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Auction Name: Ana And James Melikian Collection, Part I: Armenia, Ethiopia, Greece, Russia
Auction Date: 12/21/2025 - 12/21/2025
Sale Number: #171319
Total Lots: 147
Sold Lots: 100.0
Lots Sold: 68.03%
Unsold Lots: 47

Total Sales (EUR): 703,093.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 165,950.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 239,050.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 240,680.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 345,400.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 203.56%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
192	The Bible (Astowatsashownch`), 1666	1666	EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	EUR 70,560.00
217	Life of the Saints or Synaxary (Yaysmawowrk`), 1706	1706	EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 69,300.00
207	Lectionary (Chashots`), 1686	1686-1688.	EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	EUR 60,480.00
234	Movses Baghramian (Movses Baghramean), Exhortation (Yordorak)	1772	EUR 9,000.00 - 12,000.00	EUR 56,700.00
239	Book of the Diaconate and Choir for the Celebration of Mass	1777	EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 50,400.00
266	Illustrated World Atlas (Atlas Ashkharhats`oyts` patkerats`), 1849	1849, published at the expense of Hovhannes Amira Dadian.	EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	EUR 36,540.00
238	Liturgical Manual of the Holy Mass (Khorhrdatetr Srbazan Pata	1777	EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 25,263.00
224	The Bible (Astowatsashownch`), 1733	1733	EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 20,160.00
237	Priest Mesrop (Mesrop Erets`), History of the Armenians and Ge	1775	EUR 2,500.00 - 4,500.00	EUR 19,530.00
191	The Bible (Astowatsashownch`), 1666	1666	EUR 7,000.00 - 9,000.00	EUR 17,010.00
225	The Bible (Astowatsashownch`), 1733	1733	EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 15,120.00
232	The Four Gospels (Awetaran), 1759	1759	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 14,112.00
218	Agathange (Agat`angeghos)	1709-1710.	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 10,332.00
162	Two illuminated leaves with Armenian inscriptions, 13th cent	13th century	EUR 6,000.00 - 7,000.00	EUR 10,332.00
247	Saint Nerses the Gracious (Sowrb Nerses Shnorhali), General E	1788	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	EUR 10,080.00
193	New Testament (Awetaran), 1668	1668	EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 10,080.00
216	Bible (Astowatsashownch`), 1705	1705	EUR 7,000.00 - 9,000.00	EUR 9,828.00
212	Moses of Khorene (Movses Khorenats`i), History of the Armenians	1695	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 9,072.00
194	Arakel of Tabriz (Arhak`el Davrizhets`i), History Book (Girk` patm	1669	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 9,072.00
211	Armenian Hymnary (Charagan, Sharaknots`), 1692	1692	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 8,190.00

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Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000

Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000

Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800

Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 286 - Walton (William, 1902-1983). Autograph manuscript full score for Belshazzar’s Feast, [1930-31]. £20,000-30,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
Sotheby’s
Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
27 January 2026

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.

Sotheby’s
Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
27 January 2026

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.