• 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
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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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    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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    Now through Nov. 19
    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
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    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
427 Philipp und Kaspar Peucer Melanchthon

Der Dritte Teil der Chronica Carionis, Von Keiser Carl dem grossen an, da es der Herr Philippus Melanthon wenden lassen, ...

Wittenberg 1564 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 EUR 882.00
428 Girolamo Mercuriale

De arte gymnastica libri sex. Secunda editione acti, & multis figuris ornati.

Venedig 1573 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
429 Piedro) (Mexia

Les diverses lecons, contenans variables et memorables histoires.

Lyon 1563 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
430 Sebastian Munster

Horologiographia, post priorem aeditionem. Recognita, plurimum aucta atqu(e) locupletata, adiectis multis novis descriptionibus figuris, in plano, concavo convexo, erecta superficie &c.

Basel 1533 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,260.00
431 Sebastian Munster

Der Horologien, oder Sonnen uhren, kunstliche Beschreibung ... Item, ein neuw Kunstbuch, die Sonnen oder Him(m)elischen uhren auss Zaltafflen gantz leichtlich ... anzurichten.

Basel 1579 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
432 (Osiander d. A., Andreas)

Bedencken auff das Interim von einem Hochgelerten und Ehrwirdigen Herrn, einem Erbarn Radt seiner Oberkeit vberreicht.

(Magdeburg 1548 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
433 Paulus de Palacios de Salazar

In Ecclesiasticvm Commentarivs Pivs Et Doctvs. Cum indice rerum insigniorum & capitum. Nunc primum in Germania emendatius editus.

Koln 1593 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 252.00
434 Petrarca, Francesco

Il Petrarcha con l'espositione d'Alessandro Vellvtello di novo ristampato con le figvre a i triomphi, et con piv cose vtili in varii lvoghi aggivnte.

Venedig 1545 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 EUR 567.00
435 Petrus de Herenthals

Collectarius seu expositio super librum psalmorum.

(Koln:) 1480 EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,158.00
436 Georg Pictorius Villingensis

Sermonum Conuiualium apprime utilium, libri X de(que) ebrietate lusus quidam. Item, de sublunarum daemonum ortu ... praetera, de pharmacandi comprobata ratione libri II.

Basel 1571 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
437 Pius IV

Pius IV. - Pontificale Romanum ad omnes pontificias ceremonias.

Venedig 1561 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 EUR 1,260.00
438 Pseudo-Methodius

Revelationes divinae (De revelatione facta ab angelo beato methodio in carcere dete[n]to). Bearbeitet und korrigiert von Wolfgang Aytinger und Sebastian Brant.

Basel EUR 18,000.00 - 18,000.00 Not Sold
439 Giovanni Redaldi

Calendarium per annos centum. Ad usum universae religionis fratrum minorum & monialium S. Francisci regularis observantiae.

Venedig 1573 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 453.60
440

Sammelband mit 13 homiletischen Schriften von M. Luther, N. Selnecker, T. Heshusen, J. Andrea u. a.

Erfurt, Leipzig, Heidelberg, Tubingen und Wittenberg, 1558-64. EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 2,772.00
441 Pace Scala

De consilio sapentis, in forensibus causis adhibendo, libri IIII. Eiusdem contractuum, & ultimarum voluntatum compositione ad sensum Sapientis liber unus.

Venedig 1560 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 504.00
442 Kaspar Schatzger

Furhalltung XXX. artigkl, so in gegenwurtiger verwerrung auf die pan gepracht, un(d) durch ainen neuwen beschworer der allten Schlange(n) gerechtfertigt werden.

Munchen 1525 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 453.60
443 Thomas von Aquin

Opuscula. Mit der Vita Sancti Thomae hrsg. v. Antonius Pizamanus.

Venedig 1490 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
444 Johannes Trithemius

Cathalogus illustrium viro(rum) Germania(m) suis ingenijs et lucubrationibus omnifariam exornantium.

(Mainz 1495-1497). EUR 12,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
445

Turkenkriege. - Anschlag, wie die uff dem Reichstag zu Regenspurgk, dieses sechs und siebentzigsten Jars, ...

(Marburg EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
446

Turkenkriege. Erster Osterreichischer Turkenkrieg. - Warhafftige Anzeigung wie es im Leger vor Ofen ergangen ist.

(Augsburg 1541 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 2,268.00
447 Vergilius Maro, Publius

Opera.

Venedig 1491 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,520.00
448 Westphal, Joachim

Verlegung des Grundlichen Berichts der Adiaphoristen, zu diesen bosen zeiten, sehr nutzlich zu lesen. Mit einer Praefation (Matth. Flacii) Illy am ende gesetzt.

(Magdeburg EUR 300.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
449

Wiedertaufer. - Ein sendbrieff Hans Huthe(n) etwa ains furnemen Vorsteers im widertaufer ordenn. Verantwort durch Urbanum Rhegium.

Augsburg 1528 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,268.00
450

Wiedertaufer. - Menius, Justus Von den Blutfreunden aus der Widertauff.

Erfurt 1551 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,008.00
451

Wiedertaufer. - (Rhegius, Urbanus) Wider den newen Taufforden, Notwendige Warnung an alle Christgleubigen Durch die diener des Evangelij zu Augspurg.

(Augsburg 1527 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 504.00
  • 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.
  • 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.