• 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
  • University Archives
    Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books
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    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 308 - Bob Dylan Handwritten & Signed Lyrics to "Just Like a Woman" With Jeff Rosen & JSA Authentication
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 455 - Isaac Newton Admiration For Judaism & Moral Continuity With Christianity! 350+ Words in his Hand - Extraordinary Content!
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 219 - 371g Moon Meteorite, Incredible Find - Laâyoune 002
    University Archives
    Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books
    Now through Nov. 19
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 448 - Scarce Einstein AM on Unified Field Theory, 180+ Words & 11 Equations in His Hand! From His Published Article, "A Generalization of the Relativistic Theory of Gravitation"
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 159 - Woodrow Wilson Baseball Signed for WWI Red Cross Fundraiser, Ex. Forbes & PSA Authentic - Finest Known!
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 84 - Lee Harvey Oswald ALS to Brother, Trying Desperately to Get out of Russia! Highly Important
    University Archives
    Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books
    Now through Nov. 19
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 152 - George Washington Signed Discharge for MA Soldier Whose Regiment Was at Bunker Hill!
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 88 - Abraham Lincoln Fully Signed Military Appointment for Mexican War Vet & Respected Cavalryman
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 188 - Apollo XI Astronauts & Their Wives Signed Photo, Plus Crew Signed Cover, From Apollo XI Presidential Goodwill Tour Era, Pre-Cert Zarelli
    University Archives
    Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books
    Now through Nov. 19
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 265 - Martin Luther King, Jr. TLS Re: "Stride Toward Freedom" Film Rights To Literary Agent Marie Rodell
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 324 - John Lennon Signed Apple Records Check, PSA GEM MT 10! Possibly Finest Known
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 79 - John & Jacqueline Kennedy Signed WH 1963 Christmas Gift Inscribed to Close Friend Joan Braden, PSA Authentic
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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.

Marc van de Wiele Auctions: October 2025 Auction, 100925, Brugge

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 09, 2025 - October 11, 2025
Page Size: 1390 items in 56 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1107 [SPAIN - PORTUGAL]

Tabula Secunda Europe

EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,056.00
1108 [SPAIN - PORTUGAL]

Un aurrescu en Begona (Bilbao)

EUR 140.00 - 220.00 EUR 290.40
1109 [VUES d'OPTIQUE - CADIX]

Vue du Port de Cadix vers l'Occident / Vue du Port de Cadix vers l'Orient

EUR 140.00 - 220.00 EUR 184.80
1110 [VUES d'OPTIQUE - ESPAGNE]

1. Vue du Jardin de St Il de Phons. 2. Vue Perspective du derriere de la Bouvre de Seville. 3. La maison de plaisance du Roy a Buen Retiro. 4. La Prison Royale de Madrid. 5. La premiere cour et l'Eglise de l'Escural pres de Madrid. 6. Hotel des Ambassadeu

EUR 140.00 - 220.00 EUR 211.20
1111 [VUES d'OPTIQUE - MADRID]

Collection of 6 vues d'optiques de Madrid

EUR 140.00 - 220.00 EUR 211.20
1112 [VUES d'OPTIQUE - MADRID]

Collection of 6 vues d'optiques of Madrid

EUR 140.00 - 220.00 EUR 211.20
1113 [VUES d'OPTIQUE - PORTUGAL]

Vista y Prospettiva del Palacio del Rey de Portugal, en Lisbona

EUR 90.00 - 160.00 EUR 132.00
1114 [VUES d'OPTIQUE - SPAIN]

Vue Perspective du derriere de la Bouvre de Seville

EUR 220.00 - 360.00 EUR 290.40
1115 [TWO OSTRACA, WITH STONE MASON'S ACCOUNTS]

Accounts of masonry and stone, perhaps for a temple, mentioning priests and a person named Amonartis, in Demotic, on waste stone (alabaster) flakes

[Egypt (probably Luxor) Roman period (most probably 1st or 2nd century)] EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,584.00
1116 [BIBLE: EXODUS]

Large leaf from an 'Atlantic Bible', in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum

[Italy first half of 12th century] EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
1117 [BOETIUS DE DACIA, MODI SIGNIFICANDI: BY A MEDIEVAL DANISH AUTHOR]

Four single leaves, all recovered from reuse in a later binding, in Latin, from a manuscript on vellum

[Italy late 13th or early 14th century] EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 12,540.00
1118 [CALENDAR FROM A DUTCH BOOK OF HOURS]

Calendar from a Book of Hours, in Dutch, illuminated manuscript on vellum

[The Netherlands second quarter of the 15th c.] EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 3,036.00
1119 [CHARTER ISSUED BY THE LORD OF GUIGNY]

Document issued by Anthoine 'de Hardenthun (d'Anvin), lord of Guigny (Pas-de-Calais, modern France), concerning the sale of woodland to Jehan Bonnant, in French, single-sheet manuscript document on vellum

[France (Pas-de-Calais) dated 14 February 1457] EUR 240.00 - 360.00 Not Sold
1120 [CHARTER OF WERNER DER TOBENDE concerning land bought from a convent in FREIBURG, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG]

Large single document in German, on vellum

[Germany (Eschbach, a district of Freiburg in Baden-Wurttemberg) dated December 1340] EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 528.00
1121 [GREGORY THE GREAT, MORALIA IN IOB]

Cutting from a large leaf with Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob, in Latin, manuscript on vellum

[probably France late 10th c. or opening decades of the 11th c.] EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,508.00
1122 [ISIDORE OF SEVILLE, SENTENTIAE]

Remains of four bifolia from a manuscript of Isidore of Seville, Sententiae, in Latin, on paper

[Italy 15th century] EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
1123 [LAW: GRATIAN'S DECRETUM]

Two near-complete leaves from a manuscript of Gratian's Decretum, in Latin, on vellum

[France second half of 12th century (pre-1180)] EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,716.00
1124 [LAW: GRATIAN'S DECRETUM]

Two leaves from a manuscript of Gratian's Decretum, in Latin, on vellum

[Italy second half of 13th century] EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 528.00
1125 [LAW: JUSTINIAN'S DIGEST]

Seven tall rectangular cuttings from a manuscript of Justinian, Digest, in Latin, on vellum

[Italy early 14th century] EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 726.00
1126 [LEAF FROM AN EARLY SACRAMENTARY]

Single leaf from a manuscript Sacramentary, in Latin, on vellum

[Germany 11th century (probably 1st half, perhaps c. 1000] EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,112.00
1127 [LEAVES FROM A TINY BOOK OF HOURS]

Three leaves, in Latin, from an illuminated manuscript on vellum

[France c. 1470] EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
1128 [LEGAL TREATISES: ONE ON IMPRISIONMENT]

Two leaves with legal treatises, including De carceribus, in Latin, manuscript on paper

[Italy first half of the 15th century] EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 528.00
1129 [OWNERSHIP INSCRIPTION OF JOANNES TOR MOLLEN OF MUNSTER]

Leaf with lengthy ownership inscription of Joannes tor Mollen, canon of the old St. Paul's Cathedral, Munster, recording his gift of the book this once attached to, to the Church of St. Laurentius in nearby Warendorf on 15 March 1547, in Latin, manuscript

[Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia, Munster) dated 1547] EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 396.00
1130 [PROCESSIONAL FRAGMENTS WITH A HUMAN FACE]

Cuttings from two leaves from a Processional, in Latin, manuscript on paper

[Low Countries or perhaps France c. 1500] EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 396.00
1131 [SMALL ARCHIVE OF DOCUMENTS, mostly concerning the BAKER'S GUILD IN EGGENFELDEN]

2 wills, one including a large gift to the baker's guild, and a formal record of the requirements of the junior bakers entering the baker's guild in the town, all in German, each on a single-sheet of vellum

[south-east Germany (Eggenfelden) 1456-1466] EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,320.00
  • 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
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    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
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  • 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.