Gros & Delettrez: End of the Samuelian Library and Various, 178607, PARIS
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 05, 2026 - May 05, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 286 | Onffroy de Thoron | Voyages des flottes de Salomon et d’Hiram, position geographique de Parvaim & Tarschisch |
Paris | 1869 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 455.00 |
| 287 | Catalogue. L. Wolff Manufacturing Co. Manufacturers of Plumbing Goods of every Description |
Chicago | 1895 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 288 | David Ramsey | Histoire de la Revolution d'Amerique par rapport a la Caroline Meridionale |
Londres; Paris | 1787 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 650.00 |
| 289 | David Ramsey | Histoire de la Revolution d'Amerique par rapport a la Caroline Meridionale |
Paris | 1796 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 390.00 |
| 290 | Didier Robert de Vaugondy; Philippe Buache; Delisle | Supplement de 10 cartes pour l’Encyclopedie de Diderot |
Paris | 1772-1773 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 455.00 |
| 291 | Juan de Solorzano y Pereyra | Politica Indiana ... Dividida en seis libros en los que, con gran distincion, y etude, se trata, y resuelve todo lo relativo al descubrimiento, descripcion, adquisicion, y retencion de las mismas Indias, y su govierno particular |
Madrid | 1776 | EUR 400.00 - 500.00 | EUR 520.00 |
| 292 | Pierre Sonnerat | Voyages a la Nouvelle Guinee, dans lequel on trouve la description des lieux, des observations physiques & morales |
Paris | 1776 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 1,040.00 |
| 293 | Diego de Torres Bollo; Francisco Vaez | Breve Relatione del P. Diego de Torres della Compagnia di Giesu. Procuratore della Provincia del Peru, circa il frutto che si raccoglie con gli Indiani di quel Regno |
Venetia | 1604 | EUR 500.00 - 600.00 | EUR 715.00 |
| 294 | Juan Antonio Xarque | Vida Prodigiosa, en lo Vario de los Secesos, Exemplar en lo Heroico de Religiosas virtudes, admirable en los fauores del Cielo, gloriosa en la Apostolico de sus empleos |
Zaragoca | 1662 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 390.00 |
| 295 | Antonio de Ulloa | Noticias americanas. Entretenimientos phisicos-historicos sobre la America Meridional, y la Septentrional Oriental |
Madrid | 1772 | EUR 250.00 - 300.00 | EUR 650.00 |
| 296 | Peter S. Townsend | An account of the yellow fever as it prevailed in the city of New York in the summer and autumn of 1822 |
New York | 1823 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 1,625.00 |
| 297 | A. A. Bonnaffe | Recuerdos de Lima. Album de tipos, trages y costumbres |
Lima | 1856; 1857 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,300.00 | EUR 1,430.00 |
| 298 | Alexander-Philipp Prince Wied-Neuwied | Voyage au Bresil dans les annees 1815, 1816 et 1817 |
Paris | 1821-1822 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 299 | Gustavo Baz; Eduardo L. Gallo | Histoire del Ferrocarril Mexicano |
Mexico | 1874 | Not Available | EUR 1,560.00 |
| 300 | Clemente de Ledesma; Garcilaso de la Vega; J. Eugene de Coussain; Lowenstern; Diaz del Castillo; Wagner; Guinnard; Ch. Dellon; William Rufus Chetwood; Pierre-Corneille Blessebois | 9 Books, including: Vida espiritual comun de la Serafica Tercera Orden |
Mexico; Lille; Paris; Paris; Paris; Paris; Paris; Cologne; Amsterdam; Parigi | 1689; 1711; 1824; 1843; 1877; 1906; 1868; 1709; 1730; 1862 | EUR 400.00 - 500.00 | EUR 585.00 |
| 302 | Charles Botta; Charlevoix; Soules; Caroll; Simonin; Albert David | N Books, including: Histoire de la Guerre de l'Independance des Etats-Unis d'Amerique |
Paris; Paris; NY; Paris; Washington, D.C.; Paris | 1813; 1744; 1787; 1836; 1879; 1948; 1947; 1849; 1836 | Not Available | EUR 273.00 |
| 303 | Aubert-Armand; L.-Ch. Royer; Pompilus; Schramm; Felix Rose-Rosette; M. Besson; G. Pierre-Charles; A. Hayet; Philippes de Kerhallet; Granier de Cassagnac | 16 Books, including: Code de la Martinique |
Fort-de-France; Paris; Basse-Terre; Paris; Pointe-a-Pitre; Fort-de-France; Paris; Lyon; Paris | 1865; 1944; 1961; 1867; 1952; 1925-1930; 1931; III; 1935; 1967; 1963; 1941-1945; 1929; 1941; 1937; 1842-1844 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 195.00 |
| 304 | Henri Stehle; Madeleine Stehle; L. Quentin | Flore des Antilles Francaises, agronomique et descriptive |
Fort-de-France; Pointe-a-Pitre; Basse-Terre; Montpellier | 1939-1969 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 305 | G. Hardy; Homberg; Thomas Saint-Maur | N Books, including: Nouveau Voyages aux Isles de l’Amerique |
Paris; Paris; Paris | 1721; 1953; 1927; 1931 | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
| 306 | Charles Lemire | La Colonisation francaise en Nouvelle-Caledonie et dependances |
Paris; Noumea | 1878 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 390.00 |
| 307 | Emmanuel Rougier; Max Radiguet; Soane Malia | 3 Books, including: Ile Christmas / South Seas (Oceanie) / Coconuts, Birds, Fisches etc. |
Brioude; Paris; Lyon | 1914; 1929; 1910 | EUR 100.00 - 130.00 | EUR 130.00 |
| 308 | Jules-Sebastien Dumont d'Urville | Voyage au pole Sud et dans l'Oceanie sur les corvettes L'Astrolabe et La Zelee execute par ordre du Roi pendant les annees 1837-1838-1839-1840 |
Paris | 1841-1846 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 325.00 |
| 309 | Jules-Sebastien Dumont d'Urville | Voyage au pole Sud et dans l'Oceanie sur les corvettes L'Astrolabe et La Zelee execute par ordre du Roi pendant les annees 1837-1838-1839-1840 |
Paris | 1841-1846 | EUR 80.00 - 100.00 | EUR 481.00 |
| 310 | Francois Peron; Louis de Freycinet | Voyage de decouvertes aux terres australes |
Paris | 1807-1816 | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 4,160.00 |
| 311 | J.J. Houtou de La Billardiere | Atlas pour servir a la relation du voyage a la recherche de La Perouse fait par ordre de l'Assemblee constituante, pendant les annees 1791 et 1792 et pendant la 1ere et la 2eme annee de la Republique Francaise |
Paris | 1817 | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | EUR 975.00 |
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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.