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![<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.")
Sotheby's
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. -
Swann
Autographs
November 6, 2025Swann, 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, 2025Swann, 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, 2025Swann, 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, 2025Swann, 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-$12,000Bonhams, 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
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 |
