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ALDE, June 18: CHAPPE D'AUTEROCHE (JEAN). Voyage en Sibérie fait par ordre du Roi en 1761 contenant les mœurs…, Paris, 1768. €4,000 to €5,000.ALDE, June 18: HENNEPIN (LOUIS). Description de la Louisiane nouvellement découverte au Sud-Ouest de la Nouvelle France…, Paris, 1688. €3,000 to €4,000.ALDE, June 18: LA BOULLAYE-LE GOUZ (FRANÇOIS DE). Les Voyages et Observations, Paris, 1653. €1,500 to €2,000.ALDE, June 18: LE BRUN (CORNELIS DE BRUYN DIT CORNEILLE). Voyage au Levant, c'est à dire dans les principaux endroits de l'Asie mineure..., Delft, 1700. €6,000 to €8,000.ALDE, June 18: SAINT-NON (J.-CL. RICHARD, ABBÉ DE). Voyage pittoresque ou description du royaume de Naples et de Sicile, Paris, 1781-1786. €3,500 to €5,000.ALDE, June 18: (CALVIN JEAN). SÉNÈQUE. Annei Senecae..., Paris, 1532. €2,000 to €3,000.ALDE, June 18: ADRIEN LE CHARTREUX. De remediis utriusque fortunæ, [Cologne, vers 1470]. €5,000 to €6,000.ALDE, June 18: GAZA (THÉODORE). [...] Introductivæ grammatices libri quatuor. Ejusdem de mensibus opusculum sanequampulchrum, Venise, 1495. €8,000 to €10,000.ALDE, June 18: LACTANCE. De divinis institutionibus. De ira Dei. De opificio Dei. De phoenice carmen, Rome, 1468. €30,000 to €40,000.ALDE, June 18: LUTHER (MARTIN). Der Erste [– Achte und letze] Teil aller Bücher und Schrifften des thewren, seligen Mans Doct. Mart. Lutheri, Iéna, 1555-1568. €5,000 to €6,000.ALDE, June 18: POLITIEN (ANGE). Omnia opera, et alia quædam lectu Digna, Venise, 1498. €8,000 to €10,000.ALDE, June 18: SIDOINE APOLLINAIRE. Poema aureum ejusdemque Epistole, Milan, 1498. €3,000 to €4,000.
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SD | Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Øiesvold Collection
June 14, 2025SD | Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions, June: 14: HIERONYMUS MÜNTZER (1437 – 1508): (Northern and Central Europe) No title recto. Nuremberg, 1493.SD | Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions, June: 14: SIGISMUND VON HERBERSTEIN (1486 – 1566): «Commentari della Moscovia et partmente della Russia.» Venice, 1550.SD | Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions, June: 14: SEBASTIAN MÜNSTER: «Cosmographiae universalis Lib. VI in quibus iuxta certioris […]» Basel, 1559.SD | Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions, June: 14: SEBASTIAN MÜNSTER: «Deerwunder und seltzame Thier / wie die in den Mitnächtigen Länder im Meer […]» Basel, c. 1550.SD | Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions, June: 14: WILLEM BARENTSZ (1550 – 97): «Deliniatio cartæ trium navigationum per Batavos, ad Septentrionalem plagem [...]» Amsterdam, 1598. -
Sotheby's
Bibliothèque Jacques Dauchez - Autour de Dubuffet
5-19 JuneSotheby’s, June 5-19: Bissière, Roger. Cantique à notre frère soleil de saint François. 1954. 1,000 - 1,500 EURSotheby’s, June 5-19: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. La vie & l’œuvre de Philippe Ignace Semmelweis. 1924. Rare édition originale, avec envoi. Joint : La Quinine en thérapeutique, 1925. 4,000 - 6,000 EURSotheby’s, June 5-19: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. Mort à crédit. 1936. Édition originale. Bel exemplaire sur Hollande. 2,500 - 3,500 EURSotheby's
Bibliothèque Jacques Dauchez - Autour de Dubuffet
5-19 JuneSotheby’s, June 5-19: Chillida, Eduardo ─ Emil Cioran. Face aux instants. 1985. Un des 100 exemplaires sur Arches. Eau-forte signée. 600 - 800 EURSotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. Ler dla canpane. L’Art Brut, 1948. Édition originale. 3,000 - 5,000 EURSotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. L'Herne Jean Dubuffet. 1973. Un des 100 exemplaires du tirage de luxe avec une sérigraphie originale en couleurs. 1,000 - 1,500 EUR -
Gros & Delettrez
Livres & Manuscrits Arméniens
Jeudi 12 juin 2025
Paris, FrancisGros & Delettrez, June 12: BIBLE, Venise 1733, reliure arménienneGros & Delettrez, June 12: CHARAKNOTS, manuscrit XVIIe-XVIIIe siècleGros & Delettrez, June 12: CHARAKNOTS, manuscrit daté 1606, reliure arménienneGros & Delettrez, June 12: CHARAKNOTS, manuscrit début XVIIIe siècle, reliure arménienneGros & Delettrez, June 12: CHARAKNOTS, Amsterdam 1664Gros & Delettrez, June 12: CHARAKNOTS, Amsterdam 1702, reliure arménienneGros & Delettrez, June 12: DICTIONNAIRE arménien, manuscrit XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle.Gros & Delettrez, June 12: EVANGILE, manuscrit 1735-1737, reliure arménienneGros & Delettrez, June 12: LIVRE DE PRIERES, Grégoire de Narek, manuscritGros & Delettrez, June 12: GEOGRAPHIE, Ghoukas INDJIDJIAN, Venise 1802-1806Gros & Delettrez, June 12: MANUSCRIT THEOLOGIQUE, XVIe-XVIIe siècleGros & Delettrez, June 12: MASHTOTS, manuscrit XVIIIe-XIXe siècle, reliure arménienneGros & Delettrez, June 12: LETTRE ENCYCLIQUE, manuscrit XIXe siècleGros & Delettrez, June 12: NOUVEAU TESTAMENT, Amsterdam 1668, reliure arménienne
Rare Book Monthly
Book Catalogue Reviews - November - 2006 Issue
Illustrated Books from Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books
By Michael Stillman
Just received from Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books is a catalogue entitled Illustrated Books 2006. This is the most difficult type of catalogue there is to describe. These are books most notable for their illustrations, and we all know that it takes a thousand words to equal just one image. It would take impossibly long to write a review to do this collection justice. So, to be concise, if you collect any sort of illustrated works, primarily from the 18th and 19th centuries, you will want to see this catalogue. It covers many topics, but the common thread is the beauty of the illustrations.
Shapero is kind enough to break the collection into categories for convenience. Here they are: Art and Architecture, British Topography, Caricature, Costume and Fashion, Foreign Topography and Portraits, Natural History, Naval and Military, and Sport. As a British bookseller, the concentration of works are from England, and next Europe, though there are exceptions. Shapero specializes in the most collectible of books, and this group is no exception. Here are a few samples.
For a large collection of images of London in the early 19th century, there is The Microcosm of London; or, London in Miniature, published by Rudolph Ackermann. This three-volume folio first edition was published between 1808 and 1810. It includes 104 colored plates from around London. Ackermann's intention was to show London as it was, including churches, fairs, markets, theaters, courts, hospitals, even prisons. He shows the worlds of both the rich and poor. This was Ackermann's first major book, as he would go on to publish many more finely illustrated works. Item 20. Priced at £5,000 (British pounds, or US equivalent of approximately $9,345).
James Baillie Fraser was introducing a new world to most Londoners with his 1820 book Views of the Himala Mountains. Shapero describes this as "the finest illustrated work on the Himalayas." Fraser studied painting after traveling to India to serve as a merchant in Calcutta. In 1815-16, he visited the Himalayas where his brother William was serving as an agent for the military. William was given the task of visiting several local chiefs, so James decided to go along. His travels resulted in this illustrated folio volume. Item 82. £42,500 (US $79,476).
Item 99 is another beautifully illustrated Himalayan book: A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains by John Gould. Gould was to Europe what Audubon was to America. He would go on to illustrate numerous European birds, but this Himalayan book was his first work, published in 1832. At the time, Gould was Curator of Birds at the Zoological Society's museum. He realized this was the first collection of any size to reach Europe from the Himalayas and concluded there would be a market for a large folio illustrated work on this collection. £11,000 (US $20,575).