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Auction Name Rare Books & Ephemera Total Sales (USD) 5,947.20
Auction Date December 03, 2025 - December 03, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 9,715.00
Sale Number #393976 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 19,445.00
Total Lots 306
Sold Lots 55.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 70,000.00
% of Lots Sold 17.97% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 138,440.00
Unsold Lots 251 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 4.30%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
139 Ernest Hemingway

A Death in the Afternoon, 1932 1st ed. in dust jacket

 1932 USD 750.00 - 1,500.00 USD 392.00
101 W. H. Auden

Secondary Worlds (1968) drunkenly inscribed 4x to one of his editors

 c.1968 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 358.40
111 Raymond Chandler

The High Window (1942 first edition in dust jacket)

 1942 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 268.80
132 Robert Ganzo, Jacques Villon

Oeuvre Poetique (1957), 8 etchings by Jacques Villon, signed limited

 1957 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 268.80
143 Niderndorff

Generalis Geographia Cosmica, Mathematica, Naturalis, Politica...1739, maps &

 1739 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 268.80
193 Guillaume Le Blond

L'Artillerie Raisonnee, 1776, 30 folding plates

 1776 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 268.80
157 Willa Cather

Father Junipero's Holy Family -- Anvil Press 1956, Carolyn Hammer's own copy

 1956 USD 350.00 - 700.00 USD 246.40
278 Arthur Edward Waite

Elfin Music, An Anthology of English Fairy Poetry, 1888

 1888 USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 246.40
131 Mark Doty

Fire to Fire, Poems. Sutton Hoo Press, 2004. Edition of 160 signed

 2004 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 224.00
225 Cochrane

A Pedestrian Journey Through Russia And Siberian Tartary, 2 vols. 1829. With folding map.

 1829 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 168.00
398 Capt. G. D. Hamilton

Trout-Fishing and Sport in Maoriland -- signed copy, 1904 1st ed.

 1904 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 145.60
176 Cunningham

The Story of Nell Gwyn, 1903, in full lavender morocco, extra-illustrated

 1903 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 134.40
231 Pond

1885 History of Life-Saving Devices, Military & Naval Constructions invented by Joseph Francis

 1885 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 134.40
397 Peter Capstick's Africa

A Return To The Long Grass - inscribed to his publisher

 1987 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 134.40
151 Cecil Aldin

The Black Puppy Book, 1908, 12 color plates

 ca1908 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 112.00
178 Natalie Joan & Susan Beatrice Pearse

Ameliaranne in Town [&] At the Circus, 1930-1931

 1930 & 1931 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 112.00
190

1843 Report on the Employment of Women & Children in Agriculture, England.

 1843 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 112.00
217 A. C. Andros

Pen and Pencil Sketches of a Holiday Scamper in Spain, 1860. 6 colored plates.

 1860 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 112.00
220 Bostwick

1848 book on Venereal Diseases, [and] of the Genito-Urinary Organs, 1848, 27 color plates

 1848 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 112.00
260 David Gray

Gallops & Gallops 2 (1898-1903), Equestrian & Fox Hunting fiction

 1898 & 1903 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 112.00
312 Mayne Reid

The Forest Exiles (1855) & The Young Yagers (1857), 1st eds, handsome leather bindings

 1855 & 1857 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 112.00
367

Vortrag zum pracktischen Cours auf Muldner Hutte (ca. 1865-75) William L. Scaife's copy

 1875 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 112.00
123

Der Koran...1828 in handsome dark green morocco gilt. Qur'an in German.

 1828 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 89.60
180 Gershom Huff

Electro-Physiology, 1853

 1853 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 89.60
185 William B. Carpenter

Mesmerism, Spiritualism, &c. Historically and Scientifically Considered, 1897

 1897 USD 75.00 - 150.00 USD 89.60
  • <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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