Sothebys: Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana , N11899, New York

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 16, 2025 - December 16, 2025

Page Size: 99 items in 4 pages

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	USD 6,096.00
1052	Baum, L. Frank	A New Wonderland.	New York	1900	USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00	Not Sold
1053	(Dickens, Charles) --- Habolt K. Brown ("Phiz")	A pair of original pencil and watercolor drawings,		ca.1848	USD 1,200.00 - 3,000.00	USD 762.00
1054	Dickens, Charles	Autograph letter signed, to Lady Talfourd, upon the death of her husband			USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,778.00
1055	Dickens, Charles	Great Expectations	London	1861	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 4,826.00
1056	Fitzgerald, F. Scott.	This Side of Paradise.	New York	1931	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 10,160.00
1057	Fitzgerald, F. Scott	Tender Is the Night, A Romance.	New York	1934	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 21,590.00
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	USD 7,620.00
1059	Fitzgerald, F. Scott	Tender is the Night.	New York	1934	USD 35,000.00 - 50,000.00	USD 53,340.00
1060	Hemingway, Ernest	Death in the Afternoon.	New York	1932	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	USD 20,320.00
1061	Lee, Harper	To Kill a Mockingbird	London	1960	USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	USD 5,715.00
1062	Nabokov, Vladimir	Lolita	Paris	1955	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 4,064.00
1063	Pound, Ezra	Hugh Selwyn Mauberley	London	1920	USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00	USD 12,065.00
1064	Rowling, J.K.	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	London	1997	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 12,700.00
1065	Salinger, J.D.	The Graham Family archive		1951-1989	USD 120,000.00 - 180,000.00	Not Sold
1066	(Salinger, J.D.) --- Jane Austen	The Complete Novels of Jane Austen.	New York	1940	USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00	Not Sold
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	USD 16,510.00
1068	Thoreau, Henry David	The Writings of Henry David Thoreau.	Boston and New York	1906	USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	USD 9,525.00
1069	Whitman, Walt	Autograph letter signed ("Walt Whitman"), to David L. Lezinsky			USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 3,810.00
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	USD 1,397.00
1071	Bemelmans, Ludwig	Illustration of a chef			USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 17,780.00
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	Not Sold
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	USD 1,270.00
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	USD 17,780.00
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	Not Sold

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
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.