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Bonhams

Auction Info

Sale Name
Fine Books and Manuscripts, featuring the Library of Roman Vishniac
Auction Date
04/12/2022 - 04/12/2022
Year of Sale
2022
Sale Number
#27556
Total Lots
172
Sold Lots
146
Lots Sold
84.9%
Unsold Lots
26
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (USD)
978,973.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
481,450.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
732,550.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
856,550.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
1,340,650.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
73.02%
Currency
USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
903,669.00

Top twenty five by sale price

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
156 SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. 1440-1514. Liber chronicarum [in German: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten].

1493

 USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 82,275.00
45 An illustrated alchemical manuscript on paper, in German, "Ver Rechten Alchemy,"

15th century

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 75,975.00
6 DOSTOEVSKY, FYODOR. 1821-1881. Photograph signed and inscribed [in Russian] to Alexander Herzen, albumen print carte-de-visite full length portrait by M.B. Tulinov,

1861

 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 57,075.00
138 MUNDINUS (DI LUZZI, MONDINO). MELLERSTADT, MARTINUS, editor. c.1455-1513. Anathomia Mundini emendata per doctorem melerstat.

1493

 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 48,255.00
107 KEPLER, JOHANNES. Tabulae Rudolphinae, quibus astronomicae scientiae, temporum longinquitate collapsae restauratio continentur.

1627

 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 44,475.00
99 HOOKE, ROBERT. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. .

1667

 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 29,325.00
66 BRUNSCHWIG, HIERONYMUS. Liber pestilentialis de venenis epidemic. Das buch der vergift der pestilentz.

1500

 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 28,050.00
1 Rare presentation album containing 50 large albumen photographs of the building of the Peking-Hankow railroad, "Compagnie Impériale des Chemins de Fer Chinois et Société d'Etude de Chemins de Fer en Chine. Ligne de Pékin-Hankow, Années 1899-1905,"

c.1906

 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 25,500.00
98 HEVELIUS, JOHANNES. Selenographia: sive Lunae descriptio; atque Accurata, Tam Macularum eius, addita est, lentes expoliendi nova ratio.

1647

 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 21,675.00
91 GUERICKE, OTTO VON. Experimenta nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica, de vacuo spatio.

1672

 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 19,125.00
44 Rosarium philosophorum, secunda pars alchimiae de lapide philosophico vero modo

1550

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 17,850.00
54 A sammelband including: 1. REGIOMONTANUS, JOHANNES. 1436–1476. Tabul[a]e Directionum... Cum plerisq[ue] additionibus: ac novis tabellis: quin [et] Gaurici compendiolo. Edited by Luca Gaurico.

1524

 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 16,575.00
106 KEPLER, JOHANNES. Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo nuper ad mortales misso a Galilaeo Galilaeo.

1611

 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 15,300.00
53 Illustrated Astrological Manuscript in Cyrillic, with numerous astrological charts, 14 handcut and illustrated volvelles, 18th-century, 149 x 94 mm, 297 leaves, written recto and verso, red and black ink on paper, printed folding table inserted in front (

1725

 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 14,025.00
68 BRY, JOHANN THEODOR DE and JACQUES LE MOYNE. Brevis Narratio eorum quae in Florida Americae provincia Gallis acciderunt ...

1609, 1591.

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 14,025.00
142 MÜNSTER, SEBASTIAN. Cosmographey, oder beschreibung aller lander ... jetzunder biss auff das M.D.LXIIII. jar vyl gemehret.

1564

 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 12,750.00
100 HORTUS SANITATUS. Ortus Sanitatis. De herbis & plantis. De Animalibus & reptilibus.

1511

 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 12,750.00
131 LYCOSTHENES, CONRAD (CONRAD WOLFFHART). Prodigiorum Ac Ostentorum Chronicon.

1557

 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 11,475.00
92 HAECKEL, ERNST, attrib. Late nineteenth-century album of 20 watercolors and 5 pen-and-ink drawings of landscapes in Bali, Sumatra and Southeast Asia, identified in an unknown hand as the work of Ernst Haeckel, 195 x 260 (sheet size), watercolors vary, each captioned descriptivel

Late nineteenth-century

 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 11,475.00
150 POGANY, WILLY. 14 costume designs for The Thunderbird, one-act Aztec ballet choreographed by Michel Fokine with libretto by his wife Vera Fokina, performed in the revue Get Together, opened at the New York Hippodrome, September 3, 1921, watercolor, gouache and silver pa

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 11,475.00
140 MÜLLER, OTTO FRIEDRICH. Zoologia Danica seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae rariorum ac minus notorum descriptiones et historia.

1788-1806.

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 10,965.00
84 FUCHS, LEONHARD. Historia Stirpium Commentarii insignes.

1542

 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 10,837.50
105 Tractatus de Judaeorum et Christianorum communione et conversatione.

not after 1474.

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 10,837.50
71 CASTELL, WILLIAM. A Short Discoverie Of the Coasts and Continent of America.

1644

 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 10,200.00
165 TOPSELL, EDWARD. The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents ... whereunto is now added, the Theater of Insects ... by T. Muffet.

1658

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 9,562.50
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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.
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