Bonhams: Fine Books and Manuscripts, 29869, London, New Bond Street

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Auction Report
Auction Date
March 20, 2024 - March 20, 2024
Page Size: 135 items in 6 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 BORGET (AUGUSTE)

Sketches of China and the Chinese

1842 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 7,680.00
2 CAMDEN (WILLIAM)

Britannia

1695 GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 896.00
3 CARTWRIGHT (JOSEPH)

Selections of the Costume of Albania and Greece

1822 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 12,160.00
4 CREALOCK (HENRY HOPE) AND FELICE BEATO

Chinese War Sketches of the Allied Expedition To Pekin in 1860

c.1861-1862 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
5 LINGHAM (EDWARD FRASER)

Boys playing cricket outside La Martiniere School

Kolkata 1849 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
6 HOBHOUSE (J.C.)

A Journey through Albania

1813 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,664.00
7 JACKSON (KEITH ALEXANDER)

Views in Affghaunistaun... from Sketches Taken During the Campaign of the Army of the Indus

1841 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 537.60
8

Land transaction signed at foot by fifteen Maori chiefs with their moko

Rosanna 1826 GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 53,740.00
9 ORTELIUS (ABRAHAM)

Theatre de l'Univers

Antwerp 1598 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 32,000.00
10 SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE

The Complete Atlas of Modern, Classical and Celestial Maps, together with Plans of the Principal Cities of the World

1873 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 4,480.00
11 THOMSON (JOHN)

Illustrations of China and its People

1873-1874 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 11,520.00
12 ALBINUS (BERNARD SIEGFRIED)

Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body

1749-1750 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,840.00
13

A collection of six scarce broadsides relating to medicine and quack doctors

c.1670-1730 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 12,800.00
14 BULL (HENRY GRAVES)

The Herefordshire Pomona

1876-1885 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,048.00
15 DARWIN (CHARLES)

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

1859 GBP 150,000.00 - 250,000.00 GBP 305,200.00
16 DARWIN (CHARLES

On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection... Third Edition, with Additions and Corrections.

1861 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,408.00
17 DARWIN (CHARLES)

On the Origin of Species

1872 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 537.60
18 FARADAY (MICHAEL)

Experimental Researches in Electricity (Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first Series.)... from the Philsosophical Transactions - Part I. for 1846

1846 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 3,200.00
19 GERARD (JOHN)

The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes

1636 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 832.00
20 MOORE (THOMAS)

The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland

1855-1856 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 4,864.00
21

Novum testamentum [edited by Desiderius Erasmus]

Basel 1543 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,536.00
22

Biblia sacra

Antwerp 1583 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,816.00
23 DOSTOEVSKY (FYODOR)

Cabinet photograph

1880 GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 76,600.00
24

Pope Gregory IX receiving the text of the Decretals from Raymond of Penyafort and another cleric

[Paris c.1325-50 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 6,400.00
25

DE PAPE (FERDINAND AND CHARLES) Recueil de pieuses prieres, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM

Bruges 1908 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 35,840.00
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Modern First Editions
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Isaac Newton on chemistry and matter, and alchemy, Autograph Manuscript, "A Key to Snyders," 3 pp, after 1674. $100,000 - $150,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Exceptionally rare first printing of Plato's Timaeus. Florence, 1484. $50,000 - $80,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: On the Philosophy of Self-Interest: Adam Smith's copy of Helvetius's De l'homme, Paris, 1773. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: "Magical Calendar of Tycho Brahe" - very rare hermetic broadside. Engraved by Merian for De Bry. c.1618. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Author's presentation issue of Einstein's proof of Relativity, "Erklärung der Perihelbewegung des Merkur aus der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie." 1915. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: First Latin edition of Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed. Paris, 1520. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: De Broglie manuscript on the nature of matter in quantum physics, 3 pp, 1954. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Tesla autograph letter signed on electricty and electromagnetic theory. 1894. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Heinrich Hertz scientific manuscript on his mentor Hermann Von Helmholtz, 1891. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: The greatest illustrated work in Alchemy: Micheal Maier's Atalanta Fugiens. Oppenheim, 1618. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Illustrated Alchemical manuscript, a Mysterium Magnum of the Rosicurcians, 18th-century. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Rare Largest Paper Presentation Copy of Newton's Principia, London, 1726. The third and most influential edition. $60,000 - $90,000
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
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