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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. -
![<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.
Chiswick Auctions: Books and Works on Paper, 93025a, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- September 30, 2025 - September 30, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76 | Photography -- India -- Cricket | Photograph of the Dhaka College Cricket Team, |
1896 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 77 | Photographic albumen prints, Afghanistan -- North West Fontier |
. [1878 -- 1880] | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 78 | Jamini Roy at work, two black and white photographs, each showing the artist at work on a painting of a cow, |
Calcutta | 1942 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 1,008.00 | |
| 79 | Lin-Le [Augustus F. Lindley] | Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh; The History Of The Ti- Ping Revolution, Including A Narrative Of The Author's Personal Adventures, |
Day & Son | 1866 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 113.00 |
| 80 | Odell (Noel E.) [1890 -- 1938] | Archive Everest Expeditions. 1924 and 1938 |
1924 and 1938 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 6,300.00 | |
| 81 | Harrington & Company | Country Dancers. 'Tibetans'; 'The Witch of Gloom' & 2 others, albumen prints, |
Darjeeling | [c. 1890's] | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 82 | A Gold Damascened Iron Pen Case |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,008.00 | |||
| 83 | Ogawa [Kazumasa] | Scenes in Nikko and Vicinity [with] Costumes & Customs in Japan, 2 vols. |
1895 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 227.00 | |
| 84 | Photographs. [Japan]. |
[c. 1885] | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 189.00 | ||
| 85 | Heyder (H. M.) Captain, Northumberland Fusilliers | 'War Diary 1919' [Turkey and Georgia] A typewritten account, |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 1,386.00 | ||
| 86 | Mirkhand Books 3 and 4, Rawzat As-Safa Fi Sirat Al Anbia Wa'l Moluk Wa'l Khulafa (The Garden of Purity in the Histories of the Prohets, and Kings and Caliphs), |
Iran | 18th century | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 2,772.00 | |
| 87 | Saadi (1210-1291) | Poetry folio from book 2, Bustan (The Orchard, completed 1257), with four miniatures, |
mostly Iran | 18th and 19th century | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 88 | Trinkler (Emil) | Through the Heart of Afghanistan, |
1928 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 151.00 | |
| 89 | Curzon Jun. (Hon. Robert) | Visits to Monasteries in the Levant, First edition, engraved frontispiece, vignette title and 15 plates (1 folding), |
1849 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 252.00 | |
| 90 | Walsh (Robert) | Narrative of a Journey from Constantinople to England, |
1828 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 189.00 | |
| 91 | Le Vaillant (Francois) | Voyage...dans l'Interieur de l'Afrique, par Le Cap de Bonne-Esperance. |
Paris | 1790. --Second Voyage dans l'Interieur de l'Afrique. | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 92 | Slavery in South Africa. | A collection of letters and documents. |
1816-1838. | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 1,008.00 | |
| 93 | Edwards (Bryan) | The History, Civil And Commercial, Of The British Colonies In The West Indies, |
1807 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 101.00 | |
| 94 | Mountford (Charles P.) | Nomads of the Australian Desert, |
Adelaide | 1976 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 95 | The City of... Berlin, Leipzig & Breslau, |
[1794 - 1812] | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 63.00 | ||
| 96 | Spain: Travel and history, including Peninsular War |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 97 | [Percy (M. J.) artist] | Rose Castle. |
[1829] | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 98 | Dugdale (Thomas) | Curiosities of Great Britain. England & Wales Delineated, |
L. Tallis | n.d. | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 99 | HMSO Royal Commission on London Traffic. |
HMSO | 1906 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 100 | Jefferys (Thomas) | A Profile of the River Thames from Boulters Lock to Mortlake Surveyed by Order of the City of London in 1770 by James Brindley Engineer, |
1771 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 126.00 |
