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	Not Sold
1077	Dulac, Edmund	Caricature of John Singer Sargent			USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 21,590.00
1078	Frost, Arthur Burdett	Shooting Pictures.	New York	1895-1896	USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	USD 5,715.00
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	USD 63,500.00
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	USD 5,080.00
1081		Lords and Earls Marshal of England.	England,	ca.1732	USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	USD 2,032.00
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	USD 5,080.00
1083	Maxwell, James Clerk	A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism. Oxford	Clarendon Press	1873	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 20,320.00
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	Not Sold
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	USD 1,905.00
1086	Phillips, John, and Alfred Rider	Mexico Illustrated, with descriptive letterpress, in English and Spanish	London	1848	USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 8,890.00
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	USD 5,715.00
1088	Prisse D'Avennes, Achille Constant T. Emile	La Decoration Arabe	Paris	1885	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,540.00
1089	Rashleigh, Philip	Specimens of British Minerals	London	1797	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
1090	Roberts, David	The Holy Land	London	1842-1849	USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00	Not Sold
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	USD 6,985.00
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	USD 4,064.00
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	Not Sold
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	USD 48,260.00
1095	Thucydides.	Thoukydidis. Thucydides [Greek].	Venice	May 1502	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 57,150.00
1096	Vergilius Maro, Publius	Opera. Edited by Sebastian Brant	Strassburg	28 August 1502	USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00	USD 48,260.00
1097	Pierre Viala	Traite general de viticulture. Ampelographie	Paris	1901--1910	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	USD 8,255.00
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	Not Sold
1099	Wright, Frank Lloyd --- William C. Gannet	The House Beautiful.	River Forest, IL:	1896-7	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	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.