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Poesie Toscane inscribed by Percy Shelley to Claire Clairmont
Rare Percy Bysshe Shelley Presentation Inscription at Bonhams
March 16, 2022
London – The 19th century poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) didn’t just preach free love, communal living and the rights of women – he also walked the talk.
On the Origin of Species
World Auction Record for Presentation Copy of Darwin’s “Origin” at Bonhams
June 17, 2019
New York – A fine first edition, early presentation copy of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection sold for $500,075, a world auction record for a presenta
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) in his later years.
First Edition, Presentation Copy of Darwin’s “Origin of Species” Heads to Auction
June 3, 2019
New York – On June 13, Bonhams sale of Fine Books and Manuscripts will be highlighted by a fine first edition, early presentation copy of Charl
Private Collection Launches Heritage Auctions' Rare Books Sale to $2.1+ Million
March 12, 2018
Inscribed "Gone With the Wind" in Vivien Leigh's Collection at Sotheby's
July 17, 2017
At Bonhams: Orwell's Copy of "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" Presented to a Bookseller
February 24, 2017
Newton's "Principia" in Deluxe Binding Expected to Reach $1 Million
December 7, 2016
Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica (Prinicipia for short) is a hallmark book in the history of science, "perhaps the greatest intellectual stride that
First Edition of "Das Kapital" Sets World Record at Bonhams
June 16, 2016
Presentation First Edition of Hemingway’s “Green Hills of Africa” at AntiquarianAuctions #46
September 28, 2015
“The Importance of Being Earnest” Given by Wilde to Jailor Sells for $93,000 at Bonhams
June 18, 2014
A specially printed copy of The Importance of Being Earnest inscribed by Oscar Wilde to Major James Nelson, the Governor of Reading Gaol during the writer’s term of imprisonment there sold for £55,