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  • 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.
  • 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.

Catawiki B. V.: Old and Rare Books Auction (pre-1700), 100625, LA Assen,

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 06, 2025 - October 06, 2025
Page Size: 71 items in 3 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
94627430 Ioannis Buchleri

Thesaurus Conscribendarum Epistolarum Novus et Utilissimus

1619 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 75.21
95792327 Antonio Vallisneri (1661-1730); Lodovico Testi (1640-1707)

Disinganni overo Ragioni fisiche che provano l'Aria di Venezia intieramente salubre...

1694 EUR 160.00 - 450.00 EUR 131.89
97015190 Saint Augustin d'Hippone

Operum (Sermones ad Populum)

1700 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 87.20
97940930 Bartolome Carranza

Summa omnium conciliorum et pontificum

1683 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 109.00
97962942 Collectif

Orationes aliquot elegantes

1579 EUR 325.00 - 400.00 EUR 81.75
97968888 Jacobo Masenio

Amrum Sapientvm Sive Ars Sine Scelere & Cum Virtute, Ditescendi

1661 EUR 325.00 - 400.00 EUR 65.40
97977035 Ovide

Pub. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon. Libri XV

1609 EUR 350.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
98003055 Jean Gerson Doctor Christianissimus

Sheet from Incunable "Opera" Strassburg Inkunabeln Incunable

1488 EUR 210.00 - 260.00 EUR 32.70
98005189 Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac

Lettres choisies

1652 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
98005363 Cornelii Jansenii

Tetrateuchus, sive Commentarius in Evangelia

1655 EUR 170.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
98009061 Bernardin Imbotti

La Milice Moderne, ou sont comprises les evolutions tant de Cavalerie que d'Infanterie

1646 EUR 275.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
98016397 Titus Livius

Titi Livii Historiae Romanae Historiae Principis

1599 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
98016695 Arend van Slichtenhorst

XIV Boeken van de Geldersse Geschiedenissen

1653 EUR 275.00 - 500.00 EUR 294.30
98016884 Valerius Maximus

Valerii Maximi Dictorum Factorumque Memorabilium Libri IX

1625 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 29.43
98024692 Ioan Bodin

De Republica Libri Sex

1601 Not Available EUR 171.13
98025077 Publio Virgilio Marone, con commento di Annibal Caro

L'Eneide di Virgilio, del Commendatore Annibal Caro

1592 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 216.91
98030993 [Anonyme]

Democritus ridens, sive Campus recreationum honestarum cum exorcismo melancholiae

1696 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 109.00
98035042 Mazzella, Scipion, Ferro, Antonio.

Sito, et antichita della citta di Pozzuolo, e del suo amenissimo distretto. Con la descrittione di

1606 EUR 220.00 - 500.00 EUR 327.00
98037939 Antonius Faber (Pseudonym von Christian Leonhard Leucht, 1645--1716)

Europaische Staats-Cantzley - Staats-, Justiz-, Polizei-, Cammeral-, Militar- und andere Materien -

1697 EUR 170.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
98050415 R. P. Hermannon Busenbaum

Medulla Theologiae Moralis

1659 EUR 350.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
98051109 Philippi Chiffeletius

Sacrosancti & Oecumenici Concili Tridentini

1685 EUR 220.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
98052742 Ioannes Busaeus

Viridarium Christianarum Virtutum

1642 EUR 220.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
98053204 D. Iosephi Mansi

Aerarium Evangelicum

1668 EUR 275.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
98053575 Matthiae Fabri

Concionum operis Tripartiti Pars Hyemalis De Dominicis

1693 EUR 275.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
98058919 Ludovici Mariae Armandi de Simiane de Gordes

Rituale Lingonense Authoritate Illustrissimi et Reverendissimi in Christo Patris ac Domini

1679 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 59.95
  • 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
  • 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