• 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.
  • 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.

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
51 Capper, (Colonel James)

Account of the First Anglo-Maratha War, addressed to Lord North;

1774-81. GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,772.00
52 Coote (General Sir Eyre)

Collection of letters.-

Lucknow 29 January 1780; GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 GBP 2,016.00
53 Evatt, M.D. (Surgeon-Major G.J.H.Evatt)

Personal Recollections of the Afghan Campaigns of 1878-79-80. The "Death-march" through the Khyber Pass in the Afghan campaign 1878-79 ... Reprinted from ... "Journal of the United Service Institution of India," 1890,

1890 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 189.00
54 Gandhi (Mahatma), Chaplin (Charles) Sutherland, (Jabez T.)

India in Bondage: Her Right to Freedom and a Place Among the Great Nations,

New York 1929 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 4,284.00
55 Gandhi (Mahatma) Barber (Samuel Hilton)

Transvaal Gold Law,

Cape Town [1904], GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 4,284.00
56 Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi), Queshi, Mohandas Karamchand, Shuaid

Young India,

Ahmedabad August 1921 -- April 1922. GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 819.00
57 Hastings (Warren)

Autograph letter signed

Calcutta 10 July 1775 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 882.00
58 Hastings (Warren)

Als to L. McLean,

Fort William 11 June 1777. GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,260.00
59 Hastings (Warren)

The engrossed gratulatory letter addressed to Warren Hastings and signed by 178 officers of the Bengal Army written on the occasion of his acquittal, vellum scroll, 4

1795 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 3,780.00
60 Imperial India Company

Share Certificate No 4285

30th September 1723 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 214.00
61 Matthew John Harpley

The Indian Mutiny: Collection of 56 letters from Matthew John Harpley to his family from Allahabad, Cawnpore, Lucknow, Calcutta etc,

1857- 1863. GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 GBP 3,276.00
62 Watson (Lieutenant T.J.)

Collection of correspondence of Lieutenant Watson regarding the Indian Mutiny

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 8,190.00
63 [Col. (later Major General Sir) Arthur Mitford Becher,]

The Indian Mutiny - Letters from various Officers etc., to Mrs Frances Becher regarding the siege to Delhi,

1857 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,772.00
64 Dodgson, Capt. D.C.

Letters concerning the incident at Alambagh, Lucknow 26th.Sept. 1857.

1857 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,890.00
65 Evans, (John) Soldier.

Correspondence 3 x Als 7th & 18th October 1857.

1857 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,260.00
66

Indian Mutiny. Map of Delhi and an autograph letter,

17 December 1857 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 882.00
67 Westmacott (G.R.)

Als' G. R. Westmacott to his aunt regarding the Indian Mutiny

1857-1861 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 2,268.00
68 Nehru (Jawaharlal)

Six letters from Jawaharlal Nehru to Lord Pethick-Lawrence 5 on headed paper as Prime Minister of India expressing interest in his forthcoming book on Gandhi;

1948-1957 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,890.00
69 Smythe, (Francis Sydney)

Autograph letter to the Christy Lecture Agency regarding Everest Expedition of 1933

Base Camp 1933-06-24 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 403.00
70 Tipoo Sultaun

Official documents relative to the negotiations carried on by Tipoo Sultaun, with the French Nation and other foreign states,

GBP 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 3,024.00
71 Boeck (Kurt)

Himalaya Album. Bilder aus den indischen Alpen.

Baden-Baden [1894] GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,197.00
72 Holmes, (Randloph Bezzant) Photographer

Three Pathan Portraits,,

[c. 1915] GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
73 Howard-Bury, D.S.O, (Lieutenant-Colonel C.K.)

Vintage photographs from the First Assault on Everest.

GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,394.00
74

Order of the Black Heart

1930 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
75 Johnston & Hoffman

'Souvenir of the Royal Visit to Calcutta',

Calcutta 1906-01-01 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,008.00
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    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
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    Lot 75. The Second Printed Map of the North American Continent - Full Contemporary Color (1593) Est. $35,000 - $40,000
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