• 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

Kolbe and Fanning Numismatic Booksellers: Important Numismatic Literature, 174, Gahanna

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 04, 2025 - October 04, 2025
Page Size: 499 items in 20 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
452 Martin, Sydney F.

FRENCH COINAGE SPECIFICALLY FOR COLONIAL AMERICA

N.p. 2015 USD 100.00 - 100.00 USD 780.00
453

Mason & Wells, and Mason & Company. [publishers]. MASON'S COIN AND STAMP COLLECTORS' MAGAZINE

(Philadelphia) (April 1867--December 1868) USD 300.00 - 300.00 USD 240.00
454

Mason & Wells, and Mason & Company. [publishers]. MASON'S COIN AND STAMP COLLECTORS' MAGAZINE

Philadelphia 1869--1872 USD 200.00 - 200.00 USD 156.00
455 Mason, Jr., E. [editor and proprietor]

MASON'S COIN COLLECTORS' HERALD

Philadelphia June 1879 through March 1882 USD 200.00 - 200.00 USD 240.00
456 Mason, Ebenezer Locke

THE LATER PUBLICATIONS OF EBENEZER LOCKE MASON

Wenham 1998 USD 150.00 - 150.00 USD 120.00
457

Massachusetts Historical Society. COLLECTIONS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY

(Boston) (1806 and 1810) USD 200.00 - 200.00 USD 660.00
458 Mehl, B. Max [publisher]

MEHL'S NUMISMATIC MONTHLY

(Fort Worth) (1908--1919) USD 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 USD 780.00
459 Mehl, B. Max

THE CELEBRATED COLLECTION OF LARGE UNITED STATES CENTS FORMED BY DR. GEO. P. FRENCH, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK...

(1929--1930) USD 150.00 - 150.00 USD 120.00
460 Miller, Henry C., and Hillyer Ryder

THE STATE COINAGES OF NEW ENGLAND: THE STATE COINAGE OF CONNECTICUT

(New York) -1920 USD 300.00 - 300.00 USD 390.00
461 Moulton, Karl V.

JOHN J. FORD, JR. AND THE "FRANKLIN HOARD"

Congress 2013 USD 150.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
462

New York Coin & Stamp Co. CATALOGUE OF THE FINEST EXISTING COLLECTION OF AMERICAN COINS

New York June 25--27, 1890 USD 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 5,100.00
463 Newcomb, Howard R.

THE UNITED STATES CENTS OF THE YEARS 1801--1802--1803

Detroit 1925 USD 100.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
464 Norweb, Emery May

TYPEWRITTEN INVENTORY AND INDEX OF THE NORWEB FAMILY COLLECTION OF WASHINGTON COINS, MEDALS, AND TOKENS

USD 750.00 - 750.00 USD 780.00
465 Noyes, Bill, Del Bland, and Dan Demeo

THE OFFICIAL CONDITION CENSUS FOR U.S.

2005-07-01 USD 150.00 - 150.00 USD 192.00
466

Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NUMISMATIC AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA

USD 150.00 - 150.00 USD 180.00
467

[Obsolete Currency]. AUCTION CATALOGUES ON U.S. PAPER MONEY

USD 150.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
468 Orosz, Joel J., and Leonard D. Augsburger

THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE FIRST U.S. MINT: HOW FRANK H. STEWART DESTROYED-AND THEN SAVED-A NATIONAL TREASURE

Atlanta 2011 USD 200.00 - 200.00 USD 330.00
469 Raymond, Wayte, and J.G. Macallister [J.C. Morgenthau]

AUCTION SALE CATALOGUES

New York 1932--1940 USD 150.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
470 Raymond, Wayte, and J.G. Macallister [J.C. Morgenthau]

AUCTION SALE CATALOGUES

New York 1932--1945 USD 150.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
471 Raymond, Wayte, and J.G. Macallister [J.C. Morgenthau]

PART I: UNITED STATES CENTS, 1793--1814

New York February 7--8, 1945 USD 100.00 - 100.00 USD 78.00
472 Raymond, Wayte

MAIL-BID SALES

New York and Mineola 1937--1948 USD 300.00 - 300.00 USD 330.00
473 Salmon, Christopher J.

THE SILVER COINS OF MASSACHUSETTS: CLASSIFICATION, MINTING TECHNIQUE, ATLAS

New York 2010 USD 100.00 - 100.00 USD 360.00
474 Sheldon, William H., with the collaboration of Dorothy I. Paschal and Walter Breen

PENNY WHIMSY: A REVISION OF EARLY AMERICAN CENTS, 1793--1814: AN EXERCISE IN DESCRIPTIVE CLASSIFICATION WITH TABLES OF RARITY AND VALUE

New York 1958 USD 200.00 - 200.00 USD 156.00
475 Siboni, Roger S., John L. Howes and A. Buell Ish

NEW JERSEY STATE COPPERS: HISTORY, DESCRIPTION, COLLECTING

New York 2013 USD 100.00 - 100.00 USD 180.00
476 Slafter, Rev. Edmund F.

THE VERMONT COINAGE

Montpelier 1870 USD 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,160.00
  • 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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