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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-$12,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Christina Rossetti's Own Copy of Her First Book. Rossetti, Christina G. $8,000-$12,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: The Borden Copy of The Life of Merlin in an Elaborate Binding by Riviere. Heywood, Thomas, Translator. $6,000-$8,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Arion Press. Whitman, Walt, Leaves of Grass. $4,000-$6,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Call It Sleep in the First State Jacket. Roth, Henry. $2,000-$3,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Steinbeck's Best-Known Work. Steinbeck, John. $2,000-$3,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: A Fine Jewelled Binding Signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Sangorski, Francis. $40,000-$60,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter: A Complete Set of First Editions. Potter, Beatrix. $2,000-$3,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Kelmscott Shelley. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical Works. $3,000-$5,000Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Inscribed by Martin Luther King Jr. King, Martin Luther, Jr. $3,000-$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 - $40,000Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 37. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $16,000 - $18,000Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 104. Important Revolutionary War Plan of Battle of Quebec in Contemporary Color (1776) Est. $4,000 - $4,750Old 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 - $3,500Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 237. Rare and Striking Bird's-Eye View of Lawrence, Kansas (1880) Est. $2,000 - $2,500Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 10. Rare Map from Atlas Maior with Representations of the Seasons in Contemporary Color (1662) Est. $14,000 - $17,000Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 374. Bunting's Map of Europe Depicted as the Queen of the World (1589) Est. $2,000 - $2,400Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 590. Willem Blaeu's Magnificent Carte-a-Figures Map of Asia (1634) Est. $2,750 - $3,500Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 647. The Earliest and Most Decorative Map of the East Coast of Africa (1596) Est. $3,000 - $3,750Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 710. Ruscelli's Complete, Third Edition Atlas with 65 Maps (1574) Est. $9,500 - $11,000Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
Lot 696. Superb Hand-Colored Image of the Adoration of the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950 -
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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.
Grays Auctioneers: A Library of Curiosities - Part 2, 20948, Cleveland,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- November 08, 2025 - November 08, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ADAMS, George (1750-1795). | Essays on the Microscope. |
London | M. DCC. LXXXVII. [1787]. | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 2 | ADAMS, George. | Essay on Electricity. Fourth Edition. |
London | M. DCC. XCII. [1792]. | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 3 | AGRICOLA, Georg, 1494-1555. | Georgius Agricola De re metallica translated from the first Latin edition of 1556, |
London | 1912 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown |
| 4 | AIRY, George Biddell, 1801-1892. | Account of observations of the transit of Venus, 1874, December 8 : |
[London] | 1881 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 5 | ANSON, George Anson (1697-1762). | A Voyage Round the World. First Edition. |
London | MDCCXLVIII [1748]. | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | Unknown |
| 6 | ANSON, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762. | A voyage round the world, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV, by George Anson, esq; afterwards Lord Anson ... |
London | 1776 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown |
| 7 | BACK, George, 1796-1878. | Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean, in the years 1833, 1834 and 1835 by Captain Back, R.N. |
Philadelphia | 1836 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | Unknown |
| 8 | BAKER, Henry, 1698-1774. | Of Microscopes, and the Discoveries made thereby, by Henry Baker ; Volume 1: Fourth Edition (1754) Volume 2: First Edition (1753) |
London | [1753-1754] | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 9 | BARROW, Isaac, 1630-1677. | Geometrical Lectures : explaining the generation, nature and properties of curve lines, read in the University of Cambridge by Isaac Barrow ; Spine title: Barrow's Lectures |
London | MDCCXXXV [1735]. | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown |
| 9A | BEVERIDGE, Albert J., (Albert Jeremiah), 1862-1927. | Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858, by Albert J. Beveridge. |
Boston, Massachusetts | 1928 | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 10 | BOERHAAVE, Herman, 1668-1738. | A New Method of Chemistry |
London | 1741 | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 11 | BOTTEE de TOULMAN, Jean Joseph Auguste, 1764-1816. | Traite de l'art de fabriquer la poudre a canon ... |
Paris | 1811 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 12 | BOTTEE, Jean Joseph Auguste, 1764-1815. | Recueil de planches relatives a l'art de fabriquer la poudre a canon $c Par MM. Bottee et Riffault ... |
Paris | 1811 | USD 100.00 - 150.00 | Unknown |
| 13 | BOWLES, Samuel, 1826-1878. | Our New West : records of travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean ; |
Hartford, Ct. ; New York ; Chicago | 1869 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 14 | BREWSTER, David, 1781-1868. | A Treatise on New Philosophical Instruments, for various purposes in the arts and sciences ; |
Edinburgh | 1813 | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | Unknown |
| 15 | BRUCE, James (1730-1794). | Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. First Edition. |
Edinburgh, London | MDCCXC [1790]. | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | Unknown |
| 16 | BUDGE, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934. | The Book of the Dead : Facsimile of the papyrus of Ani in the British Museum: |
London | 1894 | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 17 | CAVALLO, Tiberius (1749-1809). | A Complete Treatise on Electricity in Theory and Practice. Third Edition in Two Volumes. |
London | M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]. | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 18 | CAVALLO, Tiberius, 1749-1809. | The Elements of Natural or Experimental Philosophy, by Tiberius Cavallo. |
London | 1803 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 19 | CHAPMAN, John Ratcliffe. | Instructions to young marksmen, |
New-York ; Philadelphia | MDCCCXLVIII. [1848]. | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 20 | CODDINGTON, Henry, 1798-1845. | A treatise on the reflexion and refraction of light, : being part I. of A system of optics, by Henry Coddington. |
Cambridge, London | 1829-1830. | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 21 | COOK, James (1728-1779). | A Voyage Towards the South Pole. First Edition. |
London | MDCCLXXVII [1777]. | USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Unknown |
| 22 | CRAMER, Johann Andreas, 1710-1777. | Elements of the Art of Assaying Metals. : In two parts. |
London | MDCCLXIV. [1764]. | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | Unknown |
| 23 | DODGE, Richard Irving, 1827-1895. | The Plains of the Great West and their inhabitants : being a description of the plains, game, Indians, &c., of the great North American desert |
New York | 1877, (c)1876. | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 24 | DOUGLAS, Howard, Sir, 1776-1861. | A Treatise on Naval Gunnery, by Sir Howard Douglas. |
London | 1851 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
![<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.")
![<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.")
