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Auction Report
Auction Date
September 29, 2025 - September 29, 2025
Page Size: 117 items in 5 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
27 Calvin Trillin

Calvin Trillin "Barnett Frummer Is" Signed 1st Ed

1969 Not Available USD 17.70
28 John Holt

John Holt "What Do I Do Monday" Signed 1st Ed

Not Available USD 5.90
30 Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Kurt Vonnegut Jr "God Bless You Mr Rosewater" Sgnd

Not Available USD 324.50
31 Bob Hope

Bob Hope "Don't Shoot It's Only Me" Signed 1st Ed

Not Available USD 23.60
32 Bob Hope

Bob Hope "Confessions of a Hooker" Sgnd 1st Ed

Not Available USD 35.40
33

1972 "The Witch's Bible", Signed

1972 Not Available USD 82.60
34 Ruby Erickson

1984 Ruby Erickson "Ivar's Dream" Signed

1984 Not Available USD 5.90
35

1924 "Letters of Madame Vol. 1" Signed

1924 Not Available USD 5.90
36 David Maraniss

David Maraniss "When Pride Still Mattered" Signed

Not Available USD 5.90
37 Daniel Schorr

Daniel Schorr "Staying Tuned" Signed 1st Ed

Not Available Not Sold
38

"Entertaining With Elegance" Signed

Not Available USD 11.80
39 Gloria Dare

1925 Gloria Dare "Out of the Mist" Signed 1st Ed

1925 Not Available USD 11.80
40 Ruth B Brown

1953 Ruth B Brown "Random Thoughts" Signed

1953 Not Available Not Sold
41

1971 "Albert Von Hoffmann A Biography" Signed

1971 Not Available Not Sold
42 Edward V Long

1967 Edward V Long "The Intruders" Signed

1967 Not Available USD 5.90
43 Georgia Tucker Smith

1952 "Leave It To Miss Annie" Signed

1952 Not Available USD 5.90
44 Devorah Wigoder

1966 Devorah Wigoder "Hope Is My House" Signed

1966 Not Available USD 5.90
45 Raymond Andrieux

1945 Raymond Andrieux "Tux n Tails" Signed

1945 Not Available USD 5.90
46 Shirley Christian

Shirley Christian "Before Lewis & Clark" Signed

Not Available USD 5.90
47 Dyckes Kelley

Dyckes Kelley "Love Is Not For Cowards" Signed

Not Available USD 11.80
48 Barry Bonds

Barry Bonds "Baseball's Superman" Signed

Not Available USD 5.90
49 Oliver Wendell Holmes

Poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes, JC Nichols Owner

Not Available USD 29.50
51

1954 Encyclopedia Modern American Humor, Signed

1954 Not Available USD 5.90
52 Federer

Federer "America's God & Country", Signed

Not Available Not Sold
53 Mark Twain

1872 Mark Twain "Roughing It" 1st Ed

1872 Not Available USD 47.20
  • SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.
    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.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.
    SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
  • 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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  • 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.