EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 1,714.00
199 Francois Cointeraux (1740-1830)

Prise de la BASTILLE

Paris 1789 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 923.00
200 Charlotte de Beaune (1551-1617)

Appointment of Laurent Moyreau as attorney

1602 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
201 Roger de Saint-Lary duc de Bellegarde (1563-1646)

Letter to Claude Bouthillier

Sens 1643 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
202 Charles-Ferdinand Duke of Berry (1778-1820)

Letter to Marquis de Clarac

Vienna 1802 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
203 Elie Decazes

Minute of a telegraphic dispatch

Paris 1820 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 462.00
204

Collection of 34 Letters

1888-1889 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
205 Antoine-Francois marquis de Bertrand de Molleville (1744-1818)

Autograph note

1792 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
206 Francois-Xavier comte de Sade (1777-1846)

Minute du Rapport sur la reconstruction de la Bibliotheque

1835 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 396.00
207 Jean II de Gontaut baron de BIRON (1561-1636); Henri II de MONTMORENCY

Letter to Baron de Castelnau d'Estretefonds

1629; 1626 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
  • Sotheby’s
    Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
    25 June – July 7
    Sotheby’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.
  • Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, 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. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, 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. £1,000-1,500
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum, 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. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, 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
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, 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. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, 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]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, 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-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, 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. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, 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