• Sotheby’s
    Fine Books & Manuscripts
    June 24-25
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Keats, John. The most significant collection of Keats’s love letters to come to market since 1885. $1,500,000 to $2,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Chassériau, Benoît. The “Expedicion secreta” of the Free State of Cartagena de Indias against the forts of Portobelo (Panama). $50,000 to $70,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 25: (Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison, and John Jay). "One of the new nation's most important contributions to the theory of government”. $150,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin. "the Day of the Declaration of Independence is everywhere annually celebrated". $80,000 to $120,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: (Johann Conrad Beissel). A Sammelband of two of Benjamin Franklin's rarest imprints. $70,000 to $100,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 25: [Pernambuco]. First printed work in favor of Brazilian Independence. $150,000 to $200,000.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.

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
401 Aquinas, Thomas, Saint, Bailey, Henry Ives, Randolph John Gregory the Great (Pope) Morals on the Book of Job, 3 vol. in 4, Catena Aurea, 4 vol. in 6, The Liturgy compared with the Bible, 2 vol., Enchiridion Theologicum, or a Manual, for the Use of Students in Divinity, 2 vol. Oxford, Oxford, Oxford

1844-50, 1841-45, 1835, 1812

GBP - 10.00
402 HALL JOSEPH The Works, 12 vol. Oxford

1837

GBP - 26.00
403 Heber, Reginald, Kaye, John William Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India, 3 vol., Lives of Indian Officers, 2 vol.

1828

GBP - 22.00
404 Home, George, Hall, Robert, Jones, William, Paley, William The Works, [edited] by William Jones, 6 vol., The Works, 6 vol., The Theological and Miscellaneous Works, [edited] by William Stevens, 6 vol., The Complete Works, [edited] by Robert Lynam, 4 vol.

1809, 1855, 1810, 1825

GBP - 12.00
405 Rogers, W. H. Hamilton, Butler, Alfred J. Instrumenta Ecclesiastica, edited by the Ecclesiological ... Society, The Antient Sepulchral Effigies and Monumental and Memorial Sculpture of Devon, The Ancient Coptic Churches of Egypt, 2 vol. Oxford

1847, 1877, 1884

GBP - 12.00
406 James, G. P. R., Lamartine, A[lphonse] de, Strickland, Agnes, Ranke, Leopold The Life and Times of Louis the Fourteenth, 4 vol., Histoire des Girondins, 4 vol., Lives of the Queens of England, 8 vol., The History of the Popes ... translated by E. Foster, 3 vol.

1838, 1847, 1844-45, 1885-86

GBP - 10.00
407 Johnston, Sir Harry H. British Central Africa

1897

GBP - 32.00
408 Johnston, Sir Harry, H. Liberia, 2 vol.

1906

GBP - 35.00
409 JOHNSTON, Sir HARRY H. The Uganda Protectorate, 2 vol.

1902

GBP - 35.00
410 John Ashton Legendary History (The) of the Cross. A Series of sixty-four woodcuts from a Dutch book published by Veldener ... 1483, with an introduction ...

1887

GBP - 2.00
411 Lyell, Sir Charles, Cudworth, Ralph, Martineau, James The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, vol. I-III only (of 4), Types of Ethical Theory, 2 vol. Oxford

1863, 1820, 1898

GBP - 13.00
412 MACPHERSON, DAVID Annals of Commerce, Manufactures, Fisheries, and Navigation, 4 vol.

1805

GBP - 75.00
413 Milner, Joseph, Burn, Richard, Farrar, Frederick W., Le Courayer, Pierre Francois The History of the Church of Christ, 5 vol., The End of Religious Controversy, 2 parts, A Postscript to the ... Address to the ... Bishop of St. David's, 1819, 2 works in one vol., Ecclesiastical Law, 4 vol., The Early Days of Christianity, 2 vol., A Defe

1816, 1818, 1809, 1882, 1725

GBP - 10.00
414 [Montagu, Henry, Earl of] Manchester Manchester al Mondo. Contem-platio Mortis & Immortalitatis

1638

GBP - 3.00
415 Morrice, Matthias, Trench, Richard Chevenix, Buckland, William, Spencer, Herbert Social Religion exemplified in an Account of the First Settlement of Christianity in the City of Caerludd, Notes on the Parables [and Miracles] of Our Lord, 2 vol., Geology and Min eralogy considered with reference to Natural Theology, 2 vol. (being treat

1786, 1874, 1836, 1863

GBP - 11.00
416 Lewis, John New Testament, Polyglot. Le Nouveau Testament... The New Testament ... Het Nieuwe Testament, A Complete History of the Several Translations of the Holy Bible ... into English, Catechismus Romanus, ex Decreto Concilii Tridentini ... studio & industria Andr Amsterdam, Antwerp

1684, 1739, 1619

GBP - 12.00
417 Pearce, F. B., Johnston, Sir Harry H., Portal, Sir Gerald Zanzibar, The Story of My Life, The British Mission to Uganda in 1893 worn

1920, 1923, 1894

GBP - 22.00
418 E. A. Wallis Budge Philoxenus (Bishop of Mabbogli) The Discourses ... with an English translation by E. A. Wallis Budge, 2 vol.

1894

GBP - 11.00
419 Pollard, Alfred W. Italian Book Illustrations

1894

GBP - 16.00
420 Pusey, E. B., Keble, John, Newman, John Henry, Manning, Henry Edward The Church of England leaves her Children Free to whom to open their Griefs. A Letter to ... W. U. Richards, God's Prohibition of the Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister, An Argument against immediately repealing the Laws which treat the Nuptial Bond a Oxford, Oxford and London, Oxford and London, Oxford

1850, 1860, 1867, 1857, 1842-45, 1848-50

GBP - 38.00
421 Quarterly Theological Review (The), vol. II-IV only (of 4) British Critic (The), Quarterly Theological Review and Ecclesiastical Record Bampton Lectures. A collection of 29 volumes by various authors

1825-26, 1827-41

GBP - 2.00
422 Ramée, Louise de la, Barham, Richard Held in Bondage ... by Ouida The Ingoldsby Legends and 20 other volumes

1870, c. 1870

GBP - 7.00
423 Rawlinson, George The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World, 3 vol. The Sixth Great Oriental Monarchy The Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy

1873, 1873, 1876

GBP - 22.00
424 Robinson, P. F. Designs for Farm Buildings

1837

GBP - 10.00
425 Ruskin, John Modern Painters, 5 vol. The Seven Lamps of Architecture The Art of England

1857-60, 1855, 1893

GBP - 12.00
426 Savage, James The Librarian, nos. 1-19 in 3 vol. (all published, no. 19 being the first number of vol. IV)

1808- 10

GBP - 34.00
427 [Scott, Sir Walter] Waverley Novels, 46 vol. only (of 48, lacks vol. VII & VIII) Edinburgh

1851

GBP - 22.00
428 Walcott, Mackenzie E. C., Gordon, J. F. S. Scottish Highlands (The). Highland Clans and Highland Regiments, 8 vol. Scoti-Monasticon. The Ancient Church of Scotland Ecclesiastical Chronicle for Scotland Edinburgh, Edinburgh

n.d., 1874, 1875

GBP - 2.00
429 Sévigné, Marie Marquise de, Massillon, J. B. Lettres, 12 vol. Paris, Besançon

1823, 1822

GBP - 15.00
430 SKELTON, JOSEPH Oxonia Antiqua Restaurata, 2 vol. Oxford

1823

GBP - 130.00
431 Smith, William, editor, Vincent, Benjamin, Frey, Joseph Samuel C. F. A Dictionary of the Bible, 3 vol. Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information A Hebrew, Latin, and English Dictionary, 2 vol., and 6 similar volumes

1863, 1889, 1815

GBP - 14.00
432 Smith, William, editor Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, and Mythology, 3 vol.

1844-49

GBP - 11.00
433 Spottiswoode, John The History of the Church of Scotland

1655

GBP - 5.00
434 J. H. Newman, E. B. Pusey and others Tracts for the Times [by J. H. Newman, E. B. Pusey and others], 7 vol. including: Newman (John Henry) Tracts for the Times, no. 90 A Letter to the ... Bishop of Oxford on occasion of no. 90 A Letter ... to ... R. W. Jelf ... in explanation of no. Oxford, Oxford

1841, 1841, 1841

GBP - 24.00
435 Trevelyan, George Otto, Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Lord, Carlyle, Thomas The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, 2 vol. Critical and Historical Essays, contributed to the Edinburgh Review [Works]

1876, n.d. and 1874

GBP - 21.00
436 Virgilius Maro, P[ublius], Dindorf, Wilhelm, editor, Nisard, J. M. A. and M. L. C, editors] [Opera, edited by] Chr. Gottl. Heyne, 4 vol. Poetarum Scenicorum Graecorum Collection des Auteurs Latins], 15 vol. (only ?) Leipzig, Leipzig, Paris

1803, 1868, 1839-46

GBP - 13.00
437 Warton, Thomas, Southey, Robert The History of English Poetry, 4 vol. Vindiciae Ecclesiae Anglicanae. Letters to Charles Butler

1824

GBP - 21.00
438 [Watson], Thomas, Bishop of Lincoln Holsome and Catholyke Doctryne concerninge the Seuen Sacramentes

February 1558

GBP - 11.00
439 WEEVER, JOHN Ancient Funerall Monuments

1631

GBP - 22.00
440 Wilberforce, Robert Isaac and Samuel, Wilberforce, Samuel The Life of William Wilberforce, 5 vol. Essays contributed to the 'Quarterly Review', 2 vol.

1838, 1874

GBP - 16.00
441 Wild Flowers

n.d.

GBP - 16.00
442 Worcester, Edward Somerset Marquis of) A Century of the Names and Scantlings of ... Inventions Glasgow

1767

GBP - 14.00
443 BARCLAY, JAMES A Complete and Universal Dictionary Bungay

1823

GBP - 30.00
444 BRITTON, J. AND E. W. BRAYLEY DEVONSHIRE & CORNWALL ILLUSTRATED, from Original Drawings by Thomas Allom, W. H. Bartlett, &c

1832

GBP - 82.00
445 Byron, George Gordon, Lord The Poetical Works

1839

GBP - 5.00
446 Earhart, John F. The Color Printer

1892

GBP - 35.00
447 GASTINEAU, HENRY, illustrator [North and South] Wales Illustrated, 2 parts in one vol.

1829

GBP - 78.00
448 Hind, C. Lewis, Holme, Charles, editor, Green, Julian Turner's Golden Visions The Genius of J. M. W. Turner The Studio The Pilgrim on the Earth

1910, 1903, 1929

GBP - 11.00
449 Jane, Fred T. All the World's Aircraft 1935 ... edited by C. G. Grey and Leonard Bridgman

1935

GBP - 5.00
450 Mascou, John Jacob The History of the Ancient Germans ... translated into English by Thomas Lediard, 2 vol.

1738

GBP - 16.00
451 PARDOE, JULIA, BEATTIE, WILLIAM THE BEAUTIES OF THE BOSPHORUS from Drawings by William Bartlett

n.d., n.d.

GBP - 100.00
452 Pilkington, M[atthew] The Gentleman's and Connoisseur's Dictionary of Painters

1770

GBP - 7.00
453 Ridpath, George, Berington, Joseph, Long, George The Border-History of England and Scotland ... revised ... by the author's brother, Mr. Philip Ridpath A Literary History of the Middle Ages France and its Revolutions

1776, 1814, 1850

GBP - 15.00
454 Roberts, Emma [Views in India, China, and on the Shores of the Red Sea], 2 vol.

1835

GBP - 18.00
455 Sparrow, Walter Shaw, Elliott, John Malsbury Kirby British Sporting Artists Fifty Years' Fox-Hunting

1922, 1900

GBP - 28.00
456 Surtees, R. S., D'Avigdor, Elim, Fair Diana Handley Cross; Plain or Ringlets?; Hawbuck Grange; Ask Mamma; Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour; Mr. Romford's Hounds, together 6 vol.

n.d., 1882

GBP - 65.00
457 Tarbuck, Edward Lance The Encyclopaedia of Practical Carpentry and Joinery Leipzig and Dresden and London

1857-59

GBP - 40.00
458 Tissot, J. James, Moore, Thomas, Libonis, L. The Life of Our Saviour Jesus Christ, 2 vol. Memoirs of the Life of... Sheridan Les Styles Francais Paris

n.d., 1825, n.d.

GBP - 2.00
459 [Anstey, Christopher], Montagu, Elizabeth, Smith, Elizabeth The new Bath guide An essay on ... Shakespeare Elegant Extracts: or, useful and entertaining pieces of poetry

1766, 1785, 1801, 1818

GBP - 11.00
460 Beckett Samuel Proust

1931

GBP - 18.00
461 Billets in the Low Countries 1814-1817 in a series of letters

1818

GBP - 26.00
462 CAMDEN SOCIETY. Publications

GBP - 35.00
463 Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (The), New Series, vol. I--XIV New York

1882-88

GBP - 14.00
464 Crane, Walter The Baby's Opera, (n.d.); The Baby's own Aesop

1887

GBP - 21.00
465 Cruikshank, Isaac, Robert, and George The Cruikshankian Momus ... Pictorial Broadsides and Humorous Song-Headings

1892

GBP - 38.00
466 Dali, Salvador Metamorphosis of Narcissus: English Translation by Francis Scar[f]e New York

1937

GBP - 11.00
467 Dickens, Charles Dombey and Son, FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 19/20 PARTS

October 1846-April 1848

GBP - 22.00
468 Dickens, Charles Dombey and Son, parts 1, 7-20 only (of 20, with duplicates of parts 9, 12, 15, 18) Nicholas Nickleby, parts 3, 5-11, 13, 15, 19-20 only (of 20, with a duplicate of part 8) and parts 10 and 17 of "Martin Chuzzlewit", 4 and 9 of "Bleak House" and part 5 of

1846-48, 1839

GBP - 32.00
469 Dickens, Charles, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dickens, Charles and others Master Humphrey's Clock, 3 vol. Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions: The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round ...

1840-41, 1844, 1865, 1863, 1863

GBP - 19.00
470 Dickens, Charles The Mystery of Edwin Drood

"Thursday Sept. 19, 1853, April-September 1870

GBP - 50.00
471 [Dickens, Charles] Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress, 3 vol.

1838

GBP - 50.00
472 Eyre, Lieut. Vincent, Russell, M., Duncan, William, Penn, Granville The military operations at Cabul ... January 1842 Shipwreck (The) of the Alceste ... the shipwreck of the Medusa The elements of logick The bioscope, or dial of life Edinburgh, Dublin

1843, n.d., 1822, 1759, 1814

GBP - 20.00
473 Greenaway, Kate Almanack for 1883

1882

GBP - 12.00
474 Greenaway, Kate A day in a child's life

1881

GBP - 13.00
475 Greenaway, Kate Language of flowers

1884

GBP - 13.00
476 Greenaway, Kate Under the window

1879

GBP - 15.00
477 Harper's, New Monthly Magazine, vol.

1885-92

GBP - 12.00
478 [HOLLAR, WENCESLAUS] Ornatus muliebris anglicanus, or the severall habits of English

post 1800

GBP - 20.00
479 Holz, Arno Phantasus Leipzig

1916

GBP - 2.00
480 Janin, Jules, editor Chefs-d'oeuvre dramatiques du XVIIIe siècle Album des types et costumes de tous les peuples Paris, Paris

1872, 1869

GBP - 7.00
481 Liverpool Mercury (The), or Commercial, Literary, and Political Herald; a Weekly Paper, no. 210-261, in 1 vol. Liverpool

July 7, 1815-June 28, 1816

GBP - 32.00
482 Maceroni, Francis Defensive instructions for the people: containing the new and improved combination of arms, called Foot Lancers

1834

GBP - 26.00
483 Mayhew, Henry and A. S. Acting charades

1852

GBP - 36.00
484 Montgomery, James The Abolition of the Slave Trade, a Poem

1814

GBP - 36.00
485 Nicholson, G., Goldsmith, O., Jones, T. R., Thompson, R. The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening, 4 vol. A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 5 vol. The Gardener's Assistant

1885-88, 1874-75, c. 1870, 1859

GBP - 48.00
486 Omar Khayyam, Cleland, John, Donne, John The Rubáiádt ... done into English from the French of J. B. Nicolas by Frederick Baron Corvo Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, edited by John Hayward New York

1903, 1926, 1929

GBP - 15.00
487 Oxberry's Dramatic Biography and Histrionic Anecdotes Virtue, Buncombe, Virtue

1825-26, 1826, 1827

GBP - 5.00
488 PAPWORTH, JOHN B. RURAL RESIDENCES consisting of a series of designs for cottages, decorated cottages, small villas, and other ornamental buildings

1818

GBP - 170.00
489 Ramsay, David, Berkely, Grantley F., Celliez, A. The life of George Washington Anecdotes of the upper ten thousand, 2 vol. Scenes de l'histoire contemporaine Paris

1807, 1867, n.d.

GBP - 6.00
490 Ruskin, John Stray Letters ... to a London Bibliopole [F. S. Ellis], FIRST EDITION, [ONE OF 33 COPIES ON HAND-MADE PAPER OF AN EDITION OF 40 COPIES ONLY]

1892

GBP - 22.00
491 Sade, Francois-Donatien-Alphonse, Marquis de, Sue, Eugene Justine ou les infortunes de la vertu Les mystères de Paris, 4 vol. Paris, Brussels

1949, 1844

GBP - 14.00
492 Scribner's Magazine New York

1887-89

GBP - 25.00
493 Shakespeare, William [Works], The National Shakespeare. A Fac-simile of the Text of the First Folio of 1623. Illustrated by Sir J. Noël Paton Edinburgh and Dublin

1904

GBP - 5.00
494 Shakespeare, William [Works], The National Shakespeare. A Facsimile of the Text of the First Folio of 1623. Illustrated by Sir J. Noel Paton, 3 vol., another copy Edinburgh and Dublin

1904

GBP - 18.00
495 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM THE WORKS ... edited by Herbert Farjeon, 7 vol.

1929-33

GBP - 100.00
496 Smith, Albert, Richard The Struggles and Adventures of Christopher Tadpole

1846-48

GBP - 5.00
497 Sterne, Laurence Voyage Sentimentale en France et en Italie [translated by] Emile Blémont, number 44 of 100 copies on papier du Japon of an Edition de Grand Luxe limited to 200 copies with a double set of plates, proofs before letters Paris

1884

GBP - 12.00
498 Strutt, Joseph, Kelly, Christopher, Lowe, E. J. The Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of England A Full and Circumstantial Account of the Memorable Battle of Waterloo Beautiful Leaved Plants

1777, 1817

GBP - 20.00
499 Summers, Montague The vampire, 1928; The vampire in Europe, 1929

GBP - 10.00
500 Summers, Montague, Scott, Temple, editor, Swinburne, A. C., Conrad, Joseph Restoration Comedies Lord Chesterfield and his Letters to His Sons Mary Stuart: a tragedy

1921, 1929, 1881, 1881, 1923

GBP - 22.00
  • 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
  • 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.