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Gros & Delettrez: Books & Manuscripts
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Books & Manuscripts | Total Sales (EUR) | 133,562.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | June 04, 2026 - June 04, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 43,920.00 |
| Sale Number | #180773 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 59,110.00 |
| Total Lots | 243 | ||
| Sold Lots | 100.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 87,860.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 41.15% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 117,070.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 143 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 114.09% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | Guillotin Joseph-Ignace | Manuscrit de medecine |
1764 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 39,000.00 |
| 1 | Athanors |
late 16th-early 17th century | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 13,000.00 | |
| 122 | Fuchs Leonhart | New Kreuterbuch |
1543 | EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | EUR 6,500.00 |
| 2 | Baudelaire Charles | L.A.S. to Michel Levy |
1864 | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | EUR 3,640.00 |
| 117 | Ferussac Andre-Etienne d'Audebard | Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere des mollusques |
1834 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 3,640.00 |
| 145 | Bonnet Jean | Le Cueur de philosophie |
1533 | EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | EUR 3,250.00 |
| 102 | Crescenzi Pietro | Piero Crescientio de agricultura vulgare |
1519 | EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | EUR 2,860.00 |
| 189 | Reverchon Jean Claude Hector | Anatomy of the horse |
1825 | EUR 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 2,860.00 |
| 196 | Serres Olivier de | Theatre de l'agriculture et mesnage des champs |
1600 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 2,730.00 |
| 125 | Grandami Jacques (1588-1672) | Nova demonstratio immobilitatis terrae petita ex virtute magnetica |
1645 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 2,600.00 |
| 72 | Atlas |
second half of the 17th century | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 2,340.00 | |
| 43 | Ampere Andre-Marie (1775-1836) | Scientific autograph manuscript |
1809-1828 | EUR 500.00 - 600.00 | EUR 2,080.00 |
| 136 | Hore intemerate beate Marie virginis; Secundum usum Romanum |
1504 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | EUR 2,080.00 | |
| 207 | Wier Jean; Erastus Thomas | Histoires, disputes et discours des illusions et impostures des diables |
1579 | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | EUR 1,950.00 |
| 74 | Baumann A. | Saddler's and harness-maker's guide |
ca 1850 | EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 1,690.00 |
| 128 | Collection of 56 copper engravings watercolored at the time |
ca. 18th century | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 1,690.00 | |
| 115 | Ferrari Giovanni Battista | Flora overo cultura di fiori |
1638 | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | EUR 1,560.00 |
| 183 | Reaumur Rene Antoine Ferchault | Memoires pour servir a l'histoire des insectes |
1734-1742 | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | EUR 1,560.00 |
| 131 | Guillemeau Jacques | Les Œuvres de chirurgie de Jacques Guillemeau |
1598 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 1,430.00 |
| 135 | Benoist Rene | Heures de Nostre Dame, a l'usage de Romme |
1544 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 1,430.00 |
| 148 | Le Rouille Guillaume | Le Grant Coustumier du pays & Comte du Maine |
1535 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 1,300.00 |
| 173 | Perelle | Views of the most beautiful houses in France; The squares, gates, fountains, churches, and houses of Paris; Views of the most beautiful places in Versailles |
ca. XVIIIe | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 1,235.00 |
| 198 | Tempesta Antonio | Romanorum et Batavorum Societas |
1611 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 1,170.00 |
| 209 | Bernard P. J.; Chenier Marie-Joseph | OEuvres de P. J. Bernard; OEuvres diverses et inedites |
1797; 1816 | EUR 350.00 - 400.00 | EUR 1,170.00 |
| 141 | Khevenhuller Franz Christoph | Annales Ferdinandei |
1721-1726 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 1,105.00 |
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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. -
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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