Christies: The Pierre S. duPont III Collection of Navigation, Voyages, Cartography and Literature of the Sea., 7324,

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 08, 1991 - October 08, 1991

Page Size: 510 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
	IRVING, WASHINGTON	[LITERARY AUTOGRAPHS].			USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,045.00
151	IRVING, WASHINGTON; SCOTT, Sir WALTER; DANA, RICHARD HENRY, Jr.; MARRY AT, Captain FREDERICK; KINGSLEY, CHARLES; RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK; MASEFIELD, JOHN	Autograph letter signed to Cornelius Conway Felton (a Harvard professor and classical scholar, president of Harvard for a short time), Autograph letter signed ("W Scott") to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (a life-long friend	Sunnyside, Abbotsford, Boston, London, Winchfield, Ramsgate, n.p., New York?	17 May 1859, n.d., 13 October 1862, 25 January 1841, 23 March 1872, 3 July 1874, 26 October 1909	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	26,400.00
	LOPES DE CASTANHEDA, FERNAO	The first Booke of the Historie of the Discouerie and Conquest of the East Indias, enterprised by the Portingales . . . translated into English, by N[icholas] Lichfield].	London	1582	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	25,300.00
152	LOPES DE CASTANHEDA, FERNAO	The first Booke of the Historie of the Discouerie and Conquest of the East Indias, enterprised by the Portingales ...	London	1582	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	1,045.00
	[LOPEZ DE GOMARA, FRANCISCO]	The Pleasant Historie of the Conquest of the West India, now called new Spaine. Atchieued by . . . Hernando Cortes . . . Translated out of the Spanish tongue, by T[homas] N[icholas].	London	1596	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	3,520.00
153	LOPEZ DE GOMARA, FRANCISCO	The Pleasant Historie of the Conquest of the West India, now called new Spaine. Atchieued by ... Hernando Cortes ...	London	1596	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	25,300.00
	[LOPEZ DE GOMARA, FRANCISCO]	The Pleasant Historie of the Conquest of the West India, now called new Spaine.	London	1596	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	2,640.00
154	LOPEZ DE GOMARA, FRANCISCO	The Pleasant Historie of the Conquest of the West India, now called new Spaine. Atchieued by ... Hernando Cortes ...	London	1596	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	3,520.00
	MAHAN, <i>Captain</i> ALFRED THAYER	/book_records/123251			USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,100.00
155	MAHAN, Captain ALFRED THAYER; BOWEN, ABEL; KIMBALL, EDWARD	Types of Naval Officers drawn from the History of the British Navy, The Naval Monument, containing official and other accounts of all the battles fought between the Navies of the United States and Great Britain during the late war, American Naval Battles	Boston's	1901, 1816, 1831	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	2,640.00
	MANDEVILLE, <i>Sir</i> JOHN	The Foreign Travels and Dangerous Voyages Of that Renowned English Knight Sir John Mandeville: Wherein he gives an Account of remote Kingdoms. Countries, Rivers, Castles, Giants of a prodigious Height and Strength: Together with the People called Pigmies,	London	n.d. [c. 1704--1728]	USD 300.00 - 600.00	308.00
156	MANDEVILLE, Sir JOHN	The Foreign Travels and Dangerous Voyages Of that Renowned English Knight Sir John Mandeville: Wherein he gives an Account of remote Kingdoms, Countries, Rivers, Castles, Giants of a prodigious Height and Strength: Together with the People called Pigmies,	London	n.d., c. 1704-1728	USD 300.00 - 600.00	1,100.00
	[MARRYAT, <i>Captain</i> FREDERICK]	Peter Simple.	London	1834	USD 400.00 - 600.00	462.00
157	MARRYAT, Captain FREDERICK	Peter Simple.	London	1834	USD 400.00 - 600.00	308.00
	[MARRYAT, <i>Captain</i> FREDERICK]	Jacob Faithful.	London	1837	USD 400.00 - 600.00	660.00
158	MARRYAT, Captain FREDERICK	Jacob Faithful.	London	1837	USD 400.00 - 600.00	462.00
	MARRYAT, <i>Captain</i> FREDERICK	The Phantom Ship.	London	1839	USD 600.00 - 800.00	935.00
159	MARRYAT, Captain FREDERICK	The Phantom Ship.	London	1839	USD 600.00 - 800.00	660.00
	MARRYAT, <i>Captain</i> FREDERICK	various	London, except as noted		USD 500.00 - 700.00	1,100.00
160	MARRYAT, Captain FREDERICK; HOWARD, EDWARD; SCOTT, MICHAEL	Peter Simple, Mr. Midshipman Easy, Masterman Ready, Rattlin, the Reefer., Tom Cringle's Log, The Cruise of the Midge	Philadelphia, Edinburgh's	1834, 1836, 1841-2, 1836, 1833, 1836	USD 500.00 - 700.00	935.00
	[MARRYAT, <i>Captain</i> FREDERICK]	various			USD 400.00 - 600.00	440.00
161	MARRYAT, Captain FREDERICK	Snarleyyow, or the Dog Fiend	London	1837	USD 400.00 - 600.00	1,100.00
	MARTYR, PETER	Extraict ou Recueil des Isles nouvellement trouvees en la grand mer Oceane ou [sic] temps du Roy Despaigne Fernand & Elizabeth sa femme . . . Item trois Narrations: dont la premiere est de Cuba . . .	Paris	1532	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	48,400.00
162	MARTYR, PETER	Extraict ou Recueil des Isles nouvellement trouvees en la grand mer Oceane ou [sic] temps du Roy Despaigne Fernand & Elizabeth sa femme ... Item trois Narrations: dont la premiere est de Cuba ...	Paris	1532	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	440.00
	MARTYR, PETER	The Decades of the newe worlde or West India, Conteyning the nauigations and conquestes of the Spanyardes, with the particular description of the moste ryche and large landes and Ilandes lately founde in the west Ocean perteynyng to the inheritance of the	London	1555	USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00	46,200.00
163	MARTYR, PETER	The Decades of the newe worlde or West India, Conteyning the nauigations and conquestes of the Spanyardes, with the particular description of the moste ryche and large landes and Ilandes lately founde in the west Ocean perteynyng to the inheritance of the	London, colophon	1555	USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00	48,400.00
	MARTYR, PETER	The History of travayle in the West and East Indies, and other countreys lying eiyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes. As Moscovia, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Aegypte, Etiopea, Guinea, China in Cathayo, and Giapan: With a discourse of the Nor	London	1577	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	26,400.00
164	MARTYR, PETER	The History of travayle in the West and East Indies, and other countreys lying eiyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes. As Moscovia, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Aegypte, Etiopea, Guinea, China in Cathayo, and Giapan: With a discourse of the Nor	London	1577	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	46,200.00
	MASEFIELD, JOHN	Various	London		USD 250.00 - 350.00	605.00
165	MASEFIELD, JOHN; BULLEN, FRANK T.	Salt-Water Ballads, The Cruise of the "Cachalot, The Log of a Sea-Waif, Deep-Sea Plunderings		1902, 1898, 1899, 1901	USD 250.00 - 350.00	26,400.00
	MEAD, BRADDOCK ("John Green")	Remarks, in Support of the New Chart of North and South America; in Six Sheets.	London	1753	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	13,200.00
166	MEAD, BRADDOCK, "John Green"; William P.	Remarks, in Support of the New Chart of North and South America; in Six Sheets., Cumming, British Maps of Colonial America	London, Chicago	1753, 1974	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	605.00
	MEARES, JOHN	Voyages made in the years 1788 and 1789, from China to the North West Coast of America. To which are prefixed, an Introductory Narrative of a Voyage performed in 1786, from Bengal, in the Ship Nootka; observations on the probable existence of a North West	London	1790	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,430.00
167	MEARES, JOHN	Voyages made in the years 1788 and 1789, from China to the North West Coast of America. To which are prefixed, an Introductory Narrative of a Voyage performed in 1786, from Bengal, in the Ship Nootka	London	1790	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	13,200.00
	MEARES, JOHN	Voyages.	London	1790	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	1,540.00
168	MEARES, JOHN	Voyages made in the years 1788 and 1789, from China to the North West Coast of America. To which are prefixed, an Introductory Narrative of a Voyage performed in 1786, from Bengal, in the Ship Nootka	London	1790	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	1,430.00
	MEDINA, PEDRO DE	L'Art de Naviguer de Maistre Pierre de Medine, espaignol contenant toutes les reigles, secrets, & enseignments necessaires a la bonne navigation . . . traduict de Castillan en Francois . . . par Nicolas de Nicolai, Geographe du tres-Chrestien Roy Henri II	Lyon	1561	USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	59,400.00
169	MEDINA, PEDRO DE.	L'Art de Naviguer de Maistre Pierre de Medine, espaignol contenant toutes les reigles, secrets, & enseignments necessaires à la bonne navigation ... traduict de Castillan en François ... par Nicolas de Nicolai, Geographe du tres-Chrestien Roy Henri II.	Lyon	1561	USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	1,540.00
	MELVILLE, HERMAN	Various	New York		USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	6,050.00
170	MELVILLE, HERMAN	Typee, Mardi, Redburn		1846, 1849, 1849	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	59,400.00
	MELVILLE, HERMAN	The Whale.	London	1851	USD 12,000.00 - 16,000.00	18,700.00
171	MELVILLE, HERMAN	The Whalc.	London	1851	USD 12,000.00 - 16,000.00	6,050.00
	MELVILLE, HERMAN	Moby-Dick; or the Whale.	New York	1851	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	5,280.00
172	MELVILLE, HERMAN	Moby-Dick; or the Whale.	New York	1851	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	18,700.00
	MELVILLE, HERMAN	Works.	London	1922--1924	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	4,620.00
173	MELVILLE, HERMAN	Works.	London	1922-24	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	5,280.00
	MELVILLE, HERMAN	Autograph letter signed ("H. Melville") to the publisher George P. Putnam in New York, written from Pittsfield, Mass. "Monday, 12th June," [1854]	Pittsfield, Mass.	Monday, 12th June, [1854]	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	10,450.00
174	MELVILLE, HERMAN	Autograph letter signed ("H. Melville") to the publisher George P. Putnam in New York, written from Pittsfield	Mass.	Monday, 12th June, 1854	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	4,620.00
	MELVILLE, HERMAN	Cut signature of Melville, in ink			USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	2,420.00
175	MELVILLE, HERMAN	Cut signature of Melville			USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	10,450.00
	MERCATOR, GERARD	Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricata Figura.	Dusseldorf	1602	USD 18,000.00 - 25,000.00	35,200.00
176	MERCATOR, GERARD	Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricata Figura.	Dusseldorf	1602	USD 18,000.00 - 25,000.00	2,420.00
	MOCQUET, JEAN	Travels and Voyages into Africa, Asia, and America, the East and West-Indies; Syria, Jerusalem, and the Holy-Land . . . Translated . . . by Nathaniel Pullen.	London	1696	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	2,640.00
177	MOCQUET, JEAN	Travels and Voyages into Africa, Asia, and America, the East and West-Indies; Syria, Jerusalem, and the Holy-Land ...	London	1696	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	35,200.00
	MOORE, FRANCIS	A Voyage to Georgia. Begun in the Year 1735. Containing An Account of the Settling the Town of Frederica . . . with The Rules and Orders made by the Honourable the Trustees for that Settlement . . . Also A Description of the Town and County of Savannah.	London	1744	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	3,520.00
178	MOORE, FRANCIS	A Voyage to Georgia. Begun in the Year 1735. Containing An Account of the Settling the Town of Frederica ... with The Rules and Orders made by the Honourable the Trustees for that Settlement ... Also A Description of the Town and County of Savannah.	London	1744	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,640.00
	MORTIMER, GEORGE	Observations and Remarks made during a Voyage to the Islands of Teneriffe, Amsterdam, Maria's Islands near Van Diemen's Land; Otaheite, Sandwich Islands, Owhyhee, the Fox Islands on the North West Coast of America, Tinian, and from thence to Canton, in th	Dublin	1791	USD 700.00 - 900.00	6,600.00
179	MORTIMER, GEORGE	Observations and Remarks made during a Voyage to the Islands of Teneriffe, Amsterdam, Maria's Islands near Van Diemen's Land; Otaheite, Sandwich Islands, Owhyhee, the Fox Islands on the North West Coast of America, Tinian, and from thence to Canton, in th	Dublin	1791	USD 700.00 - 900.00	3,520.00
	MORTON, NATHANIEL	New-Englands Memoriall: Or, A brief Relation of the most Memorable and Remarkable Passages of the Providence of God, manifested to the Planters of New-England in America; With special Reference to the first Colony thereof, Called New-Plimouth.	Cambridge [Mass.]	1669	USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	24,200.00
180	MORTON, NATHANIEL	New-Englands Memoriall: Or, A brief Relation of the most Memorable and Remarkable Passages of the Providence of God, manifested to the Planters of New-England in America; With special Reference to the first Colony thereof, Called New-Plimouth., As also, T	Cambridge [Mass.], London	1669, 1670	USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	6,600.00
	MOXON, JOSEPH	A Tutor to Astronomie and Geographie: Or an Easie and speedy way to know the Use of both the Globes, Coelestial and Terrestrial.	London	1659	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,100.00
181	MOXON, JOSEPH	A Tutor to Astronomie and Geographie: Or an Easie and speedy way to know the Use of both the Globes, Coelestial and Terrestrial.	London	1659	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	24,200.00
	MOXON, JOSEPH	A brief discourse of a passage by the North-Pole to Japan, China, &c. Pleaded by Three Experiments: And Answers to all Objections that can be urged against a Passage that way.	London	1674	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	5,280.00
182	MOXON, JOSEPH	A brief discourse of a passage by the North-Pole to Japan, China, &c. Pleaded by Three Experiments: And Answers to all Objections that can be urged against a Passage that way.	London	1674	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,100.00
	MULLER, GERHARD FRIEDRICH	Voyages from Asia to America, for completing the Discoveries of the North West Coast of America. To which is prefixed, a Summary of the Voyages made by the Russians on the Frozen Sea, in search of a North East Passage . . . Translated from the High Dutch	London	1761	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	3,960.00
183	MÜLLER, GERHARD FRIEDRICH; Thomas Jefferys	Voyages from Asia to America, for completing the Discoveries of the North West Coast of America. To which is prefixed, a Summary of the Voyages made by the Russians on the Frozen Sea, in search of a North East Passage ... Translated from the High Dutch of	London	1761	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	5,280.00
	MUENSTER, SEBASTIAN	A Briefe Collection and compendious extract of straunge and memorable thinges, gathered out of the Cosmographye of Sebastian Munster.	London	1574	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	6,600.00
184	MUENSTER, SEBASTIAN	A Briefe Collection and compendious extract of straunge and memorable thinges, gathered out of the Cosmographye of Sebastian Munster.	London	1574	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	3,960.00
	MYERS, <i>Captain</i> JOHN	The Life, Voyages and Travels of Capt. John Myers, Detailing His Adventures during Four Voyages Round the World; His Various Enterprises on the Coast of South America. And Exhibiting a Most Instructive Description of the North-West Trade.	London	1817	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	6,050.00
185	MYERS, Captain JOHN	The Life, Voyages and Travels of Capt. John Myers, Detailing His Adventures during Four Voyages Round the World; His Various Enterprises on the Coast of South America. And Exhibiting a Most Instructive Description of the North-West Trade.	London	1817	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	6,600.00
	NARBOROUGH, <i>Sir</i> JOHN, and others	An Account Of Several Late Voyages and Discoveries to the South and North. Towards The Streights of Magellan, the South Seas, the vast Tracts of Land beyond Hollandia Nova, &c. also Towards Nova Zembla, Greenland or Spitsberg, Groynland or Engrondland, &c	London	1694	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	2,640.00
186	NARBOROUGH, Sir JOHN, and others	An Account Of Several Late Voyages and Discoveries to the South and North. Towards The Streights of Magellan, the South Seas, the vast Tracts of Land beyond Hollandia Nova, &c. also Towards Nova Zembla, Greenland or Spitsberg, Groynland or Engrondland, &c	London	1694	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	6,050.00
	NARBOROUGH, <i>Sir</i> JOHN, and others	An Account of Several Late Voyages and Discoveries to the South and North . . .	London	1694	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	1,980.00
187	NARBOROUGH, Sir JOHN, and others	An Account of Several Late Voyages and Discoveries to the South and North ...	London	1694	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	2,640.00
	NARBOROUGH, <i>Sir</i> JOHN, and others	An Account of several late Voyages and Discoveries: I. Sir John Narborough's Voyage to the South-Sea . . . II. Captain J. Tasman's Discoveries on the Coast of South Terra Incognita. . . .	London	1711	USD 500.00 - 700.00	1,540.00
188	NARBOROUGH, Sir JOHN, and others	An Account of several late Voyages and Discoveries: I. Sir John Narborough's Voyage to the South-Sea ... II. Captain J. Tasman's Discoveries on the Coast of South Terra Incognita....	London	1711	USD 500.00 - 700.00	1,980.00
	NAUNTON, <i>Sir</i> ROBERT	Manuscript "Fragmenta Regalia: Or: observations on the Late Queene Elizabeth, her tymes and favorites,"		[probably after 1653]	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
189	NAUNTON, Sir ROBERT	Manuscript "Fragmenta Regalia: Or: observations on the Late Queene Elizabeth, her tymes and favorites,"		probably after 1653	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	1,540.00
	NORTH AMERICAN PILOT	The North American Pilot for Newfoundland, Labradore, the Gulf and River St. Laurence: being a collection of sixty accurate Charts and Plans, drawn from original surveys: taken by James Cook and Michael Lane, Surveyors, and Joseph Gilbert, and other Offic	(London)	(1783)	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	19,800.00
190	Thomas Jefferys	The North American Pilot for Newfoundland, Labradore, the Gulf and River St. Laurence: being a collection of sixty accurate Charts and Plans, drawn from original surveys: taken by James Cook and Michael Lane, Surveyors, and Joseph Gilbert, and other Offic	London	1784 Part the Second	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	19,800.00
	OLEARIUS, ADAM OELSCHLAEGER	Various	London, except as noted	1785	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	3,300.00
191	OLEARIUS, ADAM OELSCHLAEGER; ACUNA, CHRISTOVAL DE.; ROGERS, Captain WOODES; CLERKE, CHARLES?; CAMPBELL, J. and JOHN RENT	The Voyages and Travells of the Ambassadors Sent by Frederick Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia...The Second Edition Corrected, Voyages and Discoveries in South-America, A Cruising Voyage Round the World: First to the	Dublin	1669, 1698, Begun in 1708, 1767, 1785	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	3,300.00
	ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM	Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.	Antwerp	20 May 1570	USD 18,000.00 - 25,000.00	41,800.00
192	ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM	Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.	Antwerp	20 May 1570	USD 18,000.00 - 25,000.00	41,800.00
	ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM	Theatre de l'univers, contenant les cartes de tout le monde.	Antwerp	1587	USD 18,000.00 - 25,000.00	28,600.00
193	ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM	Théâtre de l'univers, contenant les cartes de tout le monde.	Antwerp	1587	USD 18,000.00 - 25,000.00	28,600.00
	[PACIFIC OCEAN]. LEONARDO Y ARGENSOLA, BARTOLOME JUAN	Various	London, except as noted	various	USD 1,400.00 - 1,800.00	3,300.00
194	LEONARDO Y ARGENSOLA, BARTOLOMÉ JUAN; PERRY, Commodore MATTHEW CALBRAITH; PATTERSON, SAMUEL; WOODARD, Capt. DAVID; LUCATT, EDWARD; SHILLIBEER, Lieut. JOHN	PACIFIC OCEAN. The Discovery and Conquest of the Molucco and Philippine Islands, Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, performed in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854..., Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of	London's, Washington, Mass.	1708, 1856, May 1, 1817, 1804, 1851, 1817	USD 1,400.00 - 1,800.00	3,300.00
	[PALMER, <i>Sir</i> THOMAS]	An Essay of the Meanes how to make our Travailes, into forraine Countries, the more profitable and honourable.	London	1606	USD 1,800.00 - 2,500.00	2,860.00
195	PALMER, Sir THOMAS	An Essay of the Meanes how to make our Travailes, into forraine Countries, the more profitable and honourable.	London	1606	USD 1,800.00 - 2,500.00	2,860.00
	PATERSON, ROBERT F.	The America and the Defenders of the America's Cup. 1851[-] 1930. After Original Drawings in Pencil.	New York	1934 [--1935]	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	4,950.00
196	PATERSON, ROBERT F.	The America and the Defenders of the America's Cup. 1851[-] 1930. After Original Drawings in Pencil.	New York	1934-1935	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	4,950.00
	PEPYS, SAMUEL	Memoires Relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England, For Ten Years, Determin'd December 1688. Printed Anno MDCXC	[London]	[1690]	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	4,180.00
197	PEPYS, SAMUEL	Memoires Relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England, For Ten Years, Determin'd December 1688. Printed Anno MDCXC i.e.	London	1690	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	4,180.00
	PEPYS, SAMUEL	Memoirs . . . comprising his Diary . . . and a selection from his Private Correspondence. Edited by Richard, Lord Braybrooke.	London	1825	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,540.00
198	PEPYS, SAMUEL; Richard, Lord Braybrooke	Memoirs ... comprising his Diary ... and a selection from his Private Correspondence.	London	1825	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,540.00
	PHILLIP, ARTHUR	The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island.	London	1789	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	1,430.00
199	PHILLIP, ARTHUR	The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island.	London	1789	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	1,430.00
	PINKERTON, JOHN	A General Collection of the best and most interesting Voyages and Travels in all Parts of the World.	London	1808--1814	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	2,860.00
200	PINKERTON, JOHN	A General Collection of the best and most interesting Voyages and Travels in all Parts of the World.	London	1808-14	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	2,860.00

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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.
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