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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 -
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.
Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper, 1188, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- September 25, 2025 - September 25, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Printed on vellum.- [Book of Hours, use of Paris] |
[Paris] | [?late 1490s] | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 3,302.00 | |
| 2 | Hortulus Animae |
Strassburg | 1509 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 2,794.00 | |
| 3 | Erasmus (Desiderius) | Moriae Encomium. Erasmi Roterodami declamatio |
Strasbourg | August 1511 | GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 4 | Fulvio (Andrea) | Numismatics.- Illustrium imagines |
Rome | 1517 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 1,778.00 |
| 5 | Appianus, Alexandrinus | Sir William Pickering's copy.- Appianus, Alexandrinus Des guerres des Rommains, Livres XI, scarce |
Paris | 1552 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,016.00 |
| 6 | Maraffi (Damiano) | Le Figure del Vecchio Testamento con versi Toscani |
Lyon | 1554 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 1,397.00 |
| 7 | Suetonius Tranquillus (Caius) | De la vie des XII Cesars |
Lyon | 1556 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 736.60 |
| 8 | [Melanchthon (Philipp) & Johann Bugenhagen] | Annotated.- Den rette Ordinants som paa Herre dagen i Ottense bleff offuerseet oc beseglet |
Copenhagen | 1617 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 635.00 |
| 9 | de Bisschop (Jan) | Paradigmata Graphices Variorum Artificum; Signorum Veterm Icones |
Amsterdam | c.1670 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,016.00 |
| 10 | Altamitano (Joseph Cerbantes) | Law.- Iuridico Informe por la Iusticia de el B. D. Rafael Ome, Capitan D. Manuel Sarmiento ... en la causa |
[Manila] | [25 November, 1679] | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 11 | Binding.- Die Psalmen Davids |
Basel | 1684 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 3,302.00 | |
| 12 | Binding.- Bible, French. Le Nouveau Testament |
Mons | 1710 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 13 | Gueriniere (Francois Robichon de la) | Horses.- Ecole de Cavalerie, contenat la Connoissance |
Paris | 1733 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 2,794.00 |
| 14 | Luther (Martin) | Binding.- Bible, German.- Biblia Das ist: Die gantze Heil Schrift Alten und Neuen |
Berlin | 1743 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,905.00 |
| 15 | La Fontaine (Jean de) | Fables Choisies, mises en vers |
Paris | 1765-75 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | GBP 952.50 |
| 16 | Chekhov (Anton) | [The Man in the Case] |
Moscow | 1898 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 17 | Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle) | "Colette". L'Entrave |
Paris | 1913 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 889.00 |
| 18 | Breton (Andre) | Manifeste du Surrealisme: Poisson Soluble |
Paris | 1924 | GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 19 | Raymond of Penafort (Saint) | Summa de casibus poenitentialis [&] Summa de matrimonio, decorated |
Catalonia | (c. 1175-1275) | GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 20 | Book of Hours, Use of Paris |
GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | GBP 25,400.00 | |||
| 21 | Beaufort (Edmund, first Duke of Somerset, magnate and soldier, c. 1406-55) & Gilbert Motier de La Fayette, Marshal of France, 1380-1463) | Fall of Rouen in the Hundred Years War |
[?England] | 29th October 1449 [late 15th century] | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 5,715.00 |
| 22 | Brandt (Sebastian, German humanist and satirist, 1457/1458 -1521) | Ad magnificum et nobilem |
[probably Germany] | [first half of the sixteenth century] | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 23 | Parr (Catherine, Queen of England and Ireland, sixth consort of Henry VIII, 1512-48) | Prayers |
n.p. | n.d. [c. 1550 & later] | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 17,780.00 |
| 24 | Heraldry.- The first Booke... of the manuscript whence I transcribed these names with their beareings depickd... |
1601 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 25 | Medical.- Recettes Medicales, manuscript in French with some Dutch insertions |
[c. early 17th century] | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
![<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.")
![<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.")
