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Sale Name: Rare and Antiquarian - Illustrated Books
Auction Date: 04/04/2024 - 04/04/2024
Year of Sale: 2024
Sale Number: #810
Total Lots: 335
Sold Lots: 219
Lots Sold: 65.4%
Unsold Lots: 116
Price Unknown: 0

Total Sales (USD): 157,612.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 169,300.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 260,200.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 237,700.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 366,100.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 43.05%
Currency: USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars: 157,612.00

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
75		Book of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, mid-15th century	c.1450	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	16,250.00
189	Hokusai	Fugaku Hyakkei (One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji)	c.1845-1875	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	5,937.50
166	Gibran, Kahlil	The Prophet	1924	USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00	5,625.00
30	Willard, Nancy	The Nancy Willard collection of autographed eggs	c.1980-2000	USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	4,687.50
128	Poe, Edgar Allan	The Raven	1884	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	4,687.50
324	Wasson, Valentina Pavlovna & R. Gordon Wasson	Mushrooms, Russia and History	[1957]	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	4,687.50
317	Tod, James	Annals and Antiquities of Rajast'han, or the Central and Western Rajpoot States of India	1829-1832	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	4,375.00
169	Gillray, James	The Works of James Gillray, from the Original Plates with the Addition of Many Subjects not before Collected	c.1849	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	2,375.00
125	Donne, John	Letters to Severall Persons of Honour	1651	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,250.00
238	Newton, Isaac	The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended. To Which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great	1728	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	2,250.00
286	Omar Khayyam	Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam	c.1911	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	2,000.00
270		The Arraignment and Conviction of Sr Walter Rawleigh, at the Kings Bench-barre at Winchester. on the 17. of November. 1603. Before the right Honorable the Earle of Suffolke, Lord Chamberline, the Earle of Devon-shire... Coppied by Sir Tho: Overbury	1648	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	1,875.00
258	Plutarch	The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, Compared Together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea	1610-1612	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	1,875.00
101	Beale, Thomas	The Natural History of the Sperm Whale...to which is added, a sketch of a South--Sea Whaling Voyage	1839	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,750.00
278	Lawrence, T.E.	Letters from T.E. Shaw to Bruce Rogers [with] More Letters from T.E. Shaw to Bruce Rogers	1933-1936	USD 500.00 - 800.00	1,750.00
15	Heaney, Seamus	Squarings: A sequence of forty-eight poems...with forty-eight drawings by Sol Lewitt	2003	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	1,750.00
71		Bohemian Grove Plays - a nearly complete run	1908-2013	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	1,625.00
304	Yamaguchi Soken	Soken Gafu Soka no Bu	1806	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	1,625.00
79	[Boyle, Robert]	Some considerations touching the usefulnesse of experimental naturall philosophy, Propos'd in a familiar discourse to a friend, by way of invitation to the study of it	1663	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	1,625.00
87	Burton, Virginia Lee	Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel	1939	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	1,625.00
98	Peto, Gladys	Alice in Wonderland Handkerchiefs	[1920s]	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	1,500.00
9	Brautigan, Richard	Trout Fishing in America	2003	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	1,500.00
212	Machiavelli, Niccolo	The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence	1720	USD 600.00 - 900.00	1,375.00
159	Fraser, John Foster	The Conquering Jew	1915	USD 400.00 - 600.00	1,375.00
21	Toomer, Jean	Cane	2000	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	1,375.00

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Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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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.
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.