June 25, 2026

Doyle, June 25: Houdini's biography, boldly signed. $3,000 to $5,000.

Doyle, June 25: A volume from Abraham Lincoln's library, signed just before heading to Washington for his inauguration. $20,000 to $30,000.

Doyle, June 25: A very early Confederate recruiting manual belonging to the chief commissary in Lee's Army. $600 to $800.

Doyle, June 25: Rare hand-colored lithographs of the life of Napoleon. $20,000 to $30,000.

Doyle, June 25: The "Holster Atlas" of the American Revolution. $5,000 to $8,000.

Doyle, June 25: Jewish ceremonies in fine hand-colored engravings. $7,000 to $10,000.

Doyle, June 25: A very rare work on Turkish military costume. $1,000 to $1,500.

June 25, 2026

Doyle, June 25: The most important illustrated work on the Mexican-American War. $10,000 to $15,000.

Doyle, June 25: The finest illustrated book on Afghanistan. $10,000 to $15,000.

Doyle, June 25: Henry Justice Ford St. George rescues the Princess from the horrible Dragon. $2,000 to $3,000.

Doyle, June 25: A rare work of Prussian Army uniforms under Frederick William II, with exquisite hand-colored engravings. $800 to $1,200.

Doyle, June 25: Lenny Bruce typed letter signed to a Village bohemian during his obscenity trials, with a manuscript note and drawing. $300 to $500.

Doyle, June 25: Schiff's scarce Shanghai Sketchbook. $300 to $500.

Doyle, June 25: The first accurate published representation of the American flag. $2,000 to $4,000.
Bonhams, June 14-23: Palm-reading, astrology, and more. Estimate: $2,000 - 3,000

Bonhams, June 14-23: Benjamin Franklin. Sammelband of 45 papers on electricity. Estimate: $8,000 - 12,000

Bonhams, June 14-23: The basis for the whole modern electric-power industry. Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000

Bonhams, June 14-23: Edgar Allen Poe. Poe on Mesmerism. Estimate: $2,500 - 3,500

Bonhams, June 14-23: Reformation - The Architect of Lutheranism on Church Unity and Dissent. Estimate: $100,000 - 150,000

Bonhams, June 14-23: The Rare 3-Paper Offprint Identifying the Double Helix Structure of DNA, Signed by Crick, Wilkins, Wilson, Stokes and Gosling. Estimate: $40,000 - 60,000

Bonhams, June 14-23: Autograph book and Report from the Thirtieth Indian National Congress, featuring the signatures of Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, and Dadabhai Naoroji. Estimate: $6,000 - 8,000

Bonhams, June 14-23: An Illustrated Miniature Hebrew Prayerbook Manuscript. Estimate: $30,000 - 50,000

Bonhams, June 14-23: Autograph Working Draft of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Death Voyage. Estimate: $30,000 - 50,000

Bonhams, June 14-23: "Perhaps the most celebrated and most beautiful herbal ever published." Estimate: $15,000 - 20,000

Bonhams, June 14-23: Izaak Walton. The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing. Estimate: $12,000 - 18,000

Bonhams, June 14-23: A rare product of the Jaquard loom. Estimate: $8,000 - 12,000
Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 123. Celebrate 250 Years of Independence with Original Stars and Stripes (1790) Est. $1,400 - $1,700

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 20. Keulen's Spectacular Chart of the World Featuring California as an Island (1728) Est. $12,000 - $15,000

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 42. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 591. Matching Set of 3 Stunning Globe Gores of Eastern Asia from Coronelli's 3.5 Foot Globe (1688) Est. $5,500 - $7,000

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 9. Speed's Popular World Map with Allegorical Representations of the Elements (1651) Est. $14,000 - $17,000

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 168. First Separate Map of Kansas & Nebraska Territories (1854) Est. $5,500 - $7,000

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 43. Only Macrobius Map with Britain Attached to Europe (1515) Est. $800 - $950

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 250. Rare Map of Boston and One of the Earliest Maps of the Revolutionary War (1775) Est. $2,000 - $2,300

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 79. Schenk's Uncommon Map Featuring Two Figurative Title Cartouches (1696) Est. $1,200 - $1,500

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 681. Hand-Colored Image of the Annunciation to the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950
Freeman’s, June 30. Thomas Jefferson’s “Birth of the New Nation” letter, carried to Paris with the Treaty of Peace, by a Jewish patriot. $100,000-200,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. “The rockets’ red glare.” A British midshipman’s log recording the bombardment of Fort McHenry. $60,000-80,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry Commission signed by James Madison, 1812. $40,000-60,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776. $15,000-25,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. One of the Earliest Printed Announcements of American Independence, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000-15,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. "The Two Big Guns of the N.Y. Yanks": A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000-12,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. A Unique Contemporary Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words to His Followers, the Day Before his Violent Death. $8,000-12,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. The State of Minnesota Officially Certifies the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution Of the United States. $8,000-12,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York to Queen Anne from the Colony of New York. $8,000-12,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000-12,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. A Call to Arms in the Months Following the Declaration of Independence: An Early Continental Army Recruitment Poster. $6,000-9,000.

Freeman’s, June 30. Samuel Jones, the Statesman Behind the Newly Discovered "Jones Declaration": His Annotated Set Used in His Working Law Library. $6,000-9,000.

Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS, 21Feb1974,

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 21, 1974 - February 21, 1974

Page Size: 509 items in 6 pages

Auction Lot Books
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
301	Burnet, Gilbert	The Life and Death of Sir Matthew Hale		1682	GBP -	16.00
302	Burton, William	A Commentary on Antoninus his Itinerary ... so far as it concerneth Britain		1658	GBP -	38.00
303	Caesar, G[aius] Julius	The Commentaries ... translated into English ... by Clement Edmonds		1677 -76	GBP -	30.00
304	Camden, William, John Philipot	Remaines concerning Britaine ...		1636	GBP -	22.00
305	Carter, Matt[hew]	Honor Rediviuus [sic] or an Analysis of Honor and Armory		1660	GBP -	5.00
306	[Cavendish, George]	The life and death of Thomas Woolsey ... written by one of his own servants, being his gentleman usher		1667	GBP -	17.00
307	Chapone, Hesther, Mandeville, B. de, Foote, Samuel	The works 2 vol. Remarks on the present mode of educating females; being a copious abridgement of Miss Hannah More's Strictures on female education The fable of the bees, 2 vol. The Bankrupt, a comedy The Cozeners; a comedy The lyar. A comedy	Dublin, Edinburgh	1778, 1775, 1799, 1772, 1776, 1778, 1786	GBP -	44.00
308	Churchill, Sir Winston	Divi Britannici: being a Remark upon the Lives of all the Kings of this Isle ... [to] 1660		1675	GBP -	10.00
309	Cicero, M. Tullius	Opera Omnia [Justinian. Institutiones]	Cologne, Venice, Leiden	1632, 1560, 1664	GBP -	16.00
310	CLEVELAND, JOHN	The Works ... with the Life of the Author		1687	GBP -	50.00
311	Robert Whyte	Collection (A) of such of the orders heretofore used in Chauncery		1716	GBP -	23.00
312	Collier, Jeremy	A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage ...		1698	GBP -	18.00
313	Collier, Jeremy	A Defence of the Short View ... being a Reply to Mr. Congreve's Amendments, &c		1699	GBP -	26.00
314	Cosin, John	A Scolastical History of the Canon of the Holy Scripture		1672	GBP -	11.00
315	COTGRAVE, RANDLE, SHERWOOD, ROBERT	A French-English Dictionary Dictionnaire Anglois & Francois		1650, 1650	GBP -	50.00
316	COWELL, JOHN	The Interpreter: or, Booke, containing the Signification of Words		1637	GBP -	62.00
317	DALLINGTON, Sir ROBERT	A SURVEY OF THE GREAT DUKES STATE OF TUSCANY ... 1596		1605	GBP -	90.00
318	DAVENANT, Sir WILLIAM	The Works, 4 parts in one vol.		1673 -72	GBP -	50.00
319	Del Rio, Martin	Disquistionum magicarum libri sex, 3 vol.		1606	GBP -	30.00
320	[DUBREUIL, JEAN]	PERSPECTIVE PRACTICAL. Or, a Plain and Easie Method of True and Lively Representing all Things to the Eye at a Distance, by the Exact Rules of Art ... set forth in English by Robert Pricke		1672	GBP -	115.00
321	Sir Robert Naunton	[Du Refuge (Eustace)] Arcana Aulica: or Walsingham's Manual of Pru dential Maxims ... to which is added Fragmenta Regalia ...		1694	GBP -	5.00
322	FISHER, PAYNE MARSTON-MOOR	sive de Obsidione Praelioque... Carmen; cum quibusdam Miscellaneis		1650	GBP -	75.00
323	Fletcher, Henry	The perfect politician: or, a full view of the life and actions (military and civil) of O. Cromwell	London	Printed in the year, 1680	GBP -	36.00
324	FOX[E], IOHN	An Abridgement of the Booke of Acts and Monuments of the Church, 2 parts in one vol.		1589	GBP -	68.00
325	Miles Car, i.e. Miles Pinkney	FRANCIS, of Sales (Saint) A Treatise of the Love of God ... translated into English	Douai	1630	GBP -	Not Sold
326	Fuller, Thomas	The historie of the holy Warre	Cambridge	1647	GBP -	28.00
327	Fullwood, Fran[cis]	The Establish'd Church: or, a Subversion of all the Romanist's Pleas for the Pope's Supremacy in England			GBP -	20.00
328		Heereboord (Adrianus) EPMENEIA Logica, seu synopseos logicae Burgersdicianae explicatio ... accedit ejusdem authoris Praxis logica	Cambridge	1680	GBP -	5.00
329	E. Jeffrey	Hentzer (Paul) Travels in England ... Sir Robert Naunton's Fragmenta regalia			GBP -	24.00
330	IAMBLICHUS, Chalcidensis	De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum ... Nicolao Scutellio ... interprete ... adiecti de Vita & Secta Pythagorae Flosculi ... collecti, 2 parts in one vol.	Rome	1556	GBP -	35.00
331	INGELO, NATHANIEL	Bentivolio and Urania, 2 parts in one vol.		1682	GBP -	26.00
332	Johnson, Samuel	A Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vol.		1785	GBP -	32.00
333	Josephus, Flavius	The Famous and Memorable Workes ... translated ... by Tho. Lodge		1620	GBP -	22.00
334	LAET, JOANNES DE	Notae ad Dissertationem Hugonis Grotii De Origine Gentium Americanarum	Amsterdam	1643	GBP -	52.00
335	Le Comte, Louis, Daniel	Nouveaux Memoires sur l'Etat Present de la Chine, 2 vol.		1697	GBP -	28.00
336	Luther, Martin, Hearne, Thomas, editor	Colloquia Mensalia ... translated ... by Capt. Henrie Bell, [Pinacotheca Fuggerorum S.R.I. comitum ac baronum in Khierchperg et Weissenhorn], A Collection of Curious Discourses, written by Eminent Antiquaries		1652, Ulm, 1754?, 1720	GBP -	6.00
337	Maimbourg, Louis	The History of the League ... translated into English ... by Mr. Dryden		1684	GBP -	34.00
338	Mariana, Juan	De ponderibus et mensuris	Toledo	1599	GBP -	36.00
339	[Martyn, William	The Historie and Lives of the Kings of England], [Saluste du Bartas (Guillaume de) His Divine Weekes and Workes, translated by J. Sylvester]		1638	GBP -	14.00
340	Mawe, Thomas, John Abercrombie and others, Charles V, Bobbin, Tim	Every Man his own Gardener, (Duke of Lorraine) Political and Military Observations, Remarks and Maxims, Miscellany Poems on Moral Subjects, The Works		1791, 1699, 1750, 1862	GBP -	36.00
341	Melville, Sir James	The Memoires ... of the most remarkable affairs of state during the last age ... now published ... by George Scott		1683	GBP -	26.00
342	Middleton Conyers, Caraccioli L. A., Marquis de, Steele Richard, Mary, Kimber Isaac, Hayley William, Armstrong John	A letter from Rome, The life of Pope Clement XIV, The romish ecclesiastical history of late years, Synodis Anglicana: or, the constitution and proceedings of an English convocation, Queen of Scots. The genuine letters ... to James Earl of Bothwell, The li		1813, 1776, 1714, 1702, 1726, 1725, 1780, 1754	GBP -	19.00
343	Minsheu, John	Ductor in Linguas, The Guide into Tongues		1617	GBP -	65.00
344	Nalson, John	An Impartial Collection of the Great Affairs of State ... to the Murther of King Charles I, 2 vol.		1682-83	GBP -	44.00
345	Oldham, John	The Works ... together with his Remains, 4 parts in one vol.		1686 -84-87	GBP -	26.00
346	Paine, Thomas, Watson, R.	Letter addressed to the addressers of the late proclamation, A letter addressed to the ab Raynal on the affairs of North-America, Common sense addressed to the inhabitants of America, Rights of man, 2 parts in 1 vol., An apology for the Bible ... addresse		1792, 1792, 1792, 1792, 1796	GBP -	50.00
347	Palladius, Bishop of Aspona	Lausiaca quae dicitur historia, et Theodereti Episcopi Cyri ...	Paris	1555	GBP -	12.00
348		PENDRAGON; OR, THE CARPET KNIGHT HIS KALENDAR		1698	GBP -	38.00
349	Mr. Laurence Echard and others	Poetae Minores Graeci... observationes Radulphi Winterni in Hesiodum, Terentius Afer (P.) Terence's comedies made English ...	Cambridge	1677, Oct. 1705	GBP -	10.00
350	Prynne, William, Addison, Joseph, Jewel, John	The Second Part of a Brief Register and Survey of ... Parliamentary Writs, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c ... 1701, 1702, 1703, Aplogia Ecclesiae Anglicanae, last 2 advertisement leaves [Wing J733], Tertullian. Apologeticus ... accessit M. Minucii	Cambridge, Cambridge	1660, 1753, 1683, 1686	GBP -	5.00
351	R[oge]r L['Estrange]	Quevedo y Villegas (Francisco de) The Visions ... made English		1668	GBP -	18.00
352	Rabelais, Francois	The works, 4 vol.		1738	GBP -	21.00
353	Raffald, Elizabeth	The Experienced English Housekeeper		1780	GBP -	22.00
354	ROBERTSON, WILLIAM	Phraseologia Generalis... A Full, Large, and General Phrase Book, one vol. in 2 with continuous pagination and signatures	Cambridge	1681	GBP -	40.00
355	Ross, Alexander	IIANEBEIA: or, a View of all Religions in the World ... to which are annexed, The Lives, Actions, and Ends of Certain Notorious Here-ticks, 2 parts in one vol.		1655	GBP -	8.00
356	Ross, Alexander	IIANEBEIA: or, A View of all the Religions in the World. 2 parts in one vol.		1658	GBP -	14.00
357	Sacheverell, Henry, Atkyns, Sir Robert, Thomson, Richard, editor, Banks, T. C.	The speech upon his impeachment, A defence of the late Lord Russel's innocency ... together with An argument in the great case concerning election of members [Wing A4136], 2 parts in 1 vol., The whole trial of Col. Rob. Passingham and John Edwards for a c		1710, 1689, 1805, 1821, 1820, 1820	GBP -	14.00
358	Sagredo, Giovanni, or G. G. Vacalerio	Memorie Istoriche de Monarchi Ottomani		1674	GBP -	30.00
359	[Sandys, Sir Edwin]	Europae speculum or, a view or survey of the state of religion in the Westerne parts of the world		1629	GBP -	16.00
360	[SANDYS, Sir EDWIN] Europae Speculum	Or, A View or Survey of the State of Religion in the Westerne Parts of the World		1638	GBP -	26.00
361	Scapular, John, Gironda, Garcia	Lexicon Graeco-Latinum, Tractatus de Gabellus, [Decisiones Rotae Florentinae], 12 parts in 1 vol.		1615, 1710	GBP -	12.00
362	Skinner, Stephen	Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae		1671	GBP -	34.00
363	[Sorbière, Samuel]	Relation d'Un Voyage en Angleterre	Paris	1664	GBP -	22.00
364	[Sorbière, Samuel], Corraro, Angelo	Relation d'un Voyage en Angleterre, Relation de la Cour de Rome		1666, 1663	GBP -	18.00
365		Spectator (The), Auszug der Englischen Zuschauers nach einer neuen Ubersetzung, 8 vol. in 7	Berlin	1782-83	GBP -	11.00
366	SPELMAN, Sir HENRY	Glossarium Archaiologicum [with a preface by John Aubrey]		1687	GBP -	32.00
367	Spelman, Sir Henry	Reliquiae Spelmannianae. The Posthumous Works ... relating to the Laws and Antiquities of England	Oxford	1698	GBP -	44.00
368	Spenser, Edmund	The Works, 3 parts in one vol.		1679-78	GBP -	30.00
369	Taylor, Thomas	Christs Victorie over the Dragon: or Satans Downfall		1633	GBP -	5.00
370	Turner, J[ohn]	A Discourse on Fornication ... to which is added an Appendix concerning Concubinage		1698	GBP -	32.00
371	[Walpole, Horace]	The castle of Otranto, a gothic story translated by William Marshal. gent, from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto	Parma	1791	GBP -	28.00
372	Walton, Izaak	The Life of Dr. Sanderson, late Bishop of Lincoln ... to which is added some short tracts ... written by the said Bishop, 2 parts in one vol.		1678	GBP -	14.00
373	Weemes, John	[The Workes], 3 vol. in one		1636	GBP -	3.00
374	[Willet, Andrew]	Synopsis Papismi, that is, a general view of Papistrie		1614	GBP -	19.00
375	Abbott, John S. C. and Russell H. Conwell, Robinson, W., Beeton, Samuel Orchart, Wood, J. G., Clemens, Samuel S.	Lives of the Presidents of the United States of America, Hardy Flowers, Dictionary of Every-Day Gardening, Bird Life of the Bible, Natural History Rambles, Roughing it and the Innocents at Home, A Tramp Abroad		n.d., 1871, 1874, 1887, 1880-97, 1885, 1880	GBP -	38.00
376		Art-Journal (The), vol. XI only, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. II and IV only	New York	1849, 1850-52	GBP -	8.00
377	Bates, William	George Cruikshank ... a Critico-Bibliographical Essay	London and Birmingham	1879	GBP -	10.00
378	Beatte, William	Switzerland, vol. II only (of 2)		1836	GBP -	65.00
379	BEDA, VENERABILIS	The Complete Works, [edited] by J. A. Giles, 12 vol.		1843	GBP -	26.00
380		[Bible, Psalms, Greek] AATHPION TOY ABIA, [Book of Common Prayer, Greek] BIBAO: THE HMOIA EYKH	Cambridge, Cambridge	1664, 1665	GBP -	6.00
381	Bingham, Joseph	Origines Ecclesiasticae ... and other Works, [edited by J. R. Pitman], 9 vol.		1843-45	GBP -	1.00
382	Birch, W. de Gray, Tooke, John Horne, Evans, J., editor	Catalogue of a collection of Original Manuscripts formerly belonging to the... Inquisition in the Canary Isles and now in the possession of the Marquis of Bute, 2 vol., EEA TEPOENTA, or the Diversions of Purley, 2 vol., Proceedings (The) ... on the Trial	Edinburgh and London, rubbed, rubbed	1903, 1829, 1795, 1808	GBP -	19.00
383	Brandon, Raphael and J. Arthur, Hunt, T. F., Petit, J. L., Rickman, Thomas	An Analysis of Gothick Architecture, 2 vol., Exemplars of Tudor Architecture, Architectural Studies in France, An Attempt to discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England	Oxford and London	1874, 1830, 1854, 1862	GBP -	7.00
384	Brown, Cornelius, editor, Jeyes, S. H., Roberts, William, Stephens, W. R. W.	An Appreciative Life of... the Earl of Beacons-field, 2 vol., The Life and Times of... the Marquis of Salisbury, 3 vol. only (of 4), Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More, 4 vol., The Life and Letters of Walter Farquhar Hook, 2 vol.		1882, n.d., 1834, 1878	GBP -	20.00
385	Browne, Sir Thomas, Furnival, F. J., editor, Dante Alighieri	The Works, edited by Charles Sayle, 3 vol., The Fyrst Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge made by Andrew Borde [etc.], 1870; Queene Elizabethes Achademy, 1869, together 2 vol., The Divine Comedy, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 3 vol.		1904, 1867	GBP -	Not Sold
386	Britton, John, Clarke, Edward Daniel	The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, History and Antiquities of Lambeth Palace, Lambeth Palace illustrated by a Series of Views, Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, vol. I only (of 6)	rubbed	1814, n.d., n.d., 1810	GBP -	5.00
387	Bythner, Victorinus, Law, William, Locke, John, Orleans, F. J. d'	Lyra Prophetica Davidis Regis, The Spirit of Prayer, 2 parts in one vol., An Appeal to all that Doubt ... the Truths of the Gospel, The Reasonableness of Christianity, The History of the Revolutions in England ... 1603, to 1690		1650, 1773, 1742, 1731, 1711	GBP -	13.00
388		Clarendon (Edward [Hyde], Earl of) A Brief View and Survey of the Dangerous and Pernicious Errors ... in ... Leviathan	Oxford	1676	GBP -	19.00
389	Clark, Edwin	The Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges ... [edited by] Robert Stephenson, 2 vol. only (lacks the 4to vol. of plates)		1850	GBP -	28.00
390	Coates, Charles	The History and Antiquities of Reading		1802	GBP -	32.00
391	Cole, Timothy, Westlake, N. H. J., Hope, Thomas	Old Italian Masters ... with Historical Notes by W. J. Stillman, History of Design in Painted Glass, vol. I and II only (of 4), An Historical Essay on Architecture, vol. of plates only		1892, 1881-82, 1840	GBP -	2.00
392	Curtis, Charles B., editor, Wilson, Thomas	Rembrandt's Etchings, The Works [edited] by C. Cruttwell, 2 vol.		1889, 1781	GBP -	4.00
393	Dante Alighieri	The Vision of Purgatory and Paradise, translated by ... Henry Francis Cary, vol. II only (of 2)		c. 1877	GBP -	1.00
394	DUGDALE, SIR WILLIAM, AND R. DODSWORTH	Monasticon Anglicanum, 6 vol., vol. VI in 3 parts, bound in 8 vol.		1846	GBP -	115.00
395	Eliot, T. S.	Collected Poems, 1909-1935, Essays Ancient & Modern		1936, 1936	GBP -	32.00
396	Erasmus Roterodamus	D[esiderius] Opus de Conscribendis Epistolis		1556	GBP -	18.00
397	[Fitzgerald, Francis, pseud., i.e., Charles Taylor]	The Artist's Repository and Drawing Magazine, 3 vol. only (of 5)		c. 1788-94	GBP -	32.00
398	Victor Hugo, Dumas, Anatole France, Lamartine and others	French Literature. A collection of 102 volumes of French literature (with a few in German and Italian) by Victor Hugo, Dumas, Anatole France, Lamartine and others			GBP -	18.00
399	Goyau, Georges and H. Chéramy, Boutell, Charles, Marucchi, Horace, Lindsay, Courts, Lord	Le Visage de Rome Chrétienne, Christian Monuments in England and Wales, Guides des Catacombes Romaines, Sketches of the History of Christian Art, 2 vol.	Paris and Rome	1926, 1854, 1903	GBP -	2.00
400	Grace, W. G.	Cricket	Bristol and London	1891	GBP -	54.00

Bonhams, June 14-23: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presentation Gold Pocket Watch. Estimate: $20,000 - 30,000

Bonhams, June 14-23: Presentation Copy of the First Issue of the Lincoln Douglas Debates Signed by Abraham Lincoln in Pencil to a Sangamon County Illinois Republican. Estimate: $150,000 - 250,000

Bonhams, June 14-23: A Senate Resolution Signed in the Tense Days After the Union's Humiliating Defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run. Estimate: $80,000 - $120,000

Bonhams, June 14-23: Seven Passages to a Flight, an Artists Book with a Story Quilt by Faith Ringgold, the Publisher's Own Copy. Estimate: $80,000 - 120,000

Bonhams, June 14-23: A New Charter for Virginia, A Response to the First Armed Rebellion in the American Colonies. Estimate: $15,000 - 25,000

Bonhams, June 14-23: Earliest obtainable printing of the Bill of Rights. Estimate: $8,000 - 12,000

Bonhams, June 14-23: Edward Curtis Orotone. Estimate: $7,000 - 9,000

Bonhams, June 14-23: Owned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Butter or Dessert Plate from FDR's State Dinner Service. Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000

Bonhams, June 14-23: An Early Large-Format Plan of the City of Washington. Estimate: $1,500 - 2,500

Bonhams, June 14-23: Containing the First Map to Name the Hudson River. Estimate: $20,000 - 30,000

Bonhams, June 14-23: America's First Major Novelist, a Complete Chapter in Autograph Manuscript by James Fenimore Cooper. Estimate: $15,000 - 20,000

Bonhams, June 14-23: The Only Full-Length Book by Jefferson, with the Justly Famous Map. Estimate: $12,000 - 18,000
Sotheby's Book Week
2 June - 9 July

Sotheby’s, June 25: Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations, on its 250th anniversary. $180,000 to $250,000.

Sotheby’s, June 17: Fontana, Lucio. Concetto Spaziale. 1967. Leporello en papier doré. Bel exemplaire signé. €4,000 to $€,000.

Sotheby’s, June 25: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”. $150,000 to $200,000.

Sotheby’s, June 25: Washington, George (as First President). Washington decries “an ostentatious imitation, or mimickry of Royalty” in his Presidency. $250,000 to $500,000.

Sotheby’s, June 17: Lope de Vega. Rare manuscrit autographe signé de la préface dédicatoire de "El Cardenal de Belen" (le cardinal de Bethléem), pièce composée en 1610. €40,000 to €60,000.
June 23rd, 24th & 25th 2026

Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Medical Incunabula: Petit (Jean)publisher & Kerver (Thielman)printer. Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum, sm. 8vo, Paris [1498]

Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Hugo (Victor) [Wraxall (Lascelles)]. Les Miserable, 3 vols., 8vo, L. (Hurst & Blackett) 1862, First Authorized English Translation (copyright).

Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft). Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus, 8vo, 2 vols. in one, L. (G. & W.B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria-Lane) 1823.

June 23rd, 24th & 25th 2026

Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Cuisine: Anon. Cookery, Pastry, and Sweet Meats in three Books, Alphabetically Digested, 8vo 1710.

Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Lambert (Aylmer Bourke). A Description of the Genus Pinus, with Directions Relative to the Cultivation…, 2 vols. Sm. folio L. (Messrs. Weddell) 1832.

Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Botany: Curtis (William). Flora Londinensis: or Plates and Descriptions of such Plants as Grow Wild in the Environs of London, 2 vols. folio, London (B. White) 1777 – 1798.

June 23rd, 24th & 25th 2026

Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Le Moire (J.M.) Maple Leaves, Canadian History and Quebec Scenery (Third Series) 8vo Quebec (Hunter, Rose & Co.) 1865. First Edn.

Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: The Earliest Extant Printed House Contents Sale Catalogue in Ireland: Baillie, Auctioneer, Abby Street. A Catalogue of the Goods and Stock of the late Edward Wingfield…

Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: William III King of England. Autograph Letter Signed ("William R") to an unnamed correspondent [possibly Charles-Henri de Lorraine] discussing his strategy against the French forces during the siege of Namur.

June 23rd, 24th & 25th 2026

Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: [Austen (Jane) (1785-1817]. Pride and Prejudice, 3 vols. sm. 8vo, L. (T. Egerton) 1813.

Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Heaney (Seamus). Ugolino, sm. folio D. (Dolmen) 1979, Limited Edn. No. 78/125 Copies, Signed by Seamus Heaney, Louis le Brocquy, Liam Miller and Andrew Carpenter.

Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Voltaire (F.M. Avouet de). Petits Ouvrages, attribues a M. de Voltaire, sm. folio manuscript, dated 1776, containing 9 works.