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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. -
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-$12,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Christina Rossetti's Own Copy of Her First Book. Rossetti, Christina G. $8,000-$12,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: The Borden Copy of The Life of Merlin in an Elaborate Binding by Riviere. Heywood, Thomas, Translator. $6,000-$8,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Arion Press. Whitman, Walt, Leaves of Grass. $4,000-$6,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Call It Sleep in the First State Jacket. Roth, Henry. $2,000-$3,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Steinbeck's Best-Known Work. Steinbeck, John. $2,000-$3,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: A Fine Jewelled Binding Signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Sangorski, Francis. $40,000-$60,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter: A Complete Set of First Editions. Potter, Beatrix. $2,000-$3,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Kelmscott Shelley. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical Works. $3,000-$5,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Inscribed by Martin Luther King Jr. King, Martin Luther, Jr. $3,000-$5,000
Freeman's | Hindman: Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana, 6417, Philadelphia
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- September 10, 2025 - September 10, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 231 | Wallhausen, Johann Jacobi von. | Manuale Militare oder Kriegsmanual... |
Frankfurt | 1616 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 768.00 |
| 232 | Bizet, Georges. | Autograph Note, signed |
No place | no date. | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 320.00 |
| 233 | Hammerstein, Oscar, II, and Richard Rodgers, and Joan Roberts. | Group of 2 Signed Items |
New York | 1944 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 256.00 |
| 234 | Meyerbeer, Giacomo | Autograph Music Quotation, signed |
No place | no date. | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 235 | Puccini, Giacomo. | Group of 2 Signed Items |
Autograph Letter, signed<br>Milan, January 5 | 1908 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 832.00 |
| 236 | Smith, Patti. | Kodak |
Philadelphia | 1972 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,664.00 |
| 237 | [Springsteen, Bruce] | Concert Poster for The Bottom Line, August 13-17, 1975 |
Greenwich Village, New York | 1975 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 384.00 |
| 238 | [Springsteen, Bruce] | An Archive Related to the 1980-81 Tour For "The River" |
Locations vary Germany, England, and the United States | 1981 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 239 | Verdi, Giuseppe. | Autograph Letter, signed |
No place | no date. | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 576.00 |
| 240 | Wagner, Richard. | Autograph Note, signed |
Sorrento | no date possibly 1876. | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 768.00 |
| 241 | Audubon, John James. | American Bison or Buffalo. Female, Young and Male... |
Philadelphia | 1845 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 4,160.00 |
| 242 | Audubon, John James. | The Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories |
New York/Philadelphia | 1839-1840-44. | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 28,800.00 |
| 243 | Darwin, Charles, and Richard Owen, and George R. Waterhouse. | The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., During the Years 1832-1836... |
London | 1838-40. | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,840.00 |
| 244 | Duppa, Richard. | The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany |
London | 1816 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,024.00 |
| 245 | Everard, (Giles). | Panacea; or The Universal Medicine, Being a Discovery of the Wonderfull Vertues of Tobacco Taken in a Pipe, With Its Operation and Use both in Physick and Chyrurgery |
London | 1659 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 768.00 |
| 246 | Feuillee, Louis. | Journal des Observations Physiques, Mathematiques et Botaniques, Faites par l'ordre du Roy sur les Cotes Orientales de l'Amerique Meridonale, & dans les Indes Occidentales, depuis l'annee 1707. |
Paris | 1714 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 768.00 |
| 247 | Knorr, Georg Wolfgang. | Verlustiging der oogen en van den geest, of Verzameling van allerley bekende Hoorens en Schulpen... |
Amsterdam | 1770-75. | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 4,800.00 |
| 248 | Manwood, John. | A Treatise and Discourse of the Lawes of the Forrest |
London | 1598 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,408.00 |
| 249 | Michaux, F(rancois). Andrew. | The North American Sylva, or A Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia... |
Paris | 1819 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 2,560.00 |
| 250 | Paulli, Simon. | Commentarius de Abusu Tabaci Americanorum Veteri, et Herbae thee Asiaticorum in Europa Novo... |
Strassburg | 1665 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 384.00 |
| 251 | Pliny, The Elder. | The Historie of the World: Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secondus |
London | 1634 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,792.00 |
| 252 | Sinclair, Isabella. | Indigenous Flowers of the Hawaiian Islands |
London | 1885 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 4,160.00 |
| 253 | Sowerby, James. | English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants... |
London | 1790-1814; 1831-1849. | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 640.00 |
| 254 | [Sowerby, James, et al.] | Archive of Various Material, Including Manuscripts, Family Items, and Books |
ca. late 18th to early 20th centuries. | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 12,800.00 | |
| 255 | Wilson, Alexander, and Charles Lucian Bonaparte, and Sir William Jardine. | American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States |
London | 1832 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 832.00 |