Forum Auctions: The Library of John and Suzanne Bonham, 1189, London

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 30, 2025 - October 30, 2025

Page Size: 250 items in 10 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
51	Byrne (Lawrence J.)	Visit of the Detached Squadron with their Royal Highness Prince Edward and Prince George of Wales to Brisbane	Brisbane	1881	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 635.00
52	Campbell (Archibald)	Voyages.- A Voyage round the World...in which Japan, Kamschatka, the Aleutian Islands, and the Sandwich Islands, were visited		1816	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
53	Carruthers (Douglas)	Asia.- Beyond the Caspian: a Naturalist in Central Asia		1949	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 139.70
54	Casati (Maj. Gaetano)	Africa.- Ten Years in Equatoria and the Return with Emin Pasha		1891	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 444.50
55	Chanler (William Astor)	Africa.- Through Jungles and Desert	New York	1896	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
56	Chapman (Abel)	Africa.- Big Game Hunting.- On Safari: Big-Game Hunting in British East Africa		1908	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
57	Chapman (F. Spencer)	China.- Lhasa: The Holy City		1938	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 165.10
58	Cheesman (Major Robert Ernest)	Middle East.- In Unknown Arabia		1926	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 241.30
59		China.- Chinese Export School (late 19th century) Ceremonial procession			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,651.00
60		China.- Chinese pocket watch, watch mechanism housed in silver colour casing with text engraved in Chinese to verso		[early-mid twentieth-century]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 254.00
61	Churchill (Col. Charles Henry)	Middle East.- Mount Lebanon A Ten Years' Residence from 1842 to 1852			GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
62	Clapperton (Capt. Hugh)	Africa.- Journal of a Second Expedition into the Interior of Africa		1829	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 190.50
63	[Clerke (C.)]	Voyages.- A Voyage round the World, in His Majesty's ship the Dolphin		1767	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
64	Cobbold (Ralph P.)	Asia.- Innermost Asia: Travel & Sport in the Pamirs		1900	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 215.90
65	Collie (J. Norman)	Mountaineering.- Climbing on the Himalaya and other Mountain Ranges	Edinburgh	1902	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 533.40
66	Collingwood (Cuthbert)	China.- Rambles of a Naturalist on the Shores and Waters of the China Sea		1868	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 533.40
67	Colomb (Capt. Philip Howard)	Voyages.- Slavery.- Slave-Catching in the Indian Ocean		1873	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 1,524.00
68	Conway (Sir Martin)	Mountaineering.- Aconcagua and Tierra del Fuego: A Book of Climbing, Travel and Exploration		1902	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 444.50
69	Cooley (William Desborough)	Africa.- The Negroland of the Arabs Examined and Explained		1841	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 571.50
70	Cooper (T. T.)	China.- Travels of A Pioneer of Commerce in Pigtail and Petticoats		1871	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 254.00
71	Coryate (Thomas)	Europe.- Coryats Crudities: Hastily gobled up in five months travells		1611	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	GBP 6,350.00
72	[Crouch (Nathaniel)], "R, B,"	Africa.- A View of the English Acquisitions in Guinea, and the East-Indies ...with a Description of the Isle of St.Helena...			GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 2,794.00
73		Voyages.- Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship "Bacchante" 1879-1882 (The)		1886	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 330.20
74	Darwin (Charles), Admiral Robert Fitzroy & Captain Philip Parker King	Voyages.- Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their Examination of the Southern Shores of South America		1839	GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	Not Sold
75	Das (Sarat Chandra)	Asia.- Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet		1902	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 762.00

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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