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Auction Name	Online: Books and Works on Paper	Total Sales (GBP)	118,116.35
Auction Date	November 26, 2025 - November 26, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	67,230.00
Sale Number	#1052	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	97,720.00
Total Lots	355
Sold Lots	306.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	77,750.00
% of Lots Sold	86.20%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	112,820.00
Unsold Lots	49	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	104.70%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
297	Topsell (Edward)	Snakes.- The Historie of serpents; Historie of serpents	1608	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 3,302.00
167	Anacreon	Shelley (Percy Bysshe).- Anacreontis Odaria, ad textus Barnesiani fidem emendata	1866	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,413.00
122		Binding.- Bible, English.- Holy Bible (The), containing the Old and New Testaments	1715	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 2,032.00
247	Philpot (Leonard Daniel, painter, architect and designer, 1877-1973)	Chinese travel permit for [Leonard] D.Philpot	1906	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 2,032.00
321	Piranesi (Giovanni Battista)	Italy.- Three plates, from 'Vedute di Roma'	[circa 1770]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,778.00
3	[Lanquet (Thomas)]	Coopers Chronicle	[1560]	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,651.00
31	Rabadan (Muhammad)	Mahometism fully explained	1723-25	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,651.00
36		Universal History (An), from the Earliest Account of Time...	1747-54	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,651.00
332	Smith (Thomas)	South Asia.- Narrative of a Five Years' Residence at Nepaul	1852	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,651.00
52	Erasmus (Desiderius)	Novum Testamentum	1542	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,524.00
347	Stanford (Edward)	London.- Stanford's Library Map of London and its Suburbs	1877	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,524.00
192	Moncrieff (A. R. Hope)	Mythology.- Classic Myth and Legend	n.d.	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 1,397.00
329	Burckhardt (John Lewis)	Levant.- Travels in Syria and the Holy Land	1826	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,397.00
21	Prideaux (Mathias)	An Easy and Compendious Introduction for reading all sorts of Histories	1672	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,143.00
23	[Shirley (John)]	Raleigh (Sir Walter).- The Life of the Valiant & Learned Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight...	1677	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,143.00
280	Clavius (Christoph)	Mathematics.- Opera Mathematica V. Tomis distributa	1648	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,143.00
33	Sale (George, translator)	Qu'ran, English.- The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed	1734	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,079.50
53	Cicero (Marcus Tullius)	Bindings.- Orationum	1543	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,079.50
179	Smith (Charles)	Optical Device for Artists.- The New Ocular Modelling Method	[?19th century]	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,079.50
13	Isaacson (Henry)	Saturni Ephemerides siue tabula historico-chronologica..	1633	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,016.00
20	Heylyn (Peter)	Cosmographie in Four Books containing the Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World...	1669	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,016.00
225	D.C. Thomson, publishers	The Broons & Oor Wullie Annuals	1950-2006	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 1,016.00
322	Piranesi (Giovanni Battista)	Italy.- Villa Panfili fuori di Porta S. Pancrazio	[1776]	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,016.00
8	[Raleigh (Sir Walter)]	The History of the World	1614	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 952.50
317	Piranesi (Giovanni Battista)	Italy.- Three plates from 'Vedute di Roma'	[circa 1770]	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 889.00

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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