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Auction Name
December Auction Day 2
Auction Date
12/12/2025 - 12/12/2025
Sale Number
#121225
Total Lots
347
Sold Lots
347.0
Lots Sold
100.00%
Unsold Lots
0
Total Sales (EUR)
337,675.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
124,600.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
163,720.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
124,600.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
163,720.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
206.25%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
845

Code Napoleon. Edition originale et seule officielle.

 1807 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 52,000.00
775 RADIGUET, Raymond

Le diable au corps. Roman.

 1923 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 16,250.00
629

Compagnie Imperiale des Chemins de Fer Chinois et Societe d'Etudes de Chemins de Fer en Chine. Ligne de Pekin-Hankow. Annees 1899-1905.

 1905 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 14,300.00
708 Edgard Tytgat

Le lendemain de la Saint-Nicolas. Conte et grave par Edgard Tijtgat. Preface de Louis Delattre.

 #NAME? EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 10,660.00
802

Amoris divini et humani effectus varii sacrae scripturae sanctorumq[ue] PP. sententiis ac Gallicis versibus illustrati.

 1626 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 7,800.00
722 BEAUVOIR, Simone de

3 editions originales en tirages de tete et reliures uniformes.

 (1958, 1960, 1963) EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 6,760.00
780

Les sept peches capitaux. Jean Giraudoux : l'orgueil. - Paul Morand : L'avarice. - Pierre Mac Orlan : La luxure. - Andre Salmon : L'envie. - Max Jacob : La gourmandise. - Jacques de Lacretelle : La colere. - Joseph Kessel : La paresse. Eaux-fortes...

 1926 EUR 600.00 - 700.00 EUR 5,980.00
887 RENOUARD, Antoine-Augustin

Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages des trois Manuce.

 [an] XII - 1803 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 5,850.00
679

Large collection of 215 glass stereoviews.

 C. 1855-1865 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 4,940.00
843 GAULLE, Charles de

Memoires de guerre. L'appel 1940-1942 [- L'Unite 1942-1944,- Le Salut 1944-1946].

 (1954-1959) EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 4,940.00
735 Max Elskamp

Dominical. Propitiatoirement orne par Henry Van de Velde.

 1892) EUR 250.00 - 400.00 EUR 4,940.00
759 Louis Legrand

Poemes a l'eau-forte.

 1914 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 4,160.00
577 Privat-Livemont

Manufacture Royale de corsets.

 1897 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 3,900.00
701 [LOUYS, Pierre]

Le crepuscule des nymphes. [Lithographies de Pierre Bonnard.

 1946] EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,250.00
687 Bernard Buffet

St Cast. Souvenirs d'enfance. Pointes-seches originales gravees par Bernard Buffet.

 1962 EUR 700.00 - 800.00 EUR 3,120.00
613 MORREN, Prosper

Cinquantenaire de l'Universite catholique de Louvain. 1834-1884. Vues du cortege historique.

 1884] EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,860.00
830 LA FONTAINE, Jean de

Contes et nouvelles en vers [...].

 1762 EUR 700.00 - 900.00 EUR 2,860.00
754 LA FONTAINE, Jean de

Oeuvres completes [...], precedees d'une nouvelle notice sur sa vie.

 1818 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,600.00
893 HERGE

Les aventures de Tintin. Le crabe aux pinces d'or.

 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,600.00
503 Manfred Mohr

Composition abstraite.

 1970 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 2,600.00
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  • <b><center>Heritage Auctions<br>Rare Books Signature Auction<br>December 15, 2025</center></b> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Edgar Rice Burroughs. <i>Tarzan of the Apes.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> F. Scott Fitzgerald. <i>Tender is the Night. A Romance.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Bram Stoker. <i>Dracula.</i> Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Jerry Thomas. <i>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…</i>
    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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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> 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. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    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.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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.
    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.