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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-$12,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Christina Rossetti's Own Copy of Her First Book. Rossetti, Christina G. $8,000-$12,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: The Borden Copy of The Life of Merlin in an Elaborate Binding by Riviere. Heywood, Thomas, Translator. $6,000-$8,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Arion Press. Whitman, Walt, Leaves of Grass. $4,000-$6,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Call It Sleep in the First State Jacket. Roth, Henry. $2,000-$3,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Steinbeck's Best-Known Work. Steinbeck, John. $2,000-$3,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: A Fine Jewelled Binding Signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Sangorski, Francis. $40,000-$60,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter: A Complete Set of First Editions. Potter, Beatrix. $2,000-$3,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Kelmscott Shelley. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical Works. $3,000-$5,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Inscribed by Martin Luther King Jr. King, Martin Luther, Jr. $3,000-$5,000 -
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Lot 75. The Second Printed Map of the North American Continent - Full Contemporary Color (1593) Est. $35,000 - $40,000Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 37. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $16,000 - $18,000Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 104. Important Revolutionary War Plan of Battle of Quebec in Contemporary Color (1776) Est. $4,000 - $4,750Old 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 - $3,500Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 237. Rare and Striking Bird's-Eye View of Lawrence, Kansas (1880) Est. $2,000 - $2,500Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 10. Rare Map from Atlas Maior with Representations of the Seasons in Contemporary Color (1662) Est. $14,000 - $17,000Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 374. Bunting's Map of Europe Depicted as the Queen of the World (1589) Est. $2,000 - $2,400Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 590. Willem Blaeu's Magnificent Carte-a-Figures Map of Asia (1634) Est. $2,750 - $3,500Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 647. The Earliest and Most Decorative Map of the East Coast of Africa (1596) Est. $3,000 - $3,750Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 710. Ruscelli's Complete, Third Edition Atlas with 65 Maps (1574) Est. $9,500 - $11,000Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
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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.
Lyon and Turnbull: The Library of James Stirling, Mathematician, 878, Edinburgh
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- October 23, 2025 - October 23, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Newton, Sir Isaac | Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica |
London | 1726 | GBP 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 | GBP 42,840.00 |
| 2 | Newton, Sir Isaac | Optice |
London | 1706 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 2,772.00 |
| 3 | Newton, Sir Isaac | Opticks |
London | 1721 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 4,536.00 |
| 4 | Newton, Sir Isaac | Lectiones opticae |
London | 1729 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 4,536.00 |
| 5 | Newton, Sir Isaac | Analysis per quantitatum series, fluxiones, ac differentias |
London | 1711 | GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | GBP 100,800.00 |
| 6 | Newton, Sir Isaac | A Treatise of the Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series |
London | 1737 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 6,930.00 |
| 7 | Newton, Sir Isaac | Genesis curvarum per umbras |
London | 1746 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 3,528.00 |
| 8 | Newton, Sir Isaac | Two Treatises of the Quadrature of Curves and Analysis |
London | 1745 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 5,292.00 |
| 9 | Newton, Sir Isaac | De mundi systemate |
London | 1728 | GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 13,860.00 |
| 10 | Newton, Sir Isaac | Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John |
London | 1733 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 2,016.00 |
| 11 | Newton, Sir Isaac | The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended |
London | 1728 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,134.00 |
| 12 | Pemberton, Henry | A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy |
London | 1728 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 529.20 |
| 13 | Bedford, Arthur | Animadversions upon Sir Isaac Newton's Book intitled The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended |
London | 1728 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 252.00 |
| 14 | Voltaire | The Elements of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy |
London | 1738 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 945.00 |
| 15 | Maclaurin, Colin | An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries |
London | 1748 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 1,197.00 |
| 16 | Maclaurin, Colin | A Treatise of Fluxions |
Edinburgh | 1742 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 7,560.00 |
| 17 | Maclaurin, Colin (1698-1746) | Ten autograph letters signed to James Stirling |
Edinburgh | 7th December 1728 | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | GBP 35,280.00 |
| 18 | Maclaurin, Colin (1698-1746) | Autograph letter signed on the priority dispute with George Campbell over the impossible roots of equations |
Edinburgh | 11th February 1728 | GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 8,190.00 |
| 19 | Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's | An Essay on Perspective |
London | 1724 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 882.00 |
| 20 | Euler, Leonhard (1707-1783) | Two autograph letters signed to James Stirling |
[i.e. St Petersburg] | 8th June 1736 | GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 23,940.00 |
| 21 | Cramer, Gabriel (1704-1752) | Ten autograph letters signed to James Stirling |
Paris | 11th/22nd October, 1728 | GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 6,930.00 |
| 22 | Klingenstierna, Samuel (1698-1765) | Autograph letter signed to James Stirling, with additional mathematical demonstrations |
[Stockholm] | 19th September 1738 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,008.00 |
| 23 | Castel, Louis-Bertrand (1688-1757) | Autograph letter signed to James Stirling |
Paris | 25th March 1733 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 579.60 |
| 24 | Poleni, Giovanni (editor) - Sextus Julius Frontinus | De Aquaeductibus Urbis Romae Commentarius |
Padua | 1722 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 327.60 |
| 25 | Galilei, Galileo | Opere |
Florence | 1718 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 8,190.00 |
![<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i> First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/cc3f4f98-f195-4049-aca6-329c27fdd27c.png "<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i> First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000.")
![<b>Dominic Winter, Nov. 5:</b> Aquinas (Thomas). <i>[Summa Theologica], Secunda Parte,</i> Venice, 1496. £700 to £1,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/b69c37e7-f18c-4417-b08b-f00e9b97a413.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, Nov. 5:</b> Aquinas (Thomas). <i>[Summa Theologica], Secunda Parte,</i> Venice, 1496. £700 to £1,000.")
