Gros & Delettrez: Books & Manuscripts, 180773, PARIS

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 04, 2026 - June 04, 2026
Page Size: 243 items in 10 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

Athanors

late 16th-early 17th century EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 13,000.00
2 Baudelaire Charles

L.A.S. to Michel Levy

1864 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 3,640.00
3 Dinet Etienne

Dossier Famille Dinet

1980-1983 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 585.00
4 Doumergue Gaston

L.A.S. and Typescript Letters

1906-1935 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
5 Dumas Mathieu

Lettres du general Dumas a S.A.S. Le Prince Joseph Pendant la Campagne de la Grande Armee, en 1805

after 1805 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
6 Maupassant A.; Maupassant S.

Le Neveu des demoiselles Jousselin

Paris 1903 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
7 David Felicien; Roger de Beauvoir; Favre Jules

Lot of Autographs from the 19th Century

ca. 1850; 1855; 1864 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
8 Feval Paul

Letters and Autograph Bill

ca 1862 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
9 Washington-Lafayette Georges; Zienecki Joseph; Ortolan

Lot of L.A.S. addressed to Hippolyte Carnot

1841; ca 1848 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 195.00
10 Thiers Adolphe; Bordillon G.; Duvergier; Thibaudeau; Charton; Dupont de l'Eure

Lot of L.A.S. from political or state figures

Angers; Paris; Neubourg 1846; 1848; ca 1842-1848; 1853 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
11 Merimee Prosper

L.A.S. to Hippolyte Carnot

Paris 1848 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
12 Humboldt Alexandre

L.A.S. to Hippolyte Carnot

Berlin 1848 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
13 Sue Eugene;Halevy Fromental;Halevy Leon

Lot of autographs

1848 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
14 Jacob Bibliophile;Lacroix;Dennebecq;Vivalin Aug;de Waelle Alfred;Grandmenil

Batch of professional letters

Paris;Colmar 1848;1861 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
15 Nerval Gerard de;Saint-Maur;Duprez;Gautier

Committee of the Association of Dramatic Artists

1848 EUR 180.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
16 La Tour d'Auvergne;Wissman

Correspondence with Mgr. Wissman

1848 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
17 Sand Georges;Duteil;d'Agoult Marie;Recamier Mme

L.A.S. from women to Carnot

1844;1848 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
18 Lamartine Alphonse de

Jocelyn

Paris 1836 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
19 Lamartine Alphonse de

Lot of 5 autograph letters

Paris 1847;1848;1849 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
20 Louis-Philippe

Autograph lot

1839;1846 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
21 Pissaro Camille

Lot of 6 L.A.S. addressed to Camille Pissaro

20th EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 130.00
22 Roland Pauline

Circular letter

Paris 1850 EUR 150.00 - 180.00 EUR 624.00
23 Michelet Jules

Historians and University Members to Hippolyte Carnot

1858 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
24 Hugo Victor

L.A.S. to Hippolyte Carnot

1872 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 585.00
25 Montonelli;Lo;Scheffer Ary;Nisard Desire;Pons de l'Herault

Batch of letters addressed to Carnot

Paris 1842;1848 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
  • 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