Ader: Autographed Letters and Manuscripts - Part II, 177753, PARIS
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 21, 2026 - May 21, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 408 | Collection of letters and documents addressed to Canon Michele Cascavilla |
N/A | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 409 | Chevalier d'Yauville; Sotin | 5 Documents, including: L.A.S. from Chevalier d'Yauville |
Paris; Verneuil | 1789; 1790; 1792; 1794; 1798 | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 106.00 |
| 410 | 19 Prints, including: Decrees of the National Assembly, June 1791 |
1791-1793 | EUR 250.00 - 300.00 | EUR 290.00 | ||
| 411 | Comte de Reuilly; Jean-Pierre Brissot de Warville | 5 Pamphlets, including: Protestation by Comte de REUILLY |
Paris | 1789-1792 | EUR 120.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
| 412 | 13 Posters, including: Loi relative a la vente des Biens Nationaux |
Saintes | 1791-1797 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 330.00 | |
| 413 | Poster and 4 prints, including: Affiche du Decret de la Convention nationale du 9 octobre 1792 |
Rennes | 1792-1793 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 414 | Armand-Jean du Plessis Cardinal de Richelieu | Letter to Messieurs de Bullion and Bouthillier |
Gisors | 1633 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 415 | Anonymous letter to citoyen Robespierre l'aine depute a la Convention |
1793 | EUR 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 416 | Louis-Rene-Edouard prince de Rohan | Letter to Count du Muy; Letter regarding furniture transport |
Ettenheim; Vienne | 1774-1790 | EUR 120.00 - 150.00 | EUR 106.00 |
| 417 | Jean-Marie Roland de la Platiere; Andre Amar | Letter to M. de Sombreuil; 2 printed documents on the fall of the Girondins |
Paris | 1792; 1793 | EUR 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 418 | Manon Phlipon Madame Roland | Letter regarding incurables |
Paris | 1792 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 396.00 |
| 419 | Antoine-Francois de Rossi | 11 Letters to M. de Saint-Gervais |
Montmelian | 1792 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 264.00 |
| 420 | Pierre Celestin ROUX-LAVERGNE (1802-1874) | Letter to a friend regarding the coup d'etat of December 2, 1851 |
Paris | 1851 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 421 | MARIE FEODOROVNA (1759-1828) | Autograph Letter Signed to Baroness d'Oberkirch |
St. Petersburg | 1778 | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 422 | NICOLAS Mikhailovich (1859-1919) | Autograph Letter Signed to the Russian Ambassador in Vienna |
St. Petersburg | 1910 | EUR 300.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold |
| 423 | Olga Valerionovna Karnovitch (1866-1929) | 3 Autograph Letters Signed to Andre Chaumeix |
Marienbad | 1922 | EUR 200.00 - 250.00 | EUR 369.00 |
| 424 | Propositions a MM. les creanciers de la succession de feu M. MAILLART |
Paris | 1759; 1760 | EUR 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 425 | Pierre-Gedeon de Nolivos; Alexandre-Jacques de Bongard; Jean-Francois Vincent de Montarcher | Registre des lettres communes ecrittes a Mgr le Duc de Praslin Ministre de la Marine |
Port-au-Prince; Le Cap | 1770-1771 | EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 426 | Louis-Narcisse BAUDRY DES LOZIERES (1751-1841) | Partially Autograph Document Signed, Slave Rental Agreement |
Port-au-Prince | 1777 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 1,319.00 |
| 427 | Petition to the General and Intendant of the French Colonies |
Le Cap | 1785 | EUR 400.00 - 500.00 | EUR 396.00 | |
| 428 | S. de Maurel | Compte des recepte et despence |
Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux | 1660-1666 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 429 | Francisco de Paula SANTANDER (1792-1840) | Autograph Letter Signed to General Mariano Montilla |
Bogota | 1821 | EUR 700.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 430 | Antoine-Joseph Santerre (1752-1809) | Voucher for Payment to Citoyenne Roussel |
1792 | EUR 200.00 - 250.00 | EUR 290.00 | |
| 431 | Antoine-Joseph Santerre | P.S. "Santerre soldat du poste" signed by five other soldiers |
1795 | EUR 200.00 - 250.00 | EUR 369.00 | |
| 432 | Charlotte de Savoie (1442-1483) | Receipt for 140 livres from the senechaussee of Beaucaire and Nimes |
1477 | EUR 250.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
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Sotheby’s
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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The Private Library:
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
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
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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The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
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
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
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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Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
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
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
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