• 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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  • 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.

Catawiki B. V.: Old and Rare Books Auction (pre-1700), 91025b, LA Assen,

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 10, 2025 - September 10, 2025
Page Size: 39 items in 2 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
93793818 Machiavel ; Abraham-Nicolas Amelot de la Houssaie

Le Prince de Machiavel. Troisieme edition. Revue, corrigee, & augmentee par le Traducteur

1694 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 306.29
93867493 Prudent le Choyselat

Discours oeconomique, non moins utile que recreatif [traite sur l'elevage de poules]

1612 EUR 190.00 - 230.00 EUR 61.04
93936403 [Jean Leurechon]

Recreation mathematicque composee de plusieurs problemes plaisants et facetieux

1626 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 1,638.27
94222183 Pierre Bayle

Nouvelles de la republique des lettres: Mois d'octobre 1686 [Reliure aux armes de Mirabeau]

1686 Not Available EUR 119.90
96195004 Paul-Yves Pezron

L' antiquite des tems

1687 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 89.38
96749092 Jean Geraud

Traitte des droits seigneuriaux

1680 EUR 150.00 - 220.00 EUR 28.34
96770052 Pierre Dupuy

Histoire des plus illustres favoris anciens et modernes

1660 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 63.22
96770803 [Collectif]

Mercure Galant

1684 EUR 170.00 - 200.00 EUR 43.60
96798071 Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy

Ezechiel traduit en francais

1692 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 38.15
96812001 Joachim du Bellay

Oeuvres de Ioachim Du Bellay

1568 EUR 150.00 - 400.00 EUR 196.20
96812457 Pierre Corneille

L'Imitation de Jesus-Christ

1656 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 90.47
96984457 Jean Daille

Sermons de Jean Daille de la naissance, la mort, la resurrection et l'Ascension de notre Seigneur

1665 EUR 140.00 - 200.00 EUR 49.05
97307785 F.M. le Dole, Prestre et Predicateur Capucin

Le Miroir du Pecheur Penitent

1645 Not Available EUR 65.40
97357779 Ecuyer

Mercure galant dedie a monsieur le Dauphin

1689 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 70.85
97378875 Chartonnet Antoine-Francois

Considerations sur les devoirs des personnes....

1695 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 35.97
97393653 Moyse Charas

Pharmacopee Royale, Galenique et Chymique

1681 EUR 400.00 - 700.00 EUR 371.69
97395660 Cesar De Grandpre

Le Cesar armorial, ou Recueil des armes et blasons de toutes les illustres, principales & nobles

1644 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 132.98
97405361 Blaise PASCAL

[Rare 3eme ed.] Pensees de M. Pascal Sur La Religion et sur Quelques Autres Sujets.

1671 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 119.90
97416941 Germain de Bezancon

Nouveau Traite des Fievres

1690 Not Available EUR 3.27
97425596 Nicolas Amelot de La Houssaye

Histoire du gouvernement de Venise

1676 EUR 150.00 - 400.00 EUR 103.55
97433346 Francois Pinsonnat

Regime de sante pour se procurer une longue vie et une vieillesse heureuse

1690 EUR 140.00 - 200.00 EUR 56.68
97434536 Guillaume de Houppeville

La generation de l'Homme par le moyen des oeufs, et la production des tumeurs impures par l'action

1676 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 150.42
97448438 Pierre Corneille

Cinna ; Polyeucte Martyr ; La mort de Pompee ; Le Meuteur ; La suite du Meuteur, ; Theodore ;

1643/1648 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 185.30
97489873 Philippe de La Hire

Traite de mecanique, ou l'on explique tout ce qui est necessaire dans la pratique des Arts, & les

1695 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 239.80
97502754 Jules Baron

L'Art Heraldique, contenant La maniere d'apprendre facilement le Blason

1672 EUR 210.00 - 260.00 EUR 208.19
  • 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.
  • 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.