Bonhams: Fine Books & Manuscripts Including Highlights from Jeremy Norman, History of Science and Technology, 31882, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 24, 2026 - June 24, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 200 | Alexander of Tralles | Practica Alexandri yatros grecium expositione glose interlinearis Jacobi de partibus et Januensis in margine posite |
Lyon | 1504 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 10,240.00 |
| 201 | Tacitus Publius Cornelius | P. Cornelii Taciti libri quinque noviter in venti atque cum reliquis eius operibus editi |
Milan | 1517 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 202 | Paul of Aegina | De medica materia libri septem |
Venice | 1532 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 203 | Fuchs Leonart | De historia stirpium |
Basel | 1542 | USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 19,200.00 |
| 204 | Adamantius; Cocles Bartolommeo della Rocca; George of Trebizond | Physiognomie & chiromantiae compendium |
Basel; Strasbourg; Cologne | 1544; 1536 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,560.00 |
| 205 | Geminus Thomas | Compendiosa totius anatomie delineatio, aere exarata |
London | 1545 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 12,800.00 |
| 206 | Werner Johann | Canones sicut brevissimi, ita etiam doctissimi, complectentes praecepta & observationes de mutatione aurae |
Nuremberg | 1546 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 207 | Servetus Michael; Calvin John | Defensio orthodoxae fidei de sacra Trinitate, contra prodigiousos errores Michaelis Serveti |
Geneva | 1554 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,840.00 |
| 208 | Henerus Renatus | Adversus Iacobi Sylvii depulsionum anatomicarum calumnias, pro Andrea Vesalio apologia |
Venice | 1555 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 5,376.00 |
| 209 | Amatus Lusitanus | Curationum medicinalium centuriae quatuor |
Basel | 1556 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 3,328.00 |
| 210 | Dalechamps Jacques | Chirurgie francoise |
Lyons | 1569 | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 8,320.00 |
| 211 | Fabrici 1537-1619 | De venarum ostiolis |
Padua | 1603 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 35,840.00 |
| 212 | Bacon Francis 1561-1620 | Instauratio magna |
London | 1620 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 24,320.00 |
| 213 | Bacon Francis 1561-1626 | Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning or the Parititions of Sciences |
Oxford | 1640 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,840.00 |
| 214 | Meekeren Job Janszoon van 1611-66 | Heel- en geneeskonstige aanmerkingen |
Amsterdam | 1668 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,560.00 |
| 215 | Kerckring Theodor 1640-93 | Spicilegium anatomicum |
Amsterdam | 1670 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 4,608.00 |
| 216 | Grew Nehemiah 1641-1712 | The anatomy of vegetables begun, with a general account of vegetation founded thereon |
London | 1672 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 4,352.00 |
| 217 | Bellini Lorenzo | De urinis et pulsibus de missione sanguinis de febribus de morbis capitis, et pectoris |
Bologna | 1683 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,840.00 |
| 219 | Allard Carel 1648-1709 | Planisphaerium Terrestre Sive Terrarum Orbis, Planisphaerice Constructi Repraesentatio Quintuplex |
Amsterdam | [1696] | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,920.00 |
| 220 | Cant Arent | Impetus primi anatomici ex lustratis cadaveribus nati, quos propria consignavit manu |
Leiden | 1721 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 221 | Hales Stephen (1677-1761) | 2 Books, including: Vegetable staticks |
London | 1727; 1733 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 222 | Franklin Benjamin (1706-1790) | A letter of Benjamin Franklin, Esq; to Mr. Peter Collinson, F.R.S. concerning an electrical kite |
London | 1734-1764 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 223 | Euler Leonhard (1707-1783) | Methodus inveniendi lineas curvas maximi minimive proprietate gaudentes, sive solutio problematis isoperimetrici latissimo sensu accepti |
Lausanne; Geneva | 1744 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 5,632.00 |
| 224 | Daviel Jacques (1696-1752) | Lettre de M. Daviel, conseiller, chirurgien ordinaire du roi en survivance & par quartier, a M. de Joyeuse |
Paris | 1748 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 225 | Nollet Jean-Antoine (1700-1770) | Autograph manuscript signed |
Paris | 1750 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | Not Sold |
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Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000. -
Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000 -
Freeman’s, June 30. Thomas Jefferson’s “Birth of the New Nation” letter, carried to Paris with the Treaty of Peace, by a Jewish patriot. $100,000-200,000.Freeman’s, June 30. “The rockets’ red glare.” A British midshipman’s log recording the bombardment of Fort McHenry. $60,000-80,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry Commission signed by James Madison, 1812. $40,000-60,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776. $15,000-25,000.Freeman’s, June 30. One of the Earliest Printed Announcements of American Independence, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000-15,000.Freeman’s, June 30. "The Two Big Guns of the N.Y. Yanks": A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. A Unique Contemporary Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words to His Followers, the Day Before his Violent Death. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The State of Minnesota Officially Certifies the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution Of the United States. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York to Queen Anne from the Colony of New York. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. 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. A Call to Arms in the Months Following the Declaration of Independence: An Early Continental Army Recruitment Poster. $6,000-9,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Samuel Jones, the Statesman Behind the Newly Discovered "Jones Declaration": His Annotated Set Used in His Working Law Library. $6,000-9,000.