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
126	E(mil) Schachtzabel	Illustriertes Prachtwerk samtlicher Tauben-Rassen. Hundert farbige Bildertafeln mit uber 400 nach der Natur aufgenommenen Darstellungen nebst Musterbeschreibungen.	Wurzburg	1910	EUR 200.00 - 200.00	EUR 176.40
127	H(einrich) R(udolf) Schinz	Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Reptilien. Nach den neuesten Systemen bearbeitet. (Nur Tafelband).	(Leipzig	1833-35	EUR 600.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
128	Johann Christian Stisser	Kurtzer, iedoch grundlicher Bericht in Frage und Antwort bestehender Unterricht vor Frauenzimmer und sonderlich vor Wehemutter ...	Leipzig	1712	EUR 200.00 - 200.00	EUR 176.40
129	Tabernaemontanus, J. T. (= Jakob Dietrich aus Bergzabern)	Neu Vollkommen Kraeuter=Buch, mit schoenen und kuenstlichen Figuren/aller Gewaechs der Baeumen/[...] Erstlichen durch Casparum Bauhinum [...]	Basel	1731	EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
130	(Simon-Andre) Tissot	Anleitung fur den geringen Mann in Stadten und auf dem Lande, in Absicht auf seine Gesundheit. Nach der dritten rechtmassigen, vom Verfasser selber vermehrten, Original-Ausgabe aus dem Franzosischen ubersetzt (von Johann Ulrich Pauli), und mit zwoen fremd	Hamburg	1767	EUR 300.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
131	V. Trothan	Naturgeschichte der Saugethiere. Systematisch geordnet. nach der Natur und den besten Originalien gemalt und lithographirt hrsg. von A. Sommer und L. Schroefl.	Wien	1844	EUR 600.00 - 600.00	EUR 504.00
132	Jean Vigier	La grande chrirugie des tumeurs, en laquelle, selon les anciens Grecs, Latins, arabes & modernes approuvez ... reveu & corr. en cette derniere edition.	Lyon	1657	EUR 300.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
133	Christian Friedrich (Hrsg.) Vogel	Chronologischer Raupenkalender oder Naturgeschichte der europaischen Raupen ... Nebst einem einleitenden Vorbericht.	Berlin	1835	EUR 300.00 - 300.00	EUR 277.20
134	Martialis Adlerhold	Sieg-gekronter Feld-Zug dess Adlers und Leuens, im 1687. Jahr Christi; vorgestellet in ausfuhrlicher und warhaffter Erzehlung der denckwurdigsten Victorien.	Nurnberg	1687	EUR 200.00 - 200.00	EUR 352.80
135	Georg Albrecht	Judaeus Conversus, Et Baptizatus Ein Geborner und Geistlicher Israelit	Schwabisch Hall	1641	EUR 200.00 - 200.00	EUR 201.60
136	J(ohann) W(ilhelm) von Archenholtz	Geschichte des siebenjahrigen Krieges in Deutschland von 1756 bis 1763. Wohlfeile Ausgabe fur die Reichslande.	Mannheim	1788	EUR 200.00 - 200.00	EUR 176.40
137	Alfred von Arneth	Prinz Eugen von Savoyen. Nach den handschriftlichen Quellen der kaiserlichen Archive. 3 Bde.	Wien	1858	EUR 200.00 - 200.00	EUR 176.40
138	Karl Friedrich) (Bahrdt	Philanthropinischer Erziehungsplan oder vollstandige Nachricht von dem ersten wirklichen Philanthropin zu Marschlins. [Mit einer Vorrede von Ulysses von Salis].	Frankfurt am Main	1776	EUR 400.00 - 400.00	EUR 327.60
139	Augustin Barruel	Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du Jacobinisme. 4 Bde.	London und Hamburg	1797-98	EUR 400.00 - 400.00	EUR 378.00
140	Barruel, Augustin	Nachrichten zur Erorterung der Geschichte der Entstehung, der Fortschritte und Folgen der Jakobiner in und ausser Frankreich. (Aus dem Franzosischen ubersetzt).	London	1802	EUR 200.00 - 200.00	EUR 176.40
141	Lorenz Beger	Thesaurus ex thesauro palatino selectus, sive gemmarum et numismatum quae in electorali cimeliarchio continentur elegantiorum.	Heidelberg	1685	EUR 200.00 - 200.00	EUR 176.40
142	Bentham, Jeremie	Tactique des assemblees legislatives, suivie d'un traite des sophismes politiques. Seconde ed. 2 Bde.	Paris	1822	EUR 200.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
143		Beytrag zur Geschichte des gegenwartigen Krieges zwischen dem Russischen und Turkischen Reiche; als auch zuverlassige Nachrichten von der Schlacht bey Choczim 1769 und der bey Kahul 1770.	Breslau	1771	EUR 200.00 - 200.00	EUR 378.00
144		Biblia graeca. - H[e] kainh[e] diath[e]kh[e] (griech.). Novum testamentum.	Cambridge	1632	EUR 200.00 - 200.00	EUR 189.00
145		Biblia germanica. - Biblia, Das ist Die gantze Heilige Schrifft Alten und Neuen Testaments	Tubingen	1730 (NT 1729)	EUR 600.00 - 600.00	EUR 882.00
146	(Jakob Friedrich von) Bielfeld	Institutions politiques. Nouv. edition, rev., corr. & augm. 3 Bde.	Leiden und Leipzig	1768-1774	EUR 300.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
147	Christoph Boethius	Ruhm-Belorberter Triumph-leuchtender, und Glantz-erhoheter Kriegs-Helm Dero Rom. Kayserl. auch zu Hungarn und Bohmen Konigl. Majest. und Dero samtlichen Hohen Bunds-Verwandten,...	Nurnberg	1688	EUR 600.00 - 600.00	EUR 3,780.00
148		Des Triumph=leuchtenden und Sieg=belorbeerten Kriegs=Helms Ihr. Rom. Kays. Maj. und dero Hohen Alliirten Sechster Theil.	Nurnberg	1698	EUR 200.00 - 200.00	EUR 945.00
149	Alessandro Borgia	Benedicti XIII. Romani Pontificis ex ordine Praedicatorum vita commentario excepta et Benedicto XIV. dicata.	Rom	1741	EUR 400.00 - 400.00	EUR 327.60
150	Brand(t), Gerard	Leben und Thaten des furtrefflichen und sonderbahren See-Helden Herrn Michaels de Ruiter. Aus der niederlandischen in die hochdeutsche Sprache ubergesetzet. 2 Tle. in 1 Bd.	Amsterdam	1687	EUR 300.00 - 300.00	EUR 819.00

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.