• 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.

Bangs: CATALOGUE OF BOOKS. STANDARD, POPULAR, ILLUSTRATED. BOTH OLD AND NEW, TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, June 2d, 3d and 4th, 1896. BY BANGS & CO. 91 & 93 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. SALE TO BEGIN AT 3 O'CLOCK, Jun021896,

Auction Details

Auction Date
June 02, 1896 - June 02, 1896
Page Size: 1151 items in 12 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
400 BARCLAY, ALEX. The Ship of Fools Edinburgh

1874

 USD - Unknown
401 BARLOW, JOEL The Columbiad: a Poem Lond.

1809

 USD - Unknown
402 BARRY, SIR ED. Observations, Historical, Critical and Medical, on Ancient and Modern Wines Lond.

1775

 USD - Unknown
403 BATES' 'Dispensatory Lond.

1694

 USD - Unknown
404 BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY

1837-41

 USD - Unknown
405 BEATTIE, WM. Switzerland Lond.

1836

 USD - Unknown
406 BEATTIE, WM. The Danube Lond.

1844

 USD - Unknown
407 BEATTIE, WM. The Waldenses; or, Protestant Valleys Lond.

1838

 USD - Unknown
408 BEATTIE, WM. The Waldenses; or, Protestant Valleys

1838

 USD - Unknown
409 BEATTIE, WM. Scotland. Illustrated by Allom, Bartlett, etc. Lond.

1842

 USD - Unknown
410 BELL, CHARLES Essays on the Anatomy of Expression in Painting

1806

 USD - Unknown
411 BENTHAM, JAS History and Antiquities of the Conventual and Cathedral Church of Ely

1771

 USD - Unknown
412 BIBLE (THE HOLY) Lond.

1788-92

 USD - Unknown
413 T. H. Horne BIBLE Landscape Illustrations of

1836

 USD - Unknown
414 BLACKSTONE, WM. Commentaries on the Laws of England Oxford

1770

 USD - Unknown
415 BLACKWELL, THOS. Memoirs of the Court of Augustus Edinburgh

1753

 USD - Unknown
416 BLAIR, H. Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres

1787

 USD - Unknown
417 BLAIR, H. Sermons

1798

 USD - Unknown
418 BLAIR, H. Sermons

1809

 USD - Unknown
420 BRIDGEWATER TREATISES on the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God as manifested in Creation

USD - Unknown
421 BRITISH AND FOREIGN MEDICAL REVIEW, from beginning, 1836 to 1847 Lond.

USD - Unknown
422 BRITISH MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL REVIEW

USD - Unknown
423 BRITISH CLASSICS. Harrison's Edition Lond.

1785

 USD - Unknown
424 BRITISH ESS AYISTS...

USD - Unknown
425 BRITISH SPECTATOR

1753

 USD - Unknown
426 BRITISH ADVENTURER

1762

 USD - Unknown
427 BRITISH TRAVELLER; or, Modern Panorama of England and Wales Lond.

1819

 USD - Unknown
428 BRYDONE, WM. Tour thro' Sicily and Malta

1774

 USD - Unknown
429 BUCKINGHAM (DUKE OF) Works of John Sheffield

1753

 USD - Unknown
430 BUFFON OEuvres de

1774

 USD - Unknown
431 BURKE on the Sublime and Beautiful

USD - Unknown
432 BURNS, ROBT. BURNS, ROBT., Works

USD - Unknown
433 BURNEY, CHAS History of Music

1776

 USD - Unknown
434 BYRON BYRON. Works of

1831

 USD - Unknown
435 BYRON Childe Harold...

USD - Unknown
436 BYRON Tales and Poems

1853

 USD - Unknown
437 CAMPBELL, J. Lives of the British Admirals Lond.

1779

 USD - Unknown
438 CAMPBELL (LORD) Lives of the Chief Justices of England Lond.

1849

 USD - Unknown
439 CAMPBELL, THOMAS Pleasures of Hope; Parnell's Poems

USD - Unknown
440 CASTLE RACKRENT: an Hibernian Tale Lond.

1800

 USD - Unknown
441 CERVANTES Don Quixote Lond.

1749

 USD - Unknown
442 CHAMBERS' Cyclopedia of English Literature Edinburgh

1848

 USD - Unknown
443 CHESTERFIELD'S Letters Lond.

1774

 USD - Unknown
444 CHURCHILL, C. CHURCHILL, C. Poems Lond.

1766

 USD - Unknown
445 CHURCHILL, C. CHURCHILL, C. Poems Lond.

1769

 USD - Unknown
446 CICERO'S Select Orations

USD - Unknown
447 CLARENDON History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, begun 1641 Oxford

1707

 USD - Unknown
448 CLARENDON History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, begun 1641

1707

 USD - Unknown
449 COLLECTANEA CURIOSA, relating to History and Antiquity of England and Ireland Oxford

1781

 USD - Unknown
450 COLTON, C. C. Lacon; or, Many Things in Few Words

1823

 USD - Unknown
451 COMBES, CH. Traite de l'Exploitation des Mines

1844

 USD - Unknown
452 CONVERSATIONS D'EMILIE Frontispieces by Moreau

1781

 USD - Unknown
453 COOPER, C. H. Annals of Cambridge Cambridge

1842

 USD - Unknown
454 CORRESPONDENCE of Countess of Hartford and Countess of Pomfret

1806

 USD - Unknown
455 COXE, WM. Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden and Denmark

1785

 USD - Unknown
456 CRUDEN Concordance to Old and New Testament Lond.

USD - Unknown
457 CUDWORTH, R. Intellectual System of the Universe Lond.

1845

 USD - Unknown
458 DART Works of Tibullus

1720

 USD - Unknown
459 DARWIN, E. The Botanic Garden: a Poem

1799

 USD - Unknown
460 DEMOSTHENES

1806

 USD - Unknown
461 DEMOUSTIER. Lettres sur la Mythologie

1817

 USD - Unknown
462 DENON Travels in Egypt

1802

 USD - Unknown
463 DICKENS Master Humphrey's Clock

1840-41

 USD - Unknown
464 DICKENS. (Editor) All the Year Round

USD - Unknown
465 DODSLEY'S Collection of Poems...

USD - Unknown
466 DRAMA. Three Hours after Marriage, a Comedy...

USD - Unknown
467 DRAMA. Prompt Book...

USD - Unknown
468 Gay,. Melton, etc. DRAMA. Operas

1791

 USD - Unknown
469 DRAMA. Dryden's Plavs

1717

 USD - Unknown
470 DYER, JOHN DYER, JOHN. Poems

1761

 USD - Unknown
471 ECCLESTON, JAMES Introduction to English Antiquities Lond.

1847

 USD - Unknown
472 ECHARD, LAURENCE Roman History Lond.

1699

 USD - Unknown
473 FARQUHAR, GEO. FARQUHAR, GEO. Poems

1760

 USD - Unknown
474 FARRAGO: containing Essays--Moral, Philosophical, Political and Historical Tewkesbury

1792

 USD - Unknown
475 FENELON The Adventures of Telemachus

1794

 USD - Unknown
476 FIELD OF MARS (THE): an Alphabetical Digestion of Naval and Military Engagements, particularly of Great Britain and her Allies, from the 9th Century to the Peace of 1801

1801

 USD - Unknown
477 FISHER'S Syria...

USD - Unknown
478 FISHER'S Constantinople, etc..

USD - Unknown
479 FONTAINE Contes et Nouvelles en Vers

1721

 USD - Unknown
480 FOSS, ED. A Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England, 1066-1870 Lond.

1870

 USD - Unknown
481 FOSTER, J. Discourses on Natural Religion and Social Virtue

1749

 USD - Unknown
482 FRANCE. Abrege de l'Histoire

1724

 USD - Unknown
483 FRANCE. Revolution, 1789-1814

USD - Unknown
484 FRANCE. Gallery of Portraits of the National Assembly

1790

 USD - Unknown
485 FULLER, THOS. A Pisgah Sight of Palestine

1869

 USD - Unknown
486 GALLERY OF SCRIPTURE ENGRAVINGS: Historical and Landscape Lond.

USD - Unknown
487 GARRICK, DAVID GARRICK, DAVID. Poetical Works

1785

 USD - Unknown
488 GEORGE THE THIRD History of First Ten Years of his Reign

1783

 USD - Unknown
489 GEORGE THE THIRD Bisset's History of his Reign

USD - Unknown
490 GEORGE THE FOURTH GEORGE THE FOURTH. Memoirs Lond.

1859

 USD - Unknown
491 GILLIES' Ancient Greece...

USD - Unknown
492 GILLIES' Ancient Greece N. Y.

1792

 USD - Unknown
493 GISBORNE, THOMAS Enquiry into the Duties of Men...

USD - Unknown
494 GOETHE Sammtliche Werke Paris

1836

 USD - Unknown
495 GOLDSMITH, OLIVER History of Greece... Lond.

USD - Unknown
496 GOOCH, MRS. GOOCH, MRS. Life of Lond.

1792

 USD - Unknown
497 GUILLIM, JOHN A Display of Heraldrie Lond.

1611

 USD - Unknown
498 HALL, BASIL Extracts from a Journal written on the Coasts of Chile, Peru and Mexico in 1820, '21, '22 Lond.

1824

 USD - Unknown
499 HAMILTON, J. P. Travels through Interior Provinces of Columbia Lond.

1827

 USD - Unknown
500 HARP OF ERIN (THE): containing the Poetical Works of Thomas Dermody Lond.

1807

 USD - Unknown
  • 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.