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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 208 | Carsten Niebuhr | Voyage en Arabie & en d’autres pays circonvoisins |
Amsterdam; Utrecht | 1776-1780 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 1,040.00 |
| 209 | Paris | Souvenirs de Jerusalem |
Paris | ND (XIXe) | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | EUR 2,860.00 |
| 210 | Nouveau voyage de l’Egypte, de la Terre-Sainte, du Mont-Liban, de Constantinople, & des Echelles du Levant |
Lisbonne | 1702 | EUR 400.00 - 500.00 | EUR 780.00 | |
| 211 | Lodovico Marracci (1612-1700) | Alcorani textus universus ex correctioribus Arabum exemplaribus... descriptus... in latinum translatus |
Patavii (Padoue) | 1698 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 212 | Muhammad al-Mahdi al-Hafnawi (1737-1815); Jean-Joseph Marcel | Contes de Cheykh El-Mohdy |
Paris | 1835 | EUR 200.00 - 250.00 | EUR 260.00 |
| 213 | Felix Mengin | Histoire de l'Egypte sous le gouvernement de Mohammed-Aly, ou recit des Evenements Politiques et Militaires qui ont eu lieu depuis le Depart des Francais jusqu'en 1823 |
Paris | 1823 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 585.00 |
| 214 | Humphrey Prideaux; comte de Boulainvilliers | Vie de Mahomet; Vie de Mahomed, avec des reflexions sur la Religion Mahometane et les Coutumes des Musulmans |
Amsterdam; Amsterdam | 1699; 1731 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 260.00 |
| 215 | Achille Constant T. Emile Prisse d'Avennes (1807–1879) | L'Art Arabe d'apres les monuments du Kaire depuis le VIIe siecle jusqu’a la fin du XVIIIe |
Paris | 1869-1877 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 6,240.00 |
| 216 | Matthaus Rader (1561-1634) | Matthaei Raderi e Societate Iesu ad Q Curtii Rufi de Alexandro Magno historiam, prolusiones, librorum synopses, capitum argumenta, commentarii |
Coloniae Agrippinae (Cologne) | 1628 | EUR 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 218 | Hadrian Reland (1676-1718); T.H. van den Honert | De Religione Mohammedica libri duo; Theologia naturalis et revelata per aphorismos delineata |
Utrecht; Amsterdam | 1717; 1715 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 1,560.00 |
| 219 | Jacobus Scheidius | Glossarium arabico-latinum manuale |
Lugduni batavorum | 1769 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 220 | Lot de 4 portraits peints de sultans turcs |
fin XIXe début XXe | EUR 400.00 - 500.00 | EUR 1,560.00 | ||
| 221 | Lot de cartes postales et photos amateurs de prospection hydraulique ou petroliere |
Arabie Saoudite | fin XXe siècle | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 222 | Albert Kammerer | La Mer Rouge, l’Abyssinie et l’Arabie depuis l’Antiquite |
Le Caire | 1929-1952 | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | EUR 1,040.00 |
| 223 | Henry de Monfreid | Memoires, lettres et fragments de tapuscrits |
1931-1938 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 1,430.00 | |
| 224 | Champollion le jeune | Monuments de l’Egypte et de la Nubie |
Paris | 1835-1845 | EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 | EUR 10,400.00 |
| 225 | Champollion le Jeune | Grammaire egyptienne, ou Principes Generaux de l'Ecriture Sacree Egyptienne |
Paris | 1836-1841 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 2,730.00 |
| 226 | D’Ohsson | Tableau general de l’Empire othoman |
Paris | 1786-1791 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 455.00 |
| 227 | Louis-Francois Cassas | Voyage pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phenicie, de la Palestine et de la Basse Egypte |
Paris | 1799 | EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 13,000.00 |
| 228 | Charles-Louis-Fleury Panckoucke | Description de l’Egypte ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont ete faites en Egypte |
Paris | 1820-1826 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 16,900.00 |
| 229 | LOT ORIENTALISME. MONDE ARABE. PERSE. Important ensemble d’ouvrages |
N/A | EUR 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 230 | Gouvernement General de l’Algerie | Departement d’Oran - Departement de Constantine |
Algerie | seconde moitié du XIXe | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 260.00 |
| 231 | Coran manuscrit en arabe |
Afrique de l’Ouest / region sahelienne | fin XVIIIe-début XIXe | EUR 400.00 - 500.00 | EUR 910.00 | |
| 232 | Coran manuscrit en arabe |
Afrique sub-saharienne | XIXe | EUR 400.00 - 500.00 | EUR 585.00 | |
| 233 | Coran manuscrit en arabe |
Afrique sub-saharienne | XIXe | EUR 400.00 - 500.00 | EUR 1,820.00 |
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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.