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Sotheby's 
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate PurchaseSotheby’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, 2025Dominic 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, 2025Dominic 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, 2025Dominic 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, 2025Dominic 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, 2025Swann, 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, 2025Swann, 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, 2025Swann, 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, 2025Swann, 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-$12,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Christina Rossetti's Own Copy of Her First Book. Rossetti, Christina G. $8,000-$12,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: The Borden Copy of The Life of Merlin in an Elaborate Binding by Riviere. Heywood, Thomas, Translator. $6,000-$8,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Arion Press. Whitman, Walt, Leaves of Grass. $4,000-$6,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Call It Sleep in the First State Jacket. Roth, Henry. $2,000-$3,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Steinbeck's Best-Known Work. Steinbeck, John. $2,000-$3,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: A Fine Jewelled Binding Signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Sangorski, Francis. $40,000-$60,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter: A Complete Set of First Editions. Potter, Beatrix. $2,000-$3,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Kelmscott Shelley. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical Works. $3,000-$5,000Bonhams, 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 Date
 - October 07, 2025 - October 07, 2025
 
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 126 | (Lovisa, Domenico) | Il gran teatro di Venezia ovvero raccolta delle principali vedute e pitture che in essa si contegono  | 
            (Venedig) | -1720 | EUR 8,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Not Sold | 
| 127 | Mercator, Gerhard | 3 Kupferstichkarten zu Frankreich  | 
            Amsterdam | um 1613 | EUR 500.00 - 500.00 | EUR 448.00 | 
| 128 | Merian, Matthaus | Genua. Kupferstich  | 
            1649 | EUR 150.00 - 150.00 | EUR 217.60 | |
| 129 | Merian, Matthaus | Parys. Kupferstich  | 
            Um 1648 | EUR 200.00 - 200.00 | EUR 640.00 | |
| 130 | Montholon, (Ch. Fr. Tr. de) | Geschichte der Gefangenschaft auf St. Helena  | 
            Leipzig | 1846 | EUR 150.00 - 150.00 | EUR 153.60 | 
| 131 | Napoleon Bonaparte's Reiseabentheuer von Fontainebleau nach der Insel Elba  | 
            Leipzig | 1815 | EUR 120.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold | |
| 132 | Nicolai, Friedrich | Beschreibung einer Reise durch Deutschland und die Schweiz im Jahre 1781  | 
            Berlin und Stettin | 1783-1796 | EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | 
| 133 | Nolin, Jean-Baptiste | Les Etats de Savoie et du Piemont  | 
            Paris | 1696 | EUR 300.00 - 300.00 | EUR 307.20 | 
| 134 | Nolli, Giovanni Battista | Nuova Pianta di Roma Moderna  | 
            Rom | 1822 | EUR 300.00 - 300.00 | EUR 281.60 | 
| 135 | Ortelius, Abraham | Anglia regnum  | 
            Paris | 1620 | EUR 300.00 - 300.00 | EUR 281.60 | 
| 136 | Ostsee. Abzeichnung der Kupferstichkarte "Pascaerte vande Oost Zee: van't Eylandt Ruygen von Bornholm tot aen Wyborgh" von Johannes van Loon  | 
            Amsterdam | 17. Jahrhundert | EUR 300.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 137 | Ottens, Joachim | Insulae et Regni Siciliae Novissima Tabula  | 
            Amsterdam | 1745 | EUR 150.00 - 150.00 | EUR 230.40 | 
| 138 | Paris. Table alphabetique des rues de Paris  | 
            Stuttgart | 1833 | EUR 240.00 - 240.00 | Not Sold | |
| 139 | Parma. Plan de la ville, citadelle et environs de Parme  | 
            Italien | 1745 | EUR 300.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 140 | Plan du chateau de Demon  | 
            Um 1750 | EUR 300.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 141 | Privates Fotoalbum  | 
            Deutschland | 1938 | EUR 400.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 142 | (Pufendorf, Samuel von) | (De rebus Carolo Gustavo Sveciae rege gestis commentariorum libri septem)  | 
            Nurnberg | 1696 | EUR 3,500.00 - 3,500.00 | EUR 7,680.00 | 
| 143 | Raignauld, Henri | Isle de Cipre  | 
            Paris | 1629 | EUR 600.00 - 600.00 | EUR 1,088.00 | 
| 144 | Raignauld, Henri | Valetta citta nova cimalta  | 
            Paris | 1629 | EUR 600.00 - 600.00 | EUR 704.00 | 
| 145 | Raumer, Friedrich von | Geschichte der Hohenstaufen und ihrer Zeit  | 
            Leipzig | 1823-1825 | EUR 150.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | 
| 146 | Rider, William und Thomas Bradshaw | Views in the Mauritius, or Isle of France  | 
            London | 1832 | EUR 4,500.00 - 4,500.00 | Not Sold | 
| 147 | Riem, A(ndreas) | Reise durch Holland in den Jahren 1796 und 1797 in Beziehung auf die Geschichte der Republik und ihre gegenwartige Lage  | 
            Frankfurt und Leipzig | 1797 | EUR 600.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | 
| 148 | Rom. Konvolut von 3 Kupferstichen zu Rom von Pierre Mortier  | 
            Amsterdam | um 1704 | EUR 180.00 - 180.00 | EUR 153.60 | |
| 149 | (Rousset de Missy, Jean) | Memoires du regne de Catherine Imperatrice & Souveraine de toute la Russie  | 
            Den Haag | 1728 | EUR 150.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | 
| 150 | Sanson d'Abbeville, Nicolas | Latii utriusque nova descriptio  | 
            Amsterdam | 1705 | EUR 150.00 - 150.00 | EUR 128.00 |