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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Fearnside (W. G.) | Black and Armstrong, c. 1850 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 428.00 | ||
| 102 | The Thames. A collection of topography and literature, including: |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 103 | Morris (F. O., Revd.) editor, | A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland with Descriptive and Historical Letterpress, |
[1880] | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 239.00 | |
| 104 | Butler (Arthur G.) | Foreign Finches in Captivity, |
1894-96 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 882.00 | |
| 105 | Crawshay (Richard) | The Birds of Tierra del Fuego, |
1907 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 454.00 | |
| 106 | Daniell (William) | Interesting Selections from Animated Nature with Illustrated Scenery, |
[1807- 1812] | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 882.00 | |
| 107 | Emerson (P.H.) | Wild Life on a Tidal Water, The Adventures of a House-Boat and Her Crew , |
1890 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 403.00 | |
| 108 | Furber (Robert) after & Bowles (John) | Five plates from 'Flora, or a curious collection of ye most Beautiful Flowers as they appear in their greatest perfection each Month of the Year' (January, March, April, July and November), |
Cornhill | [1749] (5) | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,260.00 |
| 109 | Lear (Edward) | Illustrations of Birds drawn for John Gould, |
2012 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,386.00 | |
| 110 | Low (David) | The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands. |
1842 | GBP 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 | GBP 2,394.00 | |
| 111 | Milne-Edwards, (Henri & Alphonse) | Recherches pour servir a l'histoire naturelle des mammiferes comprenant ... |
Paris | 1868-1874. | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 353.00 |
| 112 | Natural History & Science. A collection of 38 volumes, including: |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 328.00 | |||
| 113 | Jolley (A. E.) | Four albums of ornithological research: 'Rathlin Island, 1946'; Wexford & Saltee Islands, 1947'; 'Minsmere, Suffolk, 1949'; and another; |
1922-1923 (6) | GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | GBP 252.00 | |
| 114 | Roberts (Dr. Austin) | The Birds of South Africa, |
1940 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 115 | Sclater (Philip Lutley) and Oldfield (Thomas) | The Book of Antelopes, |
1894-1900. | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 116 | Bannerman (David Armitage) | The Birds of The British Isles, 12 vols., First editions, illustrated by George E. Lodge, original cloth gilt and dust jackets with pictorial onlay, |
1953 - 63 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 126.00 | |
| 117 | Shaw (George) & Nodder (Frederick P.) | The Naturalist's Miscellany: or Coloured Figures of Natural Objects; Drawn and Described Immediately from Nature, |
24 vols. bound in 12 | all but a few hand-coloured or printed in colour | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 5,292.00 |
| 118 | Strickland (Hugh Edwin, & Alexander Gordon Melville). | The Dodo and its Kindred; 1848 |
Reeve | 1848 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,260.00 |
| 119 | Thomson (James) | Arcana Naturae, |
Paris | 1859 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 252.00 |
| 120 | Westwood (John Obadiah) | Thesaurus entomologicus Oxoniensis..., |
Oxford | 1874 | GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | GBP 277.00 |
| 121 | Wolf (Joseph) | The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, |
1874 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 122 | Unrecorded broadside The Miraculous Lamb, |
n.d. [c.1700] | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 1,764.00 | ||
| 123 | Godfridus. | The knowledge of things unknown [1711] |
1711 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 580.00 | |
| 124 | Halsall (Edward) | 'Practical Geometry', manuscript workbook, with numerous technical diagrams, calculations, tables, etc., |
GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 63.00 | ||
| 125 | Science. A large collection of offprints and separately-published articles, including numerous presentation copies inscribed by the authors: |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 945.00 |
