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Auction Name Bookworm Auction Total Sales (USD) 39,878.89
Auction Date November 02, 2025 - November 02, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 311.00
Sale Number #1062 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 311,000.00
Total Lots 311
Sold Lots 311.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 311.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 311,000.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 12.82%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
136

Institutio Theologiae Electicae... Authore Francisco Turrettino

 1688 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 941.25
185 Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms

 1929 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 941.25
62 Mark Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

 1885 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 753.00
70 Francis Bacon

The Historie of the Raigne...

 1622 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 734.18
54 Monsieur Dionis...

A Course of Chirurgical Operations, Demonstrated in the Royal Garden at Paris...

 1733 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 666.41
230

[Incunable Leaf, Caxton's Polychronicon]

 1482 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 621.22
52 (Mark Twain)

Clemens, S. L. King Leopold's Soliloquy

 1905 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 596.13
232

[Parentator: Memoirs of Remarkables in the Life and Death of... Increase Mather]

 1724 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 578.56
12 Plutarchus

Les Oeuvres Morales

 1574 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 558.47
211

The New Testament...

 (ca. 1840) USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 533.38
155 [Abel] Boyer

Characters of the Virtues and Vices... of the Age; Or, Moral Reflections, Maxims...

 1695 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 514.55
18 Edgar Allan Poe

Tales of Mystery and Imagination

 1935 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 502.00
254

The Bordeaux Wine and Liquor Dealers' Guide

 ca. 1858 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 471.88
4

Les Vrayes Centuries et Propheties de Maistre Michel Nostradamus

 1668 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 470.62
79

Sermons on Important Subjects

 1758 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 470.62
281

[Provenance] Hymns for the Use of... the Methodist Episcopal Church

 1856 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 420.42
22 John Milton

Comus

 [1921] USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 407.87
50 Henrik Ibsen

Peer Gynt

 1936 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 407.87
72 Henry Pattillo

A.M. of Granville, North-Carolina

 1798 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 407.87
103

A History and Handbook of Photography

 1876 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 407.87
224 Darwin, Charles

A Naturalists Voyage. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle

 1889 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 407.87
277 Flannery O'Connor

Hard to Find

 1955 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 407.87
140 Spenser

A fragment from a 1611 folio edition of works

 1611 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 376.50
164 Symon Patrick

The Parable of the Pilgrim

 1673 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 376.50
6 Rackham, Arthur (ill.)

Fouque, Friedrich de la Motte

 1909 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 345.12
  • <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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