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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1076 | Dobbs, Arthur | An Account of the Countries Adjoining to Hudson's Bay, in the North-west Part of America |
London | 1744 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1077 | Dulac, Edmund | Caricature of John Singer Sargent |
USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Unknown | ||
| 1078 | Frost, Arthur Burdett | Shooting Pictures. |
New York | 1895-1896 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1079 | Greenaway, Kate | An album of original drawings, mostly child studies or botanical illustrations, with a few other subjects, many finely hand colored. |
Circa 1880-1890 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 1080 | Harris, William C. | The Fishes of North America that are captured on Hook and Line. |
New York | 1898 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1081 | Lords and Earls Marshal of England. |
England, | ca.1732 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 1082 | Martel, Pierre | An Account of the Glacieres or Ice Alps in Savoy in Two Letters.. |
London | 1744 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1083 | Maxwell, James Clerk | A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism. Oxford |
Clarendon Press | 1873 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1084 | O'Brien, Richard | Working manuscript pages for The Rocky Horror Show, comprising early and variant dialogue, lyrics and narrative material, |
London, | ca.January 1st 1973 and June 19th 1973 | USD 18,000.00 - 24,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1085 | Dr. Edward Rigby et al | A group of three manuscript ward books from the the General Lying-In Hospital of Westminster, |
London, | ca.1819-1839 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1086 | Phillips, John, and Alfred Rider | Mexico Illustrated, with descriptive letterpress, in English and Spanish |
London | 1848 | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1087 | Plinius Secundus, Gaius --- Philemon Holland, trans. | The Historie of the World. Commonly called, The Naturall Historie ... The First [-Second] Tome |
London | 1601 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1088 | Prisse D'Avennes, Achille Constant T. Emile | La Decoration Arabe |
Paris | 1885 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1089 | Rashleigh, Philip | Specimens of British Minerals |
London | 1797 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1090 | Roberts, David | The Holy Land |
London | 1842-1849 | USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1091 | Sacro Bosco, Johannes de | Sphaera mundi. Add: Georgius Purbachius, Theoricae novae planetarum. Regiomontanus: Disputationes contra Cremonensia deliramenta. |
Venice | 4 October 1490 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1092 | Schenck, Peter | Diversa Orbis Terrae, Visu Incedenter per Coluros Tropicorum, Ambos ejus Polos, et Particularis Sphaerae, Zenith, in Planum Orthographica Projectio... |
Amsterdam: | circa 1710 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1093 | Selby, Prideaux John | [Plate XXXI] Jack-daw | Magpie, from Illustrations of British Ornithology. Edinburgh and London |
(1821-) 1834 (-1839) | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 1094 | Sendak, Maurice | Eight early drawings for Macbeth, made for Grace Warshauer's English class at Lafayette High School, Brooklyn, ca.1943, with a group of autograph letters signed (1960--1991) |
ca.1943, with a group of autograph letters signed (1960--1991) from Sendak to his former teacher | ca.1943 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1095 | Thucydides. | Thoukydidis. Thucydides [Greek]. |
Venice | May 1502 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1096 | Vergilius Maro, Publius | Opera. Edited by Sebastian Brant |
Strassburg | 28 August 1502 | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1097 | Pierre Viala | Traite general de viticulture. Ampelographie |
Paris | 1901--1910 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1098 | Williamson, George Charles | Catalogue of the Collection of Jewels and Precious Works of Art. The Property of J. Pierpont Morgan |
London | 1910 | USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | Unknown |
| 1099 | Wright, Frank Lloyd --- William C. Gannet | The House Beautiful. |
River Forest, IL: | 1896-7 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 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.")
