OSENAT: Books and Manuscripts, 160548, PARIS

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 15, 2025 - October 15, 2025

Page Size: 269 items in 11 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
126	DEBUSSY (Claude) .	Autograph letter signed "Claude Debussy" to music publisher Eugene Fromont.	Bichain [Yonne]	1903	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 1,170.00
127	DIAGHILEV (Sergei Pavlovich) .	Set of 4 autograph cards signed with his initials to Serge Lifar.	S.l.n.d .		EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 5,850.00
128	GAINSBOURG (Serge) .	Autograph signed thought.			EUR 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
129	GERSHWIN (Jacob Gershowitz, known as George) .	Photographic portrait.		[early 1930s]	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 4,940.00
130	GLAZOUNOV (Alexander Konstantinovich) .	Photographic portrait.			EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 494.00
131	GRIEG (Edvard) .	Portrait photograph.		S.d	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 1,105.00
132	HILLER (Ferdinand) .	Autograph musical manuscript signed at the top entitled "Im Wald" ("In the Forest").			EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 1,300.00
133	LISZT (Franz) .	Autograph letter signed "F. Liszt", in German, [probably to composer Theodor Uhlig].	Weimar	1850	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 2,600.00
134	LISZT (Franz) .	Autograph letter signed "F. Liszt", in French, to his student and friend Lise Chardin.	Weimar	1860	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 975.00
135	LISZT (Franz) .	Letter signed "F. Liszt" to Victor Wilder.	Weimar	1886	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 1,950.00
136	MASSENET (Jules) .	Set of 12 letters, 6 autograph signed and 2 autograph.			EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 494.00
137	RAVEL (Maurice) .	Autograph letter signed "Maurice Ravel" to Marie Gaudin.			EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 1,560.00
138	STRAUSS (Richard) .	Autograph letter signed to the American writer and journalist George-Sylvester Viereck.	Garmisch	1929	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 715.00
139	STRAUSS (Richard) .	Autograph letter signed to a "very dear Sir (" sehr geehrter Herr ).	Vienna	1931	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 1,040.00
140	STRAVINSKI (Igor) .	Autograph card signed, in French and German, "I Stravin" [to Dagmar Godowski] in New York.	Aix-Les-Bains	1937	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 650.00
141	CURIE (Marie) .	Autograph letter signed to a "dear lady".	Paris	1915	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 9,750.00
142	CURIE (Marie) .	Signed as director of her laboratory.	Paris	1926	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 6,240.00
143	CURIE (Marie) .	Signed as director of her laboratory.	Paris	1934	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 7,540.00
144	FREUD (Sigmund) .	Autograph card signed to Hedwig Abraham.	Tegel district, Berlin	1930	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 3,900.00
145	GNOMONIQUE . - VIVOT (C . L.) .	Traite de gnomonique, ou l'Art de faire des cadrans. With the principal tables of this science.		[Late eighteenth century] .	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 130.00
146	LANDRIANI (Marsilio) .	Autograph letter signed to his "dear knight".	S.l.	[circa 1811-1812] .	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 65.00
147	LORENTZ (Hendrik Anton) .	Autograph letter signed.	Leiden	1900	EUR 3.00 - 4.00	EUR 1,235.00
148	PASTEUR (Louis) .	Autograph note.			EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 2,210.00
149	REAUMUR (Rene-Antoine Ferchault de) .	Autograph letter signed.	Paris	1746	EUR 700.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,235.00
150	SAUSSURE (Horace-Benedict de) .	Autograph letter signed to his friend, financier Michel Audeoud, then in Paris.	Geneva	1783	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 260.00

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Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.
SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.

SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.