• 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
613

Icones historicae Veteris et Novi Testamenti, carminibus latinis & gallicis illustratae, in quibus exponitur historia in singulis exhibita figuris.

EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 442.00
614 MARTIN, David

Historie des Ouden en Nieuwen Testaments, verrykt met meer dan vierhonderd printverbeeldingen in koper gesneeden.

EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 416.00
615

Epistolae et Evangelia totius anni, ex praescripto Missalis Romani [...].

EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 650.00
616 PEPE, Stefano

Die Wunderwerck welche Gott auff Furbitt dess Seel: Caetans Tiene, Stuffters der Regulierten Theatiner-Priester gewirckt hat [...].

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 390.00
617 Jacques Brabant

Histoire de l'alienation, engagere et vente des seigneuries, domaines & jurisdictions du Duche de Brabant, de Limbourg, & Pays d'Outre-Meuse.

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 195.00
618

3 works on Brabant.

EUR 175.00 - 200.00 EUR 286.00
619 ULLOA, Alfonso de

Historie, ende het leven van den aldermachtichsten ende victorieusten keyser Caerle de vijfde [...].

EUR 120.00 - 150.00 EUR 364.00
620 VARILLAS, Antoine

La pratique de l'education des princes, ou Histoire de Guillaume de Croy, surnomme le Sage, seigneur de Chievres, gouverneur de Charles d'Autriche qui fut empereur cinquieme du nom [...].

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 130.00
621

3 devotional works in Dutch, printed in Antwerp.

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 260.00
622

15 devotional works, all but 3 in Dutch, incl. 1 from the Plantin Press.

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 455.00
623 THOMAS A KEMPIS

L'Imitation de Iesus-Christ, traduite & paraphrasee en vers Francois par P. Corneille.

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 169.00
624 VILLACASTIN, Tomas de

Onder-wys der godtvruchtighe ziele. Tot het innigh ghebedt [...].

EUR 90.00 - 120.00 EUR 156.00
625

't Ondekte voordeel van alle weereldsche dingen [...].

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 520.00
626 DONDINI, Guglielmo

Historia de rebus in Gallia gestis ab Alexandro Farnesio [...].

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 416.00
627 HOOFT, Pieter Cornelisz

Neederlandsche histoorien [...].

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 234.00
628 TERENTIUS AFER, Publius

Comoediae sex. Ex recensione Heinsiana.

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 130.00
629 BOURGEOIS, Jean

Mysteres de la vie, passion, et mort de Jesus Christ, nostre seigneur; reduicts en devotes meditations et aspirations. Enrichies de figures par Boetius a Bolswert.

EUR 120.00 - 150.00 EUR 234.00
630 Jacob Cats

Alle de wercken, soo oude als nieuwe [...].

EUR 350.00 - 400.00 EUR 455.00
631 Desiderius Erasmus

Familiarium colloquiorum opus [...]. Brevis ejusdem auctoris vita [...].

EUR 350.00 - 400.00 EUR 585.00
632 LABBE, Pierre

Victori Ludovico XIII. Galliae et Navarrae regi semper augusto. Panegyricum poema ob Rupellam expugnatam.

EUR 180.00 - 220.00 EUR 195.00
633 CLENARDUS, Nicolaus

Grammatica graeca, a Stephano Moquoto, e Societate Iesu, recognita, ad usum collegiorum eiusdem Societatis.

EUR 180.00 - 220.00 EUR 494.00
634 RIBADENEYRA, Pedro de

Generale legende der heylighen met het leven Iesv Christi ende Marie [...].

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 234.00
635

History. 2 works. Folio (n.c.). - 1. Van Haecht Goidtsenhoven, Laurens - Chroniicke vande hertoghen van Brabant: verciert met hunne figuren nae t'leven [...].

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 416.00
636 HOMERE

L'Iliade [- L'Odyssee]. Nouvelle traduction.

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 364.00
637 Paul Lecreux

La venerie [...]. Dediee au Roy. Et de nouveau reveue, et augmentee, outre les precedentes impressions.

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 364.00
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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