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Auction Info

Sale Name
Printed and Manuscript Americana
Auction Date
04/15/2021 - 04/15/2021
Year of Sale
2021
Sale Number
#2564
Total Lots
388
Sold Lots
342
Lots Sold
88.1%
Unsold Lots
46
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (USD)
726,375.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
478,100.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
709,150.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
542,450.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
804,950.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
90.24%
Currency
USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
676,992.00

Top twenty five by sale price

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
254 The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi.

1830

 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 68,750.00
22 Bernard Romans, artist. An Exact View of the Late Battle at Charlestown, June 17th, 1775.

1776

 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 32,500.00
15 A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston.

1770

 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 22,500.00
315 William Sydney Porter, a.k.a. Illustrations for a lost mining memoir, drawn long before his fame as an author.

circa 1883-84

 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 16,250.00
375 Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma. Curioso tratado de la naturaleza y calidad del Chocolate.

1631

 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 13,750.00
279 Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization.

1857-82

 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 12,500.00
154 Account of a French ship's naval battle with the British off Pensacola.

1781

 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 10,000.00
256 W.W. Phelps. Early letter by the pioneering church publisher, just months after the burning of the Book of Commandments.

1833

 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 9,375.00
141 Pact to enforce New York's "Agreement of Non-Importation" during the heyday of the Sons of Liberty.

1769

 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 9,375.00
359 Alonso de Molina. Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana * Vocabulario en lengua mexicana y castellana.

1571

 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 8,750.00
218 Anthony Benezet. The Pennsylvania Spelling-Book.

1776

 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 8,125.00
292 H.K. Bush-Brown, sculptor. Bust of Ulysses S. Grant as a general.

1885

 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 8,125.00
222 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces.

1779

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 7,500.00
374 "Juan Focher" [Jean Foucher]. Itinerarium Catholicum proficiscentium, ad infideles covertendos.

1574

 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 6,500.00
60 Constitution of the United States.

circa 1832

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 6,500.00
142 John Hodgson; reporter. The Trial of William Wemms . . . for the Murder of Crispus Attucks.

1770

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 6,250.00
124 Treaty Entered into between the United States and the Cherokee Nation.

1836

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 6,000.00
297 Documents on the contested 1876 election in South Carolina which ended Reconstruction.

1876-1877

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 5,750.00
14 [After Benjamin Wilson.] The Repeal, or The Funeral of Miss Ame-stamp.

circa March 1766

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 5,750.00
267 John E. Alden. Letter documenting his exploration of hundreds of mountains and lakes in the Adirondack Mountains.

1888

 USD 300.00 - 400.00 5,500.00
17 Bufford, lithographer; after Champney. Boston Massacre, March 5th 1770.

1856

 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 5,500.00
306 Receipt book kept by a widowed Charleston boarding house keeper.

1793-1843

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 5,250.00
120 J.H. Bufford's, lithographers. Set of 5 prints depicting the "Abandonment of the Whalers in the Arctic Ocean,

1872

 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 5,250.00
376 Franco, artist. Elaborate oil portrait of Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, the influential Bishop of Puebla.

circa mid-18th century?

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 5,250.00
319 Extensive papers of William McKay, who went west from Iowa to Colorado as a mining agent.

1872-81

 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 5,250.00
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  • <b><center>Heritage Auctions<br>Rare Books Signature Auction<br>December 15, 2025</center></b> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Edgar Rice Burroughs. <i>Tarzan of the Apes.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> F. Scott Fitzgerald. <i>Tender is the Night. A Romance.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Bram Stoker. <i>Dracula.</i> Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Jerry Thomas. <i>How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…</i>
    Heritage Auctions
    Rare Books Signature Auction
    December 15, 2025
    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.