Nate D. Sanders Auctions: September 2025 Auction, 92525, Los Angeles

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Auction Report
Auction Date
September 25, 2025 - September 25, 2025
Page Size: 94 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 Elaine Steinbeck

Elaine Steinbeck Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...John [Steinbeck] gave David a Knights' suit of armour, complete with a plumed helmet...''

Not Available Not Sold
27 Elaine Steinbeck

Elaine Steinbeck Autograph Letter Signed from England Where John Steinbeck Was Writing ''The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights'' -- ''The cottage is filled with charm & character & ghosts"

1959 Not Available Not Sold
28 Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson's First Book of Poetry, ''Poems by Two Brothers'' -- First Edition from 1827

London 1827 Not Available Not Sold
29 Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson Letter From 1962 -- ''...Writing a novel is the shittiest thing a man can undertake...''

1962 Not Available Not Sold
30 Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson Letter -- ''...like a beast of hell, the sun flashing on my stained teeth and my lips curled back with thirst for whiskey...Rum Diary progressing viciously...''

1961 Not Available Not Sold
31 Hunter Thompson

Hunter Thompson Postcard From Big Sur in 1961 -- ''...you might think it odd that I have not asked what your book 'is about'...''

1961 Not Available Not Sold
32 Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson Card Featuring His Favorite Jackdaw Bird

1961 Not Available Not Sold
33 William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1802 Third Edition of ''Lyrical Ballads'' -- The Important Two Volume Set of Poetry that Sparked the English Romantic Movement

London 1802 Not Available Not Sold
34 Jacques Bainville

'Napoleon'' by Jacques Bainville -- 1951 French-Language First Edition -- Compelling Overview by Founding Editor of the Royalist Daily ''Action Francaise''

Paris 1951 Not Available Not Sold
35 ohn Richard Green

'A Short History of the English People'' by John Richard Green --1902 -- Rare Four Volume Illustrated Edition

London 1902 Not Available Not Sold
36 Edward Gibbons

Edward Gibbons Six-Volume Set of ''The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'' -- Most First Editions, Complete with Three Maps

London 1776-1789 Not Available Not Sold
37

Complete Set of ''Harper's Weekly'' Newspapers from 1858 -- With Coverage of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, a Congressional Brawl, ''Bleeding Kansas'' and More

1858 Not Available Not Sold
38

Complete Set of ''Harper's Weekly'' Newspapers from 1864 -- With Civil War Coverage and Illustrations by Thomas Nast

Not Available Not Sold
39

Complete Set of ''Harper's Weekly'' Newspapers from 1865 -- With Coverage of the Civil War, President Lincoln's Assassination and Illustrations by Thomas Nast

Not Available Not Sold
40

''The Daily Graphic'' Illustrated Newspaper From 1873

1873 Not Available Not Sold
41 Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche First U.S. Edition of ''Thus Spake Zarathustra'' -- Volume VIII of ''The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche'' Where He Discusses Superman and the Death of God

New York 1896 Not Available Not Sold
42 Mary Clemmer Ames.

1876 Edition of ''Ten Years in Washington; Life and Scenes in The National Capital As a Woman Sees Them''

Hartford 1876 Not Available Not Sold
44 Montgomery Blair

Montgomery Blair Autograph Note Signed -- Blair Served in Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet as Postmaster General

1878 Not Available USD 187.50
46 George W. Bush

George W. Bush Letter Boldly Signed as President -- Dated 25 November 2002 Regarding the Republican Eagles

2002 Not Available Not Sold
47 Simon Cameron

Simon Cameron Letter Signed as U.S. Senator -- Cameron Served as Lincoln's Secretary of War

1869 Not Available Not Sold
49 Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton Signed First Edition of Her Memoir as Secretary of State, ''Hard Choices''

New York Not Available Not Sold
50 William Ralston Balch.

'The Life & Public Services of James A. Garfield'' -- 1881 First Edition

Philadelphia Not Available Not Sold
53 Cecil W. Stoughton

Cecil W. Stoughton's Personal, Unpublished 10'' x 8'' Photo of LBJ's Inauguration Aboard Air Force One -- Johnson Prepares to Take the Oath of Office

Not Available Not Sold
54

Photo Album of the Kennedy Family, With 16 Photos of Their Last Trip to Atoka, Virginia in November 1963 -- Housed in White House Photographer Cecil Stoughton's Personal Red Leather Binder

Not Available Not Sold
67

Revolutionary War Newspaper from November 1777 Describing the ''Political Character of the Americans''

Not Available USD 125.00
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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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    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.