• 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: Miscellaneous, 126VAR, Berlin-Grunewald

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 07, 2025 - October 07, 2025
Page Size: 270 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
430 Pelz, Henriette

Neues allgemeines Schlesisches Kochbuch fur burgerliche Haushaltungen

Breslau 1834 EUR 150.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
431 Propper, Lovica von

Waidmanns-Kuche

Koln und Neuss 1871 EUR 150.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
432 Schellhammer, Maria Sophia

Der Wohl-unterwiesenen Kochin zufallige Confect-Taffel

Berlin und Potsdam 1732 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
433 Schellhammer, Maria Sophia

Die wol unterwiesene Kochinn

Braunschweig 1704 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
434 Schellhammer, Maria Sophia

Die wol unterwiesene Kochinn

Braunschweig 1704-1706 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
435 Schreger, Odilo

Der vorsichtige und nach heutigem Geschmacke wohlerfahrene Speismeister

Augsburg 1778 EUR 350.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
436 Werner, Christiane

Das grosse ... Frankfurter Koch- und Haushaltungsbuch

Frankfurt a. M. 1805 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 EUR 563.20
437 Woltersdorf, Ernst Gabriel

Das Ganze der Brot-, Semmel-, Kuchen- und Pfefferkuchenbakkerei

Ilmenau 1824 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
438 Zuckert, Johann Friedrich

Allgemeine Abhandlung von den Nahrungsmitteln, von den Speisen aus dem Thierreich, von den Speisen aus dem Pflanzenreich

Berlin 1775 EUR 800.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
439 Armes du roy de France

princes du sang et autres ducs et pairs, mareschaux de France

Paris 1654 EUR 450.00 - 450.00 EUR 460.80
440 Munzgallerie

Gallerie sammtlicher europaischen und ausser-europaischen Munzen

Leipzig 1852 bzw. o. J. 1852 EUR 240.00 - 240.00 EUR 332.80
441 Tentzel, Wilhelm Ernst

Saxonia Numismatica

Dresden 1705 bzw EUR 450.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
442 Basler Fastnacht

Sammlung von Kollektiva zur Baseler Fastnacht

Basel 1867-1890 EUR 100.00 - 100.00 EUR 332.80
443 Bauer, Friedrich A.

Der Dienstboten-Freund

Augsburg 1851 EUR 180.00 - 180.00 EUR 409.60
444 Joest, Wilhelm

Tatowiren, Narbenzeichnen und Korperbemalen

Berlin 1887 EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,920.00
445 Kunckel von Lowenstern, Johann

Der curieusen Kunst- und Werck-Schul

Nurnberg 1759-1760 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 614.40
446 Harding, Edward

The Costume of the Russian Empire

London 1811 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,792.00
447 Kretschmer, Albert

Deutsche Volkstrachten

Leipzig 1870 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
448 Mason, George Henry

The punishments of China

London 1801 EUR 950.00 - 950.00 Not Sold
449 Picard, Bernard

Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde

Amsterdam und Paris 1783 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
450 Suhr, Christoph

Hamburgische Trachten

Hamburg um 1808-1812 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
451 Eosander Freiherr von Gothe, Johann Friedrich Nilsson

Durch Anweisung und Erfahrung Geubter Soldat

Frankfurt 1744 EUR 750.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
452 Fosse, Charles Louis Francois

Idees d'un militaire pour la disposition des troupes

Paris 1783 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
453 Hayne, J. C. G.

Abhandlung uber die Kriegskunst der Turken

Berlin und Stettin 1783 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
454 Kameke, Hermann Friedrich

Die Preussische Feld-Artillerie

Berlin 1847 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
  • 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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