• 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
  • University Archives
    Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books
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    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 308 - Bob Dylan Handwritten & Signed Lyrics to "Just Like a Woman" With Jeff Rosen & JSA Authentication
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 455 - Isaac Newton Admiration For Judaism & Moral Continuity With Christianity! 350+ Words in his Hand - Extraordinary Content!
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 219 - 371g Moon Meteorite, Incredible Find - Laâyoune 002
    University Archives
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    Now through Nov. 19
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 448 - Scarce Einstein AM on Unified Field Theory, 180+ Words & 11 Equations in His Hand! From His Published Article, "A Generalization of the Relativistic Theory of Gravitation"
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 159 - Woodrow Wilson Baseball Signed for WWI Red Cross Fundraiser, Ex. Forbes & PSA Authentic - Finest Known!
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 84 - Lee Harvey Oswald ALS to Brother, Trying Desperately to Get out of Russia! Highly Important
    University Archives
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    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 152 - George Washington Signed Discharge for MA Solider Whose Regiment Was at Bunker Hill!
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 88 - Abraham Lincoln Fully Signed Military Appointment for Mexican War Vet & Respected Cavalryman
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 188 - Apollo XI Astronauts & Their Wives Signed Photo, Plus Crew Signed Cover, From Apollo XI Presidential Goodwill Tour Era, Pre-Cert Zarelli
    University Archives
    Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books
    Now through Nov. 19
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 265 - Martin Luther King, Jr. TLS Re: "Stride Toward Freedom" Film Rights To Literary Agent Marie Rodell
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 324 - John Lennon Signed Apple Records Check, PSA GEM MT 10! Possibly Finest Known
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 79 - John & Jacqueline Kennedy Signed WH 1963 Christmas Gift Inscribed to Close Friend Joan Braden, PSA Authentic
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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.

Venator and Hanstein: Old Books, Autographs, and Manuscripts, 181, Köln

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 26, 2025 - September 26, 2025
Page Size: 563 items in 23 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
402 Georg Agricola

Vom Bergkwerck xij. Bucher darin(n) alle Empter, Instrument, Gezeuge, unnd alles zu(o) disem Handel gehorig, mitt schonen figuren vorbildet, und klarlich beschriben seindt ...

Basel 1557 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 7,560.00
403 Amsdorff, Nikolaus von

Das Doctor Pomer vnd Doctor Maior mit iren Adiaphoristen ergernis vnnd zurtrennung angericht, vnd den Kirchen Christi, vnuberwintlichen schaden gethan haben.

(Magdeburg 1551 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
404

Augsburger Interim. - Grundlicher und wahrhafftiger Bericht aller Rathschleg und antwort, so die Theologen zu Wittemberg, ...

Wittenberg 1559 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
405 Aurelius Augustinus

De civitate Dei libri XXII. Ad priscae venerandaeq(ue) vetustatis exemplaria denuo collati, eruditissimisq(ue) insuper Commentarijs per undequaq(ue) doctiss. virum Ioan. Lodovicum Vivem illustrati & recogniti.

Basel 1542 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 EUR 819.00
406 (Beda Venerabilis)

Repertorium auctoritatum Aristotelis et aliorum philosophorum.

Nurnberg um 1491. EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,292.00
407

Biblia latina. - Biblia Sacra iuxta Germanam Hebraici idiomatis proprietatem ... Interprete Xante Pagnino Lucense.

Koln 1541 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,008.00
408 Thomas Blarer

Wie Ludwig Hetzer zu Costentz mit dem schwert gericht uss disem zyt abgescheyden ist.

Strassburg 1529 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,008.00
409 Cicero. -

Cicero. - M. T. Ciceronis rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium libri, quos alii non esse Ciceronis asseverant. Eiusdem de inventione libri duo. ...

Venedig 1542 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
410 Dante Alighieri:

La comedia con la nova espositione di Alessandro Vellutello. 3 Bde.

Venedig 1544 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 4,158.00
411 Georg Eder

Euangelische Inqvistion wahrer vnd falscher Religion. Wider das gemain vnchristliche Claggeschray, dass schier niemands mehr wissen kunde, wie oder was er glauben solle ...

Dillingen 1573 EUR 750.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
412 Erasmus von Rotterdam

Collectanea adagiorum veterum et quidem probatissimis.

Mainz 1522 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 819.00
413 Euclid. -

Elementorum libri XV. Quibus, cum ad omnem Mathematicae scientiae partem, tum ad quamlibet Geometriae tractationem, facilis comparatur aditus.

Koln 1580 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 252.00
414 Vincentius Ferrerius

Drey greuliche weissagung, Daniels des Propheten. Verteutschet durch Johann Rasch.

Munchen 1582 EUR 800.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
415 Flacius, Matthias

Antwortt Matth. Fl. Jllyr. auff etliche Beschuldigung D. Gei. Maiors und D. Pomers.

(Magdeburg ca.1551?. EUR 400.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
416 Flacius, Matthias

Grundliche Verlegung aller Sophisterey, so Juncker Issleb, D. Interim, Morus, Pfeffinger, D. Geitz in seinem grundlichen bericht und ihre gesellen, die andere Adiaphoristen, ...

(Magdeburg 1551 ?. EUR 400.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
417 Flacius, Matthias

Vermanung Matth. Flacij Illyrici zu gedult vnd glaube zu Gott, im Creutz dieser verfolgung Geschrieben an die Kirche Christi zu Magdeburg.

(Magdeburg 1551 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
418 Franck, Caspar

Duo dialogi apologetici. Zwey nutzliche Gesprech/ Doctoris Jacobi Andree Schmidleins/ und D. Conrad Wolff Platzens von nachfolgenden Stucken. I. ...

Ingolstadt 1582 EUR 450.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
419 Gallus, Nikolaus u. Flacius

Buspredigt fur die offentlichen Sunder jtziger zeit, die falsche(n) bruder, Nemlich, fur die Verlasser, Verleugner, Abtrunnige, und Verfolger ihrer eigenen Religion, an jhren Brudern.

(Magdeburg 1551 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
420 Guido de Monte Rocherii

Manipulus curatorum.

(Blaubeuren? 1474 EUR 15,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
421 Otto Heurnius

Barbaricae Philosophiae Antiquitatum libri duo.

Leiden 1600 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
422 Henricus Institoris

Malleus maleficarum.

Nurnberg 1496 EUR 15,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 21,420.00
423

Koln. - Des Ertzstiffts Coln Reformation dere weltlicher Gericht Rechts, und Policey. Durch Herman Ertzbisschoffen zu Coln uffgericht.

Koln 1538 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 630.00
424

Stundenbuch fur den Gebrauch von Rom. Pergamentdruck mit illuminierten Metallschnitten.

Paris 1520 EUR 10,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 11,340.00
425 Martin Luther

Eine Heer-Predigt, wider den Turcken.

Wittenberg 1542 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,512.00
426 Marchantius, Jacobus

Flandria commentariorum lib. IIII. descripta.

Antwerpen 1596 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 453.60
  • 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.
  • 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
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  • 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.