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Auction Date: October 23, 2025 - October 23, 2025

Page Size: 296 items in 12 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Musculus (Wolfgang)	Commentarii in Evangelivm Ioannis, occasional marginalia in an early hand	Basel,	1554	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,905.00
2	Zonaras (Joannes)	Compendium Historiarum	Basel,	1557	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 698.50
3	Gruchius (Nicolas)	De Comitiis Romanorum Libri Tres	Venice,	1559	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 558.80
4	Allen (William)	Historia del glorioso martirio di sedici sacerdoti	Macerata,	1583	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 609.60
5	Lazius (Wolfgang)	De Gentium Aliquot Migrationibus	Frankfurt,	1600	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,206.50
6	de Jesus (Tomas)	Stimulus Missionum	Rome,	1610	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 635.00
7	Negrone (Giulio)	Regulae communes Societatis Iesu	Cologne,	1617	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,206.50
8	French imprints.- Hilary (of Poitiers, Saint)	Sancti Hilarii Pictavorum Episcopi	Paris,	1652	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 635.00
9	Waldensians.- Leger (Jean)	Histoire Generale des Eglises Evangeliques des Vallees de Piemont ou Vaudoises 2 parts in 1	Leiden,	1669	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 609.60
10	Polygamy.- [Lyser (Johann)], 'Theophilo Aletheo.'	Polygamia Triumphatrix, Lund, Sumtibus Authoris post 1682	Wittenberg,	1684	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 279.40
11	Sermons.- Fleetwood (William)	The Relative Duties of Parents, Husbands, Masters... Considered in Sixteen Sermons: With Three more upon the case of Self-Murther		1705	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 762.00
12		Liturgy.- Missale Cartusiensis Ordinis ex ordinatione Capituli Generalis...	Lyon,	1713	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 355.60
13	Elsner (Jakob)	Observationes Sacrae 2 vol., engraved vignettes to titles	Utrecht,	1720-28	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 508.00
14	Sermons.- Saurin (Jacques)	Nouveaux Sermons sur L'Histoire de la Passion de Notre Seigneur Jesus Christ 2 vol., woodcut decoration on titles	Rotterdam,	1732	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 355.60
15	[Challoner (Richard)]	Britannia Sancta		1745	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 215.90
16	[Boyer d'Argens (Jean Baptiste)]	Lettres cabalistiques	The Hague	1754	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 279.40
17	Sermons.- [Murray (James)]	New Sermons to Asses, ink ownership signature to front free endpaper		1773	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 304.80
18	Wassenberg (Everwinus, Dutch classicist and scholar 1742-1826)	Prolegomena in NT libros Sacros et Evangelium [Observationes in Matthaei evangelium]		[1790]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 355.60
19	Sermons.- [Boyd (Adam)]	Keep Your Heart. A Sermon	Augusta,	1794 SS Quincy (Samuel) Twenty Sermons... Preached in the Parish of St. Philip	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 889.00
20	Brief Account (A)	of the Coronation of His Majesty George IV		1821	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 304.80
21	Lodge (Edmund)	Portraits of Illustrious Personages of the Court of Henry VIII. Engraved in Imitation of the Original Drawings of Hans Holbein		1828	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 279.40
22	Gravina (Domenico Benedetto)	Il duomo di Monreale 2 vol.	Palermo	1859	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 825.50
23	Verner (Sir William)	A Short History of the Battle of the Diamond		1863	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 203.20
24	Conder (Lt. C.R.)	& H.H. Kitchener. Map of Western Palestine in 26 Sheets		1880	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 482.60
25	Germain (Michel)	Le monasticon gallicanum	Paris	1882	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 139.70

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.