Christies: Printed Books and Manuscripts., 17Nov1978,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 17, 1978 - November 17, 1978

Page Size: 502 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	ANDREAS, ALFRED THEODORE	An Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Minnesota, Chico, Ill.	Phillips	1874, 2007	USD 100.00 - 125.00	Not Sold
2	ANISHINABE ENAMID; Ojebway Hymns; CULPEPER, NICHOLAS	A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Interests of The Franciscan Missions among the Ottawa & Chippewa Indians, Katolik Enamiad O Nanagatawendamowinan [Detroit:], Ojebway Nuhguhmonun	Harbor Springs, Cincinnati	March 1899, 1850, 1857	USD 50.00 - 75.00	77.00
3	BAILY, FRANCIS	Journal of a Tour in Unsettled Parts of North America in 1796 & 1797	London	1856	USD 200.00 - 300.00	440.00
4	BEAUMONT, WILLIAM	Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice, and the Physiology of Digestion	Plattsburgh	1833	USD 650.00 - 750.00	550.00
5		BIBLE, NEW TESTAMENT, English. The New Testament	Pittsburgh	1816	USD 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
6	BONNER, T.D.	The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians, Written from his own dictation	New York	1856	USD 100.00 - 120.00	44.00
7	BRADY, Capt. SAMUEL; BRAYTON, MATTHEW; LEETH J.; SANDOZ MARI; COLDEN, C.	Sketches of the Life and Indian Adventures ..., The Indian Captive, Narratives of Captives, Crazy Horse, The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada	Fostoria, New York's	1896, 1942, 1902	USD 70.00 - 85.00	71.50
8	CRITTENDEN, J. J. and R. HICKMAN; GRAHAM, G.; JACKSON, Gen. A; CHIPPEWA and OTTAWA TRIBES; VERNON, EDWARD; NICHOL, T.M.; BECKWITH, H.W.; BARRETT, O.S.	BROADSIDES AND PAMPHLETS. Mexico City orders concerning thequartering of troops, December 1st 1775, Memorial ... to make a prompt and liberal allowance for those widows and orphans, in money or in land, as shall be most practicable, Letter from the Acting	Frankfort, Washington, Georgetown, n.p., Richmond, New York, Chicago's, Detroit	January 20 1816, 1816, March 23, 1818, c. 1828, 15 April 1853, April 28, 1865, 1869, 1878, 1884, 1888	USD 120.00 - 150.00	264.00
9	BUTTERFIELD, CONSUL W.; MCKNIGHT, CHARLES	History of Seneca County, History of the Girtys, Simon Girty	Sandusky, Cincinnati, Philadelphia etc.	1848, 1890, 1880	USD 100.00 - 120.00	99.00
10	CHAPPELL, Lieut. EDWARD	Narrative of a Voyage to Hudson's Bay in His Majesty's Ship Rosamond Containing some Account of the North-Eastern Coast of America ...	London	1817	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
11	CHIDLAW, B.W.; TUTHER, T. Jr.	Yr American [title in Welsh], Western Reserve and Northern Ohio Historical Society. Tracts 1 to 36, Toledo Business Directory	Llanrwst, Cleveland, Toledo	1840, 1877, for 1862-3, 1862	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Not Sold
12	CHITTENDEN, HIRAM MARTIN	The American Fur Trade of the Far West	New York	1902	USD 100.00 - 120.00	165.00
13	COLDEN, CADWALLADER; WIMER, JAMES; BELDEN, G.P.; DODGE, Col. RICHARD IRVING; COOK, FREDERICK; Gen. James S. Brisbin	The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada, Events in Indian History, Beiden, The White Chief ... Our Wild Indians, Journals of the Military Expedi tion of Major General John Sullivan ...	London, Lancaster, Cincinnati and New York, Hartford, Auburn	1750, 1841, 1870, 1882, 1887	USD 250.00 - 350.00	121.00
14	CRAIG, NEVILLE B.; WALDIE, ADAM, publisher	The Olden Time, The New American Magazine, The Cincinnati Literary Gazette, The Military Monitor, The Select Circulating Library	Pittsburgh, Woodbridge, Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia	1846-48, 1758, 1824, 1813, 1833	USD 40.00 - 50.00	38.50
15	CRAIG, N. B.	ed. Washington's First Campaign, Death of Jumonville, and the Taking of Fort Necessity; Also, Braddock's Defeat	Pittsburgh	1848	USD 50.00 - 75.00	27.50
16	CUMING, FORTESCUE	Sketches of A Tour To the Western Country, Through the States of Ohio and Kentucky; A Voyage Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers ...	Pittsburgh	1810	USD 150.00 - 200.00	121.00
17	DE HASS, WILLS	History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of Western Virginia	Wheeling	1851	USD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
18	DELANO, ALONZO	Life on the Plains and Among the Diggings; Being Scenes and Adventures of an Overland Journey to California ...	Auburn and Buffalo	1854	USD 80.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
19	DE PEYSTER, Col.; ARENT SCHUYLER and J.W. DE PEYSTER; LOW, A.P.; NEAL F.	Miscellanies, Report on the Dominion Government Expedition to Hudson Bay and the Arctic Islands on Board the D.G.S. Neptune 1903-1904, History of Northern Wisconsin, The Township of Sandwich	New York, Ottawa, Chicago, Windsor	1888, 1906, 1881, 1909	USD 100.00 - 150.00	60.50
20	DRAKE, DANIEL	A Systematic Treatise, Historical, Etiological, and Practical on the Principal Diseases of the Interior Valley of North America, as they appear in the Caucasian, African, Indian, and Esquimaux Varieties of its Population	Cincinnati	1850	USD 350.00 - 450.00	330.00
21	ELLS, B.F. editor	The Western Miscellany, The Hesperian	Dayton, Columbus	1848-1849, 1838-39	USD 100.00 - 120.00	77.00
22	CHARLES, W.; ROBINSON, H.R., publisher; CURRIER, N.	Johnny Bull and the Alexandrians; Set-to between the Champion Old Tip & the Swell Dutchman of Kinderhoek, "Worse than a Spanish Inquisition, publisher. Lewis Cass ... Wm. O. Butler	Philadelphia, New York's	n.d., c. 1814, 1836, 1839, 1848	USD 120.00 - 150.00	132.00
23	FARNHAM, ELIZA W.; MATSON, NEHEMIAH; SNYDER, J.F.; DROWN, S. DE WITT; FARWELL, JOHN V.; Elder Daughter	Life in Prairie Land, Reminiscences of Bureau County, Capt. John Baptiste Saucier, Drown's Record and Historical View of Peoria, Reminiscences ...	New York, Princeton, Peoria's, Chicago	1846, Ill. 1872, 1901, 1850, 1928	USD 80.00 - 100.00	49.50
24	FILSON, JOHN	The Discovery, Settlement And present State of Kentucke: And An Essay towards the Topography, and Natural History of that important Country ...	Wilmington	1784	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	2,090.00
25	FRANCHERE, GABRIEL	Relations d'un Voyage a la Côte du Nord-Ouest de l'Amérique Septentrionale	Montreal	1820	USD 500.00 - 600.00	440.00
26	GALE, GEORGE; WHITTLESEY, Col. C.; MERRICK, G.B.; AMBLER, C.H.; Elliott Coues	Upper Mississippi, Early History of Cleveland, LARPENTEUR, c. Forty Year a Fur Trader ..., Old Times on the Upper Mississippi, A History of Transportation in the Ohio Valley	Chicago & New York's, Cleveland's, Glendale	1867, 1867, 1898, 1909, 1932	USD 80.00 - 100.00	99.00
27	GASS, PATRICK	A Journal of the Voyages and Travels of a Corps of Discovery, under the Command of Capt. Lewis and Capt.	Pittsburgh	1807	USD 150.00 - 200.00	242.00
28	HAFEN, LeROY R. and ANN W. HAFEN	eds. The Far West and the Rockies 1820- 1875, Glendale	California	1954-61	USD 200.00 - 250.00	121.00
29	HALL, JAMES ed.	The Western Souvenir, A Christmas and New Year's Gift for 1829	Cincinnati	1829	USD 350.00 - 450.00	Not Sold
30	HALL, J.	Legends of the West	Philadelphia's, Cincinnati	1832, 1833, 1836	USD 180.00 - 220.00	143.00
31	HARRIS, THADDEUS MASON	The Journal of a Tour into the Territory Northwest of the Alleghany Mountains; Made in the Spring of the Year 1803	Boston	1805	USD 100.00 - 150.00	88.00
32	HENRY, ALEXANDER and DAVID THOMPSON; HANNA, CHARLES A.; Elliott Coues	New Light on the Early History of The Greater Northwest The Manuscript Journals of ... Edited ... The Wilderness Trail	New York's & London	1897, 1911	USD 150.00 - 200.00	88.00
33	HOSMER, Justice HEZEKIAH L.	Early History of the Maumee Valley.	Toledo	1858	USD 250.00 - 300.00	220.00
34	JEFFRIES, C.	The Wabash Captives; Or, The Awful Sentence: A Thrilling Narrative of Crime and Death, and Wonderful Adventures of James Brady and Others, Among the Indians on the Wabash ... Near the Spot where Lafayette Now Stands ...	Lafayette	1846	USD 200.00 - 250.00	770.00
35	JOHNSON, Major-general Sir WILLIAM	An Account of Conferences held, and Treaties made, Between Major-general Sir William Johnson, Bart. and The chief Sachems and Warriours of the Mohawks, Oneidas ..., Indian Nations in North America	London	1756	USD 350.00 - 450.00	715.00
36	KENTUCKY BUTLER, MANN; SPALDING, M.J.; ROTHERT, J.A.	A History of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Sketches of the Early Catholic Missions of Kentucky, Benedict Joseph Flaget, A History of Muhlenberg County	Louisville's and Baltimore	1834, n.d., 1852, 1913	USD 100.00 - 120.00	110.00
37	KERCHERVAL, SAMUEL	A History of the valley of Virginia	Winchester	1833	USD 100.00 - 120.00	462.00
38	LAMBDIN, J.R.	Ma-ca-tah-mich-i-ka-kuik. Black Hawk ... Sketch from life ... 1834			USD 100.00 - 150.00	38.50
39	LEWIS, JAMES O.	The Aboriginal Port-folio	Philadelphia	1835-36	USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00	4,400.00
40	LOUDON, ARCHIBALD	A Selection, of the Most Interesting Narratives, of Outrages	Carlisle [Pa.]	1808-11	USD 1,400.00 - 1,600.00	1,320.00
41	M'CLUNG, JOHN A.	Sketches of Western Adventure: Containing an Account of the Most Interesting Incidents Connected with the Settlement of the West, from 1755 to 1794 ...	Maysville	1832	USD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
42	M'KENNEY, THOMAS L. and JAMES HALL	History of the Indian Tribes of North America	Philadelphia	1838	USD 5,500.00 - 6,000.00	6,600.00
43	WALLING, H.F.; SUMNER, WILUAM; HUTCHINS, T.; HATHON, A.E.	MAPS, Map of the United Counties of Frontenac, Publisher. Map of the Western Reserve Including the Fire Lands in Ohio, Plat of the Seven Ranges of Townships being part of the Territory of the United States N.W. of the River Ohio, Map of the City of Detroi	Lennox and Addington, Canada West, Kingston, C.W., Nelson, n.p., Michigan, Denver	1860, September 1826, May 20 1885, 1849, 1880	USD 100.00 - 120.00	264.00
44	MEGINNESS, JOHN F.	Otzinachson; or, A History of the West Branch Valley of the Susquehanna ...	Philadelphia	1857	USD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
45	METCALF, SAMUEL L.	A Collection of Some of the Most Interesting Narratives of Indian Warfare in the West, Containing an Account of the Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone, one of the First Settlers of Kentucky ... To which is added, An Account of the Expeditions of Genl's Ha	Ky.	1821	USD 600.00 - 700.00	550.00
46	MOLINA, ALONSO DE	Vocabulario en lengua Castellana y Mexicana compuesto por el muy Reverendo Padre Fray Alonso de Molina ...	Mexico	1571	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	4,620.00
47	MORGAN, LEWIS H.	League of the Ho-Dé-Sau-Nee or Iroquois.	Rochester	1851	USD 100.00 - 120.00	88.00
48	MOTT, M.H.	History of the Regulators of Northern Indiana	Indianapolis	1859	USD 200.00 - 300.00	330.00
49	NEWTON, J.H.; G.G. NICHOLS and A.G. SPRANKLE; MCWORTER, LUCULLUS VIRGIL	History of the Pan-Handle ..., The Border Settlers of Northwestern Virginia from 1768 to 1795	West Virginia	1879, 1915	USD 100.00 - 120.00	49.50
50	NOWLIN, WILLIAM	The Bark Covered House, or Back in the Woods Again; Being a Graphic and Thrilling Description of Real Pioneer Life in the Wilderness of Michigan	Detroit	1876	USD 600.00 - 800.00	500.00
51		Constitution of the State of Ohio	at Chillicothe	November 29, 1802	USD 300.00 - 350.00	935.00
52	DE HASS, WILLS	Order Book	Massachusetts	1799-1800	USD 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
53	OWEN, ROBERT and ROBERT DALE	Report to the County of Lanark, of A Plan for Relieving Public Distresses ... by giving Permanent Productive Employment, Outline of Education	New Lanark	1821, October 1823	USD 250.00 - 350.00	165.00
54	PROUD, ROBERT	The History of Pennsylvania, in North America	Philadelphia	Junior 1797-98	USD 200.00 - 250.00	132.00
55	READ, D.B.; ERMATiNGER, C.O.; ALVORD, C.W.; THWAITES, R.G.; LEWIS, G.W.; LEMCKE, J.A.; RYERSON, E.	Life and Times of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, The Talbot Regime, The Mississippi Valley in British Politics, The Indiana Company, Reminiscences of an Indianian, The Loyalists of America	Toronto's, Cleveland's, Glendale Ca., Indianapolis	1894, 1904, 1917, 1904, 1941, 1905, 1880	USD 150.00 - 200.00	88.00
56	RESE, FRIEDRICH, Bp.	Abris der Geschichte des Bisthums Cincinnati in Nord-Amerika	Wien	1829	USD 150.00 - 200.00	352.00
57	RUPP, ISRAEL DANIEL; THURSTON, GEORGE H.; CRAIG, NEVILLE B.; DARLINGTON, MARY C. editor; VEECH, J. and Mrs. E.V. BLAINE; KUSSART, Mrs. S.; WAY, F. Jr.	Early History of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg 1846 half morocco, Howes R505, Pittsburgh at it is, Not in Howes, Howes C844, Fort Pitt and Letters from the Frontier, Howes D 70, The Monongahela of Old, Howes V64, The Allegheny River, The	Pittsburgh's, New York and Toronto	1857, 1851, 1892, 1858-1892, 1938, 1942	USD 150.00 - 220.00	176.00
58	SAGE, RUFUS B.	Scenes in the Rocky Mountains, and in Oregon, California, New Mexico, Texas, and the Grand Prairies	Philadelphia	1846	USD 500.00 - 600.00	880.00
59	SARGENT, M.P.; CHAPMAN, T.J.; SIPE, C. HALE; REYNOLDS, J.E.; WOODS, R.S.; DAVIS, A.J. editor; DARLINGTON, M.C. editor; BUCK, S.J. and E.W.; RITENOUR, J.S.	Pioneer Sketches, Howes S 108, The French in the Allegheny Valley, Not in Howes, The Indian Chiefs of Pennsylvania, The Indian Wars of Pennsylvania, In French Creek Valley, Harrison Hall, History of Clarion County, History of Colonel Henry Bouquet, The Pl	Erie, Cleveland, Meadville, Chatham, Syracuse, n.p., Pittsburgh's	1891, n.d., 1927, 1929, 1938, 1896, 1887, 1920, 1939, 1926	USD 100.00 - 150.00	121.00
60	SCHELL, Rev. JAMES PERRY; Chas. H. Lee	In The Ojibway Country A Story of Early Missions on the Minnesota Frontier	Walhalla	n.d., 1911	USD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
61	SCHOMBURGK, Sir ROBERT H.	The History of Barbados ...	London	1848	USD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
62	SHELTON & KENSETT	A Map of the United States and British Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada with other parts adjacent, entered according to Act of Congress October 1 st 1816			USD 300.00 - 400.00	330.00
63	SMITH, JOSEPH	The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, upon Plates taken from the Plates of Nephi	Palmyra	1830	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,760.00
64	UDELL, JOHN	Incidents of Travel to California, Across The Great Plains ...	Jefferson, Ohio	1856	USD 80.00 - 100.00	176.00
65	VARNUM, The Hon. JAMES M.; Peter Edes	An Oration, Delivered at Marietta, July 4, 1788 ... The Speech of His Excellency Arthur St. Clair, Esquire, Upon the Proclamation of the Commission Appointing Him Governor of Said Territory; And the Proceedings of the Inhabitants of the City of Marietta,		1788	USD 150.00 - 200.00	462.00
66	WILLIS, NATHANIEL PARKER; W. H. Bartlett	Canadian Scenery Illustrated from Drawings	New York	n.d., c. 1850	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	825.00
67	WITHERS, ALEXANDER S. ed.	Chronicles of Border Warfare, Or A History of the Settlement by The Whites, of North-Western Virginia; and of the Indian Wars and Massacres ...	Clarksburg, Va.	1831	USD 100.00 - 150.00	27.50
68	WOODS, DANIEL B.; CARVALHO, S.N.; WALKER, JAMES B.; LEEPER, D.R.; JACOBS, O.; MAGOFFIN, S.S.; S.M. Drum	Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings, Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West with Col. Fremont's Last Expedition, Experiences of Pioneer Life, Not in Howes, The Argonauts of 'Forty-Nine', Memoirs of ..., Down the Sante Fe Trail and into Mexico .	New York's, Chicago, South Bend, Seattle	1851, 1857, 1881, 1894, 1908	USD 100.00 - 150.00	38.50
69	BLACKWELL, ELIZABETH	Herbarium Blackwellianum ... Collectio Stirpium	Nuremberg	1750	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	4,400.00
70		The Natural History of Birds, from the works of the best authors, antient & modern	Bungay	1815	USD 225.00 - 250.00	264.00
71	COMSTOCK, JOHN LEE	Natural History of Birds on a New Plan	Hartford	1830	USD 750.00 - 850.00	660.00
72	BUFFON, Comte G.L.L.	Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux	Paris	1770-86	USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	3,300.00
73	DICKSON, R.W.	Alexander McDonald. A Complete Dictionary of Practical Gardening	London	1805-1807	USD 750.00 - 850.00	1,320.00
74	HAYES, WILLIAM and FAMILY	Portraits of Rare and Curious Birds ... from the Menagery of Osterly Park	London	1794-1799, watermarked 1814	USD 1,400.00 - 1,600.00	1,540.00
75	LOUDON, Mrs. JANE	The Ladies Flower-Garden		1840, 1843-44, 1844, 1860	USD 1,300.00 - 1,500.00	3,740.00
76	GERARD, JOHN	The Herball or Generali Historie of Plantes	London	1597	USD 600.00 - 800.00	1,320.00
77	AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES	Under the Particular Patronage and Approbation of His Most Gracious Majesty.	London, Chicago	n.d., c. 1829, 1973	USD 400.00 - 600.00	605.00
78	AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES; AUDUBON and REV. J. BACHMAN	The Birds of America, The Quadrupeds of North America	New York's	1856, 1856-n.d.	USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	6,050.00
79	AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES	The Birds of America, from drawings made in The United States and their Territories	New York	n.d., 1870-1871	USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	2,640.00
80	AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES and THE REV. JOHN BACHMAN	The [Viviparous] Quadrupeds of North America	New York	1846, i.e. 1849-51-54	USD 1,600.00 - 2,000.00	1,980.00
81	HARRIS, MOSES	An Exposition of English Insects	London	1782	USD 650.00 - 800.00	660.00
82	SELBY, PRIDEAUX JOHN	Plates to Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology	Edinburgh	1819-1834	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	6,380.00
83	BROWN Capt. THOMAS	Illustrations of the Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland	Edinburgh	1827	USD 200.00 - 250.00	550.00
84	PUJOULX, J.B.; CURTIS, SAMUEL	Le Livre du Second Age, ou Instructions Amusantes sur l'histoire Naturelle des Animaux, The Beauties of Flora	Paris, Gamston, Notts	1801, 1820	USD 100.00 - 150.00	27.50
85	T. Baxter; T. Baxter; S. Curtis	Tulips Plate 1	Gamston Notts	1820	USD 500.00 - 650.00	605.00
86		Ranunculus Plate 2, No. artist's or engraver's name.	Gamston Notts	1820	USD 500.00 - 650.00	Not Sold
87		Dahlias Plate 6. Weddell sculpt.			USD 350.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
88		Polyanthus Plate 7, After C.M. Pope but unsigned			USD 500.00 - 650.00	Not Sold
89		Carnations Plate 8, after CM. Pope but unsigned			USD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
90	MOORE, THOMAS, editor	Illustrations of Orchidaceous Plants	London	1857	USD 350.00 - 400.00	682.00
91		FLOWER PAINTINGS. KETCHUM, LOUISA and FRANCES. Flowers Painted by ...	New York	1818-20	USD 350.00 - 450.00	990.00
92	WILSON, ALEXANDER; George Ord	American Ornithology [without Supplement ...]	Philadelphia	1808-1813	USD 1,350.00 - 1,750.00	1,210.00
93	J. J. Audubon	Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York	New York	1824-1877	USD 250.00 - 300.00	220.00
94	GAY, CLAUDIO	Historia Fisica y Politica de Chile	Zoologia, Paris	1847-1854	USD 1,200.00 - 1,300.00	1,430.00
95	GOULD, JOHN and RICHARD BOWDLER SHARPE	The Birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan Islands, including many new species recently discovered in Australia	London	1875- 1888	USD 24,000.00 - 27,000.00	38,500.00
96	LINDLEY, JOHN	Rosarum Monographia; or, A Botanical History of Roses	London	1820	USD 500.00 - 600.00	1,100.00
97		Ornithologie Abrégée de la France	Neuwied sur le Rhin	1794	USD 500.00 - 650.00	935.00
98	SCHLEGEL, HERMAN and GERARDUS FRIEDRICH WESTERMAN	De Toerako's afgebeeld en beschreven	Amsterdam	1860	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,420.00
99	SCLATER, PHILIP LUTLEY and WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON	Argentine Ornithology	London	1888-1889	USD 150.00 - 220.00	242.00
100	H. Fletcher	SOCIETY OF GARDENERS. Catalogus Plantarum ... a Catalogue of Trees, Shrubs, Plants, and Flowers, both Exotic and Domestic, which are propagated for Sale, In the Gardens near London...	London	1730	USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	3,080.00

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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.

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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.
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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.

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