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Auction Name	Books and Manuscripts	Total Sales (EUR)	446,043.00
Auction Date	October 15, 2025 - October 15, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	84,203.00
Sale Number	#160548	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	113,254.00
Total Lots	269
Sold Lots	268.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	84,603.00
% of Lots Sold	99.63%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	113,754.00
Unsold Lots	1	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	392.11%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
11	HUGO (Victor) .	Set of 18 works bound in 19 in-8 volumes, including 16 with dispatches; faded and rubbed mismatched bindings with snags to headpieces, some boards detached, occasional heavy foxing, some dispatch leaves folded (several contemporary bindings, others old).	1829-1859.	EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 182,000.00
28	MONET (Claude) .	Autograph letter signed "Claude Monet" [to Georges Clemenceau].	1912	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 14,300.00
7	DUBUFFET (Jean) . - GUILLEVIC (Eugene) .	Les Murs.	1950	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 10,140.00
141	CURIE (Marie) .	Autograph letter signed to a "dear lady".	1915	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 9,750.00
110	PROUST (Marcel) .	Autograph letter signed "Marcel Proust" [to Henry Bernstein].	1908	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 8,060.00
143	CURIE (Marie) .	Signed as director of her laboratory.	1934	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 7,540.00
142	CURIE (Marie) .	Signed as director of her laboratory.	1926	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 6,240.00
127	DIAGHILEV (Sergei Pavlovich) .	Set of 4 autograph cards signed with his initials to Serge Lifar.		EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 5,850.00
129	GERSHWIN (Jacob Gershowitz, known as George) .	Photographic portrait.	[early 1930s]	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 4,940.00
144	FREUD (Sigmund) .	Autograph card signed to Hedwig Abraham.	1930	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 3,900.00
155		LITERATURE and miscellaneous. - Set of approximately 35 pieces. Theodore de Banville, Herve Bazin, Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais...		EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 3,770.00
48	CATHERINE DE MEDICIS .	Autograph letter signed "Caterine" to the French ambassador to Spain, Raymond de Beccarie, sieur de Fourquevaux.	1571	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 3,640.00
152		BEAUX ARTS and miscellaneous. - Set of around 50 items: Victor Baltard, Theophile Bra, Pierre Cardin, Camille Corot, ...		EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 3,120.00
95	DESNOS (Robert) .	Autograph manuscript entitled "Night of September 26 to 2, 1922".	1922	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 2,860.00
114	SIENKIEWICZ (Henryk) .	Autograph letter signed, in French, to the Marquis d'Eguilles.	1906	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 2,860.00
118	VERLAINE (Paul) .	Autograph letter signed to Henri de Regnier.	1887	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 2,860.00
1	ALECHINSKY (Pierre) . - FRENAUD (Andre) .	La Vie comme elle tourne et par exemple.	1979	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 2,600.00
86	BAUDELAIRE (Charles) .	Autograph letter signed with his initials to his mother Caroline Dufays, Madame Aupick.	1860	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 2,600.00
113	SEVERIANIN (Igor Vasilyevich) .	Autograph poem signed entitled "Ananasy v shampanskom".		EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 2,600.00
133	LISZT (Franz) .	Autograph letter signed "F. Liszt", in German, [probably to composer Theodor Uhlig].	1850	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 2,600.00
211		SET of 3 pieces: Alexandre Dumas pere, Henry de La Vaulx, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (letter in pencil).		EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 2,600.00
190		ENSEMBLE of some twenty items: the painter John Carlton Atherton (some fifteen letters), Paul Fort, Francis Jammes ...		EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 2,470.00
30	PICASSO (Pablo) .	Autograph letter signed "Picasso" to his maid Ines Sassier.	1863	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 2,210.00
148	PASTEUR (Louis) .	Autograph note.		EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 2,210.00
214		Set of around 25 pieces: Henry Bordeaux, Francoise d'Orleans, duchesse de Chartres, Jules Claretie, Alphonse Daudet, Edouard Detaille, ...		EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 2,210.00

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Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.
SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.

SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.