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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. -
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Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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![<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.")
Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate PurchaseSotheby’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.
Forum Auctions: The Library of John and Suzanne Bonham, 1189, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- October 30, 2025 - October 30, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 228 | Thompson (Thomas C. D., midshipman & acting sub lieutenant) | Royal Navy.- Log of H.M.S. Duke of Wellington |
Portsmouth | 1871 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 229 | Thomson (John) | Polar.- A Chart of the Discoveries of Captains Ross, Parry & Franklin in the Arctic Regions in the Years 1818, 1819, 1820, 1821 & 1822 |
[1822] | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 406.40 | |
| 230 | Thomson (Joseph) | Africa.- To the Central African Lakes and Back |
1881 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 508.00 | |
| 231 | Wood (Herbert) | Central Asia.- The Shores of Lake Aral |
1876 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 2,540.00 | |
| 232 | Tully (Richard) | Africa.- Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence in Tripoli in Africa |
1816 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 825.50 | |
| 233 | Turner-Turner (J.) | Big Game Hunting.- Three Years' Hunting and Trapping in America and the Great North-West |
1888 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 234 | Vallard (Nicholas) | Australia.- 'The First Map of Australia' |
[c. 1856 or later] | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 355.60 | |
| 235 | van de Velde (C. W. M.) | Levant.- Narrative of a Journey through Syria and Palestine in 1851 and 1852 |
1854 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 508.00 | |
| 236 | Wallace (Alfred Russel) | South America.- A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro |
1853 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,651.00 | |
| 237 | Ward (F. Kingdon) | Asia.- On the Road to Tibet |
Shanghai | 1910 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 2,286.00 |
| 238 | Ward (F. Kingdon) | Asia.- The Land of the Blue Poppy: Travels of a Naturalist in Eastern Tibet |
Cambridge | 1913 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 571.50 |
| 239 | Ward (F. Kingdon) | Asia.- The Mystery Rivers of Tibet |
1923 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 762.00 | |
| 240 | Warkworth (Lord) | Levant.- Notes from a Diary in Asiatic Turkey |
1898 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 241 | Webb (Rev. Arthur J.) | South Pacific Ocean.- Fiji.- The History of Fiji |
Sydney | 1885 | GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | GBP 3,048.00 |
| 242 | Weddell (James, navigator, (1787-1834) | Voyages.- Open face chronometer pocket watch |
1811 | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 243 | White (Lieutenant-Colonel George Francis, 1808-1898) | India.- Indian landscape at sunset, with lake and mountains in the distance, presumably Northern India |
1841 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 279.40 | |
| 244 | White (William) | Africa.- Journal of a Voyage performed in the Lion Extra Indiaman |
1800 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 245 | Whittingham (Ferdinand) | West Indies.- Bermuda: a Colony, a Fortress, and a Prison |
1857 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold | |
| 246 | Wilbraham (Capt. Richard) | Levant.- Travels in the Trans-Caucasian Provinces of Russia |
1839 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 381.00 | |
| 247 | Wilson (Ernest Henry) | China.- A Naturalist in Western China |
[1914] | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 279.40 | |
| 249 | Wilson (Robert Thomas) | Africa.- History of the British Expedition to Egypt |
1802 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 279.40 | |
| 250 | Wolff (Rev. Joseph) | Levant.- Journal of the Rev. Joseph Wolff ... to Sir Thomas Baring |
1839 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 251 | Wollaston (A. F. R.) | Africa.- From Ruwenzori to the Congo |
1908 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 825.50 | |
| 252 | Tuckey (James Hingston) | Australia.- An Account of a Voyage to Establish a Colony at Port Philip in Bass's Strait, on the South Coast of New South Wales |
1805 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 253 | Wood (Robert) | Levant.- The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmore, in the Desart |
1753 | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Not Sold |
![<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.")
