Bonhams: Fine Books and Manuscripts, 30730, London, New Bond Street

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Auction Report
Auction Date
June 19, 2025 - June 19, 2025
Page Size: 193 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
27 MONTGOMERY (ROBERT, editor)

Tallis's Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World,

1851 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,432.00
28 MUNSTER (SEBASTIAN)

Tabula orientalis regionis, Moderna Europae Descriptio; Ptolemaisch General Tafel,

Basel c. 1550 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,280.00
29 COVENS (JEAN) AND CORNEILLE MORTIER.

Les Provinces Confederees du Pais-Bas avec les Terres adjacentes...,

c.1750 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 512.00
30

Caricature "octopus" map of Europe,

Iran c.1880 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 12,800.00
31 ROCQUE (JOHN)

A Topographical Map of the County of Surrey, first state,

1765 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,024.00
32 DE WIT (FREDERICK)

Terra nova, ac Maris Tractus circa Novam Franciam, Angliam, Belgium, Venezuelam Novam Andalusiam, Guianam et Brasiliam

Amsterdam c.1715 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 768.00
33 APIANUS (PETRUS)

Libro de la Cosmographia,

Antwerp 1548 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 768.00
34 ELZEVIER PRESS - PETITES REPUBLIQUES

Complete series 1626-1649; together with 13 contemporary Republiques by other publishers (57)

GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 4,608.00
35

Psalter, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM,

Northern Italy [Parma?] late fifteenth century GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 6,144.00
36

Coronation of the Virgin,

Northern France c.1500 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 832.00
37

Illuminated manuscript leaf, from a Missal,

Northern Europe late fifteenth century GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 435.20
38 TERENTIUS AFER (PUBLIUS)

Comoediae Commentaries by Aelius Donatus and Guido Juvenalis. Edited by Jodocus Badius Ascensius,

Colophon] Lyons 1493 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 12,160.00
39 AESOP

Fables with His Life: in English, French and Latin,

1687 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
40 AESOP

Fables,

1666 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,152.00
41

Collection of over 100 autograph letters and autograph free fronts addressed primarily to members of the Strutt and Le Marchant families,

eighteenth and nineteenth centuries GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 5,376.00
42 AUSTEN (JANE)

Two pages of an autograph letter to her niece Caroline Austen,

1816 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 102,000.00
43 [AUSTEN (JANE)]

Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion. By the Author of "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield-Park," &c. With a Biographical Notice of the Author, 4 vol., FIRST EDITION,

1818 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 8,960.00
44 AUSTEN (JANE)

Pride and Prejudice... Illustrations by Hugh Thompson, ONE OF 250 LARGE PAPER COPIES,

1894 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,664.00
45 AUSTEN (JANE)

Pride and Prejudice... with Illustrations by Hugh Thomson,

1894 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,304.00
46 BOSWELL (JAMES)

The Life of Samuel Johnson, FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE,

1791 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
47 BOSWELL (JAMES)

The Principal Corrections and Additions to the First Edition of Mr. Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson, FIRST EDITION,

1793 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 704.00
48 BRAITHWAITE (RICHARD)

The English Gentlewoman, FIRST EDITION,

1631-3 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
49 BROWNING (ROBERT)

Two autograph letters signed, to Lady Belper and Lord Belper, 19 Warwick Crescent,

1864 and 1878 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 832.00
50 BYRON (GEORGE GORDON, LORD)

Hours of Idleness, a Series of Poems, Original and Translated, FIRST EDITION, Newark, Printed and Sold by S. and J. Ridge,

1807 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,664.00
51 BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD)

Autograph manuscript of his poem "Farewell to Malta"

1811 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 33,280.00
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