• Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000
  • Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000
    Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000
  • Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.
    Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.
    Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.
    Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.
    Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.
    Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.
    Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.

Bonhams: Books and Manuscripts, 30728, London, New Bond Street

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
March 20, 2025 - March 20, 2025
Page Size: 228 items in 10 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

NERSES, of Lambron...

Venice 1787 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 563.20
2 Hovhannes Zohrabian, editor

[The Bible]

Venice 1805 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 3,840.00
3

GREGORY THE ILLUMINATOR. Girk' vor kotci Yachakhapatum [Collection of Sermons]...

Constantinople 1824 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,280.00
4 COSTELLO (LOUISA STUART)

The Rose Garden of Persia...

1845 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 832.00
5 GOLDSMITH (JOHN)

An Almanack for the Year of our Lord God...

[1771] GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,152.00
6 THACKERAY (WILLIAM MAKEPEACE)

THACKERAY (WILLIAM MAKEPEACE) The Works

1869 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
7 BOWYER (ROBERT)

The Triumphs of Europe in the Campaigns of the Years 1812, 1813, 1814...

1814 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 960.00
8

Collection of forty-nine nineteenth century engineering drawings and plans relating to I.K. Brunel's Great Western Railway Engineers Office, the Hammersmith & City Railway, Westbourne Park Station, and other projects...

1831 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 2,816.00
9 CAMERON (JULIA MARGARET)

Illustrations to Tennyson's Idylls of the King, and Other Poems...

1875 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 30,720.00
10

Five fine photographs relating to the transport of Cleopatra's Needle from Alexandria to London, 1877

1877 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,816.00
11

L'Escole parfaite des officiers de bouche...

Paris 1686 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 230.40
12

Collection of over 500 cookery, household and medicinal receipts, written in ink on the endpapers...

1821 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 5,120.00
13

Eighteenth century culinary recipe book, titled 'Miss Mary Bewsley

1740 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,536.00
14

Recipe and commonplace book of Elizabeth L. Marshall (nee Winlove) of King's Lynn, beginning with 30 leaves of writings on virtue, religion, love, envy etc.

1867 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 192.00
15 RICKET (EDWARD)

The Gentleman's Table Guide and Table Companion to the Art of Dining and Drinking...

1871 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,920.00
16 CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE)

Hop-O'My-Thumb and the Seven-league Boots [George Cruikshank's Fairy Library]

[1853] GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 832.00
17 AINSWORTH (WILLIAM AINSWORTH) Jack Sheppard

CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE) A Romance...

1839 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 768.00
18 [HONE (WILLIAM)]

CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE) A group of approximately 48 pamphlets by Hone bound in 3 vol....

[1820s] GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 588.80
19 CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE)

Der Freischutz Travestie: by Septimus Globus, Esq....

1824 GBP 500.00 - 600.00 GBP 384.00
20 [WESTMACOTT (CHARLES MOLLOY)]

CRUIKSHANK (ROBERT) The English Spy: The Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humorous

Sherwood 1825-1826 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 512.00
21 DAUMIER (HONORE)

Types parisiens...

[1839-1843] GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 960.00
22

Transformation deck, 52 playing cards (French suits)...

Liverpool [c.1865] GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 563.20
23 BYRNE (OLIVER)

EUCLID - OLIVER BYRNE. The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in Which Coloured Diagrams and Symbols Are Used Instead of Letters for the Greater Ease of Learners

1847 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 5,376.00
24 GOETHE (JOHANN WOLFGANG VON)

Letter signed ("ergebenst Goethe"), to Johann Wolfgang Dobereiner...

Weimar 1818 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,096.00
25 JENKINS (JAMES)

The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and her Allies; from 1799 to 1815

1814-15 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,536.00
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    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
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    Antique prints, paintings and maps
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    Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€
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