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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. -
![<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. -
![<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.")
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.
Forum Auctions: Online: Travel Books, Maps and Atlases, 1044, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- August 28, 2025 - August 28, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Account (An) of the Island of Mauritius |
1842 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 762.00 | ||
| 2 | Baker (Sir Samuel White) | Ismailia |
1874 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 3 | N'Zau (Bula) | Travels and Adventures in the Congo Free State and its Big Game Shooting |
1894 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 4 | Blackburne-Maze (C. I.) | From Oriental to Occidental Africa |
Maidstone | 1914 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 762.00 |
| 5 | Caillie (Rene) | Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo |
1830 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 304.80 | |
| 6 | Cardonne (Denis Dominique) | Histoire d l'Afrique et de l'Espagne |
Paris | 1765 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 279.40 |
| 7 | Clapperton (Capt. Hugh) | Journal of a Second Expedition into the Interior of Africa |
1829 | GBP 180.00 - 220.00 | Not Sold | |
| 8 | Cooley (William Desborough) | The Negroland of the Arabs Examined and Explained, half-title |
1841 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 279.40 | |
| 9 | Cooper (Joseph) | The Lost Continent; or Slavery and the Slave-Trade in Africa |
1875 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 762.00 | |
| 10 | Dutton (E. A. T.) | The Basuto of Basutoland |
1923 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 355.60 | |
| 11 | [Vittori (Mariano)] | Chaldeae seu Aethiopicae linguae institutiones |
Rome | 1630 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 889.00 |
| 12 | Hohnel (Lt. Ludwig von) | Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie: a Narrative of Count Samuel Teleki's Exploring and Hunting Expedition in Eastern Equatorial Africa in 1887 & 1888 |
1894 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 13 | Hughes (J. E.) | Eighteen Years on Lake Bangweulu |
[1933]. | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 14 | Johnston (Sir Harry H.) | The Uganda Protectorate |
1902 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 190.50 | |
| 15 | Mackenzie (John) | Austral Africa: Losing It or Ruling It |
1887 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,206.50 | |
| 16 | Morgan (Joseph) | A Complete History of Algiers |
1731 | GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | GBP 215.90 | |
| 17 | Jackson (James Grey) | An Account of the Empire of Marocco and the District of Suse, first edition |
1809 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 698.50 | |
| 18 | Windus (John) | A Journey to Mequinez; the residence of the present Emperor of Fez and Morocco |
1725 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 457.20 | |
| 19 | Windus (John) | Reise nach Mequinez, der Residentz des heutigen Kaysers von Fetz und Marocco... |
Hanover | 1726 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 20 | Photograph album |
[c.1900]. | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 95.25 | ||
| 21 | Pinto (Major Serpa) | How I Crossed Africa |
1881 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 22 | Salame (Abraham) | A Narrative of the Expedition to Algiers in the Year 1816 |
1819 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 177.80 | |
| 23 | Shaw (Thomas) | Travels, or Observations relating to several parts of Barbary and the Levant |
1757 | GBP 350.00 - 450.00 | GBP 355.60 | |
| 24 | Stanley (Henry Morton) | Through the Dark Continent |
1878 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 533.40 | |
| 25 | Stanley (Henry Morton) | In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria |
1890 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 190.50 |
