• 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.
  • 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.
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Arenberg Auctions: October Auction

Auction Reports

Auction Name October Auction Total Sales (EUR) 209,618.50
Auction Date October 17, 2025 - October 17, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 114,540.00
Sale Number #101725 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 152,220.00
Total Lots 443
Sold Lots 443 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 114,540.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 152,220.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 137.71%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
566 Abraham Ortelius

Parergon, sive Veteris geographiae aliquot tabulae [...].

EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 11,700.00
666 MOLIERE

Les oeuvres de Monsieur Moliere [...].

EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 8,450.00
641 LA FONTAINE, Jean de

Contes et nouvelles en vers [- Deuxiesme parties [...]].

EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 7,150.00
841 AUDEBERT, Jean-Baptiste; VIEILLOT, Louis-Pierre

Histoire naturelle et generale des colibris, oiseaux-mouches, jacamars et promerops [- des grimpereaux et des oiseaux de paradis].

EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,940.00
837 JONSTON, Jan

Beschrijving vande natuur der viervoetige dieren [- vissen en bloedloze water-diere[n], - vogelen, - gekerfde of kronkel-dieren, slangen en draken]...

EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,900.00
565 Nicolas De Fer

L'atlas curieux ou Le monde dresse et dedie a nosseigneurs les enfans de France [...].

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 3,640.00
693 HANCARVILLE, Pierre-Francois Hugues d'

Antiquites etrusques, grecques et romaines gravees par F. A. David [...]. Avec leurs explications par d'Hancarville [...].

EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,640.00
791

Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde [...]. Representees par des figures dessinees de la main de Bernard Picard [...]

EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,640.00
753 William Cavendish

Methode et invention nouvelle de dresser les chevaux [...]. Oeuvre auquel on apprend a travailler les chevaux selon la nature [...].

EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,120.00
587 SANDERUS, Antonius

Verheerlykt Vlaandre, behelzende eene algemeene en nauwkeurige beschryving van dat graafschap en van zyne algemeene en byzondere wetten [...].

EUR 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 2,860.00
584 VASSE, Jacques-Abraham-Antoine

La Province de Namur pittoresque, ou Vues des chateaux, des sites pittoresques, des ruines et des monumens de la province, dessinees d'apres nature ...

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 2,600.00
574 Johan Nieuhof

Legatio Batavica ad magnum Tartariae Chamum Sungteium, modernum Sinae imperatorem.

EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,470.00
598 DAPPER, Olfert

Naukeurige beschryving van Morea, eertijts Peloponnesus; en de eilanden, gelegen onder de kusten van Morea, en binnen en buiten de Golf van Venetien [...].

EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,950.00
597 DAPPER, Olfert

Naukeurige beschryving der eilanden in de Archipel der Middelantsche Zee, en ontrent dezelve, gelegen: waer onder de voornaemste Cyprus, Rhodus, Kandien, Samos, Scio, Negroponte [...].

EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,820.00
686 BECANUS, Guilielmus

Serenissimi principis Ferdinandi hispaniarum infantis S.R.E. Cardinalis triumphalis introitus in Flandriae metropolim Gandavum.

EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,820.00
874

+- 1720 faire-part de deces de familles belges, nobles pour la plupart.

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,820.00
607 Edward Hawke Locker

Views in Spain.

EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 1,690.00
740

Collection complete des tableaux historiques de la Revolution francaise en deux volumes [...].

EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 1,690.00
544 Johann Baptista Homann

Ukrania quae et Terra Cosaccorum [...].

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 1,560.00
590 GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico

Description de touts les Pays-Bas.

EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,560.00
793 KERALIO, Louis-Felix Guinement

Histoire de la guerre entre la Russie et la Turquie, et particulierement de la campagne de MDCCLXIX. Avec IX cartes.

EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,560.00
564

Nieuwe geographische en historische atlas, van de zeven Vereengde Nederlandsche Provintien; bestaande in de vijftig nieuwe accurate kaarten [...].

EUR 800.00 - 900.00 EUR 1,430.00
586 SANDERUS, Antonius

Flandria illustrata, sive Provinciae ac comitatus hujus descriptio [...]. Cum figuris aeneis.

EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,430.00
727

2 feuilles de colportage sur la Bete du Gevaudan.

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 1,430.00
766 Jean de (1601) Beaurain

Histoire militaire de Flandre, depuis l'annee 1690. jusqu'en 1694 [...].

EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,430.00
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  • 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