Christies: Rare Books and Manuscripts - online 10/16, 23003, Paris

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Auction Report
Auction Date
October 29, 2024 - October 29, 2024
Page Size: 127 items in 6 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 BABEUF, Francois-Noel, dit Gracchus Babeuf (1760-1797)

Lettre autographe signee a sa femme et a son fils,

1796 EUR 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 Not Sold
2 BERLESE, Lorenzo (1784-1863)

Iconographie du genre camellia ou description et figures des camellia les plus beaux et les plus rares.

Paris 1839]-1841-1843. EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
3 CARAMUEL Y LOBKOWITZ, Juan (1606-1682)

Architectura civil recta, y obliqua. Considerata y dibuxada en el templo de Ierusalem. Vigevano

1678 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
4 CASTIGLIONE, Baldassare (1478-1529)

Il libro del cortegiano.

Venise 1528 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
5 CELLINI, Benvenuto (1500-1571)

Due Trattati, uno intorno alle otto principaliarti dell'oreficeria. Florence

1568 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
6 [CHATELAIN, Henri Abraham (1684-1743)] - GUEUDEVILLE, Nicolas (1652-1721)

Atlas Historique ou Nouvelle introduction a l'Histoire, a la Chronologie & a la Geographie... representee dans de nouvelles cartes.

Amsterdam 1708-1720. EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 21,420.00
7 CICERON, Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 av. J.-C.)

Officia. Ein buch von den tugentsamen amptern.

[Augsbourg 1531 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 6,300.00
8 CIREY, Jean de (mort en 1503)

Privilegia Ordinis Cisterciensis.

Dijon 1491 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
9 CORNEILLE, Pierre (1606-1684), TRISTAN L'HERMITE (1601-1655), et d'autres

Recueil de 6 pieces de theatre, en editions originales.

1642-1648. EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
10 DANFRIE, Philippe (ca. 1531-1606)

Declaration de l'usage du graphometre, par la pratique duquel l'on peut mesurer toutes distances des choses de remarque... et ce sans regle d'arithmetique.

Paris 1597 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
11 DESQUINEMARE, Andre (16..-17..)

Description et arpentage de la Forest de St Germain en Laye et de ses environs, tant par une carte generalle que par plusieurs plans particuliers...

1722 EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 Not Sold
12 [DIDEROT, Denis (1713-1784)]

Pensees philosophiques.

La Haye 1746 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
13 DIDEROT, Denis (1713-1784)

Satire contre le luxe a la maniere de Perse. Manuscrit autographe, [circa 1768-1769]

EUR 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 Not Sold
14 DIDEROT, Denis (1713-1784)

Au Public et aux magistrats.

S.l.n.d. [Paris, 1771 EUR 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 Not Sold
15 [FENELON, Francois de Salignac de la Mothe (1651-1715)] - Jean-Guillaume MOITTE (1764 - 1810)

Seize gouaches originales pour illustrer Les Aventures de Telemaque.

Paris 1785 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 20,160.00
16 GAMELIN, Jacques (1738-1803)

Nouveau Recueil d'osteologie et de myologie, dessine d'apres nature...

Toulouse 1779 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 16,380.00
17 GAUTIER D'AGOTY, Jacques-Fabien (1716-1785)

Myologie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle, composee de l'essai et de la suite de l'essai d'anatomie...

Paris 1746 [1748]. EUR 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 EUR 37,800.00
18 GAUTIER D'AGOTY, Jacques-Fabien (1716-1785)

Observations sur l'histoire naturelle, sur la physique et sur la peinture. Avec des planches imprimees en couleur...

Paris 1752 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,528.00
19 [HOLBEIN LE JEUNE, Hans (c. 1497-1543)]

Historiarum veteris Instrumenti icones ad vivum expressae.

Lyon 1538 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 40,320.00
20 [LACLOS, Pierre CHODERLOS de (1741-1803)]

Les Liaisons dangereuses, ou lettres recueillies dans une Societe, & publiees pour l'instruction de quelques autres. Amsterdam, et se trouve a

Paris 1782 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
21 LA PEROUSE, Jean Francois de Galaup, comte de (1741-1788 ?), Louis Marie Antoine Destouff, baron de MILET DE MUREAU (1751-1825) et Jacques-Julien Houtou de LA BILLARDIERE (1755-1834)

Voyage de La Perouse autour du monde.

Paris An V [1797] EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 7,560.00
22 LARMESSIN, Nicolas Ier de (1632-1694), et d'autres

Costumes grotesques et metiers.

Paris, vers 1690. EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 23,940.00
23 [LE BLOND, Guillaume (1704-1781)]

[Traites de fortifications. France, seconde moitie du XVIIIe siecle].

EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
24 LOUIS XVIII, Louis Stanislas Xavier de France, Comte de Provence, futur (1755-1824)

Lettre autographe signee "Louis Stanislas Xavier" au duc de Gloucester,

Hamm, 1793 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
25 [LUTHER, Martin (1483-1546) et Hans HOLBEIN LE JEUNE (1497-1543)]

Das Gantz Neuw Testament recht gruntlich teutscht.

Bale 1523 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 7,560.00
  • High Bids Win
    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
    and Machine Manuals
    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.
    High Bids Win
    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
    and Machine Manuals
    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Specimen book of type faces. Job composition department, Philadelphia gazette publishing company .
    High Bids Win
    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
    and Machine Manuals
    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.
    High Bids Win
    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
    and Machine Manuals
    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
    The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
    A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Golding.
    Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD
    Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
    Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
    The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: John Milton.
    Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD