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Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books
Now through Nov. 19

University Archives, Nov. 19:
Lot 308 - Bob Dylan Handwritten & Signed Lyrics to "Just Like a Woman" With Jeff Rosen & JSA Authentication

University Archives, Nov. 19:
Lot 455 - Isaac Newton Admiration For Judaism & Moral Continuity With Christianity! 350+ Words in his Hand - Extraordinary Content!

University Archives, Nov. 19:
Lot 219 - 371g Moon Meteorite, Incredible Find - Laâyoune 002

University Archives
Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books
Now through Nov. 19

University Archives, Nov. 19:
Lot 448 - Scarce Einstein AM on Unified Field Theory, 180+ Words & 11 Equations in His Hand! From His Published Article, "A Generalization of the Relativistic Theory of Gravitation"

University Archives, Nov. 19:
Lot 159 - Woodrow Wilson Baseball Signed for WWI Red Cross Fundraiser, Ex. Forbes & PSA Authentic - Finest Known!

University Archives, Nov. 19:
Lot 84 - Lee Harvey Oswald ALS to Brother, Trying Desperately to Get out of Russia! Highly Important

University Archives
Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books
Now through Nov. 19

University Archives, Nov. 19:
Lot 152 - George Washington Signed Discharge for MA Soldier Whose Regiment Was at Bunker Hill!

University Archives, Nov. 19:
Lot 88 - Abraham Lincoln Fully Signed Military Appointment for Mexican War Vet & Respected Cavalryman

University Archives, Nov. 19:
Lot 188 - Apollo XI Astronauts & Their Wives Signed Photo, Plus Crew Signed Cover, From Apollo XI Presidential Goodwill Tour Era, Pre-Cert Zarelli

University Archives
Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books
Now through Nov. 19

University Archives, Nov. 19:
Lot 265 - Martin Luther King, Jr. TLS Re: "Stride Toward Freedom" Film Rights To Literary Agent Marie Rodell

University Archives, Nov. 19:
Lot 324 - John Lennon Signed Apple Records Check, PSA GEM MT 10! Possibly Finest Known

University Archives, Nov. 19:
Lot 79 - John & Jacqueline Kennedy Signed WH 1963 Christmas Gift Inscribed to Close Friend Joan Braden, PSA Authentic
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Ketterer Rare Books
Auction November 24th

Ketterer, Nov. 24: M. Waldseemüller, Ptolemaeus auctus restitutus, 1520. Est: € 250,000

Ketterer, Nov. 24: I. Newton, Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, 1687. Est: € 100,000

Ketterer, Nov. 24: L. Feininger, Collection of 33 comic strips, 1906-1907. Est: € 8,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction November 24th

Ketterer, Nov. 24:H. Schedel, Liber chronicarum, 1493. Est: € 30,000

Ketterer, Nov. 24: K. Bodmer, Personal Sketchbook with ca. 80 pencil drawings. Est: € 25,000

Ketterer, Nov. 24: Collection of 18 Bauhaus postcards “Bauhaus-Ausstellung Weimar 1923.“ Est: € 40,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction November 24th

Ketterer, Nov. 24: Latin Book of hours on vellum, 1505. Est: € 12,000

Ketterer, Nov. 24: G. Shaw & F. P. Nodder, Vivarium naturae, 1789-1813. Est: € 10,000

Ketterer, Nov. 24: A. de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943. Est: € 6,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction November 24th

Ketterer, Nov. 24: Ibn Butlan, Tacuini sanitatis, 1531. Est: € 8,000

Ketterer, Nov. 24: H. Hesse, Casa Camuzzi in Montagnola, 1927. Est: € 12,000

Ketterer, Nov. 24: Pop Art portfolio Reality & Paradoxes, 1973. Est: € 12,000
Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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Auction Info

Auction Name: The Library of John and Suzanne Bonham
Auction Date: 10/30/2025 - 10/30/2025
Sale Number: #1189
Total Lots: 250
Sold Lots: 202
Lots Sold: 80.80%
Unsold Lots: 48

Total Sales (GBP): 220,116.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 144,380.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 206,220.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 237,880.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 336,220.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 65.47%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
147	Lewis (Captain Meriwether) & Captain William Clarke	North America.- Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and across the American Continent	1814	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	GBP 17,780.00
207	Shackleton (Ernest H.)	Polar.- The South Polar Times	1907-14 & 2010	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	GBP 10,160.00
198	[Robinson (Francis Whitfield)]	Australia.- A 360-degree photograph panorama of Sydney (November 1885)	12th November 2019	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	GBP 6,350.00
71	Coryate (Thomas)	Europe.- Coryats Crudities: Hastily gobled up in five months travells	1611	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	GBP 6,350.00
180	Oxley (John)	Australia.- Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales	1820	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	GBP 6,350.00
146	Leichhardt (Dr. Ludwig)	Australia.- Journal of an Overland Expedition to Australia, from Moreton Bay to Port Essington	1847	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	GBP 6,350.00
220	Sturt (Captain Charles)	Australia.- Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia	1849	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 5,080.00
6	Anonymous photographer (Australian, circa 1890s)	Australia.- Gold mining.- Kalgoorie Gold Mines Western Australia	[probably circa 1890s]	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 4,826.00
15	Barrow (John)	China.- Travels in China	1804	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 4,064.00
29	Bligh (William)	Voyages.- A Voyage to the South Sea	1792	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 3,810.00
118	Hill (M.S., active Sydney Australia 1880s)	Australia.- The City of Sydney	1888	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 3,810.00
111	Hacke (William, editor)	Voyages.- A Collection of Original Voyages: I. Capt. Cowley's Voyage Round the Globe	1699	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 3,556.00
187	Pease (A. E.)	Africa.- Big Game Hunting.- Travel & Sport in Africa	1902	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 3,302.00
101	Frejus (Roland de)	Africa.- The Relation of a Voyage made into Mauritania, in Africk ... to Muley Arxid King of Tafiletta, &c.	1671	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 3,302.00
241	Webb (Rev. Arthur J.)	South Pacific Ocean.- Fiji.- The History of Fiji	1885	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	GBP 3,048.00
72	[Crouch (Nathaniel)], "R, B,"	Africa.- A View of the English Acquisitions in Guinea, and the East-Indies ...with a Description of the Isle of St.Helena...		GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 2,794.00
231	Wood (Herbert)	Central Asia.- The Shores of Lake Aral	1876	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 2,540.00
169	Murray (George)	Polar.- The Antarctic Manual for the use of the Expedition of 1901	1901	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,540.00
91	Ellis (Henry)	China.- Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China	1817	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 2,540.00
41	Bryden (H. Anderson)	Big Game Hunting.- Great and Small Game of Africa	1899	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,413.00

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Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Presentation Copy of a Whitman "Holy Grail." Whitman, Walt. $10,000-$15,000.

Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Endymion in Original Boards. Keats, John. $8,000-

Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Association Copy of the Privately Printed Edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Potter, Beatrix. $8,000-$12,000

Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Christina Rossetti's Own Copy of Her First Book. Rossetti, Christina G. $8,000-$12,000

Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: The Borden Copy of The Life of Merlin in an Elaborate Binding by Riviere. Heywood, Thomas, Translator. $6,000-$8,000

Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Arion Press. Whitman, Walt, Leaves of Grass. $4,000-$6,000

Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Call It Sleep in the First State Jacket. Roth, Henry. $2,000-$3,000

Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Steinbeck's Best-Known Work. Steinbeck, John. $2,000-$3,000

Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: A Fine Jewelled Binding Signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Sangorski, Francis. $40,000-$60,000

Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter: A Complete Set of First Editions. Potter, Beatrix. $2,000-$3,000

Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Kelmscott Shelley. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical Works. $3,000-$5,000

Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Inscribed by Martin Luther King Jr. King, Martin Luther, Jr. $3,000-$5,000
Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 75. The Second Printed Map of the North American Continent - Full Contemporary Color (1593) Est. $35,000 - $40,000

Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 37. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $16,000 - $18,000

Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 104. Important Revolutionary War Plan of Battle of Quebec in Contemporary Color (1776) Est. $4,000 - $4,750

Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 43. Mercator's Map of the North Pole - the First Printed Map Devoted to the Arctic (1606) Est. $2,750 - $3,500

Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 237. Rare and Striking Bird's-Eye View of Lawrence, Kansas (1880) Est. $2,000 - $2,500

Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 10. Rare Map from Atlas Maior with Representations of the Seasons in Contemporary Color (1662) Est. $14,000 - $17,000

Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 374. Bunting's Map of Europe Depicted as the Queen of the World (1589) Est. $2,000 - $2,400

Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 590. Willem Blaeu's Magnificent Carte-a-Figures Map of Asia (1634) Est. $2,750 - $3,500

Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 647. The Earliest and Most Decorative Map of the East Coast of Africa (1596) Est. $3,000 - $3,750

Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 710. Ruscelli's Complete, Third Edition Atlas with 65 Maps (1574) Est. $9,500 - $11,000

Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 696. Superb Hand-Colored Image of the Adoration of the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950
Sotheby’s
Book Week
November & December

Sotheby’s, Nov. 6-20: Tory, Geoffroy. L'Art et science de la vraye proportion des Lettres. Paris 1549. Seconde édition. In-8. Reliure de P.L. Martin. €7,000 to €9,000.

Sotheby’s, Nov. 6-20: Gauguin, Paul. Lettre autographe signée à son ami Émile Bernard. [Le Pouldu août 1889]. Illustrée d'un croquis original. €10,000 to €15,000.

Sotheby’s, Nov. 6-20: [Portulan — Joan Martines, attribué à]. Carte portulan de la côte atlantique de l'Amérique du Sud. [Messine, vers 1570-1591.] €15,000 to €20,000.

Sotheby’s, Nov. 6-20: Zamora, Alonso de. Historia de la provincia de San Antonio del nuevo reyno de Granada... Barcelone, 1701. €10,000 to €15,000.

Sotheby’s, Nov. 6-20: [Chastenet de Puységur, Antoine]. Détail sur la navigation aux côtes de Saint-Domingue... Paris, 1787. €5,000 to €7,000.
Freeman’s, Nov. 13: HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Three Stories and Ten Poems. First edition, inscribed to his cousin, Ruth White Lowry. $60,000-80,000

Freeman’s, Nov. 13: CURTIS, Edward S. The North American Indian... Portfolio and two text volumes. $20,000-30,000

Freeman’s, Nov. 13: A Superb Illuminated Manuscript of Tennyson’s Le Morte d'Arthur, ca. 1910, by Alberto Sangorksi and in an exceptional Riviere binding. $40,000-50,000

Freeman’s, Nov. 13: A Remarkable Epistle from Robert Burns to Frances Dunlop, containing all lines of the first version of "Written in Friars Carse Hermitage" and 12 lines of the first version of "First Epistle to Robert Graham Esq." $20,000-30,000

Freeman’s, Nov. 13: FAULKNER, William. Go Down, Moses. First edition, limited issue, one of 100 copies signed by Faulkner. $10,000-15,000

Freeman’s, Nov. 13: MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. Of Human Bondage. First English edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Maugham, in the rare suppressed dust-jacket. $40,000-50,000

Freeman’s, Nov. 13: An Excessively Rare First Issue and Previously Unrecorded Copy of Shakespeare’s Third Folio. $40,000-60,000

Freeman’s, Nov. 13: AUDUBON, John James. Louisiana Heron, Ardea Ludoviciana. (Plate CCXVII). $30,000-40,000

Freeman’s, Nov. 13: HERBERT, Frank. Dune, 1965. First edition, inscribed by Herbert. $8,000-12,000