Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 16. Blaeu's world map on a polar projection in contemporary color (1695) Est. $5,500 - $7,000

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 55. Illuminated lunar globe produced in East Germany (1977) Est. $750 - $900

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 594. Rare and decorative De Jode map of Africa (1593) Est. $7,500 - $9,000

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 127. The first printed map to focus on New England and New France (1565) Est. $4,500 - $5,500

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 298. Rare Texas oilfield map (1920) Est. $3,000 - $3,750

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 656. Bible leaf with hand-colored image of Adoration of the Magi (1450) Est. $1,800 - $2,100

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 9. Blaeu's magnificent carte-a-figures world map (1641) Est. $12,000 - $15,000

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 214. Rare edition of view of the world from Silicon Valley (1984) Est. $600 - $750

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 34. Fascinating Japanese satirical map published just prior to WWII (1938) Est. $1,400 - $1,700

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 181. German edition of Catesby's scarce and important map of the Southeastern US (1755) Est. $3,750 - $4,500

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 625. Complete set of Covarrubias's "Pageant of the Pacific" (1940-39) Est. $1,200 - $1,500
Jeschke Jádi
Rare Book Auction 159
Saturday April 25

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 1153 Gerhard Mercator u. Jodocus Hondius. Atlas sive cosmographicae. Amsterdam, Hondius, 1606.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 1378 Martin Höhlig, Collection of 100 photographs Berlin im Licht, 1928.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 192. Fragment of a late medieval liturgical music manuscript. 14th century

Jeschke Jádi
Rare Book Auction 159
Saturday April 25

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 1394 Auguste Salzmann. Jérusalem. 40 salt paper prints. Paris, Baudry, 1856.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 1143 Deluxe edition of Prince Waldemar of Prussia's travelogue about Sri Lanka, India and Nepal. Berlin, 1853.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 1225. Koch-Gruenberg. Indianertypen (Indiantypesin the Amazon). Berlin 1906.

Jeschke Jádi
Rare Book Auction 159
Saturday April 25

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 862. Cornelis Ploos van Amstel. Viro Amplissimo Nobilissimo. Amsterdam 1765.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 549. Francisco de Goya. Los desastres de la guerra. 80 Etchings. Madrid, 1923.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 1033. Rösel von Rosenhof. Natural History of Frogs. Nuremberg, 1815.

Jeschke Jádi
Rare Book Auction 159
Saturday April 25

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 13 Pomponius Mela. Cosmographi. Venice, Renner 1478.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 526 William Shakespeare. Hamlet. Cranach Press, 1928.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 1022. Eugen Johann Christoph Esper. Butterflies Leipzig, 1829-1839.
Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
April 16, 2026

Doyle, Apr. 16: Twelve miscellaneous volumes on Italian history and literature. $100 to $200.

Doyle, Apr. 16: A fine collection of Company school paintings of Mughal monuments. $4,000 to $6,000.

Doyle, Apr. 16: A Book of Hours of Rouen with eight miniatures. $30,000 to $45,000.

Doyle, Apr. 16: Einstein discusses General Relativity and the Unified Field Theory. $20,000 to $30,000.

Doyle, Apr. 16: An extraordinary letter from Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale. $12,000 to $18,000.

Doyle, Apr. 16: Extraordinary color plates of the geology of St. Helena. $800 to $1,200.

Doyle, Apr. 16: The deluxe issue of Rorer's Mimpish Squinnies. $800 to $1,200.
Swann
Fine Books Featuring Focus on Women
April 23, 2026

Swann, Apr. 23: Thomas Heywood. An Apology for Actors. London: Printed by Nicholas Okes, 1612. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, Apr. 23: Illuminated Islamic Devotional Manuscript. 19th century. Approx. 90 leaves with gilt-decorated title and 2 full page miniatures of Mecca and Medina. $800 to $1,200.

Swann, Apr. 23: Antiphonal in Latin. Manuscript on Parchment. Cologne, early 16th century. $7,000 to $9,000.

Swann
Fine Books Featuring Focus on Women
April 23, 2026

Swann, Apr. 23: Mohammed ibn Jafir Albategnius. De Scientia Stellarum Liber. Bologna: Victor Benati, 1645. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann, Apr. 23: Frank Herbert. Dune. Fine First Edition. Philadelphia: Chilton Books, 1965. $5,000 to $7,000.

Swann, Apr. 23: William Shakespeare. Five Plays from the Second Folio. London: Thomas Cotes for Robert Allot, 1632. $6,000 to $8,000.

Swann
Fine Books Featuring Focus on Women
April 23, 2026

Swann, Apr. 23: John Steinbeck. Of Mice and Men. New York: Covici-Friede, 1937. First edition, first issue. $800 to $1,200.

Swann, Apr. 23: Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities. With an A.L.S. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. First edition, first issue. $1,200 to $1,800.

Swann, Apr. 23: Ursula K. LeGuin. The Left Hand of Darkness. Inscribed First Edition. New York: Walker and Company, 1969. $800 to $1,200.

Swann
Fine Books Featuring Focus on Women
April 23, 2026

Swann, Apr. 23: L. Frank Baum & Ruth Plumly Thompson. Five First Canadian editions including Ozma of Oz; The Emerald City of Oz; Glinda of Oz; [and others]. $1,000 to $1,500.

Swann, Apr. 23: Corita Kent. Different Drummer. 1967. Color screenprint; signed "Corita" in pencil on the lower edge. $1,000 to $1,500.

Swann, Apr. 23: Bible in English. Tyndale-Taverner Translation. The Bugge Bible. The Holye Bible. London: Imprinted by John Daye and Willyam Seres, 1549. $1,500 to $2,000.

Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Books on Mining, Geology, Medicine, History, Military And More, 20126, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 01, 2026 - February 01, 2026

Page Size: 345 items in 14 pages

Auction Lot Books
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	FLOYER, Sir John and BAYNARD, Dr. Edward.	The History of Cold Bathing, both Antient and Modern Together with the wonderful effects of the bath-water, drunk hot from the pump, in decay'd stomachs, and in most diseases of the bowels, liver, and spleen, &c.	London	1732	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 381.00
2	FIELDING, Henry.	The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon.	London	1755	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
3	QUICK, John and GARRAN, Robert Randolph.	The Annotated Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth.	Sydney and Melbourne	1901	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 1,397.00
4	MILTON, John.	Paradise Regain' A Poem in Four Books Volume the first..	London	1753	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 603.25
5	GREENE, Graham.	Yes and No and For Whom the Bell Chimes.	London	1983	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 285.75
6	TISSOT, Samuel Auguste.	L'Onanisme. Dissertation sur les maladies produites par la masturbation Quatrieme edition, considerablement augmentee.	Lausanne	1768	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 349.25
7	The Book of Common Prayer.	Cambridge, printed by John Parker for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1840.		N/A	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 762.00
8	[HAMILTON, George].	Experiences of a Colonist Forty Years Ago; A Journey from Port Phillip to South Australia in the Year 1839 and a Voyage from Port Phillip to Adelaide in 1846.	Adelaide	1880	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 254.00
9		Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.	London	circa 1900	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
10	BLACKMAN, Barbara.	Certain Chairs, A Table or Two and other Inanimates of Our Acquaintance.	St. Lucia	1968	AUD 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
11	ELLIS, Bret Easton.	Imperial Bedrooms.	London	2010	AUD 100.00 - 200.00	AUD 165.10
12	SMITH, Sir Ross.	The First Aeroplane Voyage from England to Australia.	Sydney	1920	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
13	CASTILLO, Antonio del.	El devoto peregrino, viage de Tierra Santa.	Madrid	1705	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 825.50
14	WILKINSON, Tate.	The Wandering Patentee; Or, A History of the Yorkshire Theatres, from 1770 to the Present Time.	York	1795	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 635.00
15		Single leaf of a manuscript on parchment, 222 x 296 mm., in a mount with the old $75 price stamp of Rusack's Antiques of Berwyn Illinois, presumably a business now long closed.		N/A	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 190.50
16	SPEIRS, Hugh.	Landscape Art and the Blue Mountains. The artistic, historical, and environmental influences upon the landscape art of the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia.	Sydney	1981	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
17	HARDY, Philip Dixon (editor).	The Dublin Penny Journal.		1834-1835.	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
18	DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, [Henri-Louis].	Traite de la conservation des grains, et en particulier du froment.	Paris	1754	AUD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
19		Biblia Sacra Vulgate Editionis	Venice	1714	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 254.00
20	BRETON, William Henry.	Excursions in New South Wales, Western Australia, and Van Dieman's Land, During The Years 1830, 1831, 1832, And 1833.	London	1833	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 381.00
21	MARTIN, John.	An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean.	London	1818	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
22	CAPOTE, Truman.	A text book signed by Truman Capote as a minor attending military school: William Rabenort's Geography of Asia, Africa and Australia,		1918	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 127.00
23	FLINDERS, Matthew.	A Voyage to Terra Australis; undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that Vast Country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in His Majesty's Ship the Investigator Facsimile of the 1814 edition,		1966	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	AUD 508.00
24	HENNINGES, Hieronymus.	Secundi et Tertii Regni in Quarta Monarchia pars altera, Prior Continens Genealogicis Tabellis Comprehensas Familias Invictissimorum Imperatorum	Magdeburg	1598	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
25	[Saint Bernard of Clairveaux].	Sancti Bernardi Abbatis Primi Clarae-Vallensis.	Paris	1690	AUD 500.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 349.25

Heritage, May 13: Isaac Asimov. I, Robot. The dedication copy, inscribed to John W. Campbell, Jr.

Heritage, May 13: Aldous Huxley. Brave New World. A fine copy, in a brilliant dust jacket.

Heritage, May 13: Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author.

Heritage, May 13: Robert A. Heinlein. Stranger in a Strange Land. A fine copy, signed by the author.

Heritage, May 13: Jules Verne. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. Exceedingly rare true first American edition, first issue.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.
S&D Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
Rare Maps, Prints & Art 1478-1882
April 16, 2026

SD Auctions, Apr. 16: Ptolemy. North Africa from Ulm edition. Unique copy. 1482-86.

SD Auctions, Apr. 16: Blaeu. Masterpiece world map. c.1659.

SD Auctions, Apr. 16: Unknown. Sea Flags printed on silk. Rare. c.1840.

SD Auctions, Apr. 16: Fredrik Kolstø. Aftenstemning ved Kysten. c.1890-t.

SD Auctions, Apr. 16: Knut Yran. OL-plakaten Oslo 1952.