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Auction Name Remarkable Rarities Total Sales (USD) 2,149,787.00
Auction Date September 20, 2025 - September 20, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,433,000.00
Sale Number #726 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 2,221,000.00
Total Lots 92
Sold Lots 49.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 2,832,000.00
% of Lots Sold 53.26% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 4,242,000.00
Unsold Lots 43 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 50.68%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
7041 Sun Yat-sen

Sun Yat-sen Autograph Letter Signed, Signed Photograph, and Signed Book - Sun Sends His Manifesto of the Chinese Republic, Putting Forth His Nationalist Ideology: "China for the Chinese"

USD 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 USD 250,000.00
7075 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Important Handwritten Manuscript: "The Essence of the Theory of Relativity"

USD 200,000.00 - 400,000.00 USD 250,000.00
7049 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Handwritten Musical Manuscript from the 'Antretter Serenade in D'

USD 100,000.00 - 200,000.00 USD 212,500.00
7097

Celebrity Polaroid Collection of Over 7,500 Signed Candid Photographs

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 181,250.00
7048 Johann Sebastian

Johann Sebastian Bach Document Signed as Kapellmeister at St. Thomas Church

USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 USD 125,000.00
7035 Napoleon

Napoleon Archive of (29) Letters Signed to His Adopted Son, Prince EugA"ne de Beauharnais, Detailing Military Strategy in the War of the Fifth Coalition: "The army is maneuvering in all directions against the enemy"

USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 87,500.00
7055 Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe Autograph Letter Signed - In the Year of 'The Raven,' Poe Invites a Poet to His East Village Boarding House

USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 87,500.00
7069 Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton Handwritten Manuscript on Religion, Outlining His Heretical Views: "All the worship here given to Christ represents his human nature"

USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 65,000.00
7077 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Autograph Manuscript Signed on the Unified Field Theory, with (9) Handwritten Mathematical Equations

USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 56,250.00
7032 John Hancock

John Hancock Revolutionary War-Dated Document Signed (1776) - Continental Congress Resolution Appealing to the King of Spain "to join with the United States in a war against Great Britain"

USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 52,500.00
7084 Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs Signed 1976 'Apple Computer Company' Check - Filled Out Entirely by the Company's Co-Founder

USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 46,250.00
7001 Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Letter Signed Communicating Acts for the First United States Census and Rules for Granting Citizenship to Immigrants

USD 50,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 37,500.00
7082

Atari Early Engineering Archive of (50+) Schematics and Marketing/Developer Materials for Pioneering Arcade Games Like Space Race, Gotcha, Super Pong, Elimination, and More

USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 33,750.00
7092 James Dean

James Dean Autograph Letter Signed from Hollywood to His NYC Girlfriend, Sending a Candid of His New Horse: "He shakes hands and everything. May use him in the movie"

USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 32,500.00
7005 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Filled Out and Signed Check (1859) - Lost and Found on the Streets of Washington, D.C., and the Subject of Washington Post Headlines in 1944

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 31,250.00
7011 Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt (2) Typed Manuscripts Signed as President on the Red Cross Response to the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, with Clara Barton ALS: "The country has gone wild over this disaster and relief"

USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 31,250.00
7085 Beatles

Beatles (4) Documents for Buyout of Brian Epstein's NEMS, Signed by Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and Starr while Recording Abbey Road in 1969

USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 31,250.00
7056 Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott Autograph Letter Signed on "My 'Little Women'" and Her Resemblance to Jo March - "'Jo' is not myself any more than the others are my sisters, only suggestions of the four real girls"

USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 30,625.00
7050 Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven Handwritten Musical Quotation

USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 30,000.00
7051 Frederic Chopin

Frederic Chopin Autograph Letter Signed on His Travels: "I'm leaving in 15 or 20 days"

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 28,750.00
7021 Erwin Rommel

Erwin Rommel World War II-Dated Typed Letter Signed, Enclosing a Report on His Near-Fatal Wound and Alluding to Patton's Liberation of Paris

USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 28,734.00
7028 Marie Antoinette and Sisters

Marie Antoinette and Sisters Signed Hand-Painted Devotional Miniature Book

USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 27,500.00
7027 Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette Document Signed, Ordering Payment for Extravagant Royal Household Expenditures Amidst the French Revolution

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 26,250.00
7024

Historic 1953 Bernkasteler Doctor Riesling Bottle of Wine - The Vintage Poured at the AdenaueraEU"Khrushchev Meeting That Freed 10,000 German POWs

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 25,000.00
7099 Al Capone

Al Capone Signed Photograph of the Capone Family in Palm Island, Presented to Capone's Primary Physician (1941)

USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 23,750.00
  • 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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  • Swann
    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.