• <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
99 BLAEU, Willem

Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali, cum terris adiacentibus.

Amsterdam Ca1640. GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 650.00
100

South America- Frezier, Amedee Francois Relation du voyage de la mer du Sud aux cotes du Chily et du Perou, fait pendant les annees 1712, 1713 & 1714.

Paris 1716 GBP 800.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
101 WRIGHT (George Newenham) & Thomas Allom-

CHINA in a series of views, displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits, of that ancient Empire; Four volumes bound in Two.

London nd ca1843 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 550.00
102 1- Woodward, Josiah

The Soldier's Monitor Being Serious Advice to Soldiers, to Behave Themselves with a Just Regard to Religion and True Manhood.

London 1722 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 150.00
103 NAVAL

1- TWO WORKS IN ONE VOLUME

 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 775.00
104 Clowes, Sir William Laird

The Royal Navy, A History From the Earliest Times to the Death of Queen Victoria (Complete in 7 Vols).

1897-1903 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 225.00
105

Naval/ POW. Napoleonic Camp Manuscript

 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 275.00
106

A WWI hospital album, containing photographs signed by the military patients from 1916 onwards

 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 100.00
107

29 BOER WAR Letters, written by Richard Jendevine, 87th. Royal Irish Fusiliers, to his sister Alice

 1899 to 1902 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
108

1st Battalion Coldstream Guards. Household Brigade Drag Hounds. 1893-1894

 Windsor 1895 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
109 Churchill, Winston S

The Second World War, in 6 vols. 1st. edns. With dust jackets; Plus

 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 150.00
110 Churchill, W S

London to Ladysmith via Pretoria.

 1900 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 150.00
111 CIVIL WAR

1- Cromwell's Soldier's Bible Being a Reprint, in Facsimile, of 'The Souldier's Pocket Bible,' Compiled by Edmund Calamy, and issued for the Use o the Commonwealth Army in 1643.

1895 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,000.00
112 NAPOLEON

1- Giraud, P. F. F. J The Campaign of Paris in 1814

 L 1815 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 525.00
113 Robert Bowyer

An Illustrated Record of the Important Events in the Annals of Europe, which Occurred during the last Campaigns on the Continent; comprising a Series of Views of the Principal Places, Battles, etc. etc. etc. connected with those Events. Together with a Hi

 1820 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
114 ARMS & ARMOUR

1- Sholto Sorlie The words of command, and a brief explanation of the new Sword exercise.

L 1798 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 200.00
115

PUNCH Magazine

 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 187.50
116

Shakespeare's works, 10 vols. 1806.

 1806 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 87.50
117 Scott, Walter

Works, 48 vols. A & C Black, 1877

 1877 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 87.50
118 1- Lowell, J R

The Writings complete in 10 volumes (Riverside Edition).

1890 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 125.00
119 Fine Binding- Scott, Walter

The Waverley Novels, 48 volumes.

1831-42. GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 100.00
120

Fine Binding, Including Shakespeare's works 6 vols.

 1803 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 87.50
121

Fine Binding- A large collection. (qty.)

 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 62.50
122

Fine Binding- A large collection. (qty.)

 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 62.50
123 George Eliot

The works. 7 volumes; Shakespeare's works 6 vols.

1858 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 62.50
  • <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.