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Swann
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 -
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
- August 26, 2025 - August 26, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 127 | Martineau, Harriet | Retrospect of Western Travel. |
London | 1838 | Not Available | USD 96.00 |
| 128 | (Marx, Robert E.) Halas, Frantisek. | Old Women. |
Vestal, NY | 1966 | Not Available | USD 144.00 |
| 129 | Walling, Henry F.; & O. W. Gray. | Official Topographical Atlas of Massachusetts. |
Boston | 1871 | Not Available | USD 270.00 |
| 130 | Barr, Alfred, Jr. | Matisse His Art and His Public. |
New York | 1951 | Not Available | USD 2,280.00 |
| 131 | Mayo, Lawrence Shaw | The Winthrop Family in America. Portraits. |
Boston | 1948 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 132 | Vought, John G. | A Teatise on Bowel Complaints...216 pages. |
Rochester | 1823 | Not Available | USD 48.00 |
| 133 | Menzies, K | Auto-Erotic Phenomena in Adolescence. |
London | 1919 | Not Available | USD 96.00 |
| 134 | Dorsa, Michael; & Margaret Rhein. | The Monster in the Turtles Den. |
Np | 1977 | Not Available | USD 60.00 |
| 135 | Military | Mexican War (?). 13 lithograph battlefield plans. |
Mexico | 1840s | Not Available | USD 180.00 |
| 136 | Lambert, Russell A., Jr. | Scrapbook of postcards, original photographs and other related ephemera. |
Mostly Japan | 1940s | Not Available | USD 120.00 |
| 137 | The Bible in Miniature, or a Concise History of the Old and New Testaments. |
London | 1780 | Not Available | USD 228.00 | |
| 138 | Mitchell, Margaret | Gone With the Wind. |
New York | 1936 | Not Available | USD 660.00 |
| 139 | Morgan, Dale Lowell | The West of William H. Ashley. The International Struggle for the fur trade of the Missouri...1822-1838. |
Denver | 1964 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 140 | Morris, Rev. F. O | A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. |
London | Circa 1880 | Not Available | USD 120.00 |
| 141 | Mortimer, Ruth | Harvard College Library Department of Printing and Graphic Arts Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts. Part II: Italian 16th Century Books. |
Cambridge | 1974 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 142 | Mother Goose Collection. Text leaf. |
New York | 1990 | Not Available | USD 330.00 | |
| 143 | Manuscript music, mostly for Harpsichord, including Bach, Giordani and others. |
Kule Keele], England | 1770s | Not Available | USD 330.00 | |
| 144 | [Napoleon] Beauharnais, Eugene de | [Napoleon] Beauharnais, Eugene de. Autograph Endorsement Signed, "Eugenio N," as Viceroy of Italy, |
Milan | 1811 | Not Available | USD 96.00 |
| 145 | Nevill, Ralph | The Works. |
London | 1909-1922 | Not Available | USD 192.00 |
| 146 | Orwell, George | Animal Farm. |
New York | 1946 | Not Available | USD 192.00 |
| 147 | Pailleron, Edouard | Le Monde ou L'On S'Ennuie. Comedie en Trois Actes. |
Paris | 1884 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 148 | Panama Canal. Over 100 tipped in photographs of construction. |
Panama | 1912-13 | Not Available | USD 192.00 | |
| 149 | Phaedrus, Augustus Libertus | Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri Quinque. |
Vp | vd | Not Available | USD 180.00 |
| 150 | Phaedrus, Augustus Libertus | Phaedri Augusti Caesaris Liberti, Fabularum AEsopiarum Libri Quinque...In Usum Scholarum. |
London | 1721; 1765 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 151 | Phaedrus, Augustus Libertus | The Fables of Phaedrus, Translated into English Prose...for the Use of Schools, As well as of Private Gentlemen. |
London | 1745 | Not Available | USD 48.00 |
![<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.")
![<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.")