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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
203	Huxley (Aldous)	Brief Candles	New York & London	1930	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 406.40
204	Innes (Michael)	Seven Suspects	New York	1937	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 107.95
205	Jacobi (Carl)	Revelations in Black	Sauk City, Wisconsin	1947	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 165.10
206	James (Henry)	Confidence	Boston	1880	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 279.40
207	Jarrell (Randall)	Blood for a Stranger	New York	1942	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 38.10
208	Kipling (Rudyard)	The Jungle Book [&] The Second Jungle Book		1894-95	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 825.50
209	Lansdowne (William, Marquis of)	[Sale Catalogue] Bibliotheca Lansdowniana. A Catalogue of the Entire Library		1806	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 698.50
210	[Heath (Benjamin)]	[Sale Catalogue] A Catalogue of Books...which lately formed the Library of a Distinguished Collector		1810	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 127.00
211	Talleyrand-Perigord (Prince Charles Maurice de)	[Sale Catalogue] Bibliotheca Splendidissima		1816	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 355.60
212	Dibdin (Rev. Thomas Frognall)	Aedes Althorpianae; or an Account of the Mansion, Books, and Pictures at Althorp		1822	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 457.20
213	Sykes (Sir Mark Masterman)	[Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the Splendid, Curious, and Extensive Library		1824	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 762.00
214	Dent (John)	[Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the Splendid, Curious, and Extensive Library		1827	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 304.80
215	Bright (Benjamin Heywood)	[Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the Valuable Library		1845	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 584.20
216		Stowe House.- [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the Library removed from Stowe House, Buckinghamshire		1849	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 304.80
217	Halliwell-Phillipps (James Orchard)	Shakespeare (William).- [Sale Catalogue] A Catalogue of a Very Valuable and Important Collection of Shakesperian and Dramatic Literature		1856	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 107.95
218	Libri (Guglielmo)	[Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the Choicer Portion of the Magnificent Library		1859	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 139.70
219	Quaritch (Bernard)	[Sale Catalogue] Valuable Books comprising the Theological & Miscellaneous Library of a Clergyman...also a Valuable Collection of Prints...which will be sold by Auction		1870	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 558.80
220	Spencer (Charles, 3rd Earl of Sunderland)	[Sale Catalogue] Bibliotheca Sunderlandiana		1881-83	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 254.00
221	Gaisford (Thomas)	[Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of a Portion of the Importrant Library	Sotheby	1890	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 254.00
222	Hobson (G.D.)	Auctions.- Notes on the History of Sotheby's		(dated 1910)	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 228.60
223	Sotheby (Samuel Leigh)	Book sale catalogue.- Catalogue of the library of James Smith, Esquire, author of the "Rejected Adresses"		on Saturday, February 15th, 1840	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 63.50
224	Wilkinson (Alexander S.) and Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo, editors	Handpress World series.- A Maturing market		2017	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 139.70
225	D.C. Thomson, publishers	The Broons & Oor Wullie Annuals		1950-2006	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 1,016.00
226	Henty (G. A.)	A Soldier's Daughter & other stories		[n.d, c.1900s]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
227	Potter (Beatrix)	The Tale of Benjamin Bunny		1905	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 69.85

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.