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
333 Louis XVIII (1755-1824)

L.A.S. to Antoine-Francois Bertrand de Molleville

Hamm 1793 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 725.00
334 Louis XVIII

L.A. to "my dear Baron" [of Flachslanden]

Turin 1794 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
335 Louis XVIII

Letter to M. Willot

Mittau 1799 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
336 Louis XVIII

Letter to Comte de La Chatre

Gosfield 1809 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
337 Chevalier de Maizieres

Report on Louis XVIII's wanderings and his arrival at Conde's army

1795 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
338 Louis-Philippe (1773-1850)

Payment orders and miscellaneous letters

1822-1825 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
339 Louise de Savoie (1476-1536)

Letter to Captain Rocher in Mont-de-Marsan

Rossillon N/A EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
340 Louise-Elisabeth de France (1727-1759)

Letter to the Duke of Parma

Versailles 1758 EUR 800.00 - 900.00 EUR 1,055.00
341 Louise-Marie de France (1737-1787)

Letter to Cardinal de Bernis

Saint-Denis 1780 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 923.00
342 Louise-Marie de France

Letter to Cardinal de Bernis

Saint-Denis 1784 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,451.00
343 Hubert Lyautey (1854-1934)

Letters to his parents from Rome

Rome 1883 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 857.00
344 Montmorillon; Raymond

Carnet de comptes manuscrit

Lyon; L'Arbresle 1769-1780 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 198.00
345 Stanislas Maillard (1763-1794)

Autograph Letter Signed, Paris September 3, 1792

Paris 1792 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 2,769.00
346 Vincenzo I Gonzaga (1562-1612)

Letter Signed, Mantua January 5, 1608

Mantua 1608 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 79.00
347 Marie Leszczynska (1703-1768)

16 Autograph Letters to President Henault

circa 1760 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 3,956.00
348 Marie Leszczynska

Autograph Letter to President Henault

N/A EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 528.00
349 Marie de Modene (1658-1718)

Autograph Letter Signed to the Superior of the Visitandines de Chaillot Convent

Saint-Germain-en-Laye 1708 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,121.00
350 Coulombeau

Document Signed by Coulombeau, September 22, 1792

Paris 1792 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 593.00
351 Ponce Tanchon (1760-guillotine 1794); Pierre-Jacques Robin (b. 1735?)

Document Signed by Ponce Tanchon and Pierre-Jacques Robin, June 3, 1793

Paris 1793 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,769.00
352 Marie-Caroline-Charlotte (1752-1814)

Partly Autograph Letter Signed to a Friend, May 18, 1793

Caserta 1793 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,055.00
353 Marie-Clotilde de France (1759-1802)

4 Autograph Letters Signed to Baroness de Benkendorff, 1784-1785

Turin 1784-1785 EUR 700.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
354 Marie-Clotilde de France

2 Autograph Letters Signed to the Marquise d'Haussy, July-August 1786

Aix; Evian 1786 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
355 Marie-Clotilde of France

Autograph Letter Signed to Mme de Bombelles

Turin 1791 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 725.00
356 Marie-Clotilde of France

Autograph Letter Signed to Mme de Bombelles

Turin 1794 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
357 Marie-Clotilde of France

Autograph Letter Signed to the Duc de Maurienne

Livorno 1799 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