Auction Reports

Bonhams

Auction Info

Auction Name
Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana
Auction Date
12/18/2025 - 12/18/2025
Sale Number
#31200
Total Lots
261
Sold Lots
224.0
Lots Sold
85.82%
Unsold Lots
37
Total Sales (USD)
1,045,700.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
551,300.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
842,700.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
949,900.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
1,446,000.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
72.32%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
251 WAGNER, RICHARD. 1813-1883.

Autograph Manuscript in German, 7 1/2 pages,

1874-1875, USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 40,960.00
168 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. 1899-1961.

A Farewell to Arms.

1929 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 38,400.00
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
207 SAINT-EXUPERY, ANTOINE DE. 1900-1944.

Le Petit Prince.

1943 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 30,720.00
158 BURNS, ROBERT. 1759-1796.

Autograph Manuscript Poem, "Sketch. NewYearDay. To Mrs. Dunlop,"

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 28,160.00
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
90 LAFAYETTE, GILBERT DE MOTIER, MARQUIS DE. 1757-1834.

Autograph Letter Signed ("Lafayette") to Col Joseph Vose unnamed giving marching orders to head for Trenton where they will reunite,

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 21,760.00
164 GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON. 1749-1832.

Die Leiden des jungen Werthers.

1774 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 21,760.00
208 SAINT-EXUPERY, ANTOINE DE. 1900-1944.

The Little Prince.

1943 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 21,760.00
178 KING, STEPHEN. b. 1947.

A complete set of signed limited first editions of King's The Dark Tower series including:

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 20,480.00
119 THUCYDIDES. ca 460-400 BCE.

History of the Peloponnesian War.

1930 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 20,480.00
254 EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955.

Autograph letter signed ("Albert") to Hans Albert Einstein, Berlin, 21 January 1928. On physics and relativity.

21 January 1928 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 19,200.00
246 SMITH, ADAM. 1723-1790

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

1778 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 17,920.00
88 JONES, JOHN. 1729-1791.

Plain Concise Practical Remarks on the Treatment of Wounds and Fractures.

1776 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 17,920.00
219 WILDE, OSCAR. 1854-1900.

Autograph Manuscript, being a partial draft of an untitled prose-poem or tale: "Every morning the Poet person went out of the gate of the city, and went into the waste land and wandered through it..."

USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 16,640.00
114

Quatre Histoires de Blanc et Noir.

1926 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 16,640.00
98 PRANG, LOUIS. 1824-1909; HOMER, WINSLOW. 1836-1910. et al.

American Card Album.

1864 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 15,360.00
199 NABOKOV, VLADIMIR. 1899-1977; NABOKOV, VERA. 1902-1991.

Archive of 28 typed letters signed or autograph notes signed ("V." or "V. and V." or "Vera" and "Volodya") to Peter and Joan De Peterson

USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 14,080.00
95 ADAMS, JOHN. 1735-1826.

Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont, whose father had provided Adams and Benjamin Franklin lodging in Passy at the Hotel Valentinois during the crucial years of the Revolutionary War,

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 14,080.00
215 STEIG, WILLIAM. 1907-2003.

58 original ink and wash drawings for About People, each individually titled by the artist in pencil with printers' notes on versos,

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 12,800.00

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