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November 6, 2025Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 93: Autograph album containing 29 autograph letters signed by each president from Washington to Coolidge, 1785-1945.Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 166: Franz Schubert, Autograph Musical Manuscript, fragment from Die Taucher, 1813.Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 111: Thomas Jefferson, holograph plat drawing: map of field near Monticello, 1790s.Swann 
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November 6, 2025Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 208: George Sand, Autograph Manuscript Signed, draft of her one-act play, Francia, ca. 1872.Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 218: Walt Whitman, Manuscript Signed, draft of three complete poems from Leaves of Grass, 1891.Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 8: James Dean, Photograph Signed and Inscribed, still from Giant, 1955.Swann 
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November 6, 2025Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 20: John Lennon, Typescript Signed, interview discussing Paul, Linda, and Yoko, 1971.Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 215: Mark Twain, engraved portrait Signed, "Mark Twain / SL. Clemens," 1890s.Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 81: Vaslav Nijinsky, reproduction of an artwork by Léon Bakst Inscribed and Signed, 1916.Swann 
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November 6, 2025Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 73: Malcolm X, The Harvard Crimson Signed and Inscribed: his street address and phone number, 1961.Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 11: Lou Gehrig, Photograph Signed and Inscribed, ca. 1939.Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 153: George Gershwin, Photograph Signed and Inscribed, portrait by Renato Toppo. - 
    
    
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ALDE: The Library of Peter Obergfell iI - Precious Books about Mountains, 100825, Paris
Auction Details
- Auction Date
 - October 08, 2025 - October 08, 2025
 
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | BAUD-BOVY (Daniel). | La Meije et les Ecrins.  | 
            Grenoble | 1908 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 1,250.00 | 
| 27 | BAXTER (George) et MACGREGOR (John). | The ascent of Mont Blanc : a series of four views.  | 
            Londres | 1855 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 1,500.00 | 
| 28 | BEATTIE (William) et BARTLETT (William Henry). | Switzerland ; illustrated in a series of views taken on the spot and expressly for this work.  | 
            Londres | 1836 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | 
| 29 | BEATTIE (William) et BARTLETT (William Henry). | Die Schweiz in Bildern, nach der Natur gezeichnet von W. H. Bartlett, Esq.  | 
            Londres | 1840 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | 
| 30 | BEAUMONT (elie De). | Notice sur les systemes de montagnes.  | 
            Paris | 1852 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 438.00 | 
| 31 | BEER (Gavin Rylands de). | Collection d'articles sur la Suisse et les Alpes.  | 
            EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | EUR 2,000.00 | ||
| 32 | BERALDI (Henri). | Balaitous et Pelvoux. 1 - Notes sur les officiers de la Carte de France. 2 - Un officier geodesien aux Pyrenees 1786-1795.  | 
            Paris | 1907-1910. | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | EUR 1,250.00 | 
| 33 | BERNUCCA (Francesco), LOSE (Friedrich) et LOSE (Carolina). | Viaggio pittorico e strorico al Monte Spluga.  | 
            Milan | vers 1825. | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 5,250.00 | 
| 34 | BERTHOUT-VAN-BERCHEM (Jacob Pierre). | Itineraire de la Vallee de Chamonix, d'une partie du Bas-Vallais et des montagnes avoisinantes.  | 
            Lausanne | 1790 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | EUR 1,625.00 | 
| 35 | Bertolotti (Davide). | Viaggio in Savoia ossia Descrizione degli Stati Oltramontani di S.M. il Re di Sardegna.  | 
            Turin | 1828 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 375.00 | 
| 36 | BIRMANN (Samuel). | La lac de Chede.  | 
            Bale | 1826 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 688.00 | 
| 37 | BONNEY (Thomas George). | Lake and mountain scenery from the Swiss Alps.  | 
            Londres | 1874 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 500.00 | 
| 38 | BOUILLE (Comte Fernand de). | Premiere ascension de l'Aiguille du Midi.  | 
            Nantes | 1856 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 10,250.00 | 
| 39 | BOURRIT (Marc-Theodore). | Description des aspects du Mont-Blanc du cote de la Val-d'Aost, des glacieres qui en descendent, de l'Allee-Blanche, de Courmayeur, de la cite d'Aoust, des Marons ou Cretins, du Grand St. Bernard, des Reservoirs d'eau immenses au milieu des glaces, & de l  | 
            Lausanne | 1776 | EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 1,500.00 | 
| 40 | BOURRIT (Marc-Theodore). | Description des glacieres, glaciers & amas de glace du duche de Savoye.  | 
            Geneve | 1773 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 5,000.00 | 
| 41 | Bourrit (Marc-Theodore). | Description des Alpes Pennines et Rhetiennes.  | 
            Geneve | 1781 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 750.00 | 
| 42 | BRIDEL (Philippe Sirice). | Essai statistique sur le Canton de Vallais.  | 
            Zurich | 1820 | EUR 300.00 - 500.00 | EUR 2,250.00 | 
| 43 | BROCKEDON (William). | Illustrations of the Passes of the Alps by which Italy communicates with France, Switzerland and Germany.  | 
            Londres et Philadelphie | 1828-1829. | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 3,750.00 | 
| 44 | Browne (James D. Howe) | Ten scenes in the last ascent of Mont Blanc.  | 
            Geneve et Paris | 1980 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | 
| 45 | BULWER (James Redford). | Extracts from my Journal.  | 
            Norwich | 1853 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 1,000.00 | 
| 46 | BURNABY (Mrs Fred). | The high Alps in winter : or, Mountaineering in search of health.  | 
            Londres | 1883 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 250.00 | 
| 47 | Burnet (Gilbert). | Some letters containing an account of what seemed most remarkable in travelling through Switzerland, Italy, some parts of Germany, &c. in the years 1685 and 1686.  | 
            Rotterdam, | 1687 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | 
| 48 | CALLENDER (James Henry). | Memoranda during tour of the continent of Europe, made in later part of year 1834.  | 
            S. L. | 1834 | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | EUR 1,125.00 | 
| 49 | CAMP (Maxime du). | Voyage au Grand Saint-Bernard.  | 
            Paris | 1879 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 250.00 | 
| 50 | CARELLI DE ROCCA CASTELLO (Jacques). | Une ascension au Mont-Blanc en 1843.  | 
            Varallo | 1843 | EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 12,500.00 |