• 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
1211 Drexel, Jeremias

Daniel prophetarum princeps descriptus, et morali doctrina illustratus

Antwerpen 1651 EUR 150.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
1212 Drexel, Jeremias

Infernus damnatorum carcer & rogus aeternitatis

Munchen 1631 EUR 350.00 - 350.00 EUR 512.00
1213 Graz, Amandus von

Fasten-Banckets der christlichen Seelen

Salzburg 1691 EUR 150.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
1214

Kanontafeln mit Texten zur lateinisch-romischen Mess-Liturgie

Um 1860 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
1215 Keller, Martialis

Neueroffnete Himmels-Schule, in welcher aus zwolf, als so vielen Theilen vorgesetzten Lehrpunkten verschiedene Andachts- und Tugendsubungenm eine christliche Seele zu erlernen hat

Augsburg 1800 EUR 250.00 - 250.00 EUR 307.20
1216

Kirchen-Ordnung, wie es mit der christlichen Lehre, und Ceremonien, &c. in unsern, Ludewigs, Grafens zu Nassau, gehalten wird

Idstein 1713 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
1217 Krauss, Johann Ulrich

Biblisches Engel- u. Kunstwerck

Augsburg 1696 EUR 350.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
1218 Raben, Gottfried

Eine christliche Predigt vom Gebet uber das Evangelium am Sontage Bocem Jucunditatis Johannis am 16. Capitel

Nurnberg 1601 EUR 90.00 - 90.00 Not Sold
1219 Schrader, Johannes

New verbessert und vollstandig gantz aussfuhrlich Kirchen Formular, allerhand christlicher Wort, und Ceremonien, deren ein Prediger in Verrichtung seines Ampts, und der Seelsorge kan gebrauchen

Helmstedt 1670 EUR 150.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
1220 Stapleton, Thomas

Kirchen- und Hauspostill oder Catholisches Zeughauss, das ist feste wolgegrundte Erorterung und Ausslegung der furnembsten Stellen aller Evangelien

Ingolstatt 1695 EUR 240.00 - 240.00 Not Sold
1221 Strobl, Andreas

Ovum paschale novum Oder: Neugefarbte Oster-Ayr

Salzburg 1710 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 409.60
1222 Teresa de Jesus

Opera oder Alle Bucher unnd Schrifften

Wurzburg und Koln 1649 EUR 240.00 - 240.00 Not Sold
1223 Wagner, Bartholomaus

Erster Theil Catechesis oder Catholische Kinder Lehr uber die funff furnembste Stuck unsers heyligen allgemeinen Christlichen Catholischen Glaubens

Freiburg 1613 EUR 240.00 - 240.00 Not Sold
1224 Walch, Christian Wilhelm Franz

Wahrhaftige Geschichte der seligen Frau Catharina von Bora

Halle 1752-1754 EUR 90.00 - 90.00 Not Sold
1225

Athiopisches Gebetbuch ORIENTALIA. Ge'ez-Handschrift in roter und schwarzer Schrift auf Pergament

Athiopien Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts EUR 500.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
1226

Buddhistisches Leporello. Thailandische Handschrift mit buddhistischen Texten und 12 Miniaturen in Gold und Farben auf Papier

Thailand 19. Jahrhundert EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
1227

Eros-Miniaturen. 2 indopersische Miniaturen in Gold und Farben, gemalt auf alten Handschriftenkartons mit der Darstellung von Szenen hofischer Liebe im Mogulreich

Indo-persischer Raum um 1857 EUR 350.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
1228

Indopersische Miniatur. Arabische Handschrift auf Papier mit figurlicher Miniatur in Deckfarben und Goldhohung

Indopersischer Raum Ende 19. Jahrhundert EUR 250.00 - 250.00 EUR 230.40
1229

Indopersische Miniatur. Einzelblatt mit Miniatur in Gold und Farben

Wohl indopersischer Raum 17. Jahrhundert EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 281.60
1230

Palmblatthandschrift. Aus 8 Facherblattern mit dunkelbraunem Faden zusammengeheftete, einfaltbare birmanische Palmblattminiaturenfolge mit Darstellungen des Buddhas, Gottheiten und Tieren

Sudostasien 19.-20. Jahrhundert EUR 180.00 - 180.00 EUR 153.60
1231 Bellori, Giovanni Pietro und Causseo, Michaele Angelo

Picturae antiquae cryptarum Romanarum et Sepulcri Nasonum delineatae

Rom 1738 EUR 700.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
1232 Boussenot, Gustave

Chiffres & monogrammes et suite de compositions de styles et de fantaisies

Paris um 1880 EUR 120.00 - 120.00 EUR 115.20
1233 Chertablon de la Vigne, David

La maniere de se bien preparer a la mort

Antwerpen 1700 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
1234 Dezallier d'Argenville, Antoine-Joseph

La theorie et la pratique du jardinage, ou l'on traite a fond des beaux jardins appellez communement les jardins de plaisance et de properte

Paris 1732 EUR 450.00 - 450.00 EUR 384.00
1235 Earlom, Richard

Liber veritatis; or a collection of prints, after the original designs of Claude Lorrain; in the collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire

London (1777-1819) EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,840.00
  • 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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