Merwin Clayton Sales Company: CATALOGUE OF COLLECTION OF AMERICANA COMPRISING AMERICAN PERIODICALS; AMERICAN REVOLUTION (AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION); TOWN AND COUNTY HISTORIES; INDIAN NARRATIVES, HISTORY, ETC.; LINCOLN MEMOIRS, EULOGIES, ETC. (INCLUDING RARE TITLES); PAMPHLETS; FIRST EDI, 278,

Auction Details

Auction Date
November 01, 1909 - November 01, 1909
Page Size: 621 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
401 DANA (RICHARD H., JR.--author of Two Years Before the Mast) A. L. S.

1851

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402 DE NERVAL (GERARD) A. L. S., to Eugene De Stadler. n. p.

n. d.

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403 EDGEWORTH (MARIA) A. L. S. Edgeworth's Town

1846

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404 FRELIGRATH (F., celebrated poet) A. L. S. (in English).

1853

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405 HARRIS (JOEL CHANDLER) A. L. S.

1883

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406 HAYNE (PAUL HAMILTON) A. L. S.

1869

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407 HOLMES (OLIVER WENDELL) A. L. S.

1846

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408 HOLMES (OLIVER WENDELL) A. L. S.

1864

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409 HUNT (LEIGH) A. L. S.

1839

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410 JAMESON (ANNA) A. L. S.

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411 JAMES (HENRY, novelist) A. L. S.

1883

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412 LEGGETT (WILLIAM) A. L. S.

1839

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413 LONGFELLOW (HENRY W.) A. L. S. (initials). Portland

1878

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414 LONGFELLOW (HENRY W.) A. L. S. (initials).

1881

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415 LONGFELLOW (HENRY W.) A. L. S. (initials).

(1881)

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416 LOWELL (JAMES RUSSELL) L. S. London

1884

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417 MACKAY (CHARLES) A. L. S.

1876

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418 NEWELL (R. H., Orpheus C. Kerr) A. L. S.

1876

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419 O'REILLY (JOHN BOYLE) A. L. S.

(1888)

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420 PEABODY (ELIZABETH P.) A. L. S.

1837

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421 PROCTER (BRYAN, Barry Cornwall) A. L. S.

1851

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422 REID (CAPT. MAYNE) A. L. S.

1859

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423 ROGERS (SAMUEL) A. L. S.

1824

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424 STODDARD (CHARLES WARREN) A. L. S.

1874

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425 STODDARD (CHARLES WARREN) A. L. S. Venice

1875

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426 WHITTIER (JOHN G.) A. L. S.

1886

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427 WHITTIER (JOHN G.) A. L. S., Amesbury, 1875, 8vo, pp. 2; another, Danvers, 1881, 8vo; and another, Mt. Vernon Street ...

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428 A'BECKETT (G. A.) Comic History of Rome. Illustrations, plain and colored, by John Leech (a few faded). London

n. d.

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429 E. C. Bennett ABELARD AND HELOISE. The Love Letters: a Poetical Rendering. San Fran.

(1907)

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430 AGASSIZ (L.) On the Naked-Eyed Medusae of the Shores of Massachusetts. Boston

(1849)

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431 ALCOTT (A. B.) Concord Days (reminiscences of Thoreau, Hawthorne, Emerson, etc.), 1872; Record of Mr. Alcott's ... Boston

USD - Unknown
432 ALDEN (W. L.) Domestic Explosives, from the New York Times. New York

1877

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433 ALDEN (W. L.) Among the Freaks. London

1896

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434 ALDRICH (THOMAS BAILEY) Poems. Boston

1882

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435 ALDRICH (THOMAS BAILEY) Wyndham Towers. Boston

1890

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436 [ALLSTON (WASHINGTON)] Monaldi: a Tale. Boston

1841

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437 Thomas Hicks, N. A. ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING). Eulogy on Thomas Crawford. New York

1865

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438 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS. Characteristic Extracts and Signatures from the Correspondence of Illustrious and ... London

1838

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439 BANCROFT (GEORGE) Poems. Cambridge

1823

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440 BENTIVOGLIO (CARDINAL) History of the Wars of Flanders. Englished by the Earl of Monmouth. London

1678

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441 BENSON (ARTHUR C.) Lyrics. London

1895

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442 BENSON (ARTHUR C.) Lord Vyet, and other Poems. London

1897

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443 BENSON (ARTHUR C.) The Professor, and other Poems. London

1900

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444 BENSON (ARTHUR C.) Peace, and other Poems. London

1905

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445 BENSON (ARTHUR C.) Beside Still Waters. London

1907

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446 [BIERCE (AMBROSE)] Nuggets and Dust panned out in California by Dod Grile. London

(1872)

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447 [BIERCE (AMBROSE)] The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter. Chic.

1892

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448 [BIERCE (AMBROSE)] The Cynic's Word Book. New York

1906

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449 Allen (Charles Dexter) BOOK-PLATES. American Book-Plates: a Guide to their Study; with Examples. New York

1894

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450 Bowdoin (W. G.) BOOK-PLATES. The Rise of the Book-Plate. New York

1901

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451 BOOK-PLATES. Book-Plates selected from the Works of Edmund H. Garrett, and a Notice of them by W. H ... Boston

1904

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452 Fincham (H. W.) BOOK-PLATES. Artists and Engravers of English and American Book-Plates: a Book of Reference for Book ... New York

1897

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453 BROUGHAM (JOHN) A Basket of Chips. New York

1855

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454 BROUGHAM (JOHN) Romance and Reality; or, The Young Virginian. New York

(1856)

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455 BURNS (ROBERT) Poems and Songs. Portrait and 100 illustrations by Birket Foster, Harrison Weir, and others. London

1867

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456 BURNS (ROBERT) Letters of. Engraved titles. London

1819

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457 CARR (J. COMYNS) King Arthur: a Drama. London

1893

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458 CAWEIN (MADISON) Days and Dreams. New York

1891

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459 CAWEIN (MADISON) Undertones. Boston

1896

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460 CAWEIN (MADISON) Nature Notes and Impressions. New York

1906

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461 CAWEIN (MADISON) An Ode in Commemoration of the Founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Louisville

1908

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462 CHAMBERS (ROBERT) Cyclopoedia of English Literature. Boston

1851

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463 CLEMENS (S. L.) Roughing It. Hartf.

1872

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464 CLEMENS (S. L.) Punch! Brothers, Punch! etc. New York

(1878)

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465 CLEMENS (S. L.) A Tramp Abroad. Hartf.

1880

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466 COGGSWELL (JOSEPH GREEN) Life of. As Sketched in His Letters. Cambridge

1874

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467 [Lady Norton] CONTEMPLATIONS, Moral and Divine. London

1711

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468 CRANE (STEPHEN) The Red Badge of Courage. New York

1896

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469 CRANE (STEPHEN) War is Kind. Decorations by Will Bradley. New York

1899

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470 Joseph Rodman Drake and Fitz-Greene Halleck CROAKERS (THE). New York

1860

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471 CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE), by Walter Hamilton, 1878; on the Genius of Cruikshank, by Thackeray, 1884 ... London

USD - Unknown
472 Flight (E. G.) CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil. London

1871

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473 Hall (S. C.) CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). An Old Story. Illustrations by G. Cruikshank, G. Dore, Millais, and others. London

n. d.

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474 CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE) Engravings (mainly illustrations to Dickens), English and American Imprints, 1836-1840.

USD - Unknown
475 Manby (Charles W.) CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Tom Racquet and His Three Maiden Aunts. Full-page etchings by Robert Cruikshank ... London

n. d. (circa 1840)

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476 CURTIS (GEORGE W.) Nile Notes of a Howadji. New York

1851

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477 CURTIS (GEORGE W.) The Howadji in Syria. New York

1852

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478 CURTIS (GEORGE W.) Lotus Eating. Illustrations by Kensett. New York

1852

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479 CURTIS (GEORGE W.) Prue and I. New York

1856

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480 CURTIS (GEORGE W.) Trumps. Illustrations by Hoppin. New York

1861

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481 CURTIS (GEORGE W.) Modern Ghosts. New York

1890

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482 Edited by Joseph Jacobs DAPHNIS AND CHLOE. From Amyot's Translation by Angel Day. London

1890

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483 DIBDIN (THOMAS F.) A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and in ... London

1838

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484 DRAPER (J. W.) History of the Intellectual Development of Europe. New York

1864

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485 DUTIES (THE) and Qualifications of a Librarian: a Discourse (by J. B. C. Des Houssayes), Dec. 23 ... Chic.

1906

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486 EMERSON (RALPH WALDO) English Traits. Boston

1856

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487 EMERSON (RALPH WALDO) The Gulistan; or, Rose Garden of Saadi. Boston

1865

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488 ERASMUS. Twenty-two Select Colloquies, pleasantly illustrating Superstitious Levities, etc. London

1725

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489 [FAY (THEODORE S.)] Norman Leslie. New York

1835

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490 FIELD (EUGENE) A Little Book of Profitable Tales. New York

1890

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491 FIELD (EUGENE) A Second Book of Tales. New York

1896

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492 Francis Wilson FIELD (EUGENE). The Eugene Field I Knew. New York

1898

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493 FIELD (ROSWELL) The Bondage of Ballinger; The Muses up to Date (by Roswell and H. D. Field). Chic.

1897-1903

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494 FIELD (T. W.) The Minstrel Pilgrim. New York

1848

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495 FIRST EDITIONS. Letters, by H. D. Thoreau, 1865; True Stories, by Hawthorne, 1851; Hiawatha, by ...

USD - Unknown
496 FIRST EDITIONS. Seaside and Fireside, 1850, and New England Tragedies, 1868 (Longfellow); Letters ... Boston

USD - Unknown
497 FULLER (THOMAS) The Holy State. Second Edition, enlarged. London

1648

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498 GALAXY OF WIT (THE); or, Living Philosopher. Being a Collection of Choice Anecdotes. Boston

1826

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499 HAMILTON (ANTHONY) Memoirs of. Count Grammont. London

1811

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500 HARRIS (JOEL C.) On the Wing of Occasions. Curious Episodes of the Civil War, including the hitherto Suppressed ... New York

1900

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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>
    Heritage Auctions
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    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.
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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.