Vermot de Pas: History & Regions of France, 182405, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
July 08, 2026 - July 08, 2026
Page Size: 675 items in 27 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
76 Dubois

Handwritten discharge order

Grenoble 1692 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 102.40
77 La Balme

Note regarding supply and delivery of uniforms

Paris 1692 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 83.20
78 Bourbitout Hierosme

Receipt for three months’ pay

Fort Saint-Andre-sur-Salins 1692 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
79 Louis XIV

Certificate of office of Adjutant Major

Versailles 1693 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 128.00
80 Chamlay Jules Louis Bole

Letter signed by Jules Louis Bole, Marquis de Chamlay

Marly 1693 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
81 Montbard G

Portrait of Olivier Jegou du Laz

18th century EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 192.00
82 Phelypeaux De Ponchartrain Louis

Letter signed by Count Louis Phelypeaux de Ponchartrain

Versailles 1694 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
83 Louis XIV

Excerpt from a letter from King Louis XIV to the Duke of Noailles

1694 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 256.00
84 Darbon Charles Maurice

Military certificate for Leonard Dufour

Verdun 1695 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
85 Cambout De Merinville Armande Marie Magdelaine

Receipt for annual pension

Paris 1696 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
86 Le Maistre Gilles

Provisions from the Office of the Seneschal

Paris 1696 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
87 Aubespine Marquis de Chateauneuf

Letter from the Marquis de Chateauneuf

Versailles 1697 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
88 Crequy

Letter from A.S. Crequy, Abbess of Messines

Messines 1697 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
89 Charrier Jean-Baptiste

Receipt signed by Jean-Baptiste Charrier

Barcelona 1697 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
90

Declaration of the King imposing a sentence of nine years in the Galleys; Law concerning import duties on Colonial Goods

Paris; Nimes 1699; 1791 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
91 Boufflers Louis Francois

Letter signed to Mr. De ROUSSEVILLE

Boufflers 1700 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
92 D'Arlach Joseph

Statement of Claim for Noble Joseph D’ARLACH

circa 1702 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
93

Royal Edict Concerning the Alienation of High Justices

1702 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
94 Vendome Louis Joseph

Autograph letter signed

St. Benedet 1703 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
95 Simiane De Moncha Claude Francois Louis

Excerpt from the King’s Declaration regarding the SIXTH ECCLESIASTICAL DENIER

Lyon 1705 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
96

DECLARATION OF THE KING; EDICT OF THE KING

Metz 1705; 1709 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
97 Osmont Jacques

Declaration submitted by Jacques OSMONT

Dieppe 1705 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
98 La Croix De Castries Armand Pierre

Letter signed to the Abbe de LA ROQUETTE

Versailles 1705 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
99 Avelier Pierre

Receipt for the local consuls of LEDENON

Nimes 1707 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 102.40
100 Le Boullenger Robert

Declaration of land parcels in BORNAMBUSC

Montivilliers 1709 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 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