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
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
  • 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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    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.