Sothebys: Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana , N11899, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- December 16, 2025 - December 16, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1051 | James Baldwin | Typed letter signed ("Jim Baldwin") to Stewart Wilensky, offering advice on his Harlem movie project. |
USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown | ||
| 1052 | Baum, L. Frank | A New Wonderland. |
New York | 1900 | USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1053 | (Dickens, Charles) --- Habolt K. Brown ("Phiz") | A pair of original pencil and watercolor drawings, |
ca.1848 | USD 1,200.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 1054 | Dickens, Charles | Autograph letter signed, to Lady Talfourd, upon the death of her husband |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown | ||
| 1055 | Dickens, Charles | Great Expectations |
London | 1861 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1056 | Fitzgerald, F. Scott. | This Side of Paradise. |
New York | 1931 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1057 | Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Tender Is the Night, A Romance. |
New York | 1934 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1058 | Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Autograph manuscript fair copy of Edgar Fawcett's poem "The Other Side of the Moon," in Fitzgerald's hand, |
Summer 1934 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 1059 | Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Tender is the Night. |
New York | 1934 | USD 35,000.00 - 50,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1060 | Hemingway, Ernest | Death in the Afternoon. |
New York | 1932 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1061 | Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird |
London | 1960 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1062 | Nabokov, Vladimir | Lolita |
Paris | 1955 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1063 | Pound, Ezra | Hugh Selwyn Mauberley |
London | 1920 | USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1064 | Rowling, J.K. | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone |
London | 1997 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1065 | Salinger, J.D. | The Graham Family archive |
1951-1989 | USD 120,000.00 - 180,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 1066 | (Salinger, J.D.) --- Jane Austen | The Complete Novels of Jane Austen. |
New York | 1940 | USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1067 | Thoreau, Henry David | A very large autograph manuscript survey, titled "Plan of The Kimball Lot, (so called), Belonging to Charles White Esq.; Haverhill Mass. Surveyed by Henry D. Thoreau. April 1853" |
USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Unknown | ||
| 1068 | Thoreau, Henry David | The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. |
Boston and New York | 1906 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1069 | Whitman, Walt | Autograph letter signed ("Walt Whitman"), to David L. Lezinsky |
USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Unknown | ||
| 1070 | Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Clement Greenberg, Richard Diebenkorn, and others | Archive of letters from Abstract Expressionist artists and critics responding to a graduate student's questions about Henri Matisse's influence |
1981-1982 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 1071 | Bemelmans, Ludwig | Illustration of a chef |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Unknown | ||
| 1072 | Julia Evelina Smith, trans. | The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally from the Original Tongues. |
Hartford, Connecticut | 1876 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1073 | Commendation of Souls, from a Book of Hours in Latin, manuscript on vellum. |
Northern France, | first half of the 15th century | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 1074 | Bunting, Heinrich | Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae Das ist Ein Reisebuch Uber die Gantze Heilige Schrifft. |
Wittenberg; Magdeburg | 1588 (1588) | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1075 | Thomson, John | Illustrations of China and its People. A series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptions of the places and people represented |
London | 1874 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Unknown |
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/0a99416d-9c0f-4fa3-afdd-7532ca8a2b2c.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a077b4a5-0477-4c47-9847-0158cf045843.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/6363a735-e622-4d0a-852e-07cef58eccbe.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/3ee16d5b-a2ec-4c03-aeb6-aa3fcfec3a5e.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/d5f50485-7faa-423f-af0c-803b964dd2ba.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/fb024365-7d7a-4510-9859-9d26b5c266cf.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> 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.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a7c0eda0-9d8b-43ac-a504-58923308d5a4.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> 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.")
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/00d5fd41-2542-4a80-b119-4886d4b9925f.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.")
