Aguttes: Rare Books & Antiquarian Manuscripts, 177621, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- April 22, 2026 - April 22, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 401 | Octave Uzanne | AVRIL. L'ombrelle - Le Gant - Le Manchon. |
Paris | 1883 | EUR 400.00 - 500.00 | EUR 1,074.00 |
| 402 | Emile Zola | Une page d’amour; La Curee |
Paris | 1895; 1894 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 315.00 |
| 403 | comte de Chevigne; Gresset; Florian; Millevoye; Voltaire; Berquin; Demoustier | N Books, including: Les Contes remois |
Epernay; Paris | 1875; 1855; ND (XIXe siècle) | EUR 180.00 - 200.00 | EUR 480.00 |
| 404 | Mme de La Fayette; Alice Hurtrel; Fontenelle; J. de La Lande; Adolphe Lalauze; Montaigne; Mignet; Bernardin de Saint Pierre | N Books, including: Histoire de Madame Henriette d’Angleterre, premiere fame de Philippe de France, duc d’Orleans |
Paris | 1853; 1883; 1826; 1888; 1831; 1836; 1838 | EUR 400.00 - 500.00 | EUR 480.00 |
| 405 | Cazotte; Lesage | Le Diable amoureux; Le Diable boiteux |
Paris | 1883; 1880 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 480.00 |
| 406 | Boileau-Despreaux; Ch. Perrault; Straparola; Tastu; Scarron; Hoffmann; Nodier; Lacroix | N Books, including: OEuvres Poetiques |
Paris | 1889; 1876; 1882; c. 1835; 1880; 1883; 1887; 1831 | EUR 400.00 - 500.00 | EUR 442.00 |
| 407 | La Salle; de Maistre; Montesquieu | Les Quinze joyes de mariage; Voyage autour de ma chambre, suivi de L'Expedition nocturne; Lettres Persanes |
Paris | 1887; 1877; 1886 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 278.00 |
| 408 | Jean Jacques Rousseau; Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray | La Nouvelle Heloise; Les Amours du chevalier de Faublas |
Paris | 1889; 1884 | EUR 120.00 - 150.00 | EUR 164.00 |
| 409 | Pablo Picasso | Eaux-fortes originales pour des textes de Buffon. |
Paris | 1942 | EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | EUR 14,533.00 |
| 410 | Louis Bertrand | Cardenio. L’homme aux rubans couleur de feu. |
Paris | 1922 | EUR 180.00 - 200.00 | EUR 404.00 |
| 411 | Francis Carco | Les Innocents. |
Paris | 1921 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 252.00 |
| 412 | Giacomo Casanova | Une Aventure de Casanova. |
Paris | 1926 | EUR 400.00 - 500.00 | EUR 530.00 |
| 413 | Francois Coppee | Le Passant, comedie en un acte et en vers. |
Paris | 1920 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 278.00 |
| 414 | Claude Farrere | Mademoiselle Dax jeune fille. |
Paris | 1922 | EUR 130.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
| 415 | Jean Giraudoux | Sodome et Gomorrhe. |
Paris | 1943 | EUR 180.00 - 200.00 | EUR 379.00 |
| 416 | Marco Polo | Le Livre de Marco Polo gentilhomme venitien 1271-1295. |
Paris | 1932 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 404.00 |
| 417 | Pierre Loti | Le Mariage de Loti. |
Paris | 1927 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 505.00 |
| 418 | Maurice Maeterlinck | La Vie des abeilles. |
Paris | 1918 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 315.00 |
| 419 | Raymond Radiguet | Le Diable au corps. |
Paris | 1957 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 315.00 |
| 420 | George Sand | Francois le Champi. |
Paris | 1905 | EUR 180.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 421 | Shakespeare | Les Tragedies de Shakespeare. |
Paris | 1939 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 126.00 |
| 422 | Oscar Wilde | Deux Contes. |
Paris | 1926 | EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 3,917.00 |
| 423 | Gebhart; Mme de La Fayette; Anatole France; Anatole France; Anatole France; Samain | Les Trois rois; La Princesse de Cleves; Le Miracle de la Pie; Frere Joconde; Le petit soldat de plomb; Hyalis le petit faune aux yeux bleus |
Paris; Bruxelles | 1919; 1925; 1921; 1923; 1919; 1918 | EUR 180.00 - 200.00 | EUR 353.00 |
| 424 | Rabelais; Dickens | Gargantua. Pantagruel; David Copperfield |
Paris; Casablanca | 1950; 1948 | EUR 120.00 - 150.00 | EUR 126.00 |
| 425 | Duhamel; Philippe; de Gourmont; Erckmann-Chatrian | Les Plaisirs et les jeux; Bubu de Montparnasse; Lettres d’un satyre; Madame Therese |
Bruxelles; Paris | 1951; 1958; 1913; 1925 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 227.00 |
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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. -
Forum Auctions
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 -
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.