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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
128	[Yorke (Charles)]	Law.- Some Considerations on the Law of Forfeiture, for High-Treason ...		1746	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 457.20
129	Pope (Alexander)	The Iliad of Homer		1760	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 406.40
130		England.- Description of (A) England and Wales		1775-69-70	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 190.50
131	Middleton (Rev. Erasmus)	Biographia Evangelica: or, an Historical Account of the Lives and Deaths of the most eminent and evangelical Authors or Preachers		1779-86	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 279.40
132	[Defoe (Daniel)]	The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner		1790	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 533.40
133	Adams (George)	Astronomical and Geographical Essays ...		1795	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 355.60
134	Smollett (Tobias)	The Miscellaneous Works	Edinburgh	1809	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 482.60
135	Chitty (J.)	Law.- A Treatise on the Game Laws, and on Fisheries		1812	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 241.30
136		Book of Common Prayer (The), inscribed "The Hon.ble Capt. Wellesley from his affectionate and grateful friend W. Cadogan Graham"	Oxford	1829	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 457.20
137	Cruikshank (George)	Omnibus		1842	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 254.00
138		Bible, English The Holy Bible: Containing the Old Testament and the New. Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues, New Testament title with 'Originall Greeke' instead of 'Tongues'		c.1630	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 609.60
139	Plattes (Gabriel)	Mining.- [A Discovery of Subterraneall Treasure, viz. Of all manner of Mines and Mineralls, from the Gold to the Coale]		1639	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 635.00
140	Browne (Sir Thomas)	Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many Received Tenents, and commonly Presumed Truths		1650	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 190.50
141	Browne (Sir Thomas)	Pseudodoxia Epidemica...		1650	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 203.20
142		Miscellany.- England and Wales		1653	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 107.95
143	[Scudery (Madeleine de)], "Monsieur de Scudery"	Women.- A Triumphant arch erected and consecrated to the glory of the feminine sexe		1656	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 190.50
144		Bible, English.- The Holy Bible		1660	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	GBP 762.00
145	Barclay (Robert)	Quakers.- An apology for the True Christian Divinity, as the same is held forth and preached by the People called, in Scorn, Quakers		1701	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 241.30
146	Echard (Laurence)	A General Ecclesiastical History, from the Nativity of our Blessed Saviour to the First Establishment of Christianity		1702	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 152.40
147	Fortescue (Sir John)	English constitution.-The Difference Between an Absolute and Limited Monarchy		17th & 18th century	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 203.20
148	Watts (Isaac)	Sermons on Various Subjects		1721	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
149	Sprat (Thomas)	The History of the Royal Society of London		1734	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 127.00
150	Fielding (Henry)	Miscellanies		1743	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 88.90
151	[Finch (Richard)]	Second Thoughts concerning War, wherein the Great Subject, is Candidly considered, and set in a New Light ... intitled the Nature and Duty of Self Defence		1755	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 190.50
152	Dilworth (W.H.)	Children's biography.- The History of Francis-Eugene, Prince of Savoy, Containing the Military Transactions of Above Thirty Campaigns		[?1760]	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 25.40

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.