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Auction Name	Very Beautiful Mountain Books	Total Sales (EUR)	617,013.00
Auction Date	December 09, 2024 - December 09, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	277,250.00
Sale Number	#120924	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	362,000.00
Total Lots	166
Sold Lots	153.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	324,050.00
% of Lots Sold	92.17%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	421,600.00
Unsold Lots	13	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	146.35%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
62	FELLOWS (Charles).	A Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont-Blanc.	1827	EUR 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	EUR 131,250.00
24	BLAEU (Joan) et BORGOGNIO (Gio Tomaso).	Theatre des Estats de son Altesse Royale le duc de Savoye, prince de Piemont, roi de Cypre.	1700	EUR 25,000.00 - 30,000.00	EUR 31,250.00
41	CHARTON (Gabriel).	Souvenirs pittoresques des glaciers de Chamouny.	1821	EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	EUR 27,500.00
22	BIRMANN (Samuel).	Souvenirs de la vallee de Chamonix.	s.d. [1826]	EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	EUR 26,250.00
6	ALBANIS-BEAUMONT (Jean-Francois).	Voyage pittoresque aux Alpes pennines	1787	EUR 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	EUR 22,500.00
163	WYTTENBACH (Jacob Samuel).	Vues remarquables des montagnes de la Suisse, avec leur description.	1785	EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	EUR 20,000.00
48	COLEMAN (Edmund Thomas).	Scenes from the snowfields : being illustrations of the upper ice-world of Mont Blanc, from sketches made on the spot in the years 1855, 1856, 1857, 1858	1855, 1856, 1857, 1858	EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 16,250.00
139	Smith (Albert).	The new game of the ascent of Mont Blanc.	1861	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 15,000.00
122	Pitschner (Wilhelm)	Der Mont Blanc Darstellung des Besteigung desselben am 31 Juli, 1 und 2 August 1859 - Atlas zum Mont Blanc.	1860-1864.	EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	EUR 11,000.00
59	EBEL (Johann Gottfried) et MEYER (Johann Jakob)	Voyage pittoresque dans le Canton des Grisons en Suisse vers le lac Majeur et le lac de Come sur les grandes routes nouvellement construites a travers les cols de Splugen et de Bernhardin en 32 planches.	1827	EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	EUR 10,000.00
104	MARTEL (Pierre) et WINDHAM (William).	An account of the glacieres or ice Alps in Savoy, in two letters, one from an English gentleman to his friend at Geneva ; the other from Pierre Martel, engineer, to the said English gntleman [sic].	1744	EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 10,000.00
35	BROWNE (James D. Howe).	Ten Scenes in the last Ascent of Mont Blanc including five Views from the Summit.	fevrier 1853.	EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 9,500.00
138	Smith (Albert).	Mr Albert Smith's Ascent of Mont Blanc in miniature.	vers 1854.	EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 9,375.00
4	ALBANIS-BEAUMONT (Jean-Francois).	Travels from France to Italy, through the Lepontine Alps, or, An itinerary from Lyons to Turin, by the way of Pays-de-Vaud, the Vallais...	1800	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 9,250.00
66	FRESHFIELD (Douglas William).	Across Country from Thonon to Trent. Rambles and Scrambles in Switzerland and the Tyrol.	1865	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 7,500.00
117	PAYOT (Venance).	Collection de roches du massif du Mont-Blanc.	vers 1860.	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 7,500.00
97	LORY (Gabriel-Ludwig et Mathias-Gabriel).	Voyage pittoresque aux glaciers de Chamouni.	1815	EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 6,188.00
76	HACQUET (Belsazar).	Physikalisch= Politische Reise aus den Dinarischen durch die Julischen, Carnischen, Rhatischen in die Norischen Alpen, im Jahre 1781 und 1783 unternommen von Hacquet.	1785	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 6,000.00
156	WALTON (Elijah) et BONNEY (Thomas George)	The Peaks and valleys of the Alps.	1867	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 6,000.00
159	WHYMPER (Edward).	Scrambles amongst the Alps in the years 1860-69.	1871	EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	EUR 5,750.00
111	MEYER (Johann Jakob).	Malerische Reise auf der neuen Kunststrasse aus dem Etschthal in Tyrol uber die Stilfser-Joch durch die Veltlin langs dem Comersee nach Mayland .	1831	EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 5,500.00
102	LUSI (Frederic Guillaume de).	Voyage sur le Mont-Blanc entrepris le 15 septembre 1816.	1816	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 5,375.00
3	AGASSIZ (Louis).	Etude sur les glaciers.	1840	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 5,250.00
20	BERNUCCA (Francesco), LOSE (Friedrich) et LOSE (Carolina).	Viaggio pittorico e strorico ai te laghi Maggiore, di Lugano e Como	1818	EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 5,000.00
32	BRAY (Comte Francois Gabriel de).	Voyage pittoresque dans le Tyrol ; aux salines de Salzbourg et de Reichenhall et dans une partie de la Baviere.	1825	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 5,000.00

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.