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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 -
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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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.
ALDE: Literary Library of an Amateur, 101525, Paris
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- October 15, 2025 - October 15, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | APOLLINAIRE Guillaume. | [L'Heresiarque et Cie]. Billet manuscrit, date et signe. |
Sans lieu | juillet 1910 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 625.00 |
| 2 | APOLLINAIRE Guillaume. | Calligrammes. Poemes de la paix et de la guerre (1913-1916). |
Paris | 1918 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 3,750.00 |
| 3 | APOLLINAIRE Guillaume. | Le Poete assassine. |
Paris | 1916 | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | EUR 2,250.00 |
| 4 | APOLLINAIRE Guillaume. | Les Mamelles de Tiresias. Drame surrealiste en deux actes et un prologue. Avec la musique de Germaine Albert-Birot et sept dessins hors texte de Serge Ferat. |
Paris | 1918 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 1,750.00 |
| 5 | ASSELINEAU Charles. | Charles Baudelaire. Sa vie et son oeuvre. |
Paris | 1869 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 1,250.00 |
| 6 | BALLANCHE Pierre Simon. | Du Sentiment considere dans ses rapports avec la litterature et les arts. |
Lyon; Paris | 1801 | EUR 300.00 - 500.00 | EUR 425.00 |
| 7 | BALLANCHE Pierre Simon. | Antigone. - L'Homme sans nom. |
Paris | 1814-1820 | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | EUR 1,063.00 |
| 8 | BALLANCHE Pierre-Simon. | Essais de Palingenesie Sociale. |
Paris | 1827-1829 | EUR 300.00 - 500.00 | EUR 500.00 |
| 9 | BALZAC Bernard-Francois. | Memoires sur plusieurs grands objets d'utilite publique. |
Tours | 1809 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 10 | BALZAC Honore de. | Physiologie du mariage ou Meditations de philosophie eclectique sur le bonheur et le malheur conjugal publiees par un jeune celibataire. |
Paris | 1830 | EUR 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 11 | [BALZAC Honore de]. | Jane la pale. |
Paris | 1836 | EUR 300.00 - 500.00 | EUR 813.00 |
| 12 | BALZAC Honore de. | Histoire de la grandeur et de la decadence de Cesar Birotteau, parfumeur. |
Paris | 1838 | EUR 300.00 - 500.00 | EUR 750.00 |
| 13 | BALZAC Honore de. | Le Cabinet des antiques. Scene de la vie de province. |
Paris | 1839 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 14 | BALZAC Honore de. | Une fille d'Eve. Scene de la vie privee. |
Paris | 1839 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 563.00 |
| 15 | BALZAC Honore de. | Le Martyr calviniste. Catherine de Medicis expliquee. |
Paris | 1845 | EUR 300.00 - 500.00 | EUR 438.00 |
| 16 | BALZAC Honore de. | OEuvres completes - La Comedie humaine. |
Paris | 1842-1855 | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 6,000.00 |
| 17 | [BALZAC Honore de].- DUPUIS Charlemagne | Recueil de Poesies legeres. |
Saumur | 1839 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 18 | [Balzac]. MOLIERE. | OEuvres completes, ornees de trente vignettes dessinees par Deveria et gravees par Thompson. |
Paris | 1826 | EUR 500.00 - 800.00 | EUR 625.00 |
| 19 | BANVILLE Theodore de. | Odes funambulesques. |
Alencon | 1857 | EUR 300.00 - 500.00 | EUR 375.00 |
| 20 | BANVILLE Theodore de. | Nouvelles Odes Funambulesques. Etudes Lyriques. |
Paris | 1869 | EUR 200.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 21 | BARBEY D'AUREVILLY Jules. | Un Pretre marie. |
Paris | 1865 | EUR 500.00 - 800.00 | EUR 1,625.00 |
| 22 | BARBEY D'AUREVILLY Jules. | Poesies commentees par lui-meme. |
Sans lieu [Bruxelles | 1870 | EUR 500.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 23 | BARBEY D'AUREVILLY Jules. | Les Diaboliques. |
Paris | 1874 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 438.00 |
| 24 | BARBEY D'AUREVILLY Jules. | Lea. |
Evreux | 1907 | EUR 200.00 - 400.00 | EUR 938.00 |
| 25 | BARRES Maurice. | Colette Baudoche. Histoire d'une jeune fille de Metz. |
Paris | 1909 | EUR 500.00 - 800.00 | EUR 1,875.00 |
![<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.")
![<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.")
