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Auction Details

Auction Date: January 28, 2025 - January 28, 2025

Page Size: 148 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Wood, Anthony.	Athenae Oxonienses. An exact History of all the Writers and Bishops who have had all their education in the University of Oxford.	London	1813-20.	GBP 100.00 - 120.00	Unknown
2	QUINTILIANUS (Marcus Fabius)	De institutione oratoria libri XII ... argumentisque doctissimi viri Petri Gallandielucidati. Eiusdem Declamationum liber..	Paris	1542	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
3	Baskerville Press.	Titi Lucretii Cari de Rerum Natura Libri Sex.	Birmingham	1772	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
4	WELSER. Marcus (1558-1614).	Rerum Augusta Nar. Vindelicar(um) libri octo.	Venice,	1594	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
5	Bacon (Francis).	Sylva Sylvarum: Or, a Naturall Historie in Ten Centuries.	Published after the authors death, by William Rawley. London	1635	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
6		L. Annaei Senecae, clarissimi stoici philosophi, necnon poetae accutissimi, Opus tragoediarum: aptissimisque figuris excultum, in quo tria millia errata atque inversa loca ... ad veterem lectionem nunc primum reformata. Cum expositoribus luculentissimis,	Venetiis,	1522	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
7		Tertullian: Opera Q. Septimii Florentis Tertulliani Carthaginensis. Edited by Beatus Rhenanus.	Basel	1539	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
8	PLATO.	Opera quae extant omnia.	[Geneva]	1578	GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
9	Caesar (Caius Julius)	The Commentaries..., translated by Clement Edmonds,	London	1655	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
10	Book of Kells (The);	Evangeliorum Quattuor Codex Cenannensis, 3 vol.	Berne	1950	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
11	Huetius	Origenis In Sacras Scripturas Commentaria. Quaecunque Graece Reperiri Potuerunt.	Rothomagi	1668	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
12	Dibdin (Rev. Thomas Frognall)	Aedes Althorpianae; or an Account of the Mansion, Books, and Pictures, at Althorp; the Residence of George John Earl Spencer, K.G., to which is Added a Supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana.	London	1822	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
13	Hegesippus, (Flavius, Josephus)	Egesippi historiographi inter scriptores ecclesiasticos vetustissimi, de rebus a Iudaeorum principibus in obsidione fortiter gestis, deque excidio Hierosolymorum, aliarumque civitatum adicentium, libri V..	Cologne, s.n. (in fine	1525	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
14	Cicero, Marcus Tullius.	Opera. Ex Petri Victorii Codicibus maxima ex parte descripta Rhetorica; .Epistolae . Orationes . Philosophica . Petri Victorii Explicationes suarum in Ciceronem Castigationum.	Paris	1538-1539.	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
15	Joannes Philoponus	Commentaria super libros priorum resolutiorum Aristotelis.	Venice	1560	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
16		Die Bibel in Bildern. (240 Darstellungen, erfunden und auf Holz gezeichnet von Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld).	Leipzig,	1860	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
17	Antoine de Marcenay de Ghuy	Oeuvre de Mr de Marcenay de Ghuy, Ecuyer, peintre et graveur...	Paris,	c1800	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
18	Themistius.	Orationes XXXIII. E quibus tredecim nunc primum in lucem editae.	Paris	1684	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
19	Occo, Adolf.	Imperatorum Romanorum Numismata to Pompejo Magno ad Heraclium.	Milan,	1730	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
20	DANET, Pierre.	Magnum Dictionarium Latinum et Gallicum.	Lugduni [Lyon],	1740	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
21	Isocrates.	Orationes et epistolae. Cum latina interpret. H. Wolfii, ab ipso postremum recognita. Henr. Steph. in Isocratem Diatribae VII (...). Gorgiae et Aristidis quaedam, eiusdem cum Isocraticis argumenti. Guil. Cantero interprete.	Geneva,	1593	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
22	Dio, Cassius	Dionis Cassii Cocceiani Historiae Romanae Libri XLVI, Partem Integri Partim Mutili, Partim Excerpti.	Aubrii, Hanau	1606	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
23	Hippocrate (Cornarius, Janus)	Hippocratis Coi Medicorvm omnivm longe principis, opera quae ad nos extant omnia.	Basileae,	1558	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
24	Tacitus, Cajus Cornelius; Velleius Paterculus	C. Cornelii Tactiti et C. Velleii Paterculi Scripta Quae Exstant: Recognita, emaculata: Additique Commentarii copiosissimi.	Paris	1608	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
25	Titus Livius.	Todas las Decadas de Tito Livio Paduano que hasta al presente se hallaron y fueron impressas en latin, traduzidas en romance castellano [por Francisco de Enzinas]. Agora nuevamente reconoscidas y emendadas y anadidas de mas libros sobre la vieja traslacio	Colonia Agrippina	[1553]	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown

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. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.