• 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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Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 09, 2025 - September 09, 2025
Page Size: 458 items in 19 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
80 COX, ALFRED

Recollections. Australia, England, Ireland, Scotland, New Zealand

Christchurch 1884 NZD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
81 CRAIK, GEORGE L.

[association copy] The New Zealanders

London [ca 1850] NZD 100.00 - 150.00 NZD 86.00
82 CRUISE, RICHARD

Journal of a Ten Months, Residence in New Zealand

London 1824 NZD 300.00 - 400.00 NZD 320.00
83 EARLE, AUGUSTUS

A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827;

London 1832 NZD 300.00 - 400.00 NZD 295.00
84 FENTON, FRANCIS

[1st edition & reprint] Important Judgements 1866-1879

NZD 300.00 - 500.00 NZD 1,046.00
85 FIRTH, J.C.

[association copy] Nation making: a story of New Zealand; savagism v. civilisation

London 1890 NZD 100.00 - 150.00 NZD 160.00
86 GUTHRIE-SMITH, H.

[Association copy] Tutira. The Story of a New Zealand Sheep Station

Edinburgh & London 1926 NZD 80.00 - 100.00 NZD 62.00
87 LEYS, THOMSON W (ed) SHERRIN, R. A. A. & WALLACE, J H.

Brett's Historical Series: Early History of New Zealand from Earliest Times to 1840 by R. A. A, Sherrin; from 1840 to 1845 by J H Wallace

NZD 80.00 - 120.00 NZD 295.00
88 LOUGHNAN, R.A.

Royalty in New Zealand

Wellington 1902 NZD 50.00 - 75.00 Not Sold
89 MCNAB, ROBERT

Historical Records of New Zealand

Wellington 1908 NZD 100.00 - 200.00 NZD 135.00
90 NANCY M. TAYLOR

[5 titles] Journal of Ensign Best 1837-1843...

Wellington 1966 NZD 100.00 - 200.00 NZD 86.00
91

NEW ZEALAND COMPANY Heale, Theophilus - New Zealand and the New Zealand Company: In answer to a pamphlet entitled 'How to Colonize'...

London 1842 NZD 100.00 - 200.00 NZD 68.00
92

NEW ZEALAND HISTORY [4 titles]...

Hobart 1903 NZD 100.00 - 200.00 NZD 80.00
93 NICHOLAS, JOHN LIDDIARD

Narrative of a Voyage to New Zealand, Performed in the Years 1814 and 1815

NZD 400.00 - 600.00 NZD 400.00
94

RECORDS OF THE SURVEY OF NEW ZEALAND Annual Records of Parties and Officers Conducting Basic Surveys and Scientific Operations

NZD 200.00 - 400.00 NZD 431.00
95 RUSDEN, G.W.

[3 titles] History of New Zealand...

London 1883 NZD 150.00 - 200.00 NZD 92.00
96

THE NEW ZEALAND CONSTITUTION ACT Together with Correspondence between the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the Governor in Chief of New Zealand

Wellington 1853 NZD 300.00 - 400.00 NZD 185.00
97

THE ORDINANCES OF NEW ZEALAND Passed in the first ten sessions of the general Legislative Council

Wellington 1850 NZD 100.00 - 300.00 NZD 92.00
98

THE PENNY MAGAZINE Of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 1838

London January 6th - December 31st, 1838 NZD 100.00 - 200.00 NZD 74.00
99 THOMSON, ARTHUR, C.

The Story of New Zealand: Past and Present - Savage and Civilized

London 1859 NZD 100.00 - 200.00 NZD 62.00
100

TREATY OF WAITANGI 1877 Facsimiles of the Declaration of Independence and the Treaty of Waitangi

Wellington 1877 NZD 300.00 - 350.00 NZD 369.00
101 TROLLOPE, ANTHONY

New Zealand

London 1874 NZD 60.00 - 80.00 NZD 295.00
102 W.B. [W. BAUCKE]

[3 titles] Where the White Man Treads Across the Pathway of the Maori...

Auckland 1905 NZD 100.00 - 150.00 NZD 62.00
103 WAKEFIELD, E.G & WARD, J.

The British Colonization of New Zealand being an Account of the Principles, Objects and Plans of the New Zealand association...

London 1837 NZD 100.00 - 200.00 NZD 68.00
104 WAKEFIELD, EDWARD

New Zealand Illustrated and Descriptions of its Cities and Towns

Wanganui 1889 NZD 50.00 - 100.00 NZD 68.00
  • 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.