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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
26	Howell (William)	An Institution of General History, or the History of the World		1680	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
27	Duval (Pierre)	Geographia Universalis: The Present State of the Whole World		1685	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 406.40
28	Helwig (Christoph)	The Historical and Chronological Theatre		1687	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 254.00
29		Qu'ran, English.- Alcoran (The) of Mahomet...to which is prefixed the Life of Mahomet...		1688	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 330.20
30	Rycaut (Sir Paul)	The History of the Turks beginning with the Year 1679		1700	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 698.50
31	Rabadan (Muhammad)	Mahometism fully explained		1723-25	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,651.00
32	Boulainvilliers (Henri, Comte de)	The Life of Mahomet		1731	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 381.00
33	Sale (George, translator)	Qu'ran, English.- The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed		1734	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,079.50
34	Crebillon (Claude Prosper Jolyot de)	L'Ecumoire, Histoire Japonoise	"Londres" [?Amsterdam]	1735	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 50.80
35	Raleigh (Sir Walter)	The History of the World		1736	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 381.00
36		Universal History (An), from the Earliest Account of Time...		1747-54	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,651.00
37	Salmon (Thomas)	A New Geographical and Historical Grammar		1764	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 381.00
38		Ferguson (Adam) An Essay on the History of Civil Society...	London & Edinburgh	1768	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	GBP 355.60
39	R[oubaud (Pierre Joseph Andre)]	Histoire Generale de l'Asie, de l'Afrique et de l'Amerique	Paris	1770-71	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 101.60
40	Anquetil (Louis Pierre)	A Summary of Universal History		1800	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 431.80
41	Baldwin (George)	Political Recollections relative to Egypt		1801	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
42	Wordsworth (William) [& Samuel Taylor Coleridge]	Lyrical Ballads		1802	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 825.50
43	Pasley (Sir Charles William)	Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions of the British Empire		1810	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 635.00
44	Morier (Sir James Justinian)	A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the years 1808 and 1809		1812	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 431.80
45	Mavor (William)	Universal History, Ancient and Modern		1813-12	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 107.95
46	[Malcolm (Col. Sir John)]	Sketches of Persia		1827	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 406.40
47	Morier (Sir James Justinian)	The Adventures of Hajji Baba, of Ispahan, in England		1828	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 19.05
48	Pardoe (Julia)	The Beauties of the Bosphorus		1839	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 304.80
49	Hozier (Capt. H.M.)	The Russo-Turkish War		[1877-78]	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 152.40
50	Temple (Sir Richard)	Palestine Illustrated		1888	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 330.20

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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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.
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.