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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
26 [MAINTENON, Francoise d'Aubigne, dite Madame de (1635-1719)]

Vie de Francoise d'Aubigne, veuve Scaron, marquise de Maintenon.

[Vers 1765]. EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
27 MATIS, Hippolyte (16..-17..)

Recueil des vues et plans. Carte generale et particuliere du duche d'Epernon.

1718 EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 EUR 44,100.00
28 MERIAN, Maria Sibylla (1647-1717)

Dissertation sur la generation et les transformations des insectes de Surinam...

La Haye 1726 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 44,100.00
29 MONTAIGNE, Michel de (1533-1592), trad., et Raymond SEBON (1385-1436)

La Theologie naturelle de Raymond Sebon, docteur exellent entre les modernes...

Paris 1569 EUR 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 EUR 37,800.00
30 MONTESQUIOU-FEZENSAC, Anne-Pierre de (1739-1798)

Lettre autographe signee, datee "Paris, 3 nivose an 4" [24 decembre 1795]

Paris 1795 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
31 NEWTON, Isaac (1642-1727)

Lectiones opticae, annis MDCLXIX, MDCLXX & MDCLXXI. In scholis publicis habitae: et nunc primum ex MSS. in lucem editae.

London 1729 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,780.00
32 [PHYSIOCRATES - LE TROSNE, Guillaume-Francois (1728-1780)]

Copie manuscrite de l'inventaire des biens et de la biblitoheque de Guillaume-Francois Le Trosne.

[Orleans 1780 EUR 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 Not Sold
33 PINE, John (1690-1756)

The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords: representing the several engagements between the English and Spanish fleets in the memorable year 1588.

London 1739 EUR 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 Not Sold
34 PISO, Willem (1611--1678), Georg MARKGRAF (1610--1644) et Thedor MATHAM (1606-1676).

Historia naturalis Brasiliae, Leyde

Franciscum Hackium, Amsterdam 1648 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 6,930.00
35 PLATON (c. 427-347 av. J.-C.)

Omnia divini Platonis opera tralatione Marsilii Ficini, emendatione et ad Graecum codicem collatione Simonis Grynaei, summa diligentia repurgata, quibus subjectus est index quam copiosissimus.

Bale 1551 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,638.00
36 PRIDEAUX, Humphrey (1648-1724)

La vie de Mahomet. Amsterdam

1698 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
37 REBOUL, Guillaume (1560-1611)

La Cabale des Reformez, tiree nouvellement du puits de Democrite.

"Mompeiller chez le Libertin" [Montpellier 1597 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
38 [REVOLUTION FRANCAISE]

La Constitution francaise Presentee au Roi le 3 septembre 1791, et acceptee par Sa Majeste le 14 du meme mois.

Paris 1791 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
39 [REVOLUTION FRANCAISE]

Fragment de papier peint a motifs revolutionnaires et guirlandes de feuilles de chene,

Paris v.1792-1799. EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,512.00
40 [REVOLUTION FRANCAISE]

Fragment de papier peint a motifs revolutionnaires, "Unite de la Republique - Droits de l'Homme - Liberte - Egalite",

Paris v.1792 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,016.00
41 [REVOLUTION FRANCAISE]

Fragment de papier peint a motifs revolutionnaires, "Republique Francaise - Liberte, Egalite - Soyons unis et nous serons invincibles".

Paris 1792-1793. EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,520.00
42 [REVOLUTION FRANCAISE]

Tables de l'Acte constitutionel agreees par la Convention nationale.

Paris 1793 - 1794 (Nivose An II). EUR 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 Not Sold
43 RIDINGER, Johann Elias (1698-1767)

Vollkommene und grundliche Vorstellungen der vortrefflichen Fursten-Lust, oder der Edlen Jagtbarkeit... Parfaite & exacte representation des divertissemens de Grands Seigneurs ou parfaite description des chasses de toutes sortes de betes...

Augsbourg 1729 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
44 RIDINGER, Johann Elias (1696-1767)

Abbildung der Jagtbaren Thiere mit derselben angefugten Fahrten und Spuhren...

Augsbourg 1740 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
45 ROBESPIERRE, Maximilien de (1758-1794)

Lettre autographe signee a un ami, datee << Paris, 8 (?) juin 1790 >>.

Paris 1790 EUR 26,000.00 - 34,000.00 Not Sold
46 ROBESPIERRE, Maximilien de (1758-1794)

Lettre autographe signee a un ami, [fin septembre 1790]

1790 EUR 26,000.00 - 34,000.00 Not Sold
47 ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)

Recueil de deux discours. Discours sur l'origine et les fondemens de l'inegalite parmi les hommes.

Amsterdam 1755 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
48 ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)

Du Contract social; ou, Principes du Droit politique. Par J.J. Rousseau, citoyen de Geneve

Amsterdam 1762 EUR 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 EUR 56,700.00
49 ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)

Lettres ecrites de la montagne.

Amsterdam 1764 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,780.00
50 ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)

Lettre autographe signee a Philibert Cramer, datee "a Motiers le 13 octobre 1764"

Motiers 1764 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 9,450.00
  • 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
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    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