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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: Online: Books and Works on Paper, 1048, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- October 09, 2025 - October 09, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | Marcus Tullius Cicero | De finibus bonorum et malorum ad M. Brutum libri quinque |
Paris | 1544 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 381.00 |
| 27 | Andrea Alciato | Diverse imprese accommodate a diverse moralita... |
Lyon | 1551 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 952.50 |
| 28 | Giovanni Battista da Monte | Expectatissimae in Aphorismos Hippocratis lectiones |
Venice | 1553 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 355.60 |
| 29 | Publius Terentius Afer | Comeodiae |
Lyon | 1557 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 304.80 |
| 30 | Gabriel Simeoni | Le sententiose imprese di monsignor Paulo Giouio... |
Lyon | 1562 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 381.00 |
| 31 | Andrea Alciatus | Omnia emblemata... |
Lyon | 1580 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 952.50 |
| 32 | Aesop | Emblemata.- Aesop. Fabulae... |
Paris | 1585 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 381.00 |
| 33 | Publius Ovidius Naso | Metamorphoses argumentis brevioribus... |
Antwerp | 1591 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 635.00 |
| 34 | Giovanni Battista Della Porta | Della Fisonomia dell'Huomo |
Padova | 1613 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 482.60 |
| 35 | Natale Conti | Mythologiae sive explicationis fabularum libri decem |
Padova | 1616 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 762.00 |
| 36 | Enea Vico | Augustarum imagines aereis formis expressae |
Paris | 1619 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 406.40 |
| 37 | Joannes Meursius | Pisistratus, sive de ejus vita & tyrannide, liber singularis |
Leiden | 1623 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 228.60 |
| 38 | Maximillian de Bethune, Duc de Sully | Memoires de Sages et Royales Oeconomies d'Estat, Domestiques, Politiques et Militaires de Henry le Grand |
Amstelredam [sic] [& Paris] | early 19th century | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 533.40 |
| 39 | Johann Heinrich Hottinger | Thesaurus philologicus, seu clavis scripturae: qua quiquid fere Orientalium, Hebraeorum maxime & Arabum |
Zurich, | 1659 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 114.30 |
| 40 | Fajardo Diego de Saavedra | Idea principis christiano-politici, symbolis CI expressa |
Paris | 1660 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 279.40 |
| 41 | Johann Kirchmann | De Funeribus Romanorum... |
Leiden | 1672 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 203.20 |
| 42 | Leonardo Agostini | Gemmae et Sculpturae Antiquae Depictae, second edition |
Franeker | 1694 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 406.40 |
| 43 | Jacques-Joseph Le Maire | Les Voyages du sieur Le Maire aux isles Canaries, Cap-Verd, Senegal et Gambie sous M. Dancourt |
Paris | 1695 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 533.40 |
| 44 | Bible, French & Latin. La Sainte Bible Traduite en Francois, le Latin de la Vulgate a cote... |
1701 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 45 | Pieter Marin | Groot Nederduitsch en Fransch Woorden-Boek |
Dordrecht &Amsterdam | 1730 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 165.10 |
| 46 | Nicolas Dutot | Reflexions Politiques sur les Finances, et le Commerce |
A la Haye | 1740 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 177.80 |
| 47 | Jan Jacob Schultens | Dissertationis academicae de utilitate dialectorum orientalium ad tuendam intergritatem codicis Hebraei |
Leiden | 1742 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 48 | Giovanni Cristoforo Amaduzzi | Alphabetum Hebraicum addito Samaritano et Rabbinico... |
Rome | 1771 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 254.00 |
| 49 | William Shakespeare | Shakespeare Traduit de l'Anglois, Dedie au Roi, 20 vol., translated by Pierre Le Tourneur |
Paris | 1776-83 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 127.00 |
| 50 | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Les Confessions de J.J. Rousseau, suivies a des Reveries du Promeneur Solitaire, 2 vol. |
Geneva | 1782 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 508.00 |
