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Auction Name: Caucasus Library - Collection B. Outtier
Auction Date: 12/03/2025 - 12/03/2025
Sale Number: #173099
Total Lots: 104
Sold Lots: 95.0
Lots Sold: 91.35%
Unsold Lots: 9

Total Sales (EUR): 195,312.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 36,130.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 51,940.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 46,700.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 66,390.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 294.19%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
58		Bible,	1743	EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	EUR 78,750.00
1		Les quatre Evangiles	XVe siecle	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 40,000.00
64		L'Ancienne Georgie. Memoires de la Societe d'histoire et d'ethnographie, dir. E. TAKAICHVILI. T. II,	1911-1915, T. III 1913-1914, T. IV 1914-1915	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 10,625.00
8	PAOLINI, Stefano et Niceforo IRBACHI,	Dittionario Giorgiano e Italiano, composto de Stefano Paolini con l'aiuto del M.R.P.D. Niceforo Irbachi Giorgiano, Monaco di S. Basilio. Ad uso de'missionarii della Sagra Congregatione de Propaganda Fide,	1629	EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 8,500.00
2		L'abbe de Villefroy, Notices Des Manuscrits Armeniens De la Biblioth: du Roy aportes De Constantinople en L'annee 1730	1730-35	EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 6,875.00
97	ALLAN, William et STEWART, James.	Circassian Captives,	1822	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 5,000.00
5	YOVHANNES CATHOLICOS DRASXANAKERTC'I,	Livre de l'histoire d'Armenie compose par Yohannes . . . Catholikos de tous les Armeniens (Xe siecle)	fin XVIIIe siecle	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 2,750.00
62		Les antiquites georgiennes, Edition de la Societe d'histoire et d'ethnographie, dir. E. TAKAICHVILI.	1909, T. II	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 2,500.00
16	CHANTRE, Ernest.	Recherches Anthropologiques dans le Caucase, Ch. Reinwald Libraire-Lyon,	1885-87	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 1,750.00
59	SABININI, Gobron (Mixail).	Le Paradis de la Georgie. Description complete des combats et des souffrances des saints de Georgie,	1882	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 1,625.00
96	DELISLE, Guillaume.	Carte des pays voisins de la Mer Caspienne	15 aout 1723.	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 1,375.00
13	OHSSON, Constantin (baron d').	Voir les notices liees en tant qu'auteur, Des peuples du Caucase et des pays au nord de la mer Noire et de la mer Caspienne dans le dixieme siecle, ou Voyage d'Abou-el-Cassim,	1828	EUR 100.00 - 120.00	EUR 1,187.50
63	XAXANASVILI, Alexandre.	Le servage en Georgie jusqu'a l'union avec la Russie. Etude historique,	1910	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	EUR 1,125.00
57		Almanach caucasien pour l'an 1914,	1913	EUR 200.00 - 250.00	EUR 1,062.50
95		Nouveau Testament (texte allographe), Empire ottoman,	1884	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 1,000.00
55		Almanach caucasien pour l'an 1911,	1910	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 1,000.00
49		Almanach caucasien pour l'an 1897,	1896	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 937.50
56		Almanach caucasien pour l'an 1913,	1912	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 937.50
12	MELIK SCHAHNAZAR, Myr-Davoud-Zadour de, Louis-Mathieu LANGLES et Jacques CHAHAN de CIRBIED,	Notices sur l'etat actuel de la Perse, en persan, en armenien et en francais,	1818	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 875.00
15		Recueil des Historiens de Croisades, publie par les soins de l'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Documents armeniens, deux volumes,	1869-1906	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 875.00

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SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

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
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

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.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

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.
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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.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
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.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
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.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

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.