Bonhams: Fine Books and Manuscripts, 29882, London, New Bond Street
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- November 20, 2024 - November 20, 2024
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | Compendium, including Pseudo-Augustine (De spiritu et anima), Canon Law and Theology |
?Northern Europe (possibly France) | thirteenth century and later | GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 32,000.00 | |
| 29 | [GRADUAL] Proprium de tempore |
Northern Italy | fourteenth century | GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 11,520.00 | |
| 30 | Book of Hours, use of Utrecht |
Netherlands | c.1450 | GBP 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 | GBP 14,080.00 | |
| 31 | KANT (IMMANUEL) | Critik der reinen Vernunft [Critique of Pure Reason], FIRST EDITION, |
Riga | 1781 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 14,080.00 |
| 32 | [KEMPIS (THOMAS A)] | [Meditationes] De vita et beneficiis salvatoris Jesu christi devotissime meditationes cum gratiarum actione |
Strassburg | c.1488-1493 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 2,432.00 |
| 33 | NAPOLEON BONAPARTE | Autograph letter unsigned, in English, to Emmanuel, Comte de Las Cases |
Longwood | 1816 | GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 34 | SCHOOPER (HARTMANN) | Panoplia [in Greek] Omnium illiberalium mechanicarum aut sedentariarum artium genera continens |
Frankfurt | 1568 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 4,864.00 |
| 35 | Het groote Tafereel der dwaasheid, FIRST EDITION |
Amsterdam | 1720 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 2,560.00 | |
| 36 | Manuscript journal of Cecil Rice Arney (1806-1852), officer's wife on a convict ship |
Sydney, Norfolk Island penal colony & New Zealand | 1843 to 1849 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | GBP 35,840.00 | |
| 37 | BELLIN (JACQUES NICOLAS) | Le petit Atlas maritime, FIRST EDITION, 6 parts in 5 vol., |
Paris | 1764 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 12,800.00 |
| 38 | BLAEU (WILLEM AND JAN) | Toonneel des Aerdrycz, oft Nieuwe Atlas... Tweede Deels, 2 parts in 1 vol., |
Amsterdam | 1642 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 4,864.00 |
| 39 | BLAEU (WILLEM AND JAN) | Toonneel des Aerdrycks oft Nieuwe Atlas...Vierde Deel, |
Amsterdam | 1646 but 1647 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 4,480.00 |
| 40 | BLAEU (JOANNES) | America, quae est Geographiae Blauianae pars quinta liber unus volumen undecimum, |
Amsterdam | 1662 | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | GBP 14,080.00 |
| 41 | SAXTON (CHRISTOPHER) Cestriae comitatus (romanis legionibus et colonys olim insignis) vera et absoluta effigies |
1577 but 1579, or slightly later | GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 1,664.00 | ||
| 42 | ESQUEMELIN (ALEXANDRE OLIVIER) | De Americaensche Zee-Roovers, FIRST EDITION, |
t'Amsterdam | 1678 | GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 | GBP 63,900.00 |
| 43 | ORTELIUS (ABRAHAM) | Theatrum orbis terrarum, |
Antwerp | 1570 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 30,720.00 |
| 44 | Collection of c.64 autograph letters from nineteenth- and twentieth-century naturalists, scientists and illustrators |
19th and 20th century | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 82,950.00 | ||
| 45 | DARWIN (CHARLES) | Autograph letter signed to Thomas Davidson, |
Down | 1861 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 7,040.00 |
| 46 | DARWIN (CHARLES) | Autograph letter signed to Joseph Dalton Hooker, |
Down | 1879 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 5,120.00 |
| 47 | DARWIN (CHARLES), ROBERT FITZROY and PHILIP PARKER KING | Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, FIRST EDITION, |
Henry Colburn | 1839 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 21,760.00 |
| 48 | EINSTEIN (ALBERT) | Portrait photograph by Yousuf Karsh, SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPER ("Y. Karsh") on the mount |
1948 but printed later | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 6,400.00 | |
| 49 | JARDINE (WILLIAM) | The Naturalist's Library, 40 vol., |
Edinburgh | 1842-1843 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 2,560.00 |
| 50 | NEWTON (ISAAC) | Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica...Editio tertia aucta & emendata, |
William and John Innys | 1726 | GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | GBP 7,680.00 |
| 51 | OPPENHEIMER (J. ROBERT) | Robert Oppenheimer's passport with photograph for 1924, SIGNED TWICE ("J. Robert Oppenheimer") |
1924-26 | GBP 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 52 | STRICKLAND (HUGH EDWIN) AND ALEXANDER GORDON MELVILLE | The Dodo and its Kindred, FIRST EDITION |
1848 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 2,304.00 |
