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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.
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Sotheby's 
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate PurchaseSotheby’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. - 
    
    
    
Dominic Winter 
Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
5th November, 2025Dominic 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, 2025Dominic 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, 2025Dominic 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, 2025Dominic 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, 2025Swann, 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, 2025Swann, 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, 2025Swann, 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, 2025Swann, 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. 
Venator and Hanstein: Old Books, Autographs, and Manuscripts, 181, Köln
Auction Details
- Auction Date
 - September 26, 2025 - September 26, 2025
 
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 527 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Reinecke Fuchs. 12 Lieferungen in 10 Heften.  | 
            Munchen | 1846 | EUR 500.00 - 500.00 | EUR 453.60 | 
| 528 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Reineke Fuchs. Zeichnungen von Wilhelm von Kaulbach, gestochen von R. Rahn und A. Schleich.  | 
            Stuttgart | o | EUR 300.00 - 300.00 | EUR 756.00 | 
| 529 | Johann Wolfgang von (u. Marianne von Willemer) Goethe | West-oestlicher Divan.  | 
            Stuttgart | 1819 | EUR 800.00 - 800.00 | EUR 1,071.00 | 
| 530 | Hans Jakob Christoffel von) (Grimmelshausen | Der stoltze Melcher/ Sambt einer Besprecknuss Von das Frantzoss Krieg Mit der Holland.  | 
            (Molsheim | 1672 | EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 2,520.00 | 
| 531 | Claude-Adrien) (Helvetius | De l'esprit.  | 
            Paris | 1759 | EUR 200.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | 
| 532 | Justus Christian Hennings | Verjahrte Vorurtheile in verschiedenen Abhandlungen.  | 
            Riga | 1778 | EUR 200.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | 
| 533 | William Howitt | 2 Werke in 2 Banden.  | 
            London | 1841-42 | EUR 200.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | 
| 534 | Alain Rene Le Sage | Le diable boiteux. Nouvelle edition. 2 Bde.  | 
            Paris | 1737 | EUR 200.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | 
| 535 | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | Theodicaea, oder Versuch und Abhandlung, wie die Blute und Gerechtigkeit Gottes ...  | 
            Amsterdam | EUR 300.00 - 300.00 | EUR 252.00 | |
| 536 | Eleazar, de) M(auvillon | Memoires d'un honnete-homme Revus, corriges, augmentes d'un second volume, Et imprimes sur un nouveau manuscrit de l'auteur.  | 
            Dresden | 1753 | EUR 200.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | 
| 537 | Moses Mendelssohn | Jerusalem oder uber die religiose Macht und Judentum.  | 
            Berlin | 1783 | EUR 200.00 - 200.00 | EUR 378.00 | 
| 538 | Mirabeau. - | Mirabeau. - Briefe des Grafen von Mirabeau an einen Freund in Deutschland.  | 
            O. O. u. Dr. | 1792 | EUR 200.00 - 200.00 | EUR 176.40 | 
| 539 | Karl Philipp von) (Moritz | Beitrage zur Philosophie des Lebens aus dem Tagebuche eines Freimaurers.  | 
            Berlin | 1780 | EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 1,260.00 | 
| 540 | Christiane Benedicte Eugenie) (Naubert | Geschichte der Grafin Thekla von Thurn, oder Scenen aus dem dreyssigjahrigen Kriege. 2 Bde.  | 
            Frankfurt und Leipzig | 1789 | EUR 200.00 - 200.00 | EUR 226.80 | 
| 541 | Publius Ovidius Naso | L'art d'aimer et remede d'amour. Nouvelle edition. Trad. d'Ovide [par Joseph de Cuers de Cogolin].  | 
            Amsterdam | 1757 | EUR 200.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | 
| 542 | Persius Flaccus, Aulus. | In Persii satiras. Liber commentarius; eivsdem Persiana Horatij imitatio.  | 
            Paris | 1615 | EUR 400.00 - 400.00 | EUR 327.60 | 
| 543 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Collection complete des oeuvres. 15 Bde.  | 
            Genf | 1782 | EUR 600.00 - 600.00 | EUR 504.00 | 
| 544 | Johann Gottlieb) (Schummel | Fritzens Reise nach Dessau.  | 
            Leipzig | 1776 | EUR 300.00 - 300.00 | EUR 252.00 | 
| 545 | Johann Gottlieb) (Schummel | Spitzbart eine komi-tragische Geschichte fur unser padagogisches Jahrhundert. Tubingen  | 
            1779 | EUR 200.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 546 | Seume, Johann Gottfried | Gesammelte Schriften. Hrsg. v. J. P. Zimmermann. 5 Bde. in 3.  | 
            Wiesbaden | 1823-26. | EUR 400.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | 
| 547 | Spee von Langenfeld, Friedrich | Trvtz Nachtigal, Oder Geistlichs=Poetisch Lust-Vvaldlein, Dessgleichen noch nie zuvor in Teutscher sprach gesehen.  | 
            Koln | 1649 | EUR 7,500.00 - 7,500.00 | Not Sold | 
| 548 | Stael-Holstein, Anne Louise Germaine, Baronne de | Delphine. 4 Bde. Genf  | 
            1802 | EUR 600.00 - 600.00 | EUR 378.00 | |
| 549 | (Sterne, Laurence) | Yorick's empfindsame Reise durch Frankreich und Italien. Aus dem Englischen ubersetzt [von Johann Joachim Bode].  | 
            Bremen | 1776/75 | EUR 300.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | 
| 550 | Tasso, Torquato | Il Goffredo, ovvero Gerusalemme liberata. Nuova edizione arricchita di figure in rame, e d'annotazioni colla vita dell' autore.  | 
            Venedig | 1760-61 | EUR 900.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold | 
| 551 | Waiblinger, Friedrich Wilhelm: | Phaethon. 2 Teile in 1 Bd.  | 
            Stuttgart | 1823 | EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 1,890.00 |