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Auction Name: Old and Rare Books (pre-1700)
Auction Date: 12/05/2025 - 12/05/2025
Sale Number: #120525b
Total Lots: 77
Sold Lots: 50.0
Lots Sold: 64.94%
Unsold Lots: 27

Total Sales (EUR): 54,780.10
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 76,145.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 126,900.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 105,895.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 180,700.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 30.32%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
99221115	Brandt (incunable)	Biblia Latina	1498	EUR 6,600.00 - 10,000.00	EUR 8,175.00
99234938	Valerio Massimo / Aldo Manuzio	Dictorum et Factorum memorabilium libri novem Memorabilium, Post Incunabolo, Post Incunabulum,	1502	EUR 8,300.00 - 14,000.00	EUR 4,959.50
99387638	Aristotele/Erasmo	Aristotelous Hapanta	1550	EUR 6,600.00 - 10,000.00	EUR 4,360.00
99323751	Bouchet	[REINEKE] Von den losen Fuchsen dieser Welt	1606	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 3,052.00
99397063	Richard Verstegan or Richard Rowlands	Theatrum Crudelitatum (Theatre of the Cruelties)	1587	EUR 850.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 2,618.18
99228712		Biblia latina. Biblia Sacra iuxta Germanam Hebraici idiomatis proprietatem ... Interprete Xante	1541	EUR 2,500.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 2,398.00
99277587	Ambroise Pare	(MONSTERS & WITCHCRAFT MEDICINE ILLUSTRATED) Les Oeuvres d'Ambroise Pare	1585	EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 2,234.50
99131828	Homere	OMHPOY ILIAS [Homeri Ilias]	1524	EUR 1,700.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 1,635.00
99209103	Richard Verstegan (Rychardus Versteganus)	Theatrum Crudelitatis Haereticorum - Nostri Temporis	1588	EUR 900.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 1,555.43
99390910	Carolus Clusius	Exoticorum libri decem	1605	EUR 1,100.00 - 1,400.00	EUR 1,471.50
99300636		Manuscript Of Magic, Witchcraft And Palmistry	1600	EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 1,231.70
99376121	u.	(HERALDRY & EMBLEMS) Manoscritto miscellanea delle nobili casate	1600	EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	EUR 1,199.00
99208418	MONTAIGNE	Les Essais de Michel, seigneur de Montaigne. Edition prise sur l'exemplaire trouve apres le deces	1602	EUR 450.00 - 1,400.00	EUR 1,093.27
99226977	Euclid	Elementorum libri XV. Quibus, cum ad omnem Mathematicae scientiae partem, tum ad quamlibet	1580	EUR 650.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 1,092.18
99395756	Juan Banos de Velasco y Acevedo (1615-1682)	L. Anneo Seneca ilustrado en blasones politicos y morales y su impugnador impugnado de si mismo	1670	EUR 350.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 899.25
99341428	M. Lodovico Dolce	(ILLUSTRATED RENAISSANCE) Imprese Nobili et ingegniose di diversi Prencipi et d'altri personaggi	1578	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 883.99
99336919	various witches	(DEMONS AND WITCHCRAFT) Magical Manuscript for the Evocation of Demons and Spirits	1699	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 851.29
99373073	Isbrand van Diemerbroeck	Isbrandi Diemerbroeck Medicinae Et Anatomes Professoris, Anatomes Corporis Humani.	1679	EUR 850.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 817.50
99249293	Abraham Bosse	Traite des manieres de dessiner les ordins de l'architecture antique en toutes leurs parties	1688	EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 784.80
99343458	A. Bozza	(MANUSCRIPT OF ASTRONOMY AND MAGIC) De Coelo et Mundo	1681	EUR 1,200.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 715.04

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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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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. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.