• 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
380

Les Iles d'Anir, spirits, mesques, spectacles dans le sud de la nouvelle irelande, Barbier Muller * 30 years in the south seas, land and people, custumos and traditions in the Bismark archipedago and on the german solomon islands by R. Parckinson *Mal

EUR 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
381

30 years in the south seas, land and people, custumos and traditions in the Bismark archipedago and on the german solomon islands by R. Parckinson ...

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
382

arts rituels d'oceanie, nouvelle B382irlande dans les collections du musee barbier muller *from the south seas, oceanic art in the teel collection *the Kula, berkley california 1985 exhibition ...

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
383

Set of sales catalogs including Pierre berge, Bonhams, Finch & Cdeg, Zemanek-Munster...

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
384

JAPAN * Kyoto Japan, Cvijet kultur japana *Helmets, masks and armor of the lords of ancient Japan * Jean-Christophe Charbonnier *three books in Japanese on tsubas

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
385

JAPAN *japanese theatre, edition bonvent Geneve * No-masken im museum Riet berg zurich, Die Schenkung balthasar und nanni reinhart by Brigit Bernegger * Two books on masks in Japanese

EUR 120.00 - 180.00 Unknown
386

JAPAN * The collection of Xie Zhiliu's painting *exhibition of japanese painting and sculpture, national gallery of art Washington * The Great japan exhibition, art of the great edo period 1868 , Royal academy of art london, 1981 ...

EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
387

JAPAN *Bugaku masks by Kyotaro Nishikawa * Japanese no masks with 300 illustrations of authentic historical examples, Freidrich Perzynski *Noh Masks by Toru Nakanishi *three books on masks in japanese

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
388

INDO-TIBETAIN *Folk art of India, Heinz MODE * Un voyage immobile, the Himalayas from a hermitage, Matthieu RICARD *The High Road to the Himalayas, Henri BANCAUD ...

EUR 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
389

INDO-TIBETAIN *Himalayas, Eric VALLI * In India and Nepal, Dr. Kurt BOECK * Idols of Nepal and Tibet, exhibition 1996

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
390

INDO-TIBETAIN Early Himalayan art, Amy HELLER

EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
391

INDO-TIBETAIN * Nicelanneus essays relating to Indian subjects, Bryan HOGHTON & HODGSON, vol 1 & 2 *People of Nepal, Bahadur BISTA *People and places in and around the Kathmandu Valley, Jimmie and Adrian STORRS ...

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
392

NORTH AMERICA * The art of Antoine Tzapatoff *Anthropological papers of the American Museum of natural history, vol XXXVII, part 4 *The Whaling people of the West coast of Vancouver Island and Cape Flattery, Eugene ARIMA ...

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
393

NORTH AMERICA * Esprit Kashina, Galeri Flak - Prehistory of the Canadian Arctic, Robert McGHEE *Kodiak Alaska: masks from the Alphonse Pinart collection, Musee du Quai Branly exhibition ...

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
394

NORTH AMERICA * Espiritus arte de Alaska y la Colombia Britanica del agua, exhibition 2000 *Prehistory of Newfoundland and Labrador, James A. TUCK *Inuit Sculpture, University of Toronto ...

EUR 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
395

NORTH AMERICA * Amerique sculptures of Alaska and Siberia, Valerie CHAUSSONNET * Eskimo realities, Edmund CARPENTER *Giinaquq like face, Sven Haakanson Jr ...

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
396

PACIFIC * Fiji Weapon & Warfare, Fergus CLUNIE - Yalo i Viti, Fergus CLUNIE * The Polynesians prehistory of an island people, Peter BELLWOOD *The ring of fire, Polynesian Art, Edward DOOD ...

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
397

PACIFIC *Arts in the religion of the Pacific, Albert C. MOOR * Art and artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas, The James Hooper Collection, Steven PHELPS ...

EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
398

PACIFIC *Art of the Pacific, Bryan BRECK * The art of the Pacific Islands, Peter GATHERCOLE *The Journal of the Polynesian society, vol 72, ndeg

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
399

PACIFIC * Food for the Flames, Idols and Missionaries in Central Polynesia, David Shaw KING *The art of the Pacific islands, Peter GATHERCOLE * Le monde oceanien, Anne d ALLEVA, Flammarion ...

EUR 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
400

SOUTH AMERICA * Notes physiologiques et medicales concernant les hauts plateaux de l'Amerique du Sud, Dr M. Neveu-Lemaire, 2 vols *Geological explorations in South America, followed by meteorological tables, G. COURTY ...

EUR 60.00 - 90.00 Unknown
401

SOUTH AMERICA * Pre-Columbian art from Mexico, 1990 exhibition * Binoche: Gerard Geiger Collection * The world of Spirits in pre-colombian ecuador

EUR 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
402

SOUTH AMERICA *Brazil, Musee d'Ethnographie, Geneva *Unknown Amazon, Collin McEWAN *Traditional masks of Mexico, Ruth V. LECHUGA *Stone sculpture from ancient Mexico, Galerie Jean Ducher ...

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
403

SOUTH AMERICA *The Fifth Sun, Art of Mexico, exhibition Musee Jacquees Chirac *Pre-Columbian art, Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Luis AVELYRA

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
404

STEPPE ART *The Scythians: civilization of the steppes, Yaroslav LEBEDYNSKY *Nomadic art of the eastern eurasian stepps, Eugene V. THAW and other New-York Collections ...

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