ALDE: Rare original literary editions - Baudelairean memories, 42226, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 22, 2026 - April 22, 2026

Page Size: 272 items in 11 pages

Auction Lot Books
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
62	DAUDET (Alphonse).	Le Petit Chose, histoire d'un enfant.	Paris	1880	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 375.00
63	DAUDET (Alphonse).	L'Immortel. Mœurs parisiennes.	Paris	1888	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 750.00
64	DUMAS (Alexandre).	Le Comte de Monte-Cristo.	Paris	1846	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 1,750.00
65	DUMAS (Alexandre).	Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge.	Paris	1846	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 3,750.00
66	DUMAS (Alexandre).	– et Auguste MAQUET. Monte-Cristo. Drame en cinq actes et onze tableaux.	Paris	1848	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 500.00
67	[DUMAS (Alexandre)]. MAQUET (Auguste).	Lettre autographe signee d'Auguste Maquet a Adolphe Laferriere, s.d. [vers 1848], 2 pp. in-8.		s.d. [vers 1848]	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
68	DUMAS (Alexandre).	Memoires d'un medecin. Joseph Balsamo.	Paris	1850	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 563.00
69	DUMAS (Alexandre).	Le Caucase. Journal de voyages et romans paraissant tous les jours.	Paris	1859	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 313.00
70	DUMAS (Alexandre).	La San-Felice.	Paris	1864-1865	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 1,000.00
71	DUMAS (Alexandre).	[Le Comte de Moret].	S.l.	n.d. [1865]	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 563.00
72	[DUMAS (Alexandre)]. MEYER (Henri).	Alexandre Dumas. [Paris, 1868].	[Paris,	1868]	EUR 100.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
73	DUMAS (Alexandre).	Lettre autographe signee a Joseph Mery.		26 février	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 438.00
74	FLAUBERT (Gustave).	Madame Bovary. Mœurs de province.	Paris	1857	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 1,125.00
75	FLAUBERT (Gustave).	Salammbo.	Paris	1863	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 500.00
76	FLAUBERT (Gustave).	L’Education sentimentale.	Paris	1870	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 563.00
77	FLAUBERT (Gustave).	Trois contes.	Paris	1877	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 2,500.00
78	FLAUBERT (Gustave).	Bouvard et Pecuchet. [Paris, La Nouvelle Revue, 1880-1881].	[Paris,	1880-1881]	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 438.00
79	FLAUBERT (Gustave).	Bouvard et Pecuchet.	Paris	1881	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 2,500.00
80	FLAUBERT (Gustave).	Par les champs et par les greves (voyage en Bretagne).	Paris	1886	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
81	GAUTIER (Theophile).	Emaux et Camees. Seconde edition augmentee.	Paris	1858	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 3,750.00
82	GOBINEAU (Arthur de).	Trois ans en Asie.	Paris	1859	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 625.00
83	[GOURMONT (Remy de) et Alfred JARRY].	L'Ymagier.	Paris	octobre 1894-décembre 1896	EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 9,375.00
84	HUGO (Victor).	Le Rhin. Lettres a un ami.	Paris	1842	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 375.00
85	HUGO (Victor).	Chatiments. Geneve et New-York [Bruxelles], s.n. [Henri Samuel],	Geneve et New-York [Bruxelles]	1853	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
86	HUGO (Victor).	Les Contemplations.	Paris	1856	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 1,500.00

Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7

Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.

Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.

Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000.
Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026

Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000

Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000

Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000

Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026

Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000

Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000

Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500

Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026

Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500

Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000

Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000

Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026

Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000

Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000

Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000
Freeman’s, June 30. Thomas Jefferson’s “Birth of the New Nation” letter, carried to Paris with the Treaty of Peace, by a Jewish patriot. $100,000-200,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. “The rockets’ red glare.” A British midshipman’s log recording the bombardment of Fort McHenry. $60,000-80,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry Commission signed by James Madison, 1812. $40,000-60,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776. $15,000-25,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. One of the Earliest Printed Announcements of American Independence, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000-15,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. "The Two Big Guns of the N.Y. Yanks": A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000-12,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. A Unique Contemporary Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words to His Followers, the Day Before his Violent Death. $8,000-12,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. The State of Minnesota Officially Certifies the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution Of the United States. $8,000-12,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York to Queen Anne from the Colony of New York. $8,000-12,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000-12,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. A Call to Arms in the Months Following the Declaration of Independence: An Early Continental Army Recruitment Poster. $6,000-9,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. Samuel Jones, the Statesman Behind the Newly Discovered "Jones Declaration": His Annotated Set Used in His Working Law Library. $6,000-9,000.