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.
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.
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

Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS., 05Nov1934,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 05, 1934 - November 05, 1934

Page Size: 904 items in 10 pages

Auction Lot Books
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	Aristophanes; Plato; Freere, J. H. Comedies, with translations, etc. by B. B. Rogers	The Republic	Cambridge	1874, 1920; 1902-16	GBP -	3.15
102	Aristophanes; Homer; F. Susemihl and R. D. Hicks; W. J. M. Starkie; W. Leaf	Aristotle. Politics. Books 1 to 5, notes etc. The Clouds, with Translation. The Iliad, 2 vol.		1894; 1886; 1911	GBP -	2.50
103	Athenaeus; Quintilianus, M. F.	Deipnosophistas, ed J. Schweighaeuser. De Institutione Oratoria	Parisiis	1801-2; 1821	GBP -	1.50
104	Aulard, A.; De Stael, La Barronne; Barrot, O.	The French Revolution. Considerations sur La Revolution Françoise. Mémoires, 3 vol.	Paris	1819; 1875; 1910	GBP -	2.20
105	Bagwell, R.; Hume, M. A. S.	Ireland under the Tudors. The Year after the Armada		1885	GBP -	4.10
106	Bailly	Mémoires, 3 vol.	Paris	1821; 1832	GBP -	1.12
107	Barker, E.; Nilsson, M. P.; Sandys J. E.	Greek Political Theory. Imperial Rome. A History of Classical Scholarship	Cambridge	1903; 1918; 1926	GBP -	2.15
108	Barras, P.; Dulaure, J. A.	Mémoires, 4 vol., Equisses Historiques des principaux evénemens de la Révolution Française	Paris	1825; 1895	GBP -	0.15
109	Barruel, L'Abbé; Soulavie, J. L.	Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire du Jacob-inisme. Mémoires Historiques et Politiques du regne de Louis XVI	Paris	1797; 1801	GBP -	1.00
110	Baskerville; Terentius; Plautus	Foulis Presses, etc. Catullus. Co-moedia. Comoediae	Glasgow	1772; 1774; 1763	GBP -	2.00
111	Bayley, H.; Looney, J. T.	The Shakespeare Symphony. Shakespeare Identified		1902; 1906; 1920	GBP -	1.10
112	Bertius, P.; Alciatus, A.	Tabularum Geographicarum. Emblemata	Lugduni	1614; 1616	GBP -	2.00
113	Boccaccio; Pignotti L.; De Retz, Cardinal	Il Decameron. Storia delia Toscana. Mémoires	Firenze; Amsterdam	1718; 1725; 1821	GBP -	1.50
114	Bolingbroke, H. St. J., Lord Viscount	Philosophical Works		1754	GBP -	Not Sold
115	Bonnefons, P. Amable	Le Catechisme Royal	Paris	1647; 1729; 1771	GBP -	4.10
116	Bousset, C.; Sanson, H. Sismondi, J. C. L.	Histoire de Louvois. Mémoires des Sanson. Histoire des Républiques Italiennes	Paris	1840; 1862	GBP -	1.10
117	Brantome, Seigneur de; Scarron, M.; Moliere	Memoires, 9 vol., Oeuvres. Oeuvres	Leyde; La Haye; Amsterdam; Paris; Londres	1666; 1700; 1740; 1752; 1784	GBP -	2.15
118	Butler, S.	The Authoress of the Odyssey		1897	GBP -	2.20
119	Caesar; Ovid	Commentarii. Opera, D. Heinsius recen-suit	C. Plantin	1574; 1629; 1640	GBP -	1.12
120	Calprenède, Costes de lu	Cleopatre, 9 parts	Paris	1653	GBP -	0.05
121	A. W. Ward	Cambridge Modern History edited by A. W. Ward and others		1902-12	GBP -	4.00
122	Cayet, V.; Barueth, J.; Boileau Despreaux	Histoire de la Guerre sous le regne du trois Christien Roy de France et de Navarre. Historie der Princen van Orange. Le Lutrin	Paris	1608; 1765; 1780; 1789	GBP -	1.80
123		Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature by D. Patrick			GBP -	0.15
124	Charlton, W.	Natural History of Nutrition		1659	GBP -	1.50
125		Choix de Rapports	Paris	1818-22	GBP -	1.00
126	Cicero; Plutarch	Opera ex P. Victorii castigationibus. Opera quae extant, cum Latina interpretatione		1540; 1572	GBP -	1.60
127	Cicero	Correspondence, text with Commentary by R. Y. Tyrrell	Cambridge	1885-97; 1910	GBP -	3.30
128		Collection de Pieces Intéressantes sur les grands Evenemens de l'Histoire de France pendant les années 1789-1791	Paris	1801	GBP -	0.10
129		Collection des Mémoires relatifs à l'Histoire de France avec des notices etc.	Paris	1824	GBP -	1.40
130	Creighton, M.; Lecky W. E. H.	History of the Papacy; Rise and Influence of Rationalism, etc.		1897; 1872-1904	GBP -	1.15
131	Croiset, M.; Denis, J.	Histoire de la Littérature Grecque; La Comédie Grecque	Paris	1886; 1896-99	GBP -	3.30
132	De Bure, G. F.; Willems, A.	Bibliographie Instructive; Les Elzevirs	Paris; Bruxelles	1763-8; 1857; 1880	GBP -	1.10
133	De Molleville, Bertrand; Dumas, Comte M.; Collé, Charles	Mémoires Secrets pour servir à l'Histoire de la dernière année du règne de Louis XVI; Souvenirs; Journal et Mémoirs	Paris	1797; 1839; 1868	GBP -	2.50
134	Dodsley, R.	A Collection of Poems by several hands		1758	GBP -	0.05
135	Douglas, Norman	Fountains in the Sand		1912	GBP -	0.05
136	Jacchaeus, G.; Aulus Gellius	Elzevir Press. Virgilius Opera; Institutiones Physicae; Noctes Atticae		1636; 1644; 1651; 1671	GBP -	1.10
137	Aitken, G. A.	English Dramatists; Life of Richard Steele		1889	GBP -	1.10
138	Firth, C. H.; Craik, Sir Henry	The Last Years of the Protectorate; The Life of Edward		1909; 1911	GBP -	1.10
139	Gaillard, M.	Histoire de Charlemagne, etc.	Paris	1819	GBP -	0.12
140	Gardiner, S. R.; Gasquet, F. A.	History of England; Henry VIII and the English Monasteries		1895; 1900-1899	GBP -	2.10
141	Greville, C. C. F.	Journal of the Reigns of King George IV		1818-1860; 1875-87	GBP -	0.05
142	Gribble, F.; D'Ambès, Baron	The Tragedy of Isabella II; Intimate Memoirs of Napoleon III		1912; 1913	GBP -	0.05
143	Hall, Mr. and Mrs.; Wack, H. W.; Vincent, J. E.	The Book of the Thames; In Thames Land; The Story of the Thames		n. d; 1906; 1909	GBP -	1.15
144	Hume, Martin; Sichel, W.; Chamberlin, F.	The Love Affairs of Mary Queen of Scots; Emma Lady Hamilton; The Sayings of Queen Elizabeth		1903; 1905; 1923	GBP -	0.15
145	Jebb, R. C.; Zimmern, A.; Dill, S.	The Attic Orators; The Greek Commonwealth; Roman Society in the last century of the Western Empire	Oxford	1876; 1898; 1924	GBP -	3.10
146	Lang, Andrew; Thompson, C. J. S.	Pickle the Spy; Mysteries of History		1897; 1901; 1927	GBP -	1.80
147	Lefeuve; Diño, Duchesse de	Les Anciennes Maisons de Paris sous Napoleon III; Chronique de 1831 à 1862	Paris	1873; 1909	GBP -	0.15
148	Lenotre, G.; Carlyle, T.	Memoires et Souvenirs sur La Revolution et L'Empire; The French Revolution	Paris	1907-8; 1910	GBP -	3.15
149	L'Estoille, Pierre de	Journal de Henri Roy de France et de Pologne		1720; 1744	GBP -	0.05
150	Livy; Aristotle	Les Concions et Harengues traduit en François par I. de Amelin; Artis Rhetoricae	Paris	1567; 1606	GBP -	1.12
151		Loeb Classical Library		1913-28	GBP -	5.10
152		Louis XVL Recueil complet des Opinions prononcées à l'Assemblée conventionelle dans le Procès de Louis XVI	Paris	1799	GBP -	1.20
153	Lytton, E. G. Bulwer, Lord	Devereux, 3 vol.		1829; 1830; 1834; 1835; 1837	GBP -	Not Sold
154	Mahan, Capt. A. T.	The Influence of Sea Power on History		1890; 1893	GBP -	1.00
155	Marbot, Baron de; Thiebault, General; Méneval, Baron C. F.	Mémoires, 3 vol.; Mémoires; Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de Napoléon I	Paris	1892; 1894; 1896	GBP -	7.15
156	Martin, J.; Pollard, A. W.	Bibliographical Catalogue of Privately Printed Books; Old Picture Books		1854; 1902	GBP -	1.20
157		Mémoires relatifs à la Revolution Française avec un Introduction par F. Grille	Paris	1822-5	GBP -	0.10
158	Meredith, Geo.; Chatterton, E. K.	Novels; King's Cutters and Smugglers		1886-7; 1912	GBP -	0.12
159	Mirabeau; D'Abrantes, Madame La Duchesse	Lettres Originales; Mémoires	Paris	1792; 1819; 1831	GBP -	1.10
160	Moliere; Scarron	Oeuvres; Oeuvres	Amsterdam; Paris	1668-75; 1684	GBP -	3.10
161	Mommerqué, M.; Lanfrey, P.	Mémoires de Tallement des Réaux; Histoire de Napoléon I	Paris	n. d.;1870	GBP -	2.10
162	Monstrelet	Chronicles translated by T. Johnes		1810	GBP -	0.05
163	Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley; Paston, G.	Letters and Works; Mr. Pope and his Times		1893; 1909	GBP -	0.12
164	Mortimer-Ternaux; Chuquet, A.; Lenz, M.	Histoire de La Terreur; La Jeunesse de Napoléon; Napoleon	Paris	1792-94; 1862; 1898; 1909	GBP -	1.00
165	Muir, Sir William; Cutts, E. L.; Martins, J. P. O.	The Caliphate, its Rise; Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages; The Golden Age of Prince Henry the Navigator		n. d.; 1914; 1925	GBP -	2.00
166	Bourrienne	Napoléon Bonaparte	Paris	1809; 1831	GBP -	0.10
167	Batjin, N.; Sloane, W. M.	Napoleon. Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de France sous Napoléon; Histoire de l'Empereur Napoléon; Life of Napoleon		1823; 1867; 1911	GBP -	0.15
168	Oman, C.; Napier, Sir W. F. P.	History of the Peninsular War; History of the War in the Peninsula	Oxford	n. d.; 1902	GBP -	0.10
169	Owen, J.; Hering, R. von; Hume, M.	The Skeptics of the Italian Renaissance; The Evolution of the Aryan; Queens of Old Spain		1893; 1897; 1906	GBP -	1.18
170	Petrarch, F.	Sonnetti et Canzoni	Paris; Berlin	1514; 1688; 1746	GBP -	4.00
171	Piron, Alexis; Rabutin, R. De, Comte de Bussy	Œuvres Complettes; Lettres	Paris; Amsterdam	1731; 1776	GBP -	0.15
172	Plutarch	Opera Moralia	Oxonii	1795	GBP -	1.40
173	Quérard, J. M.; Lewine, J.	Les Supercheries Littéraire Dwevoilées; Biblio graphy of Eighteenth Century Art and Illustrated Books	Paris	1869-70; 1898	GBP -	0.10
174	Rabelais, F.; Everitt, G.	Works, illustrated by W. Heath Robinson; English Caricaturists of the 19th Century		n. d; 1893	GBP -	0.05
175	Renouard, A. A.; Firmin-Didot, A.	Annales de l'Imprimerie des Alde; Alde Manuce et l'Hellénisme de Venice	Paris	1825; 1875	GBP -	2.20
176	Rhetores Graeci	edidit C. Walz	Stuttgartiae	1832-6	GBP -	0.12
177	Roland, Madame; Mirabeau, Comte de; Fain	Appel a l'Impartiale Posterité; Correspondence et de Comte de la Marck; Manuscrit de Mil huit cent treize	Paris	1795; 1824; 1851	GBP -	0.08
178	Rose, J. H.; Houssaye, H.; Masson, F.	Life of Napoleon I; Waterloo; Joséphine, Imperatrice et Reine	Paris	1898; 1899; 1902	GBP -	0.18
179	Rose, J. H.	William Pitt		1911	GBP -	0.10
180	Round, J. H.; Vickers, K. H.; Ryan, P. F. W.	Geoffrey de Mandeville; Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester; Stuart Life and Manners		1892; 1907; 1912	GBP -	2.10
181	Round, J. H.; Davis, H. W. C.; Innés, A. D.	The Commune of London; England under the Nor mans; England under the Tudors		1899; 1905; 1909; 1912	GBP -	2.15
182	Rutherford, W. G.; Goodwin, W. W.; Hall, F. W.	The New Phrynicus; Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb; A Companion to Classical Texts	Oxford	1881; 1883; 1897; 1913	GBP -	3.50
183	Scott, Sir W.	Waverley Novels	Edinburgh	1816-29	GBP -	0.05
184	Scott, Sir W.	Rob Roy	Edinburgh	1818	GBP -	6.60
185		Scriptores Erotici Graeci	Paris	1803; 1792	GBP -	1.80
186	Seeley, J. R.; Hohenlohe, Prince Choldwig	Life and Times of Stein; Memoirs	Cambridge	1878; 1906	GBP -	0.18
187	Shakespeare. Jusserand, J. J.; Theobald, R. M.	Shakespeare in France; Shakespeare Studies, 1901		1889; 1901; 1905	GBP -	2.00
188	Smalley; G. W.; Barton, D. P.; Danby, F.	London Letters; Bernadotte; Nelson's Legacy		1890; 1914; 1915	GBP -	0.12
189	Smollett, T.; A'Beckett, G. A.; Congreve, W.	Works; Comic History of England; Tragedies		1892; n. d.; 1893	GBP -	1.80
190		Sophocles. Plays, etc.	Cambridge	1887-92'	GBP -	3.50
191	Statius, R. P.; Homer	Opera, cum notis variorum; Odyssea	Oxonii	1661; 1671; 1705	GBP -	0.10
192	Stephens, H. Morse; Acton, Lord; Warwick, C. F.; Fleichmann, H.	History of the French Revolution; Lectures on the French Revolution; Robespierre; Behind the Scenes in the Terror		1886; 1910; 1914	GBP -	1.00
193	Stephens, H. M.; Perkins, J. B.; Ten Brenk, J.	Orators of the French Revolution; France under Louis XV; Robespierre and the Red Terror	Oxford	1892; 1897; 1899	GBP -	1.20
194	Swinburne, A. C.; Rossetti, D. G.	Poems and Ballads; Collected Works		1868; 1880	GBP -	0.12
195	Symonds, J. A.; Cust, R. H. H.	Studies of the Greek Poets; Life of Benvenuto Cellini		1902	GBP -	1.15
196	Dill, S.; Fowler, W. W.	Teuffel's History of Roman History, revised by L. Schwabe; Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius; Social Life of Rome in the Age of Cicero		1891; 1911; 1922	GBP -	2.50
197	Trevelyan, G. O.; Thorndike, L.; Sergeant; P. W.	Early History of Charles James Fox; Medieval Europe; Courtships of Catherine the Great		1881; n. d.; 1905	GBP -	1.50
198	Vauquelin, Jean; Villon, François	Œuvres Diverses en prose et en Vers; Œuvres avec notes, etc.	Paris	1869-72; 1877	GBP -	1.12
199	Vizetelly, E. A.; Blennerhasset, Charlotte, Lady; Pemberton, W. S. C.	The True Story of the Chevalier D'Eon; Louis XIV and Madame de Maintenon; Elizabeth Blount and Henry VIII		1895; 1910; 1913	GBP -	0.10
200	Voltaire	Œuvres, 28 vol.	Amsterdam	1759; 1764	GBP -	0.10

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
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