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Beaussant Lefevre: Antiquarian Books and Modern Manuscripts
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Antiquarian Books and Modern Manuscripts | Total Sales (EUR) | 185,022.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | June 02, 2026 - June 02, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 0.00 |
| Sale Number | #177563 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 0.00 |
| Total Lots | 214 | ||
| Sold Lots | 175.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 0.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 81.78% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 0.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 39 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | Inf% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 197 | Ronsard Pierre de;Matisse Henri | Florilege des amours |
1948 | Not Available | EUR 17,388.00 |
| 32 | Livre d'heures a l'usage de Paris |
15th century | Not Available | EUR 9,660.00 | |
| 34 | Hore virginis intemerate secudum usum Romane ecclesie |
circa 1510 | Not Available | EUR 8,759.00 | |
| 48 | Muller Ignacz | Mappa geographica novissima regni Hungariae |
1769 | Not Available | EUR 7,857.00 |
| 7 | Breviarium premonstratense |
1505 | Not Available | EUR 7,084.00 | |
| 6 | Brant Sebastien | Stultifera navis |
1497 | Not Available | EUR 6,183.00 |
| 120 | Leblanc Maurice | N Books, including: Les aventures extraordinaires d'Arsene Lupin |
1905-1933 | Not Available | EUR 5,539.00 |
| 115 | Hugo Victor | Autograph signed in ink |
N/A | Not Available | EUR 5,486.00 |
| 121 | Maupassant Guy de | Mlle Fifi |
1882 | Not Available | EUR 5,410.00 |
| 33 | Ces presentes heures a l'usaige de Rome |
1501 | Not Available | EUR 5,092.00 | |
| 12 | Clement V; Giovanni da Imola; Francisco Zabarella | Clementis Quinti constitutiones in concilio Vienensi edite |
1514 | Not Available | EUR 4,895.00 |
| 3 | Berthold the Teutonic; Zerbold van Zutphen Gerard; Thomas a Kampis; Bonaventure | Horologium devotionis |
1502-1505 | Not Available | EUR 3,918.00 |
| 128 | Maupassant Guy de | Pierre & Jean |
1888 | Not Available | EUR 3,349.00 |
| 149 | Phelippes-Beaulieux Emmanuel (1829-1874) | Set of approximately 220 etchings |
1853-1871; 1853; 1867; 1869; 1874 | Not Available | EUR 2,963.00 |
| 171 | Boylesve Rene | The Baths of Baden |
1958 | Not Available | EUR 2,874.00 |
| 72 | Saint-Gelais Octavien de | Sensuyt la chasse et le depart damours |
circa 1526 | Not Available | EUR 2,834.00 |
| 68 | Rondelet Guillaume (1507-1566) | Libri de piscibus marinis... Universae aquatilium historiae pars altera |
1554-1555 | Not Available | EUR 2,705.00 |
| 127 | Maupassant Guy de | Le Horla |
1887 | Not Available | EUR 2,576.00 |
| 1 | Aneau Barthelemy | Picta poesis ut pictura poesis erit |
1552 | Not Available | EUR 2,061.00 |
| 42 | Leeuwenhoek Antonie van | Arcana naturae detecta - Continuatio arcanorum naturae detectorum |
1695-1697 | Not Available | EUR 2,061.00 |
| 194 | Malraux Andre | Speech for the transfer of Jean Moulin's ashes to the Pantheon |
1964 | Not Available | EUR 2,061.00 |
| 20 | Du Fouilloux Jacques; Guillaume Bouchet | La venerie |
1568 | Not Available | EUR 1,959.00 |
| 85 | Thou Christophe de | Coustumes du bailliage de Sens & anciens ressorts d'iceluy |
1556 | Not Available | EUR 1,959.00 |
| 35 | Boaistuau Pierre;Tesserant Claude;Belleforest Francois;Hoyer Rodolphe;Sorbin Arnaud;Marconville Jean | Histoires prodigieuses extraictes de plusieurs fameux autheurs |
1598-1597-1598 | Not Available | EUR 1,698.00 |
| 50 | Le livre de la noble charite de saints claire Dercay |
1566-1745 | Not Available | EUR 1,698.00 |
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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