Sothebys: The Library of Jean-Paul Morin/Never Lost at Sea, pf2585, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 20, 2025 - November 20, 2025

Page Size: 160 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	[Davity, Pierre]	Nouveau theatre du monde concernant les Estats, empires, royaumes, et principautez...	Paris	1660-1661	EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 3,048.00
102	[Gargot, Nicolas] - Pierre Groyer	Memoires de la vie et des aventures de Nicolas Gargot, Capitaine de la Marine	[La Rochelle ?]	[1668]	EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	EUR 9,525.00
103	Dralse de Grand-Pierre	Relation de divers voyages faits dans l'Afrique, dans l'Amerique, & aux Indes occidentales	Paris	1718	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
104		[Compagnie des Indes] Traite du commerce de la Compagnie francoise des Indes		[Vers 1724]	EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	EUR 16,510.00
105	Gemelli Careri, Giovanni Francisco	Voyage du tour du monde	Paris	1727	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 1,016.00
106	Lebreton, Francois	Manuel de botanique, a l'usage des amateurs et des voyageurs	Paris	1787	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 2,413.00
107	Vancouver, George	Voyage de decouvertes, a l'ocean Pacifique du Nord, et autour du monde	Paris	An VIII [1800]	EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	Not Sold
108	Thevenard, Antoine-Jean-Marie	Memoires relatifs a la marine	Paris	1800	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 635.00
109	Audebert, Jean-Baptiste - Louis-Pierre Vieillot	Oiseaux dores ou a reflets metalliques	Paris	1801-1802	EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	Not Sold
110	[Anonyme]	Moeurs et coutumes des peuples, ou Collection de tableaux representant les usages remarquables [...] des diverses nations du monde	Paris	1811-1814	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 3,048.00
111	Maldonado, Lorenzo Ferrer	Voyage de la Mer Atlantique a l'Ocean Pacifique par le Nord-Ouest dans la mer glaciale	Plaisance	1812	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 1,778.00
112	Engelmann, Godefroy - G. Berger	Porte-feuille geographique et ethnographique	Mulhouse-Paris	1816-1820	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 3,810.00
113	Arago, Jacques	[Promenade autour du monde sur les corvettes du roi l'Uranie et la Physicienne]	Paris	1822	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 1,651.00
114	Roquefeuil, Camille de	Journal d'un voyage autour du monde, pendant les annees 1816, 1817, 1818 et 1819	Paris	1823	EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
115	Charles-Alfred Dutuit	[Marine] - Campagne en Espagne, Portugal et aux cotes d'Afrique...		1823-1824 et 1826	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 1,270.00
116	Lesson, Rene Primevere	Voyage medical autour du monde sur La Coquille de 1822 a 1825...	Paris	1829	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 1,143.00
117	Dumont d'Urville, Jules Sebastien Cesar	4 lettres autographes signees a Francois Mongin de Montrol, notes et manuscrits		Juin -- septembre 1837	EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 5,334.00
118	Paris, Francois-Edmond -- Casimir Henricy	Album pittoresque d'un voyage autour du monde	Paris	[vers 1840]	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 1,270.00
119	Sainte-Claire Deville, Charles	Voyage geologique aux Antilles et aux iles de Teneriffe et de Fogo	Paris	[1848-1860]	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 2,032.00
120	Leconte, Francois	Memoires pittoresques d'un officier de marine	Brest et Paris	1851	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 889.00
121	Arias Montanus, Benedictus	Antiquitatum iudicarum libri IX...	Leyde	1593	EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 4,826.00
122	Bricaire de la Dixmerie, Nicolas	Le sauvage de Taiti aux Francais	Londres	1770	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 889.00
123		[Taitbout] Essai sur l'isle d'Otahiti, situee dans la mer du Sud, et sur l'esprit et les moeurs de ses habitants	Avignon et se trouve a Paris	1779	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 762.00
124	Fleurieu, Charles-Pierre Claret d'Eveux, comte de	Decouvertes des Francois en 1768 et 1769, dans le sud-est de la Nouvelle Guinee...	Paris	1790	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 635.00
125	Francois-Pascal Delattre	[La Perouse] - Rapport sur la recherche a faire de M. de La Perouse fait a l'Assemblee nationale...	Paris	1791	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 889.00

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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