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Sotheby's 
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate PurchaseSotheby’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, 2025Dominic 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, 2025Dominic 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, 2025Dominic 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, 2025Dominic 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. - 
    
    
    
Swann 
Autographs
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 
Autographs
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 
Autographs
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 
Autographs
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. - 
    
    
    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-$12,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Christina Rossetti's Own Copy of Her First Book. Rossetti, Christina G. $8,000-$12,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: The Borden Copy of The Life of Merlin in an Elaborate Binding by Riviere. Heywood, Thomas, Translator. $6,000-$8,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Arion Press. Whitman, Walt, Leaves of Grass. $4,000-$6,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Call It Sleep in the First State Jacket. Roth, Henry. $2,000-$3,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Steinbeck's Best-Known Work. Steinbeck, John. $2,000-$3,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: A Fine Jewelled Binding Signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Sangorski, Francis. $40,000-$60,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter: A Complete Set of First Editions. Potter, Beatrix. $2,000-$3,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Kelmscott Shelley. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical Works. $3,000-$5,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Inscribed by Martin Luther King Jr. King, Martin Luther, Jr. $3,000-$5,000
 
Christies: Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana, 23736, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
 - October 16, 2025 - October 16, 2025
 
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106--43 B.C) | Epistolae ad familiares  | 
            Venice | [before 18 September] 1469 | USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | USD 107,950.00 | 
| 2 | CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106--43 B.C.) | Orationes  | 
            Venice | [not after 9 November] 1471 | USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 60,960.00 | 
| 3 | CICERO, Marcus Tullius [pseudo-] | Rhetorica ad C. Herennium and De inventione  | 
            Venice | 8 July 1496 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 5,715.00 | 
| 4 | Compiled by Guillelmus Gallici, Guillelmus Horborch and Bonaguida Cremonensis | ROTA ROMANA -- Decisiones Rotae Romanae  | 
            Rome | 20 November 1472 | USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 16,510.00 | 
| 5 | Gaius Caecilius (61--c.113) | Epistolae  | 
            [Rome] | [not after 1 June 1474] | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 19,050.00 | 
| 6 | JACOBUS DE VORAGINE (c.1230--1298) | The Golden Legend, sive Lombardica historia  | 
            [Basel] | [not after 1472] | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 17,780.00 | 
| 7 | JACOBUS DE VORAGINE (c. 1230-1298) | The Golden Legend  | 
            Cologne | 1485 | USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 27,940.00 | 
| 8 | AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (354--430) | De civitate Dei  | 
            Venice | 2 October 1475 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 24,130.00 | 
| 9 | PHILIPPUS DE BERGAMO (d. c.1380) | [CATO, pseudo-]. Disticha de moribus  | 
            Augsburg | 2 November 1475 | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 24,130.00 | 
| 10 | CATO, Dionysius (c.3rd-4th centuries C.E.) | Cato's Distichs  | 
            [Westminster] | [after 23 December 1483] | USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 | USD 190,500.00 | 
| 11 | ARISTOTELES (384--322 B.C.) | De animalibus  | 
            Venice | 1476 | USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 | USD 279,400.00 | 
| 12 | DIODORUS SICULUS (fl. 1st century B.C.) | Bibliothecae historicae libri VI  | 
            Venice | 31 January 1476/77 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 25,400.00 | 
| 13 | DIODORUS SICULUS (fl. 1st century B.C.) | Bibliothecae historicae libri VI  | 
            Venice | 25 November 1481 | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 17,780.00 | 
| 14 | PLUTARCHUS (c.45--c.120) | Problemata  | 
            [Venice] | [c.1477] | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 8,890.00 | 
| 15 | QUINTILIANUS, Marcus Fabius (c.35--c.100) | Institutiones oratoriae  | 
            [Venice] | [c.1480] | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 3,810.00 | 
| 16 | LANDINUS, Christophoros (1424-1498) | Disputationum Camaldulensium libri IV  | 
            [Florence] | [about 1480] | USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 38,100.00 | 
| 17 | BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS (fl. 1230--1250) | De proprietatibus rerum  | 
            Cologne | 1481 | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 17,780.00 | 
| 18 | PIUS II, Pont. Max. (1405--1464) [as Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini] | Abbreviatio supra Decades Blondi  | 
            [Rome] | 1481 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 12,065.00 | 
| 19 | MELA, Pomponius (fl. 37-42 A.D.) | Cosmographia, sive de situ orbis  | 
            Venice | 18 July 1482 | USD 12,000.00 - 16,000.00 | USD 27,940.00 | 
| 20 | Gesta Romanorum -- Gesta Romanorum  | 
            [Strasbourg] | [c.1484] | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 8,255.00 | |
| 21 | TACITUS, Gaius Cornelius (c.56--c.117) | Opera  | 
            [Milan] | [c.1487] | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 57,150.00 | 
| 22 | PROPERTIUS, Sextus Aurelius (c.55/43--after 15 B.C.) | Elegiae  | 
            Venice | 1 February 1488 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 10,160.00 | 
| 23 | JACOBUS PHILIPPUS DE BERGAMO (1434--1520) | Supplementum chronicarum  | 
            Venice | 15 May 1490 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 22,860.00 | 
| 24 | SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440--1514) | Liber chronicarum  | 
            Nuremberg | 12 July 1493 | USD 28,000.00 - 35,000.00 | USD 48,260.00 | 
| 25 | LUCRETIUS CARUS, Titus (?96-55 B.C.) | De rerum natura  | 
            Venice | 4 September 1495 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 38,100.00 |