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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: Old Prints and Manuscripts, 126AD, 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 | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1161 | Marbach, Johann und Pappus, Johannes | Kirchen Ordnung  | 
            Strassburg | 1598 | EUR 300.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | 
| 1162 | (Mathesius, Johannes) | Historien, Historien, von des Ehrwirdigen in Gott Seligen thewren Manns Gottes, Doctoris Martini Luthers, anfang,| lehr, leben und sterben)  | 
            (Nurnberg) | -1567 | EUR 450.00 - 450.00 | Not Sold | 
| 1163 | Mathesius, Johannes | Historien, von dess ehrwurdigen in Gott seligen theuren Manns Gottes, D. Martin Luthers, Anfang, Lehre, Leben, standhaffter Bekenntnuss seines Glaubens, vnd sterben, ordentlich der Jarzal nach, wie sich solches alles habe zugetragen, beschrieben  | 
            Nurnberg | 1600 | EUR 300.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | 
| 1164 | Mathesius, Johannes | Postilla. Das ist Ausslegung der Sontags und furnembsten Fest Evangelien uber das gantze jar  | 
            Nurnberg | 1567-1568 | EUR 4,500.00 - 4,500.00 | Not Sold | 
| 1165 | Methodius, Pseudo- | De revelatione  | 
            (Basel) | -1515 | EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 | EUR 1,664.00 | 
| 1166 | Munster, Sebastian | Florence tres noble cite des Tuscans, figuree comme elle est de nostre temps  | 
            Um 1550 | EUR 300.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 1167 | Nicolaus de Byarto | Dictionarius pauperum omnibus verbi divini predicatoribus pernecessarius  | 
            (Strassburg) | -1516 | EUR 500.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | 
| 1168 | Ortelius, Abraham | Ellas. Graecia, Sophiani  | 
            Antwerpen | 1574-1587 | EUR 600.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | 
| 1169 | Ortelius, Abraham | Indiae Orientalis insularumque adiacientium Typus  | 
            Antwerpen | um 1575 | EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 2,048.00 | 
| 1170 | Ortelius, Abraham | Reliqua Britannicarum. Kolorierte Kupferkarte  | 
            Antwerpen | ca. 1590 | EUR 350.00 - 350.00 | EUR 256.00 | 
| 1171 | Ortelius, Abraham | Silesiae Typus  | 
            Um 1590 | EUR 300.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 1172 | Ovidius Naso, Publius | Opera, quibus in omnes metamorphoseos fabulas, praeter Lactantij argumenta, quoque accesserunt, Henrici Glareani et Longolij annotationes  | 
            Basel | 1560 | EUR 240.00 - 240.00 | EUR 243.20 | 
| 1173 | Pausanias | Veteris Graeciae descriptio  | 
            Florenz | 1551 | EUR 600.00 - 600.00 | EUR 512.00 | 
| 1174 | Petrus Lombardus | Sententiarum libri IIII  | 
            Lowen | 1566 | EUR 350.00 - 350.00 | EUR 358.40 | 
| 1175 | Pfintzing, Melchior | Die geuerlicheiten und eins teils der geschichten des Ritters Tewrdannkhs  | 
            Augsburg | 1519 | EUR 4,500.00 - 4,500.00 | EUR 7,680.00 | 
| 1176 | Plinius Secundus, Gaius | Naturalis historiae opus, ab innumeris mendis a Iohanne Caesario vindicatum  | 
            Koln | 1565 | EUR 250.00 - 250.00 | EUR 358.40 | 
| 1177 | Plinius Secundus, Gaius d. A. | Historiae mundi libri triginta septem  | 
            Lyon | 1548 | EUR 900.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold | 
| 1178 | Plutarch | Vite di greco in latino et di latino in volgare et novamente con le sue historie ristam pate  | 
            Venedig | 1525 | EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 | Not Sold | 
| 1179 | Rabelais, Francois | Les oeuvres  | 
            Antwerpen | 1573 | EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 2,560.00 | 
| 1180 | Raemon, Florimond de | L'anti-christ et l'anti-papesse  | 
            Paris | 1599 | EUR 300.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | 
| 1181 | Ravenna, Petrus von | Compendium pulcherrimum Juriscanonici clarissimi juris utriusque Doctoris et Equitis Petri Ravennatis  | 
            Wittenberg | 1504 | EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | 
| 1182 | Ringhieri, Innocenio | Cento Givochi. Bologna, Anselmo Giaccarelli, 1551. - Erste Ausgabe dieser seltenen Sammlung von hofischen Gesellschaftsspielen der Renaissancezeit  | 
            Bologna | 1551 | EUR 900.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold | 
| 1183 | Roccha, Petrus | Graecae interrogationes de octo partibus orationis, quibus graeco sermone diligens praeceptor quam facillime studiosos discipulos interrogare poterit  | 
            Venedig | 1543 | EUR 180.00 - 180.00 | EUR 243.20 | 
| 1184 | Rosslin, Eucharius | Kreuterbuch, von naturlichem Nutz, und grundtlichem Gebrauch der Kreutter  | 
            Frankfurt | 1550 | EUR 600.00 - 600.00 | EUR 512.00 | 
| 1185 | Rudolph, Valentin | Zeitbuchlein. Darinnen grundtlich auffs kurtzest und einfeltigste angezogen  | 
            Erfurt | 1586 | EUR 300.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |