Christies: Rare Books and Manuscripts, 23810, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 05, 2025 - November 05, 2025

Page Size: 200 items in 8 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	ATELIER BYZANTIN	Saint Luc evangeliste, miniature sur un feuillet provenant d'un Evangeliaire	[Empire byzantin]	[seconde moitie du XIIIe siecle]	EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00	EUR 21,590.00
2	ATELIER BYZANTIN	Saint Matthieu evangeliste, miniature sur un feuillet provenant d'un Evangeliaire	[Empire byzantin]	[seconde moitie du XIIIe siecle]	EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00	EUR 33,020.00
3	ATELIER DE MAITRE FRANCOIS	Livre d'heures, a l'usage de Rome, en latin	[Paris]	[c. 1470]	EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	Not Sold
4	ATELIER DE JEAN PICHORE	Livre d'heures, a l'usage de Paris, en latin et en francais	[Paris]	[c. 1500]	EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	EUR 13,970.00
5	ALIGHIERI, Dante (1265-1321)	La comedia con la nova espositione di Alessandro Vellutello	Venise	1544	EUR 24,000.00 - 30,000.00	EUR 27,940.00
6	AA, Pieter van der (1659-1733)	[ATLAS] - Nouvel Atlas, tres exact et fort commode (...) contenant les prinipales cartes geographiques, dresse suivant les nouvelles observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences	Leide	[c.1714]	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 5,334.00
7	BOURBON, Jacques de, dit le batard de (1466-1537)	La grande et merveilleuse et tres cruelle oppugnation de la noble cite de Rhodes	Paris	1525	EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
8	CAOURSIN, Guillaume (1430-1501)	Obsidionis Rhodiae urbis descriptio	[Rome]	[vers 1481-1483]	EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 4,826.00
9	CASSIEN, Jean (vers 360- 435)	Monasticarum institutionum libri IIII	Anvers	1578	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 2,540.00
10	CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de (1547-1616)	Les Principales aventures de l'admirable Don Quichotte...	La Haye et Paris	1774	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 2,159.00
11	CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de (1547-1616)	El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha	Madrid	1780	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 7,620.00
12	CROISET, Jean (1656-1738)	Des Illusions du coeur dans toutes sortes d'etats et de conditions	Lyon	1748	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 1,397.00
13	DENYS D'HALICARNASSE (vers 60 av. J.-C. - apres 8 av. J.-C)	Delle cose antiche della citta di Roma	Venise	1545/6	EUR 70,000.00 - 100,000.00	EUR 82,550.00
14	[DESCARTES, Rene (1596-1650)]	Discours de la methode pour bien conduire sa raison et chercher la verite dans les sciences , plus La dioptrique, Les meteores et La geometrie qui sont des essais de cette methode	Leyde	1637	EUR 70,000.00 - 90,000.00	EUR 88,900.00
15	[EVANGILES BILINGUES LATIN ARABE]	[Evangelium Arabicum cum latina incertineari versione cum figuris a Tempesta dediricatis, edite par Giovanni Raimondi]	Rome	1591	EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 10,795.00
16	FABRIS, Salvator (1544-1618)	De lo schermo, overo scienza d'arme	Copenhague	1606	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
17	HEURES IMPRIMEES SUR VELIN	Heures a l'usage de Rome	Paris	22 aout 1498	EUR 17,000.00 - 25,000.00	EUR 22,860.00
18		[HEURES IMPRIMEES SUR VELIN] Officium beate Marie virginis ad usum Romane ecclesie	Lyon	26 aout 1501	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 6,350.00
19		HEURES IMPRIMEES SUR VELIN. Horae dive virginis Marie secundum ritum ac consuetudinem...	Paris	[1524]	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 6,096.00
20		[JARDIN DE PLAISANCE -- ANTHOLOGIE POETIQUE]. Le Jardin de plaisance et fleur de rethoricque	Paris	s.d. [circa 1518]	EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 16,510.00
21	[LA FAYETTE, Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, comtesse de, dite Madame de La Fayette (1634-1693)]	La Princesse de Cleves	Paris	1678	EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	EUR 17,780.00
22	[LIVRE DE FETES]	Le Sacre de Louis XV, roy de France et de Navarre, dans l'eglise de Reims, le dimanche 25 octobre 1722	S.l. [Paris]	n.d. [1722]	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 4,064.00
23	LUCRECE (Ier siecle av. J.-C.)	Di Tito Lucrezio Caro della Natura delle cose	Amsterdam [Paris]	1754	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 4,445.00
24	[LUTHER, Martin (1483-1546)]	Biblia. Das ist: die gantze heylige schrifft Teutsch. Sampt einem register, summarien uber alle capitel und schonen figuren	[Francfort]	1574	EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 7,620.00
25	MAIMBOURG, Louis (1610-1686)	Histoire du grand Schisme d'Occident	Paris	1678	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 5,715.00

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.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

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.

Sotheby’s
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.
Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

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.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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