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

Vermot de Pas: NASA Photographs - History of Space Conquest, 171095, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 17, 2025 - October 17, 2025

Page Size: 324 items in 13 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Nasa.	Firing a "DAN" rocket.	Circa1950.	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
2	NASA. U.S. Air Force.	Night launch of a Thor rocket on April 23, 1958.	1958	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
3	Nasa. US Air Force.	Launch of a Jupiter missile.		EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
4	Nasa.	A decade or so after the Second World War, rocket launches followed one another at CAPE CANAVERAL in Florida, in the midst of the race against the Soviet Union for control of space.		EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
5	Nasa. US Air Force.	Launch of a "Minutman CB1" military missile.	1961	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
6	Nasa.	Astronaut Gus GRISSOM completes his space voyage by swimming in the ocean.	1961	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
7	Nasa.	Astronaut Scott Carpenter prior to his historic MERCURY AURORA 7 mission.	1962	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
8	NASA.	Astronaut Scott Carpenter dressed and ready for his historic first mission into orbit on May 24, 1962.	1962	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
9	NASA.	One of the first photographs of the lunar surface taken by the RANGER VII space probe.	1964	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
10	Nasa.	Observation of a full moon rising above the Earth's horizon as seen from space.	Circa1960-70.	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
11	NASA.	Large format. Historic Gemini 4 mission: first American spacewalk.		EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
12	NASA.	LARGE FORMAT. Historic Gemini IV mission.		EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
13	NASA.	Liftoff of the ATLAS-AGENA rocket at 10 a.m. from Complex 14 at Cape Kennedy.		EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
14	Nasa.	Bean launch of the ATLAS-AGENA rocket, whose module will be joined by astronauts Charles CONRAD and Richard GORDON aboard the Gemini spacecraft.		EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
15	Nasa. LARGE FORMAT. Apollo 4.	Rare photograph of a crescent of the Earth from space.		EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
16	NASA.	Exceptional view of an Earthrise from lunar orbit.		EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 189.00
17	NASA.	View of the lunar surface taken by the LUNAR ORBITER IV space probe (Frame #187) during its 33rd lunar orbit on its photographic mission around the Moon on June 2, 1967.	1967	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
18	NASA.	Superb view of the far side of the Moon from the LUNAR ORBITER V space probe.	1967	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
19	NASA. LARGE FORMAT.	Historic view of the 1st survey of the Earth observed by man from lunar orbit by the APOLLO 8 mission on December 24, 1968.	1968	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
20	NASA. LARGE FORMAT.	Photograph of the first human observation of an Earth survey from lunar orbit.		EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
21	NASA. LARGE FORMAT.	The 1st photograph of the Earth in its entirety taken by Humans in Space.		EUR 600.00 - 900.00	EUR 579.60
22	NASA. Apollo 7 mission.	Superb view of the SATURNE IVB rocket's open stage, photographed from the APOLLO 7 mission spacecraft,	October 11, 1968.	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
23	NASA. APOLLO 12 mission.	A superb photograph of the SURVEYOR III spacecraft taken by astronaut Charles Conrad Jr.	1969	EUR 600.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
24	Nasa. Apollo 11 mission.	Panoramic view of the Saturn V rocket as it leaves the assembly hall at Cap Canaveral for the launch pad.	July 1969.	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
25	Nasa.	Historic lift-off of the Saturn V rocket carrying the 3 astronauts of the Apollo XI mission, who a few days later were about to set foot on the Moon.	July 1969.	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	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
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