• Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: These are the Times that Try Men's Souls, Thomas Paine. $80,000-$120,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Manuscrpit from Aboard The Discovery, Signed by George Vancouver. $80,000-$120,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Exceedingly Rare Holograph Fragment of James Cook's Logbook. $80,000-$120,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Colonial America: The Collection of William Nesheim: Thomas Lechford: Important First-Hand Account of Life in New England. $40,000-$60,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: The First Expanded Edition of Common Sense, Thomas Paine. $30,000-$50,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: California! The Gold Rush Collection of Bruce Maclin: Album of Exceptional California Lettersheets. $20,000-$30,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: California! The Gold Rush Collection of Bruce Maclin: An Exceptional Group of Gold Rush Letters, c. 1849-1850. $20,000-$30,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Colonial America: The Collection of William Nesheim: Mather's King Phillips War Tract 1639-1723. $15,000-$25,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Colonial America: The Collection of William Nesheim: The First Contemporaneous Account of the Salem Witch Trials, Cotton Mather. $15,000-$25,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Poor Richard's Almanack 1749, Benjamin Franklin. $15,000-$20,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: California! The Gold Rush Collection of Bruce Maclin: Fruits of Mormonism by Nelson Slater. $15,000-$25,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: California! The Gold Rush Collection of Bruce Maclin, Across the Plains in '49 by Emanuel Goughnour. $12,000-$18,000
  • Swann Auction Galleries
    Fine Books
    October 23, 2025
    Swann, Oct. 23: Lot 344: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Author's Album Containing Retained Copies of Letters, January 1951-June 1956.
    Swann, Oct. 23: Lot 34: Tycho Brahe, Epistolarum Astronomicarum Libri, first edition, 1610.
    Swann, Oct. 23: Lot 370: Francesca Woodman, Some Disordered Interior Geometries, Pittsburgh: Synapse Visual Arts Press, 1981.
    Swann Auction Galleries
    Fine Books
    October 23, 2025
    Swann, Oct. 23: Lot 179: Claudius Ptolemy, Omnia, quae extant, Opera; Geographia Excepta, Basel: Henricum Petrum, first collected Latin edition, 1541.
    Swann, Oct. 23: Lot 11: Aristarchus of Samos, De Magnitudinibus et Distantiis Solis et Lunae Liber, Pesaro: Apud Camillum Francischinum, first separate edition, 1572.
    Swann, Oct. 23: Lot 358: Joan Miró, illus. & René Char, Le Marteau sans Maître, limited edition, 1976.
    Swann Auction Galleries
    Fine Books
    October 23, 2025
    Swann, Oct. 23: Lot 324: Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls, inscribed first edition, 1940.
    Swann, Oct. 23: Lot 300: Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, first edition, scarce second issue, 1843.
    Swann, Oct. 23: Lot 107: Johannes Kepler, Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo nuper ad Mortales Misso a Galilaeo Galilaeo, third edition, 1609.
    Swann Auction Galleries
    Fine Books
    October 23, 2025
    Swann, Oct. 23: Lot 330: James Joyce, Ulysses, rare first Paris edition, 1922.
    Swann, Oct. 23: Lot 382: Edward Gorey, The Doubtful Guest, with limited edition doll, ca. 1974.
    Swann, Oct. 23: Lot 146: John Dee's copy of the Chaldaica Grammatica by Sebastian Munster, first edition, 1527.
  • Bonhams, Oct. 14-24: William Harvey Creates the Harveian Oration. $250,000-$350,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 14-24: Delambre's Own Heavily Annotated Copy of Base du Systeme Metrique Decimal. $100,000-$150,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 14-24: Einstein's Autographed Letter to Johannes Stark. Pivotal Step in Development of General Relativity. $25,000-$35,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 14-24: James Watson: An Important Collection of Scientific Letters. $20,000-$30,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 14-24: 1949 Howard N. Potts Medal awarded to J. Presper Eckert for the Eniac, The Realization of Modern Computing. $20,000-$30,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 14-24: Shannon Creates the Framework for Modern Computing, in Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. $20,000-30,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 14-24: Scientific Manuscript of Robert Hooke. $30,000-$50,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 14-24: Luigi-Federico Menabrea: First Description of Babbage's Analytical Engine. $8,000-$12,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 14-24: Faraday on Galileo's Falling Bodies Experiment. $4,000-$6,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 14-24: First Re-creation of Nuclear Fusion in a Lab. $4,000-$6,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 14-24: The Apple Revolution: Apple iPhone 1 Sealed in Original Box. $8,000-$12,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 14-24: Darwin & Wallace: On the Tendency of Species to form Varities. $15,000-$25,000
  • Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 157
    Friday and Saturday
    October 24 and October 25, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 24-25:
    Lot 1235. Maria Sibylla Merian and Daniel Rabel. Histoire generale des insectes. Paris 1771.
    Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 24-25:
    Lot 1344. Maria Sybilla Merian. De Europische insecten. Amsterdam 1730.
    Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 24-25:
    Lot 192. Carolingian manuscript. From: Isidor Sevilla. Etymologiarum. Around 800.
    Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 157
    Friday and Saturday
    October 24 and October 25, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 24-25:
    Lot 539. George Barbier. Dix-Sept Dessins sur le Cantique des Cantiques. Paris 1914.
    Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 24-25:
    Lot 1579. Koch-Gruenberg. Indianertypen (Indiantypes). Berlin 1906.
    Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 24-25:
    Lot 1222. Johannes Kepler. Ad Vitellionem paralipomena. Frankfurt 1604.
    Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 157
    Friday and Saturday
    October 24 and October 25, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 24-25:
    Lot 1197. Cornelis Ploos van Amstel. Viro Amplissimo Nobilissimo. Amsterdam 1765.
    Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 24-25:
    Lot 1249. Knorr. De Natuurlyke Historie der Versteeningen. Amsterdam 1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 24-25:
    Lot 14. Bonaventura. Anthology. Logrono, Miguel de Eguia 1529.
    Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 157
    Friday and Saturday
    October 24 and October 25, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 24-25:
    Lot 1400. Hermann Schlegel. Amphibia. Duesseldorf 1837.
    Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 24-25:
    Lot 195. Magnificent Gothic choral sheet with St. Andrew, 15th Century.
    Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 24-25:
    Lot 637. Salvador Dalí. Tristan et Iseult. With 21 etchings. Paris 1970.

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  • Sotheby’s
    Artist Books
    23 October 2025
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 23: Bellmer, Hans. Die Puppe. 1934. Rarissime édition originale. 10 photographies originales. €60,000 to €80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 23: Matisse, Henri -- Stéphane Mallarmé. Poésies. 1932. Exceptionnel exemplaire de Roger Lacourière, imprimeur des gravures. €35,000 to €45,000.
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 23: Miró, Joan — Max Ernst — Kurt Seligmann — Yves Tanguy — Wifredo Lam — Stanlay Hayter — Roberto Matta. Brunidor, Portfolio numéro 1. 1947. €50,000 to €60,000.
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 23: Picasso, Pablo. Contrée. Godet, 1944. Broché. Exemplaire de Lacourière. €20,000 to €30,000.
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 23: Rouault, Georges ─ André Suarès. Passion. 1939. Exemplaire unique d’Ambroise Vollard. €20,000 to €30,000.