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
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

Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Science and the Arts, 92825, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: September 28, 2025 - September 28, 2025

Page Size: 309 items in 13 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
51	WITHERBY, H.F., JOURDAIN, F.C.R., and others.	The Handbook of British Birds.	London	1949	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
52	WILLIAMS, Thomas Walter.	Original Precedents in Conveyancing...	Dublin	1790	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 825.50
53	WILSON, Hardy.	Instinct. Wandin, Victoria,		1945	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	AUD 539.75
54	BUCKLAND, Francis T.	Curiosities of Natural History.	London	1903	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
55	DEIGHTON, Len.	Horse Under Water.	London	1963	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
56		Two Arthur Upfield first editions, both	London.	1963	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
57	VASON, George.	Life of the late George Vason of Nottingham. One of the troop of Missionaries first sent to the South Seas by the London Missionary Society in the ship Duff, Captain Wilson, 1796.	London	1840	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 508.00
58		FINDLAY, G. G and W. W. HOLDSWORTH. The History of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society.	London	1921-1924	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 317.50
59		OUIDA, pseudonym of aria Louise Rame. Eleven novels, from the Australian edition "	Melbourne,	1873	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	AUD 317.50
60		A bound volume of ten pamphlets	printed in Auckland	1947- 1968	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
61		Both	Published by Angus & Robertson		AUD 100.00 - 150.00	AUD 76.20
62		A shelf lot of books on Melanesian social anthropology, specifically Papua New Guinea and the Highlands.			AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
63		Four bound volumes of the New South Wales Government Gazette		1843-1851	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	AUD 317.50
64		Six books on Christian Missions in the South Pacific and Melanesia: KING, Joseph. W.G. Lawes of Savage Island and New Guinea.	London	1909	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 317.50
65	HALCOMBE, J. J. (editor).	The Emigrant and the Heathen; or sketches of Missionary life.	London	[1874].	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 762.00
66	COOPER, H.M.	The Unknown Coast. Being the explorations of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. along the shores of South Australia 1802	Adelaide	1953	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 203.20
67	SMITH, James Edward.	Memoir and Correspondence of the Late Sir James Edward Smith, M.D. President of the Linnaean Society. Edited by Lady Smith.	London	1832	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 444.50
68	[MORE Hannah].	Coelebs in Search of a Wife. Comprehending Observations on Domestic Habits and Manners, Religion and Morals.	London	1826	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
69	BLACKWOOD, Robert Leslie.	The Quest of the Trout.	Melbourne	1926	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 203.20
70	COATES, D., and the Reverends John BEECHAM and William ELLIS. C	hristianity the Means of Civilization: Shown in the Evidence Given Before a Committee of the House of Commons, on Aborigines.	London	1837	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 444.50
71	ELLERY, Robert L. J.	Results of Astronomical Observations made at the Melbourne Observatory, in the Years 1881 -- 1884.	Melbourne	1888	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
72	[FRANKLIN, Sir John, and others].	Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council of Van Diemen's Land, 1837-1839.	Hobart	1840	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
73	LUFFMAN, John.	Elements of History and Chronology shewing the Origin of States and the Revolutions of Empires, from the Creation of the World to the Close of the Year 1804.	London	no date but 1805	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
74		Five books on Australian colonial history: GRIFFITHS, Nesta. Some Houses and People of New South Wales.	Sydney	1949	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
75	WAGNER, Richard.	Tannhauser. A dramatic poem		1911	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold

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.
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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.