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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. -
![<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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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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Parker (E. H.) | Up the Yang-Tse |
1891 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 889.00 | |
| 102 | Perlmann (S. M.) | Hassinim (The Chinese) |
1911 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 279.40 | |
| 103 | Petrucci (Raphael, translator) | Kiai-Tseu-Yuan Houa Tchouan...Encyclopedie de la Peinture Chinoise |
Paris | 1918 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 177.80 |
| 104 | Price (R. F., editor) | [Education during the Reign of Kuang Hsu (1875-1908) |
[1978]. | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 31.75 | |
| 105 | Qianlong, Emperor of China. | Eloge de la Ville de Moukden, et de ses environs...accompagne de notes curieuses sur la Geographie |
Cordier Sinica | 1790 | GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | GBP 355.60 |
| 106 | Staunton (Sir George Thomas, translator) | Narrative of the Chinese Embassy to the Khan of the Tourgoth Tartars |
1821 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 1,397.00 | |
| 107 | [Shichen (Xi)] | [Album of Human Figures], 8 double-page colour plates bound concertina-style |
[c.1920]; | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 38.10 | |
| 108 | Stein (Sir Marc Aurel) | Ruins of Desert Cathay |
1912 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 698.50 | |
| 109 | Story (Douglas) | To-Morrow in the East, original pictorial cloth |
1907 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 110 | Various cartographers (18th and 19th century) | Collection of 17 maps of China and its environs |
18th and 19th century | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 406.40 | |
| 111 | Vintage Chinese Cultural Revolution Communist Propaganda Posters, collection of vintage propaganda posters |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 3,048.00 | |||
| 112 | Wright (Rev. George Newenham) | China, in a Series of Views... |
[1843]. | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 698.50 | |
| 113 | Budge (E.A. Wallis, editor and translator) | The Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum |
1895 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 95.25 | |
| 114 | Legh (Thomas) | Narrative of a Journey in Egypt and the Country beyond the Cataracts |
1816 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 254.00 | |
| 115 | Lucas (Paul) | Voyage...dans la Turquie, l'Asie, Sourie, Palestine, Haute & Basse Egypte |
Amsterdam | 1720 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 381.00 |
| 116 | Alpini (Prospero) | Medicina Aegyptiorum libri quatuor [&] Jacob de Bondt. De medicina Indorum |
Paris | 1645 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 825.50 |
| 117 | Murtadha ibn Al-Khafif. | L'Egypte de Murtadi, fils du Gaphiphe, ou il est Traite des Pyramides, du Debordement du Nil |
Paris | 1666 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 118 | Foy-Vaillant (Jean) | Historia Ptolemaeorum Aegypti regum, ad fidem numismatum accommodata |
Amsterdam | 1701 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 119 | Scholtz (Christian) | Grammatica Aegyptiaca utriusque dialecti |
Oxford | 1778 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 120 | Topographisches Bureau des K.K. Generalq (Publisher) | Das Oesterreichische-Kaiserthum : mit betrachtlichen Theilen der angrenzenden Staaten / in dem Topographischen Bureau des K.K. Generalquartiermeisterstabs ... |
1822 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 152.40 | |
| 121 | Chauchard (Captain Jean Baptiste Hippolyte) | A General Map of the Empire of Germany, Holland, The Netherlands, Switzerland... |
1800 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 95.25 | |
| 122 | [Communist Propaganda Posters] |
[c.1940s]. | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 177.80 | ||
| 123 | [Dennis (George)] | A Summer in Andalucia |
1839 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 330.20 | |
| 124 | Fellowes (William Dorset) | A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817 |
1820 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 190.50 | |
| 125 | Faivre (Jules-Abel) | Chamonix Mont-Blanc. 60 ans de sports d'hiver |
[circa 1960] | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 355.60 |
![<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.")
