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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 128 | Nieuhoff Jean | L’Ambassade de la Compagnie Orientale des Provinces Unies vers l’Empereur de Chine, ou Grand Cam de Tartarie |
Leyde | 1665 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | EUR 1,413.00 |
| 129 | Nugent Maria | A Journal of a Voyage to, and residence in, the island of Jamaica; A Journal from the year 1811 till the year 1815 |
London | 1839 | EUR 700.00 - 900.00 | EUR 2,184.00 |
| 130 | Woodard; Wilson Henry; Keate George | Relation des malheurs et de la captivite, pendant deux ans et cinq mois, du capitaine Woodard; Relation des iles Pelew |
Paris | 1805; 1793 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 321.00 |
| 131 | Fontenelle Bernard Le Bouvier de; Wilson Henry; Keate George; Dumont d'Urville | Relation de l’Ile de Borneo; Relation des iles Pelew; Voyage au pole Sud et dans l’Oceanie |
Paris | 1807; 1788; 1841-1846 | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | EUR 642.00 |
| 132 | Vancouver George; Wilson Henry; Keate George | Voyage de decouvertes a l’Ocean Pacifique du Nord; Relation des iles Pelew |
Paris | 1800; 1793 | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | EUR 642.00 |
| 133 | Verreaux Jules; Verreaux Edouard; Beauvoir Ludovic de | L’Oceanie en estampes; Australie. Voyage autour du monde |
Paris; London | 1832; 1869 | EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 | EUR 1,028.00 |
| 134 | Vincendon-Dumoulin Adrien-Clement; Desgraz Cesar; Gracia Mathias | Iles Marquises ou Nouka-Hiva; Lettres sur les iles Marquises |
Paris | 1843 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 135 | Elliot Robert; Roberts Emma; Bacon Thomas | Vues pittoresques de l’Inde, de la Chine et des bords de la Mer Rouge; The oriental annual |
Paris; Londres | 1835; 1836-1840 | EUR 300.00 - 500.00 | EUR 1,542.00 |
| 136 | Outhier Regnault | Journal d’un voyage au Nord |
Paris | 1744 | EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 | EUR 771.00 |
| 137 | Pacho Jean-Raymond | Relation d’un voyage dans la Marmarique, la Cyrenaique, et les Oasis D’Audjelah et de Maradeh |
Paris | 1829 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 138 | Saulcy Louis-Felicien-Joseph Caignart de; Cosson; Kralik | Voyage autour de la mer morte et dans les terres bibliques |
Paris | 1853; 1854 | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 1,156.00 |
| 139 | Pallas Peter Simon | Travels through the Southern provinces of the Russian Empire |
Londres | 1802-1803 | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | EUR 450.00 |
| 140 | Pavie Auguste | Mission Pavie. Indochine |
Paris | 1901-1919 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 141 | Peron Francis; Freycinet Louis Claude de Saulces de; Baudin Nicolas | Voyage de decouvertes aux terres australes |
Paris | 1807-1816 | EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | EUR 5,782.00 |
| 142 | Peron Pierre-Francois | Memoires du capitaine Peron sur ses voyages aux cotes d’Afrique, en Arabie, a l’ile d’Amsterdam et de Mayotte |
Paris | 1824 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 143 | Jourdain Amable-Louis-Marie-Michel Brechillet; Malcolm John; Kotzebue Moritz von | La Perse, ou Tableau de l’histoire, du gouvernement, de la religion |
Paris | 1814; 1821; 1819 | EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 144 | Phipps Constantin-Jean | Voyage au Pole Boreal fait en 1773, par Ordre du Roi d’Angleterre |
Paris | 1775 | EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 | EUR 642.00 |
| 145 | Pinkerton J. | Geographie moderne, redigee sur un nouveau plan |
Paris | 1804 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 146 | Phipps Constantin John; Horsley Samuel | A Voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by his Majesty’s command 1773 |
Londres | 1774 | EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | EUR 4,112.00 |
| 147 | Raynal Guillaume Thomas | Histoire philosophique et politique des etablissemens et du commerce des europeens dans les deux Indes |
Geneve | 1780-1781 | EUR 700.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 148 | Raynal Guillaume Thomas | Histoire philosophique et politique des etablissemens et du commerce des europeens dans les deux Indes |
Geneve | 1780-1781 | EUR 700.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 149 | Raynal Guillaume Thomas | Histoire philosophique et politique des Isles francoises dans les Indes occidentales |
Lausanne | 1784 | EUR 300.00 - 500.00 | EUR 450.00 |
| 150 | Rivero Mariano Eduardo de; Tschudi Johan Jakob von | Antiguedades peruanas |
Viena | 1851 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 1,542.00 |
| 151 | Rochefort Charles | Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l’Amerique |
Rotterdam; Paris | 1658-1659 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 899.00 |
| 152 | Roussin Louis Antoine | Album de l’ile de la Reunion |
Saint-Denis | 1860-1863 | EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 | EUR 2,056.00 |
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