Auction Reports
Heritage Auctions
Auction Info
- Auction Name
- Rare Book Signature Auction
- Auction Date
- 12/15/2025 - 12/15/2025
- Sale Number
- #6323
- Total Lots
- 610
- Sold Lots
- 567.0
- Lots Sold
- 92.95%
- Unsold Lots
- 43
- Total Sales (USD)
- 2,105,690.00
- Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
- 1,181,952.00
- High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
- 1,772,928.00
- Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
- 1,435,550.00
- High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
- 2,153,328.00
- Total Sales as a % of High Est.
- 97.79%
Top twenty five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45109 | J. R. R. Tolkien. | The Lord of the Rings: comprising The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King. |
1954-1955. | USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 | USD 250,000.00 |
| 45341 | [Robert S. Mulliken]. | Nobel Prize Medal in Chemistry for his development of Molecular Orbital Theory. |
N/A | USD 160,000.00 - 240,000.00 | USD 200,000.00 |
| 45108 | J. R. R. Tolkien. | Autograph manuscript, headed "Further correction desired," being a late revision to The Return of the King, Book Six, Chapter VI ("Many Partings"). |
N/A | USD 24,000.00 - 36,000.00 | USD 87,500.00 |
| 45051 | ELIOT, George [Mary Ann Evans]. | Middlemarch. A Study of Provincial Life. |
December 1871- December 1872. | USD 48,000.00 - 72,000.00 | USD 75,000.00 |
| 45105 | Bram Stoker. | Dracula. |
1897 | USD 24,000.00 - 36,000.00 | USD 55,000.00 |
| 45274 | Edgar Rice Burroughs. | Tarzan of the Apes. |
N/A | USD 24,000.00 - 36,000.00 | USD 37,500.00 |
| 45037 | John Donne. | Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. |
1633 | USD 32,000.00 - 48,000.00 | USD 37,500.00 |
| 45149 | John James Audubon. | The Bird of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories. |
N/A | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 36,250.00 |
| 45205 | F. Scott Fitzgerald. | Tender is the Night. A Romance. |
N/A | USD 16,000.00 - 24,000.00 | USD 27,500.00 |
| 45139 | [Georges Braque, illustrator]. [Paul Bonet, binder]. Guillaume Apollinaire. | Si je mourais la-bas. |
1962 | USD 16,000.00 - 24,000.00 | USD 27,500.00 |
| 45059 | Robert Herrick. | Hesperides: or, The Works both Humane & Divine. |
1648 | USD 16,000.00 - 24,000.00 | USD 26,250.00 |
| 45250 | J. D. Salinger. | The Catcher in the Rye. |
N/A | USD 32,000.00 - 48,000.00 | USD 25,000.00 |
| 45258 | John Steinbeck. | Of Mice and Men. |
N/A | USD 3,200.00 - 4,800.00 | USD 23,125.00 |
| 45079 | J. Sheridan Le Fanu. | In a Glass Darkly. |
1872 | USD 6,400.00 - 9,600.00 | USD 23,125.00 |
| 45030 | Charles Dickens. | A Tale of Two Cities. |
1859 | USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 | USD 22,500.00 |
| 45138 | Andreas Vesalius. | De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. |
N/A | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 22,500.00 |
| 45039 | Daphne du Maurier. | Rebecca. |
1938 | USD 9,600.00 - 14,400.00 | USD 21,250.00 |
| 45267 | Isaac Asimov. | I, Robot. |
N/A | USD 4,800.00 - 7,200.00 | USD 20,000.00 |
| 45228 | John Le Carre. | Group of 21 Mostly Signed First Edition Novels, including his rare first book, Call for the Dead. |
N/A | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 18,750.00 |
| 45239 | George Orwell. | Animal Farm. A Fairy Story. |
N/A | USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 | USD 16,875.00 |
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ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000. -
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 AprilSotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.