Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper, 1188, London

Auction Details

Auction Date: September 25, 2025 - September 25, 2025

Page Size: 206 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1		Printed on vellum.- [Book of Hours, use of Paris]	[Paris]	[?late 1490s]	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 3,302.00
2		Hortulus Animae	Strassburg	1509	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 2,794.00
3	Erasmus (Desiderius)	Moriae Encomium. Erasmi Roterodami declamatio	Strasbourg	August 1511	GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	Not Sold
4	Fulvio (Andrea)	Numismatics.- Illustrium imagines	Rome	1517	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,778.00
5	Appianus, Alexandrinus	Sir William Pickering's copy.- Appianus, Alexandrinus Des guerres des Rommains, Livres XI, scarce	Paris	1552	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,016.00
6	Maraffi (Damiano)	Le Figure del Vecchio Testamento con versi Toscani	Lyon	1554	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,397.00
7	Suetonius Tranquillus (Caius)	De la vie des XII Cesars	Lyon	1556	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 736.60
8	[Melanchthon (Philipp) & Johann Bugenhagen]	Annotated.- Den rette Ordinants som paa Herre dagen i Ottense bleff offuerseet oc beseglet	Copenhagen	1617	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 635.00
9	de Bisschop (Jan)	Paradigmata Graphices Variorum Artificum; Signorum Veterm Icones	Amsterdam	c.1670	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,016.00
10	Altamitano (Joseph Cerbantes)	Law.- Iuridico Informe por la Iusticia de el B. D. Rafael Ome, Capitan D. Manuel Sarmiento ... en la causa	[Manila]	[25 November, 1679]	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
11		Binding.- Die Psalmen Davids	Basel	1684	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 3,302.00
12		Binding.- Bible, French. Le Nouveau Testament	Mons	1710	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
13	Gueriniere (Francois Robichon de la)	Horses.- Ecole de Cavalerie, contenat la Connoissance	Paris	1733	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 2,794.00
14	Luther (Martin)	Binding.- Bible, German.- Biblia Das ist: Die gantze Heil Schrift Alten und Neuen	Berlin	1743	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,905.00
15	La Fontaine (Jean de)	Fables Choisies, mises en vers	Paris	1765-75	GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 952.50
16	Chekhov (Anton)	[The Man in the Case]	Moscow	1898	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
17	Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle)	"Colette". L'Entrave	Paris	1913	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 889.00
18	Breton (Andre)	Manifeste du Surrealisme: Poisson Soluble	Paris	1924	GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
19	Raymond of Penafort (Saint)	Summa de casibus poenitentialis [&] Summa de matrimonio, decorated	Catalonia	(c. 1175-1275)	GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	Not Sold
20		Book of Hours, Use of Paris			GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	GBP 25,400.00
21	Beaufort (Edmund, first Duke of Somerset, magnate and soldier, c. 1406-55) & Gilbert Motier de La Fayette, Marshal of France, 1380-1463)	Fall of Rouen in the Hundred Years War	[?England]	29th October 1449 [late 15th century]	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 5,715.00
22	Brandt (Sebastian, German humanist and satirist, 1457/1458 -1521)	Ad magnificum et nobilem	[probably Germany]	[first half of the sixteenth century]	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
23	Parr (Catherine, Queen of England and Ireland, sixth consort of Henry VIII, 1512-48)	Prayers	n.p.	n.d. [c. 1550 & later]	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 17,780.00
24		Heraldry.- The first Booke... of the manuscript whence I transcribed these names with their beareings depickd...		1601	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
25		Medical.- Recettes Medicales, manuscript in French with some Dutch insertions		[c. early 17th century]	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold

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. 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.