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Auction Name Rare Books & Manuscripts: A PBA Platinum Auction - At Pasadena Total Sales (USD) 402,062.50
Auction Date February 06, 2025 - February 06, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 372,400.00
Sale Number #830 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 580,600.00
Total Lots 127
Sold Lots 72.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 631,900.00
% of Lots Sold 56.69% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 975,300.00
Unsold Lots 55 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 41.22%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
6 [Austen, Jane]

Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. In Three Volumes

 1813 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 93,750.00
74 Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste de

Philosophie Zoologique

 1809 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 28,125.00
32 Carret, Jules

Le Deplacement Polaire Preuves des Variations de l'Axe Terrestre

 1877 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 20,000.00
43 [Feynman, Richard P.]; Linus Pauling & E. Bright Wilson, Jr.

Introduction to Quantum Mechanics with Application to Chemistry

 1935 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 18,750.00
46

The English Bible, Containing the Old Testament & the New Translated Out of the Original Tongues by Special Command of His Majesty King James the First...

 1903-1905 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 16,250.00
83 Melville, Herman

Moby-Dick; or, the Whale

 1851 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 15,000.00
90 Newton, Isaac

A Treatise of the System of the World. Translated into English

 1728 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 12,500.00
96 Plato

The Republic of Plato. In ten books. Translated from the Greek by H. Spens, D.D. With a preliminary discourse concerning the philosophy of the ancients by the translator

 1763 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 12,500.00
70 Jefferys, Thomas

The West-India Atlas; or, A Compendious Description of the West-Indies...

 1775 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 10,625.00
106

Cabinet card photo portrait of Mark Twain inscribed and signed twice by Twain with an aphorism.

 1897 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 10,000.00
113 Whitman, Walt

Leaves of Grass [with] Two Rivulets

 1876 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 9,375.00
114 [Whitman, Walt]

Leaves of Grass

 1856 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 8,750.00
37 Doyle, Arthur Conan

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

 1953 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 7,500.00
59 Lu Hongnian (Hung-Nien), artist

Fore-edge painting of The Flight into Egypt [on] Tang lei han (Tang Lei Han )

 17th century? (Painting: c.1936-1942) USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 6,875.00
66 [Hume, David]

Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding

 1748 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,312.50
82 McKenney, Thomas L. & James Hall

History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with One Hundred and Twenty Portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at Washington

 1858 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 5,312.50
5 Austen, Jane

Pride and Prejudice. A Novel

 1833 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,000.00
14

Archive of 24 original land patents verifying and itemizing grants made to the Western Pacific Railroad and its successor Central Pacific Railroad as compensation for construction of a portion of the transcontinental railroad

 1867-1915 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 5,000.00
62 Hawking, Stephen W.

A Brief History of Time

 [1990] USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 5,000.00
77 Lee, Harper

To Kill a Mockingbird

 [1960] USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 5,000.00
95 [Exquemelin, Alexandre Olivier]

The History of the Bucaniers of America; from their First Original down to this Time; written in several languages, and now collected into one volume. [bound together with] Lussan, Raveneau de. A Journal of a Voyage Made into the South Sea, by the Bucanie

 1699 & 1698 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 5,000.00
85 Mitchell, Margaret

Gone With the Wind

 1936 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,687.50
22 Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha

 1780 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,375.00
89 Newton, Isaac

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. [Bound with] Arithmetica Universalis; Sive de Compostione et Resolutione Arithmetica Liber.

 1714 [&] 1732 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 4,375.00
93 Perry, Matthew Calbraith

Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the Command of Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy, by Order of the Government of the United States

 1856 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,375.00
  • <b><center>Heritage Auctions<br>Rare Books Signature Auction<br>December 15, 2025</center></b> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Edgar Rice Burroughs. <i>Tarzan of the Apes.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> F. Scott Fitzgerald. <i>Tender is the Night. A Romance.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Bram Stoker. <i>Dracula.</i> Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Jerry Thomas. <i>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…</i>
    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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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> 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. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    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.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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.
    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.