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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
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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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| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 251 | Beeton (Mrs. Isabella) | Mrs Beeton's Every-Day Cookery, half-title  | 
            1923 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 6.35 | |
| 252 | CocktailsThe Cocktail Key  | 
            [c.1930]. | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 63.50 | ||
| 253 | Lane (C., publisher) | Lane's Telescopic View of the Interior of the Exhibition  | 
            1851 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 825.50 | |
| 254 | GuildhallBanquet Invitations[c.55 Invitations to a Banquet at Guildhall]  | 
            v.d.,1851-1930. | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 635.00 | ||
| 255 | Agriculture BroadsidesReal Estate and Land Auction[Collection of 25 broadsides mostly relating to land and property sales]  | 
            v.d., [1843-1917]. | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 38.10 | ||
| 256 | [Hughes (Thomas)] | The Scouring of the White Horse  | 
            Cambridge | 1859 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 190.50 | 
| 257 | Dickens (Charles) | Our Mutual Friend  | 
            1864-65. | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 584.20 | |
| 258 | Suffolk bathingWoodbridge public salt water swimming bath. Subscriptions invited. Prospectus  | 
            Woodbridge | 1887. | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 259 | PanoramasWilliam Hamilton's latest novelty excursions, Sea to Sea, from the rising to the setting sun  | 
            Netherfield near Nottingham | [1894]. | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 260 | Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) | The Works  | 
            1900 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 698.50 | |
| 261 | Steiner (Rudolf) | The Way of Initiation  | 
            1908 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 190.50 | |
| 262 | Thompson (Flora) | Lark Rise to Candleford, illustrations  | 
            2009 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 12.70 | |
| 263 | Elliot (Daniel Giraud) | A Monograph of the Paradiseidae or Birds of Paradise  | 
            New York and Amsterdam | 1977 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 889.00 | 
| 264 | Burnett (M[ary] A[nn]) | Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants, Employed in the Arts and Medicine  | 
            1842-45-[47]-50. | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,016.00 | |
| 265 | Curtis (William) | Flora Londinensis; or, Plates and Descriptions of such Plants as Grow Wild in the Environs of London  | 
            Lambeth-Marsh | 1777-98 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 4,318.00 | 
| 266 | Harrison (Joseph) | The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florist's Magazine  | 
            1837-44 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 355.60 | |
| 267 | Maund (Benjamin) | The Botanic Garden; Consisting of Highly Finished Figures of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants, Cultivated in Great Britain...  | 
            1878 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 381.00 | |
| 268 | Paxton (Joseph) | Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants  | 
            1837-49 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 1,016.00 | |
| 269 | Darwin (Charles) | The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection  | 
            1885 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 254.00 | |
| 270 | Repton (Humphry) | Circle of. Landscape with oak trees from an as yet unidentified estate  | 
            1794 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 139.70 | |
| 271 | [Dezallier d'Argenville (Antoine)] | The Theory and Practice of Gardening  | 
            1728 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 190.50 | |
| 272 | GrassesPerson of Honour lately deceased. St. Foine improved: a discourse shewing the utility and benefit which England hath and may receive by the grasse called St. Foine: and answering to objections urged against it  | 
            1674 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 273 | Henry (Alken 1785-1851) | An Album of six hunting watercolours  | 
            [early 19th century] | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 279.40 | |
| 274 | Commerell (Abbe de) | An Account of the culture and use of the mangel wurzel, or root of scarcity  | 
            1788 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 69.85 | |
| 275 | Bartholin (Thomas) | Bartholinus Anatomy; made from the Precepts of his Father  | 
            1668 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 558.80 |