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Auction Details

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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