• 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
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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.
  • 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.

Forum Auctions: Online: Travel Books, Maps and Atlases, 1044, London

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
August 28, 2025 - August 28, 2025
Page Size: 379 items in 16 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 Stanley (Henry Morton)

In Darkest Africa

1890 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 177.80
27 Tuckey (Captain J. K.)

Narrative of an Expedition to explore The River Zaire

1818 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
28 Tully (Richard, editor)

Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at Tripoli in Africa

1816 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 482.60
29 Various cartographers (18th and 19th century)

Collection of 26 maps of Africa, North Africa and the Mediterranean

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 330.20
30 Werne (Ferdinand)

Expedition to disvover the source of The White Nile, in the Years 1840, 1841

1849 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
31 Willoughby (Capt. Sir John C.)

East Africa and its Big Game, half-title

1889 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 508.00
32 Lada-Mocarski (Valerian)

Bibliography of Books on Alaska Published Before 1868

1969 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 152.40
33 Mackenzie (Roderick)

Strictures on Lt. Col. Tarleton's History "Of the Campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in the Southern Provinces of North America"...

1787 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 584.20
34 de Humboldt (Alexander)

Researches Concerning the Institutions & Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of America

1814 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 330.20
35 Bennett (William James)

West Point, from Phillipstown, aquatint and engraving with vivid original hand-colouring by Hill

1831 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
36 Hunter (John D.)

Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians, portrait frontispiece

1823 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 304.80
37 Jaillot (Alexis-Hubert)

and Nicolas Sanson. Amerique Septentrionale Divisee en ses Principales Parties, ou sont Distingues les uns des Autres les Estats Suivant qu'ils Appartiennent Presentemet aux Francois

1719 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 558.80
38 Jefferys (Thomas)

The American Atlas 1776, out-of-series copy from an edition of 200, 30 maps

1976 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 127.00
39 Laurie & Whittle (publishers)

A New and General Map of the Southern Dominions Belonging to The United States of America, engraved map with original hand-colouring

1794 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 533.40
40

Mug Shots

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 63.50
41 Bennett (William James)

View of the New York Quarantine, Staten Island

1833 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
42 Illustrated London News (The)

New York from Bergen Hill: Hoboken

1876 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,143.00
43 Leizelt (Balthasar Friedrich)

Vue de la Nouvelle Yorck [Vue d'optique of New York]

19th century (c.60) GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 330.20
44 Various cartographers (18th and 19th century)

Collection of 13 maps of the Americas

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,016.00
45 Waterton (Charles)

Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles

1825 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 825.50
46 Robert de Vaugondy (Gilles)

L'Amerique septentrionale et meridionale divisee suivant ses differens pays

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 228.60
47 Robson (Joseph)

An Account of six years residence in Hudson's-Bay, from 1733 to 1736 and 1744 to 1747

1752 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 431.80
48 Imray & Son (James)

West Coast of North America from San Francisco to Queen Charlotte Ids.

1883 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 241.30
49 Keith (Sir George Mouat)

A Voyage to South America and the Cape of Good Hope, in His Majesty's Brig Protector

1819 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 190.50
50 Various cartographers (18th and 19th century)

Collection of 55 maps of South America

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 508.00
  • 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
  • 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.