• 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
  • 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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  • 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.

Jeschke Jadi Auctions Berlin GmbH: Valuable Books, Prints and Historical Photographs - Day 1, 157a, Berlin

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 24, 2025 - October 24, 2025
Page Size: 1092 items in 44 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Adelphus, Johannes

Barbarossa. Eine Schone Unnd Warhaffte beschreibung des Lebens unnd der geschichten Keyser Friderichs des ersten, genannt Barbarossa ...

Strassburg 1535 EUR 2,900.00 - 2,900.00 EUR 3,326.70
2 Agathias Scholastikos

De bello Gotthoru(m), & alijs peregrinis historijs temporum suoru(m), per Christophoru(m) Persona Romanum e graeco in latinum traductus.

Augsburg 20. Sept. 1519 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
3 Pontanus, Johannes Jovianus (Giovanni)

Amorum libri II. De amore coniugali libri III...

Venedig Februar 1518 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 EUR 767.70
4 Appianus, Alexandrinus

Delle Guerre de' Romani, cosi esterne, come civili ... Und: Ders. Della Guerra che i Romani fecero in Ispagna.

Venedig 1575 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
5 Rusconi, Gio Antonio

Della architettura. Con Centosessanta Figure Dissegnate dal Medesimo, Secono i Precetti di Vitruvio, e con chiarezza, e brenita dichiarate.

Venedig 1590 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,535.40
6 Vitruvius, Pollio Marcus

I dieci libri dell'Architettura. Tradotti & commentati die Mons. Daniel Barbaro ... da lui riveduti & ampliati, & hora in piu commoda forma ridotti.

Venedig 1567 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
7 Ariosto, Lodovico

Orlando furioso ... Tutto ricoretto, & di nuove Figure adornato. Con le Annotationi, gli Avvertimenti, & le Dichiarationi di Ieronimo Ruscelli ... ahmen und belebten Initialen.

Vendig 1587 EUR 450.00 - 450.00 EUR 703.73
8 Apian, Peter

Cosmographiae introductio cum quibusdam Geometriae ac Astronomiae principiis ad eam rem necessariis.

Venedig Juli 1533 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
9 Mizauld, Antoine

De Mundi Sphaera, seu Cosmographia, Libri tres: figuris et demonstrationibus illustrati. Mit Holzschnitt-Druckermarke auf Titel u. 41 Holzschnitten im Text (darunter 2 Volvellen).

Paris 1552 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
10 Bembo, Pietro

Le prose ... Mit: Le rime ... Redigiert von Francesco Sansovino.

Venedig 1562 und 1564 EUR 350.00 - 350.00 EUR 460.62
11

(Biblia Sacra Hebraice, Chaldaice, Graece, & Latine.) Bd. 4 (v. 8): Sacrorum bibliorum tomus quartus.

Antwerpen 1570 EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,535.40
12 Biel, Gabriel

Super canone misse cum additionibus.

Lyon 30. Mai 1527 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 575.78
13 Boiardo, Matteo Maria

Orlando innamorato ... Insieme co i tre libri di M. Nicolo de gli Agostini.

Venezia 1588 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
14 Bonaventura

Sammelband mit 2 Schriften des Heiligen Bonaventura.

Logrono 29. Nov. 1529 EUR 8,800.00 - 8,800.00 Not Sold
15 Briesmann, Johannes

Underricht und Ermanung ... an die christlich gemain zu Cotbus.

Wittenberg 1523 EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,535.40
16 Caro, Annibale

Rime del commendatore Annibal Caro

Venedig 1569 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
17 Cyprianus, Thascius Caecillius

Opera Sanctissimi Martyris Caecilii Cypriani Episcopi Carthaginensis Iam tertium lector, a mendis repurgatiora ex variarum aeditionum...

Basel 1525 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
18 Dio Cassius

Historiae Romanae libri XLVI, partim integri, partim mutili, excerpti

Hanau 1606 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
19 Elzevier

Zwei Publikationen der Verlegerfamilie Elzevier

Amsterdam 1650 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
20 Florus, Lucius Annaeus

(Rerum Romanarum libri IV). Cl. Salmasius addidit Lucium Ampelium E Cod. M.S. unquam Antehac Editum ...

Leiden 1638 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
21 Gartner, Andreas

Proverbialia dicteria, ethicam et moralem doctrinam complectentia

O.O. 1574 EUR 360.00 - 360.00 Not Sold
22 Gregorius (Cyprianus G. Nazianus)

Orationes XXX, Bilibaldo

Basel u. Koln 1531 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
23 Gregor XIII

Kalendarium Gregorianum Perpetuum

Munchen 1583 EUR 800.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
24 Commelin), (Jerome

Rerum Britannicarum, id est Angliae, Scotiae, vicinarumque insularum ac regionum, sriptores vetustio res ac praecipui

Heidelberg 1587 EUR 3,600.00 - 3,600.00 EUR 3,582.60
25 Helmold von Bosau

Historia de vita Imp. Caes. Henrici IIII. Aug. et Hiltebrandi, Pontificis Rom. cognomento Gregorii VII. circa ea tempora...

Frankfurt 1581 EUR 350.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
  • 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.
  • 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.