• 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.
  • 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
  • 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

RR Auction: Remarkable Rarities, 726, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 20, 2025 - September 20, 2025
Page Size: 92 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
7001 Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Letter Signed Communicating Acts for the First United States Census and Rules for Granting Citizenship to Immigrants

USD 50,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 37,500.00
7002 Thomas Jefferson's

Thomas Jefferson's Brass Parallel Calipers (ca. 1800)

USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,375.00
7003 John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams Autograph Letter Signed on the Louisiana Purchase: "The great question upon the Louisiana Treaty was decided before I got here"

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
7004 Abraham Lincoln

"If his allegation be true, burn this without answering it" - Abraham Lincoln Seeks to Refute Debate Claims Made by Opponent Stephen Douglas Regarding a Fellow Republican's Stance "against the admission of any more Slave States"

USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 Not Sold
7005 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Filled Out and Signed Check (1859) - Lost and Found on the Streets of Washington, D.C., and the Subject of Washington Post Headlines in 1944

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 31,250.00
7006 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Civil War-Dated Autograph Endorsement Signed as President, Calling for the Reappointment of Alexander J. Dallas III

USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 13,750.00
7007

Abolition: 'Engrossed Bill' Draft of the Territorial Slavery Act of 1862, Prohibiting Slavery in All U.S. Territories

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 12,500.00
7010 William T. Sherman

William T. Sherman Autograph Letter Signed on His 'March to the Sea' and Women's Service in the Union Army: "Our race cannot bear children and be subject to the alarms & vicissitudes of war"

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 10,625.00
7011 Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt (2) Typed Manuscripts Signed as President on the Red Cross Response to the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, with Clara Barton ALS: "The country has gone wild over this disaster and relief"

USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 31,250.00
7012 Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt World War II-Dated Typed Letter Signed to Lord Beaverbrook, Committing to Opening a Second Front Against Nazi Germany

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
7013 Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed Broadside of Proclamation No. 1, Issued in Occupied Germany during World War II: "We come as conquerors, but not as oppressors...We shall obliterate Nazi-ism"

USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 Not Sold
7014 Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower World War II-Dated Typed Letter Signed on the "defeat of the Nazi hordes in battle" and victory in Europe: "A continent has been liberated"

USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 Not Sold
7015 President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Israel's

President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Israel's Secret Atomic Weapons Program - Letter Affirming a U.S.-Israel Accord "for collaboration concerning the peaceful uses of atomic energy"

USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 Not Sold
7016 Winston Churchill and Dwight D. Eisenhower

Winston Churchill and Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed Photograph - Allied Leaders Stress Postwar Unity at the Virginia State House (March 8, 1946)

USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 13,750.00
7017 Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Hand-Illuminated Signed Quotation: "This was their finest hour"

USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 15,000.00
7018 Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill World War II-Dated Signed Photograph, Shown with Cigar and Naval Anti-Aircraft Gun

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 13,125.00
7019 Hugh Dowding

Battle of Britain: Secret Dispatch Signed by Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding (1941), with Hand-Colored Maps and Mimeograph Draft

USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 23,721.00
7020 Hugh Dowding

Hugh Dowding World War II-Dated Autograph Letter Signed to Lord Beaverbrook, on Preparing His "Dispatch on the 'Battle of Britain'"

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 8,125.00
7021 Erwin Rommel

Erwin Rommel World War II-Dated Typed Letter Signed, Enclosing a Report on His Near-Fatal Wound and Alluding to Patton's Liberation of Paris

USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 28,734.00
7022 Raoul Wallenberg

Raoul Wallenberg 'Schutzbrief' Document Signed, Saving a Hungarian Jew During World War II, with Jewish Badge Exemption Document and Residency Permit

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 11,250.00
7023 Wernher von

Wernher von Braun Autograph Letter Signed to Walter Dornberger, Emphasizing the Goals of Operation Paperclip: "To make available to the West our experience gathered over long, painstaking years"

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 18,125.00
7024

Historic 1953 Bernkasteler Doctor Riesling Bottle of Wine - The Vintage Poured at the AdenaueraEU"Khrushchev Meeting That Freed 10,000 German POWs

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 25,000.00
7025 King Henry VIII

King Henry VIII Document Signed to the Keeper of the Wardrobe, Directing "Crimson velvett for a gowne" to Sir Robert Curson

USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 Not Sold
7026 Thomas Cranme

Thomas Cranmer's Heavily Annotated Religious Book - Quatuor conciliorum generalium [The Four General Church Councils] (1524) - Representing His Scholarly Approach to the English Reformation

USD 175,000.00 - 200,000.00 Not Sold
7027 Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette Document Signed, Ordering Payment for Extravagant Royal Household Expenditures Amidst the French Revolution

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 26,250.00
  • 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.
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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.