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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 06, 2025 - November 06, 2025
Page Size: 100 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Agee, James and Walker Evans

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Boston 1941 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
2 Colonna, Francesco

Le Tableau des Riches Inventions: couvertes du voile des feintes amoureuses, qui sont representees dans le songe de Poliphile

Paris 1600 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
3 Trismossin, Salomon

Aureum vellus, oder, Guldin Schata und Kunst-Kammer: darinnen der aller furnemisten, furtreffenlichsten, ausserlesenesten, herrlichisten und bewehrtesten Auctorum Schrifften und Bucher ...

Hamburg 1708 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
4 Anson, George

A Voyage Around the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, Esq.; Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas...

London 1748 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,875.00
5 Aristotle

The Metaphysics of Aristotle, translated from the Greek, with copious notes, in which the Pythagoric and Platonic dogmas respecting numbers and ideas are unfolded from antient sources. To which is added, a dissertation on nullities and diverging series...

London 1801 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,500.00
6 Lilly, William

A Collection of Ancient and Modern Prophesies, Concerning These Present Times...

London 1645 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
7 Baldwin, George

An Investigation into Principles, &c.

[London] [1801] USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 Not Sold
8 Behmen, Jacob

The Epistles of Jacob Behmen aliter, Teutonicus Philosophus

London 1649 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
9 null

Biblia Das ist: Die gantze Heilige Schrifft / Deudsch

Wittenberg 1607 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,625.00
10 Browne, Sir Thomas

Nature's Cabinet Unlock'd. Wherein is Discovered The natural Causes of Metals, Stones, precious Earths, Juyces, Humors, and Spirits, The nature of Plants in general; their Affections, Parts, and Kinds in Particular

London 1657 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
11 Burney, James

A Chronological History of North-Eastern Voyages of Discovery; and of the Early Eastern Navigations of the Russians

London 1819 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
12 Burr, George Elbert

Desert Set [with] autograph letter signed by George Elbert Burr

Phoenix 1921 [date from Seeber p.42] USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
13 Cassady, Neal

Autograph Postcard from Neal Cassady to Carolyn with original photograph and related ephemera

San Miguel de Allende, Mexico 1967 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
14 Cassin, John

Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. Intended to contain Descriptions and Figures of all North American Birds...

Philadelphia 1856 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,875.00
15 Chopin, Frederic

4 Mazurkas Pour Le Piano Forte dedies a Monsieur Johns de la Nouvelle Orleans / Oeuv, [Opus] 7 / M.S. 1342

Paris; Leipzig [1832] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
16 Knight, William

A Concordance Axiomaticall: containing a svrvey of theologicall propositions: with their reasons and vses in Holie Scripture. Taken at first by attent reading, and after digested into an alphabeticall order for the benefit of the Church, especially for su

London 1610 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,875.00
17 Karsh, Yousuf, photographer

Winston Churchill, 1941

No place 1941; later print USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,125.00
18 Considerant, Victor

Destinee sociale

Paris 1835; 1838; 1844 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
19 null

Extensive manuscript list of the emancipated slaves "of both sexes", in Guanajay, Cuba, 1876

Jurisdiction of Guanajay, Cuba 1876 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
20 [Blocquel, Simon] Baron Commode (pseud.).

Manuel consolateur des cocus. Code pacifique des menages, ouvrage eminemment utile, suivi 1. d'un tableau des moeurs et usages de differentes nations relativement aux fiancailles, au mariage, a la polygamie, a l'adultere et au divorce...traduit fidelement

Cornopolis [i.e. Lille] [c.1837?] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
21 Carroll, Lewis

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

New York 1969 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 6,875.00
22 Daniel, R.P.G.

Histoire de la Milice francoise, et les changements qui s'y sont faits depuis l'etablissement de la Monarchie dans les Gaules jusqu'a la fin du Regne de Louis le Grand

Paris 1721 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
23 de Bergerac, Cyrano

The Comical History of the States and Empires of the Worlds of the Moon and Sun

London 1687 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
24 De Bry, Theodore

America Sive Novus Orbis Respectu Europaeorum

Frankfurt 1596 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,062.50
25 Shakespeare, William

The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators...

London 1821 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,750.00
  • 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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