OSENAT: Royalty at Versailles, 174321, VERSAILLES
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 14, 2026 - June 14, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | VUE DU SIEGE ET PRISE DE LA VILLE ET CHATEAU D'AUGUSTE EN SICILE |
17th century | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | EUR 845.00 | ||
| 102 | Lepautre Jean (1618-1682) | The festivities organized for the coronation of Louis XIV |
N/A | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 103 | Silvestre Israel (1621-1691) | Races de Tetes et Dispositions des cinq Quadrilles dans l'Amphiteatre |
Paris | N/A | EUR 300.00 - 500.00 | EUR 2,470.00 |
| 104 | Van der Meulen; Bonnart R. | The Prince of Orange's army defeated at Mont Cassel by the King's army |
17th century | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 1,235.00 | |
| 105 | Vernet Horace | The life of Louise de La Valliere and Louis XIV |
N/A | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 106 | Le Brun; Le Clerc | Renouvellement d'alliance entre la France et les Suisses |
Paris | 18th century | EUR 400.00 - 450.00 | Not Sold |
| 107 | Girard | LE BASSIN DE NEPTUNE VU DU COTE DU MIDY |
1714 | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | EUR 2,600.00 | |
| 108 | Le Pautre Pierre | GENERAL PLAN OF TRIANON |
N/A | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 109 | Girard | PLAN GENERAL DES JARDINS BOSQUETS ET PIECES D'EAU DU PETIT PARC DE VERSAILLES |
N/A | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | EUR 1,300.00 | |
| 110 | Lebrun Charles; Loir Nicolas | The Fall of the Rebel Angels |
N/A | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | EUR 780.00 | |
| 111 | Tassin | GRANDE CARTE GENERALE DE FRANCE avec les routes de poste |
Paris | 1654 | EUR 300.00 - 500.00 | EUR 1.00 |
| 111B | Tassin | GRANDE CARTE DES DUCHES DE LORRAINE ET BAR |
Paris | 1646 | EUR 250.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 112 | Martini Pietro Antonio; Le Bas Jacques-Philippe | LYON ILE BARBE |
N/A | EUR 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 113 | Callet Antoine-Francois; Bervic Charles-Clement | LOUIS XVI IN CORONATION COSTUME |
N/A | EUR 500.00 - 700.00 | EUR 1,495.00 | |
| 114 | Moreau Jean Michel | The Queen's Arrival at the Hotel de Ville |
N/A | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 2,340.00 | |
| 115 | Tocque Louis; Larmessin Nicolas de III | Portrait of Louis, Dauphin of France |
18th century | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 585.00 | |
| 116 | Carte des troupes de France sur le pied des ordonnances 1770 |
1770 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 910.00 | ||
| 117 | Lattre Jean | MAP OF THE CITY OF NANTES AND ITS SUBURBS |
N/A | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 195.00 | |
| 118 | Bouillon Pierre | Journee du 20 juin 1792 au chateau des Tuileries |
N/A | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | EUR 845.00 | |
| 119 | David Jacques Louis; Jazet Jean-Pierre-Marie | THE JEU DE PAUME OATH |
N/A | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 120 | Jazet Jean Pierre Marie; Vernet Emile Jean Horace | LOUIS XV AT THE BATTLE OF FONTENOY |
N/A | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 4,160.00 | |
| 121 | PLAN DE LA BATAILLE DE MAIPU LE 5 AVRIL 1818 |
N/A | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 247.00 | ||
| 122 | Grand Duke Constantin Nicolaievitch |
19th century | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 130.00 | ||
| 123 | Damame de Martrais Michel-Francois | VIEW OF THE MODERN PALACE IN MOSKOU |
N/A | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 195.00 | |
| 124 | THE DEFENDERS OF THE MONARCHY |
N/A | EUR 100.00 - 200.00 | EUR 156.00 |
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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. -
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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
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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 -
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July 16, 2026Forum, 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. £12,000-18,000Forum, 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]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
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July 16, 2026Forum, 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-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
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July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, 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. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
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July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, 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