Bonhams Books & Manuscripts 2007
Published December 30th, 2007
In 2007 Bonham’s Books & Manuscripts sales, a first edition, presentation copy of John Steinbeck’s 1939 masterpiece The Grapes of Wrath brought $47,800, setting a new at-auction world record.
In October, Sir Isaac Newton’s Optikcks; or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light set a luminous world auction record at $90,000.
The department’s December sale again made history when a Declaration of Independence printed on vellum by Benjamin Owen Tyler more than tripled its estimate to achieve $60,000.
