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
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
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Chorley's: The September Auctions, 92325, Gloucestershire

Auction Details

Auction Date: September 23, 2025 - September 24, 2025

Page Size: 353 items in 15 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
345		Two Patents relating to Hearses to include Patent 1095		1875	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 130.00
346		Improvements in or connected with Coffins for Rescuing People Buried Alive	London	1896	GBP 70.00 - 90.00	GBP 221.00
347		[Trade Catalogue] Specimens of memorial cards, issued by J Lowndes, Cheadle, Staffordshire,			GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 78.00
348		[Trade Catalogue] Pattern Book of Brass and Plated Coffin Furniture	Birmingham	n.d. [circa 1880]	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 325.00
349		[Patent] Improved Means and Apparatus to be employed in the execution of Criminals by Hanging		1886	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 91.00
350		Various Patents relating to Embalming each later inserted in blue paper folders, to include Patent 4626		1896	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
351		[Football Interest] Evening News, including Football Evening News, London October - December 1911			GBP 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
352		A photograph album relating to Finlaystone House Langbank, Renfrewshire, Scotland, manuscript annotation as photography by F Sleigh			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 130.00
353	de Laporte [(L'Abbe Joseph)]	Atlas Moderne Portatif compose de vingt-huit cartes sur toutes les parties du globe terrestre,	Paris	1780	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 910.00
354	Bellin (Jacques Nicolas)	Volume of Maps for Prevost's 'Histoire Generale des Voyages' 64 engraved maps, predominantly folding, 4to, later faux marble papered boards with title label			GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 1,820.00
355	[Jacob Cats (1577-1660)]	A series of 86 plates of Dutch proverbs or sayings, later mounted and with the proverbs pasted verso,		1622'	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
356	Ryosuke (Tokuno)	Dai-Nippon Kahei Seizu [Facsimiles of Currency],	Tokyo	1878 [possibly later]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
357	Wales (William)	Illustrations History, Directory, and Gazetteer of the County Palatine of Lancaster, 14 plates, various maps fold-out, small folio			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
358	Alken (Henry)	Humourous Miscellanies	London	1823	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
359		Road Map of India Survey of India Offices,	Calcutta	1942	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 78.00
360	Barthes (Roland)	Erte (Romain de Tirtoff) ... with an extract from Erte's memoirs, translation by William Weaver,	Parma	1972	GBP 70.00 - 90.00	GBP 39.00
361		[Royalty & Aristocracy] to include Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes		1947	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	Not Sold
362	Landseer (Thomas)	Ten Etchings, illustrative of the Devil's Walk	London	1831	GBP 70.00 - 90.00	GBP 130.00
363	Hogg (Robert & Henry Graves Bull, editors)	The Herefordshire Pomona, containing coloured figures and descriptions of the most esteemed kinds of apples and pears,	Hereford	1876-1885	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	GBP 2,600.00
364	Beebe (William)	A Monograph of the Pheasants	London	1918-1922	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 715.00
365	Walker (J. and C., publishers)	Hobson's Fox-Hunting Atlas containing separate Maps of Every County in England and the three Ridings of Yorkshire	London	n.d. [circa 1860]	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 650.00
366	Kirkman (F. B., editor)	The British Bird Book An Account of All The Birds, Nests and Eggs Found in The British Isles ... illustrated By Two Hundred Coloured Drawings and Numerous Photographs	London	1911-1913	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	GBP 26.00
367	Johnston (W. & A. K.)	The Cosmographic Atlas of Political. Historical, Classical, Physical and Scriptural Geography and Astronomy	London	1889	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 117.00
368	Hogarth (William)	The Works of William Hogarth, from the Original Plates restored by James Heath ...	London	n.d. [1822]	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 650.00
369		[The Sporting Life] British Hunts and Huntsmen in four volumes	London	1908-1911	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 156.00

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.
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.