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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 
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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
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    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 75. The Second Printed Map of the North American Continent - Full Contemporary Color (1593) Est. $35,000 - $40,000Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 37. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $16,000 - $18,000Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 104. Important Revolutionary War Plan of Battle of Quebec in Contemporary Color (1776) Est. $4,000 - $4,750Old 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 - $3,500Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 237. Rare and Striking Bird's-Eye View of Lawrence, Kansas (1880) Est. $2,000 - $2,500Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 10. Rare Map from Atlas Maior with Representations of the Seasons in Contemporary Color (1662) Est. $14,000 - $17,000Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 374. Bunting's Map of Europe Depicted as the Queen of the World (1589) Est. $2,000 - $2,400Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 590. Willem Blaeu's Magnificent Carte-a-Figures Map of Asia (1634) Est. $2,750 - $3,500Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 647. The Earliest and Most Decorative Map of the East Coast of Africa (1596) Est. $3,000 - $3,750Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 710. Ruscelli's Complete, Third Edition Atlas with 65 Maps (1574) Est. $9,500 - $11,000Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 696. Superb Hand-Colored Image of the Adoration of the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950 - 
    
    
    
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Auction Details
- Auction Date
 - September 17, 2025 - September 17, 2025
 
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6026 | Herman Melville; Boardman Robinson, illus. | MOBY DICK; OR, THE WHALE.  | 
            New York | 1943 | Not Available | USD 570.00 | 
| 6027 | Mark Twain; Thomas Hart Benton, illus.; Willis Wager, ed. | LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI.  | 
            New York | 1944 | Not Available | USD 3,120.00 | 
| 6028 | Geoffrey Chaucer; Arthur Szyk, illus.; Frank Ernest Hill, trans. | THE CANTERBURY TALES.  | 
            New York | [1946]. | Not Available | USD 150.00 | 
| 6029 | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; Jessie Ayers, illus. | JACOB'S LADDER.  | 
            Coral Gables, Florida | 1950 | Not Available | USD 390.00 | 
| 6030 | Kurt Vonnegut; Dennis Lyall, illus. | CAT'S CRADLE.  | 
            Norwalk, CT | 2013 | Not Available | USD 510.00 | 
| 6031 | Donna Tartt. | THE SECRET HISTORY [and] THE LITTLE FRIEND.  | 
            London | 2009 | Not Available | USD 330.00 | 
| 6032 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Easton Press Collector's Editions of the Classics of F. Scott Fitzgerald  | 
            Norwalk, CT | 1991 | Not Available | USD 780.00 | 
| 6033 | Ernest Hemingway | Easton Press Complete Set of the Works of Ernest Hemingway  | 
            Norwalk, CT | 1990-2003. | Not Available | USD 840.00 | 
| 6034 | William Faulkner | William Faulkner, Seven Leather-Bound Titles  | 
            Not Available | USD 720.00 | ||
| 6035 | (20) Finely Bound Franklin Library Titles, the Majority Signed  | 
            Not Available | USD 780.00 | |||
| 6036 | (15) Finely Bound Easton Press Titles, Including Many Signed  | 
            Not Available | USD 540.00 | |||
| 6037 | Three Early-19th-Century Books with Fore-Edge Paintings of Views of England  | 
            Not Available | USD 2,400.00 | |||
| 6038 | John Bowring; George Cruikshank and William Heath, illus. | MINOR MORALS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. ILLUSTRATED IN TALES AND TRAVELS (Title for Parts I and II); MINOR MORALS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. ILLUSTRATED BY TALES AND TRAVELS, PARTICULARLY IN THE EAST (Title for Part III).  | 
            London | 1834 and 1835 (Part I and II) and Edinburgh | Not Available | USD 120.00 | 
| 6039 | Group of Tauchnitz Editions from the Collection of British Authors  | 
            Not Available | USD 240.00 | |||
| 6040 | G. J. Whyte-Melville. | [WHYTE-MELVILLE'S NOVELS].  | 
            London, New York, and Melbourne | [n.d.]. | Not Available | USD 300.00 | 
| 6041 | G. J. Whyte-Melville. | [WHYTE-MELVILLE'S NOVELS].  | 
            London, New York, and Melbourne | Not Available | USD 270.00 | |
| 6042 | George Whyte-Melville | Five Uniformly Bound and Illustrated Novels by George Whyte-Melville  | 
            Not Available | USD 330.00 | ||
| 6043 | William Hepworth Dixon | HER MAJESTY'S TOWER.  | 
            London | 1869-1871. | Not Available | USD 60.00 | 
| 6044 | Richard, Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. | THE PRIVATE DIARY OF RICHARD, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS, K.G.  | 
            London | 1862 | Not Available | USD 120.00 | 
| 6045 | Nicolaes Visscher II. | ANGLIAE REGNUM TAM IN SEPTEM ANTIQUA ANGLO-SAXONUM REGNA QUAM IN OMNES HODIERNAS REGIONES ACCURATISSIME DISTINCTUM.  | 
            Amsterdam | Not Available | USD 240.00 | |
| 6046 | Sir William Betham | 19th-Century Irish Grant of Arms Issued by Sir William Betham  | 
            Not Available | USD 300.00 | ||
| 6047 | Five French Books Colorfully Bound by Brentanos  | 
            Not Available | USD 60.00 | |||
| 6048 | Cornelius Tacitus; Arthur Murphy. | THE WORKS OF CORNELIUS TACITUS; WITH AN ESSAY ON HIS LIFE AND GENIUS, NOTES, SUPPLEMENTS, &C.  | 
            London | 1807 | Not Available | USD 900.00 | 
| 6049 | Lazare de Baif; Antonio Telesio; Charles Estienne, ed. | LAZARI BAYFII ANNOTATIONES IN L.II. DE CAPTIVIS, ET POSTLIMINIO REVERSIS. IN QUIBUS TRACTATUR DE RE NAVALI [and three other works].  | 
            Paris | 1536 | Not Available | USD 1,020.00 | 
| 6050 | John James Hissey | Seven Travel Books by John James Hissey, Finely Bound by J. Larkins  | 
            London | 1884-1896 | Not Available | USD 270.00 |