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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 -
Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 75. The Second Printed Map of the North American Continent - Full Contemporary Color (1593) Est. $35,000 - $40,000Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 37. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $16,000 - $18,000Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 104. Important Revolutionary War Plan of Battle of Quebec in Contemporary Color (1776) Est. $4,000 - $4,750Old 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 - $3,500Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 237. Rare and Striking Bird's-Eye View of Lawrence, Kansas (1880) Est. $2,000 - $2,500Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 10. Rare Map from Atlas Maior with Representations of the Seasons in Contemporary Color (1662) Est. $14,000 - $17,000Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 374. Bunting's Map of Europe Depicted as the Queen of the World (1589) Est. $2,000 - $2,400Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 590. Willem Blaeu's Magnificent Carte-a-Figures Map of Asia (1634) Est. $2,750 - $3,500Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 647. The Earliest and Most Decorative Map of the East Coast of Africa (1596) Est. $3,000 - $3,750Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 710. Ruscelli's Complete, Third Edition Atlas with 65 Maps (1574) Est. $9,500 - $11,000Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 696. Superb Hand-Colored Image of the Adoration of the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950 -
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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.
PBA Galleries: History of Science - Illustrated Publisher's Bindings from the Morris-Levin Collection - Miniature Books - Children's Literature, 845, Berkeley
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- August 28, 2025 - August 28, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 126 | Utro Kosmichieskoi Zry [Utro Kosmicheskoi Zry] |
Moskva [i.e. Moscow] | 1961 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 187.50 | |
| 127 | Sternberg, George M. | Report on the Etiology and Prevention of Yellow Fever |
Washington | 1890 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 187.50 |
| 128 | Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth | On Growth and Form |
Cambridge | 1917 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 129 | Torii, Ryuzo | Etudes Anthropologiques. Les Aborigenes de Formose |
Tokyo | c.1910 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 130 | Veitch, James H. | Hortus Veitchii: A History of the Rise and Progress of the Nurseries of Messrs. James Veitch and Sons |
London | 1906 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 131 | Three books on Andreas Vesalius |
1949-1962 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 137.50 | ||
| 132 | Vesalius | Original printed leaf from the first edition of De humani corporis fabrica, with full-page anatomical woodcut |
Basel | 1543 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 133 | von Laue, Max | Zwei Einwnde gegen die Relativittstheorie und ihre Widerlegung |
1912 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 187.50 | |
| 134 | Wallace, Alfred Russel | Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection |
New York | 1870 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 200.00 |
| 135 | Wallace, Alfred Russel | Darwinism [with] Island Life |
London | 1889-1895 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 136 | Wallace, Alfred Russel | The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise |
New York | 1869 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 137 | Wilson, Ernest H. | China, Mother of Gardens |
Boston | [1929] | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 138 | Wilson, Ernest H. | Plant Hunting |
Boston | 1927 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 250.00 |
| 139 | Acker, Paul | Album Lefevre-Utile: Les Contemporains Celebres. Portraits, Autographes, Notices Biographiques Illustrees, Portraits Humoristiques des Celebrites Contemporaines |
Paris | [1904] | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 140 | Artaud de Montor, Chevalier | Rome et Ses Pontifes: Histoire, Traditions, Monuments |
Tours | 1896 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 141 | Begin, Emile | Voyage pittoresque en Suisse: en Savoie et sur les Alps |
Paris | [1852] | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 625.00 |
| 142 | Symons, Arthur ed.; Beardsley, Aubrey ed. | The Savoy, Volumes I, II, and III |
London | 1896 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,062.50 |
| 143 | Morris, Francis Orpen | A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland: with Descriptive and Historical Letterpress |
London, Edinburgh, Dublin | [1884] | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,375.00 |
| 144 | Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques-Henri | Paul et Virginie |
Paris | 1838 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 145 | Twelve Parables of Our Lord: Illustrated and Illuminated |
London | 1870 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 500.00 | |
| 146 | Cortes, Ferdinand | Die Eroberung Mexikos von Ferdinand Cortes mit 112 federlithographien von Max Slevogt |
Berlin | 1918 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 147 | D'Ivoi, Paul | Voyages Excentriques: Les Dompteurs de l'Or |
Paris | [1914] | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 437.50 |
| 148 | Davillier, Baron Jean Charles | L'Espagne par le Baron Ch. Davillier illustree de 309 gravures dessinees sur bois par Gustave Dore |
Paris | 1874 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 149 | Die heilige Schrift. Alten and Neuen Testaments verdeutsch von D. Martin Luther |
Stuttgart | c.1877 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 937.50 | |
| 150 | Six volumes in color lithograph bindings |
Paris | 1844-1846 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 625.00 |
![<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.")
![<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.")
