Artcurial: The Library of Denys Comar, 6473, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 10, 2026 - June 10, 2026
Page Size: 244 items in 10 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
230 Van Lerbergh P.

Italian scenery

Londres 1823 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
231 Daragnes Jean-Gabriel

Terres chaudes. Tableaux de l’ocean Indien et de l’Indo-Chine

Paris 1940 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 4,112.00
232 Massialot Francois;Lemery Louis

Nouvelle instruction pour les confitures, les liqueurs, et les fruits; Traite des aliments

Paris 1692;1705 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,413.00
233 Appert Francois Nicolas

L’Art de conserver, pendant plusieurs annees, toutes les substances animales et vegetales

Paris 1810 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
234 Gouffe Jules;Brillat-Savarin

Le Livre de cuisine; Le Livre de patisserie; Physiologie du gout

Paris 1867;1873;1844 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 385.00
235 Gouffe Jules;Garlin Gustave

Le Livre des conserves; Le Livre de cuisine; Le Cuisinier moderne ou Les Secrets de l’art culinaire

Paris 1869;1877;1887 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
237 Elisseeff Serge

Le Theatre Japonais (Kabuki)

Paris 1933 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
238 Maran Rene

Batouala

Paris 1928 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,855.00
239

L’Histoire de France representee avec des tableaux

1700-1799 EUR 500.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 3,855.00
240

Album militaire

Metz;Paris 1853 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 321.00
241 Lalaisse Hippolyte

Types militaires du troupier francais

Paris 1870 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 450.00
242 Le Rouge Georges-Louis

Atlas nouveau portatif a l’usage des militaires et du voyageur

Paris 1748 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,285.00
243

Manuscrit sur la formation militaire

1600-1699 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,383.00
244 Detaille Edouard;Richard Jules;Richoux

L’Armee francaise. Types et Uniformes; Album des eleves de l’ecole royale speciale militaire

Paris 1885-1889;1830 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 321.00
245 Drouyn Leo;Charpentier Eugene

La Guienne militaire; Cours d’administration militaire; L’Armee francaise. Scenes militaires

Bordeaux;Paris;Londres 1865;1840 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 771.00
246 Raffet Auguste

Retraite de Constantine; Prise de Constantine

Paris 1837-1838 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
247

Reunion de 147 volumes relatifs a l’œnologie

1900-1999 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 321.00
248 Hartmann

Reunion de portraits de celebrites et de caricatures

1930 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 463.00
249 Schardner Roger

Recueil de portraits et de caricatures de personnalites

1900-1999 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
  • 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
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, 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. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, 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]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, 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-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, 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. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, 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