• <b>Bonhams, June 16-25:</b> 15th-CENTURY TREATISE ON SYPHILIS. GRÜNPECK. 1496. $20,000 - $30,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-25:</b> THE NORMAN COPY OF BENIVIENI'S TREATISE ON PATHOLOGY. 1507. $12,000 - $18,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-25:</b> FRACASTORO. Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus. 1530. $8,000 - $12,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-25:</b> THE FIRST PUBLISHED WORK ON SKIN DISEASES. MERCURIALIS. De morbis cutaneis... 1572. $10,000 - $15,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-25:</b> BIDLOO. Anatomia humani corporis... 1685. $6,000 - $9,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-25:</b> THE NORMAN COPY OF DOUGLASS'S EARLY AMERICAN WORK ON INNOCULATION AND SMALLPOX. 1722. $20,000 - $30,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-25:</b> LIND'S FIRST TREATISE ON SCURVY. 1753. $15,000 - $20,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-25:</b> RARE JENNER SIGNED CIRCULAR ON VACCINATION. 1821. $4,000 - $6,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-25:</b> MOST BEAUTIFUL OF MEDICAL ILLUSTRATIONS. BRIGHT. Reports of Medical Cases... 1827-1831. $10,000 - $15,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-25:</b> FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE PRESENTATION COPY TO HER MOTHER. 1860. $6,000 - $8,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-25:</b> LORENZO TRAVER'S MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF BURNSIDE'S NORTH CAROLINA EXPEDITION. TRAVER, Lorenzo. $2,000 - $3,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-25:</b> ONE OF THE EARLIEST PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOKS ON DERMATOLOGY. HARDY. Clinique Photographique... 1868. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: 15th-CENTURY TREATISE ON SYPHILIS. GRÜNPECK. 1496. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: THE NORMAN COPY OF BENIVIENI'S TREATISE ON PATHOLOGY. 1507. $12,000 - $18,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: FRACASTORO. Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus. 1530. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: THE FIRST PUBLISHED WORK ON SKIN DISEASES. MERCURIALIS. De morbis cutaneis... 1572. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: BIDLOO. Anatomia humani corporis... 1685. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: THE NORMAN COPY OF DOUGLASS'S EARLY AMERICAN WORK ON INNOCULATION AND SMALLPOX. 1722. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: LIND'S FIRST TREATISE ON SCURVY. 1753. $15,000 - $20,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: RARE JENNER SIGNED CIRCULAR ON VACCINATION. 1821. $4,000 - $6,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: MOST BEAUTIFUL OF MEDICAL ILLUSTRATIONS. BRIGHT. Reports of Medical Cases... 1827-1831. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE PRESENTATION COPY TO HER MOTHER. 1860. $6,000 - $8,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: LORENZO TRAVER'S MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF BURNSIDE'S NORTH CAROLINA EXPEDITION. TRAVER, Lorenzo. $2,000 - $3,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: ONE OF THE EARLIEST PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOKS ON DERMATOLOGY. HARDY. Clinique Photographique... 1868. $3,000 - $5,000
  • <b>Bonhams, June 16-24:</b> KELMSCOTT PRESS. RUSKIN. The Nature of Gothic. 1892. $1,500 - $2,500 <b>Bonhams, June 16-24:</b> ASHENDENE PRESS. The Wisdom of Jesus. 1932. $2,000 - $3,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-24:</b> CHARLOTTE BRONTE WRITES AS GOVERNESS. Autograph Letter Signed, 1851. $15,000 - $25,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-24:</b> FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF WUTHERING HEIGHTS. BRONTE, Emily. New York, 1848. $3,000 - $5,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-24:</b> IAN FLEMING ASSOCIATION COPY. You Only Live Twice. London, 1964. $7,000 - $9,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-24:</b> DELUXE EDITION WITH ORIGINAL PAINTING. BUKOWSKI, Charles. War All the Time. 1984. $3,000 - $5,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-24:</b> EINSTEIN'S MOST POWERFUL STATEMENT ON THE ATOMIC BOMB. Original Typed Manuscript Signed, "On My Participation in the Atom Bomb Project," 1953. $100,000 - $150,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-24:</b> EINSTEIN ON SCIENCE, WAR AND MORALITY. Autograph Letter Signed, 1949. $20,000 - $30,000
    <b>Bonhams, June 16-24:</b> SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. WASHINGTON, George. Engraved document signed, 1786. $8,000 - $12,000
    <b>Bonhams, June 16-24:</b> AN EARLY CHINESE-MADE 34-STAR U.S. CONSULAR FLAG. $8,000 - $12,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-24:</b> SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF LINCOLN WITH HIS SON TAD. 1864. $60,000 - $90,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-24:</b> MALCOLM X WRITES FROM KENYA. Postcard signed, 1964. $4,000 - $6,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: KELMSCOTT PRESS. RUSKIN. The Nature of Gothic. 1892. $1,500 - $2,500
    Bonhams, June 16-24: ASHENDENE PRESS. The Wisdom of Jesus. 1932. $2,000 - $3,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: CHARLOTTE BRONTE WRITES AS GOVERNESS. Autograph Letter Signed, 1851. $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF WUTHERING HEIGHTS. BRONTE, Emily. New York, 1848. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: IAN FLEMING ASSOCIATION COPY. You Only Live Twice. London, 1964. $7,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: DELUXE EDITION WITH ORIGINAL PAINTING. BUKOWSKI, Charles. War All the Time. 1984. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: EINSTEIN'S MOST POWERFUL STATEMENT ON THE ATOMIC BOMB. Original Typed Manuscript Signed, "On My Participation in the Atom Bomb Project," 1953. $100,000 - $150,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: EINSTEIN ON SCIENCE, WAR AND MORALITY. Autograph Letter Signed, 1949. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. WASHINGTON, George. Engraved document signed, 1786. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: AN EARLY CHINESE-MADE 34-STAR U.S. CONSULAR FLAG. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF LINCOLN WITH HIS SON TAD. 1864. $60,000 - $90,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: MALCOLM X WRITES FROM KENYA. Postcard signed, 1964. $4,000 - $6,000
  • <b><center>Case Antiques<br>Two-Day Summer Auction<br>July 12 & 13, 2025</center></b> <b>Case Antiques, July 12-13:</b> Winston Link Signed Photograph, Hotshot Eastbound, Iager, West Virginia, July 1957. $3,400 to $3,800. <b>Case Antiques, July 12-13:</b> Alexander Hamilton ALS, Whiskey Rebellion. $2,800 to $3,200. <b>Case Antiques, July 12-13:</b> Civil War Canteen and Letters, Thomas Tabb Jr. CSA. $1,800 to $2,200. <b><center>Case Antiques<br>Two-Day Summer Auction<br>July 12 & 13, 2025</center></b> <b>Case Antiques, July 12-13:</b> Archive of Capt. William Tabb of MS, CSA, Killed Atlanta. $1,000 to $1,400. <b>Case Antiques, July 12-13:</b> Rudyard Kipling Collection, 29 Volumes, First Editions; Zaehnsdorf Bindings. $1,000 to $1,200. <b>Case Antiques, July 12-13:</b> Artist Andrew Wyeth & Family Signed Letters, Cards. $1,000 to $1,200. <b><center>Case Antiques<br>Two-Day Summer Auction<br>July 12 & 13, 2025</center></b> <b>Case Antiques, July 12-13:</b> Augusta Resolves Silk Broadside, Revolutionary War RelateD. $800 to $1,000. <b>Case Antiques, July 12-13:</b> 1894 Map of Nashville. $800 to $900. <b>Case Antiques, July 12-13:</b> CSA Navy Appointment, Semmes and Mallory plus Photo of Lt. Armstrong. $600 to $800. <b><center>Case Antiques<br>Two-Day Summer Auction<br>July 12 & 13, 2025</center></b> <b>Case Antiques, July 12-13:</b> <i>Slave Colonies of Great Britain,</i> 1825, Macaulay, First Edition, plus Debate on Abolition, 1792. $600 to $800. <b>Case Antiques, July 12-13:</b> Signed Photo of 3 Presidents: Nixon, Ford, Carter. $600 to $800. <b>Case Antiques, July 12-13:</b> Slave Ledger, Merrill Plantations, Natchez, MS & Concordia, LA. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques
    Two-Day Summer Auction
    July 12 & 13, 2025
    Case Antiques, July 12-13: Winston Link Signed Photograph, Hotshot Eastbound, Iager, West Virginia, July 1957. $3,400 to $3,800.
    Case Antiques, July 12-13: Alexander Hamilton ALS, Whiskey Rebellion. $2,800 to $3,200.
    Case Antiques, July 12-13: Civil War Canteen and Letters, Thomas Tabb Jr. CSA. $1,800 to $2,200.
    Case Antiques
    Two-Day Summer Auction
    July 12 & 13, 2025
    Case Antiques, July 12-13: Archive of Capt. William Tabb of MS, CSA, Killed Atlanta. $1,000 to $1,400.
    Case Antiques, July 12-13: Rudyard Kipling Collection, 29 Volumes, First Editions; Zaehnsdorf Bindings. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, July 12-13: Artist Andrew Wyeth & Family Signed Letters, Cards. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques
    Two-Day Summer Auction
    July 12 & 13, 2025
    Case Antiques, July 12-13: Augusta Resolves Silk Broadside, Revolutionary War RelateD. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques, July 12-13: 1894 Map of Nashville. $800 to $900.
    Case Antiques, July 12-13: CSA Navy Appointment, Semmes and Mallory plus Photo of Lt. Armstrong. $600 to $800.
    Case Antiques
    Two-Day Summer Auction
    July 12 & 13, 2025
    Case Antiques, July 12-13: Slave Colonies of Great Britain, 1825, Macaulay, First Edition, plus Debate on Abolition, 1792. $600 to $800.
    Case Antiques, July 12-13: Signed Photo of 3 Presidents: Nixon, Ford, Carter. $600 to $800.
    Case Antiques, July 12-13: Slave Ledger, Merrill Plantations, Natchez, MS & Concordia, LA. $1,000 to $1,200.
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Sworders: Books and Manuscripts and Maps, 42725, Essex

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 27, 2025 - April 27, 2025
Page Size: 435 items in 18 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26

1- Barclay's Dictionary. T kinnersley, Jan 1813. Illustrated with 12 plates Plus 20 hand coloured world maps (including, 3 folding); 2- Laurie and Whittle's New Traveller's Companion; Exhibiting A Complete and Correct Survey of All The Direct and Principl

 London 1817 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
27 Edmund Gibson

CAMDEN Britannia or, a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland Together with the Adjacent Lands.

London 1695 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,937.50
28 Reeves J (Pub.)

A RIDE THROUGH LONDON- New Panoramic Game

Dartford, Kent no date, c1845/1850. GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 725.00
29

Myriorama- Grunewald, Neues grosses Myriorama, oder die kunst tausende von landschaften zu schaffen

 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 700.00
30 WALLIS, E (Pub.)

HISTORICAL PASTIME. A NEW GAME OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND. From William 1st to William 4th. [With] RULES AND DIRECTIONS.

 London no date c1803 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 275.00
31

WALLIS'S NEW GAME OF WANDERERS IN THE WILDERNESS

London no date c1844. GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,562.50
32 BARFOOT (J R)

Columbia or the land of the west, an historical Game.

No date c1800. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 5,062.50
33 WALLIS (Pub)

NEW GAME OF THE TOURIST exhibiting 65 select Views in the British Empire.

London no date c1830. GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 700.00
34 WALLIS (Pub)

THE FASHIONABLE CHINESE PUZZLE

London no date c.1814-1817. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 275.00
35 WALLIS (Pub)

THE MIRROR OF TRUTH A new Moral and Biographical Game.

London 1811 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 1,437.50
36 LANDRY (Pub)

EMBLEMATICAL RECREATION

no date c.1810. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,150.00
37 Rackham, Arthur (ill)

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.

1912 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 225.00
38 Beatrix Potter,

The Tailor of Gloucester,

1903 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 137.50
39

The Saturday Book 32 Volumes.

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
40 LANG, Andrew

The Yellow Fairy book, 1894, 1st. edn; The Red Fairy book, 1895; The Violet Fairy book, 1901, 1st. edn; & The Brown Fairy book, 1904,

 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 325.00
41

CHILDREN'S BOOKS Toy Theatre. Pollock's Juvenile Drama

 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 137.50
42

1- The Juvenile calculator. G. Martin,

No date 1810 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 650.00
43

The strange and unaccountable life of Daniel Dancer, Esquire

 1829 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 675.00
44 W F Mylius, [Charles and Mary Lamb]

The First Book of Poetry For the Use of Schools Intended as Reading Lessons For the Younger Classes.

London 1811 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 237.50
45 Daniel, W B

Rural Sports. 3 volume set.

 1812 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
46 The Druid (Henry Hall Dixon)

The Post And The Paddock.

London 1856 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 175.00
47 Bewick, T

A General History of the Quadrupeds.

1791 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 62.50
48 F. Ambrose Clark (INSCRIBED & SIGNED)

The F. Ambrose Clark Collection of Sporting Paintings, with commentary & notes by E.J. Rousuck.

New York 1958 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 125.00
49

Rural Repository of General Information Upon Every Subject. 2 vols.

London 1803 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 162.50
50 HORSES- [Broadhurst, J]

A Comparative view of the form and character of our racing and mixed-breed of Saddle-Horses during the last & present centuries, illustrated by Eighteen Plates of Horses.

London 1855 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 325.00
  • <b><center>Sotheby’s<br>New York Book Week<br>12-26 June</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s, June 25:</b> Theocritus. <i>Theocriti Eclogae triginta,</i> Venice, Aldo Manuzio, February 1495/1496. 220,000 - 280,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s, June 26:</b> Fitzgerald, F. Scott. <i>The Great Gatsby,</i> 1925. 40,000 - 60,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s, June 26:</b> Blake, William. <i>Songs of Innocence and of Experience,</i> Printed ca. 1381-1832. 400,000 - 600,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s, June 26:</b> Lincoln, Abraham. Thirteenth Amendment, signed by Abraham Lincoln. 8,000,000 - 12,000,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s, June 26:</b> Galieli, Galileo. First Edition of the Foundation of Modern Astronomy, 1610. 300,000 - 400,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    New York Book Week
    12-26 June
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Theocritus. Theocriti Eclogae triginta, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, February 1495/1496. 220,000 - 280,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby, 1925. 40,000 - 60,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: Blake, William. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Printed ca. 1381-1832. 400,000 - 600,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: Lincoln, Abraham. Thirteenth Amendment, signed by Abraham Lincoln. 8,000,000 - 12,000,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: Galieli, Galileo. First Edition of the Foundation of Modern Astronomy, 1610. 300,000 - 400,000 USD
  • <b><center>Finarte<br>Books, Autographs & Prints<br>June 24 & 25, 2025</center></b> <b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> ALIGHIERI, DANTE / LANDINO, CRISTOFORO. <i>Comento di Christophoro Landino Fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino,</i> 1481. €40,000 to €50,000. <b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> ALIGHIERI, DANTE. <i>La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus]. Aggiunta: Marsilius Ficinus, Ad Dantem gratulatio [in latino e Italiano],</i> 1487. €40,000 to €60,000. <b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> ALIGHIERI, DANTE. <i>Il Convivio,</i> 1490. €20,000 to €25,000. <b><center>Finarte<br>Books, Autographs & Prints<br>June 24 & 25, 2025</center></b> <b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> BANDELLO, MATTEO. <i>La prima [-quarta] parte de le nouelle del Bandello,</i> 1554. €7,000 to €9,000. <b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> LEGATURA – PLUTARCO. <i>Le vies des hommes illustres, grecs et romaines translates,</i> 1567. €10,000 to €12,000. <b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> TOLOMEO, CLAUDIO. <i>Ptolemeo La Geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alessandrino, Con alcuni comenti…,</i> 1548. €4,000 to €6,000. <b><center>Finarte<br>Books, Autographs & Prints<br>June 24 & 25, 2025</center></b> <b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> FESTE - COPPOLA, GIOVANNI CARLO. <i>Le nozze degli Dei, favola [...] rappresentata in musica in Firenze…,</i> 1637. €6,000 to €8,000. <b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> SPINOZA, BARUCH. <i>Opera posthuma,</i> 1677. €8,000 to €12,000. <b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER. <i>Borus Godunov,</i> 1831. €30,000 to €50,000. <b><center>Finarte<br>Books, Autographs & Prints<br>June 24 & 25, 2025</center></b> <b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> LIBRO D'ARTISTA - LECUIRE, PIERRE. <i>Ballets-minute,</i> 1954. €35,000 to €40,000. <b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> LIBRO D'ARTISTA - MAJAKOVSKIJ, VLADIMIR / LISSITZKY, LAZAR MARKOVICH. <i>Dlia Golosa,</i> 1923. €7,000 to €10,000. <b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> LIBRO D'ARTISTA - MATISSE, HENRI / MONTHERLANT, HENRY DE. <i>Pasiphaé. Chant de Minos.,</i> 1944. €22,000 to €24,000.
    Finarte
    Books, Autographs & Prints
    June 24 & 25, 2025
    Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE / LANDINO, CRISTOFORO. Comento di Christophoro Landino Fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino, 1481. €40,000 to €50,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus]. Aggiunta: Marsilius Ficinus, Ad Dantem gratulatio [in latino e Italiano], 1487. €40,000 to €60,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. Il Convivio, 1490. €20,000 to €25,000.
    Finarte
    Books, Autographs & Prints
    June 24 & 25, 2025
    Finarte, June 24-25: BANDELLO, MATTEO. La prima [-quarta] parte de le nouelle del Bandello, 1554. €7,000 to €9,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: LEGATURA – PLUTARCO. Le vies des hommes illustres, grecs et romaines translates, 1567. €10,000 to €12,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: TOLOMEO, CLAUDIO. Ptolemeo La Geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alessandrino, Con alcuni comenti…, 1548. €4,000 to €6,000.
    Finarte
    Books, Autographs & Prints
    June 24 & 25, 2025
    Finarte, June 24-25: FESTE - COPPOLA, GIOVANNI CARLO. Le nozze degli Dei, favola [...] rappresentata in musica in Firenze…, 1637. €6,000 to €8,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: SPINOZA, BARUCH. Opera posthuma, 1677. €8,000 to €12,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER. Borus Godunov, 1831. €30,000 to €50,000.
    Finarte
    Books, Autographs & Prints
    June 24 & 25, 2025
    Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - LECUIRE, PIERRE. Ballets-minute, 1954. €35,000 to €40,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - MAJAKOVSKIJ, VLADIMIR / LISSITZKY, LAZAR MARKOVICH. Dlia Golosa, 1923. €7,000 to €10,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - MATISSE, HENRI / MONTHERLANT, HENRY DE. Pasiphaé. Chant de Minos., 1944. €22,000 to €24,000.