Bonhams: Fine Books and Manuscripts, 29882, London, New Bond Street

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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 20, 2024 - November 20, 2024
Page Size: 86 items in 4 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

Album containing some 120 autograph letters, cut signatures and autograph free fronts, with good Scottish provenance,

19th century GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 10,240.00
2

Aristotle's Master-piece, Printed for W.B. and are to be sold by most Booksellers in London and Westminster

1695 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 5,120.00
3

[The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament, and the New], 2 parts in 1 vol., FOURTH FOLIO EDITION,

1634 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 7,040.00
4 BLACKSTONE (WILLIAM)

Commentaries on the Laws of England, 4 vol., FIRST EDITION,

Oxford 1765-1769 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 7,680.00
5

Collection of forty-nine nineteenth-century engineering drawings and plans

19th century GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
6

Fragment of blue silk ribbon sewn onto a nineteenth-century note of provenance

19th century GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 3,584.00
7 BYRNE (OLIVER)

The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid,

1847 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
8 HOBBES (THOMAS)

Leviathan

1651 but 1678 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,816.00
9 HUME (DAVID)

Series of six autograph letters to his close friend William Mure of Caldwell (1718-1776), and one contemporary copy

1763-1776 GBP 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 GBP 102,000.00
12 JERVIS (JOHN, 1st EARL ST VINCENT)

Manuscript account book of the Earl of St Vincent "...in Account with Benjamin Tucker..."

1798-1810 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 768.00
13

STOW (JOHN) A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster..., 2 vol., A. Churchill [and others]

1720 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
14 MALTON (THOMAS)

A Picturesque Tour through the Cities of London and Westminster, 2 vol. in 1, HAND-COLOURED COPY

1792-1801 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 7,680.00
15 WESLEY (SAMUEL)

Autograph manuscript score titled Concerto for the Organ in B flat, signed and dated by Wesley

1800 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
16

[Antiphonarium secundum morem Sancte Romane Ecclesie...], vol. 1 only (of 2),

Venice 1503 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,048.00
17 BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX, Saint

De consideratione... ad Eugenium Papam,

Augsburg c.1475/77 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,048.00
18

[Biblia Latina] Biblia cum concordantiis veteris et novi testamenti

Freiburg or Basel c.1493-1494 or c.1494-1495 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 7,040.00
19

Biblia latina [With table of Gabriel Brunus], [colophon:]

Venice 1498 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 4,864.00
20

Quincuplex psalterium. Gallicum. Rhomanum. Hebraicum. Vetus. Conciliatu[m] [edited by Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples], FIRST EDITION THUS

Paris 1509 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,792.00
21

MONTANUS (ARIAS) [Biblia Sacra Hebraice, Chaldaice, Graece, & Latine...] Hebraicorum Bibliorum, vol. 7 (of 8)

Antwerp 1572 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,536.00
22

Derech Ha'Kodesh [in Hebrew] Via sancta...sive Biblia Sacra eleganti et maiuscula characterum forma,

Hamburg 1587 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,200.00
23

The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testment, and the New, Robert Barker

1613 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 15,360.00
24

Missale Romanu[m],

Venice 1522 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,816.00
25 PEREGRINUS DE OPPELN

Sermones de tempore et de sanctis,

Strasbourg 1495/1595 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,664.00
26 TORQUEMADA (JUAN DE)

Expositio regulae S. Benedicti, [colophon:]

Paris 1491 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,432.00
27 GOETHE (JOHANN WOLFANG VON)

Letter signed, to Johann Wolfgang Dobereiner, Professor at the University of Jena

Weimar 1818 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 6,144.00
  • Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: ALDROVANDI, Ulisse (1522-1605) - [Opera omnia]. Bologna: Bellagamba, Benacci, Bonomi, Tebaldini, Ferroni, 1599-1668. €22.000-€28.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: [CANALETTO] - VISENTINI, Antonio (1688-1782) da Giovanni Antonio CANAL (1697-1768, detto 'Il Canaletto') - Urbis Venetiarum prospectus celebriores. Venezia: Giovanni Battista Pasquale, 1742-51. €7.000-€10.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: LA FONTAINE, Jean de (1621-1695) - Fables Choisies. Parigi: Claude Barbin, 1668. €7.000-€10.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: MERCATOR, Rumold (1545-1599) - [I continenti] - Europa; Africa; America Sive India Nova; Asia. Amsterdam: S.d. [ca. 1633]. €2.000-€3.000
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