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Addison and Sarova: Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Ephemera

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Auction Name Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Ephemera Total Sales (USD) 174,708.00
Auction Date November 01, 2025 - November 01, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 56,335.00
Sale Number #1061 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 313,350.00
Total Lots 251
Sold Lots 249.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 57,355.00
% of Lots Sold 99.20% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 323,550.00
Unsold Lots 2 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 54.00%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
24

A very large assortment of 19th century material from (or related to) the Treloar mining family (most material dating from circa 1840 to 1895, though some may be slightly later or earlier)

 19th century USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 21,600.00
14

[BIBLIA LATINA]

 1478 USD 3,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 11,400.00
6 Raleigh, Walter, Sir

THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD

 1614 USD 300.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,100.00
16 Pope Pius II (formerly Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini)

DE DUOBUS AMANTIBUS EURYALO ET LUCRETIA

 1497 USD 800.00 - 8,000.00 USD 5,100.00
8 Plato

OPERA

 1517 USD 700.00 - 7,000.00 USD 4,800.00
17 Catharina Senensis, S.

[EPISTOLA DEVOTISSIME DE SANCTA CATHARINA DA SIENA]

 [1500] USD 1,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 4,500.00
22 Simon, Eugene

HISTOIRE NATURELLE DES TROCHILIDAE

 1921 USD 150.00 - 1,500.00 USD 4,200.00
114

First editions of two Einstein works on Special Relativity

 1909 USD 40.00 - 400.00 USD 4,200.00
123

Albert Einstein

 1911 USD 30.00 - 300.00 USD 3,900.00
21

Incunable Drama and Music

 1493 USD 800.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,600.00
71

ACTS OF THE ASSEMBLY OF THE INDIANA TERRITORY

 1810 USD 500.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,300.00
51

THE COLUMBIAN PHENIX AND BOSTON REVIEW...

 [1800] USD 300.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,000.00
12

[BIBLIA LATINA] With the Glossa Ordinaria ascribed to Walafrid Strabo and the interlinear glosses of Anselmus Laudunensis

 [not after 1480] USD 600.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,400.00
18 Ortelius, Abraham

THEATRO DEL MONDO

 [1655] USD 400.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,400.00
75 [Ring of Nibelung] Wagner, Richard; Rackham, Arthur

THE RHINEGOLD AND THE VALKYRIE [with] SIEGRIED AND THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS

 1910 USD 250.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,400.00
78 Chaucer, Geoffrey; Flint, Russell (illustrator)

THE CANTERBURY TALES

 1913 USD 120.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,400.00
27 Datta, Ram Chandra

RASAYAN VIJNANA OR THE ELEMENTS OF INORGANIC AND ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

 1894 USD 100.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,040.00
219

A collection of letters and similar

 1600s through the 1700s USD 200.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,040.00
33 Eliot, T[homas] S[tearns]

POEMS 1909-1925

 1925 USD 200.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,920.00
239

ESTATUTOS Y CONTITUCIONES REALES

 1668 USD 100.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,800.00
34 Eliot, T. S.; Pound, Ezra (and others)

CATHOLIC ANTHOLOGY 1914-1915

 1915 USD 200.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,680.00
176

An extensive archive of WWII American war correspondent Tenold Rosvald Sunde

 USD 150.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,680.00
19

[THE BIBLE...]

 1599 USD 150.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,560.00
55 Paine, Thomas

COMMON SENSE; ADDRESSED TO THE INHABITANTS OF AMERICA

 1792 USD 100.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,560.00
73 Shakespeare, William; Rackham, Arthur (ill.)

A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM

 1908 USD 200.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,560.00
  • <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.
  • <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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