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
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Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Churchill, Military, History and Fiction Books and Ephemera, 82425, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: August 24, 2025 - August 24, 2025

Page Size: 328 items in 14 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
201		The Physical Atlas of Natural Phenomena: reduced from the edition in imperial folio for the use of colleges, academies, and families by Alexander Keith Johnston.	Edinburgh	1850	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
202		A collection of reports on the Prison System in 1843 Prisons in NSW and Tasmania.		1843	AUD 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
203		A Packet of Letters by Walter Feldman.		1988	AUD 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
204		The Art of the Tennis-Racket-Maker and of Tennis. Originally Published in French in 1767, and Now Translated into English for the First Time by Catherine W. Leftwich, B.A. De Garsault, M.	Maryland	1977	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
205		A copy of The Corian 1950. The magazine of Geelong Grammar School.			AUD 140.00 - 180.00	Not Sold
206		The Bookplate Annual for 1922 and The Bookplate Annual for 1925.	Kansas City.	1922	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
207		1) Contemporary Soviet Bookplate Design by Butler 2) Dictionary of Monograms of Russian Bookplate Artists by Savon'ko 3) Vignettes of Bookplate Collecting in Leningrad Translated and edited by Butler ...			AUD 350.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
208	by George Mackley and Dorothy Braby.	Shall We Join the Ladies? : Wood Engravings by Women Artists of the Twentieth Century edited by Betty Clark with essays	Oxford	1979	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
209	by Robert C Littlewood	Keith Wingrove Ex Libris Being a consideration of a life devoted to the acquisition of art, books and bookplates in Australia, Introduced by Norman Lindsay's last letter to Keith Wingrove written	Melbourne Australia	1996	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 762.00
210	Edited by Niel Gunson.	Australian Reminiscences & Papers of L. E. Threlkeld Missionary to the Aborigines, 1824-1859.		1974	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
211		1) The Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 by L. H. Perrett.		2006	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
212		A shelf of Australian History (about 20) books including			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
213		1) Jim Stynes My Journey with Warwick Green .		1912	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
214		Acta Cartographica A series of monographs and studies on the history of cartography, reprinted from periodicals since 1800.		1967-1971	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
215		The Lone Hand: The Australian Monthly.		1907-1913	AUD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
216		Tulloch & Brown's Map of the Colony of Victoria: Comprising part of New South Wales, the Boundaries, Counties, also Seaport and Inland Townships, The Gold Fields with the latest Discoveries, Roads, Tracks, etc. etc.		1857	AUD 2,000.00 - 2,250.00	Not Sold
217	by Albert Montemont.	Atlas classique et universel de geographie ancienne et moderne,	Paris	1837	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
218	by K G and F F Laycock.	Canberra District Lives Birth Marriage and Death Notices From The 'Sydney Morning Herald ' 1851 to 1875			AUD 350.00 - 450.00	Not Sold
219		A Collection of Canberra's Mulini Press Pamphlets.			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
220		Australian Gold Discovery Monographs No. 1 Australian Gold Fields Their Discovery, Progress and Prospects with Illustration, by R S Anderson No. 2 Murray's Guide To The Gold Diggings The Australian Gold Diggings: Where They Are and How To Get At Them; No		Facsimiles of the 1851	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 101.60
221	William Gates	Recollections of Life in Van Dieman's Land by William Gates One Of The Canadian Patriots.	Sydney	1961	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
222	by George Mackaness	1) Some Proposals For Establishing Colonies In The South Seas With Five Illustrations.	Sydney	1943	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
223		Some Private Correspondence of Sir John and Lady Jane Franklin (Tasmania, 1837-1845).			AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 63.50
224		Holford Letter to Bexley 1829			AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
225		Two Fine Prize Bindings awarded to Charles E Cornell as the Prize in the Second Algebra Class Christmas 1880.			AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold

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.
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.