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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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November 25Doyle
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November 25Doyle
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November 25Doyle
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November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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![<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i> First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/cc3f4f98-f195-4049-aca6-329c27fdd27c.png "<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i> First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000.")
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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.
Lyon and Turnbull: Books and Manuscripts, 868, Edinburgh
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- October 02, 2025 - October 02, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 151 | Burns, Robert | Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect |
Edinburgh | 1787 | GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 | GBP 1,764.00 |
| 152 | Burns, Robert | Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect |
Edinburgh | 1787 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 579.60 |
| 153 | Thackeray, William Makepeace - with inscribed illustration | Vanity Fair |
London | 1849 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,386.00 |
| 154 | Surtees, R. S. | The Novels |
London | 1929 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 252.00 |
| 155 | [Swift, Jonathan] | Travels into several Remote Nations of the World |
London | 1726 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 156 | Scrope, William | Bindings Collection of books including field sports and literature, 19th-20th century |
London | 1838-43 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 403.20 |
| 157 | Boswell, James | General literature Collection of works including fine bindings |
London | 1900 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 1,134.00 |
| 158 | [Boece, Hector] | [Heir Beginnis the Hystory and Croniklis of Scotland] |
[Edinburgh] | [1540] | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 4,032.00 |
| 159 | Ammianus Marcellinus | The Roman Historie |
London | 1609 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 504.00 |
| 160 | Law, crime and punishment Collection of pamphlets, including acts of parliament, 17th-18th century |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 352.80 | |||
| 161 | Howard, John | Law, crime and punishment Collection of works, mainly 18th century |
Warrington | 1789 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 1,134.00 |
| 162 | Law, crime and punishment Collection of pamphlets, including accounts of murder trials, 18th-19th century |
Bristol | 1835 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 1,638.00 | |
| 163 | Law, crime and punishment Large collection of works, mainly 19th and early-20th century |
London | c.1780 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 164 | Cujas, Jacques | Opera Omnia |
Naples | 1722-1727 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 252.00 |
| 165 | Law, A Collection [Justinian] Corpus Juris Civilis |
Amsterdam | 1663 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 504.00 | |
| 166 | Sir Winston Spencer | Churchill, The River War An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan |
London | 1899 | GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | GBP 756.00 |
| 167 | Ruxner, Georg | Thurnier Buch |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,260.00 | ||
| 168 | English Civil War A Fight at Sea between the Parliament Ships and those that Revolted and the Boarding of some of the Parliament Ships |
London | 1648 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 529.20 | |
| 169 | Vegetius Renatus, Flavius | De Re Militari, Libri Quatuor |
Lyon | 1592 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 277.20 |
| 170 | Gaya, Louis de | The Art of War |
London | 1678 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 252.00 |
| 171 | Plan of the New Constitution for America in The Scots Magazine volume XLIX and The Gentleman's Magazine volume LVII |
Edinburgh | 1787 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 403.20 | |
| 172 | Gordon, Sir James Willoughby | Military Transactions of the British Empire |
[London] | 1808 | GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold |
| 173 | Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland | Eikon Basilike. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie |
1648 | GBP 250.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 174 | Locke, John | An Abridgment of Mr. Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding |
London | 1696 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 554.40 |
| 175 | Antiphonary Antiphonarium juxta breviarum ex decreto sacrosancti concilii Tridentini restitutum |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
![<b>Dominic Winter, Nov. 5:</b> Aquinas (Thomas). <i>[Summa Theologica], Secunda Parte,</i> Venice, 1496. £700 to £1,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/b69c37e7-f18c-4417-b08b-f00e9b97a413.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, Nov. 5:</b> Aquinas (Thomas). <i>[Summa Theologica], Secunda Parte,</i> Venice, 1496. £700 to £1,000.")
