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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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Vogt Auction: Texas Ranch Auction - Day 1, 20098, San Antonio

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 27, 2025 - September 27, 2025
Page Size: 148 items in 6 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
8 Larry Dyke (Texas, b. 1942),

Texas Spring, bluebonnet landscape and longhorns, giclee print on canvas, 2007,

2007 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 500.00
20 Michael Frary (Texas, 1918-2005)

landscape,

USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 468.75
71 Brent Thomson (Amer., b.1964)

The Edge, West Texas scene

USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 812.50
73 Sandy Scott (Colorado / Canada, b. 1943)

Ducks at Daybreak,

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 250.00
74 Sandy Scott (Colorado / Canada, b. 1943)

Snowbird and Chickadee,

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
75 Clay McGaughy

Kathryn Beauchamp watercolor and Clay McGaughy quail print, offset lithograph

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 125.00
79 Frank Reaugh (Dallas, Texas, 1860 - 1945)

Collection of American artist and photographer Frank Reaugh (Dallas, Texas, 1860 - 1945) ephemera housed in a red three-ring binder

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 531.25
80 Frank Reaugh (Texas / Illinois, 1860 - 1945)

two booklets, Twenty-Four Hours with the Herd and Paintings of the Southwest, 1934

1934 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 312.50
81

Lot of three books relating to Texas art and history, including a G. Harvey book, The Golden Era: A Celebration of Light by G. Harvey, ...

USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 218.75
82 Ragan Gennusa (Texas, 1944-2021)

hardcover linen bound booklet

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 100.00
83 Lady Bird Johnson,

Hardcover book Wildflowers Across America in dust jacket, signed by Lady Bird Johnson,

1988 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 312.50
84

Collection of signed letters from Lady Bird Johnson to Irvine B. Hill, dated in the late 1970s, along with a White House dinner menu signed by Lyndon B. Johnson, dated December 7, 1964

late 1970s, 1964 USD 400.00 - 700.00 USD 406.25
85

Framed marquee letters JFK from the Texas Theater (Dallas, Texas)

USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,250.00
86 B. Matheus Whitehead (20th century)

woodblock print depicting General and former President of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston (Mar 2, 1793 - July 26, 1863)

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 2,000.00
87 B. Matheus Whitehead (20th century)

woodblock print depicting General and former President of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston (Mar 2, 1793 - July 26, 1863)

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,625.00
88 B. Matheus Whitehead (20th century)

woodblock print depicting American folklorist, writer and newspaper columnist J. Frank Dobie (Sep 26, 1888 - Sep 18, 1964)

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 562.50
89 B. Matheus Whitehead (20th century)

woodblock print depicting American West rancher, and Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum inductee, Charles Goodnight (March 5th, 1836 - December 12, 1929)

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 500.00
91

1825 Vanermaelen map of coastal Texas, hand-colored, depicting the Texas coast from south of Laredo to east of the Sabine River

1825 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 468.75
92

1856 Olney Texas map, detailing military forts, including Fort Alamo

1856 USD 200.00 - 500.00 USD 625.00
93

1866 Johnson's hand-colored Texas map

1866 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,500.00
94

Framed map of San Antonio, Texas,

1926 USD 800.00 - 1,600.00 USD 687.50
95

Framed display featuring a Texian Loan document, a Treasury Warrant, and a handwritten note regarding the Archives War

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,000.00
96

Framed Republic of Texas scrip, authorizing six hundred and forty acres of public land

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 1,000.00
97

Framed 1836 Republic of Texas land grant authorization, signed by William H. Christy (1791--1865, Kentucky / Louisiana)

1836 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 1,187.50
98

1861 Confederate States of America loan sheet, framed

1861 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 312.50
  • 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
  • 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
    Autographs
    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