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Auction Info

Auction Name
Autographs and Manuscripts
Auction Date
12/21/2025 - 12/21/2025
Sale Number
#122125b
Total Lots
46
Sold Lots
14.0
Lots Sold
30.43%
Unsold Lots
32
Total Sales (EUR)
16,059.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
15,850.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
18,200.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
71,235.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
81,290.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
19.76%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
99816958

Superb photo signed and inscribed "To Evelyn" with the inscription "Much Love & thanks from Diana"

1992 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,500.00 EUR 3,325.59
99863519

Ethiopische gebedsrol

1790 EUR 1,100.00 - 1,300.00 EUR 3,298.34
99773466 Signe ; Napoleon Bonaparte

Nomination de Thomas Riboud - Canton de Bourg

1804 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,880.25
99816999

Signed ; WILHELM II (1859-1941, German Emperor) --- 1891 --- Signed portrait dedicated to Captain

1891 EUR 1,600.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,689.50
99817329 Louis Pasteur (1822-1895, French chemist)

Important Autograph Letter Signed about the Creation of the Pasteur Institute

1888 EUR 1,600.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,362.50
99660374 Ernesto Che Guevara de la Serna

Original photograph Signed Autograph Che Guevara

1960 EUR 900.00 - 1,100.00 EUR 1,062.75
99899523 VAUBAN (1633-1707) [Marechal de France de Louis XIV]

Lettre signee de la Citadelle de Lille

1693 EUR 900.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 872.00
99817668 George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Autograph Letter Signed to Sir Arthur STREET

1939 EUR 650.00 - 750.00 EUR 555.90
99817033 Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1900-2002)

Autograph Letter Signed to "Dearest Ava", Lady WAVERLEY

1958 EUR 450.00 - 500.00 EUR 436.00
99817298 Gustave Dore (1832-1882) [French Painter]

Autograph Letter Signed with initials to 'My dear Leleux'

1871 EUR 425.00 - 475.00 EUR 408.75
98729603 Signed ; Louis Armstrong (1900-1971) & Juliet Pannett

Charcoal Portrait and Signed Photo

1956 EUR 700.00 - 800.00 EUR 382.59
99964129 Charles II de Savoie

Rare lettre signee au Sieur de Longecombe avec son sceau rouge

1540 EUR 450.00 - 500.00 EUR 327.00
99879119 Italian scriptorium of the Middle Ages

Breviary illuminated leaf on vellum Italy Very big initial with burnished gold and colours

1450/1480 EUR 350.00 - 400.00 EUR 283.40
99817607

Handwritten document related to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. Hand colored coat of arms in the

1582 EUR 225.00 - 275.00 EUR 174.40
99842163

A pair of book covers in the Renaissance style, or 'Tavolette di Biccherna' cura late 19th century

EUR 2,200.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
99817247 Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980)

Autograph Letter Signed to Gaby Goldscheider

1974 EUR 1,400.00 - 1,600.00 Not Sold
99817240 Arthur Rackham (1867-1939, Illustrator)

Collection of 8 Original Early Sketches by Arthur Rackham

1896 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,200.00 Not Sold
99817310 Henry de Monfreid (1879-1974) [Messageries Maritimes]

Autograph letter and rare 1st english edition of his book 'Hashish'

1935 EUR 475.00 - 525.00 Not Sold
99817571 Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) [Novelist & Poet]

Fine Autograph letter signed in full marked 'Private' to 'Dear Sir Charles'

1922 EUR 850.00 - 950.00 Not Sold
99917320 George SAND

13 lettres autographes signees a son ami de jeunesse

1849 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold

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  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 286 - Walton (William, 1902-1983). Autograph manuscript full score for Belshazzar’s Feast, [1930-31]. £20,000-30,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000