• 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
  • 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
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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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
198 [COTTON, Charles]

The Compleat Gamester

London 1709 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 500.00
199 RALEIGH, Sir Walter

1- Three Discourses of Sr. Walter Raleigh. Published by Phillip Raleigh, Esq. his only Grandson.

London 1702 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 400.00
200 [Charles Mathews]

1- Mathews in America; or the theatrical wanderer A cargo of new characters, Original songs.

London GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 250.00
201 1- Macpherson, R

A dissertation on the preservative from drowning; and swimmer's assistant.

London 1783 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 2,562.50
202 [BLOUNT, Thomas]

Boscobel, or the Complete History of His Sacred Majesties Most Miraculous Preservation After the Battle of Worcester 1662.

London 1660 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 237.50
203

1- Seasonable advice to all smugglers of French cambricks and French lawns with a brief state, from the Honourable Commissions of His Majesty's Customs of smuggling in the year 1745..

London 1751 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 750.00
204 [JOHNSON, CHARLES. (PSEUD.) = DEFOE, DANIEL (ATT.)].

A general history of the pyrates, from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time. With the remarkable actions and adventures of the two female pyrates Mary Read and Anne Bonny.

London 1725 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,875.00
205 Kirby, William and William Spence

An Introduction to Entomology or Elements of The Natural History of Insects, in 4 Vols.

1818 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 450.00
206 CROWLEY, Aleister

The Scented Garden of Abdullah the Satirist of Shiraz [The Bagh-i-Muattar].

London 1910 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 10,875.00
207 Charles DICKENS First edition

Hard Times Bradbury & Evans,

London 1854 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 212.50
208 Couch, Jonathan

A History of the Fishes of the British Islands, in 4 Vols.

London 1877-78 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 237.50
209

Family Cookery , by an experienced housekeepre,

1812 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 62.50
210

The First Book of Architecture by Andrea Palladio,

London 1729 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 150.00
211 Nicholson, Peter & Michael Angelo

The Practical Cabinet Maker, Upholsterer, and Complete Decorator.

No date. C1826. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 62.50
212

Fairbairn's Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland, 2 Vols.

no date circa 1880. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 62.50
213 1- [FISHER, Payne (attributed to)]

Two volumes in one A Synopsis of Heraldry, or, the Most Plain, Short, and Easie Way for the Perfect Attaining of that Art, containing all Necessary Directions, in order thereunto

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 300.00
214

Photograph album Photographic portraits of Kings & Queens,

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 350.00
215 Doyle, Arthur Conan

The Hound of the Baskervilles.

London 1902 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 900.00
216 FLEMING, Ian

(3 James Bond first editions, with dust jackets) For Your Eyes Only.

London 1960 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 500.00
217 Agatha CHRISTIE

6 First Editions, with dust jackets, and two later ones; Plus

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 900.00
218 BACON, Francis

1- The Two Bookes of Sr. Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and avancement of learning, divine and human, London

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 475.00
219 Early Literature

1- [BACON, Francis]; William Rawley

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 400.00
220 BACON, Francis

1- The Essayes or, Counsels, civill and morall. With a table of the colours, or apparances of good and evill, and their degrees, as places of perswasion, and disswasion, and their severall fallaxes, and the elenches of them. Newly enlarged.

1639 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 550.00
221 [Defoe, Daniel]

The Consolidator, or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the moon, Translated from the Lunar Language, by the author of the True-born English Man.

London 1705 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 525.00
222 [Defoe, Daniel]

1- A True Collection of the Writings of the Author of the True Born English-man.

London 1705 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 275.00
  • Sotheby’s
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    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
  • Finarte
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - LECUIRE, PIERRE. Ballets-minute, 1954. €35,000 to €40,000.
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    Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - MATISSE, HENRI / MONTHERLANT, HENRY DE. Pasiphaé. Chant de Minos., 1944. €22,000 to €24,000.