• 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.
  • 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

Galerie Bassenge: History, Geography, and Travel, 126GE, Berlin-Grunewald

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 07, 2025 - October 07, 2025
Page Size: 250 items in 10 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101

Gipuzkoa. Fort S.te Izabeth du Passage a la cote de Guipuscoa en Espagne

Frankreich um 1750 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
102 Gleizes, Venuste

"Recueil de Pieces interessantes. Marine a Brest"

Frankreich (Brest) um 1840 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
103 Groignard, Arnaud

Carte de la mer mediterranee en trois feuilles

Paris 1745 EUR 750.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
104 Hogenberg, Frans und Braun, Georg

6 Ansichten italienischer Stadte

Koln ca. 1575-1620 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
105 Homann, Johann Baptist

Prospect der Konigl. Schwed. Haupt und Residenz-Stadt Stockholm mit einigen derselben vornehmsten u. herrlichsten Palaesten

Um 1740 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
106 Huber, H.

Panorama von Bern vom Kafigthurm aus. Chromolithographie mit Weisshohung von 2 Platten gedruckt

Basel um 1850 EUR 750.00 - 750.00 EUR 640.00
107

Italien. Drei Radierungen mit Ansichten von Tivoli

Amsterdam um 1700 EUR 240.00 - 240.00 Not Sold
108

Italien. Konvolut von 4 Stadtansichten teils aus dem "L'atlas curieux"

Paris 1704 EUR 450.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
109

Italienisches Portratalbum des Risorgimento

Wohl Florenz 1866 EUR 350.00 - 350.00 EUR 256.00
110 Jaillot, Hubert und Mortier, Pierre

Carte particuliere des costes meridionales d'Angleterre qui comprend l'isle de Wicht, et le havre de Portsmouth, avec les autres isles, bancs et costes qui sont entre le havre de Chichester, et celuy de La Pole

Amsterdam 1693 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
111 Jansson, Johannes und Georg Horn

Britannia prout divisa fuit temporibus Anglo-Saxonum, praesertim durante illorum Heptarchia

Amsterdam 1657-1658 EUR 450.00 - 450.00 EUR 384.00
112 Jeffreys, Thomas

Mappa ou carta geographica dos reinos de Portugal e Algarve

London 1762 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 409.60
113 Julien, Roch-Joseph

Atlas topographique et militaire qui comprend le royaume de Boheme, les marquisats de Moravie et de Lusace, le duche de Silesie, la haute et basse Saxe, les frontieres du haut Rhin et de Westphalie, et les cartes generales de ces etats et du theatre de la

Paris 1758 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
114 Keulen, Johannes van

Paskaart van't canaal Engelandt Schotlandt Yerland

Amsterdam 1697 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
115 Keyssler, Johann Georg

Reisen durch Deutschland, Bohmen, Ungarn, die Schweiz, Italien und Lothringen, in welchem Zustand und das Merkwurdigste dieser Lander beschrieben, und vermittelst der Naturlichen, Gelehrten, und Politischen Geschichte, der Mechanik, Mahler-, Bau- und Bild

Helwing 1776 EUR 350.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
116 Kip, Johannes

La Ville de Londres. Prospectus Londinensis

London 1720 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,560.00
117 Kleemann, N(ikolaus) E(rnst)

Tagebuch der Reisen

Prag 1783 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 704.00
118

Konvolut von 11 teils grenzkolorierten Kupferstichkarten von M. Seutter, J. B. Homman, M. Merian, J. Janssonius, D. Funck, G. Vlack, D. Paulli und F. de Witt

Verschiedene Orte und Verlage 1650-1730 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,024.00
119

Kurtzer historischer Begriff, der Verfolgungen, welche uber die Bohmische Kirchen ergangen, von dem anfang ihres Christenthums, das ist, von dem 894

O. O. 1650 EUR 250.00 - 250.00 EUR 640.00
120 (Lalande, Joseph Jerome Le Francais de)

(Atlas du voyage en Italie, fait dans les annees 1765 et 1766)

(Paris) -1769 EUR 450.00 - 450.00 EUR 704.00
121 Lavallee, Joseph

Voyage pittoresque et historique de l'Istrie et Dalmatie

Paris -1802 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
122 Le Rouge, Georges-Louis

L'Etat de la Republique de Genes Tire Des Meillieurs Cartes d'Italie Corrige sur les Lieux

Paris 1747 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
123

Lissabon. - "Ruinae eversae Olysipponis. Ruin der Stadt Lisabona"

Augsburg (um 1765) EUR 120.00 - 120.00 EUR 243.20
124

London. - Interior of the Crystal Palace

London 1851 EUR 150.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
125

London. Kolorierte Zeichnung

England um 1830 EUR 800.00 - 800.00 EUR 640.00
  • 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.
  • 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
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