Bonhams: Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana , 31200, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 18, 2025 - December 18, 2025
Page Size: 261 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
226 MILNE, A.A. [ALAN ALEXANDER]. 1882-1956.

Autograph Manuscript Signed integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," comprising title page and a draft of each of the introductions for the songs, published in 1929 as The Hums of Pooh,

USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 Not Sold
227 SHEPARD, ERNEST H. 1879-1976.

Preliminary drawing in pencil, Pooh gathering fir-cones to drop into the river, from The Pooh Story Book

1965 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 35,840.00
228 SHEPARD, ERNEST H. 1879-1976.

Original pencil drawing featuring Christopher Robin and characters from When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six,

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
229 WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM 1770-1850. COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR 1772-1834.

Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems.

London 1798 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,096.00
230 YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER 1865-1939

A Vision: An Explanation of Life Founded Upon the Writings of Giraldus and Upon Certain Doctrines Attributed to Kusta Ben Luka

London 1925 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 640.00
231 YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER. 1865-1939.

Poems.

London 1949 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,664.00
232 LIBERALE DE VERONA. 1445-1526/29.

Illuminated manuscript on vellum, being David in prayer in an initial S, a historiated initial cut from a large-format choirbook,

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 23,040.00
233

Illuminated manuscript on vellum, The Annunciation in an initial M, leaf from a large-format antiphonary,

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,816.00
234 POLLUX, JULIUS. fl. 2nd century.

Onomasticon Pollucis vocabularii index in latinum tralatus, ut vel graece nescientibus nota sint Folio.

Venice April 1502. USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 5,120.00
235 LUCIANO DI SAMOSATA. 120-192 B.C.

De Veris Narrationibus commentarii. Basel: Valentino Curione

1524 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,536.00
236 LUTHER, MARTIN. 1483-1546.

Autograph letter signed ("Martinus Luther") to his friend the theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"),

Wittenberg, USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 Not Sold
237 LLWYD, HUMPHREY. 1527-1568.

The Breviary of Britayne.

London 1573 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,072.00
238 CHARLES I. 1600-1649.

Letter Signed and subscribed ("Vostre tresaffectionne Frere/ Charles R"), possibly to his brother-in-law, Frederick of Bohemia,

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,632.00
239 CHARLES I. 1600-1649.

Document Signed ("Charles R" at head), coldly dismissing Prince Rupert from his service and revoking all his military commands,

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,600.00
240 CHARLES II. 1630-1685.

Letter Signed and subscribed ("("Your assured frind/ Charles R"), to Gilbert Clerk (or Clerke) of "Pityother",

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,328.00
241 FISCHER VON ERLACH, JOHANN BERNHARD. 1656-1723.

Entwurff einer Historischen Architectur, in Abbilding Unterschiedener Beruhmten Gebaude.

Vienna 1721 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
242 NEWTON, ISAAC 1643-1727.

Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica...Editio tertia aucta & emendata

London 1726 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 10,240.00
243

Novum Testamentum Graecum.

Amsterdam 1752 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 768.00
244 VAN DER HORST, TILEMAN FL. 1725-1749 AND POLLEY, JACOB.

Theatrum Machinarum Universale; of Keurige Verzameling van verscheide grote en zeer fraaie Waterwerken, Schustsluizen, Waterkeringen, Ophaalen Draaibruggen

Amsterdam 1757-1774. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
245

Picturae Etruscorum In Vasculis nunc primum in unum collectae.

Rome 1767-1775. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,096.00
246 SMITH, ADAM. 1723-1790

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

London 1778 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 17,920.00
247 MALTHUS, THOMAS ROBERT. 1766-1834.

Autograph Letter Signed ("T. Robt Malthus") to William Roscoe on Napoleon and the prospects of peace with France,

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
248 MALTHUS, THOMAS ROBERT. 1766-1834.

Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to economist Nassau Senior on wealth, labor and Adam Smith,

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
249 MACKAY, CHARLES. 1814-1889.

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions.

London 1841 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,328.00
250 CUNNINGHAM, ROBERT O. 1841-1918.

Notes on the Natural History of the Strait of Magellan and West Coast of Patagonia Made During the Voyage of the H.M.S. Nassau in the Years 1866, 67, 68, & 69.

Edinburgh 1871 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
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