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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 355 | Chippendale Thomas | The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director |
London | 1762 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,792.00 |
| 356 | Ince William; Mayhew John | The Universal System of Household Furniture |
London | 1762-1765 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 4,352.00 |
| 357 | Wildman Thomas; Keys John | 2 Books, including: A Treatise on the Management of Bees |
London | 1768; 1780 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 960.00 |
| 358 | Hawkesworth John; Cook James; King James | Cook's Voyages |
London | 1773-1784 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 12,160.00 |
| 359 | Reynolds Joshua | Letter to Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni |
London | 1776 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 640.00 |
| 360 | La Perouse Jean-Francois Galaup de | A Voyage Round the World |
London | 1799 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 409.60 |
| 361 | Repton Humphry | Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening |
London | 1803 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 362 | Rowlandson Thomas; Raspe R.E.; Combe William | 3 Books, including: Surprising Adventures of the renowned Baron Munchausen |
London | 1811; 1809; 1815 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 486.40 |
| 363 | Singer Samuel Weller 1783–1858 | Researches into the History of Playing Cards |
London | 1816 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,088.00 |
| 364 | Combe William 1742–1823 | A History of Madeira |
London | 1821; 1859 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 365 | Roy Rajah Rammohun 1772-1833 | Translation of Several Principal Books, Passages, and Texts of the Veds, and of Some Controversial Works on Brahmunical Theology |
London | 1832 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,024.00 |
| 366 | Lear Edward 1812–1888 | Autograph Letter |
London | c. 1853 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 2,560.00 |
| 367 | Blume Karl Ludwig 1796-1862 | Collection des Orchidees les plus remarquables De L'Archipel Indien et Du Japon |
Amsterdam | 1858 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 2,560.00 |
| 368 | A Comprehensive Survey Portfolio of Southern India, the Madras Presidency, and Indian Life |
Madras | circa 1875 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,600.00 | USD 4,352.00 | |
| 369 | Brahms Johannes 1833-1897 | Autograph Postcard Signed |
Bonigen | 1988 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,024.00 |
| 370 | Marx Karl 1818-1883; Engels Friedrich 1820-1895 | Kapital: kritika politicke ekonomie |
Prague | 1913; 1925-1930 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,024.00 |
| 370A | Marx Karl; Engels Friedrich | Det kommunistiske Manifest; Kapitalen; Familjens, Privatejendommens of Statens Oprindelse |
Copenhagen | 1885 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 371 | 2 Books, including: Report of the Thirtieth Indian National Congress |
Bombay | 1916 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 7,680.00 | |
| 372 | Tagore Rabindranath 1861-1941 | Gitanjali and Fruit-Gathering |
New York | [1918] | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,280.00 |
| 373 | Einstein Albert | 2 Items, including: Clipped Signature |
London | [1924] | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 374 | Polonskii Vyacheslav | Russkii Revolyutsionnyi Plakat |
Moscow | 1925 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 375 | Aesop; Helvatius Claude-Adrien; Butler Samuel; Ramsay | 5 Books, including: Select Fables of Esop and other Fabulists |
Birmingham; London | 1759; 1791; 1728; 1810 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 376 | Blunt Wilfrid Scawen 1840-1922 | The Love-Lyrics & Songs of Proteus |
Hammersmith | 1892 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 2,432.00 |
| 377 | Blunt Wilfrid Scawen 1840-1922 | The Love-Lyrics & Songs of Proteus |
Hammersmith | 1892 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,432.00 |
| 378 | Morris William | The Defence Of Guenevere And Other Poems |
Hammersmith | 1892 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,048.00 |
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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.