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Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Collections of the Château de Tournay : The Library | Total Sales (EUR) | 1,149,604.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | June 18, 2026 - June 18, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 469,400.00 |
| Sale Number | #24672 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 664,000.00 |
| Total Lots | 84 | ||
| Sold Lots | 72.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 512,100.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 85.71% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 723,800.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 12 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 158.83% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 73 | Voltaire Francois-Marie Arouet de | Collection Complette des Œuvres de Mr. De Voltaire; Correspondance |
1768-1777; 1796 | EUR 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | EUR 120,650.00 |
| 35 | La Fontaine Jean de;Oudry Jean-Baptiste | Fables choisies, mises en vers |
1755-1759 | EUR 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 | EUR 116,840.00 |
| 41 | Le Roy Julien-David (1724-1803) | Les Ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grece |
1758 | EUR 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | EUR 88,900.00 |
| 49 | Moliere Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622-1673) | Oeuvres |
1734 | EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | EUR 39,370.00 |
| 13 | Buffon Georges-Louis Leclerc comte de (1707-1788) | Œuvres completes |
1824-1832 | EUR 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | EUR 38,100.00 |
| 42 | Recueil des festes, feux d'artifice et pompes funebres, ordonnees pour le roi |
1756 | EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | EUR 38,100.00 | |
| 55 | Perelle Gabriel (1603-1677); Perelle Adam (1640-1695); Perelle Nicolas | Recueil compose de 6 suites totalisant 287 planches |
ca. 1660 | EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | EUR 33,020.00 |
| 6 | Blaeu Willem Jansz (1571-1638); Blaeu Jean (1596-1673) | Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive novus atlas |
1645 | EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | EUR 30,480.00 |
| 74 | Voltaire Francois-Marie Arouet de | Œuvres completes |
1785-1789 | EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | EUR 30,480.00 |
| 78 | Zurlauben Beat-Fidele-Antoine de La Tour-Chatillon de | Tableaux topographiques, pittoresques, physiques, historiques, moraux, politiques, litteraires de la Suisse |
1780-1788 | EUR 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | EUR 30,480.00 |
| 37 | La Fontaine Jean de | Fables choisies mises en vers |
1765-1775 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 29,210.00 |
| 80 | Chateaubriand Francois-Rene de | Œuvres completes |
1826-1831 | EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | EUR 27,940.00 |
| 68 | Silvestre Israel | Recueil de 22 vues et plans de chateaux royaux |
1666-1774 | EUR 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | EUR 25,400.00 |
| 1 | Academie des inscriptions et belles-lettres | Histoire de l'academie royale des inscriptions et belles lettres |
1717-1764 | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 24,130.00 |
| 51 | Montaigne Michel Eyquem de (1533-1592) | Journal du voyage de Michel de Montaigne en Italie |
1774 | EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | EUR 22,860.00 |
| 15 | Les Plaisirs de l'isle enchantee, ou les fetes et divertissements du Roy, a Versailles |
1673-1674 | EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | EUR 20,320.00 | |
| 76 | Watteau Antoine | Figures de differents caracteres, de paysages, & etudes dessinees d’apres nature |
vers 1735 | EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | EUR 20,320.00 |
| 52 | Newcastle William Cavendish (1593-1676) | Methode et invention nouvelle de dresser les chevaux |
1657; 1658 | EUR 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | EUR 19,050.00 |
| 67 | Sevigne Madame de | Recueil des lettres de Madame la marquise de Sevigne |
1754 | EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 17,780.00 |
| 53 | Ovide (43 av. J-C – 17 ap. J-C) | Les Metamorphoses |
1767-1771 | EUR 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | EUR 16,510.00 |
| 11 | Buffon Georges-Louis-Marie Leclerc comte de (1707-1788) | Histoire naturelle des oiseaux |
1770-1771 | EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | EUR 15,240.00 |
| 12 | Buffon Georges-Louis Leclerc comte de (1707-1788) | Œuvres completes |
1819-1822 | EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | EUR 15,240.00 |
| 16 | Van der Meulen Adam Francois (1632-1690) | Collection de 35 vues integrees plus tard dans la serie du Cabinet du Roi |
1685 et après | EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | EUR 13,970.00 |
| 50 | Moliere Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622-1673) | Œuvres avec des remarques grammaticales |
1773 | EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | EUR 12,700.00 |
| 39 | Laval Antoine Mathe de | Desseins de professions nobles et publiques |
1612 | EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | EUR 12,065.00 |
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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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The Private Library:
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
The Private Library:
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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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