• 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
278

AFRICA / DOGON * Dogon mais encore..., African objects, European collections, Association Musee d'Application *Dogon dictionary (Toro dialect), Language and civilization, Genevievre CALAME-GRIAULE ...

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
279

AFRICA / DOGON *Dogon architecture, Earthen constructions in Mali, Wolfgang LAUBER *The worlds of the Dogon, Moussa KONATE *Pre-Dogon, Tolloy-Tellem, Bernard de GRUNNE ...

EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
280

AFRICA / DOGON The Dogons - Masterpieces of Dogon statuary, Galerie Der Stadt Stuttgart

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
281 Giovanni Franco SCANZA

AFRICA / LOBI Traditional Lobi art,

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
282 Christopher D. ROY ; Thomas G.B. WHEELOCK

BURKINA FASO Land of the flying masks art and culture in Burkina Faso, The Thomas G.B. Wheelock Collection,

EUR 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
283

AFRICA * Geest en Kracht, Vodun uit West-Afrika, Ineke EISENBURGER *Suklpturen der Lobi, Aus deutschen Privatsammlungen, exhibition 2011 *Whispering woods, The great Lobi statuary * Thila, Galerie Bernard Dulon

EUR 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
284

AFRICA * The Bobo, nature and function of masks, Guy le MOAL * Benin, Cinq siecles d'art royal, edited by Barbara PLANKENSTEINER *Les Tribus du Rameau Lobi, Henri LABOURET

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
285

AFRICA / LOBI *Fetishes of the ancient slave coast, Daniel BOUDRE *Le royaume Gan d'Obeire: introduction a l'histoire et a l'anthropologie, Burkina-Faso, Madeleine PERE ...

EUR 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
286

Set of African Arts magazines from 1969 to 2010 BRUNEAF magazines enclosed.

EUR 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
287

Art d'Afrique : *Afrika Kunst und Kultur, Meisterwerke afrikanischer Kunst, Hans-Joachim KOLOSS *Afrika, Aus der Sammlung des Volkerkundemuseums der von Portheim-Stiftung Heidelberg, Johannes KALTER ...

EUR 50.00 - 70.00 Unknown
288

AFRICA *Musee d'Ethnographie de Geneve: objects of ancient power and Bantu magic in Central Africa, Claude SAVARY

EUR 50.00 - 70.00 Unknown
289

AFRICA *Furher durch das rautenstrauch-joest-Museum (museum fur volkerkunde) der stadt coln, Willy FOY *The tribal image, William FAGG *Art from the Guinea Coast, Pitt Rivers Museum Oxford, 1965 ...

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
290

AFRICA AND OTHERS *African sculpture, A descriptive catalog, Elsy LEUZINGER * Bilder des menschen in fremden Kulturen, exhibition 1973 *Kunst der naturvolker, Sammlung Baron Eduard von der Heydt, Eckart v. SYDOW ...

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
291

AFRICA The great Hemba statuary of Zaire, Francois NRYT

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
292

AFRICA *An unpublished Buli sculpture, Jean WILLY MESTACH * The Ba-Kuba tribes and related peoples, J. VANSINA *The Baluba (Belgian Congo), Le R. P. COLLE, tome 1 & 2 ...

EUR 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
293

Art of Africa : * L'Art Holo du haut-Kwango, Die Kunst der Holo, The Art of the Holo, Fred Jahn Munchen *Royal Museum for Central Africa, Collections of the RMCA, Musical Instruments ...

EUR 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
294

AFRICA * Bodies of resonance, Musical instruments of Zaire, Leo POLFLIET *Visions d Afrique Luba, Mary Nooter ROBERTS *Luba, Hemba, exhibition 1979 * Luba, Hemba, Sculptures by unkonwn masters, 1983 ...

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
295

AFRICA White gold, Black hands, 7 volumes, #1 to #7

EUR 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
296

AFRICA *La collection Emile Lejeune, Arts premiers : Objets du Congo Belge 1905-1920 *The N Zimbu, Currency of the Kingdom of Congo; Dr Edmond DARTAVELLE *Les societes secretes chez Bayaka, M. PLANCQUAERT ...

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
297

Arts d'Afrique : Embodiments, Masterworks of African Figurative Sculpture, Hellmich and Jordan

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
298

Arts d'Afrique : *African Art and Artefacts in European Collections 1400-1800, Ezio Bassani *Art Africa, collections privades de Barcelona, expo. 2005 * African Vision, The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection, Christine Mullen Kreamer

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
299

Arts : *For this world and beyond, African Art from the Fred and Rita Richman Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta * Accumulating Histories, African Art from the Charles B. Benenson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery

EUR 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
300

Arts d'Afrique : *Fore Picasso, Afrikansk konst i svensk ago, Before Picasso African Art in Swedish Collections, Liljevalchs Konsthall *The Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection, The Museum of primitive art, New York ...

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
301

AFRICA *L'or du Bambouk, Une dynamique de civilisation ouest-africaine, Du royaume de Gabou a la Casamane, Jean GIRARD *Das gold in der kunst Westafrikas, Eberhard FFISCHER - African Goldweights, Miniature sculptures from Ghana 1400-1900, Tom Philipps

EUR 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
302

AFRICA *African sculpture, Eliot ELISOFON *Bilad al-Soudan, The shepherds of the White Nile, Jean-Baptiste SEVETTE *Kota, Yann FERRANDIN, numbered 147/300

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 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