The Library of the late Dr. Michael D. Paul of St. John’s, Newfoundland. Part IV.

Updated October 12, 2026

What's in this auction

200 lots, mostly antiques & furniture (4), fine art & prints (4), pottery, china & glass (2), comics & books (2). 200 lots have photos. Pre-sale estimates $150–$40,000 across 200 priced lots. Bidding is online through the auction house's catalog.

Highest-estimated lots

• (CABINET DU ROI). [Collection de Vues, Plans, Élevations, et Ornements du Château et des Jardins de Versailles]. — est. $20,000–$40,000
• (ITALIAN BOOK OF HOURS). Illuminated Manuscript. Written on vellum with six miniatures. — est. $20,000–$30,000
• BLAEU, JOHANNES. Geographiae Blavianae Volumen Quintum, Quo Anglia, Quae Est Europae Liber Undecimus, Continetur. — est. $10,000–$15,000
• BLAEU, JOHANNES. [Geographiae Blavianae Volumen Octavum, Quo Italia, Quae Est Europae Liber Decimus Sextus, Continetur]. — est. $8,000–$12,000
• BETTONI, EUGENIO. Storia Naturale degli uccelli che nidificano in Lombardia ad illustrazione della raccolta ornitologica — est. $8,000–$12,000

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Upcoming auction: The Library of the late Dr. Michael D. Paul of St. John’s, Newfoundland. Part IV.. Full catalog and bidding: view on invaluable .

In this auction (200 lots)

Categories: Antiques & Furniture (4) · Fine Art & Prints (4) · Pottery, China & Glass (2) · Comics & Books (2) · Jewelry & Watches (1)

• Lot 1 — (ITALIAN BOOK OF HOURS). Illuminated Manuscript. Written on vellum with six miniatures.
• Lot 2 — (CABINET DU ROI). [Collection de Vues, Plans, Élevations, et Ornements du Château et des Jardins de Versailles].
• Lot 3 — PIRANESI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA & FRANCESCO PIRANESI. I Trofei di Ottaviano Augusto.
• Lot 4 — OSBORNE, THOMAS. I Trofei di Ottaviano Augusto.
• Lot 5 — DRAKE, EDWARD CAVENDISH. A New Universal Collection of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages and Travels, From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time.
• Lot 6 — MEARES, JOHN. Viaggi dalla China alla costa nord-ovest d'America fatti negli anni 1788 e 1789.
• Lot 7 — HAWKS, FRANCIS L. Narrative of The Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan.
• Lot 8 — PALLAS, PETER SIMON. Voyages du Professeur Pallas, dans Plusieurs Provinces de l'Empire de Russie et dans l'Asie Septentrionale.
• Lot 9 — (EXPLORATION). Group of five works:
• Lot 10 — Montmignon, Jean-Baptiste. Scelta di lettere edificanti scritte dalle missioni straniere preceduta da quadri geografici, storici, politici, religiosi e letterar
• Lot 11 — CICERI, Eugène. Les Pyrénées, Dessinées d’après nature & lithographiées.
• Lot 12 — HERBERT, THOMAS. Some Years Travels into Divers Parts of Africa and Asia the Great. Describing more particularly the Empires of Persia and Industan… Also, many
• Lot 13 — DAPPER, OLFERT. Description de l'Afrique.
• Lot 14 — DENHAM, DICON & HUGH CLAPPERTON.
• Lot 15 — BAKER, SIR SAMUEL WHITE. Ismailïa: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade Organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt.
• Lot 16 — CAMERON, VERNEY LOVETT. Across Africa.
• Lot 17 — (NORTH AFRICA / LEVANT). Group of eight works in twelve volumes:
• Lot 18 — POCOCKE, RICHARD. Beschryving van het Oosten, en van eenige andere landen ["Description of the East…”]
• Lot 19 — DENON, Dominique Vivant, Baron. Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt, in Company with Several Divisions of the French Army, during the Campaigns of General Bonapart
• Lot 20 — SHAW, THOMAS. Reizen en aanmerkingen door en over Barbaryen en het Ooste [“Travels and Observations in and concerning Barbary and the East.”]
• Lot 21 — (OTTOMAN EMPIRE / LEVANT). Group of five works in seven volumes:
• Lot 22 — CHARLEVOIX, Pierre-François-Xavier de. Histoire et description générale de la Nouvelle France, avec le Journal historique d'un Voyage fait par ordre du Roi dans
• Lot 23 — Salmon, Thomas. Hedendaagsche Historie of Tegenwoordige Staat van Amerika [“Contemporary History or Present State of America.”]
• Lot 24 — (UNITED STATES / THE AMERICAS). Group of six works in nine volumes:
• Lot 25 — (NORTH AMERICA). Group of four works in eight volumes:
• Lot 26 — Bouchette, Joseph. A Topographical Description of the Province of Lower Canada, with Remarks upon Upper Canada, and on the Relative Connexion of Both Provinces
• Lot 27 — CHAPPELL, EDWARD. Voyage of His Majesty’s Ship Rosamond to Newfoundland and the Southern Coast of Labrador.
• Lot 28 — HIND, HENRY YOULE. Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857 and of the Assinniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858.
• Lot 29 — (CANADA). Group of five works:
• Lot 30 — JARVES, JAMES JACKSON. History of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands.
• Lot 31 — ANDERSON, RUFUS. The Hawaiian Islands: Their Progress and Condition Under Missionary Labors.
• Lot 32 — EDWARDS, BRYAN.
• Lot 33 — EDWARDS, BRYAN. The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British West Indies. With a Continuation to the Present Time.
• Lot 34 — (PERU). Two volumes:
• Lot 35 — JOHNSTON, ROBERT. Travels through Part of the Russian Empire and the Country of Poland.
• Lot 36 — (RUSSIA). Two works in three volumes:
• Lot 37 — [MACKWORTH, SIR DIGBY]. Diary of a Tour through Southern India, Egypt, and Palestine, in the Years 1821 and 1822.
• Lot 38 — SYMES, MICHAEL. Relation de l’Ambassade Anglaise.
• Lot 39 — SCORESBY, WILLIAM. An Account of the Arctic Regions, with a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery.
• Lot 40 — (ENGLAND). ISLE OF WIGHT: Group of two works.
• Lot 41 — FELLOWES, W.D. A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe, in 1817: With notes, taken during a tour through Le Perche, Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjou, Le Bocage,
• Lot 42 — Benoist, Philippe & Louis-Julien Jacottet. Nouvelles Vues de Paris.
• Lot 43 — (FRANCE). Paris dans sa Splendeur: Monuments, Vues, Scènes Historiques, Descriptions et Histoire.
• Lot 44 — (FRANCE). Group of five works in six volumes:
• Lot 45 — SMITH, JOHN "WARWICK." Select Views in Italy, with Topographical and Historical Descriptions in English and French.
• Lot 46 — (ITALY). Group of seven works in eleven volumes:
• Lot 47 — Bourgeois du Castelet, Florent Fidèle Constant. [Vues de Suisse et l'Italie].
• Lot 48 — (SWITZERLAND / THE ALPS). Group of five works in six volumes:
• Lot 49 — BLAEU, JOHANNES. Geographiae Blavianae Volumen Quintum, Quo Anglia, Quae Est Europae Liber Undecimus, Continetur.
• Lot 50 — BLAEU, JOHANNES. [Geographiae Blavianae Volumen Octavum, Quo Italia, Quae Est Europae Liber Decimus Sextus, Continetur].
• Lot 98 — BETTONI, EUGENIO. Storia Naturale degli uccelli che nidificano in Lombardia ad illustrazione della raccolta ornitologica dei fratelli Ercole ed Ernesto Turati.
• Lot 51 — CLÜVER, PHILIPP. Introductionis in Universam Geographiam.
• Lot 52 — PUFENDORF, SAMUEL. Introduction à l'Histoire Générale et Politique de l'Univers.
• Lot 53 — Mela, Pomponius. De Situ Orbis. Edited by John Reynolds.
• Lot 54 — ZATTA, ANTONIO. Atlante Novissimo. Volume II (only, of 4).
• Lot 55 — BONNE, RIGOBERT. Recueil de cartes sur la géographie ancienne.
• Lot 56 — BONNE, RIGOBERT & JEAN JANVIER. [Atlas Moderne ou Collection de Cartes sur Toutes les Parties du Globe Terrestre].
• Lot 57 — Camden, William. Britannia: Or a Chorographical Description of the flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland and the Islands adjacent… Enlarged by t
• Lot 58 — CARY, JOHN. Cary's New and Correct English Atlas: Being a New Set of County Maps from Actual Surveys.
• Lot 59 — ARMSTRONG, MOSTYN JOHN. A Scotch Atlas; Or Description of the Kingdom of Scotland, Divided into Counties, with the Subdivisions of Sheriffdoms.
• Lot 60 — Stockdale, John. Map of England and Wales from the Latest Surveys.
• Lot 61 — (ATLAS). The Scripture Atlas; or, A Series of Maps to Illustrate the Old and New Testaments.
• Lot 62 — MORSE, JEDIDIAH & SIDNEY E. MORSE. A New Universal Atlas of the World; Comprising, in Twenty Maps, Carefully Prepared from the Latest Information, and Neatly En
• Lot 63 — Wood, John. Town Atlas of Scotland.
• Lot 64 — Johnston, Alexander Keith. The Physical Atlas of Natural Phenomena, A New and Enlarged Edition.
• Lot 65 — COLBY, CHARLES. The Diamond Atlas… The Western Hemisphere.
• Lot 66 — JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER KEITH. The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography.
• Lot 67 — JOHNSON, ALVIN JEWETT & BENJAMIN P. WARD. Johnson's New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas of the World, With Physical Geography, and with Descriptions, Geo
• Lot 68 — (ATLAS). Group of five volumes:
• Lot 69 — (ATLAS). Group of five volumes:
• Lot 70 — (ATLAS). Group of six volumes:
• Lot 71 — SPRUNER, KARL VON & HEINRICH THEODOR MENKE. Group of five Atlases:Group of five Atlases:
• Lot 72 — ANDREES ALLGEMEINER HANDATLAS. Group of four editions, in four volumes:
• Lot 73 — SALMON, WILLIAM. Botanologia. The English Herbal: Or, History of Plants.
• Lot 74 — COLONNA, FABIO. Phytobasanos [Greek] - Vita Fabii et Lynceorum.
• Lot 75 — CURTIS, WILLIAM. Flora Londinensis: Or Plates and Descriptions of such Plants as Grow Wild in the Environs of London.
• Lot 76 — CURTIS, WILLIAM. The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed: In which the most Ornamental Foreign Plants, Cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green-Hous
• Lot 77 — CURTIS, WILLIAM. Lectures on Botany, as Delivered in the Botanic Garden at Lambeth.
• Lot 78 — DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, HENRI LOUIS. La Physique des arbres; où il est traité de l'anatomie des plantes et de l'économie végétale.
• Lot 79 — MARTYN, THOMAS & JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU. Letters on the Elements of Botany.
• Lot 80 — THORNTON, ROBERT JOHN. The British Flora; or, Genera and Species of British Plants: Arranged After the Reformed Sexual System; and Illustrated by Numerous Table
• Lot 81 — DUPPA, RICHARD. The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany.
• Lot 82 — SMITH, MISS. Studies of Flowers from Nature.
• Lot 83 — STEPHENSON, JOHN & JAMES MORSS CHURCHILL. Medical Botany; or, Illustrations and Descriptions of the Medicinal Plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Pharma
• Lot 84 — VERSCHAFFELT, Alexandre & Ambroise. Nouvelle Iconographie des Camellias: Contenant les figures et la description des plus rares, des plus nouvelles et des plus
• Lot 85 — LEMAIRE, CHARLES. Lemaire L'illustration Horticole: Journal Special des Serres et des Jardins.
• Lot 86 — (BOTANY). The Florist and Pomologist. A Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits, and General Horticulture. Edited by Thomas Moore.
• Lot 87 — HOLDER, JOSEPH B.
• Lot 88 — (BOTANY). Group of three works in five volumes:
• Lot 89 — (BOTANY). Group of four works in six volumes:
• Lot 90 — (BOTANY). Group of five works in eleven volumes:
• Lot 91 — PLUCHE, NOEL-ANTOINE. (Abbé). Le Spectacle de la Nature, ou Entretiens sur les particularités de l'histoire naturelle.
• Lot 92 — Histoire Naturelle. Générale et Particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi. Buffon, Georges-Louis Marie Leclerc, Comte de.
• Lot 93 — Goldsmith, Oliver. An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature.
• Lot 94 — CURTIS, JOHN. British Entomology; Being Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of Insects Found in Great Britain and Ireland:
• Lot 95 — Milne-Edwards, Henri. Histoire naturelle des crustacés comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux.
• Lot 96 — Buffon, Georges-Louis Marie Leclerc, Comte de. & Achille Richard (Ed.) Œuvres complètes de Buffon, suivies de la classification comparée de Cuvier, Lesson, etc.
• Lot 97 — (NATURAL HISTORY). Group of three works in twelve volumes:
• Lot 99 — Morris, Francis Orpen. A History of British Birds.
• Lot 100 — BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON; JOHN CASSIN & GEORGE NEWBOLD LAWRENCE. The Birds of North America.
• Lot 101 — GENTRY, THOMAS GEORGE. Nests and Eggs of Birds of the United States.
• Lot 102 — GOULD, JOHN. The Birds of Australia.
• Lot 103 — (ORNITHOLOGY). Group of two works:
• Lot 104 — (ORNITHOLOGY). Group of three works:
• Lot 105 — LE CLERC, SEBASTIEN. Pratique de la Géométrie, sur le papier et sur le terrain.
• Lot 106 — ACADEMIA SCIENTIARUM INSTITUTI BONONIENSIS. Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Instituti Bononiensis. Volumes I & II.
• Lot 107 — DAVY, HUMPHREY. The Collected Works… Edited by his brother, John Davy.
• Lot 108 — INGRASSIA, GIOVANNI FILIPPO. Informatione del pestifero, et contagioso morbo: Il quale affligge et have afflitto questa città di Palermo, & molte altre città, e
• Lot 109 — Manget, Jean-Jacques. Theatrum Anatomicum.
• Lot 110 — EUSTACHIUS, BARTHOLOMEO. Tabulæ Anatomicæ.
• Lot 111 — ALBINUS, BERNHARD SIEGFRIED. Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body.
• Lot 112 — Audran, Gérard. Les Proportions du Corps Humain, Mesurées sur les plus belles Figures de l'Antiquité.
• Lot 113 — CALDANI, LEOPOLDO MARCO ANTONIO & FLORIANO CALDANI. Icones Anatomicae.
• Lot 114 — WINKLDER, EDUARD. Pharmaceutische Waarenkunde oder Handatlas der Pharmakologie, Enthaltend Abbildungen aller Wichtigen Pharmaceutischen Naturalien und Rohwaaren
• Lot 115 — (MEDICINE). Two volumes:
• Lot 116 — (MEDICINE). Group of four works in nine volumes:
• Lot 117 — (MEDICINE). Group of five volumes.
• Lot 118 — Cocconcelli, Antoni. Descrizione dei progetti e lavori per l'innalzamento dei due ponti sul Taro e sulla Trebbia.
• Lot 119 — GAUTHEY, Émiland-Marie & Claude-Louis NAVIER. Traité de la Construction des Ponts… Publié par M. Navier. Two volumes. * With Volume III: Traité des Canaux de Na
• Lot 120 — PARETO RAPHAEL. ‎Irrigation et assainissement des terres. Traité de l’emploi des eaux en agriculture.
• Lot 121 — RAPHAEL [RAFFAELLO SANZIO. after]. (Ed.) Picturae Peristyli Vaticani manus Raphaelis Sancti.
• Lot 122 — LAVALLÉE, JOSEPH. Galerie du Musée de France.
• Lot 123 — Soldini, Father Francesco Maria. Il Reale Giardino di Boboli nella sua Pianta e nelle sue Statue.
• Lot 124 — Jefferys, Thomas. A Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations, Ancient and Modern; Particularly Old English Dresses.
• Lot 125 — MOLEVILLE, ANTIONE FRANCOIS BERTRAND DE. The Costume of the Hereditary States of the House of Austria.
• Lot 126 — [ALEXANDER, WILLIAM]. Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Russians.
• Lot 127 — FERRARIO, JULES. (Giulio). Le Costume ancien et moderne, ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de la religion, des arts, sciences.
• Lot 128 — CELLARIUS, CHRISTOPH. Notitia Orbis Antiqui, sive Geographia Plenior, ab ortu rerumpublicarum ad Constantinorum tempora orbis terrarum faciem declarans.
• Lot 129 — HORSLEY, JOHN. Britannia Romana: or the Roman Antiquities of Britain.
• Lot 130 — GROSE, FRANCIS. The Antiquities of England and Wales.
• Lot 131 — PALLADIO, ANDREA & OTTAVIO BERTOTTI SCAMOZZI. Le Terme dei Romani disegnate da Andrea Palladio e ripubblicate con la giunta di alcune osservazioni da Ottavio Be
• Lot 132 — Pinali, Gaetano. Osservazioni sul progetto d'una rotonda da erigersi in Verona nella Piazza di Bra ad uso di mercato delle biade con la proposta d'altro progett
• Lot 133 — SLOAN, SAMUEL. City and Suburban Architecture. Containing Numerous Designs and Details for Public Edifices, Private Residences, and Mercantile Buildings.
• Lot 134 — PALLADIO, ANDREA. I Commentari di C. Giulio Cesare, con le figure in rame de gli alloggiamenti, de fatti d'arme, delle circonuallationi delle citta & di molte a
• Lot 135 — BARROW, JOHN. A New Geographical Dictionary. Containing a Full and Accurate Account of the several Parts of The Known World, As it is Divided into Continents, I
• Lot 136 — DIDEROT, DENIS & JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Recueil de planches, pour la nouvelle édition du Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, avec leu
• Lot 137 — GREGORY, GEORGE. A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences.
• Lot 138 — REES, ABRAHAM. The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature. Volumes I–VI [Complete Set of Plates and Maps].
• Lot 139 — [CACCIATORE, LEONARDO]. [Nuovo atlante istorico].
• Lot 140 — Boydell, John. A Collection of Views in England and Wales.
• Lot 141 — HARRADEN, RICHARD. Cantabrigia Depicta. A Series of Engravings Representing the Most Picturesque and Interesting Edificies in the University of Cambridge, with
• Lot 142 — (ENGLAND). (RIVER THAMES): Group of two works in three volumes.
• Lot 143 — (ENGLAND). BRITISH COUNTRY HOUSES. Three landscape plate books, comprising 9 volumes in total.
• Lot 144 — (ENGLAND). HISTORY, COSTUME, AND ARCHITECTURE. Group of three works:
• Lot 145 — (ENGLAND). TOPOGRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATIONS: Group of five works in six volumes.
• Lot 146 — Slezer, John. Theatrum Scotiae. Containing the Prospects of Their Majesties' Castles and Palaces: Together with those of the most considerable towns and college
• Lot 147 — KAY, JOHN. A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings… With Biographical Sketches and Illustrative Anecdotes.
• Lot 148 — PERELLE, ADAM & ISRAEL SILVESTRE. "A Review of Paris" [as titled on upper cover].
• Lot 149 — WILLIAMS, H.W. Select Views in Greece with Classical Illustrations.
• Lot 150 — [MAFFEI, Francesco Scipione, Marchese di]. Verona Illustrata.
• … and 50 more lots

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