Rossini: Photos - Themes 10, 168956, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Date: September 16, 2025 - September 16, 2025

Page Size: 199 items in 8 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
76	Jean-Philippe FACKLER	Colonel of the Engineers and benefactor of the Selestat Library and Museum in Strasbourg, Alsace.		EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
77		Armistice Day. Military parade, Place de l'Etoile, Paris	1937 - 1938	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
78		Second World War. Marshal Petain addresses the cheering people of Paris during the Occupation	c.1940	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
79	Jack LE CUZIAT (XXth)	The Liberation of Paris, General De Gaulle cheered by the crowd, marching through the streets of Paris, France, August 1944	1944	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 496.00
80	Pierre PARENTE	Night lighting at the Theatre Gymnase Compagnie Marie Bell, Paris	1962	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
81		Place de la Concorde. Paris Obelisk	c.1930	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	EUR 74.40
82		Paris by night. The Pont des Arts, Paris VI	1965	EUR 100.00 - 120.00	EUR 105.40
83	Unidentified author	Night market, pictorialism, France (?)	c.1960	EUR 100.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
84		Paris. Magasin du Louvre	c.1920	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
85	Daniel FRASNAY (1928- 2019)	Montmartre	c.1960	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 99.20
86	G. HIMLER (XX)	Painter in a snow-covered Montmartre street, facing the Sacre Choeur, Paris	c.1950	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	EUR 74.40
87	Cl. VIGUIER (XXdeg)	Boulevard Raspail, Marchand de tableaux	c.1940	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 99.20
88		Outdoor exhibition Strollers stop in front of the seascapes on display in the streets of Paris	c.1940	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	EUR 74.40
89		Au championnat des roules-toujours Bicycle races in the streets of Paris by newspaper carriers	1947	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
90		In the kitchen! A treat from the antipodes, gigantic sea turtles shipped to London for the new Lord Mayor	c.1920	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 54.56
91		Abel Bertouneche Portraits of the French organ builder, in his workshop	c.1930	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
92		Madame Tussaud's Museum (?) Mannequins, "supplice du crochet" and "chaise fer dans lequel on rotissait vif certains coupables"	c.1950	EUR 100.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
93		The catacombs A man illuminates a vast ossuary, "Les ossements du cimetiere des innocents deposes en avril 1786", Paris	1945	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
94		The Pub! A nice cold beer, USA	c.1948	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
95		Prisoners Forced labor in the salt mines of Ocnele Mari, Roumani	c.1950	EUR 100.00 - 120.00	EUR 99.20
96	Alfred EISENSTAEDT (1898-1995)	Brocanteur ambulant (?) Il tire la langue, rue de la Huchette, Paris	c.1950	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
97	Author Unidentified	Grooms and horses on the plane,	c.1960	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 49.60
98		Demonstration in New York. Mounties charge demonstrators	c.1963	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
99	Daniel FRASNAY (1928-2019)	Au profit des enfants de Saint-Gilles" fair, Belgium	c.1970	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	EUR 74.40
100		Just smile! You're being photographed. When a Young Boy Photographs the King's Guard, London, England	c.1950	EUR 100.00 - 120.00	Not Sold

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.
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Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
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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
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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.
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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.