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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 
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
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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
 - November 06, 2025 - November 06, 2025
 
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | Killion, Tom and Gary Snyder | The High Sierra of California by Tom Killion with Excerpts from the Journals of Gary Snyder and John Muir  | 
            Santa Cruz | 2000 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown | 
| 52 | Killion, Tom | The Coast of California: Point Reyes to Point Sur  | 
            Santa Cruz & Mill Valley | 1979 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown | 
| 53 | Luther, Martin | [Opera Ominia, i.e.:] Tomus primus[-quartus] omnium operum Reverendi Patris, D.L.M...  | 
            null | 1557-1579 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Unknown | 
| 54 | Lyon, Danny | Blessing 1966  | 
            null | Negative: 1966; print: 1984 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown | 
| 55 | Lyon, Danny | Cal and Eileen (both dead), 1966  | 
            null | Negative: 1966; later print | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Unknown | 
| 56 | Lyon, Danny | Detroit Outlaws 1967  | 
            null | Negative: 1967; later print | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown | 
| 57 | Lyon, Danny | Milwaukee Wisc. 1966  | 
            null | Negative: 1966; print: 1982 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown | 
| 58 | Machiavelli, Niccolo and Girolamo Cataneo | The Arte of Warre...set foorth in English by Peter Withorne [with] Certaine Waies for the Ordering of Souldiours in battelray, and setting of battailes, after diuers fashions with their manner of marching: And also fugures of certaine new plattes for fort  | 
            London | 1588 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | Unknown | 
| 59 | Mackmurdo, Arthur Heygate, Herbert Horne, Selwyn Image, William Blake, et al. | The Century Guild Hobby Horse - Issues 1-28, complete  | 
            London | 1886-1892 | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown | 
| 60 | Stampa, Josepho [Giuseppe] Maria | Autograph mathematical manuscript in Latin and Italian entitled De Sectionibus Conicis. Libris Quator  | 
            [Como, Italy] | c. 1715 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Unknown | 
| 61 | Munster, Sebastian | Die Neuwen Inseln / so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem land India lingen.  | 
            Basle | 1550 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | Unknown | 
| 62 | Williamson, George Charles, compiler | Catalogue of the Collection of Jewels and Precious Works of Art, the Property of J. Pierpont Morgan  | 
            London | 1910 | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | Unknown | 
| 63 | Morris, Wright | Model T with California Top, 1947  | 
            null | Negative: 1947; later print | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown | 
| 64 | M[arkham, G[ervase] | The Young Sportsman's Delight and Instructor in Angling, Fowling, Hawking, Hunting, ordering Singing Birds, Hawks, Poultry, Conies, Hares, Dogs, &c. and how to Cure them  | 
            [London] | [c. 1712] | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Unknown | 
| 65 | null | National Geographic archive from the collection of Dr. Allen B. "Buck" Catlin largely purchased from Edwin C. Buxbaum  | 
            Washington D.C. | 1888-2010's | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | Unknown | 
| 66 | Nostradamus, Michel de | The True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, Physician to Henry II, Francis II, and Charles IX, Kings of France, and one of the best Astronomers that ever were. A Work full of Curiosity and Learning  | 
            London | 1672 | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | Unknown | 
| 67 | Pasternak, Boris | Poverkh Bar Erov [Over the Barriers]  | 
            Moscow | 1917 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | Unknown | 
| 68 | Zervos, Christian, editor | Pablo Picasso - catalogue raisonne  | 
            Paris | 1932-1975 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | Unknown | 
| 69 | Oexmelin, Alexandre Olivier | Histoire des Avanturiers qui se Sont Signalez dans les Indes...  | 
            Paris | 1688 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown | 
| 70 | Plato | De Legibus [with] Epistole [The Laws and Epistles]  | 
            [Florence] | [1485] | USD 50,000.00 - 80,000.00 | Unknown | 
| 71 | Portlock, Nathaniel | A Voyage Round the World; But More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon  | 
            London | 1789 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Unknown | 
| 72 | Powell, William | The Anarchist Cookbook  | 
            New York | [1971] | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown | 
| 73 | Quetelet, A[dolphe] | Sur l'homme et le developpement de ses facultes, ou Essai de physique sociale  | 
            Paris | 1835 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown | 
| 74 | Rand, Silas Tertius, translator | [Th]e Buk ov Djenesis  | 
            Bath, England | 1857 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Unknown | 
| 75 | Rousseau, J[ean] J[acques] | Les Confessions de J. J. Rousseau, Suivies des Reveries du Promeneur Solitarie  | 
            Geneva | 1782 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown |