• 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.
  • 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

Ader: Collectors' library: Africa, Oceania, Americas, Asia, 172144, PARIS

Auction Details

Auction Date
November 06, 2025 - November 06, 2025
Page Size: 491 items in 20 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
252

The Kono masks, B. HOLAS *Tribes of the Ashanti hinterland, Rattray, tome 1 & 2 *Akua Ba Asante wednesday child, Ron Van DOORN

EUR 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
253

Krou traditions, Bernard HOLAS *The Asante kingdom, Gerard PESCHEUX *The Toura, B. HOLAS *dynamics of Ouobe society, J. GIRARD *Ivory Coast Akan statuary, Giovanni Franco SCANZI

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
254

Die dan ein Bauernvolk im westafrikanischen Urwald, B256W. KOHLAMMER VERLAG *Reisebilder aus Liberia, J. BUTTINKOFER, tome 1 & 2

EUR 50.00 - 70.00 Unknown
255

Waves of The rivers, art and environment of The Niger Delta, Martha ANDERSON *Central Nigeria Unmasked, Arts of The Benue River Valley, Marla BERNS B257

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
256

Nigerian art in French private collections, Alain LEBAS

EUR 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
257

Column to volume, Formal innovation in Chamba statuary, Richard FARDON *Igbo, Monumental Sculptures from Nigeria, Ana & Antonio CASANOVAS, B259Bernard de GRUNNE *Ogbom des Eket abstract mask-cimiers, Bernard de GRUNNE ...

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
258

Yoruba nine centuries of African art and thoughts, Henry John DREWAL *Yoruba sculpture of West Africa, William FAGG *Ogbom abstract crest masks from Eket, Bernard de GRUNNE

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
259

Songye, Francois NEYT *art royla Kuba, Joseph CORNET *Umbangu, art du Congo au Musee royal du Congo belge

EUR 120.00 - 180.00 Unknown
260

Face of The Spirits, masks from The Zaire Basin, Frank HERREMAN *African reflexions art from The North-eastern Zaire, Enid SCHILDKROUT *Yanda Beelden n mani sekte bij de Azande, Herman BURSSENS

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
261

art of Black Africa, J. CORNET *Zaire, people, art, culture, J. CORNET *Ethnography, Luck ZANGRIE

EUR 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
262

CAMEROON Set of books and booklets on Cameroon

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
263

CAMEROON Art of Cameroon, Paul GERBAUER
Joint L'Art Camerounais, Monastere Benedictin Mont Febe Yaunde

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
264

CHAD AND NIGER * Civilisations du Tchad, Jean-Paul LEBEUF *Bangawafunerary sculpture, Robert BRAIN *Fusions masquerades and thoughts style east of the Niger-Benue confluence West Africa, Richard FARDON ...

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
265

AFRICA Magazine set Catalogue Parcours des Mondes

EUR 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
266

Senufo, unbound, dynamics of art and identity in west africa, Susan elizabeth Gagliardi *African craftsmen, rene gardi, *Dogon, Michel Renaudeau *Senufo, champions cultivador staffs, Bernard de Grunne

EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
267

L'art du continent noir afrique, volume 2 Burkhard Gottschalk *Die B269kunst der senufo, Elfenbeinkuste *Die kunst der senufo, museum rietberg zurich *B269rkhard Gottschalk *Senufo sculpture, B Holas, ...

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
268

Die kunst der Senufo, Elfenbeinkuste *Die kunst der Senufo, museum rietberg zurich *Madebele Buschgeister im land der Senufo *Glanzend wie gold, Till Forster *kunst und religion bei den Gbato-Senufo, Elfenbeinkuste

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
269

Histoire des Fohobele de cote d'ivoire, une population senufo inconnue , Tiona Ferdinand Ouattara *The Kong states (Ivory Coast), Louis Tauxier *Histoire de la cote d'ivoire 1 la formation des peupbles, J-N Loucou ...

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
270

The Senufo, including the Minianka, B Holas * Senufo, massa and other poro statues, Burkhard Gottschalk *Art of the dark continent, africa, senufo, vol 3, Burkhard Gottschalk *Senufo sacred art, B holas

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
271

Art economics and change, Dolores Richter *classification stylistique du masque dan et guere de la cote d'ivoire occidentale, P.J.ML Vandernhoute *Peuplement et migrations, proceedings of the first international symposium in 1995 ...

EUR 120.00 - 180.00 Unknown
272

NIGERIA * The arts of the Benue to the roots of tradition, Neyt * Antics works of arts from Benin, collected pitt revers

EUR 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
273

NIGERIA *An igbo civilisation Nri Kingdom and egemony by Onwuejuogwu *arts of the upper benue river by christophe Evers * Western africa, part VIII et part WX

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
274

The art of eastern Nigeria, G.I. Jones *Het geheime ogboni- genootschap et der ogboni gheimbund by Dobbelmann *The essential gourd, art and History in northeastern Nigeria, BERNS Hudson ...

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
275

NEPAL Ife an African civilization, by Frank willett

EUR 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
277

AFIQUE / DOGON * Le renard pale, M. GRIAULE & G. DIETERLEN (accidents) *The Dogons, Montserrat Palau Marti *The honorary title of the Arou (Dogon, Mali), Germaine DIETERLEN ...

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
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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.
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  • 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
  • University Archives
    Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books
    Now through Nov. 19
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 308 - Bob Dylan Handwritten & Signed Lyrics to "Just Like a Woman" With Jeff Rosen & JSA Authentication
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 455 - Isaac Newton Admiration For Judaism & Moral Continuity With Christianity! 350+ Words in his Hand - Extraordinary Content!
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 219 - 371g Moon Meteorite, Incredible Find - Laâyoune 002
    University Archives
    Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books
    Now through Nov. 19
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 448 - Scarce Einstein AM on Unified Field Theory, 180+ Words & 11 Equations in His Hand! From His Published Article, "A Generalization of the Relativistic Theory of Gravitation"
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 159 - Woodrow Wilson Baseball Signed for WWI Red Cross Fundraiser, Ex. Forbes & PSA Authentic - Finest Known!
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 84 - Lee Harvey Oswald ALS to Brother, Trying Desperately to Get out of Russia! Highly Important
    University Archives
    Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books
    Now through Nov. 19
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 152 - George Washington Signed Discharge for MA Solider Whose Regiment Was at Bunker Hill!
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 88 - Abraham Lincoln Fully Signed Military Appointment for Mexican War Vet & Respected Cavalryman
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 188 - Apollo XI Astronauts & Their Wives Signed Photo, Plus Crew Signed Cover, From Apollo XI Presidential Goodwill Tour Era, Pre-Cert Zarelli
    University Archives
    Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books
    Now through Nov. 19
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 265 - Martin Luther King, Jr. TLS Re: "Stride Toward Freedom" Film Rights To Literary Agent Marie Rodell
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 324 - John Lennon Signed Apple Records Check, PSA GEM MT 10! Possibly Finest Known
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 79 - John & Jacqueline Kennedy Signed WH 1963 Christmas Gift Inscribed to Close Friend Joan Braden, PSA Authentic