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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
Sworders: Books, Manuscripts and Maps, A1231, Essex
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- November 02, 2025 - November 02, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 125 | Gosse, Philip Henry | Illustrations of the birds of Jamaica |
London | 1849 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | Unknown |
| 126 | Mulsant, E | BIRDS: 1- Lettres A Julie sur L'ornithologie |
Paris | [1868] | GBP 150.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 127 | Rudbeck, Olof | Book of Birds |
Stockholm | 1986 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown |
| 128 | Kuroda, Nagamichi | Birds of the Island of Java |
Tokyo | 1933 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 129 | Peterson, Roger Tory & Virginia Marie (eds) | Signed Limited edn: Audubon's Birds of America |
New York | 1981 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown |
| 130 | CHAPMAN, Abel | UNIQUE COPY, with Five Original Drawings |
1928 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown | |
| 131 | Meinertzhagen, Col. Richard | 1- Birds of Arabia |
Edinburgh | 1954 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 132 | Brown, L H; Urban, E K; & Newman, K | AFRICAN BIRDS: 1- The Birds of Africa |
1982-2004 | GBP 250.00 - 400.00 | Unknown | |
| 133 | Reichenbach, Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig | Die vollstandigste Naturgeschichte der Sumpfvogel |
Dresden und Leipzig | -1851 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 134 | Watling, Thomas | PLATES: Australian bird drawings |
1923 | GBP 150.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 135 | David A BANNERMAN | David A BANNERMAN: Working copies |
GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | Unknown | ||
| 136 | Mantell & Gould | PLATES: 1- Notice of the discovery by Mr. Walter Mantell in the Middle Island of New Zealand, of a living specimen of the Notornis |
GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | ||
| 137 | Lodge, George Edward | ART: 1- Memoirs of an Artist Naturalist |
1946 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 138 | Shelley, GE | EGYPT: 1- A Handbook to the Birds of Egypt |
1872 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | Unknown | |
| 139 | GOULD, John | AUSTRALIA: 1- A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and the Adjacent Islands |
Melbourne | 1979 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | Unknown |
| 140 | Thorburn, A | BIRDS: 1- A Naturalist's Sketch Book |
1919 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | Unknown | |
| 141 | Keulemans, Tony and Coldewey, Jan | BIOGRAPHY: 1- Signed Limited Edn: Feathers to Brush: The Victorian Bird Artist John Gerrard Keulemans 1842-1912 |
The Netherlands | 1982 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown |
| 142 | Salim and S. Dillon Ripley | ASIA: 1- Ali, Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan |
Bombay | 1968-74 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown |
| 143 | SCOTLAND: 1- Scottish Birds; The Journal of the Scottish Ornithologists' Club |
1958-1985 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | Unknown | ||
| 144 | WALPOLE-BOND, John | UK Counties: A History of Sussex Birds |
1938 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | Unknown | |
| 145 | Verner, Willoughby | SPAIN, Etc: 1- My Life Among the Wild Birds in Spain |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown | ||
| 146 | Ogilvie-Grant, W R | BIRDS: Ruwenzori expedition reports |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | Unknown | ||
| 147 | Maumary L; Laurent Vallotton & Peter knaus | EUROPE: Les Oiseaux de Suisse |
2007 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown | |
| 148 | DRESSER H. E: A | Eggs of the Birds of Europe |
London | [1905]-1910 | GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | Unknown |
| 149 | Hewitson, William C | Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds |
1846 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | Unknown |
