Sothebys: Valuable Printed Books and Manuscripts SOLD ON BEHALF OF THE BRITISH RAIL PENSION FUND., BARKWORTH,

Auction Details

Auction Date
September 27, 1988 - September 27, 1988
Page Size: 215 items in 3 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 NEW TESTAMENT TYNDALE'S VERSION Antwerp

1534

 GBP 18,000.00 - 20,000.00 30,800.00
102 BIBLE (English) London

1546

 GBP 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 11,550.00
103 Sir THOMAS MORE THE CONFUTACYON OF TYNDALE'S ANSWERE MADE BY SYR THOMAS MORE

1532

 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 2,200.00
104 BIBLE (English) THE PROUERBES OF SALOMON

1540

 GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 8,800.00
105 JOHN MARBECKE BOOKE OF COMMON PRAIER NOTED

1550

 GBP 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 11,000.00
106 LITURGIES THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER and adminstration of the Sacraments

1549

 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 4,400.00
107 LUDOVICO ARIOSTO ORLANDO FURIOSO IN ENGLISH HEROICAL VERSE

1591

 GBP 14,000.00 - 18,000.00 37,400.00
108 JANE AUSTEN AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF JUVENILIA

1792

 GBP 70,000.00 - 80,000.00 132,000.00
109 JANE AUSTEN THE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF JANE AUSTEN'S NOVEL "THE WATSONS"

[Bath, 1804-1805]

 GBP 80,000.00 - 85,000.00 99,000.00
110 RICHARD AMES A SEARCH AFTER WIT;

1691

 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 550.00
111 RICHARD AMES THE SEARCH AFTER CLARET

1691

 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 550.00
112 RICHARD AMES A FARTHER SEARCH AFTER CLARET

1691

 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 550.00
113 RICHARD AMES THE LAST SEARCH AFTER CLARET IN SOUTHWARK

1691

 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 550.00
114 NICHOLAS BRETON ENGLAND'S SELECTED CHARACTERS

1643

 USD 800.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
115 Sir Edward Coley BURNE-JONES FINE SERIES OK THIRTY-NINE AUTO-GRAPH LETTERS SIGNED West Kensington and Rottingdean

1870-1888

 GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 7,150.00
116 SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE CHARMING EARLY AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED INCORPORATING AN AUTOGRAPH POEM

28 Ju[ne] [17]93

 GBP 4,000.00 - 4,500.00 4,400.00
117 GEORGE GORDON BYRON FINE AND LENGTHY AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED Ravenna

11 May 1821

 GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 5,060.00
118 WILLIAM COWPER AUTOGRAPH DRAFT OF HIS MODONY FOR JOHN THORNTON

[November 1790]

 GBP 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 3,080.00
119 WILLIAM COWPER FINE AND IMPORTANT SERIES OF NINETEEN AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED

24 March 1782-25 July 1792

 GBP 15,000.00 - 18,000.00 15,400.00
120 WILLIAM COWPER AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF HIS DELIGHTFUL EPITAPH ON HIS HARE

7 March 1783

 GBP 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 3,300.00
121 WILLIAM COWPER AUTOGRAPH VERSE-LETTER SENT TO HIS FRIEND THE REV

GBP 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 3,300.00
122 RICHARD DADD AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF HIS POEM

Jany. 1865.

 GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 6,050.00
123 THOMAS DE QUINCEY THE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF THE FIRST PART OF "CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER" York Street

1821

 GBP 15,000.00 - 18,000.00 28,600.00
124 THOMAS DE QUINCEY ONE GALLEY OF THE PROOF FOR THE SECOND EDITION OF "THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM EATER"

[c.1856]

 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 990.00
125 CHARLES DICKENS SERIES OF TWENTY-ONE EARLY AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED

[April-May 1832-1835]

 GBP 15,000.00 - 18,000.00 24,200.00
126 CHARLES DICKENS HANDSOME ALBUM OF CONTAINING ALL THE KNOWN CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN DICKENS AND SIR JOHN EASTHOPE

[1836]-1844

 GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 8,800.00
127 CHARLES DICKENS IMPORTANT EARLY SERIES OF 15 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED TO THE COMPOSER JOHN PYKE HULLAH

[29 December 1835-12 January 1837]

 GBP 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 14,300.00
128 CHARLES DICKENS-BROWNE (H.K. "PHIZ") A FINE SERIES OF FORTY-TWO DRAWINGS TO ILLUSTRATE "LITTLE DORRIT" by Charles Dickens

GBP 25,000.00 - 28,000.00 28,600.00
129 JOHN DONNE BIATHANATOS

[1646 or 1647]

 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 1,430.00
130 Mrs E.C. GASKELL EARLY AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("E.C. Stevenson") to Harriet Carr Liverpool postmark

31 August and 1 September 1831

 GBP 400.00 - 500.00 605.00
131 Mrs E.C. GASKELL AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Elizabeth Stevenson") [Newcastle]

[before 30 August 1832]

 GBP 350.00 - 450.00 605.00
132 Mrs E.C. GASKELL EARLY AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("E.C. Stevenson") Elizabeth"

20 October 1831

 GBP 350.00 - 450.00 605.00
133 Mrs E.C. GASKELL EARLY AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("E.C. Stevenson") Knutsford

6 August [1832]

 GBP 400.00 - 500.00 605.00
134 JOHN GAY AND ALEXANDER POPE REMARKABLE JOINT AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("JG." AND "A. POPE" RESPECIVELY Twickenham

23 September 1725

 GBP 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 3,300.00
135 THOMAS GRAY EXCEPTIONALLY FINE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED

25 August, 1757

 GBP 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 3,080.00
136 GEORGE HERBERT THE TEMPLE

1633

 GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 9,350.00
137 Sir Henry HERBERT IMPORTANT LETTER SIGNED CONCERNING THE RESTORATION THEATRE

13 October 1660

 GBP 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 6,050.00
138 HENRY HOWARD SONGES AND SONETTES WRITTEN BY THE RIGHT HONORABLE LORDE HENRY HAWARD LATE EARLE OF SURREY London

[1559]

 GBP 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 11,000.00
139 CHARLES LAMB THE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF LAMB'S CELEBRATED ESSAY BY "ELIA" "THE PRAISE OF CHIMNEY SWEEPERS

c. 1821-1822

 GBP 16,000.00 - 18,000.00 24,200.00
140 JOHN MILTON PARADISE LOST

1667

 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
141 JOHN MILTON POEMS

1645

 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 7,150.00
142 Sir THOMAS MORE THE SUPPLYCACYON OF SOULYS

[1529]

 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
143 EZRA POUND REMARKABLE SERIES OF FORTY-EIGHT LETTERS WRITTEN IN HIS VERNACULAR AND IDIOSYNCRATIC STYLE

GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 8,250.00
144 ROYAL BOOK THE BOKE NAMED THE ROYALL

[1507]

 GBP 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 11,550.00
145 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE COMEDIES

1632

 GBP 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 22,000.00
146 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TWO QUOTATIONS FROM "OTHELLO" IN A YORKSHIRE COMMONPLACE BOOK OF THE 1620s

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
147 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE COMEDIES

1685

 GBP 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 23,100.00
148 Sir JOHN SUCKLING FRAGMENTA AUREA

1646

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
149 WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY IMPORTANT EARLY AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO EDWARD FITZGERALD London

23 November 1831

 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 2,530.00
150 HORACE WALPOLE CHARMING AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED Cambridge

22 May 1736

 USD 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
151 J.R.R. TOLKIEN FINE Oxford

[25 April 1954]

 GBP 1,600.00 - 1,800.00 3,520.00
152 ACCADEMIA DEL ClMENTO SAGGI DI NATURALI ESPERIENZE FATTE NELL Florence

1666 [dedication dated 1667]

 GBP 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 6,050.00
153 ARNALDUS, de Villanova LE TRESOR DES POURES

27 October 1529

 GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 4,180.00
154 JOHANNNES ANGELUS ASTROLABIUM PLANUM Augsburg

6(?) October 1488

 GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 6,600.00
155 ARCHIMEDES TETRAGONISMUS idest circuli quadratura per Campanum archimedem Syracusanum atque boetium mathematicae perspicacissimos adinuenta Venice

28 August 1503

 GBP 4,000.00 - 4,500.00 6,820.00
156 CHARLES BABBAGE REMARKABLE AND IMPORTANT AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ABOUT HIS RECENTLY CONSTRUCTED CALCULATING MACHINE

19 June 1824

 GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 17,050.00
157 JOANNES BAYER URANOMETRIA Augsburg

1603

 GBP 8,000.00 - 9,000.00 7,150.00
158 ANICIUS MANLIUS SEVERINUS BOETHIUS ARITHMETICA Augsburg

20 May 1488

 GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 9,350.00
159 ROBERT BOYLE MEDICINA HYDROSTATICA

1690

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
160 ROBERT BOYLE THE GENERAL HISTORY OF THE AIR

1692

 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 1,210.00
161 ROBERT BOYLE EXPERIMENTS AND CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT THE POROSITY OF BODIES

1684

 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
162 ROBERT BOYLE TRACTS CONSISTING OF OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE SALTNESS OF THE SEA

1674

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
163 ROBERT BOYLE NEW EXPERIMENTS

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
164 ROBERT BOYLE TRACTS Oxford

1671

 GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 1,980.00
165 ROBERT BOYLE TRACTS

1672

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
166 ROBERT BOYLE THE SCEPTICAL CHYMIST

1661

 GBP 15,000.00 - 18,000.00 16,500.00
167 ROBERT BOYLE THE SCEPTICAL CHYMIST Oxford

1680

 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
168 ROBERT BOYLE EXPERIMENTS AND CONSIDERATIONS TOUCHING COLOURS

1664

 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 1,815.00
169 TYCHO BRAHE ASTRONOMIAE INSTAURATAE PROGYMNASMATA

1602

 USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
170 TYCHO BRAHE ASTRONOMIAE INSTAURATAE PROGYMNASMATA

1602

 USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
171 CHRISTOPHORUS FABIUS BRECHTEL NOMENCLATURA PHARMACEUTICA Nuremberg

1603

 GBP 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 13,200.00
172 GIAN DOMENICO CASSINI AUTOGRAPH NOTES ON THE MOTIONS OF THE SATELLITES OF JUPITER

GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 1,100.00
173 Sir WILLIAM CONGREVE THE DETAILS OF THE ROCKET SYSTEM

1814

 GBP 6,000.00 - 7,000.00 6,600.00
174 NICOLAUS COPERNICUS DE LATERIBUS ET ANGULIS TRIANGULORUM Wittenberg

1542

 GBP 14,000.00 - 16,000.00 14,850.00
175 GEORGES CuviER, Baron de RECHERCHES SUR LES OSSEMENS FOSSILES DE QUADRUPEDES Paris

1812

 GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 2,530.00
176 CHARLES DARWIN Captain P.P. KING AND Captain R. FITZROY

1839

 GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 4,620.00
177 LOUIS JACQUES MANDE DAGUERRE HISTORIQUE ET DESCRIPTION DES PROCEDES DU DAGUERREOTYPE ET DU DIORAMA Paris

1839

 GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 3,850.00
178 RENE DESCARTES DISCOURS DE LA METHODE pour bien conduire sa raison Leiden

1637

 GBP 18,000.00 - 20,000.00 29,700.00
179 RENE DESCARTES PRINCIPIA PHILOSOPHIAE

1 May 1979

 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 1,760.00
180 RENE DESCARTES REMARKABLE LONG SCIENTIFIC AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Descartes") Netherlands

15 November 1638

 GBP 40,000.00 - 45,000.00 44,000.00
181 LAZARUS ERCKER BESCHREIBUNG Prague

1574

 GBP 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 12,650.00
182 EUCLID ELEMENTORUM GEOMETRICORUM Rome

1594

 GBP 5,500.00 - 6,000.00 6,600.00
183 EUCLID DIE SECHS ERSTE BUCHER EUCLIDIS Basle

1562

 GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 2,860.00
184 Sir ALEXANDER FLEMING AUTOGRAPH ACCOUNT BY FLEMING OF THE DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT OF PENICILLIN

1945

 USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
185 SIGMUND FREUD DIE TRAUMDEUTUNG Leipzig and Vienna

1900

 USD 4,500.00 - 5,500.00 Not Sold
186 JOSEPH FURTTENBACH ARCHITECTURA UNIVERSALIS

5 November 1979

 USD 7,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
187 GALILEO GALILEI LE OPERAZIONI DEL COMPASSO GEOMETRICO London

12 November 1975

 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
188 GALILEO GALILEI SIDEREUS NUNCIUS MAGNA Venice

1610

 USD 25,000.00 - 28,000.00 Not Sold
189 GALILEO GALILEI ISTORIA Rome

1613

 USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
190 GALILEO GALILEI DISCORSI Leiden

1638

 USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
191 GALILEO GALILEI DIALOGO Florence

1632

 USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
192 WILLIAM GILBERT DE MUNDO NOSTRO SUBLUNARI PHILOSOPHIA NOVA Amsterdam

1651

 USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
193 WILLIAM GILBERT DE MAGNETE

1600

 USD 4,000.00 - 4,500.00 Not Sold
194 OTTO VON GUERICKE EXPERIMENTA NOVA (UT VOCANTUR) MAGDEBURGICA DE VACUO SPATIO Amsterdam

1672

 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
195 JOHANNES HEVELIUS SELENOGRAPHIA

1647

 USD 6,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
196 ROBERT HOOKE MICROGRAPHIA

1665

 USD 6,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
197 ROBERT HOOKE LECTIONES CUTLERIANAE

1679

 USD 4,500.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
198 ROBERT HOOKE PHILOSOPHICAL COLLECTIONS Moses Pitt

1679-1682

 USD 6,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
199 JAMES HUTTON ABSTRACT OF A DISSERTATION READ IN THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH Edinburgh

1785

 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
200 CHRISTIAAN HUYGENS TRAITE DE LA LUMIERE Leiden

1690

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
  • <b><center>Heritage Auctions<br>Rare Books Signature Auction<br>December 15, 2025</center></b> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Edgar Rice Burroughs. <i>Tarzan of the Apes.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> F. Scott Fitzgerald. <i>Tender is the Night. A Romance.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Bram Stoker. <i>Dracula.</i> Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Jerry Thomas. <i>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…</i>
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    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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  • <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.