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
302	Yeats, W. B.	Cuala Press; The Wild Swans at Coole		1915; 1917; 1921	GBP -	3.30
303	De la Mare, W.	Henry Brocken		1904; 1921	GBP -	0.10
304	Gilchrist, A.	Life of William Blake		1880	GBP -	2.50
305	Godwin, William	Essay on Sepulchres		1809	GBP -	1.50
306	Hardy, T.; Burns, R.	Jude the Obscure; Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect		1896	GBP -	0.10
307	Lamb, Charles	Letters with Introduction by H. H. Harper	Boston	1905-06	GBP -	2.50
308	Lamb, C.	Works		1818	GBP -	2.20
309	Lamb, C.	Letters, Edited by T. N. Talfourd		1837	GBP -	0.08
310	Lamb, C.	The Adventures of Ulysses		1819	GBP -	1.20
311	Lamb, C.	Prose Works		1882	GBP -	0.05
312	Lamb, C.	Life, Letters and Writings		1855	GBP -	0.05
313	Lloyd, Charles	Poetical Essays on the Character of Pope		1821	GBP -	1.00
314	Shelley; Dowden, E.	Letters of Mary W. Shelley; Life of P. B. Shelley		1918	GBP -	0.05
315	Stevenson, R. L.	Works, Swanston Edition		1911-12	GBP -	2.20
316	Thompson, Francis	Works		1913	GBP -	2.00
317	Dodgson, C. L.; Collingwood, S. D.	Feeding the Mind; Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll		1907	GBP -	1.00
318	Reid, Captain Mayne; Moore, G.	The Young Yägers; The Untilled Field		1852	GBP -	0.18
319	Kitton, F. G.; Blessington, Countess of, Disney, John	Phiz a Memoir; Confessions of an Elderly Gentleman; Laws of Gaming		1878; 1806; 1836	GBP -	0.12
320	Fellowes, W. D.	A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe		1818	GBP -	0.06
321	Ruskin, J.; Cundall, H. M.	Verona and other Lectures. Birket Foster		1894	GBP -	0.12
322	HUGHES, T.	TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS	Cambridge	1857	GBP -	6.15
323	Wordsworth, W.; Byron, G. G. N., Lord; Anon	The Waggoner. New Poems on his Domestic Circumstances, &c. A Reply to Fare Thee Well		1816; 1819	GBP -	0.12
324	Wordsworth, William	Memorials of a Tour on the Continent		1822	GBP -	2.15
325	Johnsoniana	Dinarbas; a Tale, being a continuation of Rasselas		1790	GBP -	0.10
326	Johnson, Dr. S.	A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland		1775	GBP -	0.18
327	Beckford, Wm.	Vathek.		1786	GBP -	3.10
328	Burke, Edmund	Reflections on the Revolution in France		1790	GBP -	1.00
329	Glasse, Mrs.; Lamb, P.	The Art of Cookery. Royal Cookery : or, the Compleat Court-Cook		1736; 1784	GBP -	1.10
330	Johnson. S.; Goldsmith. O.; Werther	English Dictionary. History of England. Traduit de l'Allemand		1756; 1804; 1771	GBP -	0.16
331	Eliot, George; Boz; Bryant, W. C.	Daniel Deronda. Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi; Poems		1876; 1846	GBP -	0.18
332	Davies, Wm. H.	Songs of Joy and others		1911	GBP -	0.12
333	Masefield, John; Mitford, M. R.; Noyes, Alfred	A Poem, and Two Plays; Our Village, illustrated by Hugh Thomson. The En chanted Island		1919; 1893; 1909	GBP -	0.08
334	Phillips, Stephen; Machen, Arthur; Synge, J. M.	Eremus, a Poem. Notes and Queries. The Tinker's Wedding, a Comedy		1907	GBP -	0.10
335	Le Gallienne. R.; Drinkwater, John; Noyes, Alfred	Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Poems of Men and Hours. The Forest of Wild Thyme		1891; 1905; 1911	GBP -	1.10
336	Lang, Andrew	Tenui Victu contentus Ingloriam Fuge.		1897	GBP -	0.10
337	Maclise, Daniel; Swinburne, A. C.; Etchings by W. M.	The Illustrations to the Reliques of Father Prout. The Heptalogia. Thackeray while at Cambridge		1836; 1876; 1875	GBP -	0.10
338	Thomson, D. C.	Life and Labours of Hablot Knight Browne Phiz,		1838	GBP -	0.05
339		The Lady's Monthly Museum, a i un of 8 vol.		1811-15	GBP -	0.10
340	Byron, G. G. N., Lord; Parry, William	Works. The Last days of Lord Byron		1814-21; 1825	GBP -	1.00
341	Dagley, R.; Rodwell, G. H.; Ainsworth, W. H.	Death's Doings. Old London Bridge. Rookwood		1827; n. d. [1828]; 1851	GBP -	1.12
342	Bunyan, J.	The Pilgrim's Progress, fifty-fourth edition		1763	GBP -	Not Sold
343	Calvin, Jean	A Commentarie upon Genesis		1578	GBP -	Not Sold
344	Gilpin, W.; Wigstead, Henry	Observations on the Western Parts of England relative to picturesque beauty. Tour of North and South Wales		1794; 1800	GBP -	0.16
345	Butler, Samuel; Byron, Lord	Hudibras. Works		1663; 1815	GBP -	1.50
346	Ariosto, L.	Orlando Furioso	Birmingham	1773	GBP -	1.12
347	HERRERA, ANT. DE	The General History of the vast Continent and Islands of America		1725-26	GBP -	3.15
348	Remy, Jules	Journey to Great-Salt-Lake City		1861	GBP -	0.12
349	Goldsmith, O.	Essays, FIRST EDITION		1765	GBP -	2.50
350		Breviarium Romanum	Venetiis	1750	GBP -	0.15
351	Trollope, Anthony	The Last Chronicle of Barset		1867	GBP -	1.00
352		The Satirist or Monthly Meteor		1811	GBP -	Not Sold
353	Reid, Capt. Mayne; Richardson, H. H.	The Bandolers. Maurice Guest		1866; 1908	GBP -	0.14
354	Bain, F. W.	A Digit of the Moon		1899	GBP -	1.16
355	Brontë, Charlotte	The Professor, a Tale		1857	GBP -	0.14
356	Jesse, J. H.; North, Hon. Roger	George Selwyn and his Contemporaries. Lives of the Norths		1843; 1826	GBP -	0.15
357	James, G. P. R.	The Smuggler		1845	GBP -	0.10
358	Lytton, Bulwer	Paul Clifford		1830	GBP -	0.08
359	Massinger, Philip	Plays, edited with Notes Critical and Explanatory with portrait		1813	GBP -	0.10
360	Lang, Andrew	The Grey Fairy Book		1900	GBP -	0.14
361	Le Gallienne, Richard	Volumes in Folio, poems			GBP -	0.10
362	Thackeray, W. M.	Vanity Fair in Dutch		1850	GBP -	1.10
363	Melville, Herman	Mardi : and a Voyage Thither		1849	GBP -	2.50
364	Carlyle, Thomas	Geschichte Friedrichs II genannt Friedrich der Grosse	Berlin	1858-1869	GBP -	2.15
365	Victoria, Queen	Letters of Feodora Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg from 1828 to 1872		1874	GBP -	1.16
366	Edgeworth, Maria	Essay on Irish Bulls		1802	GBP -	0.08
367	Bailey, Philip James	Festus, Poem		1839	GBP -	0.10
368	Campbell, John, Lord	Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England		1845-7	GBP -	Not Sold
369	Morley, John	Edmund Burke		1867	GBP -	0.15
370	Butler, Samuel	Erewhon, or Over the Range		1872	GBP -	0.10
371	DORAT, C. J.	LES BAISERS, précédés du Mois de Mai		1770	GBP -	10.10
372	Dorat, C. J.	Les sacrifices de l'amour	Amsterdam	1772	GBP -	1.00
373	Harduyn, Justus de; Scaliger, J.	Godelicke Lof-Sanghen tot Vermae-kinghe van alle gheestighe Lief-hebbers. M. Manili Astronom-icon		1600; 1620	GBP -	2.60
374	Gautier, Théophile; Longus	Le Capitaine Fracasse; Daphnis et Chloé	Paris	1926; 1890	GBP -	2.10
375	Textor, J. R.	Carmina novem illustrium feminarum et septem lyricorum. Epitheta	Lyons; Amsterdam	1607; 1687	GBP -	1.15
376	PATERNOSTER	Hoe Christus ons leert bidden.	Leyden	1548	GBP -	5.50
377	Office, L'	de la Semaine-Sainte en Latin et en François	Paris	1748	GBP -	1.15
378		Biere-Logia			GBP -	0.15
379	Voltaire	Romans et Contes	Paris	1780	GBP -	0.10
380	Verlaine, P.	Quinze Jours en Hollande		n. d.	GBP -	3.80
381	Bellarmin, Rob., Card	Holy Bible. De Ascensione Mentis	Oxford; Coloniae	1626; 1762	GBP -	2.15
382	Boyle, Robert	Short Memoirs for the History of Mineral Waters		1684	GBP -	1.15
383	Donne, John	Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes, Characters ... translated by J. Maine		1652	GBP -	0.12
384	Sparke, Thomas	I. A short Treatise, very comfortable, etc. 77.		1580	GBP -	0.16
385	Porta, J. B.; Schreyer, J. H.; Winkopp, P. A.; Lazac, E.	Phytognomica. Neue Ost-Indianische Reise Beschreibung. Briefe eines reisenden Franzosen. Der Reichtum von Holland	Frankfurt; Leipzig	1785; 1608; 1679; 1778	GBP -	1.40
386	Langley, Batty; Reeves, J.; Butler, S.	A Sure Method of Improving Estates. The Art of Farriery. Hudibras		1728; 1771; 1761	GBP -	0.14
387	Combe, William	Letters between Amelia in London and her mother		circa 1856	GBP -	1.80
388	Coppée, François; Prudhomme, Sully; de Banville, T.	Poésies. Poésies. Poesies	Paris	1878-9; 1877-9; 1874	GBP -	0.10
389	Twain, Mark; Henry Brocken	Pudd'nhead Wilson. by Walter De La Mere. Saint Abe and his Seven Wives		1872; 1900; 1904	GBP -	0.10
390	Sparling, H. H.; Danielson, H.; Symons, Arthur	The Kelmscott Press, and William Morris Master Craftsman. Arthur Machen, a Bibliography. Studies on Modern Painters		1903; 1923; 1924; 1925	GBP -	0.15
391		Playing Cards	Amsterdam	circa 1770	GBP -	3.30
392		Playing Cards.		1864	GBP -	0.18
393	Wordsworth, Wm.	The River Duddon, a series of Sonnets, and other Poems		1820	GBP -	3.10
394	Synge, J. M.; Blunden, E.; Danielson, H.; Swinburne, A. C.	The Tinker's Wedding. To Nature. Arthur Machen, a Bibliography. Posthumous Poems		1907; 1917; 1923	GBP -	0.12
395	A'Beckett, Gilbert Abbott; Wordsworth, Wm.; Dobson, Austin	The Almanack of the Month. Poems. Proverbs in Porce lain		1846; 1893; 1842	GBP -	0.10
396	Eckel, J. C.	Prime Pickwick in parts : a Census with complete Collation		1928	GBP -	1.10
397	Thackeray, W. M.	The Book of Snobs		1848	GBP -	3.50
398	Noyes, Alfred; Swinburne, A. C.; Machen, A.	The Loom of Years. The Heptalogia. The London Adventure		1914	GBP -	0.10
399	Masefield, John	The Taking of Helen		1923	GBP -	0.10
400	Swinnerton, Frank	Nocturne		1917	GBP -	0.15
401	Sherriff and Bartlett, Vernon; Wells, H. G.; Wordsworth, Wm.	Journey's End, a novel. History of Mr. Polly. Poems chiefly of Early and Late Years		1930; 1914; 1842	GBP -	0.12

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