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Dominic Winter Auctioneers
June 18 & 19
Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First EditionsDominic Winter, June 18-19: World. Van Geelkercken (N.), Orbis Terrarum Descriptio Duobis..., circa 1618. £4,000-6,000.Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Moll (Herman). A New Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain..., circa 1715. £2,000-3,000.Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Churchill (Winston S.). The World Crisis, 5 volumes bound in 6, 1st edition, 1923-31. £1,000-1,500Dominic Winter Auctioneers
June 18 & 19
Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First EditionsDominic Winter, June 18-19: Darwin (Charles). On the Origin of Species, 2nd edition, 2nd issue, 1860. £1,500-2,000.Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, 6 volumes in 3, 1st quarto ed, 1855-56. £1,500-2,000.Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Saint-Exupéry (Antoine de, 1900-1944). Pilote de guerre (Flight to Arras), 1942. £10,000-15,000.Dominic Winter Auctioneers
June 18 & 19
Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First EditionsDominic Winter, June 18-19: Austen (Jane, 1775-1817). Signature, cut from a letter, no date. £7,000-10,000Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Huxley (Aldous). Brave New World, 1st edition, with wraparound band, 1932. £4,000-6,000Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Tolkien (J. R. R.) The Hobbit, 1st edition, 2nd impression, 1937. £3,000-5,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
June 18 & 19
Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First EditionsDominic Winter, June 18-19: Rackham (Arthur, 1867-1939). Princess by the Sea (from Irish Fairy Tales), circa 1920. £4,000-6,000Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Kelmscott Press. The Story of the Glittering Plain, Walter Crane's copy, 1894. £3,000-4,000Dominic Winter, June 18-19: King (Jessie Marion, 1875-1949). The Summer House, watercolour. £4,000-6,000 -
Bonhams, June 16-24: KELMSCOTT PRESS. RUSKIN. The Nature of Gothic. 1892. $1,500 - $2,500Bonhams, June 16-24: ASHENDENE PRESS. The Wisdom of Jesus. 1932. $2,000 - $3,000Bonhams, June 16-24: CHARLOTTE BRONTE WRITES AS GOVERNESS. Autograph Letter Signed, 1851. $15,000 - $25,000Bonhams, June 16-24: FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF WUTHERING HEIGHTS. BRONTE, Emily. New York, 1848. $3,000 - $5,000Bonhams, June 16-24: IAN FLEMING ASSOCIATION COPY. You Only Live Twice. London, 1964. $7,000 - $9,000Bonhams, June 16-24: DELUXE EDITION WITH ORIGINAL PAINTING. BUKOWSKI, Charles. War All the Time. 1984. $3,000 - $5,000Bonhams, June 16-24: EINSTEIN'S MOST POWERFUL STATEMENT ON THE ATOMIC BOMB. Original Typed Manuscript Signed, "On My Participation in the Atom Bomb Project," 1953. $100,000 - $150,000Bonhams, June 16-24: EINSTEIN ON SCIENCE, WAR AND MORALITY. Autograph Letter Signed, 1949. $20,000 - $30,000Bonhams, June 16-24: SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. WASHINGTON, George. Engraved document signed, 1786. $8,000 - $12,000Bonhams, June 16-24: AN EARLY CHINESE-MADE 34-STAR U.S. CONSULAR FLAG. $8,000 - $12,000Bonhams, June 16-24: SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF LINCOLN WITH HIS SON TAD. 1864. $60,000 - $90,000Bonhams, June 16-24: MALCOLM X WRITES FROM KENYA. Postcard signed, 1964. $4,000 - $6,000
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Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 567. One of the Earliest & Most Desirable Printed Maps of Arabia - by Holle/Germanus (1482) Est. $55,000 - $65,000Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 681. Zatta's Complete Atlas with 218 Maps in Full Contemporary Color (1779) Est. $27,500 - $35,000Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 347. MacDonald Gill's Landmark "Wonderground Map" of London (1914) Est. $1,800 - $2,100Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 1. Fries' "Modern" World Map with Portraits of Five Kings (1525) Est. $4,000 - $4,750Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 539. Ortelius' Superb, Decorative Map of Cyprus in Full Contemporary Color (1573) Est. $1,100 - $1,400Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 51. Mercator's Foundation Map for the Americas in Full Contemporary Color (1630) Est. $3,250 - $4,000Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 667. Manuscript Bible Leaf with Image of Mary and Baby Jesus (1450) Est. $1,900 - $2,200Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 226. "A Powerful Example of Color Used to Make a Point" (1895) Est. $400 - $600Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 290. One of the Most Decorative Early Maps of South America - from Linschoten's "Itinerario" (1596) Est. $7,000 - $8,500Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 62. Coronelli's Influential Map of North America with the Island of California (1688) Est. $10,000 - $12,000Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 589. The First European-Printed Map of China - by Ortelius (1584) Est. $4,000 - $5,000
Swann Galleries: Focus on Women, 2704, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 15, 2025 - May 15, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Austen, Jane (1775-1817) | Pride and Prejudice, the Peacock Edition. |
London | 1894 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 3,750.00 |
| 2 | Barberis, Philippus de (born circa 1426) | Opusculum de Vaticiniis Sibillarum. |
Oppenheim | circa 1514. | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,125.00 |
| 3 | Bingham, Sophia (1787-1852) | Ladies' Copies. |
Boston | ca. 1800 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 531.00 |
| 4 | Bochorakova-Dittrichova, Helena (1894-1980) | Z Meho Detstvi Drevoryty. |
Prague | 1929 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 5 | Bronte Sisters. | The Works of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte. |
London | 1893 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 688.00 |
| 6 | Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-2003) | Maud Martha, inscribed first edition. |
New York | 1953 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,063.00 |
| 7 | Butler, Octavia E. (1947-2006) | Kindred, first edition. |
Garden City, NY | 1979 | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | USD 813.00 |
| 8 | Cameron, Julia Margaret (1815-1879) | Victorian Photographs of Famous Men and Fair Women. |
London | 1926 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 2,000.00 |
| 9 | Clinton, Kaysen, Lebowitz, and Sontag. | Four signed books by 20th-century women authors. |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 688.00 | ||
| 10 | Cunard, Nancy (1896-1965) | Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece |
London | 1934 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 5,500.00 |
| 11 | D'Orsay, Anna-Quintina-Albertine 'Ida' Grimod (1802-1882) | Education of a 19th C. French Noblewoman |
Pisa | circa 1827. | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 531.00 |
| 12 | Eliot, George [aka Mary Ann Evans] (1819-1880) | Middlemarch. |
Edinburgh and London | 1871-1872. | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 875.00 |
| 13 | Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850) | Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. |
Boston. New York | 1844 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 14 | Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850) | Woman in the Nineteenth Century. |
New York | 1845 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 5,250.00 |
| 15 | Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1860-1935) | The Fore Runner, Fifteen Old Stock Volumes, Including Repeats |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,500.00 | ||
| 16 | Gilot, Francoise & Carlton Lake | Life with Picasso, presentation copy with original drawing. |
New York | 1964 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 750.00 |
| 17 | Hansberry, Lorraine (1930-1965) | A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition. |
New York | 1959 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 13,750.00 |
| 18 | Hanscom, Adelaide (1875-1931) & Blanche Cumming; Omar Khayyam. | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. |
New York | 1912 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 19 | Harden, Sylvia von. | Die Italienische Gondel, Inscribed Ltd. Edition Signed by Harden and Otto Dix. |
Berlin | 1927 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 750.00 |
| 20 | Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, illus. (1809-1871) | Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Gentle Boy. |
Boston; New York & London | 1839 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 531.00 |
| 21 | Hurston, Zora Neale (1891-1960) | Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography. |
Philadelphia | 1942 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 469.00 |
| 22 | Hurston, Zora Neale (1891-1960) | Moses Man of the Mountain, first edition. |
Philadelphia | 1939 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 4,500.00 |
| 23 | Hurston, Zora Neale (1891-1960) | Mules and Men, first edition. |
Philadelphia | 1935 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,625.00 |
| 24 | Jesenska, Milena (1896-1944) | Two First Editions. |
Prague | 1926, 1927 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 25 | Jones, Gayl (b. 1949) | Corregidora, first edition. |
New York | 1975 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 813.00 |
![Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus]. Aggiunta: Marsilius Ficinus, Ad Dantem gratulatio [in latino e Italiano], 1487. €40,000 to €60,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/4ee20109-25f3-42e8-93ab-bd4c8e17093a.png "<b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> ALIGHIERI, DANTE. <i>La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus]. Aggiunta: Marsilius Ficinus, Ad Dantem gratulatio [in latino e Italiano],</i> 1487. €40,000 to €60,000.")
![Finarte, June 24-25: BANDELLO, MATTEO. La prima [-quarta] parte de le nouelle del Bandello, 1554. €7,000 to €9,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/5adfdf34-8a9a-47e5-9288-5e65dac5ce79.png "<b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> BANDELLO, MATTEO. <i>La prima [-quarta] parte de le nouelle del Bandello,</i> 1554. €7,000 to €9,000.")
![Finarte, June 24-25: FESTE - COPPOLA, GIOVANNI CARLO. Le nozze degli Dei, favola [...] rappresentata in musica in Firenze…, 1637. €6,000 to €8,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/9a1b8605-a566-4fb7-8a4c-5fb72ac539bc.png "<b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> FESTE - COPPOLA, GIOVANNI CARLO. <i>Le nozze degli Dei, favola [...] rappresentata in musica in Firenze…,</i> 1637. €6,000 to €8,000.")
![Forum, June 19: Euclid. The Elements of Geometrie, first edition in English of the first complete translation, [1570]. £20,000 to £30,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/dbc5286a-4210-44e3-bbf0-6031c1c49801.png "<b>Forum, June 19:</b> Euclid. <i>The Elements of Geometrie,</i> first edition in English of the first complete translation, [1570]. £20,000 to £30,000.")
![Forum, June 19: Shakespeare (William). The Tempest [&] The Two Gentlemen of Verona, from the Second Folio, [Printed by Thomas Cotes], 1632. £4,000 to £6,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/655b361c-71c7-48ba-9455-09c14e8c7494.png "<b>Forum, June 19:</b> Shakespeare (William). <i>The Tempest</i> [&] <i>The Two Gentlemen of Verona,</i> from the <i>Second Folio,</i> [Printed by Thomas Cotes], 1632. £4,000 to £6,000.")
