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Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 09, 2025 - October 09, 2025
Page Size: 533 items in 22 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Achebe, Chinua

No Longer at Ease

London [1960] USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 468.75
2 Achebe, Chinua

Things Fall Apart

New York [1959] USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,750.00
3 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey

The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Cambridge 1897 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
4 Allen, Woody

Three by Woody Allen

New York 1967-1982 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
5 Allen, Woody

Three by Woody Allen

New York 1975-2007 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 343.75
6 Allende, Isabel

The House of the Spirits

New York 1985 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 312.50
7 Allison, Bob and Frank Ernest Hill

The Kid Who Batted 1,000

Garden City, New York 1951 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
8 Anaya, Rudolfo A.

Bless Me, Ultima

[Berkeley] 1972 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
9 Anderson, Sherwood

A Story Teller's Story

New York 1924 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
10 Angelou, Maya

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

New York [1969] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 281.25
11 Baldwin, James

The Fire Next Time [with] Going to Meet the Man

New York 1963-1965 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 281.25
12 Baldwin, James

Giovanni's Room

New York 1956 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,625.00
13 Baldwin, James

Go Tell It on the Mountain

New York 1953 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 750.00
14 Barrie, J.M.

Peter and Wendy

New York [1911] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 750.00
15 Beckett, Samuel

Waiting for Godot

London [1956] USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 812.50
16 Bellow, Saul

The Adventures of Augie March

New York 1953 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
17 Bellow, Saul

Humboldt's Gift

New York [1975] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 250.00
18 Bellow, Saul

The Victim

New York [1947] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 437.50
19 [Bierce, Ambrose] Grile, Dod

Nuggets and Dust Panned Out in California.

London [1873] USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 625.00
20 Bourdain, Anthony

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

New York [2000] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 406.25
21 Bronte, Charlotte [and] Emily Bronte

Jane Eyre [and] Wuthering Heights

New York 1943 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 200.00
22 Bell, Currer

Shirley. A Tale

London 1849 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 687.50
23 Bulgakov, Mikhail

The Master and Margarita

New York [1967] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 250.00
24 [Burgess, Gelett, et al]

The Lark. Book I & Book II, Numbers 1-24, plus the Epi-Lark

San Francisco 1896-97 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 187.50
25 Camus, Albert

The Outsider

London [1946] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 937.50
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    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
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    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.
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    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
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