• 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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Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
August 22, 2025 - August 22, 2025
Page Size: 135 items in 6 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51

[Daniel (John E.)]. Journal of an Officer in the Commissariat Department of the Army: comprising a narrative of the campaigns under His Grace the Duke of Wellington, in Portugal, Spain...

London 1820 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 207.40
52

The War Diary of Major General Sir Cecil Lowther, K.C.M.G., C.B., C.V.O., D.S.O., who was in command of the 1st Battalion Scots Guards as Lieutenant Colonel. Typed transcript, 194pp

1923 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 585.60
53 Whitaker (Thomas Dunham).

An History of Richmondshire in the North Riding of the County of York....

London 1823 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 134.20
54 Drake (Francis).

Eboracum: or the History and Antiquities of the City of York.

London 1736 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 390.40
55 Farey (John).

General View of the Agriculture and Minerals of Derbyshire...

London 1811-1813 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 183.00
56 Speed (John).

Glocestershire, contrived into thirty thre severall hundreds & those againe into foure principall devisions...

John Sudbury and George Humble 1610 [1611] GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 268.40
57

Ortelius (Abraham) & Godreccio (Wenceslao). Poloniae finitimarumque locarum descriptio. Auctore Wenceslao Godreccio.

No date [1570-1588] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 427.00
58

Stanford's Family Atlas of General Geography.

London 1894 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 134.20
59 Speed (John).

The Countie of Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne Described, With the Armes of such Nobles as have bene Earles of either of them.

George Humble no date [1627] GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 170.80
60 Jefferys (Thomas).

The County of York Survey'd in MDCCLXVII, VIII, IX and MDCCLXX. T. Jefferys, 1771-72

T. Jefferys 1771-72 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 512.40
61 Ross (Sir John).

A manuscript journal/commonplace book of Sir John Ross, naval officer and Arctic explorer, including sketches and copied verse.

No date GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 9,760.00
62 Bankes (Thomas).

A Modern, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography...The Whole Forming a Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels.

London [1790?] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,586.00
63

Manwood (John). A Treatise of the Lawes of the Forest: Wherein is declared not onely those Lawes, as they are now in force, but also the originall and beginning of Forests...

London 1615 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 463.60
64 Lowe (E.J.).

Ferns: British and Exotic.

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
65

Ogilvie-Grant (W. R. ), J. G. Millais and Others. The Gun at Home and Abroad: British Game Birds and Wildfowl;

GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 305.00
66 Stonham (Charles).

The Birds of the British Islands.

London 1906-1911 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 122.00
67 [Ray (John)].

Catalogus plantarum circa Cantabrigiam nascentium...[bound with]: Index plantarum agri Cantabrigiensis.

Cambridge 1660 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 854.00
68 Miller (John).

Illustratio Systematis Sexualis Linnaei... An Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus.

London [1770-]1777 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
69

The Garden, An Illustrated Weekly Journal. 1895-1905, six quarto volumes, a broken run, comprising: volumes for 1895, 1901 (1&2), 1903, 1905 (1&2)

1895-1905 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 158.60
70 [Lewin (John William)].

[A Natural History of the Birds of New South Wales, Collected, Engraved and Faithfully Painted after Nature].

[London 1838] GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,037.00
71 Attenborough (David).

Zoo Quest for a Dragon.

London 1957 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 427.00
72 Gould (John).

The Birds of Great Britain.

London [1862]-1873 GBP 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 GBP 24,400.00
73 [Apperley (Charles James)], "Nimrod".

Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton, Esq...

London 1835 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 341.60
74 Waugh (Evelyn).

Men at Arms.

London 1952 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 158.60
75 Manning (Olivia).

[The Balkan Trilogy]: The Great Fortune, 1960;

London GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 585.60
  • 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.