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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
253 Hartnoll (Phyllis)

Golden Cockerel Press.- The Grecian Enchanted

1952 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 762.00
254 Walton (Izaak)

Nonesuch Press.- The Compleat Walton

1929 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 63.50
255 Ovidius Naso (Publius)

L'Art d'Aimer

Lausanne 1935 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 635.00
256 Piper (John, illustrator.).- Tambimuttu

India Love Poems

1977 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 304.80
257 Ravilious (Eric)

Four Wood Engravings...made in 1933 for the Golden Hours Press' Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta

1998 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 152.40
258 Ravilious (Eric).- Greenwood (Jeremy)

Ravilious: Engravings

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 533.40
259 Jacobs (Leonebel)

Art Reference.- Portraits of Thirty Authors

1937 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
260 Durer (1471-1528), After

Adoration of the Magi

1511 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 190.50
261 Sichem the Elder (Christoffel van)

Collection of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792).- Portrait of a Man wearing a hat with feathers, after Hendrick Goltzius

1607 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 330.20
262 Gazalis (Bartolomeo)

St. Paul of Thebes tempted by a demon, after a drawing by Alessandro Magnasco

[circa 1720] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 215.90
263 Ghisi (Giorgio Mantovano) and others

Collection of 35 original old master prints

[later 16th to 18th century] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 482.60
264 Pietro Testa (1612--1650)

Plato's symposium: Socrates and his companions seated around a table discussing ideal love interrupted by Acibiades at left

1648 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 279.40
265 Roman School (probably 17th century)

The Madonna and Child adored by saints

1600s GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 190.50
266 Mertens (Johannes Cornelis, 1742--1823)

Portrait of a lady wearing a bonnet

1784 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 57.15
267 Jones (Owen)

The Grammar of Ornament

Quaritch 1868 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 228.60
268 Gribelin (Simon)

Plate Eight, from 'A New Book of Ornaments, useful to all Artists'

[1704] GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 19.05
269 Piranesi (Francesco) and others

Architecture.- Collection of 12 folio prints of architecture, ornament and associated design

[mainly 18th century] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 241.30
270 Williamson (George C.)

The History of Portrait Miniatures

1904 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
271 Berjon (Antoine)

Botany.- Attributed to. Study of leaves on blue paper

[late 18th or early 19th century] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
272 Salmon (William)

Botany.- Botanologia: The English Herbal

1710 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 254.00
273 Boulton (M. P. W.)

On Aerial Locomotion

1864 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 44.45
274 Boyd (Robert)

Tables of the Weights of the Human Body and Internal Organs in the Sane and Insane of both Sexes at various Ages

1861 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
275 Becquerel (Antoine Cesar)

Chemistry.- Memoire sur les Effets Chimiques produits dans les Espaces Capillaires

[Paris] 1867-72 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
276 Desaguliers (John Theophilus)

A System of Experimental Philosophy, Prov'd by Mechanicks

1719 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 825.50
277

Geology.- Collection of c.80 pamphlets, extracts etc relating to geology and similar...

c.1850s-1930s GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 127.00
  • 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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