Schilb Antiquarian: Rare Books with NO Reserve, NO Buyers Premium, 395057, Columbia

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 07, 2025 - December 07, 2025

Page Size: 103 items in 5 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
26	Edward Deering Mansfield	Title: The Life of General Winfield Scott	New York	1846	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 70.00
27	Antoine Vincent Arnault	Title: Life and Campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte: Giving an Account of All His Engagements, from the Siege of Toulon to the Battle of Waterloo	Boston	1847	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 640.00
28	[Samuel Carter Hall], editor	Title: The Art-Union: Monthly Journal of the Arts	London,	1848	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 210.00
29	Charles Dickens (Boz) Illustrator: George Cruikshank	Title: Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People	London	1850	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 175.00
30	Samuel Kercheval	Title: A History of the Valley of Virginia	Woodstock, VA,	1850	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 250.00
31	William Starbuck Mayo	Title: Kaloolah, or, Journeyings to the Djebel Kumri	London	1851	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 46.00
32	B.F. Tefft (Editor) Contributor(s): William Wordsworth; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; John James Audubon	Title: The Ladies Repository: A Monthly Periodical, Devoted to Literature, Art, and Religion, Volume XI	Cincinnati. New York	1851	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 94.00
33	Samuel Griswold Goodrich	Title: Lights and Shadows of African History	Boston	1852	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 52.00
34	Samuel Griswold Goodrich	Title: Lives of Benefactors	Boston	1852	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 27.00
35	Harriet Beecher Stowe	Title: Uncle Toms Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly	Boston; Cleveland, Ohio	1852	USD 950.00 - 2,000.00	USD 455.00
36	Charles Dickens Illustrator: Hablot Knight Browne, [Phiz]	Title: Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty	London	1853	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 200.00
37	Charles Morrison	Title: An Essay on the Relations Between Labour and Capital	London,	1854	USD 399.00 - 800.00	USD 32.00
38	William Shakespeare Contributor: Rev. William Dodd (editor)	Title: The Life and Beauties of Shakspeare: Comprising Careful Selections from Each Play; with a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper Heads	Boston. New York	1856	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 365.00
39	Richard Francis Burton	Title: Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah	Boston, Shepard, Clark & Brown	1858	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 68.00
40	D.W. Bartlett	Title: The Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln: To Which is Added a Biographical Sketch of Hon. Hannibal Hamlin	New York	1860	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 82.00
41	Robert B. Brough	Title: A Cracker Bon-Bon for Christmas Parties: Consisting of Christmas Pieces, for Private Representation, and Other Seasonable Matter, In Prose and Verse	London	1861	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 205.00
42	Louis Antoine Godey	Title: Godeys Ladys Book and Magazine	Philadelphia	1863	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 165.00
43	Louis Antoine Godey	Title: Godeys Ladys Book and Magazine	Philadelphia	1864	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 175.00
44	Edmund Morris	Title: Derrick and Drill; or, An Insight into the Discovery, Development, and Present Condition and Future Prospects of Petroleum	New York,	1865	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 70.00
45	George A. Lord	Title: A Short Narrative and Military Experience of Corp. G. ALord ... : containing a brief sketch of the war, and the constitution of the United States and also patriotic songs ; with a number of his valuable choice medical recipes	[Not stated]	ca. 1865	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 54.00
46	Josiah Gilbert Holland	Title: The Life of Abraham Lincoln	Springfield, Mass.	1866	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 200.00
47	John Joseph Craven	Title: Prison Life of Jefferson Davis: Embracing Details and Incidents in His Captivity, Particulars Concerning His Health and Habits, Together With Many Conversations on Topics of Great Public Interest	New York; London	1866	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 105.00
48	Edmund Spenser Illustrator(s): Edward Corbould	Title: The Faerie Queene: Disposed into Twelve Bookes Fashioning Twelve Morall Vertues	London	1866	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 190.00
49	Charles Burdett	Title: Life of Kit Carson: the great western hunter and guide; comprising wild and romantic exploits as a hunter and trapper in the Rocky Mountains	Philadelphia	1869	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 96.00
50	THIERS, Adolphe	Atlas... des campagnes de la Re?volution franc?aise	Paris	[1870].	USD 599.00 - 1,200.00	USD 44.00

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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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.