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![<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.")
Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
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. -
![<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.")
Dominic Winter
Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
5th November, 2025Dominic 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, 2025Dominic 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, 2025Dominic 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, 2025Dominic 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, 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 127 | Carlos Clarke (Bob) | Photography.- Dark Deluxe: the Bob Carlos Clarke Opus |
2021 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 3,302.00 | |
| 128 | McCartney (Sir Paul) | 1964: Eyes of the Storm |
2023 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 2,794.00 | |
| 129 | McCartney (Sir Paul) | The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present |
2021 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 5,334.00 | |
| 130 | Kirby (John Joshua) | Architecture.- The Perspective of Architecture |
1761 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 508.00 | |
| 131 | Palladio (Andrea) | Architecture.- The First Book of Andrea Palladio's Architecture |
n.p. | 1742 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 1,460.50 |
| 132 | Vitruvius Pollio (Marcus) | Architecture.- Architecture ou Art de bien bastir |
Paris | 1547 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 2,540.00 |
| 133 | Buller (Sir Walter Lawry) | Birds.- A History of the Birds of New Zealand |
1888 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 3,810.00 | |
| 134 | Dresser (Henry Eeles) | Birds.- A Monograph of the Coraciidae |
Farnborough | 1893 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 2,794.00 |
| 135 | Gould (John) | Birds.- The Birds of Great Britain |
1862-73 | GBP 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 136 | Curtis (William) & John Sims | Botany.- The Botanical Magazine |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 5,715.00 | ||
| 137 | Sowerby (James) | Botany.- English Botany |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 1,143.00 | ||
| 138 | Verneuil (Maurice Pillard) | Botany.- Encyclopedie Artistique et Documentaire de la Plante |
Paris | [c.1910] | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 381.00 |
| 139 | Jonston (John) | Historiae Naturalis... |
Frankfurt am Main | [1650-1653] | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 2,794.00 |
| 140 | Sclater (P.L.) and Oldfield Thomas | The Book of Antelopes |
1894-1900 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,651.00 | |
| 141 | White (Rev. Gilbert) | The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne |
1789 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 142 | Tsiolkovsky (Konstantin) | Aeronautics.- Soprotivlenie vozdukha i skoryi poezd [Air Resistance and the Fast Train] |
1927 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 571.50 | |
| 143 | Harvey (William) | Anatomy.- Opera sive Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus |
Leiden | 1737 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 2,032.00 |
| 144 | Needham (Walter) | Anatomy.- Disquisitio Anatomica de Formato Foetu |
1667 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 762.00 | |
| 145 | Turing (Alan Mathison) | Artificial Intelligence.- "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", in Mind |
New York | 1950 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 10,795.00 |
| 146 | Darwin (Charles) | On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection |
1860 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 2,794.00 | |
| 147 | Ronalds (Francis) | Development of the telegraph.- Descriptions of an Electrical Telegraph, and of some other electrical apparatus |
1823 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 508.00 | |
| 148 | Pasteur (Louis) | Fermentation.- Memoire sur les Corpuscules Organises qui existent dans l'atmosphere, offprint from Annales de Chimie et de Physique |
Paris | 1862 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 1,905.00 |
| 149 | Dufrenoy (Armand) and Jean-Baptiste Elie de Beaumont | Geology.- France.- Carte geologique de la France executee sous la direction de Mr. Brochant de Villiers, Inspecteur general des Mines... |
1870 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,524.00 | |
| 150 | Artis (Edmund Tyrell) | Fossils.- Antediluvian Phytology |
1825 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 151 | Nicols (Thomas) | Gemology.- A Lapidary: or, The History of Pretious Stones |
Cambridge | 1652 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,270.00 |
