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
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

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

Auction Details

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
51	Wangen. - Emminger, Eberhardt:	Panorama vom Bahnhofe in Wangen im Allgau. Nach der Natur gezeichnet.		Ca.1850	EUR 300.00 - 300.00	EUR 252.00
52	(Lorenz von) Westenrieder	Beschreibung des Wurm- oder Starenbergersees, und der umherliegenden Schlosser etc. samt einer Landkarte.	Munchen	1784	EUR 600.00 - 600.00	EUR 504.00
53	Wratislaw von Mitrowiz, Wenceslas	Merkwurdige Gesandschaftsreise von Wien nach Konstantinopel. So gut als aus dem Englischen ubersezt.	Leipzig	1786	EUR 800.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,071.00
54	Stanislaus Reinhard Acxtelmeier	Ebenbild der Natur, in dem Entwurff dero Gewachsen, Unzieffern, und einigen Thieren von vermischter Arth.	Augsburg	1699	EUR 600.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
55	Ulisse Aldrovandi	De quadrupedibus solidipedibus volumen integrum ... Marcus Antonius Bernia in lucem restituit.	Bologna	1639	EUR 600.00 - 600.00	EUR 630.00
56	Ulisse Aldrovandi	Ornithologiae. Hoc est, de avibus historiae libri XII. Tomus I / tomus alter / tomus tertium, ac postremus. 3 Bde.	Bologna	1645-52	EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 4,158.00
57	Doroteo Alimari	Longitudinis aut terra aut mari investigandae methodus. Adjectis insuper demonstrationibus, & instrumentorum iconismis. (Ed. Sebastiano Ricci).	London	1715	EUR 300.00 - 300.00	EUR 567.00
58	Friedrich Jakob Behrend	Ikonographische Darstellung der nicht-syphilitischen Hautkrankheiten. Mit darauf bezuglichem systematischen Texte.	Leipzig	1839	EUR 600.00 - 600.00	EUR 504.00
59	Johann Friedrich Blumenbach	Uber den Bildungstrieb.	Gottingen	1789	EUR 200.00 - 200.00	EUR 403.20
60	(Pierre Joseph) Bonnaterre	Tableau encyclopedique et methodique des trois regnes de la nature, dedie a la serenissime republique de Venise. Cetologie, ophiologie, erpetologie.	Padua	1795	EUR 300.00 - 300.00	EUR 252.00
61	Mathurin Jacques Brisson	Ornithologia sive synopsis methodica sistens avium divisionem in ordines, sectiones, genera, species, ipsarumque varietatis. -	Paris	1760	EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
62	Benjamin van Broeckhuysen	Oeconomia corporis animalis sive cogitationes succinctae, de mente, corpore, & utriusque conjunctione, juxta methodum philophiae Cartesianae deductae.	Amsterdam	1683	EUR 300.00 - 300.00	EUR 252.00
63	George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon	Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere, avec la description du cabinet du roi. Nouvelle edition. 38 Bde. in 21.	Amsterdam u. Dordrecht	1766-99	EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
64	(Georges Louis Leclerc) Buffon	Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere. Nouvelle edition. 13 Bde.	Paris	1769-1770.	EUR 450.00 - 450.00	Not Sold
65	Christian Adam Adoplph u. a.) (Buhle	Die Naturgeschichte in getreuen Abbildungen und mit ausfuhrlicher Beschreibung derselben. Saeugethiere. 2. Aufl.	Halberstadt und Pesth		EUR 200.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
66	Arthur G(ardiner) Butler	British birds with their nests and eggs. 6 Bde.	London	1896-98	EUR 400.00 - 400.00	EUR 315.00
67	Pedro de Castro y Anaya	Causas efficientes y accidentales del fluxo y refluxo del mar y de sus notables diferencias con la diuersidad de corrientes ... del orbe aqzatil explicanse ...	Madrid	1694	EUR 200.00 - 200.00	EUR 352.80
68	Jonathan Couch	A History of the Fishes of the British Islands. (3. Aufl.). 4 Bande.	London	1863-1865	EUR 600.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
69	John Curtis	British Entomology; being illustrations and descriptions of the genera of insects found in great Britain and Ireland.	London	1824-40	EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 2,520.00
70	J. W. Dalmann	Uber die Palaeaden oder die sogenannten Trilobiten. Aus dem Schwedischen ubersetzt von Friedrich Engelhart.	Nurnberg	1828	EUR 200.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
71	E(dward) Donovan	The natural history of British Quadrupeds ... accompied with scientific and general descriptions, of all the species that are known to inhabit the British Isles ...	London	1820	EUR 300.00 - 300.00	EUR 491.40
72	Doppler, Christian	Uber eine wesentliche Verbesserung der katoptrischen Mikroskope.	Prag	1845	EUR 600.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
73	Doppler, Christian	Versuch einer analytischen Behandlung beliebig begrenzter und zusammengesetzter Linien, Flachen und Korper;...	Prag	1839	EUR 500.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
74	Einstein, Albert	Eine Ableitung des Theorems von Jacobi.	Berlin	1917	EUR 200.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
75	Albert Einstein	Eine neue formale Deutung der MAXWELLschen Feldgleichungen der Elektrodynamik.	Berlin	1916	EUR 450.00 - 450.00	Not Sold

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.
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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.