Sothebys: Books and Manuscripts - online 6/4, pf2503, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 18, 2025 - June 18, 2025
Page Size: 117 items in 5 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Boccace, Giovanni

Contes.

Londres 1779 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
2 Cent Nouvelles, les

Sensuyuet les cet nouvelles cotenant cent hystoires...

Lyon [vers 1530]. EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 9,525.00
3 [Cook, James] - John Hawkesworth

Editions originales francaises des trois voyages. Le plus important recit de circumnavigation du XVIIIe siecle illustre de 212 planches gravees.

EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 24,130.00
4 Corneille, Pierre

La Mort de Pompee. Tragedie.

Paris, [Rouen, 1644 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
5 Corneille, Pierre

Agesilas, tragedie. En Vers libres rimez.

Rouen et se trouve a Paris, 1666 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
6 Duguay-Trouin, Rene

Memoires de Monsieur Du Guay-Trouin, lieutenant general des armees navales de France.

1740 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
7 La Fontaine, Jean de

Fables choisies, mises en vers par J. de la Fontaine, nouvelle edition.

Paris 1765-1775. EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
8 La Fontaine, Jean de -- Jean-Honore Fragonard

Figures des contes de La Fontaine.

Paris [vers 1795]. EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 4,826.00
9 [La Rochefoucauld, Francois de]

Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales.

1666 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
10 [Louis XIV dauphin] -- Saint Augustin

Constitutiones Fratrum eremitarum discalceatorum.

Lyon, 1642 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 11,430.00
11 Marot, Clement

Les OEuvres.

Lyon, 1545 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 11,430.00
12 [Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de La Brede et de]

De l'esprit des loix ou du rapport que les loix doivent avoir avec la constitution de chaque gouvernement, les moeurs, le climat, la religion, &c.

Geneve, [1748]. EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
13 [Pascal, Blaise]

Les Provinciales.

Cologne 1657 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
14 Pascal Blaise

Pensees sur la religion [...].

Paris 1670 EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
15 Racine, Jean

Alexandre Le Grand.

Paris, 1666 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
16 Racine, Jean

Andromaque.

Paris, 1668 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 10,160.00
17 Racine, Jean

Iphigenie.

Paris, 1675 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 10,160.00
18 Racine, Jean

Esther. Tragedie tiree de l'Ecriture Sainte.

Paris, 1689 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
19 Racine, Jean

Athalie, tragedie. Tiree de l'ecriture sainte.

Paris, 1691 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
20 Rhenanus, Beat Bild dit Beatus

Rerum Germanicarum...

Bale, 1531 EUR 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 EUR 114,300.00
21 Robijn, Jacobus -- Cornelis Danckerts

Planisphere, en coloris ancien, centre sur le Pole Nord.

EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,715.00
22 Ronsard, Pierre de

Les OEuvres. Revueues et augmentees...

Paris 1609 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
23 Scheiner, Christoph

Rosa Ursina [...].

1626-1630. EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 8,890.00
24 Sevigne, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de

Recueil des lettres de madame la marquise de Sevigne, a madame la comtesse de Grignan, sa fille.

Paris 1734-1737. EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
25 [Shakespeare] - Bandello, Matteo

XVIII Histoires tragiques [...]

Turin 1570 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 3,556.00
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