Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Works on Paper, 1191, London

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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 20, 2025 - November 20, 2025
Page Size: 262 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Brant (Sebastian) & Jakob Wimpfeling.

Hortulus anime

 Strasbourg 1503 GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 GBP 5,715.00
2 Anti-semitism.- Porchetus Salvagus.

Victoria adversus impios Hebr[a]eos, in qua tum ex sacris litteris tum ex dictis Talmud ac cabbalistaru[m]

 Paris 1520 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,905.00
3 Anti-semitism.- Margaritha (Antonius)

Der Gantz Judisch Glaub

 [Augspurg] 1530 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 2,413.00
4

Bible, Latin. Biblia

 Paris 1532 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
5 Macchiavelli (Niccolo)

Historie

 Venice 1540 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 4,064.00
6 Josephus (Flavius)

Opera

 Basel 1544 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,206.50
7 Dance of Death.- Holbein (Hans)

Les Images de la Mort

 Lyon 1547 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 6,930.00
8 Ariosto (Lodovico)

Orlando Furioso

 Venice 1556 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 698.50
9 Rauwolf (Leonhard)

Aigentliche beschreibung der Raiss so er vor diser zeit gegen Auffgang inn die Morgenlaender...

 [Lauingen] 1582 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
10 Montaigne (Michel de)

Les Essais...

 Paris 1611 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 635.00
11 Muret (Marc Antoine)

Epistolae, hymni sacri et poemata omnia...editio ultima

 Lyon 1613 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
12 Tasso (Torquato)

La Gerusalemme Liberata

 Genoa 1617 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,397.00
13 Drexel (Jeremias)

Zodiacus Christianus, seu signa XII. divinae Praedestinationis

 1632 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
14

Bindings.- Saincts devoirs (Les) de l'ame devote

 Paris 1640 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 825.50
15

Koran.- Koran ofversatt fran arabiska originalet

 Stockholm 1843 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
16 Engels (Friedrich).- Held (Friedrich Wilhelm)

Held's Volksvertreter

 Berlin 1846 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
17 Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich)

[Memoirs from the House of the Dead]

 St Petersburg 1875 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 635.00
18 Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich)

[The Brothers Karamazov]

 Brothers Panteleev 1881 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 32,760.00
19 Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich)

[Crime and Punishment]

 St Petersburg 1882 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 952.50
20 Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich)

[The Devils, sometimes The Possessed or Demons]

 St. Petersburg 1882 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 762.00
21 Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich)

[The Idiot]

 St. Petersburg 1882 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 825.50
22 Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich)

[Humiliated and Insulted, sometimes The Insulted and Injured]

 St. Petersburg 1887 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 698.50
23 Tolstoy (Count Lev Nikolayevich "Leo")

[Anna Karenina]

 Moscow 1878 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 11,970.00
24 [Melnikov (Pavel Ivanovich)], Andrey Pechersky.

[On the Hills]

 St Petersburg & Moscow 1881 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
25 Boccaccio (Giovanni)

The Decameron

 Moscow 1891 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 254.00
  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> 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. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    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.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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.
    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.
  • <b><center>Heritage Auctions<br>Rare Books Signature Auction<br>December 15, 2025</center></b> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Edgar Rice Burroughs. <i>Tarzan of the Apes.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> F. Scott Fitzgerald. <i>Tender is the Night. A Romance.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Bram Stoker. <i>Dracula.</i> Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Jerry Thomas. <i>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…</i>
    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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