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
233 Jean-Baptiste Santi Lhomaca

Attestation for an officer of the merchant brig l'Heureux Clairon

Alexandria 1794 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
234

Account of the trial and execution of Cinq-Mars and de Thou

Lyon 1642 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,055.00
235 Charles-Georges de CLERMONT-GALLERANDE (1744-1823)

Letter to the Countess de Lage de Volude on revolutionary effervescence in Paris

Paris 1792 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,187.00
236 Charles-Joachim COLBERT DE CROISSY (1667-1738)

Lettres choisies de Mr Colbert Eveque de Montpellier

1833 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
237 COMITE DE SALUT PUBLIC

Order to citizen Bellœil regarding postal laws and destruction of royalist signs

1794 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
238

8 receipts or invoices concerning the de Sade family

Paris; Lyon; Bordeaux 1815; 1816; 1834 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
239 Durandi

Handwritten document and 8 attached legal papers, 1450-1681

Caromb; Avignon; Les Baux de Provence; Carpentras; Lisle 1499; 1450; 1496; 1605; 1669; 1673; 1681 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,345.00
240 Gerard Coquart

Handwritten letter concerning the death of the Grand Conde

Paris 1686 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 593.00
241 Louis-Joseph de Bourbon prince de CONDE (1736-1818)

Handwritten letter to an earl, with attached letter

Wanstead 1809; 1767 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
242 Louise-Marie-Therese-Bathilde d'Orleans duchesse de Bourbon princesse de CONDE (1750-1822)

Two handwritten letters to the comtesse de La Saumes

Neuilly circa 1816-1820 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 158.00
243 Armand de Bourbon prince de CONTI (1629-1666)

Signed letter to Marquis de Castelnau

Pezenas 1655 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 290.00
244 CONVENTION NATIONALE

5 printed Decrees of the Convention, 1793

1793 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
245 Cour de Parlement; Cour des Monnaies

3 prints of criminal judgments, 1741-1784

1741-1784 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
246 Adam-Philippe comte de CUSTINE (1742-1793); Francois de Bariac sieur de Licieux

Signed letter to General Kellerman on the capture of Mainz, with attached postscript

Mainz; Pignerol 1792; 1641 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 264.00
247 Louis-Etienne-Francois comte de DAMAS-CRUX (1735-1814)

Set of autograph manuscripts and account notebook, 1792-1801

1792-1801 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 593.00
248 Henri Picot marquis de DAMPIERRE (1756-1793)

Signed letter to Mr. Holcroft in London

Liege 1792 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 356.00
249 Anne-Henri vicomte de DAMPMARTIN (1755-1825)

Biographies de mon pere et de ma mere avec divers autres morceaux

Paris 1821 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,253.00
250 Louis-Charles-Antoine DESAIX (1768-1800)

Letter to citoyen Levasseur

Paris 1798 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
251 DIANE DE POITIERS (1500-1566)

Advertissementz a Madame touchant ses afferes qui se sont offertz a ceste assemblee

Estoilles 1556 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 725.00
252 Theobald dillon (1745-1792)

Civic oath

Lille 1791 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 224.00
253

Miscellaneous 16th century deeds and documents

1518-1588 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
254

Miscellaneous 17th century deeds and documents

1611-1699 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,121.00
255

Miscellaneous documents, 15th-19th century

1463; 1719; 1826 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
256

Miscellaneous letters and documents

1678; 1820-1822; 1826; 1830; 1835; 1876; 1933 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
257

Miscellaneous letters and pieces

1819; 1824; 1852; 1859-1870; 1894 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 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