Bonhams: London: Espionage. Fact & Fiction, 32384, London, New Bond Street

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 28, 2026 - May 28, 2026
Page Size: 28 items in 2 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

Invade Mecum; Through-way Town Plans of France

1943-1944; 1944 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,816.00
2 Aylen Ian C.

Walterwerke, Kiel. History of the occupation of the Allies

1945 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
3

Report of Second Visit to Germany re Submarine Construction

1945 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
4 Marshall Bruce; Tickell Jerrard; Churchill Peter; Rigby Francoise; Martelli George; Neave Airey; Braddon Russell; Wheatley Dennis

10 Books, including: The White Rabbit

1952; 1949; 1953; 1954; 1960; 1954; 1956; 1959 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,280.00
5

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1939 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
6

Rear Window

1954 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 3,328.00
7

North by Northwest

Belgium 1959 GBP 400.00 - 500.00 GBP 332.80
8 Kipling Rudyard; Austen Jane

Limits and Renewals; Sense and Sensibility

1932; c.1930-40 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,152.00
9 Connery Sean

Sean Connery: Two early career handwritten letters

1953-1954 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,920.00
10 Fleming Ian

Dr. No

1958 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,408.00
11 Fleming Ian

Goldfinger

1959 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,536.00
12

Goldfinger

1964 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,280.00
13 Fleming Ian

Thunderball

1961 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 537.60
14

Thunderball

1965 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
15 Fleming Ian

The Spy Who Loved Me

1962 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 960.00
16 Fleming Ian

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

1963 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 409.60
17 Fleming Ian

You Only Live Twice

1964 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 409.60
18 McCarthy Frank

You Only Live Twice

1967 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
21

This Gun for Hire

France 1942 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,216.00
22

From Russia with Love

1963 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
23 Fleming Ian

The Man with the Golden Gun

1965 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 409.60
24

The Man with the Golden Gun

Germany 1974 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,408.00
25 McGinnis Robert E.

Diamonds Are Forever

1971 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
26 Moore Roger

Moonraker

1979 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
27 Fleming Ian

The Complete Works

2008 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 25,600.00
  • Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Queen Anne's War] Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York Accomplished to Queen Anne. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Mormonism] A Unique Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words Offered to His Congregation, the Day Before his Violent Death, 1844. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] [Mantle, Mickey] Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Declaration of Independence] One of the First Printed Announcements of American Independence, Subscriber Ebenezer Hazard's Copy, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000/15,000
    Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776! $15,000/25,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [War of 1812] "We Have Met the Enemy and They are Ours": The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry is Appointed Master Commandant in the United States Navy, 1812. $40,000/60,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Star-Spangled Banner] Eyewitness Account of the Shelling of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812, in a Manuscript Logbook from the HMS Trave, Present at the Battles of Baltimore and New Orleans, 1814-16. $60,000/80,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Thomas Jefferson at the Birth of a New Nation: An Important Letter Carried by a Jewish Patriot Communicating the Definitive Treaty of Paris, January 16, 1784. $100,000/200,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Colonial America] [Plymouth Colony] Plymouth Colony Seeks a Royal Charter: A Rare and Important Plymouth Colony Document, 1690/91. $6,000/9,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Selections from The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin
    Live Sale 24 June
    Sotheby’s, June 24: (Benjamin Franklin). The founding—and funding—of the Pennsylvania Hospital. $150,000 to $200,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, "the Day of the Declaration of Independence is everywhere annually celebrated”. $80,000 to $120,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, “probably the most fundamental thing ever done in the field of electricity”. $75,000 to $125,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin. One of Franklin's very earliest surviving letters. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Roger More and Benjamin Franklin. The only complete copy known of Poor Roger. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: John Jerman. The American Almanack ... for 1731 — the only known copy in private hands. $25,000 to $35,000.