Sothebys: CATALOGUE OF VALUABLE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS. COMPRISING, A Selection from the Library of George W. Fitzwilliam, Esq. of Milton Hall, Peterborough, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS ON VELLUM OK THE XIVTH AND XVTH CENTURIES, INCLUDING MSS. OF THE ABBEY OF PETERBOROU, Apr291918,

Auction Details

Auction Date
April 29, 1918 - April 29, 1918
Page Size: 1069 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
301 Sidney (Sir Philip) The Countesse of Pembroke's Arcadia

1633

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302 Simpson (Christopher) A Compendium of Practical Musick

1678

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303 Sinclair (George) Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis, or an Account of Experiments on Grasses and other Plants

1816

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304 Sleidan (John) The Key of History

1631

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305 Society of Dilettanti. Specimens of Ancient Sculpture: AEgyptian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman

1809

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306 SOWERBY (JAMES) ENGLISH BOTANY

1790-1814

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307 Sowerby (J.) Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms

1797-9

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308 Sparrman (Andrew) A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope

1785

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309 Speidell (John) New Logarithmes

1624

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310 Spenser (Edmund) The Faerie Queene

1590

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311 Spenser (E.) The Faerie Queen; together with the Shepheard's Calendar and other works

1611 [dated at end 1612]

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312 STAFFORD (ROBERT) A Geographicall and Anthologieall Description of all the Empires and Kingdomes in this Terrestrial Globe [Chap. IX De America, Do Peruana, etc.]...

USD - Unknown
313 Standish (Arthur) Now Directions of Experience for the planting of Timber and Fire-wood

1614

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314 STATIUS (P. P.) Sylvarum libri quinque; Thebaidos libri duodecim; Achilleidos duo Venetiis

mense Novembri, 1502

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315 Statutes whiche have been made in the tyme of the. most victorious reigne of kyng Henrie the eight

1551

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316 Statutes made and established from the time of King Henry the thirde unto the first yere of the Reigne of King Henry the VIII

1564

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317 Statutes from the tenthe yere of King Henrie the Sixt to the xiiii yere of Queene Elyzabeth

1572

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318 Statutes. A Collection of all the Statutes from the beginning of Magna Charta unto this present yere

1574

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319 Statutes. Collection in English of the Statutes now in force from the beginning of Magna Charta untill the end of the Parliament held in the 7 yere of King James...

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320 Statutes. Collection in English of the Statutes now in force from the beginning of Magna Charta untill the end of Parliament holden in the 23 Queene Elizabeth...

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321 Statutes. Collection in English of the Statutes nowe in force continued from the beginning of Magna Charta untill the endo of the Session of Parliament holden in the 23 yeere of Queene Elizabeth

n. d.

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322 STATUTES AND ACTS. Edwardi sexti anni I-VII...

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323 Staunton (Sir George) Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China, from the papers of the Earl of Macartney

1797

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324 Stokes (J. L.) Dicoveries in Australia

1846

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325 Stow (John) Annales, or General Chronicle of England

1615

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326 Strutt (J. G.) Sylva Britannica, or Portraits of Forest Trees

1822

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327 [STUBBS (JOHN)] THE DISCOVERIE OF A GAPING GULF

1579

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328 Swift (J. Dean) Works

1824

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329 Tasso (Torquato) La Gierusalemme Liberata, con le Figure di Bernardo Castello, e le annotazioni di S. Gentili, et di G. Guastavini Genova

1580

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330 Temple (Sir William) Miscellanea...

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331 THEOCRITUS IDYLLIA; HESIODUS Impressum Venetiis

mense Februario, 1495

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332 Thiers (A.) Histoire de la Revolution francaise...

USD - Unknown
333 Thirlwall (Conop, Bishop) The History of Greece

1855

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334 THORESBY (R.) DUCATUS LEODIENSIS, or the Topography of Leedes and parts adjacent...

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335 THUCYDIDES DE BELLO PELOPONNESIACO LIBRI VIII Venetiis

in domo Aldi mense Maio. 1502

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336 Thurloe (John) A Collection of State Papers, with Life

1742

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337 TOFTE (Robert) HONOURS ACADEMIE, or the famous Pastorall of the Faire Shepheardesse Iulietta

1610

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338 Topsell (Edward) The Historie of Foure-footes Beastes

1607

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339 Tracts. Jinkins (Captain) Spanish Insolence corrected by English Bravery...

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340 Tracts. [Teignmouth (J. Lord)] Considerations on the policy of communicating to the Natives of India the knowledge of Christianity...

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341 Tracts, etc. Two Reports on the matter of the complaint of Mr. Livius against Governor Wentworth [of the Province of New Hampshire]...

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342 T. B. and T. J. Howell Trials. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials

1809-21

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343 Valentia (George, Viscount) Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, the Bed Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt

1809

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344 VICTORIAS (PETRUS) COMMENTARII IN VIII LIBROS Aristotelis DE OPTIMO STATU CIVITATIS Florentiae

1576

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345 VIGNOLA (G. B. DA) Li CINQUE ORDINI DI Architettura, con un ragiomamento ALLI ARCHITETI DI M. O. RIDOLFI Venetia

1603

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346 VIRGILIUS OPERA, MAURI SERVII HONORATI GRAMMATICI IN EADEM COMMENTARII Parisiis

1532

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347 VIRGIL THE XIII BOOKES OF AENEIDOS

?1583

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348 VIRGIL OEuvres, traduites EN francois, LE TEXTE vis-A-vis LA TRADUCTION, AVEC DES REMARQUES PAR M. L'ABBE DES FONTAINES Paris

1743

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349 VIRGIL L'ENEIDE DI VIRGILIO DEL COMINONDATORE ANNIBAL CARO In Parigi

1760

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350 VIRGILIUS Bucolica, GEORGICA ET AENEIS Glasguae

1778

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351 VIRGILIUS OPERA, EX ANTIQUIS MONIMENTIS ILLUSTRATA, CURA, STUDIO ET SUMTIBUS HENRICI JUSTICE Bruxellis

n. d.

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352 WALKLEY (THOMAS) A NEW CATALOGUE OF THE DUKES, MARQUESSES, EARLS, VISCOUNTS AND BARONS OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND...

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353 WALLICH (NATHANIEL) PLANTAE ASIATICAE RARIORES, OR DESCRIPTIONS AND FIGURES OF EAST INDIAN PLANTS

1830

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354 WALLICH (N.) Plantae Asiaticae rariores, OR Descriptions OF EAST INDIAN PLANTS...

USD - Unknown
355 Walpole (Robert) Travels in various Countries of the East

1820

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356 [Whately (Thomas)] Observations on Modern Gardening

1801

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357 White (Gilbert) Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne

1813

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358 WHITAKER (T. D.) A HISTORY OF RICHMONDSHIRE in the North Riding of the County of York

1823

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359 Wilberforce (Wm.) Appeal to the inhabitants of the British Empire in behalf of the Negro Slaves in the West Indies...

USD - Unknown
360 Wild (Charles) An Illustration of the Architecture and Sculpture of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln

1819

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361 Wild (C.) Twelve select Examples of the Ecclesiastical Architecture of the Middle Ages

n. d.

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362 WILSON (Alexander) AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY, or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States Philadelphia

1808-13

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363 Wingate (E.) Britton

1640

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364 WOOD (WILLIAM) NEW ENGLANDS PROSPECT. A true, lively and experimentall description of that part of America

1634

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365 Woodhouse (John) A Prognostication containing brief Instructions for Husbandry and Physick for every moneth in the yeere...

USD - Unknown
366 Wright (Edward) The Haven-finding Art, or the Way to find any Haven or place at sea

1599

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367 Wyatt (M. D.) The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century

1851-2

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368 YEAR BOOKS. Henrici VI Annus IV...

USD - Unknown
369 YEAR BOOK. Anno quinto Edwardi quarti

1552

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370 YEAR BOOKS. Henrici VI, Anni XXI, XXII, XXVII, XXVIII, XXX-XXXI, XXXII-XXXIX

1556-67

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371 YEAR BOOKS. Edwardi IV, Anni I-XXII

1556-78

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372 YEAR BOOKS. Edwardi V, Annus I, R. Tottell...

USD - Unknown
373 YEAR BOOKS. Edwardi V, Annus I, R. Tottell...

USD - Unknown
374 YEAR BOOKS. Regis Edwardi tertii a primo ad decimum (inclusive) anni omnes...

USD - Unknown
375 YEAR BOOKS. Regis pie memorie Edwardi tertii a quadragesimo ad quinquagesimo anni omnes a mendis quibus miserrime scatebant repurgati et suo nitori restituti

1565

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376 YEAR BOOKS. Henrici VI, Anni I-IV, VII-XII, XIV, XVIII-XX

1567-70

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377 YEAR BOOKS. Edwardi III, Anni XVII-XVIII, XXI-XXX, XXXVIII-XXXIX

1584-5

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378 YEAR BOOKS. Anno XXVII, XXIX, XXXI, XXXV, XXXIX Reginae Elizabethae

1585-97; etc.

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379 Year Books. Anni Begum Edwardi quinti, Richardi tertii, Henrici septimi et Henrici octavi, omnes, qui antea impressi fucrunt, jam rocens post priores editiones emendati, etc.

1597

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380 Young (George) A Geological Survey of the Yorkshire Coast

1822

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381 Young (John) Catalogue of the Pictures at Grosvenor House

1820

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382 [Galloway (Joseph)] Candid Examination of the Mutual Claims of Great Britain and the Colonies...

USD - Unknown
383 Chatterton (Thos.) Poems supposed to have been written at Bristol in the XVth Century

1794

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384 Hunter (John D.) Memoirs of a Captivity among the Indians of North America

1823

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385 AEsop Fables

1793

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386 BROWNING (Elizabeth Barrett) Poems

1850

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387 KORAN (AL)

SAEC XVII?

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388 WHYTE-MELVILLE (G. J.) WORKS

1853-79

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389 Jonson (Ben.) Works

1756

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390 Dryden (John) Dramatic Works, Miscellaneous Works and Virgil

1762-72

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391 Pope (Alex.) Works (with the Iliad and Odyssey)

1766-(1760)

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392 Gay (John) Fables...

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393 Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis cum Calendario. (FRENCH, LATE XV CENTURY)

LATE SAEC. XV

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394 HORAE B. V. M. cum Calendario. (FRENCH, LATE XV CENTURY)

SAEC. XV

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395 Foxe (John) Book of Martyrs. The First Volume of the Ecclesiastical History...

USD - Unknown
396 Guillim (John) Display of Heraldry...

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397 [FRANKLIN (BENJAMIN)] POOR RICHARD IMPROVED PHILADELPHIA

1758

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398 Militarisches Taschenbuch auf das Jahr 1780 Leipzig

1780

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399 Coppier (Guillaume Lyonnois) Histoire et Voyage des Indes Occidentals, et deplusieurs autres Regions Maritimes, & esloignees a Lyon

1645

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400 Coppier (G.) Histoire et Voyage des Indes Occidentals: Another copy (taller and better than the above)

1645

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  • <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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    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.
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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.