• 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.
  • 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

Chiswick Auctions: Books and Works on Paper, 93025a, London

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 30, 2025 - September 30, 2025
Page Size: 228 items in 10 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Amaduzzi (G. C.)

Iohannis Christophori Amadutii epistola ad Iohannem Baptistam Bodonium qua emendatur et suppletur commentarium de Anacreontis genere ejusque bibliotheca,

Parma 1791 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
2 Eusebius Caesarienis

Historia ecclesiastica (translated by Rufinus Aquileiensis).

Mantua [not before 15] July 1479 GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 GBP 3,780.00
3 Facciolati, Jacopo & Egidio Forcellini, Giuseppe Furlanetto

Totius Latinitatis Lexicon

Hebrew Publishing Co. New York [1925] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
4 [Marriage of Louis, Dauphin of France]

Fete publique donnee par la ville de Paris a l'occasion du Mariage de Monseigneur le Dauphin Le 13 Fevrier MDCCXLVII,

1747 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 882.00
5 History: Pausanias & Gerbel, Pausanias & Loescher (Abraham) translator,

Pausaniae de tota Graecia libri decem : quibus non solum vrbium situs, locorumq[ue] interualla accurate est complexus...,

Basileae 1550 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
6

Leaf from a Book of Hours, in Latin, manuscript on vellum

France or Low Countries second half of the fifteenth century GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 252.00
7

Leaf from a Book of Hours with a cockerel, attributed to the circle of William Vrelant, in Latin, manuscript on vellum

Flanders (Bruges) second half of the fifteenth century GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 328.00
8

Leaf from a Book of Hours, most probably for the Use of Paris, with a decorated border, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum

Central France c.1460 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 214.00
9 Baudoin [Jean] [Aesop's Fables]

Les fables D'Esope Phrygien,

Amsterdam 1701 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 76.00
10 Palladio (Andrea) & Leoni (Giacomo)

The Architecture of A. Palladio

Printed by John Watts 1715 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 151.00
11 Philip II

Important series of 29 Letters signed 'yo el Rey', including one Autograph subscription by Philip II to his Ambassador in France,

Flushing Laredo, Valladolid, Toledo, Madrid 22 August 1559 to 14 April 1561 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
12 Sudorius (Nicolaus) [Nicolas Le Sueur] translator,

Olympia Pindari Latino carmine reddita,

Lutetiae [Paris] 1576 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 76.00
13 Xenophon.

Xenophontis, philosophi et imperatoris clarissimi, quae exstant opera, in duos tomos divisa ...

Paris 1625 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
14 Abdullah Yusuf Ali

The Holy Qur-an: 1938. Inscribed

[1938] GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
15

The Holy Bible, together with The New Testament... Translated from the Original Tongues into the Bengalee Language by the Serampore Missionaries,

Serampore 1832 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 479.00
16

Bible [English] The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments...,

[Amsterdam?] 1715; also bound with GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
17

[Diurnale monasticum secundum rubricam Romanam, et secundum ritum consuetudinemque fratrum monasterii s s. Udalrici et afre augustensis ordinis sancti Benedicti.]

[(Augsburg 13 December 1572)] GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 315.00
18 Forlong (James)

A Student's Synchronological Chart of the Religions of the World, Presentation copy, inscribed by the author upper left

1900 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 378.00
19 Beausobre (Isaac de)

Histoire Critique de Manichee et du Manicheisme, 2 vols.,

Amsterdam 1734 & 39. GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
20 Eachard (John)

The grounds & occasions of the contempt of the clergy and religion enquired into. In a letter written to R.L.

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
21

Missale Romanum ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum...,

Antwerp 1737 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 126.00
22 [Raleigh (Sir Walter)]

The History of the World,

[1617] GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 605.00
23 Hastings (Warren)

Debates in the House of Lords on the Evidence Delivered in the Trial of Warren Hastings..., 1797.

5 July 1807 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 5,544.00
24 Guillim (John)

A Display of Heraldrie: Manifesting a more easie accesse to the knowledge thereof then hath beene hitherto published...,

second issue with 1611 to title page (first issued 1610) GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 277.00
25 Guys (Pierre-Augustin)

Voyage Litteraire de la Grece, 2 vols

Paris 1783; GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
  • 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.
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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.