Vermot de Pas: Ana and James Melikian Collection: Part II, 179776, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Date
June 21, 2026 - June 21, 2026
Page Size: 220 items in 9 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
92

8 Books, including: Matrimonial dispensation for the marriage of Francisco Guedes Pinto and Ana Maria

1779; 1764; 1824; 1751; 1697; 1784; 1810 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
93 Marie II; Tojal

Private documents on Almada

Almada 1783-1843 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Unknown
94

Notarial deed of 1785

Lisbon 1785 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
95

Pratica do sacramento da penitencia ou methodo para o administar utilmente

Lisbon 1786 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 Unknown
96 Almeida Teodoro

Tezoiro de Paciencia Nas chagas de Jezu Cristo ou Consolasao da Alma atribulada na meditasao das penas do Salvador

Portugal 18th century EUR 250.00 - 350.00 Unknown
97

Collection of 18 sermons or prayers

Portugal late 18th century EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
98

Diario eclesiastico para o Reino de Portugal

Lisbon 1791; 1790 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
99

Diario eclesiastico para o Reino de Portugal

Lisbon 1803; 1802 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
100 Strangford

Poems from the Portuguese of Luis De Camoens

Philadelphia 1805 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 Unknown
101

General and particular laws governing the Augustinian convent of Vila Vicosa

1807 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
102 Seixas Joze Theodoro

Letter patent to obtain a coat of arms for a hidalgo

1812 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
103 Almeida Joao Ferreira

O Novo Testamento de Nosso Senhor e Redemptor Jesu Christo

London 1819 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
104 Almeida Castanho Manoel Antonio; Pinheiro de Aragao Manuel Pedro Tomas

Two handwritten documents in Portuguese

19th century EUR 100.00 - 120.00 Unknown
105 Alexandre du Tres Saint Nom de Maria Guadalupe; Freire Joao Paulo

Portuguese manuscript collection

early 19th century EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
106

Alphabetical index of court cases relating to capelas

circa 1830 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
107

Alfabeto do Livro 1° dos Exames de 3° anno para piloto da Marinha Real

19th century EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
108 Camoens Luis

Os Lusiadas

Badajoz 1873 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
109 Cunha Jose Anastacio

8 Manuscripts, including: Que bom pai!

1855; 1708; 1690; 1727; 1889 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 Unknown
110 Eca de Queiros Jose Maria

O Mandarim

Porto; Braga 1880 EUR 250.00 - 350.00 Unknown
111 Moliere

O Filosofo fingido; Os Libertinos; O Misanthropo; O Amorado

1811-1813 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
112 Silva Jose Marques

Compendio da Historia de Portugal

Lisbon 1856 EUR 500.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
113

Report on the sanatorium on Madeira Island

1907 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
114 Lopes Vieira Alonso

Por amor do Mosteiro

1929 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
115 Souza Miranda

Abencoado telephone

N/A EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
118 Jordi of Austria; Ramirez de Haro Antonio

Les Instructions e ordinacions perals novament convertits del regne de Valencia

Valencia 1556 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Unknown
  • 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