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Gros & Delettrez: Caucasus Library - Collection B. Outtier

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Auction Name	Caucasus Library - Collection B. Outtier	Total Sales (EUR)	195,312.50
Auction Date	December 03, 2025 - December 03, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	36,130.00
Sale Number	#173099	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	51,940.00
Total Lots	104
Sold Lots	95.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	46,700.00
% of Lots Sold	91.35%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	66,390.00
Unsold Lots	9	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	294.19%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
58		Bible,	1743	EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	EUR 78,750.00
1		Les quatre Evangiles	XVe siecle	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 40,000.00
64		L'Ancienne Georgie. Memoires de la Societe d'histoire et d'ethnographie, dir. E. TAKAICHVILI. T. II,	1911-1915, T. III 1913-1914, T. IV 1914-1915	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 10,625.00
8	PAOLINI, Stefano et Niceforo IRBACHI,	Dittionario Giorgiano e Italiano, composto de Stefano Paolini con l'aiuto del M.R.P.D. Niceforo Irbachi Giorgiano, Monaco di S. Basilio. Ad uso de'missionarii della Sagra Congregatione de Propaganda Fide,	1629	EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 8,500.00
2		L'abbe de Villefroy, Notices Des Manuscrits Armeniens De la Biblioth: du Roy aportes De Constantinople en L'annee 1730	1730-35	EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 6,875.00
97	ALLAN, William et STEWART, James.	Circassian Captives,	1822	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 5,000.00
5	YOVHANNES CATHOLICOS DRASXANAKERTC'I,	Livre de l'histoire d'Armenie compose par Yohannes . . . Catholikos de tous les Armeniens (Xe siecle)	fin XVIIIe siecle	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 2,750.00
62		Les antiquites georgiennes, Edition de la Societe d'histoire et d'ethnographie, dir. E. TAKAICHVILI.	1909, T. II	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 2,500.00
16	CHANTRE, Ernest.	Recherches Anthropologiques dans le Caucase, Ch. Reinwald Libraire-Lyon,	1885-87	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 1,750.00
59	SABININI, Gobron (Mixail).	Le Paradis de la Georgie. Description complete des combats et des souffrances des saints de Georgie,	1882	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 1,625.00
96	DELISLE, Guillaume.	Carte des pays voisins de la Mer Caspienne	15 aout 1723.	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 1,375.00
13	OHSSON, Constantin (baron d').	Voir les notices liees en tant qu'auteur, Des peuples du Caucase et des pays au nord de la mer Noire et de la mer Caspienne dans le dixieme siecle, ou Voyage d'Abou-el-Cassim,	1828	EUR 100.00 - 120.00	EUR 1,187.50
63	XAXANASVILI, Alexandre.	Le servage en Georgie jusqu'a l'union avec la Russie. Etude historique,	1910	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	EUR 1,125.00
57		Almanach caucasien pour l'an 1914,	1913	EUR 200.00 - 250.00	EUR 1,062.50
55		Almanach caucasien pour l'an 1911,	1910	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 1,000.00
95		Nouveau Testament (texte allographe), Empire ottoman,	1884	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 1,000.00
49		Almanach caucasien pour l'an 1897,	1896	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 937.50
56		Almanach caucasien pour l'an 1913,	1912	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 937.50
12	MELIK SCHAHNAZAR, Myr-Davoud-Zadour de, Louis-Mathieu LANGLES et Jacques CHAHAN de CIRBIED,	Notices sur l'etat actuel de la Perse, en persan, en armenien et en francais,	1818	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 875.00
15		Recueil des Historiens de Croisades, publie par les soins de l'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Documents armeniens, deux volumes,	1869-1906	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 875.00
23	DEMIDOFF, E.	Hunting Trips on the Caucasus,	1898	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 875.00
54		Almanach caucasien pour l'an 1908,	1907	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 875.00
65	TSERETELI, Mixeil.	Le pays des Hittites, ses peuples, ses langues, son histoire et sa culture.	1924	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 875.00
100	TAMBULOV, Aleksander.	Portrait de Serguei Paradjanov devant sa maison,	n.d. (avant 1985)	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 812.50
36		Informations historiques sur le peuple kabarde, Kiev	1913	EUR 250.00 - 350.00	EUR 750.00

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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