• 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
  • 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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Auction Details

Auction Date
November 08, 2025 - November 08, 2025
Page Size: 107 items in 5 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
98691734 Andreas Libavius

Praxis Alchymiae, Hoc est, Doctrina de artificiosa praeparatione praecipvorvm medicamentorum chymicorum

1604 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Unknown
98692253 Robert Boyle

A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air,

1669/1682 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
98692733 Fedro (Phaedrus)

(AESOP'S ILLUSTRATED FABLES) FABULARUM AESOPIARUM LIBRI QUINQUE

1667 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
98692809 Nicolaus Gryse, David Herlitz

SAMMELBAND: Historia von der Lere / SPEGEL des Antichristlichen. / Theologastronomistoricus

1598/1593 EUR 1,700.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
98700931 .

Belgii Confederati Respublica Sev Gelriae Holland Zeland.Trajeet. Fris. Trausisalk.Groning

1630/1633 EUR 850.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
98701591 Hans Sebald Beham

Biblia Insignium Historiarum Simulachris

1541 EUR 1,700.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
98704834 Iulii Caesaris

(GEOGRAPHY and TECHNOLOGY ILLUSTRATED) Rerum ab se gestarum commentarii

1546 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
98706973 Hyeronimus Natalis (1507-1580)

Adnotationes et meditationes in evangelia.... (Mit 153 Kupfertafeln beruhmter Kunstler)

1595 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,500.00 Unknown
98709988 Antonio Labacco

(ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURE, ITALIAN RENAISSANCE) Libro d'Antonio Labacco appartenente a

1576 EUR 3,000.00 - 7,500.00 Unknown
98711200 Dioscoride

De Medicinali materia

1552 EUR 2,500.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
98716244 Hieremia Drexelius [Jeremias Drexel]

Infernus Damnatorum Carcer & Rogus, Aeternitatis Pars IIa

1631 EUR 550.00 - 1,800.00 Unknown
98717726 Claudian

(MYTHOLOGY MANUSCRIPT) Proserpine Poeme de Claudian, traduit en vers heroiques et acheve par le

1660 EUR 2,500.00 - 6,500.00 Unknown
98717823 Abraham Bosse

Traite des manieres de dessiner les ordins de l'architecture antique en toutes leurs parties

1688 EUR 1,500.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
98717875 Alberto Durer; tradotto da Gio. Paolo Gallucci

(PHYSIOGNOMY) Della simmetria de' corpi humani

1591 EUR 2,100.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
98717908 Polo Giovio

PAVLI IOVII NOVOCOMENSIS OPERA OMNIA

1578 EUR 550.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
98717944 Oronce Fine

(ASTRONOMY) Theorique des Cieux et Sept Planetes

1607 EUR 4,000.00 - 8,500.00 Unknown
98718004 (POST INCUNABLE) Petrarca

I Sonetti, Canzoni e Trionfi con i suoi commenti

1519 EUR 2,000.00 - 4,500.00 Unknown
98718060 A. d'Amboise & Paradin

(MONSTERS & WITCHCRAFT) Devises heroiques et emblemes - Discours ou traicte des devises ou est mise

1620 EUR 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 Unknown
98722778 Giovanni Pierio Valeriano

(MAGIC& WITCHCRAFT) Ieroglifici overo Commentari delle occulte significationi de gli Egittij &

1602 EUR 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
98723034 [Post Incunable] - Manuzio / Capella

L'Anthropologia... Secretario del Duca di Milano

1533 EUR 850.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
98723111 Scevolini

Astrologia

1565 EUR 950.00 - 1,800.00 Unknown
98723167 Molinet

Habits des Chanoines

1666 EUR 375.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
98723278 Spon

Recherches Curieuses d'Antiquite

1683 EUR 375.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
98723410 Hurault

Fatti Illustri de Re di Francia

1590 EUR 550.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
98723500 Giovio

Vite di Dicenove Huomini Illustri

1561 EUR 400.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.