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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. -
![<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i> First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/cc3f4f98-f195-4049-aca6-329c27fdd27c.png "<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i> First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000.")
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Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate PurchaseSotheby’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. -
![<b>Dominic Winter, Nov. 5:</b> Aquinas (Thomas). <i>[Summa Theologica], Secunda Parte,</i> Venice, 1496. £700 to £1,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/b69c37e7-f18c-4417-b08b-f00e9b97a413.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, Nov. 5:</b> Aquinas (Thomas). <i>[Summa Theologica], Secunda Parte,</i> Venice, 1496. £700 to £1,000.")
Dominic Winter
Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
5th November, 2025Dominic 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, 2025Dominic 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, 2025Dominic 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, 2025Dominic 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.: Literature and Illustrated Books, 101725, LA Assen,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- October 17, 2025 - October 17, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 96772727 | Leopardi / Valentini | Canti [Tiratura Ad Personam di 10 Esemplari] |
1998 | EUR 550.00 - 0.00 | EUR 250.70 | |
| 97537508 | Margaret Roberts | Mademoiselle Mori: a tale of modern Rome. [24 photographies originales] |
1862 | EUR 450.00 - 0.00 | Not Sold | |
| 97994470 | The Divine Comedy (Inferno / Purgatorio / Paradiso) | Dante Alighieri; Monika Beisner; translators: Robert & Jean Hollander |
2007 | EUR 375.00 - 0.00 | EUR 165.68 | |
| 97999029 | Scurto, Barbara | L'Aeroporto Romanzo |
1939 | EUR 1,700.00 - 0.00 | Not Sold | |
| 98005199 | Ochiai yoshiiku | kabukishinpou |
1884/1882 | EUR 450.00 - 0.00 | Not Sold | |
| 98014515 | Signed, Josn Ansell | Poems with some translations from German [with handwritten poem] |
1819 | EUR 375.00 - 0.00 | Not Sold | |
| 98034182 | Riccardo Forster - G. Pascoli, M. Serao, L. Capuana, D. Angeli | Flegrea-Rivista di Lettere, Scienze ed Arti - 22 Fascicoli |
1899 | EUR 400.00 - 0.00 | Not Sold | |
| 98036746 | Serafi Pitarra, Valenti Castanys | El castell dels tres dragons, El Castillo de los tres dragones |
1948 | EUR 450.00 - 0.00 | Not Sold | |
| 98037777 | Jonathan Swift | Travels into several remote Nations of the Worlds, in four parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, first a |
1751 | EUR 550.00 - 0.00 | EUR 436.00 | |
| 98039039 | Franco Maria Ricci | Genio D'Italia [37/150 di 975] |
2008 | EUR 1,300.00 - 0.00 | Not Sold | |
| 98052477 | Sokolova/Staronosov | Skazki i priedaniia Sieviernogho kraia [Russian Fairy tales] |
1934 | EUR 375.00 - 0.00 | EUR 109.00 | |
| 98073311 | Samuel Coleridge / Percy Shelley / John Keats | The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume |
1829 | EUR 650.00 - 0.00 | Not Sold | |
| 98120061 | Signed; Aldo Palazzeschi / Mino Maccari | Piazza della liberta |
1977 | EUR 1,000.00 - 0.00 | Not Sold | |
| 98130671 | Signed, William Shakespeare / Marc Chagall | The Tempest |
1975 | EUR 7,200.00 - 0.00 | Not Sold | |
| 98153167 | [Oscar Wilde] | An Ideal Husband. By the Author of Lady Windermere's Fan |
1899 | EUR 275.00 - 0.00 | EUR 164.59 | |
| 98153435 | V. V. A. A. | Album de Salon |
1883 | EUR 650.00 - 0.00 | Not Sold | |
| 98154325 | Federico Garcia Lorca / Rafael Alberti | Romancero Gitano |
1977 | EUR 2,700.00 - 0.00 | Not Sold | |
| 98155017 | Ego Marcus Paulo Volo et Ordino | Ego Marcus Paulo Volo et Ordino |
2017 | EUR 1,100.00 - 0.00 | Not Sold | |
| 98188629 | [William Combe ?] / Thomas Rowlandson | The Grand Master or Adventures of Qui-Hi? in Hindostan |
1816 | EUR 850.00 - 0.00 | EUR 632.20 | |
| 98190668 | William Burroughs | The Naked Lunch |
1959 | EUR 150.00 - 0.00 | EUR 130.80 | |
| 98203629 | Taylor McCall; D. Leitch | Behind Us |
1970 | EUR 750.00 - 0.00 | Not Sold | |
| 98213826 | Marcello Jori | Genio d'Italia. Dante Petrarca Boccaccio [No. XL/LXXV] |
2008 | EUR 550.00 - 0.00 | EUR 382.59 | |
| 98244598 | [Tanaka Umesaburo (editor)] | Forty Seven Ronin |
1910 | EUR 450.00 - 0.00 | EUR 272.50 | |
| 98248175 | Omar Khayyam/E. Geddes/Sangorski & Sutcliffe | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
1911 | EUR 225.00 - 0.00 | EUR 403.30 | |
| 98264927 | Carlo Collodi; Illustrazioni Mario Cerioli; Saggio introduttivo e commenti di Giacomo Biffi | Le avventure di Pinocchio |
2002 | EUR 750.00 - 0.00 | EUR 328.09 |
