Giquello: Antiquarian and Modern Books
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Antiquarian and Modern Books | Total Sales (EUR) | 329,873.00 |
| Auction Date | October 17, 2025 - October 17, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 168,070.00 |
| Sale Number | #168461 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 230,090.00 |
| Total Lots | 319 | ||
| Sold Lots | 214.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 302,170.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 67.08% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 408,600.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 105 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 80.73% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 262 | [ALBUMS D'AQUARELLES]. Mon Voyage en Asie |
n.d. [milieu du XIXe siecle] | EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 31,200.00 | |
| 150 | [ALCHIMIE] | MANUSCRIT. - La Divina operatione dell' savio |
n.d. [XVIIe siecle] | EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 24,050.00 |
| 275 | GARNERAY (Louis) | Vues des cotes de France dans l'ocean et dans la Mediterranee |
1823 | EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 | EUR 15,418.00 |
| 324 | NOAILLES (comtesse de) | Les Climats |
1924 | EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 12,385.00 |
| 226b | MANUSCRIT. - [ENLUMINURE]. Trois initiales O ornees |
EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 7,800.00 | ||
| 217 | LABORDE (Jean-Benjamin de) | Description generale et particuliere de la France |
1781-1797 | EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | EUR 7,583.00 |
| 248 | RELIURE. - Officium B. Mariae Virginiae |
1677 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 5,434.00 | |
| 172 | FER (Nicolas de) | ATLAS. - L'Atlas curieux ou Le Monde dresse et dedie a Nosseigneurs les enfans de France |
S.d. [c. 1717] | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 4,929.00 |
| 223 | LA POTHERIE (Claude-Charles Bacqueville de) | Histoire de l'Amerique septentrionale |
1722 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 4,929.00 |
| 155 | NYNAULD (Jean de) | De la lycanthropie, transformation, et extase des Sorciers |
1615 | EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 4,550.00 |
| 283 | JACQUEMONT (Victor) | Voyage dans l'Inde pendant les annees 1828 a 1832 |
1841-1844 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 4,550.00 |
| 115 | DIJON. - Ordonnances nouvelles de Lempereur touchant labbreviation des Proces, Faulx tesmoings & Larrons |
s.d. [1545] | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 4,423.00 | |
| 221 | LA FONTAINE (Jean de) | Fables choisies, mises en vers |
1755-1759 | EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 4,423.00 |
| 161 | PRIEUR (Claude) | Dialogue de la lycanthropie ou transformation d'hommes en loups, vulgairement dits Loups-garous, & si telle se peut faire |
1596 | EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 4,297.00 |
| 228 | MANUSCRIT. - ARMORIAL DE BRETAGNE |
1649 | EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 4,160.00 | |
| 184 | BRUNFELS. [Herbarum vivae eicones] | Tomus herbarii III |
1536 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 4,044.00 |
| 38 | JEU. - Les Galeries de Versailles ou Jeu du musee historique |
n.d. [vers 1850] | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 4,030.00 | |
| 204 | FETES. - Le Sacre de Louis XV, Roy de France & de Navarre, dans l'Eglise de Reims |
octobre MDCCXXII | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 3,918.00 | |
| 256 | SCHEUCHZER (Johann-Jacob) | Physique sacree, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible |
1732-1737 | EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 3,918.00 |
| 249 | RELIURE. - MANUSCRIT. Collection de documents legaux [contrats de mariages ?] |
1639 | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 3,900.00 | |
| 138 | BAYLE (Pierre) | Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire de la Magie, des revenans et autres niaiseries, des contes de mies |
1704 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 3,791.00 |
| 261 | VOSMAER | Description d'un receuil [sic] exquis d'animaux rares, consistant en Quadrupedes, Oiseaux et Serpents, des Indes orientales et occidentales [...] |
1767-1787 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 3,791.00 |
| 101 | ETUI A FLACONS A SELS format in-18, maroquin rouge, aux armes de la reine Marie-Antoinette, contient 2 flacons a sels |
EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 3,770.00 | ||
| 224 | LIVRE DE DIEU (Le) & de nostre dame utille & prouffitable a to[us] esleux soyent gens clers ou lays lequel contient cinq petis traictes |
n.d. [c. 1530] | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 3,665.00 | |
| 51 | BRES (Jean-Pierre) | LIVRE A FIGURES MOBILES. - Le Livre-joujou |
s.d. [1831] | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 3,539.00 |
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/0a99416d-9c0f-4fa3-afdd-7532ca8a2b2c.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a077b4a5-0477-4c47-9847-0158cf045843.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/6363a735-e622-4d0a-852e-07cef58eccbe.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/3ee16d5b-a2ec-4c03-aeb6-aa3fcfec3a5e.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/d5f50485-7faa-423f-af0c-803b964dd2ba.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/fb024365-7d7a-4510-9859-9d26b5c266cf.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> 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.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a7c0eda0-9d8b-43ac-a504-58923308d5a4.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> 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.")
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/00d5fd41-2542-4a80-b119-4886d4b9925f.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.")
