• 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.
  • 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.

Arenberg Auctions: October Auction, 101725, BRUSSEL

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 17, 2025 - October 17, 2025
Page Size: 443 items in 18 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
563

Comte d'Hollande, seigneurie d'Utrecht, comtes de Zelande, de Zutphen et duche de Brabant &c. dresses sur les memoires faits par ordre des Estats Generaux et augmentes sur les observations nouvelles [...].

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 286.00
564

Nieuwe geographische en historische atlas, van de zeven Vereengde Nederlandsche Provintien; bestaande in de vijftig nieuwe accurate kaarten [...].

EUR 800.00 - 900.00 EUR 1,430.00
565 Nicolas De Fer

L'atlas curieux ou Le monde dresse et dedie a nosseigneurs les enfans de France [...].

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 3,640.00
566 Abraham Ortelius

Parergon, sive Veteris geographiae aliquot tabulae [...].

EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 11,700.00
567 GOTZEN, Gustav Adolf von

Durch Afrika von Ost nach West. Resultate un Begebenheiten einer Reise von der Deutsch-Ostafrikanischen Kuste bis zur Kongomundung in der Jahren 1893/94 [...].

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 195.00
568 PRUNEAU de POMMEGORGE, Antoine Edme

Description de la Nigritie. Enrichie de cartes.

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 208.00
569

C. 45 books and publications on Africa.

EUR 120.00 - 150.00 EUR 117.00
570 DEPELCHIN, Henri; CROONENBERGHS, Charles

Trois ans dans l'Afrique australe [...]. Debuts de la mission du Zambese [...].

EUR 75.00 - 100.00 EUR 117.00
571 SERPA PINTO, Alexandre Alberto de

Comment j'ai traverse l'Afrique.

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 247.00
572

Asia - Africa. 2 rare 17th-c. travel accounts in Dutch bound in 1 vol.

EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 1,300.00
573 FAVIER, Alphonse

Peking, histoire et description. 660 gravures anciennes et nouvelles reproduites ou executees par des artistes indigenes d'apres les plus precieux documents, 124 phototypies, 24 collographies hors texte.

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 234.00
574 Johan Nieuhof

Legatio Batavica ad magnum Tartariae Chamum Sungteium, modernum Sinae imperatorem.

EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,470.00
575 BAEDEKER, Karl

Indien. Handbuch fur reisende.

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 234.00
576 Robert Percival

Voyage a l'ile de Ceylan, fait dans les annees 1797 a 1800 [...]. Suivi de la relation d'une ambassade envoyee, en 1800, au roi de Candy...

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 156.00
577 CANTILLON, Philippe de

Delices du Brabant et de ses campagnes, ou Description des villes, bourgs & principales terres seigneuriales de ce duche [...]. ...

EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 455.00
578 CANTILLON, Philippe de

Vermakelykheden van Brabant.

EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,105.00
579

Le Grand Theatre sacre du duche de Brabant [...].

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 390.00
580

Groot kerkelyk toneel des hertogdoms van Brabant [...].

EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 390.00
581 Jacques Brabant

Delices de la noblesse contenant plus de deux cens veues et perspectives des principales maisons de campagne & autres beaux edifices des familles illustres du Pais-Bas [...].

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 650.00
582 Jacques Brabant

Topographia historica Gallo-Brabantiae [...].

EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 390.00
583 HAM, Philippe

Convent of the Dames de Berlaymont in Brussels.

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 130.00
584 VASSE, Jacques-Abraham-Antoine

La Province de Namur pittoresque, ou Vues des chateaux, des sites pittoresques, des ruines et des monumens de la province, dessinees d'apres nature ...

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 2,600.00
585 Armand Jean Heins

Vieux coins en Flandre.

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 130.00
586 SANDERUS, Antonius

Flandria illustrata, sive Provinciae ac comitatus hujus descriptio [...]. Cum figuris aeneis.

EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,430.00
587 SANDERUS, Antonius

Verheerlykt Vlaandre, behelzende eene algemeene en nauwkeurige beschryving van dat graafschap en van zyne algemeene en byzondere wetten [...].

EUR 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 2,860.00
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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-$12,000
    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