ALDE: Ancient and 19th Century Books - Bibliotheca Lugdunensis
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Ancient and 19th Century Books - Bibliotheca Lugdunensis | Total Sales (EUR) | 253,024.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | April 08, 2026 - April 08, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 152,770.00 |
| Sale Number | #40826 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 198,440.00 |
| Total Lots | 385 | ||
| Sold Lots | 200.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 274,330.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 51.95% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 360,020.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 185 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 70.28% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | MONTAIGNE (Michel de) | Les Essais. Edition nouvelle, trouvee apres le deceds de l'autheur, reveue & augmentee par luy d'un tiers plus qu'aux precedentes impressions |
1595 | EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | EUR 13,750.00 |
| 259 | LAMARTINE (Alphonse de) | [LIVRE TISSE]. Les Laboureurs. Poeme tire de Jocelyn. Reproduit en caracteres tisses avec licence des proprietaires editeurs |
1883 | EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 | EUR 12,500.00 |
| 83 | CERVANTES (Miguel de) | El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha |
1780 | EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 10,000.00 |
| 99 | HISTOIRE UNIVERSELLE, depuis le commencement du monde jusqu'a present |
1747-1802 | EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 8,125.00 | |
| 40 | CERVANTES (Miguel de) | El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha |
1611 | EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | EUR 7,500.00 |
| 52 | LA FONTAINE (Jean de) | Fables choisies, mises en vers |
1678-1694 | EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | EUR 7,500.00 |
| 117 | PERRAULT (Charles) | Histoires ou contes du tems passe. Avec des moralites. Nouvelle edition augmentee d'une nouvelle, a la fin |
1742 | EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 7,500.00 |
| 260 | [LIVRE TISSE]. Livre de prieres tisse d'apres les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siecle |
1886 | EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 7,500.00 | |
| 55 | LULLY (Jean-Baptiste) | Armide. Tragedie mise en musique par M. de Lully, surintendant de la Musique du Roy |
n.d. [XVIIe siecle] | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 6,750.00 |
| 32 | VINCENT DE BEAUVAIS. Le premier [-- second] volume de Vincent Miroir hystorial |
1531 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 6,000.00 | |
| 17 | HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horae in laudem beatissimae virginis Mariae ad usum Romanum |
1556 | EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 5,625.00 | |
| 126 | SACRE DE LOUIS XV (Le), roy de France et de Navarre, dans l'eglise de Reims, le dimanche 25 octobre 1722 |
n.d. [Paris, 1723] | EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 5,000.00 | |
| 45 | GUERICKE (Otto von) | Experimenta nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de vacuo spatio |
1672 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 4,375.00 |
| 93 | ENCYCLOPEDIE METHODIQUE, ou par ordre de matieres, par une societe de gens de lettres, de savans et d'artistes |
1782 | EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 4,375.00 | |
| 101 | LA FONTAINE (Jean de) | Fables choisies |
1755-1759 | EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 4,000.00 |
| 113 | MISSALE ROMANUM, ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum |
1736 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 3,750.00 | |
| 143 | DORE (Gustave) | Les Travaux d'Hercule |
s.d. [1847] | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | EUR 3,750.00 |
| 24 | PATENOSTRE DES VEROLLEZ (La) | Avec leur complaincte contre les medecins |
1847 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 3,500.00 |
| 116 | MONTFAUCON (Bernard de) | Les Monumens de la monarchie francoise |
1729-1733 | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 3,250.00 |
| 28 | SERMON FORT JOYEUX DE SAINCT RAISIN (S'ensuit le) |
n.d. | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 2,750.00 | |
| 318 | LITTERATURE DU XVIIIe SIECLE. Ensemble 29 ouvrages en environ 137 volumes |
1779 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 2,750.00 | |
| 37 | CAMOES (Luis de) | Os Lusiadas |
1613 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 2,500.00 |
| 115 | MONCRIF (Francois-Augustin Paradis de) | Essai sur la necessite et les moyens de plaire |
1738 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 2,500.00 |
| 67 | SALAS BARBADILLO (Alonso Geronymo de) | Casa del plazer honesto |
1624 | EUR 500.00 - 600.00 | EUR 2,313.00 |
| 139 | BUFFON (Georges-Louis Leclerc de) | OEuvres completes, mises en ordre par M. le comte de Lacepede. Seconde edition |
1819-1822 | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 2,000.00 |
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Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000Forum, May 28: The Christ Child holding a crystal orb and surrounded by banderoles with devotional exhortations, on a leaf most probably from a Book of Hours, [Southern Netherlands, last decades of the fifteenth century]. £2,000-3,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Ribelles y Helip (José), Attributed to. An album comprising 33 finely executed watercolours of Spanish costume, bull-fighting scenes, and other genre subjects, [circa 1830]. £10,000-15,000 -
