• 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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Tennants Auctioneers: Books, Maps, Manuscripts, 14258, Leyburn

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
101 Modern Literature.

A large collection of 20th/21st literature, mostly first editions, many signed, including Vonnegut (Kurt), Slaughterhouse-Five, 1970;

20th/21st GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,952.00
102 Scott (Paul).

[The Raj Quartet]: The Jewel in the Crown, 1966;

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 219.60
103 Didion (Joan).

Play It As It Lays

London: 1971 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 549.00
104 Heaney (Seamus).

Beowulf.

London 1999 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 854.00
105 Lee (Harper).

To Kill a Mockingbird.

London 1960 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 427.00
106 Graves (Robert).

I, Claudius.

London 1934 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,159.00
107

A collection of mainly 20th/21st century poetry, including first editions, such as:

20th/21st century GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 366.00
108 Trollope (Anthony). - Palliser Novels.

Can You Forgive Her?.

London 1864-65 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 305.00
109 Adams (Douglas).

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

London 1979 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 427.00
110 Powell (Anthony).

['A Dance to the Music of Time' series].

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 366.00
111 Fermor (Patrick Leigh).

A Time of Gifts.

London 1977 GBP 60.00 - 90.00 GBP 268.40
112 Rushdie (Salman).

The Satanic Verses.

London 1988 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 390.40
113 Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de).

The History of the Most Ingenious Knight Don Quixote de la Mancha...Translated from the Original by Capt. John Stevens.

London 1706 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 244.00
114 [Sterne (Laurence)].

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.

London 1760-1767 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,342.00
115 Trollope (Anthony).

A collection of works published by The Trollope Society, including novels, short stories and non-fiction.

London 1989-2003 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 134.20
116 Palmer (Samuel).

An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil.

London 1883 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 390.40
117 Heller (Joseph).

Catch-22.

London 1962 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 268.40
118

KapoIan-Kouymjian (Angele and Dickran Kouymjian). The Splendour of Egypt: A Commentary of Napoleon Bonaparte's Expedition (1798-1801) and the "Description de l'Egypte".

New York 1975 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 122.00
119

Greene (Graham). Our Man in Havana.

London 1958 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 1,037.00
120

A bound collection of ten chapbooks, comprising: A Concise Abridgment of that Popular and Interesting Work, the Spirit of "The Book", or Memoirs of Caroline, Princess of Hasburgh, a Political and Amatory Romance. London: W. Mason, J. Johnston, 1812, hand-

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 3,050.00
121

Forty-two seventeenth century manuscript Calendars of Prisoners, comprising dates: March 1686, July 1686, July 1687, April 1688, August 1688,

GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 13,420.00
122 [Vignoles (Charles Blacker)].

Manuscript diary attributed to railway engineer Charles Blacker Vignoles

1856 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 146.40
123

A large collection of manuscript documents forming part of a family archive. The majority are autograph letters and manuscript diaries from the 19th and 20th centuries.

19th and 20th centuries GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,159.00
124

Grant of Arms to David Morgan Rees of Benton House, Whitchurch, County of Glamorgan, signed by Sir Gerald Wood Wolaston, Garter Principal King of Arms and Arthur William Stewart Cochrane, Clarenceux King of Arms, 1935.

1935 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 463.60
125 Walton (Izaak).

Manuscript indenture signed by Izaak Walton. Dated 18th March 1670

1670 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 854.00
  • 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.