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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.

Bonhams: Americana, Exploration, and Travel, 30826, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 23, 2025 - October 23, 2025
Page Size: 234 items in 10 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 SHEFFIELD, EDMUND, 1st Earl of Mulgrave. 1565-1646.

Manuscript document signed ("E. Sheffield").

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 768.00
3 TWISSE, WILLIAM, 1578-1646 -- [COTTON, JOHN, 1584-1652]

A Treatise of Mr. Cottons, Clearing certain Doubts Concerning Predestination. Together with an Examination Thereof; written by William Twisse, DD. Pastor of Newbury.

London 1646 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,024.00
5 SHEPARD, THOMAS, 1605-1649.

The Sound Beleever. A Treatise of Evangelicall Conversion.

London 1653 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
6

COLONIAL LAND DEED RECORDING THE PURCHASE OF LAND IN SUDBURY FROM NATIVE AMERICANS.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 4,096.00
7 JOSSELYN, JOHN, ca 1608-1704.

New-Englands Rarities Discovered: in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, serpents, and Plants of that Country.

London 1672 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 Not Sold
8 JOSSELYN, JOHN, ca 1608-1704.

An Account of Two Voyages to New-England.

London 1674 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,320.00
9 MATHER, INCREASE, 1639-1723.

A Brief History of the War with the Indians in New-England. From June 24. 1675. (when the first Englishman was Murdered by the Indians) to August 12. 1676. when Philip, alias Metacomet, the principal Author and Beginner of the War, was slain.

London 1676 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 Not Sold
10 BYFIELD, NATHANIEL, 1653-1733 -- MATHER, INCREASE (1639-1723).

An Account of the Late Revolution in New-England. Together with the Declaration of the Gentlemen, Merchants, and Inhabitants of Boston, and the Country Adjacent.

London 1689 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,320.00
11 [SEWALL, SAMUEL. 1652-1730.]

2 manuscript documents signed ("John Joyliffe" and "Edward Wyllys").

Both Boston, 1690 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,536.00
12 MATHER, COTTON, 1663-1728.

The Wonders of the Invisible World: Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches, Lately Executed in New-England....

London USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 17,920.00
13 MATHER, COTTON, 1663-1728.

Magnalia Christi Americana; or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England, From its First Planting in the Year 1620, Unto the Year of Our Lord, 1698.

London 1702 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,072.00
14 MATHER, COTTON, 1663-1728.

A Good Evening for the Best of Dayes: An Essay to Manage an Action of Tresspass, against those who mispend the Lords-Day Evening.

Boston 1708 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 5,120.00
15 MATHER, COTTON, 1663-1728.

The Christian Philosopher: A Collection of the Best Discoveries in Nature, with Religious Improvements.

London 1721 [bud 1720]. USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,432.00
16 MATHER, COTTON. 1633-1728.

Parentator. Memoirs of Remarkables in the Life and the Death of the Ever-Memorable Dr. Increase Mather. Who Expired, August 23, 1723.

Boston 1724 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 384.00
17 MATHER, COTTON, 1633-1728.

Ratio Disciplinae Fratrum Nov-Anglorum. A Faithful Account of the Discipline Professed and Practised in the Churches of New England.

Boston 1726 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,664.00
18 PRINCE, THOMAS -- MATHER, COTTON, 1633-1728.

The Departure of Elijah lamented. A Sermon Occasioned By the Great & Publick Lots in the Decease of the very Referend & Learned Cotton Mather.

Boston 1728 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,024.00
19 BRADSTREET, ANNE. 1612-1672.

Alas All's Vanity or a Leaf from the first American Edition of Several Poems .. printed at Boston, anno 1678.

New York 1942 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 512.00
20 GLANVILL, JOSEPH. 1636-1680.

Saducismus Triumphatus: or, Full and Plain Evidence Concerning Witches and Apparitions. In Two Parts. The First treating of their Possibility. The Second of their Real Existence.

London 1682 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,536.00
21 EXQUEMELIN, ALEXANDRE. c.1645-1707.

Bucaniers of America: Or, a True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults Committed of late Years upon the Coasts of The West-Indies, By the Bucaniers of Jamaica and Tortuga, Both English and French. --Bucaniers of America. The Second Volume.

London 1684, 1685. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,072.00
22

Manuscript deed signed by Thomas Cushman, William Bradford as Deputy Governor, and John and Ro: Cotton as witnesses.

New Plymouth, December 18, 1689. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,048.00
23 ROKEBY, THOMAS, SIR (1631?-1699).

Autograph diary. Ca 1687/8 to August 1697.

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,600.00
24 FOOD AND DRINK.

Autograph document, signed by Joses Buckman, recipient, and Nathaniel Dows, Town Clerk.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
25 GAGE, THOMAS. 1718/19-1787.

THOMAS GAGE ON PAYMENTS DURING PONTIAC'S WAR.

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
26 PRINCE, THOMAS. 1697-1758.

A Chronological History of New-England in the Form of Annals.

Boston 1736 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 768.00
27

18th CENTURY MANUSCRIPT CHARTER FOR A SHIP CALLED MAY FLOWER.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 768.00
  • 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