• 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

Christies: Rare Books and Manuscripts, 23810, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Date
November 05, 2025 - November 05, 2025
Page Size: 200 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 ATELIER BYZANTIN

Saint Luc evangeliste, miniature sur un feuillet provenant d'un Evangeliaire

[Empire byzantin] [seconde moitie du XIIIe siecle] EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 Unknown
2 ATELIER BYZANTIN

Saint Matthieu evangeliste, miniature sur un feuillet provenant d'un Evangeliaire

[Empire byzantin] [seconde moitie du XIIIe siecle] EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 Unknown
3 ATELIER DE MAITRE FRANCOIS

Livre d'heures, a l'usage de Rome, en latin

[Paris] [c. 1470] EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Unknown
4 ATELIER DE JEAN PICHORE

Livre d'heures, a l'usage de Paris, en latin et en francais

[Paris] [c. 1500] EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Unknown
5 ALIGHIERI, Dante (1265-1321)

La comedia con la nova espositione di Alessandro Vellutello

Venise 1544 EUR 24,000.00 - 30,000.00 Unknown
6 AA, Pieter van der (1659-1733)

[ATLAS] - Nouvel Atlas, tres exact et fort commode (...) contenant les prinipales cartes geographiques, dresse suivant les nouvelles observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences

Leide [c.1714] EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
7 BOURBON, Jacques de, dit le batard de (1466-1537)

La grande et merveilleuse et tres cruelle oppugnation de la noble cite de Rhodes

Paris 1525 EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 Unknown
8 CAOURSIN, Guillaume (1430-1501)

Obsidionis Rhodiae urbis descriptio

[Rome] [vers 1481-1483] EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 Unknown
9 CASSIEN, Jean (vers 360- 435)

Monasticarum institutionum libri IIII

Anvers 1578 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
10 CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de (1547-1616)

Les Principales aventures de l'admirable Don Quichotte...

La Haye et Paris 1774 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
11 CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de (1547-1616)

El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha

Madrid 1780 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
12 CROISET, Jean (1656-1738)

Des Illusions du coeur dans toutes sortes d'etats et de conditions

Lyon 1748 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
13 DENYS D'HALICARNASSE (vers 60 av. J.-C. - apres 8 av. J.-C)

Delle cose antiche della citta di Roma

Venise 1545/6 EUR 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 Unknown
14 [DESCARTES, Rene (1596-1650)]

Discours de la methode pour bien conduire sa raison et chercher la verite dans les sciences , plus La dioptrique, Les meteores et La geometrie qui sont des essais de cette methode

Leyde 1637 EUR 70,000.00 - 90,000.00 Unknown
15 [EVANGILES BILINGUES LATIN ARABE]

[Evangelium Arabicum cum latina incertineari versione cum figuris a Tempesta dediricatis, edite par Giovanni Raimondi]

Rome 1591 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Unknown
16 FABRIS, Salvator (1544-1618)

De lo schermo, overo scienza d'arme

Copenhague 1606 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
17 HEURES IMPRIMEES SUR VELIN

Heures a l'usage de Rome

Paris 22 aout 1498 EUR 17,000.00 - 25,000.00 Unknown
18

[HEURES IMPRIMEES SUR VELIN] Officium beate Marie virginis ad usum Romane ecclesie

Lyon 26 aout 1501 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
19

HEURES IMPRIMEES SUR VELIN. Horae dive virginis Marie secundum ritum ac consuetudinem...

Paris [1524] EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
20

[JARDIN DE PLAISANCE -- ANTHOLOGIE POETIQUE]. Le Jardin de plaisance et fleur de rethoricque

Paris s.d. [circa 1518] EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Unknown
21 [LA FAYETTE, Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, comtesse de, dite Madame de La Fayette (1634-1693)]

La Princesse de Cleves

Paris 1678 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Unknown
22 [LIVRE DE FETES]

Le Sacre de Louis XV, roy de France et de Navarre, dans l'eglise de Reims, le dimanche 25 octobre 1722

S.l. [Paris] n.d. [1722] EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
23 LUCRECE (Ier siecle av. J.-C.)

Di Tito Lucrezio Caro della Natura delle cose

Amsterdam [Paris] 1754 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
24 [LUTHER, Martin (1483-1546)]

Biblia. Das ist: die gantze heylige schrifft Teutsch. Sampt einem register, summarien uber alle capitel und schonen figuren

[Francfort] 1574 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Unknown
25 MAIMBOURG, Louis (1610-1686)

Histoire du grand Schisme d'Occident

Paris 1678 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
  • 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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