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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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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. - 
    
    
    
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. 
Potomack Company: October Art Cornucopia
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | October Art Cornucopia | Total Sales (USD) | 11,264.50 | 
| Auction Date | October 30, 2025 - October 30, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 7,965.00 | 
| Sale Number | #103025 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 12,925.00 | 
| Total Lots | 63 | ||
| Sold Lots | 39 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 12,650.00 | 
| % of Lots Sold | 61.90% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 20,350.00 | 
| Unsold Lots | 24 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 55.35% | 
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 171 | Salvador Dali | DON QUICHOTTE DE LA MANCHE: THE GOLDEN AGE  | 
      USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 1,820.00 | |
| 169 | Johann Wilhelm Weinmann | SET OF FOUR VALERIANA (VALERIAN VARIETIES), PLATE FROM PHYTANTHOZA ICONOGRAPHIA (REGENSBURG, 1737-1745)  | 
      USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 975.00 | |
| 162 | Giovanni Battista Piranesi | VEDUTA DI PIAZZA NAVONA  | 
      USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 910.00 | |
| 116 | Rockwell Kent | STARRY NIGHT - 1933  | 
      1933 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 780.00 | 
| 134 | Rudolph Carl Gorman | 'NIHON'  | 
      USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 715.00 | |
| 164 | Leopoldo Metlikovitz | POLA / VENEZIA GIULIA, ITALIAN RAILWAY POSTER, CIRCA 1925  | 
      CIRCA 1925 | USD 250.00 - 500.00 | USD 487.50 | 
| 159 | Odilon Redon | IL TOMBE DANS L'ABIME, LA TETE EN BAS from TENTATION DE SAINT-ANTOINE - 1896  | 
      1896 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 422.50 | 
| 132 | Leroy Neimann | BLUE HOCKEY  | 
      USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 390.00 | |
| 143 | SHIPS OF THE GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY  | 
      USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 390.00 | ||
| 158 | Odilon Redon | CHEVAL AILE - WINGED HORSE - 1894  | 
      1894 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 390.00 | 
| 115 | Rockwell Kent | TROUBADOUR from THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE  | 
      USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 325.00 | |
| 120 | Ogden Minton Pleissner | CLOVE VALLEY  | 
      USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 260.00 | |
| 131 | Leroy Neimann | OLYMPIC VILLAGE, MUNICH, 11 A.M. SEPT. 5TH  | 
      USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 260.00 | |
| 133 | Benjamin Levy | LADY IN BLUE  | 
      USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 227.50 | |
| 125 | Lawrence Beall Smith | PARTY SHUTES, 1952  | 
      1952 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 195.00 | 
| 154 | Jacques (1592) Callot | TITLE PAGE FROM "VARIE FIGURE GOBBI"; SMALL, MASKED MALE FIGURE PLAYING A VIOLIN; MASKED, SMALL MALE FIGURE WITH RIGHT HAND GRASPING HAT AND LEFT HAND GRASPING SWORD HILT; ...  | 
      USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 195.00 | |
| 178 | Peter Jarver | TWILIGHT INFERNO, DARWIN NORTHERN TERRITORY  | 
      USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 195.00 | |
| 113 | JOHN MCRAE | THE PERILS OF OUR FOREFATHERS and another print  | 
      USD 100.00 - 150.00 | USD 162.50 | |
| 121 | Stow Wengenroth | FOG AT SEA  | 
      USD 100.00 - 300.00 | USD 162.50 | |
| 150 | SHORT-HEADED SALMON & SILVERY SALMON PLATE  | 
      USD 50.00 - 100.00 | USD 162.50 | ||
| 179 | Armando Morales | FIGURAS MUJERERS - 1970  | 
      1970 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 162.50 | 
| 127 | Michael Mazur | A GROUP OF FOUR PRINTS  | 
      USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 130.00 | |
| 129 | Al Hirschfeld | DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION 1988  | 
      1988 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 130.00 | 
| 144 | CUTTER YACHT CHRISTABEL IN THE ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB RACE, 1862  | 
      1862 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 130.00 | |
| 161 | Athos Menaboni | RED WINGED BLACKBIRD  | 
      USD 50.00 - 150.00 | USD 130.00 |