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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. -
![<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i> First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/cc3f4f98-f195-4049-aca6-329c27fdd27c.png "<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i> First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000.")
Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate PurchaseSotheby’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. -
![<b>Dominic Winter, Nov. 5:</b> Aquinas (Thomas). <i>[Summa Theologica], Secunda Parte,</i> Venice, 1496. £700 to £1,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/b69c37e7-f18c-4417-b08b-f00e9b97a413.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, Nov. 5:</b> Aquinas (Thomas). <i>[Summa Theologica], Secunda Parte,</i> Venice, 1496. £700 to £1,000.")
Dominic Winter
Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
5th November, 2025Dominic 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, 2025Dominic 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, 2025Dominic 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, 2025Dominic 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, 2025Swann, 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, 2025Swann, 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, 2025Swann, 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, 2025Swann, 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.
Chiswick Auctions: Books and Works on Paper
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Books and Works on Paper | Total Sales (GBP) | 201,838.00 |
| Auction Date | September 30, 2025 - September 30, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 118,170.00 |
| Sale Number | #93025a | High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 166,990.00 |
| Total Lots | 228 | ||
| Sold Lots | 183 | Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 143,600.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 80.26% | High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 202,810.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 45 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 99.52% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 136 | Dickens (Charles) "Phiz" . Browne (Hablot Knight) | Little Dorrit |
1857 | GBP 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | GBP 26,460.00 |
| 49 | D'Oyly (Sir Charles) | Views of Calcutta and its Environs |
[1848] | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 11,340.00 |
| 47 | Fraser (James Baillie) | Twelve plates from 'Views in the Himala Mountains', |
1820 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 10,080.00 |
| 62 | Watson (Lieutenant T.J.) | Collection of correspondence of Lieutenant Watson regarding the Indian Mutiny |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 8,190.00 | |
| 80 | Odell (Noel E.) [1890 -- 1938] | Archive Everest Expeditions. 1924 and 1938 |
1924 and 1938 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 6,300.00 |
| 23 | Hastings (Warren) | Debates in the House of Lords on the Evidence Delivered in the Trial of Warren Hastings..., 1797. |
5 July 1807 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 5,544.00 |
| 117 | Shaw (George) & Nodder (Frederick P.) | The Naturalist's Miscellany: or Coloured Figures of Natural Objects; Drawn and Described Immediately from Nature, |
all but a few hand-coloured or printed in colour | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 5,292.00 |
| 54 | Gandhi (Mahatma), Chaplin (Charles) Sutherland, (Jabez T.) | India in Bondage: Her Right to Freedom and a Place Among the Great Nations, |
1929 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 4,284.00 |
| 55 | Gandhi (Mahatma) Barber (Samuel Hilton) | Transvaal Gold Law, |
[1904], | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 4,284.00 |
| 200 | Art reference. A large collection of c. 100 volumes, including: |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 4,284.00 | ||
| 2 | Eusebius Caesarienis | Historia ecclesiastica (translated by Rufinus Aquileiensis). |
[not before 15] July 1479 | GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | GBP 3,780.00 |
| 59 | Hastings (Warren) | The engrossed gratulatory letter addressed to Warren Hastings and signed by 178 officers of the Bengal Army written on the occasion of his acquittal, vellum scroll, 4 |
1795 | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 3,780.00 |
| 26 | Handel (George Frideric) | Messiah. An Oratorio in Score as it was originally perform'd, |
1767 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 3,528.00 |
| 61 | Matthew John Harpley | The Indian Mutiny: Collection of 56 letters from Matthew John Harpley to his family from Allahabad, Cawnpore, Lucknow, Calcutta etc, |
1857- 1863. | GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | GBP 3,276.00 |
| 70 | Tipoo Sultaun | Official documents relative to the negotiations carried on by Tipoo Sultaun, with the French Nation and other foreign states, |
GBP 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 | GBP 3,024.00 | |
| 51 | Capper, (Colonel James) | Account of the First Anglo-Maratha War, addressed to Lord North; |
1774-81. | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 2,772.00 |
| 63 | [Col. (later Major General Sir) Arthur Mitford Becher,] | The Indian Mutiny - Letters from various Officers etc., to Mrs Frances Becher regarding the siege to Delhi, |
1857 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 2,772.00 |
| 86 | Mirkhand Books 3 and 4, Rawzat As-Safa Fi Sirat Al Anbia Wa'l Moluk Wa'l Khulafa (The Garden of Purity in the Histories of the Prohets, and Kings and Caliphs), |
18th century | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 2,772.00 | |
| 73 | Howard-Bury, D.S.O, (Lieutenant-Colonel C.K.) | Vintage photographs from the First Assault on Everest. |
GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 2,394.00 | |
| 110 | Low (David) | The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands. |
1842 | GBP 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 | GBP 2,394.00 |
| 67 | Westmacott (G.R.) | Als' G. R. Westmacott to his aunt regarding the Indian Mutiny |
1857-1861 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 2,268.00 |
| 52 | Coote (General Sir Eyre) | Collection of letters.- |
29 January 1780; | GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 | GBP 2,016.00 |
| 151 | [Lewis (C.S.)] Clive Hamilton | Dymer, |
1926 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 2,016.00 |
| 64 | Dodgson, Capt. D.C. | Letters concerning the incident at Alambagh, Lucknow 26th.Sept. 1857. |
1857 | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,890.00 |
| 68 | Nehru (Jawaharlal) | Six letters from Jawaharlal Nehru to Lord Pethick-Lawrence 5 on headed paper as Prime Minister of India expressing interest in his forthcoming book on Gandhi; |
1948-1957 | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,890.00 |
