Artcurial: The Library of Denys Comar, 6473, Paris
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 10, 2026 - June 10, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Acosta Jose | Histoire naturelle et moralle des Indes, tant Orientalles qu’Occidentalles |
Paris | 1606 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 3 | Tully; Ledru Andre-Pierre; Lyon G-F; M'Leod John | N Books, including: Voyage a Tripoli ou Relation d’un sejour de dix annees en Afrique |
Paris | 1819; 1810; 1821 | EUR 500.00 - 600.00 | EUR 321.00 |
| 4 | Alexander William | Costumes et vues de la Chine |
Paris | [1815] | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 5 | Album de photographies |
Fin XIXe s. | EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 6 | Allemagne Henri-Rene d' | Du Khorassan au pays Backhtiaris, trois mois de voyage en Perse |
Paris | 1911 | EUR 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 1,285.00 |
| 7 | Marcoy Paul; Isabelle Arsene | N Books, including: Voyage a travers l’Amerique du Sud de l’ocean Pacifique a l’ocean Atlantique |
Paris; Le Havre | 1869; 1835 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 8 | Rousselot de Surgy; Citry de La Guette | N Books, including: Histoire naturelle et politique de la Pennsylvanie |
Paris | 1768; 1685 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 3,212.00 |
| 9 | Creve-Coeur Michel-Guillaume-Jean; Warden D. B.; Priest William; Le Beau Claude | N Books, including: Lettres d’un cultivateur americain adressees a W. S. |
Paris; London; Amsterdam | 1787; 1820; 1802; 1738 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 1,927.00 |
| 10 | Franklin Benjamin | Constitutions des treize etats-unis d’Amerique |
Philadelphie; Paris | 1783 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 8,994.00 |
| 11 | Bartram William; Anburey Thomas; Carver Jonathan | Voyage dans les parties sud de l’Amerique septentrionale; Journal d’un voyage fais dans l’Amerique septentrionale; Voyage dans les parties interieures de l’Amerique septentrionale |
Paris | 1799-1801; 1793; 1784 | EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 | EUR 642.00 |
| 12 | Botta Charles; Soules Francois; Levasseur A. | Histoire de la guerre de l’independance des Etats-Unis d’Amerique; Histoire des troubles de l’Amerique anglaise; Lafayette en Amerique en 1824 et 1825 |
Paris | 1812-1813; 1787; 1829 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 13 | Mollien Gaspard; Eyzaguirre Abbe | Voyage dans la Republique de Colombia en 1823; Histoire ecclesiastique, politique et litteraire du Chili |
Paris; Lille | 1824; 1855 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 321.00 |
| 14 | Robertson William; Beecher Stowe Harriet | The History of America; Uncle Tom’s cabin |
Londres | 1777; 1853 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 15 | Roussin Albin-Reine; Mollien Gaspard-Theodore | Le Pilote du Bresil; Voyage dans la republique de Colombia |
Paris; Bordeaux | 1827; 1824 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 642.00 |
| 16 | Talbot Edward-Allen; Domenech Abbe; Chevalier Michel | Cinq annees de residence au Canada; Voyage pittoresque dans les grands deserts du nouveau monde; Lettres sur l’Amerique du Nord |
Paris | 1825; 1862; 1836 | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 17 | Willis N. P.; Bartlett William Henry | Canadian scenery illustrated; L’Amerique pittoresque |
London; Paris | 1842; 1840-1842 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 18 | Bazoche Charles-Louis-Joseph | Suite de 12 planches d’etudes ethnographiques concernant les peuples et modes de vie d'Amerique du sud |
1823 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 10,279.00 | |
| 19 | Exquemelin Alexandre Olivier; Gage Thomas; Rochefort; Mercier Louis-Sebastien | Histoire des avanturiers qui se sont signalez dans les Indes; Nouvelle relation; Histoire naturelle des Iles Antilles de l’Amerique; L’Habitant de la Guadeloupe |
Paris; Amsterdam; Lyon | 1688; 1720; 1667; 1785 | EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | EUR 1,927.00 |
| 20 | Moreau de Saint-Mery Mederic Louis Elie; Ponce Nicolas; Nicolson | Recueil de vues des lieux principaux de la colonie francoise de Saint-Domingue; Essai sur l’histoire naturelle de l’Isle de Saint-Domingue |
Paris | 1791; 1776 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 2,955.00 |
| 21 | Placide-Justin Michel Placide; Pamphile de Lacroix | Histoire politique et statistique de l’ile d’Hayti, Saint-Domingue; Memoires pour servir a l’histoire de la revolution de Saint-Domingue |
Paris | 1826; 1819 | EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 | EUR 771.00 |
| 22 | Anville Jean Baptiste | Geographie ancienne abregee |
Paris | 1769 | EUR 500.00 - 600.00 | EUR 514.00 |
| 23 | Elphinstone Mountstuart; Bernier Francois | Tableau du Royaume de Caboul et de ses dependances; Voyages contenant la description des Etats du Grand Mogol |
Paris; Amsterdam | 1817; 1724-1723 | EUR 500.00 - 800.00 | EUR 771.00 |
| 25 | Nakhshabi Ziya al-Din | Two Illustrated Folios from a Manuscript of the Lazzat Al-Nisa |
Kashmir | First half of the 19th century | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 26 | Renouard de Sainte-Croix Felix; Tavernier Jean-Baptiste | Voyage commercial et politique aux Indes orientales, aux iles Philippines, a la Chine; Les Six voyages de Monsieur Jean-Baptiste Tavernier |
Paris | 1810; 1713 | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 27 | Delisle Guillaume; Buache Philippe; Poirson; Jaillot | Recueil de 24 cartes |
Paris | vers 1780; 1808; 1783 | EUR 800.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 1,028.00 |
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Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’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. -
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The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, 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. £2,000-3,000Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000Forum, 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. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, 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. £5,000-7,000Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, 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 -
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The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000