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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | Vialla de Sommieres L. C.; Cousinery Esprit Mari | Voyage historique et politique au Montenegro; Voyage dans la Macedoine |
Paris | 1820; 1831 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 29 | Baudier Michel | Histoire generalle du serrail et de la cour du grand seigneur Empereur des Turcs; Histoire de la cour du Roy de la Chine |
Paris | 1631 | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | EUR 578.00 |
| 30 | Bellin Jacques-Nicolas | Description geographique de la Guyane |
Paris | 1763 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 4,112.00 |
| 31 | Berbrugger Adrien | Algerie historique, pittoresque et monumentale |
Paris | 1843-1845 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 1,927.00 |
| 32 | Boehm Jean | Recueil de diverses histoires touchant les situations de toutes regions & pays contenuz es trois parties du monde |
Paris | 1542 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 771.00 |
| 33 | Bonaparte Roland | Les Habitants de Surinam. Notes recueillies a l’Exposition coloniale d’Amsterdam en 1883 |
Paris | 1884 | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | EUR 771.00 |
| 34 | Boucher de la Richarderie G. | Bibliotheque universelle des voyages |
Paris | 1808 | EUR 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 35 | Boulitchoff Ivan Dimitri | Voyage dans la Siberie orientale. Premiere partie. Voyage au Kamtchatka |
Saint-Petersbourg | 1856 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 3,212.00 |
| 36 | Bradford Guillaume | Sketches of the country… Esquisses du pays, du caractere et du costume en Portugal et en Espagne |
Londres | 1812-1813 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 1,927.00 |
| 37 | Burnes Alexandre | Voyages de l’embouchure de l’Indus a Lahor, Caboul, Balkh et a Boukhara ; et retour par la Perse |
Paris | 1835 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 38 | Buvelot Louis; Moreau Louis-Auguste | Rio de Janeiro pitoresco |
Rio de Janeiro | 1842-1843 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 2,570.00 |
| 39 | Cailliaud Frederic (1787-1869) | Voyage a Meroe, au fleuve blanc, au-dela du Fazoql |
Paris | 1823; 1826-1827 | EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 4,240.00 |
| 40 | Camus Armand-Gaston | Memoire sur la collection des grands et petits voyages et sur la collection des voyages de Melchisedech Thevenot |
Paris | 1802; 1803 | EUR 500.00 - 800.00 | EUR 321.00 |
| 41 | Long J.; Weld Isaac | Voyages chez les differentes nations de l’Amerique septentrionale; Voyage au Canada dans les annees 1795, 1796 et 1797 |
Paris | 1794; 1811 | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 42 | Chabert Joseph Bernard | Voyage fait par ordre du roi en 1750 et 175, dans l’Amerique septentrionale |
Paris | 1753 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 43 | Champollion Jean-Francois | Precis du systeme hieroglyphique egyptien |
Paris | 1824 | EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | EUR 14,133.00 |
| 44 | Chanlaire Pierre-Gregoire; Dumez Pierre | Precis elementaire et methodique de la nouvelle geographie de la France; Atlas national portatif de la France |
Paris | 1791-1792 | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | EUR 771.00 |
| 45 | Chardin Jean | Voyages en Perse, et autres lieux de l’Orient |
Amsterdam | 1735 | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 5,139.00 |
| 46 | Aubry-Lecomte; Deveria; Grevedon; Vidal; Estayrac de Lauture; Allom Thomas; Pelle Clement | 4 Books, including: Album chinois |
Paris; Londres | ND; 1902; 1865; 1843-1845 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 1,285.00 |
| 47 | Grosier Abbe; Timkovski Egor Fedorovich | Description generale de la Chine; Voyage a Peking a travers la Mongolie en 1820 et 1821 |
Paris | 1787; 1827 | EUR 500.00 - 800.00 | EUR 899.00 |
| 48 | Huc pere | L’Empire chinois; Le Christianisme en Chine, en Tartarie et au Thibet |
Paris | 1854; 1857 | EUR 200.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 49 | Macartney Lord; Mac-Leod John | Voyage dans l’interieur de la Chine et en Tartarie; Relation de l’ambassade a la Chine; Voyage du capitaine Maxwell |
Paris | 1804; 1797; 1818 | EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | Not Sold |
| 50 | Anson George; Walter Richard; Turnbull John | Voyage autour du monde; Voyage fait autour du monde |
Geneve; Paris | 1750; 1807 | EUR 700.00 - 900.00 | EUR 450.00 |
| 51 | Pages F.; Prudhomme Louis; Dumont d’Urville | Nouveau voyage autour du monde; Voyage a la Guiane et a Cayenne; Voyage pittoresque autour du monde; Voyage pittoresque dans les deux Ameriques |
Paris | 1797; 1798; 1834-1835; 1836 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 52 | Clausse Gustave | Le Tyrol. Souvenirs. |
Paris | 1886 | EUR 100.00 - 200.00 | EUR 193.00 |
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