• 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
176 [GIOACCHINO DA FIORE (1130-1202)]

Vaticinia seu praeictiones illustrium virorum

Venezia 1605 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 486.40
177 GIOVIO, Paolo (1483-1552)

Dialogo dell'imprese militari et amorose

Venezia 1556 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 179.20
178 Lucio Anneo FLORO (70-145)

GIUSTINO, Marco Giuniano (II-III sec.) - Festo RUFIO - Iustini Historia ex Trogo Pompeio.. Lucii Flori Epithomata quattuor.. Sexti Ruffi de historia Romana

[Parigi] [ca. 1510] EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 960.00
179

[GRECO, traduzione] - TASSO, Torquato (1544-1595) - Demetrios GOUZELES - E Ierousalem eleutheromene poiema eroikon

Venezia 1807 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 512.00
180 GUARINI, Battista (1538-1612)

Il Pastor Fido, tragicommedia pastorale

Venezia 1602 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
181 GUARINI, Battista (1538-1612)

Pastor fido

Crisopoli [Parma] 1793 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 384.00
182 Dominik, CUSTOS (1560-1615)

HENNING, Markus (XVI sec.) - Tirolensivm Principum Comitvm. Der Gefursten Grafen zu Tyrol

Augusta 1599 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 704.00
183 HOLSTE, Lukas (1596-1661)

Notae et castigationes postumae in Stephani Byzantii Ethnika

Leida 1684 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 230.40
184 BALDASSINI, Girolamo (1711-1780)

[JESI] - Memorie istoriche dell'antichissima e regia citta di Jesi

Jesi 1765 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 384.00
185 EURIPIDE (485 a.C. - 406 a.C.)

[LEGATURA] - Euripides Supplices mulieres.. cum notis Jer. Marklandi

Oxford 1811 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
186 METASTASIO, Pietro (1698-1782)

[LEGATURA] - Opere

Parigi 1780-1782 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 640.00
187

[LEGATURA] - Psalterium romanum dispositum per hebdomadam

Venezia 1737 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 576.00
188

[LEGATURA] - Uffizio della Beata Vergine Maria

Roma 1742 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 576.00
189

[LEOPOLDO - ORDINE IMPERIALE] - Documento ufficiale dell'Ordine Imperiale di Leopoldo

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 384.00
190 LIONI, Ottavio (1578-1630)

Ritratti di alcuni celebri pittori del secolo XVII

Roma 1731 EUR 700.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,088.00
191 LONGO SOFISTA (III secolo)

Poimenikon ton kata Daphnin kai Chloen

Parma 1786 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 281.60
192 MALVASIA, Carlo Cesare (1616-1693)

Felsina pittrice. Vite de pittori bolognesi

Bologna 1678 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
193

[MANOSCRITTO ISLAMICO] - Corano del XIX secolo

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 640.00
194

[MANOSCRITTO ISLAMICO] - Parte del corano

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 486.40
195 MANNI Giuseppe (XVIII sec.)

Serie de' senatori fiorentini

Firenze 1722 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
196 MENDOZA, Bernardino de (1540-1604)

Teorica et prattica di guerra terrestre et maritima

Venezia 1596 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
197 MISSAGLIA, Marc'Antonio (m.1575)

Vita di Gio. Iacomo Medici, marchese di Marignano

Milano 1605 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
198 ORAZIO FLACCO, Quinto (65-8 a.C.)

Opera

Parma 1791 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
199 PASTA, Andrea (1706-1782)

Le pitture notabili di Bergamo che sono esposte alla vista del pubblico

Bergamo 1775 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 179.20
200 PETRARCA, Francesco (1304-1374)

Il Petrarcha con l'espositione d'Alessandro Vellutello

Venezia 1538 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 1,536.00
  • 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.