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Auction Details

Auction Date: November 06, 2025 - November 06, 2025

Page Size: 100 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
26	Watson, James and Francis Crick	Print of DNA signed by Watson & Crick	null	No date	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
27	Ellis, W[illiam]	An Authentic Narrative of a Voyage Performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke, in His Majesty's Ships Resolution and Discovery, During the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780; in Search of a North-West Passage Between the Continents of Asia and Ameri	London	1782	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 2,812.50
28	[Espinosa y Tello, Jose]	Relacion del viage hecho por las goletas Sutil y Mexicana en el ano de 1792 para reconocer el estrecho de Fuca [with] Atlas para el Viage de las goletas Sutil y Mexicana...	Madrid	1802	USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00	USD 9,375.00
29	Keats, John	The Eve of St. Agnes	London	1900	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,875.00
30	Euclid	The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the greater ease of learners	London	1847	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 7,500.00
31	Faust, Henry W.	Map of the City and County of San Francisco California	San Francisco	1892	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
32	Foxe, Luke	Foxe's map of the Arctic	London	[c.1635]	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
33	Gilpin, Laura	Lillian Gish as Camille Central City Festival 1932	Santa Fe	1932	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
34	Grahame, Kenneth	The Wind in the Willows	London	[1908]	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,625.00
35	Grey, Romer	The Cruise of the "Fisherman"	No place	[1928]	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,125.00
36	Grey, Zane	Tales of Coral Reefs	No place	[1930s?]	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 1,875.00
37	Grey, Zane	Tuna	No place	[c.1918?]	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,875.00
38	Gros, Henri Ferdinand	Le Transvaal: Afrique Australe	[Pretoria?]	c.1888-90	USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
39	Harris, Joel Chandler	Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation	New York	1881	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 4,062.50
40	Harvey, William	Exercitationes anatomicae, de motu cordis & sanguinis circulatione.	Rotterdam	1660	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 1,875.00
41	Haynes, F. Jay	Portland Oregon	Fargo, Dakota Territory	c.1890's	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
42	null	Archive of photographs and letters relating to the Hills Brothers	[San Francisco]	[c.1870s]	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	Not Sold
43	Holmes, Dwight C.	Landscape	[Texas]	[1944]	USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
44	Homer	[The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets]	[London]	[1611?; Conjectured publication date from STC]	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,750.00
45	Shakespeare, William	Shakespeare's Sonnets	[Boston]	1897	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 4,062.50
46	Ireland, Samuel	Picturesque Views on the River Thames, from its Source in Gloucestershire to the Nore; With Observations on the Public Buildings and other Works of Art in its Vicinity	London	1801-02	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
47	Joyce, James	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	New York	1916	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	Not Sold
48	Ricci, Paolo	De sexcentum & tredecim mosaice sanctionis edictis. Eiusdem Philosophica: prophetica: ac talmudistica pro christiana veritate tuenda cum iuniori Hebreorum synagoga mirabili ingenij acumine disputatio. Eiusdem I cabalistae: seu allegorisan num eruditionem	Pavia	1510	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	Not Sold
49	Kant, Immanuel	The Principles of Critical Philosophy, Selected From the Works of Emmanuel Kant... And Expounded by James Sigismund Beck. Translated From the German by an Auditor of the Latter	London	1797	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,250.00
50	Morris, William	The Story of the Glittering Plain, or the Land of Living Men	[Hammersmith]	[1894]	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 8,125.00

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.
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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