Ader: Antiquarian and Modern Books, 169884, PARIS

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 26, 2025 - November 26, 2025
Page Size: 216 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 [PHILIPPE LE BEAU]

Etat de maison pour le mardi 24 mars 1505 [new style 1506].

England, Truro (Cornwall) 1505 [new style 1506]. EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
2 [BOURGOGNE]. [CHARLES QUINT]

Etat de maison, depenses pour le vendredi 11 septembre 1523.

France (at the time Etats bourguignons), Bourg-en-Bresse ("Bourgues") September 11, 1523 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
3

Leaf from a Psalter, known as the "Rosenbaum Psalter".

[England or Flanders or Rhineland-Meuse circa 1275 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,470.00
4

Leaf extracted from a manuscript (Heures or Heures-Psautier?).

Northern France ? second half or last quarter of the 13th century. EUR 700.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
5

Manuscript leaf from a gradual (?) (unbound).

France, late 13th or early 14th century. EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 156.00
6

Leaf extracted from a manuscript (Hours or Hours-Psautier?).

Belgium, Flanders, Ghent? circa 1310-1325. EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,560.00
7 [GREGOIRE IX]

Feuille extrait des Decretales de Gregoire IX, Liber I.

South of France, Avignon?, Toulouse or Montpellier? circa 1325-1350. EUR 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,730.00
8

[In Latin, ornate manuscript on parchment, music notated square.

South of France? circa 1400. EUR 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
9

Leaf from a book of hours.

France, Paris (or Loire Valley, Tours?) circa 1475-1485. EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 780.00
10

[Three leaves from books of hours.

France 14th and 15th century. EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 780.00
11

[Two ornate and illuminated initials (from a choir book?).

Italy, Florence? circa 1450-1475. EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 286.00
12

Saint John the Baptist

France, Paris (Groupe du Maitre de Bedford) (Master of Dunois, Jean Haincelin?) circa 1440-1450. EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 18,200.00
13

Large, ornate and illuminated initial R (from a choir book?).

Italy, Tuscany or Emilia-Romagna circa 1490-1500 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 520.00
14

[HOURS]. Leaf from a book of hours.

Northern France or Paris circa 1450-1475. EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 156.00
15

Fragment from the Gradual of Louis XII and Anne of Brittany.

France, Paris (?) circa 1499-1500 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
16

St. Catherine and a standing saint holding an open book (St. Genevieve?).

France, Paris circa 1530-1540. EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
17

Saint Nicolas and Saint Marguerite

France, Paris circa 1530-1550 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
18

Leaflet extracted from a Mariegola (register of statutory regulations for members of a guild or confraternity).

Italy, Venice circa 1560. EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
19

Moses depicted full-length, with the "stones of the Jordan" on his tunic.

France circa 1600? EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
20

Leaf from an antiphonary. Large decorated initial B (geometric motifs).

France 17th century. EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
21

Printed hours. Engraving extracted from a book of hours engraved and enhanced in period colors Resurrection of Lazarus (probably to illustrate the Office of the Dead).

France circa 1510-1520. EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
22

Leaf from a Gospel Book manuscript. Jesus' entry into Jerusalem. Inscription in Armenian (in lowercase "bolorgir") above the miniature.

EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 10,140.00
23

From a manuscript of the Gospels.

Iran, Isfahan [New Djolfa (New Julfa, Armenian quarter)], early 17th century [1615]. EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 20,800.00
24

Psalter-Lectionary of the Office (Winter Part (Pars hiemalis)) (Use of the friar preachers [Dominicans]).

Germany (Rhineland), or Alsace?, ca. 1425-1450. EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
25

[In Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment.

Italy, Florence ? circa 1440-1460 and 19th century. EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,080.00
  • Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
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    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
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