• 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
588 VAN HASSELT, Andre

Voyage aux bords de la Meuse. Dessins de Paul Lauters [...].

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 234.00
589

Les delices des Pays-Bas, ou Description geographique et historique des XVII. Provinces belgiques. Sixieme edition [...].

EUR 120.00 - 150.00 EUR 182.00
590 GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico

Description de touts les Pays-Bas.

EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,560.00
591 GRAMAYE, Jean-Baptiste

Antiquitates illustrissimi ducatus Brabantiae [...].

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 91.00
592

2 lithographic album: Ostend and Spa.

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 546.00
593 Robert William Billings

The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland [...].

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 156.00
594 Douglas Morison

Views of Haddon Hall.

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 156.00
595 SINCERUS, Judocus pseud. ZINZERLING, Justus

Itinerarium Galliae, ita accommodatum, ut eius ductu mediocri tempore tota Gallia obiri, Anglia & Belgium adiri possint [...].

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 195.00
596 MARMIER, Xavier

2 works on Germany and Switzerland, illustrated by the Rouargue brothers.

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 91.00
597 DAPPER, Olfert

Naukeurige beschryving der eilanden in de Archipel der Middelantsche Zee, en ontrent dezelve, gelegen: waer onder de voornaemste Cyprus, Rhodus, Kandien, Samos, Scio, Negroponte [...].

EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,820.00
598 DAPPER, Olfert

Naukeurige beschryving van Morea, eertijts Peloponnesus; en de eilanden, gelegen onder de kusten van Morea, en binnen en buiten de Golf van Venetien [...].

EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,950.00
599 DOUBDAN, Jean

Le voyage de la Terre-Sainte.

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 286.00
600 David (1796) Roberts

La Terre sainte. Vues & monuments [...]. Avec une description historique de chaque planche.

EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 975.00
601 Giovanni Pividor

Vedute dei monumenti classici di Venezia [...].

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 338.00
602 Frederic Goupil-Fesquet

Voyage d'Horace Vernet en Orient. Orne de seize dessins.

EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 286.00
603 SMALLEGANGE, Mattheus

Nieuwe cronyk van Zeeland, eerste deel, ...

EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,170.00
604 BROUERIUS VAN NIDEK, Matthaeus; LE LONG, Isaac

Kabinet van Nederlandsche en Kleefsche Oudheden [...]. En in 300 verscheide printtafereelen vertoont door Abraham Rademaker.

EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 390.00
605 HALMA, Francois

Tooneel der Vereenigde Nederlanden, en onderhorige landschappen, geopent in een algemeen historisch, genealogisch, geographisch en staatkunding woordenboek...

EUR 350.00 - 400.00 EUR 585.00
606 CHARLEVOIX, Pierre-Francois-Xavier de

Histoire du Paraguay.

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 364.00
607 Edward Hawke Locker

Views in Spain.

EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 1,690.00
608 BOUGAINVILLE, Louis Antoine de

Voyage autour du monde, par la fregate du roi La Boudeuse, et la Flute etoilee; en 1766, 1767, 1768 & 1769.

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 416.00
609 BRETON, Ernest

Monuments de tous les peuples, decrits et dessines d'apres les documents les plus modernes.

EUR 70.00 - 100.00 EUR 65.00
610

3 ancient Greek-Latin editions.

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 260.00
611

Biblia Sacra. Dat is de geheele Heylighe Schrifture. Bedeylt in't Out en Nieu Testament. Oversien en verbetert na den lesten Roomschen text.

EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 650.00
612

Biblia, dat is, De gantsche Heylige Schrifture, vervattende alle de canonijcke boecken des Ouden en Nieuwen Testaments.

EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 650.00
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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