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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
304	Matay (Gunesh Babajee)	Indian Fireworks.- Pyrotechnics or the Science of Preparing Fire Works, text in Marathi	Pune	1871	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 304.80
305	Rothney (George Alexander James)	India.- Insects, Indian ants & bees.- Notes on Indian ants	London	[c.1889]	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 63.50
306	Jenkins (H.)	India.- Maha Rajah's Well (The) Stoke Row...Oxford [Photograph Album]		1871	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 533.40
307	Cornish (Surgeon Major W.R.)	India.- Medicine.- A reply to Sir Richard Temple's Minutes of the 7th and 14th March as to the sufficiency of a pound of grain as the basis of famine wages	Madras	1877	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 63.50
308	Khan (Raheem)	Indian Midwifery.- The Principles and Practice of Midwifery	Lahore	1887	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 635.00
309		Indian Regiments.- Patiala & The Great War. A Brief History of the Services of the Premier Punjab State		1923	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
310	[Gell (Sir William) and Antonio Nibby]	Italy.- Lazio.- Munificentia Exc Viri Caroli Iohannis Comitis Blessington Hoc Tentmen Geographicum Exhibens Latium Vetus		1827	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 69.85
311	de Vito (Michele)	Italy.- Ten studies of regional Italian clothing and characters		[c. 1830]	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 381.00
312		Architecture.- Italian School (18th century) Elevation study of an as yet unidentified building		possibly 16th century	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
313	Polanzani (Francesco)	Piranesi.- Portrait of Giovanni Battista Piranesi in imitation of an antique bust, from "Opere varie di Architettura, prospetive, grotteschi, antichita; inventate, ed incise da Giambattista Piranesi Architetto Veneziano"		[1750]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 203.20
314	Piranesi (Giovanni Battista)	Architecture.- Veduta di un'Ingresso alla Stanza Superiore dentro al Masso sepolcrale d'Elio Adriano Imp.e		[circa 1756-1784]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 482.60
315	Piranesi (Giovanni Battista)	Italy.- Veduta del Porto di Ripetta		[1753]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 508.00
316	Piranesi (Giovanni Battista)	Italy.- Veduta del Tempio di Ercole nella Citta di Cora. dieci miglia lontano da Velletri, from 'Vedute di Roma'		[1769]	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 482.60
317	Piranesi (Giovanni Battista)	Italy.- Three plates from 'Vedute di Roma'		[circa 1770]	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 889.00
318	Piranesi (Giovanni Battista)	Italy.- Three prints of Roman palazzi and other buildings, from 'Vedute di Roma'		[c.1770]	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 889.00
319	Piranesi (Giovanni Battista)	Italy.- Four views of Tivoli, from 'Vedute di Roma'		[circa 1770]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 698.50
320	Piranesi (Giovanni Battista)	Italy.- Two views of ecclesiastical architecture in Rome, from 'Vedute di Roma'		[c.1770]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 698.50
321	Piranesi (Giovanni Battista)	Italy.- Three plates, from 'Vedute di Roma'		[circa 1770]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,778.00
322	Piranesi (Giovanni Battista)	Italy.- Villa Panfili fuori di Porta S. Pancrazio		[1776]	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,016.00
323	Vasi (Giuseppe)	Architecture.- Porto di Ripetta, from 'Delle Magnificenze di Roma Antica e Moderna'		[c.1747-1761]	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 120.65
324	Hess (Peter Heinrich Lambert von, 1792-1871)	Italy.- Rome.- Tempio della Concordia e di Giove Tonante; Tempio della Fortuna Virile		1828	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 190.50
325	Rossini (Luigi)	Italy.- Rome.- Six views of Rome and its environs, from 'Le Antichita Romane'		[circa 1820-1823 and later]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 825.50
326	Prout (Samuel), Follower of	Italy.- Venice.- Pair of Venetian canal views		[19th century]	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 95.25
327	Letarouilly (Paul)	Italy.- Edifices de Rome Moderne	Paris	1856-68-57	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 279.40
328	Botta (Carlo Giuseppe Guglielmo)	Levant.- Tarih-i Devlet-i ?talya, II Cild Tak?m [Tek Cildde]	Alexandria	1249 AH 1833 CE	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 190.50

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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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.