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Auction Details

Auction Report
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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