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Sale Name
AMERICANA VOYAGES AND TRAVELS ATLASES AND MAPS AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
Auction Date
11/02/1964 - 11/02/1964
Year of Sale
1964
Sale Number
#ELECTION
Total Lots
405
Sold Lots
404
Lots Sold
99.8%
Unsold Lots
1
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (USD)
114,708.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
0.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
0.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
0.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
0.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
Inf%
Currency
USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
1,454,030.00

Top twenty five by sale price

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
346 JOHANNES JANSSONIUS and FREDERICK DE WIT A SERIES OF 149 LARGE VIEWS AND PLANS OF TOWNS

c. 1660-65

 USD - 5,040.00
169 JEAN BAPTISTE ADANSON VIEWS AND ANTIQUITIES IN EGYPT

1779-84

 USD - 4,480.00
184 Father FERDINAND VERBIEST MAP OF THE WORLD [K'OUEN YU TS'lUEN T'OU]

1674

 USD - 4,480.00
278 Sir HUMPHREY GILBERT DRAFT AGREEMENT BETWEEN GILBERT

6 June, [1582]

 USD - 3,920.00
279 Sir HUMPHREY GILBERT DRAFT AGREEMENT BETWEEN GILBERT

9 June,[1582]

 USD - 3,640.00
280 Sir HUMPHREY GILBERT DRAFT AGREEMENT between Sir Thomas Gerrard

June, 1582

 USD - 3,640.00
262 Sir JOHN RICHARDSON AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL

USD - 3,360.00
236 ABRAHAM ORTELIUS THEATRO DEL MONDO . . . traslato in Lingua Toscana dal Sig.r Filippo Pigafetta

1608

 USD - 3,360.00
200 WILHELM and JOHÂN BLAEU TOONNEEL DES AERDRÜCX

1642-48

 USD - 3,220.00
122 DOCTRINA CHRISTIANA Y CATECISMO PARA INSTRUCTION DE LOS INDIOS . . . compuesta por auctoridad del Concilio Provincial . . . y por la misma traducido en las dos lenguas . . . Quichua y Aymara

1584

 USD - 3,080.00
250 CORNELIUS WYTFUET DESCRIPTIONIS PTOLEMAICÆ AUGMENTUM

1597

 USD - 2,520.00
201 NICOLAUS VISSCHER ATLAS MINOR

1705

 USD - 2,380.00
128 JAN VAN LOON AND NICOLAS JANSZ VOOGHT LE NOUVEAU ET GRAND ILLUMINANT FLAMBEAU DE LA MER . . . fidellement traudit de Flaman en Francois par Pierre Francois Silvestre

1698-99

 USD - 2,240.00
397 JOHN SPEED THE THEATRE OF THE EMPIRE OF GREAT BRITAIN

1611-12

 USD - 2,184.00
115 PIETER Goos DE ZEE-ATLAS

1666

 USD - 2,016.00
64 JOHN SPEED THE THEATRE OF THE EMPIRE OF GREAT BRITAIN WITH PROSPECT OF THE WORLD

1676

 USD - 1,960.00
277 Rear Admiral Sir PULTENEY MALCOLM INTERESTING COLLECTION OF 39 A.Ls.s. AND 2 Ls.s.

USD - 1,820.00
313 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AUTOGRAPH COPY OF THE ADDRESS OF THE ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA TO KING GEORGE III protesting against the imposition of internal taxes by the British Parliament

USD - 1,736.00
67 Atlas of engraved double-page English county maps

USD - 1,736.00
204 JOHN F KENNEDY As We Remember Joe

1945

 USD - 1,736.00
263 Sir JOHN RICHARDSON VOLUME CONTAINING COPIES OR CORRECTED DRAFTS (WITH SOME INSERTED ORIGINALS) OF THE CORRESPONDENCE CONCERNING THE EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN UNDER RICHARDSON'S COMMAND

USD - 1,540.00
323 PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES

USD - 1,540.00
171A JOANNES BLEAU ATLAS MAJOR

1662

 USD - 1,400.00
114 WILHELM AND JOAN BLAEU TOONNEEL DES AERDRYCX

1658

 USD - 1,232.00
255 Sir GEORGE COCKBURN INTERESTING SERIES OF 27 A.Ls.s. and 3 Ls.s.

USD - 1,120.00
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    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.
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    Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
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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.