• 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.
  • 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
  • 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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Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 11, 2025 - September 11, 2025
Page Size: 298 items in 12 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51 Ravilious (Eric).- Archer (Caroline) and Robert Harling.

The St Bride Notebook...with wood engravings by Eric Ravilious published to celebrate the centenary of his birth

2003 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 254.00
52 Ardizzone (Edward)

Tim's Friend Towser

1962 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 44.45
53 Binyon (Helen & Margaret)

The Picnic

1944 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 101.60
54 Blake (William), After.

Eleven plates from 'Illustrations to Robert John Thornton 'The Pastorals of Virgil''

[after 1821] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 177.80
55 Buckland Wright (Christopher)

Endeavours & Experiments: John Buckland Wright's Essays in Woodcut and Colour Engraving

2004 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 635.00
56 Hermes (Gertrude) and others.

Thirteen plates from 'The Apocrypha, according to the Authorized Version'

1929 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 279.40
57 Freedman (Barnett)

15 inch gun turret, HMS "Repulse"

1941 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 101.60
58 Lawrence (John)

The Four Seasons: Four Wood Engravings made in 1982 to illustrate The Magic Apple Tree

1997 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 381.00
59 Nash (Paul)

Shell-Mex House

1933 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 431.80
60 Nash (Paul & John).- Greenwood (Jeremy)

The Wood-Engravings of Paul Nash

Woodbridge 1997 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 279.40
61 Peake (Mervyn)

Titus Groan

1946 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 165.10
62 Ross (Alan)

Time was Away: A Notebook in Corsica

1948 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 304.80
63 Swanwick (Betty)

Two original London Underground posters: Chestnut Time Bushy Park; Smithfield Club Cattle Show, Royal Agricultural Hall

1937 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 330.20
64 Turner (W. J.) & Sheila Shannon, editors.

New Excursions into English Poetry

1944-47. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 241.30
65 Whistler (Rex).- Whistler (Laurence) & Ronald Fuller.

The Work of Rex Whistler

1960 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
66 Nash (Paul).- Aldington (Richard)

Images of War, a Book of Poems

, [1919]. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 825.50
67 Nash (Paul).- M. (G.A.)

Six Satires

[1919] GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,206.50
68 Nash (Paul).- Shakespeare (William)

A Midsommer Nights Dreame...from the First Folio of 1623

Stratford-upon-Avon 1924 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 609.60
69 Nash (Paul).- Graves (Robert)

Welchman's Hose

1925 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 304.80
70 Nash (Paul).- Armstrong (Martin)

Saint Hercules and other stories

[1927] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 381.00
71 Nash (Paul).- Shakespeare (William)

The Tragedie of King Lear...from the First Folio of 1623

Stratford-upon-Avon 1924 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 254.00
72 Nash (Paul).- Lermontov (Mikhail Yurievitch)

A Song about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevitch...

1929 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 698.50
73 Nash (Paul).- Aldington (Richard)

Death of a Hero

1929 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,270.00
74 Nash (Paul).- Read (Herbert, editor)

Unit 1. The Modern Movement in English Architecture, Painting and Sculpture

1934 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 330.20
75 Ardizzone (Edward).- Yorke (Malcolm)

To War with Paper & Brush: Captain Edward Ardizzone, Official War Artist

Upper Denby 2007 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 127.00
  • 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.
  • 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.