• 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 30, 2025 - October 01, 2025
Page Size: 277 items in 12 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 DE FILIPPI, Filippo (1869-1938) - Vittorio SELLA [illustratore (1859-1943)]

[ALPINISMO] - La spedizione nel Karakoram e nell'Imalaia occidentale

Bologna 1912 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,280.00
102 DE VAUGONDY, Robert (1688-1766)

[ASIA - MAPPA] - L'Asie divesee en ses empires et royaumes

Parigi [1787] EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 230.40
103

[ASTRONOMI DI BRERA - NORD ITALIA - MAPPA] - Carta topografica del Regno Lombardo-Veneto costrutta sopra misure astronomico-trigonometriche

[Milano] 1833 EUR 700.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,536.00
104 James GODBY (illustratore; 1790-1815)

BUONAIUTI, Serafino - Italian scenery; representing the manners, customs, and amusements of the different states of Italy

Londra 1806 EUR 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
105 CICERI, Etienne Eugene (1813-1890)

Les Pyrenees. Dessinees d'apres nature et Lithographiees

Luchon [ca. 1870] EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 358.40
106 D'HANCARVILLE, Pierre Francois Hughes (1719-1805)

Monumens de la vie privee des douze Cesars [CON:] Monumens du culte secret des dames romaines

Capri [ma Nancy] 1780-1784 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 358.40
107 DU TILLIOT, Jean Benigne (1668-1750)

Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire de la Fete des Foux

Losanna e Ginevra 1741 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
108 GRASSI, Ranieri (1750-1850)

Le fabbriche principali di Pisa ed alcune vedute della stessa citta

Pisa 1831 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 179.20
109 LATUADA, Serviliano (1704-1764)

Descrizione di Milano ornata con molti disegni in rame delle fabbriche piu cospicue, che si trovano in questa metropoli

Milano 1737-1738 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 486.40
110

[MAPPA - GENOVA] - Carta Geografica de Contorni di Genova

Genova [1746-1749?] EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 640.00
111

[MAPPA - GENOVA] - Carte de la ville de Genes et des environs, sur laquelle toutes les attaques, retranchements et batteries faites par les Autrichiens et Piemontais y sont representees

Genova 1747 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
112 MASSON, Charles (1800-1853)

Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan, The Panjab & Kalat

Londra 1844 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 960.00
113 MOULE, Thomas (1784-1851)

[MAPPE - REGNO UNITO] - Un lotto di 17 mappe a colori tratte dal "Barclay's English Dictionary"

EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 358.40
114 MENIN, Ludovico (1783-1868)

Il costume di tutti i tempi e di tutte le nazioni

Padova 1833-1843 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
115 PORCACCHI, Tommaso (1530-1576)

L'isole piu famose del mondo

Venezia 1605 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,176.00
116 VENUTI, Ridolfino (1705-1763)

[ROMA - PIRANESI, Francesco] - Accurata e succinta descrizione topografica e istorica di Roma moderna

Roma 1766 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,088.00
117 ROSSINI, Luigi (1790-1857)

Raccolta di cinquanta principali vedute di antichita tratte dai scavi fatti in Roma

Roma 1818 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
118 [RUBENS, Peter Paul (1577-1640) - IGNAZIO DI LOYOLA (1491-1556)]

Vita beati p. Ignatii Loiolae Societatis Iesu fundatoris

Roma 1622 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 576.00
119 SARRE, Friedrich (1865-1945)

Fredrik Robert MARTIN - Die Ausstellung von Meisterwerken Muhammedanischer Kunst in Muenchen, 1910

Monaco 4353 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,792.00
120 CHATELAIN, Henri Abraham (1684-1743)

[SICILIA E REGNO DI NAPOLI] - Carte Genealogique Des Seconds Rois De Naples et de Sicile

Amsterdam 1705 EUR 250.00 - 350.00 EUR 448.00
121 SIMPSON, William London (1823-1899)

The Seat of War in the East

Londra 1855 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 1,920.00
122 ARBOGAST, Louis Francois Antoine (1759-1803)

Du Calcul des Derivations

Strasburgo 1800 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
123 BELLINI, Lorenzo (1643-1704)

Opera omnia pars prima [-pars secunda]

Venezia 1708 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 256.00
124 BERTINI, Anton Francesco (1658-1726)

La medicina difesa dalle calunnie degli uomini volgari e dalle opposizioni de' dotti

Lucca 1699 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
125

CENERI, Angelo Maria - L'uso dello strumento geometrico detto la tavoletta pretoriana

Bologna 1728 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 704.00
  • 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.