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Rossini: LA PLÉIADE

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Auction Name LA PLÉIADE Total Sales (EUR) 10,775.60
Auction Date September 02, 2025 - September 02, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 3,482.00
Sale Number #169304 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 9,610.00
Total Lots 254
Sold Lots 248.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 3,582.00
% of Lots Sold 97.64% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 9,870.00
Unsold Lots 6 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 109.18%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
216 BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA PLEIADE - BALZAC

La Comedie humaine volumes I to XII (T. I to IV)

1976 EUR 120.00 - 200.00 EUR 260.40
34 ENCYCLOPEDIE DE LA PLEIADE -

Histoire des religions, volumes I to III

1970 EUR 15.00 - 45.00 EUR 210.80
178 BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA PLEIADE - BALZAC

La comedie humaine

1955-1961 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 130.20
237 BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA PLEIADE -

Reunion of 7 volumes: - - ZOLA Les Rougon-Macquart, tomes I et II

1969 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 130.20
21 BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA PLEIADE - CAO XUEQIN

Le Reve dans le pavillon rouge, volumes I and II

1981 EUR 20.00 - 50.00 EUR 117.80
70 BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA PLEIADE - Wu CHENG'EN

La peregrination vers l'Ouest

1991 EUR 30.00 - 50.00 EUR 117.80
177 BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA PLEIADE - SAINT-SIMON

Memoires

1954-1961 EUR 70.00 - 250.00 EUR 117.80
93 BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA PLEIADE - Album PROUST

Album PROUST- Iconography compiled and commented by Pierre Clarac and Andre Ferre

1965 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 111.60
136 BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA PLEIADE - ZOLA

Les Rougon-Macquart, volumes I to V

1963 EUR 50.00 - 150.00 EUR 99.20
45 BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA PLEIADE - SAINT-EXUPERY

Oeuvres

1959 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 93.00
52 BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA PLEIADE - FLAUBERT

Correspondance, volumes I, II and III

1984 EUR 30.00 - 90.00 EUR 93.00
109 BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA PLEIADE - Album ZOLA

Album ZOLA- Iconography compiled and commented by Henri Mitterand and Jean Vidal

1963 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 93.00
231 BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA PLEIADE - SHAKESPEARE

Oeuvres completes (old edition), volumes I and II

1978 EUR 15.00 - 30.00 EUR 93.00
246 BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA PLEIADE - PLATO

Oeuvres completes, tomes I et II

1977 EUR 20.00 - 60.00 EUR 93.00
254 BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA PLEIADE -

Dictionnaire des auteurs de la Pleiade

1960 EUR 10.00 - 50.00 EUR 93.00
4 BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA PLEIADE - Album DOSTOYEVSKI

Album DOSTOYEVSKI- Iconography compiled and commented by Gustave Aucouturier and Claude Menuet

1975 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 86.80
71 BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA PLEIADE - BEAUDELAIRE

Correspondance 1832-1866

1973 EUR 20.00 - 50.00 EUR 86.80
94 BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA PLEIADE - Album HUGO

Album HUGO - Iconography compiled and commented by Martine Ecalle and Violaine Lumbroso

1964 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 86.80
97 BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA PLEIADE - Album BALZAC

Album BALZAC- Iconography compiled and commented by Jean A. Ducourneau

1962 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 86.80
13 BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA PLEIADE - Album SAINT-EXUPERY

Album SAINT-EXUPERY- Iconography compiled and commented by Jean Daniel Pariset

1994 EUR 15.00 - 20.00 EUR 80.60
28 BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA PLEIADE - SAINTE-BEUVE

Port-Royal, volumes I to III

1971 EUR 20.00 - 50.00 EUR 80.60
54 BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA PLEIADE - CELINE

Romans, volumes II and III

1974 EUR 20.00 - 60.00 EUR 80.60
55 BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA PLEIADE - GIONO

Oeuvres romanesques completes, volumes III, IV, V and VI

1974 EUR 40.00 - 120.00 EUR 80.60
73 BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA PLEIADE - CAO XUEQIN

Le reve dans le pavillon rouge (Hong lou meng)

1981 EUR 30.00 - 50.00 EUR 80.60
88 ENCYCLOPEDIE DE LA PLEIADE -

La France et les Francais

1972 EUR 5.00 - 20.00 EUR 80.60
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    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.
  • 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.
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