• 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.

Catawiki B. V.: Old and Rare Books (pre-1700) , 110925d, LA Assen,

Auction Details

Auction Date
November 09, 2025 - November 09, 2025
Page Size: 39 items in 2 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
89729365 Antonio Massa da Gallese

Contra l'uso del duello All'illustrissimo signor Balduino di Monte

1555 EUR 700.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
89729627 Muzio

Le mentite ochiniane del Mutio Iustinio Politano

1551 EUR 1,000.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
89730503 Andrea da Bergamo (Pietro Nelli)

Il primo e secondo libro alla carlon, di messer Andrea da Bergamo

1548/1565 EUR 500.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
89730899 Omero / Ovidio / Cicerone / Sadoleto

Vita di Omero (Unito a) Heroidum epistolae, Ovidio (Unito a) Sodoleto De laudibus (Unito a)

1539/1591 EUR 700.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
90122839 Tommaso Porcacchi

Paralleli o essempi simili di Thomaso Porcacchi

1566 EUR 350.00 - 800.00 Unknown
90164463 Plutarco / Antonio Massa e Giovanni Tarcagnota

Alcuni opuscoletti delle cose morali del divino Plutarco

1543 EUR 300.00 - 800.00 Unknown
90164913 Plutarco / Angelo Pedaglia / Isocrate / Bernardino Chrisolfo / Epicuro Caracciolo

Le piacevoli e ingegnosi questioni di Plutarcho (Unito a) La bellissima novella del conte di

1530/1551 EUR 500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
90166285 Pelegro de Grimaldi Robio

Discorsi nei quali si ragiona di quanto far debbono i gentil'huomini nei servigi de' lor signori

1544 EUR 450.00 - 800.00 Unknown
90169401 Francesco Patrizi / Giovanni Fabrini

Il sacro regno del gran patritio, de'l vero reggimento, e de la vera felicita de'l principe

1553 EUR 400.00 - 1,400.00 Unknown
90210813 D. Ignatii / Polycarpi / Martialis / Antonij Magni / Symphorien Champier

Epistolae D. Ignatii, Polycarpi, Martialis, Antonij Magni

1546 EUR 300.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
90214161 Alessandro Piccolomini

Della institutione di tutta la vita dell'huomo nato nobile, et in citta libera.

1559 EUR 300.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
90497551 Lodovico Domenichi

Xenofonte

1558 EUR 600.00 - 1,300.00 Unknown
90503113 Mario Teluccini

Artemidoro di Mario Teluccini sopranominato il Bernia.

1566 EUR 1,000.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
90542505 Trissino

La quinta e la sesta divisione della poetica del Trissino.

1563 EUR 450.00 - 800.00 Unknown
90574897 Marci Hyeronimi Vidae

Marci Hieronymi Vidae cremonensis albae episcopi opera

1581 EUR 400.00 - 1,400.00 Unknown
90575229 Valerio Massimo

Valerio Massimo volgare e li fatti e li detti li quali sono degni de memoria della citta di Roma

1537 EUR 350.00 - 800.00 Unknown
98629460 Platone; Sebastiano Erizzo

I Dialoghi di Platone intitolati

1574 EUR 350.00 - 600.00 Unknown
98635030 Paolo Giovio / Lodovico Domenichi

Il rimanente della seconda parte delle historie del suo tempo di Mons. Paolo Giovio

1555 EUR 300.00 - 800.00 Unknown
98635053 Giovanbattista Gilardi Cinthio

Le fiamme di Giovanbattista Gilardi Cinthio nobile ferrarese. Diviso in due parti.

1548 EUR 300.00 - 900.00 Unknown
98635102 Leonardo Salviati

Lo'nfarinato secondo. Ovvero dello'nfarinato accademico della crusca.

1588 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 Unknown
98635117 Hieronomo Garimberti

Concetti di Hieronomo Garimberti et altri degni auttori

1582 EUR 250.00 - 600.00 Unknown
98635240 Galeazzo Capella / Francesco Philipopoli

Commentarii delle cose fatte per la restituzione di Francesco Sforza secondo duca di Milano

1539 EUR 200.00 - 800.00 Unknown
98635274 Agnolo Firenzuola

Rgionamenti di m. Agnolo Firenzuola fiorentino

1548 EUR 300.00 - 800.00 Unknown
98635395 Vincenzo Cartari

Il Flavio intorno ai fasti volgari

1553 EUR 200.00 - 800.00 Unknown
98635421 Anton Francesco Doni

Disegno del Doni, partito in piu ragionamenti nei quali si tratta della scultura et pittura

1549 EUR 800.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
  • 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.