- Lot 1
History of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Count of Maurepas' copy, 1740
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedUSD 2,250Closed - Lot 2
Medals of Louis XIV
Bound with royal arms of France, 1702
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 4,000Price realisedUSD 10,625Closed - Lot 3
The Coronation of Alexander II
St Petersburg, 1856
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 22,500Closed - Lot 6
Two works on trees
Duhamel du Monceau, 1755 & 1758
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedUSD 3,250Closed - Lot 7
Aristotle's works in Latin
Giunta edition, 1560
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 4,000Price realisedUSD 6,875Closed - Lot 8
Anthology of French poetry
Bound for the Duchesse de Berry, 1824
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 5,250Closed - Lot 9
L'Art decoratif de Bakst
Alexandre & Cocteau, 1913
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 6,250Closed - Lot 11
Balocchi's La Primavera Felice
Bound for the Duchesse de Berry, 1816
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 1,250Closed - Lot 13
Admiranda Romanarum antiquitatum
Bartoli, 1693
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 4,000Price realisedUSD 2,250Closed - Lot 16
Book of Hours on vellum
Northern France, 15th century
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 13,750Closed - Lot 17
Watercolors of flowers and plants
Bound manuscript, c.1850
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 2,500Closed - Lot 18
Treatise on Miniature Painting
C. Boutet, 1696
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 1,250Closed - Lot 19
Natural history drawing manuals
G. Brookshaw, 1819
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 4,000Price realisedUSD 2,500Closed - Lot 20
A French aristocratic woman's library
Manuscript catalogue, 1786
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 7,500Closed - Lot 21
Histoire amoureuse des Gaules
Bussy-Rabutin, 1665
EstimateUSD 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedUSD 1,875Closed - Lot 24
Le Musée français
Croze-Magnan, 1803-1809
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 4,000Price realisedUSD 8,750Closed - Lot 25
Dissertation on Acupuncture
J.-J. Déidié, 1787
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 5,000Closed - Lot 26
The Great Exhibition of 1851
Dickinson Brothers, 1854
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 4,000Price realisedUSD 12,500Closed - Lot 27
Two Dubuisson Bindings
Paris, 1739 & 1748
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 18,750Closed - Lot 29
The New Botanic Garden
Syndenham Edwards, 1812
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 4,000Closed - Lot 30
Sistine Vulgate Bible in olive green morocco
Cologne, 1679
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 2,000Closed - Lot 31
Psalms in French, in decorated vellum binding
Neuchâtel, 1704
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 1,875Closed - Lot 33
Blank account book in red morocco gilt
France, 18th century
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 1,500Closed - Lot 34
Chronique, bound by Paul Bonet
Saint Jean Perse, 1960
EstimateUSD 15,000 - 20,000Price realisedUSD 13,750Closed - Lot 36
Frederick the Great's daily reading
C. Dantal, 1791
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 3,500Closed - Lot 37
The Book of Gems poetry anthology
With fore-edge paintings, 1836-38
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 4,000Price realisedUSD 15,000Closed - Lot 38
Collection of engraved portraits
C.-E. Gaucher, c.1770-1800
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 5,250Closed - Lot 39
Chroa-Génésie ou génération des couleurs
Gautier D'Agoty, 1750-51
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 4,000Price realisedUSD 8,125Closed - Lot 40
English heraldry, hand-colored copy
J. Guillim, 1638
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 2,250Closed - Lot 42
Heraldry of the City of Paris
J.-L. Chevillard, c.1735
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 11,250Closed - Lot 43
History of the nobility of southeastern France
J.A. Pithon-Curt, 1743-50
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 4,000Price realisedUSD 12,500Closed - Lot 45
Carta Executoria
Bound with arms of Carlos III, 1780
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 12,500Closed - Lot 46
The Beauties of Flora
E.E. Gleadall, 1834
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 3,500Closed - Lot 47
Hôtel royal des Invalides
Edicts and ordinances, 1744-72
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 4,000Price realisedUSD 4,750Closed - Lot 49
Kipling's Jungle Book
Illustrated by P. Jouve & F.-L. Schmied, 1919
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 21,250Closed - Lot 51
Réhabilitation de la chirurgie dentaire
Presentation binding to Empress Eugenie, 1859
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 1,625Closed - Lot 52
Cent cinq costumes des départemens de la Seine inférieure
Lanté & Gatine, c.1830
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 1,250Closed - Lot 53
Lapie's map of Russia and environs
Bound with royal arms of France, 1812
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 4,750Closed - Lot 55
Literature
French & English, 19th & 20th centuries
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedUSD 4,375Closed - Lot 56
Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal
Livre d'artiste, 1928
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 4,750Closed - Lot 57
The Botanical Cabinet
Conrad Loddiges, 1817-22
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 15,000Closed - Lot 59
Ordinances and edicts of Louis XIV, 1667-73
Le Fèvre Caumartin copy
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 3,000Closed - Lot 60
Coronation of Louis XV in Reims Cathedral in 1722
Festival book in contemporary binding
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 5,250Closed - Lot 61
Coronation of Louis XV in Reims Cathedral in 1722
Bound by Padeloup le jeune
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 17,500Closed - Lot 62
Coronation of Louis XV in Reims Cathedral in 1722
Contemporary red morocco binding
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 6,250Closed - Lot 63
Della natura della cose, after Cochin
Lucretius, 1754
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 2,375Closed - Lot 64
Maimbourg's 1686 History of Pope Gregory the Great
Colbert family copy
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 6,000Closed - Lot 65
The North American Sylva
Michaux & Nuttall, 1871
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 2,750Closed - Lot 66
Louis XIV's military campaigns in Flanders
Contemporary manuscript with maps, c.1677
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 27,500Closed - Lot 67
Militaria, in French armorial bindings
Two works, London and Paris
EstimateUSD 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedUSD 6,875Closed - Lot 68
Pickering's Diamond Classics
Bound in morocco by Capé, 1821-31
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 8,125Closed - Lot 70
The Queen's Closet Opened, her book
M.W., 1658
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 2,750Closed - Lot 71
Salomon's 1713 opera, Médée et Jason
Bound for the Duchesse du Maine
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 2,125Closed - Lot 72
Songs from 18th-century France
Comtesse du Barry's copy, c.1780s
EstimateUSD 400 - 600Price realisedUSD 3,250Closed - Lot 73
String quartets from the Classical age
Benincori, Cambini, Davaux et al., c.1795-1810
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 1,125Closed - Lot 75
Nash's Picturesque Views of Paris
Large paper copy, 1820-23
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 1,875Closed - Lot 76
Flowers in hand-colored lithographs
R.H. Nimmo, 1826-32
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 4,000Price realisedUSD 4,000Closed - Lot 77
Ordre du Saint-Esprit statutes
Red morocco binding, 1788
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 1,875Closed - Lot 78
Hints on Ornamental Gardening
J.B. Papworth, 1823
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 2,750Closed - Lot 79
Teatro delle nobili et virtuose donne
Isabella Parasole, 1636
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 3,750Closed - Lot 80
Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris
J. Parkinson, 1629
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 2,500Closed - Lot 81
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library catalogue
No. 143 of 150 sets, 1940
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 2,125Closed - Lot 82
Pillone Library Binding
Cartari's Le imagini de i dei, 1580
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 81,250Closed - Lot 85
L'Entrée triomphante
Louis XIV & Marie Thérèse d'Austriche, 1662
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 3,750Closed - Lot 87EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 2,125Closed
- Lot 88
French operas at Fontainebleau, 1770
Bound in citron morocco
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 1,000Closed