L'Autographe Auctions: Antique Books and Autographs, 7, London

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 24, 2025 - November 24, 2025

Page Size: 478 items in 20 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1		Decorative Roll of Early Colored Paper (late 18th--early 19th c.)		late 18th--early 19th c.	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 130.00
2		Album of 44 Prints: Fashion, Natural History, Battles & More (17th--19th c.)		17th--19th c.	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
3		Roman Campagna Capriccio in Sepia, with Two Italian Views (19th c.)		19th c.	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
4		Study of a Lady on Prepared Paper, in the Style of Rosalba Carriera (18th c.)		18th c.	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
5		Decorated Initials, Arms & Seals: A Cabinet of 24 Cuttings			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 39.00
6		Agostino Carracci: A Standing Dog --- Later State			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
7		The Game of Whist: First Milanese Edition (1821)		1821	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 234.00
8		Homily on St. Mark: Rare Arabic--French Edition by Abbe Barges (Paris, 1877)	Paris	1877	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
9	BOSCOVICH Roger Joseph (Dubrovnik, 1711 - Milan, 1787)	Boscovich on Lenses and Telescopes --- The True First Issue			GBP 2,000.00 - 2,300.00	Not Sold
10		An 18th-Century Book Box: A Case for Prayer or Mystery			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
11		Tocqueville's America, The 1842 Paris Edition	Paris	1842	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
12	EUCLIDES (IV-III sec BC)	Luca Pacioli, Leonardo, and the Geometry of the Renaissance	Venice	22 May 1509.	GBP 25,000.00 - 30,000.00	GBP 39,000.00
13		Gratius on the Chase, Gryphius's Lyon Edition (1537)		1537	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
14	FONTANINI Giusto (San Daniele del Friuli, 1666 - Rome, 1736)	Ex dono auctoris --- Fontanini's Antiquities of Horta			GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 520.00
15	LILIUS Zacharias (XVIth century)	A Renaissance Compendium of the World	Venice	[ca. 1503].	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 520.00
16		Mancinelli's Emporium: Unrecorded Milan Fragment (1514)		1514	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
17		Mariti's Travel Memoirs			GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 364.00
18		Turin, 1783: A Gilt Devotional Binding in Red Morocco			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 104.00
19		Mazzoni's Funeral Oration for Catherine de' Medici (Florence, 1589)	Florence	1589	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
20	MICHELI Pietro Antonio (Florence, 1679 - ib., 1737)	The Birth of Modern Mycology	Florence	1729	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,040.00
21		Osorio on Civil & Christian Nobility (Florence, 1552)	Florence	1552	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
22		Scholastic Masterpiece: Lombard's Sentences with Lyon Title-Page (1512?)	Lyon	1512	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
23		Falcons and Hounds: The Hierakosophion --- First Edition (Paris, 1612)	Paris (Lutetiae)	1612	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 910.00
24		On the End of Days and the Antichrist (Cologne, 1563)	Cologne	1563	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
25		Sisters of the Mattei: Roman Profession Broadside (1818)		1818	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold

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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