• 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: Old Prints and Manuscripts, 126AD, Berlin-Grunewald

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 07, 2025 - October 07, 2025
Page Size: 268 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1186 Sadoleto, Jacopo

Epistolarum libri sexdecim

Koln 1580 EUR 240.00 - 240.00 Not Sold
1187

Sammelband mit drei juristischen Drucken

Frankfurt 1569-1573 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 EUR 563.20
1188 Scaliger, Julius Caesar

Exotericarum exercitationum liber quintus decimus de subtilitate, ad Hieronymum Cardanum

Paris 1557 EUR 750.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
1189 Scheurl, Christoph

Sacerdotum defensorium libellus de sacerdotum ac rerum ecclesiasticarum praestantia

(Landshut) -1516 EUR 250.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
1190 Schildo, Eustachius

Spielteufel

Oberursel 1561 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 742.40
1191 Seuse, Heinrich

Der ewigen Weyssheit buechlin. Dillingen, Sebald Mayer, 1567. Erste von Adam Walasser (gest. 1581) herausgegebene Ausgabe

Dillingen 1567 EUR 4,500.00 - 4,500.00 Not Sold
1192 Spalatin, Georg

Ein getrew Unterricht

Zwickau 1533 EUR 450.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
1193 Spangenberg, Johannes

Trivii erotematum pars prima [bis: tertia]

Koln 1551 EUR 250.00 - 250.00 EUR 1,664.00
1194 Strauss, Jakob

Wider den symoneischen tauff und erkauften ertichten krysem und oel, auch warin die recht cristlich tauff (allain von Christo auffgsetzt) begriffen sey, ein genotige sermon, gepredigett zu Eyssznach

(Augsburg) 1523 EUR 450.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
1195 Tengler, Ulrich

Laien-Spiegel

Strassburg 1510 EUR 10,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 13,440.00
1196 Traut, Veit

Ankunfft-Krieg- und Sig-wider die Christen biss auff den Zwelfften yetzt Regierenden Tyrannen Soleymannum

Augsburg 1543 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 256.00
1197 Venatorius, Thomas

In psalmum LXXXIX

Nurnberg 1549 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
1198 Walasser, Adam

Die geistlich Strasz. Dillingen, Sebaldus Mayer, 1560. - Erste Ausgabe

Dillingen 1560 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 704.00
1199 Wild, Johann

Die Parabel oder Gleychnuss von dem verlornen Son

Mainz 1557 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
1200 Wild, Johann

Letztes: Winter und Sommertheyl [und:] Gemeine Busspredigten

Mainz 1564 EUR 450.00 - 450.00 EUR 460.80
1201 Wild, Johann

Letztes: Winter und Sommertheyl Catholischer und Evangelischer ausslegung der uberigen Predigen von Heyligen

Mainz 1564 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 EUR 435.20
1202 Witzel, Georg

Winterteil (Sommerteil). Ecclesiasticae demegoriae

Koln 1571 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
1203

Biblia germanica und Biblia das ist: Die gantze H. Schrift, Altes und Newes Testaments Teusch / D. Martin Luthers

Nurnberg 1641 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 537.60
1204

Biblia, das ist: Die gantze Heilige Schrift Alten und Neuen Testaments, nach der Ubersetzung, mit den Vorreden und Randglossen Martin Luthers

Tubingen 1736 EUR 350.00 - 350.00 EUR 332.80
1205 Kusel, Melchior

Icones Biblicae Veteris et Novi Testamenti. Augsburg, Melchior Kusel, 1679. - Erste Ausgabe

Augsburg 1679 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 358.40
1206 Abraham a Sancta Clara

Judas der Ertz-Schelm, fur ehrliche Leuth, Oder: Eigentlicher Entwurff und Lebens-Beschreibung des Iscariotischen Boesswicht

Augsburg 1692-1775 EUR 180.00 - 180.00 Not Sold
1207 Bohnstedt, David Siegmund

Grundliche Anweisung zur wahren Selbst-Verleugnung + Beiband

Berlin 1724 EUR 150.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
1208 Bunyan, John

Der Heilige Krieg, wie derselbe gefuhret wird von Christo Jesu, dem ewigen und allmachtigen Konig, wider den Teuffel, den Fursten der Finsterniss und uber die menschliche Seele

Hamburg 1715 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
1209 Bustis, Bernardino de

Rosarium sermonum per quadragesimam

Koln 1607 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
1210 Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, Jean

Les delices de l'esprit

Paris 1661 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 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
  • Rare Book Hub is now mobile-friendly!