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    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: A Fine Jewelled Binding Signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Sangorski, Francis. $40,000-$60,000
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    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Inscribed by Martin Luther King Jr. King, Martin Luther, Jr. $3,000-$5,000
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Tessier & Sarrou and Associates: Circus, 167848, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Date
September 22, 2025 - September 22, 2025
Page Size: 205 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
88

Various circuses. 3 clown posters:
- Circus Althoff presents Cirque du Monde. Baden-Baden. Offset poster.

EUR 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
89

Various circuses. 4 clown posters and 2 calendars:
- The years of the Soviet circus. Karandach and Oleg Popov. 1919 - 1969. Calendar poster.

1919 - 1969. EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
90

Cirque Pauwels. 3 clown posters:
Marquis, friend of the little ones. Charles, France's best trumpet-playing clown. Pepette, France's greatest comic. 3 offset posters.

EUR 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
91 MERCIER Sylvie

MERCIER Sylvie. Bob and Momo from Cirque de Paris. 2 photographic prints.

EUR 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
92

Cirque Amar.
Amar presents Achille Zavatta. Offset poster.

Toulouse. EUR 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
93

Cirque Amar.
Amar le vrai cirque presents Achille Zavatta the clown of clowns and his famous menagerie. Lithographic poster.

Paris. EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
94

Cirque Amar.
Circus des cirques Amar & Cie presents for the 1st time in France, Dagenham Girl Pipers, the famous Scottish bagpipe players. Lithographic poster.

Roquevaire. Unsuede EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
95

Cirque Amar.
The giant hippopotamus you'll see when the 3 Freres Amar circus arrives. Bigger than ever. Offset poster.

Toulouse. EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
96

Cirque Amar.
Char before the arrival of the 3 Freres Amar circus. Bigger than ever. Lithographic poster.

Toulouse. EUR 50.00 - 70.00 Unknown
97

Circus Amar.
Motorcyclists providing security for the arrival of the 3 Freres Amar circus. Bigger than ever. Lithographic poster.

Toulouse. EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
98

Cirque Amar.
Due to the size of its equipment, the 3 Freres Amar circus is transported from town to town by rail and road. Lithographic poster.

Paris. EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
99

Cirque Amar. 2 posters:
- GREF (?). Le cirque des 3 Freres Amar presents the automobile somersault. Lithographic poster.

Paris. EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
100

Cirque Amar. 2 posters:
- The 3 Brothers Amar Circus. Bigger than ever. Lithographic poster.

Toulouse. EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
101

Cirque Amar. 3 posters:
- Le cirque des 3 Freres Amar. Le cirque des 3 Freres Amar. 2 lithographic posters.

Toulouse. EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
102

Grand cirque de Bordeaux.
3 text posters. 1951. Lithographic printing.

1951 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
103

Cirque Bouglione.
Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione: the most beautiful shows in the world. Its elephants... its menagerie... the acrobats... the trapeze artists... the clowns. Circa 1950. Lithographic poster.

Circa1950. EUR 30.00 - 50.00 Unknown
104

Cirque Bouglione.
The world's largest menagerie. Albert Fratellini and his 3 nephews. The world's most famous clowns. Circa 1950. Lithographic poster.

Circa1950. EUR 30.00 - 50.00 Unknown
105

Circus Bouglione.
LUC jean. Bouglione presents the great international circus festival. Pipo, Dario, Mimile at the winter circus. Lithographic poster.

Paris. EUR 10.00 - 150.00 Unknown
106

Bouglione Circus.
Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione presents the exclusive musical clowns. The world-famous Francesco! Lithographic poster.

Paris. EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
107

Circus Bouglione. 2 posters:
- Le grand Cirque d'Hiver de Paris. Les fauves. Offset poster.

Paris. EUR 30.00 - 50.00 Unknown
108

Circus Bouglione. 3 posters:
- Cirque d'Hiver. Jean Thelen presents Feerie de Glace. His famous operettas on ice (majorettes). 2 offset posters.

EUR 50.00 - 60.00 Unknown
109

Circus Bouglione. 2 offset posters:
Sandrine Bouglione elected Queen of all the circuses in the world. 2 offset posters.

EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Unknown
110

Circus Houcke.
MERCIER Henri. Cirque Houcke. La femme, l'homme et le bete. 1941. Lithographic poster.

Paris. 1941 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
111

Cirque Lamy.
Circus Lamy. Mrs Zavatta Freres creators of the aeromoto-mort track (Monet-Goyon motorcycles). Lithographic poster.

Paris. EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
112

Cirque Maccaddon.
Circus Maccaddon, the most colossal show of the 20th century. City of Soisson. Double-sided text poster.

Lyon-Paris. EUR 30.00 - 50.00 Unknown
  • 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.
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    Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
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    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Darwin (Charles). The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, 1st edition, 1842. £3,000 to £5,000.
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    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Sowerby (James). The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain, 6 volumes, 1812-29. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Dominic Winter
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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