• 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 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
201 Antonio Maria) (Lupi

Dissertatio et animadversiones ad nuper inventum Severae Martyris epitaphium.

Palermo 1734 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
202 Niccolo Machiavelli

Princeps aliaque nonnulla ex Italico Latine nunc demum partim versa, partim infinitis locis sensus melioris castigata, curante Hermanno Conringio.

Helmstedt 1660 EUR 800.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
203 (Mainwaring, Arthur)

Abrege de la vie du Duc de Marlborough, et du Prince Eugene de Savoie. Trad. de l'Anglois. 2 Bde in 1.

Amsterdam 1714 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
204 Massuet, Pierre

Histoire de la guerre presente contenant tout ce qui s'est passe de plus important en Italie, sur le Rhin, en Pologne, & dans la plupart des Cours de l'Europe. 2 Bde.

EUR 300.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
205 Eleazar de Mauvillion

Histoire de Francois Eugene Prince de Savoie et de Piemont, Marquis de Saluces. 2 Bde.

London (fingiert Lausanne) 1739 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
206 Eleazar de Mauvillion

Histoire du Prince Eugene de Savoye, generalissime des armees de l'Empereur & de l'Empire. 5 in 3 Bdn.

Wien 1770 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
207 (Mauvillon, Jakob)

Aufklarung uber wichtige Gegenstande in der Freymaurerey, besonders uber die Entstehung derselben ohne alle Schwarmerey eigentlich nur fur Freymaurer,...

O. O. (,,Aus der Loge Puritas"; Wien?) 1787 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 302.40
208 Maximilian II.

Maximilian II. - Satzung und Ordnung so bey jetziger zusamenkhumfft (...) auch khunfftig von aller meniglich, frembden und Ainhaimischen in aller Prager Stadten, unverpruchlich (...) gehalten werden soll.

O. O. u. J. EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 327.60
209 David Friedrich Megerlin

Die turkische Bibel, oder des Korans allererste teutsche Uebersetzung aus der Arabischen Urschrift selbst verfertiget.

Frankfurt am Main 1772 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 453.60
210

Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de la campagne du Marechal de Broglie en Westphalie, MDCCLXI. Par M. L. C. D. B.***.

Den Haag und Frankfurt 1762 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 176.40
211 (Menon)

La cuisiniere bourgeoise, suivie de l'office, a l'usage de tous ceux qui se melent de la depense des maisons. Nouv. ed.

Brussel 1783 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 176.40
212 Merian. - (Meyer, Martin)

Theatri Europaei Achter Theil, von den denckwurdigsten Geschichten, so sich hie und da in Europa ...

Frankfurt a. M. 1693 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,008.00
213

Merian. - Theatri Europaei continuati. Zwolffter Theil, Das ist Abermalige Aussfuhrliche Fortsetzung Denck- und Merckwurdigster Geschichten,...

Frankfurt a. M. 1691 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 882.00
214 Pedro Mexia

De verscheyde lessen. Waer inne beschreven worden de weerdichste gheschiedenissen aller Keyseren, Coningen, ende loflycker mannen ...

Daran P EUR 300.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
215 Frans van Mieris

Histori der nederlandsche vorsten, uit de huizen van Beijere, Borgonje, en Oostenryk; welken sedert de regeering van Albert, Graaf van Holland, tot den dood van Keizer Karel den Vyfden. 3 Bde.

Den Haag 1732-35 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 252.00
216 Raimund von Montecuccoli

Besondere und geheime Kriegs-Nachrichten ... worinnen die Anfangs-Grunde der Kriegs- Kunst sehr deutlich beschrieben sind.

Leipzig 1736 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 302.40
217 Jean Morin

Ecclesiae Orientalis antiquitates, clarissimorum virorum Card. Barberini, L. Allatii, Luc. Holstenii, Joh. Morini, Abr. Ecchellensis, Nic. Peirescii, Pet. a Valle, Thom. Comberi, ...

Leipzig u. a. 1683 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 226.80
218 Johann Jacob Moser

Der Belgradische Friedens-Schluss zwischen Ihro Romisch-Kayserl. Majestat und der Ottomannischen Pforte.

Jena 1740 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 252.00
219 Johann Jacob Moser

Compendium juris publici regni moderni Germanici. Oder Grund-Riss der heutigen Staats-Verfassung des Teutschen Reichs.

Tubingen 1731 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
220 J(oseph) A(lois) Moshamer

Schule des Anstandes, der Hoflichkeit und feinen Sitte. Mit praktischer Hinweisung auf historische Zuge und Begebenheiten aus allen Zeiten und Volkern.

St. Polten 1841 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
221 Leopold Mozart

Grundliche Violinschule. Dritte vermehrte Auflage.

Augsburg 1787 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 EUR 415.80
222 Andreas Muller

Das verwirrte Europa. Bde. 2 und 3 (von 3).

Amsterdam 1680-83 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 453.60
223 Thomas Muntzer

Thomas Muntzer. - 2 gedruckte Disputationen uber die ,,unpassende Beredsamkeit" des Theologen.

Wittenberg 1714 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
224 Ludovico Antonio Muratori

Novus thesaurus veterum inscriptionum in praecipuis earumdem collectionibus hactenus praetermissarum. 4 Bde.

Mailand 1739-42 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 EUR 756.00
225 Myler von Ehrenbach, Johann Nikolaus

Myler von Ehrenbach, Johann Nikolaus. Drei Erstausgaben in einem Band.

EUR 600.00 - 600.00 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.