Bonhams: Books, Atlases, and Manuscripts, 30732, London, New Bond Street

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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 19, 2025 - November 19, 2025
Page Size: 236 items in 10 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
76 NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)

Notes on Hospitals

1859 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 960.00
77 PASTEUR (LOUIS)

Etudes sur la Maladies vers a soie

1870 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 2,048.00
78 RUDGE (EDWARD)

Plantarum Guianae rariorum icones et descriptiones hactenus ineditae

1805-[1806] GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
79 SOWERBY (JOHN EDWARD)

English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants

1863-1886 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 768.00
80 WALLICH (NATHANAEL)

Tentamen florae Napalensis illustratae

[Calcutta and Serampore] [1824-1826] GBP 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 21,760.00
81 WILKINS (JOHN)

The Mathematical and Philosophical Works... Containing I. The Discovery of a New World...

1708 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 832.00
82 AESOP

Fables with His Life: in English, French and Latin

1687 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,792.00
83

AMULET ROLL - A FIFTEENTH CENTURY 'SUNDAY LETTER'

[fifteenth century] GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 95,650.00
84 AUSTEN (JANE)

Pride and Prejudice

1894 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 3,840.00
85 AUSTEN (JANE)

Pride and Prejudice

1894 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,216.00
86 AUSTEN (JANE)

The Novels

New York 1901 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,216.00
87 BEAUMONT (FRANCIS) AND JOHN FLETCHER

Cupids Revenge. As It Was Often Acted (with Great Applause) by the Children of the Revells

1630 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 640.00
88

BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, AUTHORISED VERSION The Holy Bible

1634 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 6,144.00
89

BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, GENEVA VERSION The Bible

1605 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 563.20
90

BINDING - ROYALTY The Form and Order of the Service... in the Coronation of Their Majesties King George III

1761 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 12,800.00
91 BLAKE (WILLIAM)

Colour Versions of William Blake's Book of Job, 1987...

GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,536.00
92 BLAKE (WILLIAM)

The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thornton's Virgil 1821...

1977 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
93 BOSWELL (JAMES)

The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.

1791 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 896.00
94 BOSWELL (JAMES)

The Life of Samuel Johnson

1791 GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 640.00
95 BRAITHWAITE (RICHARD)

The English Gentlewoman; English Gentleman

1631-133 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,664.00
96 BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD)

Autograph note signed to Elizabeth Pigot

[n.p. but Burgage Manor] 9 February 1807 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,152.00
97 BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD)

Autograph address panel and postscript with cut signature

[n.p.] [n.d.] GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
98 BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD)

Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte

1814 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
99 BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL LORD)

Fugitive Pieces: A Fac-simile Reprint of the Suppressed Edition of 1806

1886 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
100 BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD)

A Political Ode... Hitherto Unknown to his Production

1880 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 166.40
  • SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.
    SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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  • Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.