• 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.
  • 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
October 05, 2025 - October 05, 2025
Page Size: 103 items in 5 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Appiano Alessandrino

Delle guerre de Romani cosi? esterne come ciuili

In Vinegia 1575 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 140.00
2 John Davenant

Determinationes quaestionum quarundam theologicarum ... ante aliquot annos ... publice? disputatarum

Cantabrigiae 1639 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 70.00
3 Pope Clement VIII

Escrit du pape Clement viii., et Conformite de la doctrine soutenue par les disciples de S. Augustin sur les controverses presentes de la Grace, avec la doctrine contenue dans lecrit de ce pape & confirmee par plusieurs temoignages de S. Augustin qui y so

A Cologne 1662 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 78.00
4 Theophilus Neuberger

Theophili Newbergers Neues, lang gewu?nschtes Trostbu?chlein fu?r alle jetzund hin und wieder betrangte, verfolgte und sonst auff mancherley Weise betru?bte und angefochtene Christen

Cassel, 1676 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 78.00
5 Armand de Gerard

La philosophie des gens de cour. Dedie?e a son altesse monseigneur le comte de Vermandois, amiral de France

A Paris 1680 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 125.00
6 Catholic Church

Missale Romanum: ex decreto Sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum, S. Pii V

Venetiis 1684 USD 950.00 - 2,000.00 USD 300.00
7 Leonard van Riissen; Francois Turrettini

Leonardi Riisenii Summa theologiae didactico-elencticae, ex theologorum nostrorum, praecipue? vero ex Francisci Turretini Institutionibus theologicis ita aucta & illustrata

Bernae [Bern, Swizterland], 1690 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 86.00
8 Thomas Watson

Thomae Watsons... Geistreiche Predigten und Schrifften

Franckfurt am Mayn 1691-1694 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 160.00
9 Philipp Muller

Notae ad b. dn. m. Andreae Pruckneri, theologi scriptis insignis mille quaestiones de casibus conscientiae, praelectionibus publicis sparsae bonoque fidelium editae

Norimbergae, 1696 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 76.00
10 KROMAYER, Johann Abraham

Joh. Abrahami Kromayeri, Past. Superint. & Consist. Ass. Ohrdruffi[i], Dispositiones Memoriales librorum & capitum Biblicorum tum V. tum N. T. methodo facili & memoriae accommoda, concinnatae in gratiam omnium, qui Scripturam S. familiarem sibi reddere ge

Francof. Lipsiae Jenae 1707 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 100.00
11 BOECLER, Joan Henricus

Jo. Henrici Boecleri notitiae s. r. imperii editio 3., cui e scriniis Abrechtianis nunc primum accedunt epistola Boecleriana ad illustrissimum

Argentorati 1723 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 125.00
12 Jean Baptiste Joseph Lallemant

Essai sur le me?chanisme des passions en ge?ne?ral

Paris, 1751 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 86.00
13 CREBILLON, Claude-Prosper Jolyot de

Lecumoire, ou, Tanzai?, et Ne?adarne?, histoire japonoise

A Pekin [i.e. Paris] 1756 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 160.00
14 LOCKE, John

De lEducation des Enfans

Lausanne 1760 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 165.00
15 unknown

Geheimnussvoller Himmelschlu?ssel, Mit welchem Alle fromme Seelen den Eingang des Himmels zu ero?ffnen sich befleissigen sollen Oder Geistliches Gebethbuch,

Einsiedlen 1776 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 100.00
16 Quintus Curtius Rufus

De la vie dAlexandre

Paris, 1781 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 74.00
17 Ovid

Traduction des Fastes dOvide, Avec des Notes & des Recherches de Critique, dHistoire & de Philosophie, tant sur les differens objets du Systeme allegorique de la Religion Romaine

(Rouen); (Paris) 1783-1788 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 125.00
18 Holy Bible

The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New: Translated out of the original tongues

Cambridge, 1786 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 530.00
19 SOWERBY, James

English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants. Vol. 14.

London 1801 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 265.00
20 Johann Caspar Lavater

Essays of Physiognomy; For the Promotion of the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind

London 1804 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 72.00
21 DON, George

Herbarium britannicum, consisting of fasciculi of dried British plants, with their appropriate names and particular habitats annexed... Fasciculus viii

Edinburgh 1806 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 215.00
22 [BURNEY, William]

Lives of the Most Eminent British Naval Heroes; Comprehending Details of their Achievements, in Various Quarters of the Globe, Forming a Complete Naval History, from the Reign of Henry VII to the Present Time.

Leith, London 1809 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 235.00
23 George Elliott

The Life of the Most Noble Arthur, Duke of Wellington, from the Period of His First Achievements in India, Down to the Battle of Waterloo, and His Invasion of France in 1815

London, 1816 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 185.00
24 William Hone

Ancient Mysteries Described: Especially the English Miracle Plays, Founded on Apocryphal New Testament Story, Extant Among the Unpublished Manuscripts in the British Museum: Including Notices of Ecclesiastical Shows, the Festival of Fools and Asses, the E

London, 1823 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 82.00
25 Basil Hall

Extracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico: in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822

Edinburgh 1820, 1821, 1822 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 76.00
  • 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.
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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.