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| Auction Name | Books and Manuscripts | Total Sales (EUR) | 1,893,120.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | June 17, 2026 - June 17, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 981,300.00 |
| Sale Number | #pf2654 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 1,421,400.00 |
| Total Lots | 125 | ||
| Sold Lots | 98.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 1,291,900.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 78.40% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 1,859,700.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 27 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 101.80% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | Lope de Vega Felix | El Cardenal de Belen |
1610 | EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | EUR 230,400.00 |
| 75 | Description de l'Egypte |
1809-1830 | EUR 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 | EUR 179,200.00 | |
| 149 | Lagerfeld Karl | Le voyage imaginaire de Coco Chanel et d’Ines de La Fressange a travers l'Histoire de la Mode |
1987 | EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | EUR 115,200.00 |
| 13 | Descartes Rene | Discours de la methode |
1637 | EUR 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 | EUR 76,800.00 |
| 163 | Proust Marcel | A la recherche du temps perdu |
1918-1927 | EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | EUR 76,800.00 |
| 71 | Boigne Eleonore-Adele d’Osmond | Memoires. Recits d’une tante |
1835-1862 | EUR 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 | EUR 70,400.00 |
| 121 | Buffet, Bernard; Ducasse, Isidore | Les Chants de Maldoror |
1952 | EUR 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 | EUR 70,400.00 |
| 54 | Regiomontanus Johannes; Santbech Daniel; Peurbach | De triangulis planis et sphaericis; In Ptolemaei magnam compositionem; Problematum astronomicorum |
1550; 1561 | EUR 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | EUR 57,600.00 |
| 22 | Fridolin Stephan | Der Schatzbehalter oder Schrein der waren Reichtumer des heils und ewyger Seligkeit genant |
1491 | EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | EUR 53,760.00 |
| 169 | Vieira da Silva Maria Helena; Char Rene | L'Inclemence lointaine |
1961-1964 | EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | EUR 48,640.00 |
| 50 | Pascal Blaise | Les Provinciales |
1657 | EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | EUR 44,800.00 |
| 105 | Rimbaud Arthur | Une saison en enfer |
1873 | EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | EUR 33,280.00 |
| 38 | Sartorio Bernardo | I numi a diporto su l’Adriatico |
1688 | EUR 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | EUR 32,000.00 |
| 66 | Villedieu Marie Catherine Hortense de | Les Galanteries grenadines |
1673 | EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | EUR 28,160.00 |
| 110 | Twain Mark | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; The Poetical Works |
1877; 1876 | EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | EUR 28,160.00 |
| 133 | Einstein Albert | Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie |
1919 | EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | EUR 28,160.00 |
| 74 | Carnot Sadi | Reflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu |
1824 | EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | EUR 25,600.00 |
| 5 | Bayer Johann | Uranometria, omnium asterismorum continens schemata |
1603 | EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | EUR 24,320.00 |
| 16 | Musurus Marcus | Epistolae diversorum philosophorum, oratorum, rhetorum |
1499 | EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | EUR 23,040.00 |
| 47 | Montaigne Michel de | Essais |
1587 | EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | EUR 23,040.00 |
| 2 | Agustin Antonio | Dialoghi intorno alle medaglie inscrittioni et altre antichita |
1592 | EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | EUR 21,760.00 |
| 28 | Harvey William | De Motu Cordis & sanguinis in animalibus |
1639; 1640; 1644 | EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | EUR 19,200.00 |
| 51 | Pascal Blaise | Pensees sur la religion |
1670 | EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | EUR 19,200.00 |
| 113 | Picasso, Pablo; Bakst, Leon; Cocteau, Jean | Programme officiel des Ballets russes |
1917 | EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 16,640.00 |
| 20 | Fine Oronce | Protomathesis |
1530-1532 | EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | EUR 15,360.00 |
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Sotheby’s Geek Week
14-15 JulySotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000. -
Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
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
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
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
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
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
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
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