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.
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

Bonhams: History of Science & Technology, 31199, New York

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 24, 2025 - October 24, 2025

Page Size: 270 items in 11 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1253	LEDLEY, ROBERT S. 1926-2012 and LEE B. LUSTED 1922-1994.	Artificial Intelligence in medical diagnosis 4 related papers			USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 4,352.00
1254	MINSKY, MARVIN 1927-2016 and OLIVER SELFRIDGE 1926-2008.	Learning in random nets.	[Cambridge:]	[1960].	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 8,320.00
1255	DIEFFENBACH, JOHANN FRIEDRICH. 1792-1847.	Surgical observations on the restoration of the nose. Inscribed to John Lizars, and from the library of Lawson Tait.	London	1833	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
1256	FARADAY, MICHAEL. 1791-1867.	Experimental researches in electricity (fourth series). 9. On a new law of electric conduction. 10. On conducting power generally. Offprint from Philosophical Transactions (1833).	London	1833	USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
1257	BABBAGE, CHARLES. 1791-1871.	Oval portrait miniature of Charles Babbage 162 mm. high. signed on obverse and dated by W. J Newton ("W J Newton 1851"; obscured by the mat).		1851	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	Not Sold
1258	CAYLEY, ARTHUR. 1821-1895.	Three Mathematical Autograph Letters, Signed, Plus a Four Page Autograph Mathematics Manuscript.	Cambridge	1863-1868.	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
1259	DARWIN, CHARLES. 1809-1882.	Portrait photograph of Darwin at age 59, by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79).		[1869].	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	Not Sold
1260	FLAMMARION, CAMILLE. 1842-1925.	Voyage a la planete Mars. Autograph manuscript in French, signed by Flammarion on last leaf. Paris or Juvisy		1892	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	Not Sold
1261	GODDARD, ROBERT H. 1882-1945.	A method of reaching extreme altitudes. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 71, no. 2.	Washington, D.C.:	1919	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 6,144.00
1262	DINSDALE, ALFRED. 1896-1974.	Television. Seeing by Wireless.	London	1926	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
1263	HEISENBERG, WERNER. 1901-1976 and WOLFGANG PAULI. 1900-1958.	(1) Zur Quantendynamik der Wellenfelder. (2) Zur Quantentheorie der Wellenfelder. II. Offprint from Zeitschrift fur Physik 56		1929 and 59 1930	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
1264	ALEXANDER, FRANKLIN OSBORNE. 1897-1993.	Completed just in time. Pen-and-ink drawing for the political cartoon published in the Philadelphia Bulletin newspaper on 22 March 1946,			USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	USD 10,240.00
1265	FEYNMAN, RICHARD. 1918-1988.	A relativistic cut-off for classical electrodynamics. Offprint from: The Physical Review 74 (1948). 939-946pp.			USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 3,840.00
1266	BERKELEY, EDMUND C. (1909-1988).	Giant brains or machines that think.	New York:	1949	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 5,120.00
1267	WILKES, MAURICE. 1913-2010.	Report on the preparation of programmes for the EDSAC and the use of the library of sub-routines.	Cambridge:	1950	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 12,800.00
1268	SHANNON, CLAUDE. 1916-2001.	Programming a computer for playing chess. Offprint from Philosophical Magazine, ser. 7, 41		1950	USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 6,400.00
1269	ENIAC	Collection of ENIAC artifacts once owned by Winifred S. Jonas, one of the ENIAC's first programmers.		1951	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	USD 14,080.00
1270	SHANNON, CLAUDE. 1916-2001.	A Mind-Reading (?) Machine. Typescript, signed "C. E. Shannon" in type on the last leaf.	[Murray Hill, NJ:	18 March 1953.	USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 6,400.00
1271	WATSON, JAMES DEWEY, and FRANCIS HARRY COMPTON CRICK.	Collection of offprints, (including 3 signed by Crick), four typed letters signed by Watson, and other related items, as listed below.		1954-2005.	USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
1272	NEWELL, ALLEN. 1927-1992 and HERBERT A. SIMON. 1916-2001.	The logic theory machine. Reproduced typescript. Offprint from IRE Transactions on Information Theory IT-2 (September 1956).		1956	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 8,320.00

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.
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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