Three Stories & Ten Poems. [Paris]: Contact Publishing Co., 1923. First (and only) edition of Hemingway's first book, one of only 300 copies printed, this copy with a warm inscription from the author to the editors of The Little Review, the "little magazine" in Paris that had published his first mature prose work the same year: "For j.h. and Margaret Anderson with love from Hemingway" ("j.h." being Jane Heap).
Starting bid: $55,000. Estimate $75,000 up
Edgar Allan Poe. 36137
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840. First edition, one of 750 printed, with the following points:
Starting bid: $15,000. Estimate $17,500 up
Michael Shaara. 36374
The Killer Angels. New York: David McKay, [1974]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 374 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. General rubbing and light wear with fold lines and tiny tears to jacket. Overall very good.
Starting bid: $300. Estimate $600 up
E. B. White. 36420
Charlotte's Web. Pictures by Garth Williams. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, [1952]. First edition, with "I-B" on the copyright page.
Starting bid: $300. Estimate $600 up
[Joseph Priestly's copy]. 36561
Sammelband of Eighteenth Century Religious Texts. London: 1793. Twelvemo. Contemporary half leather with marbled boards. Rubbing and abrading to extremities with splitting joints. Inscriptions. Good.
Starting bid: $300. Estimate $600 up.
[Brooklyn and Elizabeth, N. J.: C.P.R. News Service and Kolb Brothers, 1911] 36685
Two Hand-Colored Photo Albums, including: Scenes through the Canadian Rockies. [and:] The Grand Canyon of Arizona. [Brooklyn and Elizabeth, N. J.: C. P. R. News Service and Kolb Brothers, 1911]. Oblong folio albums with hand-colored mounted photographic reproductions: Canadian Rockies has twelve (and three loose additional photos), and Grand Canyon has eighteen. Both complete. Publishers' string-tied wraps. Some wear. Very good.
Starting bid: $300. Estimate $600 up.
Here are links to the entire as shown both on Heritageand AE.
Swann Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books December 9, 2025
Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
Swann Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books December 9, 2025
Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
Swann Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books December 9, 2025
Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
Swann Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books December 9, 2025
Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.
Sotheby’s Book Week December 9-17, 2025
Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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