Rare Books, Autographs & Maps 2025-11-25 Auction - 342 Price Results - DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers in NY
A bejeweled Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, the magnificent Vickery-Benz-Chevalier copy
An early Charles Schulz Peanuts cartoon, featuring Charlie Brown and Lucie
A superb example of a printed and illuminated Book of Hours on vellum
Done
New York, NY, United States
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Rare Books, Autographs & Maps

-Auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on Tuesday, November 25, 2025 at 10am
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NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle's auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on Tuesday, November 25, 2025 at 10am brings to market a diverse and inviting array of material in many subject areas. As is usual with our sales, there is a strong component of Americana. This includes maps (several of the Carrington Bowles charts of America are included), as well as manuscript material. This last category offers a wealth of Western Americana, with such intriguing items as a fine Custer letter, an album of Pat Garrett’s retained correspondence from his time as a collector of customs at El Paso, Texas, and an exceptional range of material relating to Western outlaws, Native Americans, and the frontier. Also included are several intriguing flags, including a cavalry guidon of Civil-War vintage with a presentation to General Grant and his wife Julia. A final component of the Americana section is an extraordinary manuscript that describes the colonization of Venezuela in 1528 by a group of conquistadors associated with the German bankers who had helped underwrite the efforts of Charles the First of Spain in his successful quest to become Holy Roman Emperor.

Auction Curators:

Peter Costanzo
Executive Director, Books, Autographs & Photographs
Edward Ripley-Duggan
VP/Director, Rare Books, Autographs & Photographs
SOLD
Illuminated miniature of the Holy Trinity: [MANUSCRIPT] An illuminated vellum manuscript leaf with a miniature of the Holy Trinity, from a Book of Hours in Latin and French. [perhaps Paris: third quarter of the fifteenth century]. 8 1/2 x 5
Est.
$2,000
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$3,000
SOLD
A splendid example of a Thielman Kerver Book of Hours: [BOOK OF HOURS] Hore intemerate virginis marie secudu[ndum] usum romanum cum pluribus orationibus tam gallico et in latino. [Book of Hours, use of Rome]. Paris: Thielman Kerver, May 8, 1501.
Est.
$6,000
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$9,000
SOLD
[MANUSCRIPT]: Collection of four complete documents, and one partial document, signed by various Hapsburg Kings of Spain. Charles I: Document signed ("Yo el rey") on vellum, dated 1529. 13 x 25 inches (32 x 63
Est.
$800
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$1,200
SOLD
A seventeenth-century prayerbook written in Czech: [MANUSCRIPT] Vernacular prayerbook in Czech. Western Bohemia: circa 1620 (from dated vellum binding), traces of fore-edge ties. Manuscript on paper. Period vellum, covers lettered "Rorate..." and
Est.
$1,000
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$1,500
SOLD
Astronomical manuscript with three fine volvelles: LALOIR, HUBERT Petit Traitte contenant la Manire de D'Escrire sur plusieurs sortes de surfaces, des quadrans solaires, recueillis de diverse autheurs tant latins que francois par hubert Laloire
Est.
$1,500
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$2,500
SOLD
An early 18th-century manuscript on the common law: [LAW] The First [Seacond] [sic] Book of the Common Lawe. [title on f. 16] ?Kent, England; circa 1720. Manuscript on paper written in light and dark brown inks in an English court hand. Period cream
Est.
$1,000
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$1,500
SOLD
A hospital's copy of a manuscript on electricity: WILSON, B[ENJAMIN]. A short view of Electricity. London: January 1787. Manuscript on paper bound in half calf over marbled boards,. 60 pp. with small drawings of experimental apparatuses. 9 x 7¼
Est.
$800
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$1,200
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Genealogy of a papermaking family—on vellum: [FABRIANO PAPERMAKING GENEALOGY] Ai Nobili Sposi. Fabriano: 1885. Illuminated manuscript on vellum in a contemporary gilt vellum binding painted on the cover with the arms of the Vallemani and
Est.
$300
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$500
SOLD
An important sixteenth-century edition of Pliny: PLINIUS SECUNDUS, GAIUS Historiae naturalis libri XXXVII. ab Alexa(n)dro Benedicto emendatiores redditi. Venice: J. Rubeus and Bernardius fratresque Vercellenses, 1507. 19th century mottled calf,
Est.
$700
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$1,000
SOLD
Galen on signs and symptoms of illness: GALEN Galeni Librorum quarta classis. Venice: Giunta, 1576. Fifth edition. Later quarter vellum over marble boards, 14¾ x 9⅞ inches (37 x 25 cm). Collation: 2°:
Est.
$400
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$600
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The first printed book dedicated entirely to insects: ALDROVANDI, ULISSE De animalibus insectis libri septem. Bologna: Giovanni Battista Bellagamba. 1602. First edition. Old vellum over boards with spine title in ink, 9¾ x 14 inches (25 x 35 cm).
Est.
$1,000
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$1,500
SOLD
A Frankfurt piracy of Aldrovandi's Ornithologiae: ALDROVANDI, ULISSE Ornithologiæ. Hoc est, de avibus historiæ libri XII. Frankfurt: Wolfgang Richter and Nicho, 1610. First edition thus. [12], 427, [14] pp.; bound with Ornithologiæ.
Est.
$1,000
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$1,500
SOLD
A nice copy of an authoritative work on horses: SOLLEYSEL, [JACQUES DE] Le parfait mareschal. Paris: Gervais Clouzier, 1680. Fifth edition. Two volumes in one; contemporary speckled calf with spine gilt and sprinkled edges, 9¾ x
Est.
$250
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$400