Ader: Autographed Letters and Manuscripts - Part II, 177753, PARIS

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Auction Report
Auction Date
May 21, 2026 - May 21, 2026
Page Size: 287 items in 12 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
183 Charles-Alexis Alexandre (1759-1825)

Precis sur Ch. Al. Alexandre chef de la premiere Legion de la garde nationale

1792 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 528.00
184

14 Paper Currency Bills

1780; 1861-1862; 1862; 1863; 1905; 1909; 1917 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 264.00
185 M. de Saint-Jean

14 L.A.S. from M. de SAINT-JEAN to M. Le Cavelier

1776-1777 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,374.00
186 Joseph-Mathias Gerard de Rayneval (1736-1812)

L.A.S. from Joseph-Mathias Gerard de Rayneval

1782 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 369.00
187 Louis Arcambal; A. Gillot

Certificate of existence and life for citizen Melanie Le Boucher

1794; 1795 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 290.00
188 Anne-Marie d'Orleans (1669-1728)

L.A. to the Duchess of Ventadour

Paris 1661; 1716 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
189

Livre des fondations de L'Arbresle

1611-1685 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 659.00
190 Marc-Rene de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson (1652-1721); Marc-Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson

10 L.S. from the Comte d'Argenson and his son

1718-1720; 1744-1757 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
191 Pierre Augereau (1757-1816)

L.A.S. to Dr. Raymond

1811 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
192 Charles Archduke of Austria (1771-1847)

L.S. with autograph compliment

1809 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 106.00
193 Antoine-Louis-Francois de Besiade d'Avaray (1759-1811)

Flight of the future Louis XVIII

1791 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
194 Andre Aude (1765-1824)

Massacres in AVIGNON

1791 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,319.00
195 Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736-1793)

On his duties as Mayor of Paris

Paris 1790 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 317.00
196

Fould & Oppenheim Bank Correspondence

1815-1816 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 1,319.00
197 Francois de Bassompierre (1579-1646)

Payment of 900 livres tournois to Maurice Desvieulx

Paris 1635 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 198.00
198 Francois Ravaisson-Mollien

Prise de la BASTILLE

1789; 1874; ND EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 1,714.00
199 Francois Cointeraux (1740-1830)

Prise de la BASTILLE

Paris 1789 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 923.00
200 Charlotte de Beaune (1551-1617)

Appointment of Laurent Moyreau as attorney

1602 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
201 Roger de Saint-Lary duc de Bellegarde (1563-1646)

Letter to Claude Bouthillier

Sens 1643 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
202 Charles-Ferdinand Duke of Berry (1778-1820)

Letter to Marquis de Clarac

Vienna 1802 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
203 Elie Decazes

Minute of a telegraphic dispatch

Paris 1820 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 462.00
204

Collection of 34 Letters

1888-1889 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
205 Antoine-Francois marquis de Bertrand de Molleville (1744-1818)

Autograph note

1792 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
206 Francois-Xavier comte de Sade (1777-1846)

Minute du Rapport sur la reconstruction de la Bibliotheque

1835 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 396.00
207 Jean II de Gontaut baron de BIRON (1561-1636); Henri II de MONTMORENCY

Letter to Baron de Castelnau d'Estretefonds

1629; 1626 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
  • Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Queen Anne's War] Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York Accomplished to Queen Anne. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Mormonism] A Unique Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words Offered to His Congregation, the Day Before his Violent Death, 1844. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] [Mantle, Mickey] 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: [Baseball] A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Declaration of Independence] One of the First Printed Announcements of American Independence, Subscriber Ebenezer Hazard's Copy, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000/15,000
    Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776! $15,000/25,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [War of 1812] "We Have Met the Enemy and They are Ours": The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry is Appointed Master Commandant in the United States Navy, 1812. $40,000/60,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Star-Spangled Banner] Eyewitness Account of the Shelling of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812, in a Manuscript Logbook from the HMS Trave, Present at the Battles of Baltimore and New Orleans, 1814-16. $60,000/80,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Thomas Jefferson at the Birth of a New Nation: An Important Letter Carried by a Jewish Patriot Communicating the Definitive Treaty of Paris, January 16, 1784. $100,000/200,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Colonial America] [Plymouth Colony] Plymouth Colony Seeks a Royal Charter: A Rare and Important Plymouth Colony Document, 1690/91. $6,000/9,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Selections from The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin
    Live Sale 24 June
    Sotheby’s, June 24: (Benjamin Franklin). The founding—and funding—of the Pennsylvania Hospital. $150,000 to $200,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, "the Day of the Declaration of Independence is everywhere annually celebrated”. $80,000 to $120,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, “probably the most fundamental thing ever done in the field of electricity”. $75,000 to $125,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin. One of Franklin's very earliest surviving letters. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Roger More and Benjamin Franklin. The only complete copy known of Poor Roger. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: John Jerman. The American Almanack ... for 1731 — the only known copy in private hands. $25,000 to $35,000.