CANADA'S PATRIOT STATESMAN. The Life & Career of The Right Honorable Sir John A. Macdonald. Based on The Work Of Edmund Collins, Revised With Additions To Date, by G. Mercer Adam. This one has had a haircut. It was $25. There are 25 copies for sale and they range in priced from a resigned $4.50 to a hopeful $105.45.
[Defoe, Daniel, after] The Little Robinson Crusoe, 1856. In 1982 the price was $25. Today there is one copy available for $60.
Proceedings Of The NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONVENTION OF YOUNG MEN, Which Assembled In The City Of Washington, May 7, 1832. The price was $20. Today there are 4 copies for sale and they range from $90 to $250.
PATHFINDER RAILWAY GUIDE FOR THE New England States. No. 4. From Sept. 3 to Oct. 1, 1849. There are no exact duplicates but it seems to sell for $200 to $300 today. Mr. Leach's copy was $15.
The TRUE HISTORY OF THE UNFORTUNATE Loves Of Mary Caroline Austin & Edgar Worthington; With the Full Particulars Of Their Awful Suicide (Supposed To Be Murder) the Trial of Worthington For That Crime, His Condemnation & Delivery From Prison by the People; His Escape, After Being Twice Shot Down by the Officers, His Recapture, Dying Speech & Execution For Murder; His Wonderful Preservation From Death On the Gallows, by an Ingenious Surgical Operation, & His Final Death by The Hands Of Richard Austin, In California. [1855]. Not a single copy is available on ABE. It was $125 then. I'm going to add this to my automated "wants list." When it shows up I'll be interested.
SPEECHES & OTHER PROCEEDINGS AT THE Public Dinner In Honor Of The Centennial Anniversary Of Washington [1832]. This was $20 then. There is a dis-bound copy on ABE for $12.
REACH OFFICIAL AMERICAN LEAGUE BASE BALL GUIDE FOR 1921. The price in 1982 was $25.00. There is a precise duplicate available for 262.50.
The AMERICAN COMIC ALMANAC, FOR 1832, With Whims, Scraps, And Oddities. [1832] There are five copies one of which is a direct match for 1832. The others are for nearby years. The Leach copy was $75. You can replace it for $200.
Document signed by Abraham Lincoln. Appointment commission for William H.H. Allen as 'Additional Paymaster'. Document signed; 26th of Oct. 1864. Folio, printed on vellum, with engravings, completed in manuscript. Also signed by Stanton as Secretary Of War. Framed, in fine condition. On ABE the prices for similar but not identical items are $10,000+ while at auction they have sold in the recent past for $4,500. The price in 1982 was $1,200. President Lincoln signed his name often.
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.
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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