Quinn's Auction Galleries: Fall Rare Book, Manuscript, and Ephemera Auction, 692726, Falls Church

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 20, 2025 - November 20, 2025
Page Size: 169 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 Clive Barker

Clive Barker: Imaginer

2017 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 139.70
102 Raine, Kathleen

Blake and Tradition: the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Bollingen 1962 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 190.50
103 Kawanishi, Hide.

One Hundred Scenes of Kobe

s.l. 1962 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
104 H. R. Giger

H. R. Giger's Necronomicon

London 1978 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 165.10
105 Lembark, Connie W.

The Prints of Sam Francis: A Catalogue Raisonne 1960-1990. First Edition.

New York 1992 USD 120.00 - 240.00 USD 165.10
106 Hansen, H.A., and Ma Yuan.

Chinesisches Fischerleben

Peking [Beijing] 1938 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 127.00
107 John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Typed Letter signed (TLS) as Senator to William Wilson

1960 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
108 de Forest, Lee.

[Signed] Father of Radio

Chicago 1950 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 177.80
109 Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward.

[Signed] All the President's Men

New York 1974 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 228.60
110 Jimmy Carter

[Signed] 2 Vols. On Jimmy Carter

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 190.50
111 Sagan, Carl

[Signed] Broca's Brain

New York 1979 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 317.50
112 Sagan, Carl

[Signed] Contact

New York 1985 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 508.00
113 Kellogg, Charlotte

[Signed] Bobbins of Belgium

New York and London 1920 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
114 Elbert Hubbard

[Signed] 4 Vols. Roycrofters Works.

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 165.10
115

[Signed] Eloge de la Table

Paris 1947 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
116

Multi-Signed Autograph Album. With 5 Presidents.

USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
117 James D. Watson

Signed Sketch of DNA Molecule James D. Watson

New York, Cold Spring Harbor Undated USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,143.00
118

3 Autograph Letters Signed from Union Brigadier General Henry H. Goldsborough to Congressman John A.J. Creswell

1863-64 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
119

Mississippi & Missouri Railroad Company stock certificate signed by Major General John A. Dix

USD 120.00 - 240.00 Not Sold
120

19th C. Account Book of the Carr Family

1862 to 1866 USD 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
121

19th C. Ledger of the Walker Family

1823 to 1851 USD 80.00 - 120.00 USD 101.60
122

Handwritten document in Latin

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
123

1885 facsimile copy of "The Vicksburg Daily Citizen" originally printed on July 4, 1863 by J.M. Swords

1885 USD 120.00 - 240.00 Not Sold
124

Civil War Press Pass, "Pass, with Parole Appended" issued by the Military Supervisor of Army Intelligence, E.S.Sanford

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 127.00
125

New York Evening Post from Saturday, April 16, 1803 issue number 440. Page four has a short advertisement, "To Be Sold, A Black Family."

1803 USD 120.00 - 240.00 Not Sold
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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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.