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  • Doyle, Nov. 5: The Director's copy of the first edition of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, inscribed by Beckett. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: Don McLean's personal test pressing of American Pie before mass production, gifted in 1971. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: The important and extensive archive of original fashion photographs of model Dorothy Rice, 1945-58. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: A Charles Adams theater advertisement. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: A Small Patinated Bronze Bust of Marlene Dietrich. $800 to $1,200.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: Marlene Dietrich Studio Photograph. $100 to $200.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: The very large and uncommon British Quad for Hitchcock's The Birds. $500 to $800.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: An Original Crystal "Sputnik" from the 1966 Met Opera Chandelier. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: The rare poster from the first American performances of Endgame, 1958. $1,000 to $1,500.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: The original Coconut Grove Playhouse poster for Waiting for Godot, possibly unique. $3,000 to $5,000.
  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare. The Temple Shakespeare. Housed in Custom Bookcase. $6,365.
    Sotheby’s: Frederick Douglass. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1845. $14,000.
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol. London: William Heinemann, 1915. $2,900.
    Sotheby’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald. First Edition Set, Including This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and others. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1920 – 1941. $24,180.
    Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000.
  • Dominic Winter
    Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
    5th November, 2025
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Darwin (Charles). Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands, 1st edition, 1844. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Rashleigh (Philip). Specimens of British Minerals, 2 parts in 1, 1797 & 1802. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Murchison (Roderick Impey). The Silurian System, 1st edition, 1839. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter
    Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
    5th November, 2025
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Darwin (Charles). The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, 1st edition, 1842. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Darwin (Charles). Geological Observations on South America, 1st edition, 1846. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Sowerby (James). The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain, 6 volumes, 1812-29. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Dominic Winter
    Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
    5th November, 2025
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Emerson (William). Cyclomathesis: or an Easy Introduction to ... Mathematics, 10 vols. in 9, 1770. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Robinson (Thomas). New observations on the Natural History of This World of Matter, 1696. £800 to £1,200.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Aquinas (Thomas). [Summa Theologica], Secunda Parte, Venice, 1496. £700 to £1,000.
    Dominic Winter
    Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
    5th November, 2025
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Parfit (Cliff). Tesuki Washi. Handmade Papers of Japan, 1981-1988. £400 to £600.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Herbert (Thomas). A Relation of some yeares Travaile... Into Afrique and the greater Asia, 1634. £800 to £1,200.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Lindbergh (Charles A.). The Spirit of St. Louis, 1955, signed. £200 to £300.

Koller Auctions: Books and Autographs - Online Only, ibid154, Zurich

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 25, 2025 - September 25, 2025
Page Size: 136 items in 6 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
9501 Andreae, Johann Gerhard Reinhard

Briefe aus der Schweiz nach Hannover geschrieben in dem Jahre 1763

Zurich und Winterthur 1776 CHF 400.00 - 600.00 CHF 375.00
9502 (Pflummern, Johann Heinrich von)

EINSIEDELN - Libertas Einsidlensis

O.O. 1640 CHF 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
9504

NEUCHATEL - Vue generale de la chaine des Alpes depuis Neuchatel

-1806 CHF 400.00 - 600.00 CHF 375.00
9505

RECHT - Sammelband mit 6 Zurcher Kriminalprozessen des spaten 19

Zurich 1878-1881 CHF 250.00 - 400.00 CHF 350.00
9506 Stumpf, Johannes

Schweytzer Chronick: Das ist, Beschreybunge Gemeiner loblicher Eydgnoschafft Stetten, Landen, Volcker und dero Chronickwirdigen Thaaten... gebesseret, gemehret... und biss auf das gegenwirtige 1606

Zurich 1606 CHF 1,400.00 - 2,000.00 CHF 1,250.00
9507 Tschudi, Aegidius

Chronicon Helveticum

Basel 1734-36 CHF 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
9508 Ulrich, Johann Jakob

Die Schweiz in Bildern

Zurich (ca. 1859) CHF 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
9509

ZURICH - Denkmal der grossen Hungersnoth und Theurung der Jahre 1816 und 1817 im Canton Zurich

1818 CHF 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
9510 Escher, Hans Erhard

ZURICH - Beschreibung des Zurich Sees Wie auch von Erbauung, Zunemmen, Stand und Wesen loblicher Statt Zurich (...)

Zurich 1692 CHF 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
9511 Girtanner, Christoph (Hg.)

FRANZOSISCHE REVOLUTION - Politische Annalen

Berlin 1793-1794 CHF 500.00 - 800.00 CHF 537.60
9512 Josephus, Flavius

JUDAICA - Samtliche Wercke (...), und beygefugte Beschreibung Egesippi von der Zerstohrung Jerusalems

Zurich (1735-)1736 CHF 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
9513 Lipsius, Justus

MILITARIA - Poliorceticon sive de machinis

Antwerpen 1599 CHF 400.00 - 600.00 CHF 375.00
9514 Boyer, Abel

MILITARIA - Fortifikation - The draughts of the most remarkable fortified towns of Europe

London 1701 CHF 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
9515 Heineccius, Johann Gottlieb

SPHRAGISTIK - De veteribus germanorum aliarumque nationum sigillis

Frankfurt und Leipzig 1709 CHF 250.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
9516 (Siede, Johann Christian)

Gemaelde des physischen Menschen oder die Geheimnisse der Mannbarkeit, des Geschlechtstriebes und des Ehebetts

Berlin 1794-1797 CHF 600.00 - 900.00 CHF 600.00
9517 Ariosto, Ludovico

Opere

Venedig 1730-1731 CHF 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
9518 Bacon, Francis

Sylva Sylvarum: Or, a Naturall History

London 1651 CHF 250.00 - 400.00 CHF 250.00
9519 Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Opera

Paris 1768 CHF 500.00 - 800.00 CHF 525.00
9520 Disteli, Martin

Umrisse zu A. E. Frohlichs Fabeln

Aarau -1829 CHF 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
9521 Ripa, Cesare

EMBLEMATA - Iconologie ou la science des emblemes devises

Amsterdam 1698 CHF 250.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
9522 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Schriften

Leipzig 1787-1790 CHF 500.00 - 800.00 CHF 512.00
9523 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

West-oestlicher Divan

Stuttgard (!) 1819 CHF 500.00 - 800.00 CHF 550.00
9524 Gracian, Baltasar

Agudeza y arte de ingenio

Antwerpen 1669 CHF 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
9525 Honn, Georg Paul

Betrugs-Lexicon, worinnen die meisten Betrugereyen in allen Standen nebst denen darwider guten Theils dienenden Mitteln entdecket

Coburg 1730 CHF 300.00 - 500.00 CHF 312.50
9526 Jung-Stilling, Johann Heinrich

Drei Werke in Erstausgaben

1789-1808 CHF 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
  • Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 75. The Second Printed Map of the North American Continent - Full Contemporary Color (1593) Est. $35,000 - $40,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 37. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $16,000 - $18,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 104. Important Revolutionary War Plan of Battle of Quebec in Contemporary Color (1776) Est. $4,000 - $4,750
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 43. Mercator's Map of the North Pole - the First Printed Map Devoted to the Arctic (1606) Est. $2,750 - $3,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 237. Rare and Striking Bird's-Eye View of Lawrence, Kansas (1880) Est. $2,000 - $2,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 10. Rare Map from Atlas Maior with Representations of the Seasons in Contemporary Color (1662) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 374. Bunting's Map of Europe Depicted as the Queen of the World (1589) Est. $2,000 - $2,400
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 590. Willem Blaeu's Magnificent Carte-a-Figures Map of Asia (1634) Est. $2,750 - $3,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 647. The Earliest and Most Decorative Map of the East Coast of Africa (1596) Est. $3,000 - $3,750
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 710. Ruscelli's Complete, Third Edition Atlas with 65 Maps (1574) Est. $9,500 - $11,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 696. Superb Hand-Colored Image of the Adoration of the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950
  • Swann
    Autographs
    November 6, 2025
    Swann, 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
    Autographs
    November 6, 2025
    Swann, 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
    Autographs
    November 6, 2025
    Swann, 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
    Autographs
    November 6, 2025
    Swann, 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.
  • Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Presentation Copy of a Whitman "Holy Grail." Whitman, Walt. $10,000-$15,000.
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Endymion in Original Boards. Keats, John. $8,000-
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Association Copy of the Privately Printed Edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Potter, Beatrix. $8,000-$12,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Christina Rossetti's Own Copy of Her First Book. Rossetti, Christina G. $8,000-$12,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: The Borden Copy of The Life of Merlin in an Elaborate Binding by Riviere. Heywood, Thomas, Translator. $6,000-$8,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Arion Press. Whitman, Walt, Leaves of Grass. $4,000-$6,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Call It Sleep in the First State Jacket. Roth, Henry. $2,000-$3,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Steinbeck's Best-Known Work. Steinbeck, John. $2,000-$3,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: A Fine Jewelled Binding Signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Sangorski, Francis. $40,000-$60,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter: A Complete Set of First Editions. Potter, Beatrix. $2,000-$3,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Kelmscott Shelley. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical Works. $3,000-$5,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Inscribed by Martin Luther King Jr. King, Martin Luther, Jr. $3,000-$5,000