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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
153	Johnson (Samuel)	A Dictionary of the English Language...		1766	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
154	[Sheridan (Frances)]	The History of Nourjahad		1767	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 31.75
155	[Jenner (Charles)]	The Placid Man: or, Memoirs of Sir Charles Beville		1770	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 38.10
156	Evans (Nathaniel)	Bindings.- Poems on Several Occasions with some other Compositions	Philadelphia	1772	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 457.20
157		Trade card, Northumberland weaver.- George Finlay, weaver, near the Market-Place, Alnwick	Alnwick	[c.1780-1788]	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
158	Johnson (Samuel)	The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets		1781	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 31.75
159	Smith (Robert)	The Universal Directory for taking Alive and Destroying Rats		1786	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 215.90
160	Macpherson (James)	The Poems of Ossian	Edinburgh	1792	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 508.00
161	Jephson (Robert)	Roman Portraits, A Poem, in Heroick Verse		1794	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 190.50
162	[Dundas (Sir David)]	Cavalry.- The following instructions and regulations for the formations and movements of the cavalry		[1797]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 190.50
163	Henderson (William Augustus)	The Housekeeper's Instructor; or, Universal Family Cook...		[c.1800]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 152.40
164	Irving (Washington, et al.)	Salmagundi; Or the Whim-Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff...	New York	1807	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 241.30
165	[Inglefield (John Nicholson)]	Shipwrecks.- Loss of His Majesty's Ship Centaur of Seventy-Four Guns		[1809]	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 635.00
166	Martemont (C. Malorti de)	Fortification.- The Theory of Field-Fortification		1810	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 95.25
167	Anacreon	Shelley (Percy Bysshe).- Anacreontis Odaria, ad textus Barnesiani fidem emendata		1866	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,413.00
168	Hunt (Henry)	Prison reform.- A Peep into a Prison; or, the Inside of Ilchester Bastile		1821	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
169	Theatre, Charles Kemble	Theatre Royal, Hull. Mr. C. Kemble...is engaged for three nights only, and will make his first appearance on Monday Evening, February 19th, 1827, when will be performed Shakespeare's tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark	51 Lowgate	1827	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 698.50
170	Cookson (Mary Ann)	Scottish woman poet instructs her binder.- Two Autograph Letters signed to her binder Mr. Henderson	[?Edinburgh]	2nd & 4th September, 1829	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 355.60
171	Shepherd (Thomas Hosmer) & James Elmes	Metropolitan Improvements; or London, in the Nineteenth Century		1829	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 107.95
172	[Warren (Samuel)]	Ten Thousand A-Year		1841	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 508.00
173	James (George Payne Rainsford)	Phiz, illustrator.- Now publishing, with two etchings on steel by "Phiz"		[1842]	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 165.10
174	Stanhope (Lady Hester)	Stanhope (Lady Hester) Memoirs		1845	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 381.00
175	[Meryon (C.L.)]	Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope		[c.1846]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
176	[Smith (John Stores)]	Barnard. A Modern romance	[Manchester] & London	1846	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
177	Swinburne (Algernon Charles)	Undergraduate Papers	Oxford	1857	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold

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.