Beaussant Lefevre: Antiquarian Books and Modern Manuscripts, 177563, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 02, 2026 - June 02, 2026
Page Size: 214 items in 9 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Aneau Barthelemy

Picta poesis ut pictura poesis erit

Lyon 1552 Not Available EUR 2,061.00
2 Arioste

Roland furieux

Paris 1775-1783 Not Available EUR 418.00
3 Berthold the Teutonic; Zerbold van Zutphen Gerard; Thomas a Kampis; Bonaventure

Horologium devotionis

Cologne 1502-1505 Not Available EUR 3,918.00
4 Bosso Matteo

De instituendo sapientia animo disputationes

Bologna 1495 Not Available EUR 1,437.00
5 Bourdon de Sigrais Claude Guillaume

Histoire des rats, pour servir a l'histoire universelle

Paris 1738 Not Available EUR 157.00
6 Brant Sebastien

Stultifera navis

Augsburg 1497 Not Available EUR 6,183.00
7

Breviarium premonstratense

Paris 1505 Not Available EUR 7,084.00
8 Burgermeister Johann Stefan

Bibliotheca equestris

Ulm 1720 Not Available EUR 523.00
9 Bussy-Rabutin Roger de

Lettres avec les reponses

Amsterdam 1738 Not Available EUR 129.00
10 Sigognes; Regnier; Motin; Berthelot; Maynard

Le cabinet satyrique ou Recueil des vers piquans & gaillards

Amsterdam 1697 Not Available EUR 129.00
11 Castellesi Adriano

De sermone latino, & modis latine loquendi

Cologne 1566 Not Available EUR 387.00
12 Clement V; Giovanni da Imola; Francisco Zabarella

Clementis Quinti constitutiones in concilio Vienensi edite

Florence 1514 Not Available EUR 4,895.00
13 Cochet de Saint-Valier Melchior

Traite de l'indult du Parlement de Paris

Paris 1703 Not Available EUR 129.00
14 Moreau Catherine-Francoise

Table des lettres, visions et prieres de la sr de Ste Brigide

1741-1765 Not Available EUR 849.00
15 Demetrios Pepagomenos; Hieronymus Frascatorius; Pierre Gilles; Nicolas Rigault

Hierakosophion

Paris 1612 Not Available EUR 902.00
16 Desboulmiers

Honny soit qui mal y pense, ou Histoire des filles celebres du XVIIIe siecle

Londres 1775 Not Available EUR 65.00
17 Desgodets Antoine

Les loix des batimens, suivant la coutume de Paris

Paris 1777 Not Available EUR 53.00
18 Doni Anton Francesco

I mondi del Doni

Venice 1552 Not Available EUR 849.00
19 Du Breul Jacques

Le theatre des antiquitez des Paris

Paris 1612 Not Available EUR 104.00
20 Du Fouilloux Jacques; Guillaume Bouchet

La venerie

Poitiers 1568 Not Available EUR 1,959.00
21 Du Fouilloux Jacques; Jean de Franchieres; Guillaume Tardif; Arthelouche de Alagona; Guillaume Bouchet

La venerie; La fauconnerie

Paris 1621 Not Available EUR 1,675.00
22 Durand Guillaume

Breviarium aureum domini Guillermi Duranti speculatoris

Paris 1513 Not Available EUR 1,045.00
23

Etat du regiment des gardes francoises du roi, a la revue de Sa Majeste

Paris 1780 Not Available EUR 129.00
24 Fabrot Charles-Annibal

Praelectio in titulum decretalium Greg. IX de vita et honestate clericorum

Paris 1651 Not Available EUR 232.00
25 Fortin Francois

Delices de la campagne, ou Ruses de la chasse et de la pesche

Amsterdam 1732 Not Available EUR 392.00
  • 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