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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 26, 2025 - November 26, 2025
Page Size: 355 items in 15 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
228 van Staden & Co. (P.C.L., publisher)

Dogs.- Performing animals.- [Here we see depicted what can be taught a dog, to accustom him to honour his master's command]

[circa 1870s] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 127.00
229 Roget (John Lewis)

Cornwall, illustrated limericks.- Local lyrics from Cornwall &c.

1863 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 330.20
230 Kottenkamp (Franz)

History of Chivalry and Ancient Armour

1857 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 698.50
231 Grossi (Augusto)

Russo-Turkish War.- Gli Strategici (The Strategists), satirical caricature of a Russian general and his Turkish counterpart

[1877] GBP 120.00 - 180.00 GBP 203.20
232 Shaw (Henry)

Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages

1858 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 431.80
233 Kimura (Shotaro) and Charlotte M. A. Peake, translators

Hasegawa (Takejiro).- Sword and Blossom Poems from the Japanese

dated 1923 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 114.30
234 Hine (Lewis)

[American Street Scene]

1909 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 38.10
235 Miller (Charlotte, editor)

Fifty Drawings by Canaletto from the Royal Library Windsor Castle

1983 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
236

Pablo Picasso.- Photograph of Pablo Picasso, the artist shown half-length signing an autograph

c. 1950s GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 44.45
237

Spanish Civil War.- 24 C.N.T. Spanish Civil War Ration Coupons/Propaganda Posters

[1936-39] GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 279.40
238 Whistler (Laurence)

The Whistler Brothers.- The View from this Window

1956 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 355.60
239 Deakin (Susan)

Dartington Bindery.- Horticultural Hazards

Harbertonford, Devon 2012 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
240

Dartington Hall Ltd. Gardens Catalogue

1935 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 25.40
241 Bartlett (Mary) & Michael Honnor, compilers

Dartington Print Workshop.- Alphabeast: An A-Z of Artists' Prints

Dartington 1989 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 533.40
242 Bartlett (Mary) & Michael Honnor, compilers

Dartington Print Workshop.- A Sweet Disorder: Artists' Prints for Robert Herrick

Dartington 1991 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
243 Foster (Eve)

Dartington Print Workshop.- Hummingbirds and Hurricanes: A Jamaican Alphabet

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
244 Honnor (Michael) & Susan Deakin, compilers

Dartington Print Workshop.- A Printmakers' Flora: An Anthology of the Names of British Wild Flowers illustrated by Twenty-one Printmakers

Dartington 1996 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 355.60
245 Honnor (Michael) & Mary Bartlett, compilers

Dartington Print Workshop.- Printmakers' People: A Birthday Book of the Twentieth Century

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
246 Oswald (Alice)

Dartington Print Workshop.- Dart, a poem...an artist's book made as a community project by people living in and near the valley of the River Dart

Oxford & New York 1996 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
247 Philpot (Leonard Daniel, painter, architect and designer, 1877-1973)

Chinese travel permit for [Leonard] D.Philpot

[?Canton] 1906 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 2,032.00
248 Smith (Shirley)

Wood Engraver: A Selection of Twenty-five Engravings

[Devon] 2014 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 120.65
249 Steinbeck (John)

Thomas (Peter & Donna).- An excerpt from John Steinbeck's Cannery Row

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 406.40
250 Thomas (Peter & Donna, compilers)

Papermaking.- The Tuckenhay Mill: People & Paper

Santa Cruz 2014 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 330.20
251 Herrick (Robert)

Flint (Sir William Russell).- One Hundred and Eleven Poems

1955 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 584.20
252 Brett (Simon)

Fleece Press.- Mr Derrick Harris 1919-1960

1998 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 203.20
  • 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. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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