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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
178	Moon (William)	Blindness.- A Simplified System of Embossed Reading for the use of the Blind	Sussex	?1858	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 698.50
179	Smith (Charles)	Optical Device for Artists.- The New Ocular Modelling Method		[?19th century]	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,079.50
180	Bailey (David)	The Truck System: a book for masters and workmen	[Bath] & London	1859	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 63.50
181	Froissart (Sir John)	Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the adjoining Countries		1868	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 533.40
182	Jewett (Sarah O.)	Deephaven	Boston	1877	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 177.80
183	Holt (William)	Anti-Imperialism Christmas carol.- A Carol for the Present Times, dedicated to St. Clement, a Greek Bishop, of Rome, the patron saint of Blacksmith [sic], who was drowned in the River Tiber	Oxford	14th December, 1879	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
184	Howe (E. W.)	The Story of a Country Town	Atchison, Kansas	1883	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 6.35
185	Tripp (Charles B., artist and sideshow performer, 1855-1930)	Portrait cabinet card		[c.1885]	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 44.45
186		Trade catalogue, Furrier.- Ensor, Weber & Co. Catalogue 1887-8	Farquharson	[1887]	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 82.55
187	Philipson (William)	Carriages.- Prize Essay on the Suspension of Carriages	New York	1889	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 31.75
188		British Railways.- Box of Railway ephemera, relating to different Railway lines...	v.s.	[mid19th-mid 20th century]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 88.90
189		Vocabula Amatoria: A French-English Glossary of words...occurring in the works of Rabelais, Voltaire...and others		1896	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 101.60
190	Eliot (George)	Eliot (George) Novels		1909	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 139.70
191		Flicker 'Teach the Game' first series, no. 7 Betty Nuthall. Tennis 'Forehand and backhand Drives' [&] no. 16 Miss K. Doman. Hockey 'Fielding with Hand and Push Pass Fielding and Drive'		c. 1916	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 279.40
192	Moncrieff (A. R. Hope)	Mythology.- Classic Myth and Legend		n.d.	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 1,397.00
193	Harcourt (Comte Louis d')	Heraldry.- Connetables et Marechaux de France	Paris	1912-13	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 635.00
194	Dryden (John)	Of Dramatick Poesie		1928	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 107.95
195	Lawrence (D.H.)	Rawdon's Roof		1928	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 533.40
196		Baron Corvo.- Cecil Woolf's album of material relating to "Baron Corvo"		[1960s and later]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 279.40
197	Wagner (Sir Anthony)	Heraldry.- Heralds of England. A History of the Office and College of Arms		1967	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 406.40
198	Dale (Iain)	The Prime Ministers		2020	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 88.90
199	Enslin (Theodore)	Forms	New York	1970	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 31.75
200	Faulkner (William)	Pylon	New York	1935	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 165.10
201	Fielding (Henry)	The History of Joseph Andrews		1929	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 82.55
202	Hudson (W.H.)	Green Mansions		1904	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.