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Bonhams

Auction Info

Auction Name
Fine Books and Manuscripts
Auction Date
04/08/2025 - 04/08/2025
Sale Number
#30806
Total Lots
228
Sold Lots
196
Lots Sold
85.96%
Unsold Lots
32
Total Sales (USD)
1,440,310.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
798,000.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
1,233,400.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
1,116,100.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
1,719,800.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
83.75%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
25 ARISTOTLE. 384-322 B.C.E.

Politica. Oeconomica.

1469 USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 127,500.00
206 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. 1899-1961.

Three Stories & Ten Poems.

1923 USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 USD 70,350.00
152 JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941.

Ulysses.

1922 [1923]. USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 58,880.00
161 JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941.

Typed Manuscript Annotated with Joyce's autograph corrections and additions, being portions of Book I, Chapters 3 & 4

USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 48,640.00
124 BUNYAN, JOHN. 1628-1688.

The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which is to Come....

1744 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 38,400.00
133

Comprising 7 presentation copies, 14 autograph letters 10 of which are signed, 3 autograph postcards signed, 2 typed postcards (one signed with his holograph initials, one signed in type), 5 typed letters signed, and 2 signed in type:

USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 38,400.00
162 JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941.

Work in Progress. Volume I.

1927 [1928]. USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 35,840.00
123 SCHULZ, CHARLES. 1922-2000.

Original 8-panel Sunday comic strip, pen and ink and pencil on artist board,

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 35,840.00
88 [INTOLERABLE ACTS.]

An Act for the better regulating the Government of the Province of the Massachusett's Bay, in New-England.

1774 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 33,280.00
180 JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941.

Autograph Letter Signed ("James Joyce"), to Niall Sheridan regarding O'Brien's and Beckett's ,

USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 33,280.00
87 TOWNSEND ACTS.

Manuscript Document signed by more than 60 townspeople including both men and women of Newburyport, Massachusetts, agreeing to refuse to sell, buy or consume Bohea or Indian Tea ","

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 30,720.00
54 JEFFERYS, THOMAS.

The West-India Atlas: or, A Compendious Description of the West-Indies.

1780-[1782]. USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 30,720.00
122 SCHULZ, CHARLES. 1922-2000.

Original 8-panel Sunday comic strip, pen and ink and pencil on artist board,

USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 28,160.00
27 GRAUNT, JOHN. 1620-1674.

Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index and made upon the bills of mortality....

1662 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 28,160.00
89 AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

Printed broadsheet, , From Monday, May 29, to Tuesday, May 30, 1775, No.

[1775] USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 25,600.00
132 [GANDHI MOHANDAS K. 1869-1948.]

Gandhiji: His Life and Work.

1944 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 24,320.00
108 [KLIMT, GUSTAV. 1862-1918.]

Gustav Klimt, Eine Nachlese.

[1946]. USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 24,320.00
139 JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941.

The Holy Office.

1905 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 24,320.00
155 JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941.

Ulysses.

1936 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 21,760.00
140 JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941.

Chamber Music.

[1907]. USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 21,760.00

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