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Auction Date: November 26, 2025 - November 26, 2025

Page Size: 355 items in 15 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Diodorus Siculus	Delle antique historie fabulose	Venice	1542	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 215.90
2	Villani (Giovanni)	La Prima Parte [Seconda] Parte delle Historie Universali di Suoi Tempi	Florence	1559	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 457.20
3	[Lanquet (Thomas)]	Coopers Chronicle		[1560]	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,651.00
4	Sleidanus (Johannes)	Histoire Entiere deduite depuis le Deluge iusques au temps present	[Geneva]	1561	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 241.30
5	Nauclerus (Johannes)	Chronica...succinctim compraehendentia res memorabiles seculorum omnium ac gentium...	Cologne	1579	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
6	Conti (Natale)	Universae historiae sui temporis libri triginta ab anno salutis nostrae 1545 usque ad annum 1581	Venice	1581	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 355.60
7	[Sanders (Nicholas)]	Warhaffte Engellandische Histori in wellicher was sich besonder in religionssachen von LX. jahren...verloffen grundtlich beschriben	Salzburg	1594	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 279.40
8	[Raleigh (Sir Walter)]	The History of the World		1614	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 952.50
9	Botero (Giovanni)	Le Relationi Universali	Venice	1618[-17]	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 457.20
10	Eusebius Pamphilius, of Caesarea, & others	The Auncient Ecclesiastical Histories of the First Six Hundred Years after Christ		1619	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 177.80
11	Purchas (Samuel)	Purchas his Pilgrim. Microcosmus, or the Historie of Man		1619	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 558.80
12	Heylyn (Peter)	Mikrokosmos [graece]. A Little Description of the Great World	Oxford	1629	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 254.00
13	Isaacson (Henry)	Saturni Ephemerides siue tabula historico-chronologica..		1633	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,016.00
14	Braithwait (Richard)	A Survey of History: or, a Nursery for Gentry		1638	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
15	Fuller (Thomas)	The Historie of the Holy Warre		1647	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 254.00
16	Scudery (Georges de)	Curia Politiae: or, the Apologies of Severall Princes		1654	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 215.90
17	Howell (William)	An Institution of General History, from the beginning of the World to the Monarchy of Constantine the Great		1661	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 165.10
18	Fuller (Thomas)	The History of the Worthies of England		1662	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 190.50
19	Loschi (Alfonso)	Compendi Historici	Vicenza	1668	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 406.40
20	Heylyn (Peter)	Cosmographie in Four Books containing the Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World...		1669	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,016.00
21	Prideaux (Mathias)	An Easy and Compendious Introduction for reading all sorts of Histories	Oxford	1672	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,143.00
22	Doglioni (Giovanni Nicolo)	[The Historians Guide in two parts. First, The Recovery of Lost Time; being a compendious chronology of the world...Translated out of Italian]...		1676	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 431.80
23	[Shirley (John)]	Raleigh (Sir Walter).- The Life of the Valiant & Learned Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight...		1677	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,143.00
24	Burnet (Bishop Gilbert)	The History of the Reformation of the Church of England		1679-81	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 584.20
25	Rycaut (Paul)	The Present State of the Greek and Armenian Churches		1679	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 698.50

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.
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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