• 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
601 ROBERTSON, WM. Histories: Scotland; Charles V. and America

1791-1802

 USD - Unknown
602 ROBERTSON, WM. America

1808

 USD - Unknown
603 ROBERTSON, WM. Scotland

1769

 USD - Unknown
604 ROBERTSON, WM. Charles V

USD - Unknown
605 ROBINSON, THOMAS Scripture Characters Lond.

1815

 USD - Unknown
606 ROGERS, SAMUEL Italy: a Poem Lond.

1830

 USD - Unknown
607 ROLLIN Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles-Lettres Lond.

1769

 USD - Unknown
608 ROLLIN Ancient History Lond.

1817

 USD - Unknown
609 ROLLIN Ancient History Lond.

1817

 USD - Unknown
610 ROME. Description of Latium or La Campagna di Roma Lond.

1805

 USD - Unknown
611 ROMER, MRS. The Rhone, the Darro and the Guadal-quiver: a Summer Ramble in 1842 Lond.

1843

 USD - Unknown
612 ROWE, NICHOLAS ROWE, NICHOLAS. Plays Lond.

1736

 USD - Unknown
613 RUMFORD, COUNT Essays, Political, Economical and Philosophical Lond.

1798

 USD - Unknown
614 RUSSELL History of Modern Europe Lond.

1827

 USD - Unknown
615 SALT, HENRY Views in St. Helena, The Cape, India, Ceylon, Abyssinia and Egypt Lond.

1809

 USD - Unknown
616 SARPI, FRA. PAOLO Histoire du Concile de Trente Amsterdam

1751

 USD - Unknown
617 SCOTT, WALTER SCOTT, WALTER. Marmion...

USD - Unknown
618 SCOTTISH POETS (THE). Lives of Lond.

1822

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619 SCRIPTURE ILLUSTRATIONS, chiefly from the Old Masters Lond.

n. d.

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620 SELECT ESSAYS from the Encyclopedy Lond.

1772

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621 Roger L'Estrange SENECA'S Morals by Way of Abstract Lond.

1756

 USD - Unknown
622 Thomas Morell SENECA'S Epistles, with Annotations, etc. Lond.

1786

 USD - Unknown
623 SERMONS OR HOMILIESappointed to be read in Churches in the time of Queen Elizabeth Lond.

1811

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624 SHAFTESBURY.Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times

1714

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625 Mr. Theobald, editor SHAKESPEARE. Works Lond.

1772

 USD - Unknown
626 SHAKESPEARE SHAKESPEARE. Works

1789

 USD - Unknown
627 SHAKESPEARE SHAKESPEARE. Works Lond.

n. d.

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628 SHAKESPEARE SHAKESPEARE. Works

USD - Unknown
629 SHELLEY SHELLEY. Poetical Works Ed. Moxon

1840

 USD - Unknown
630 SMEATON, J. Reports made on various occasions in the course of his employment as a Civil Engineer

1812-14

 USD - Unknown
631 SMITH, A. Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

1789

 USD - Unknown
632 SMYTH, WM. Lectures on Modern History Cambridge

1843

 USD - Unknown
633 SOUTHEY, R. Common-Place of Choice Passages

1850

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634 SOUTHEY, R. Colloquies on Progress and Prospects of Society

1829

 USD - Unknown
635 SPIRIT AND MANNERS OF THE AGE Lond.

1826-29

 USD - Unknown
636 STANHOPE. Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope as related by Herself...

1845

 USD - Unknown
637 STEPHENS, J. L. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan N. Y.

1858

 USD - Unknown
638 STRUTT, JOS Queenhoo-Hall: a Romance

1808

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639 STUART, G. History of Scotland from the Reformation till the Death of Queen Mary

1783

 USD - Unknown
640 M. L. D. L. D. L. SULLY. Memoires de, avec des Remarques

1778

 USD - Unknown
641 SWIFT, JONATHAN SWIFT, JONATHAN. Works of Lond.

1766

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642 SWITZERLAND Lond.

1839

 USD - Unknown
643 TACITI Opera

USD - Unknown
644 TACITI Edidit Haase

1855

 USD - Unknown
645 TALES of Superstition and Chivalry

1812

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646 TASSO La Gerusalemme Liberata

1828

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647 TAYLOR, MATTHEW England's Bloody Tribunal: or Popish Cruelty Displayed

1770

 USD - Unknown
648 TAYLOR, BAYARD John Godfrey's Fortunes Lond.

1864

 USD - Unknown
649 THOMSON, JAS THOMSON, JAS. Poetical Works

1850

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650 THORNBURY, W. TWO Centuries of Song

1867

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651 THAMES AND MEDWAY (THE) Lond.

USD - Unknown
652 TOMBLESON'S Views of the Rhine and of the Upper Rhine

1832

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653 TOMLINE, GEO. Memoirs of Life of William Pitt

1821

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654 TOOKE, WM. View of the Russian Empire during Reign of Catherine the Second

1800

 USD - Unknown
655 TURNER, S. The Sacred History of the World

1833

 USD - Unknown
656 TURNER, W. Lives of Eminent Unitarians

1840--43

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657 VERSAILLES Ancien et Moderne Paris

1841

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658 Heyne, editor VIRGILII Opera Lipsiae

1788

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659 Heyne, editor VIRGILII Opera Lond.

1810

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660 VOLTAIRE Les Chef-d OEuvres Dramatiques

1779

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661 VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, Originals, Translations and Abridgments Lond.

USD - Unknown
662 WALDENSES (THE), or Protestant Valleys of Piedmont, etc. Lond.

1838

 USD - Unknown
663 WARTON, THOMAS History of English Poetry Lond.

1774

 USD - Unknown
664 WHITAKER, J. The History of Manchester

1771-75

 USD - Unknown
665 WILKES, JOHN English Liberty...

USD - Unknown
666 WILKES, JOHN Correspondence Lond.

1805

 USD - Unknown
667 Wright and Watkins WILLIAM THE FOURTH: his Life and Reign Lond.

1837

 USD - Unknown
668 WOLF, REV. C. Remains and Memoir

1829

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669 G. M. Fenn WORLD OF WIT AND HUMOUR

USD - Unknown
670 WORDSWORTH, CHR. Greece, pictorial, descriptive and historical Lond.

1840

 USD - Unknown
671 YOUNG, EDWARD Night Thoughts, etc.

1812

 USD - Unknown
672 YOUNG, WILLIAM The History of Athens, politically and philosophically considered

1786

 USD - Unknown
673 FRANCIS'S Horace

1750

 USD - Unknown
674 ANECDOTES of the Life of Wm. Pitt, Earl of Chatham Lond.

1810

 USD - Unknown
675 John O'Connell, editor SELECT SPEECHES of Daniel O'Connell Dublin

1854

 USD - Unknown
676 HALSTED, CAROLINE A. Richard III Phil.

1844

 USD - Unknown
677 MEMOIRS of the Courts and Cabinets of William IV. and Victoria Lond.

1861

 USD - Unknown
678 John Earl Russell RECOLLECTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS, 1813-1873 Bost.

1875

 USD - Unknown
679 STEPHEN, JAMES Lectures on the History of France N. Y.

1852

 USD - Unknown
680 MONTAIGNE'S Essays Lond.

n. d.

 USD - Unknown
681 TAINE, H. Notes on Paris N. Y.

1875

 USD - Unknown
682 L. F. Bungener VOLTAIRE AND HIS TIMES Edinburgh

1854

 USD - Unknown
683 MOLIERE MOLIERE'S Dramatic Works Lond.

1883

 USD - Unknown
684 PHRENO-MNEMOTECHNY; or, The Art of Memory N. Y. and Lond.

1845

 USD - Unknown
685 AMERICAN EDITION of the British Encyclopaedia of Arts and Sciences Phil.

1810

 USD - Unknown
686 GENERAL BIOGRAPHY, chiefly composed by John Aikin and William Enfield Lond.

1799

 USD - Unknown
687 PRYNNE, W. Animadversions on Amendments of and Additional Records to the fourth part of the Institute (title in MSS.) Lond.

1669

 USD - Unknown
688 TILLINGHAST'S Adams...

USD - Unknown
689 EDEN on Injunctions..

USD - Unknown
690 VOORHIES, N. Y. Code, 1857...

USD - Unknown
691 SNOW-CHURCH COMPANY'S Legal and Banking Year Book, 1893

USD - Unknown
692 NORTH EASTERN, Atlantic, North Western, Pacific and Atlantic Reporters, etc., etc.

USD - Unknown
693 RALEIGH'S Outline of the Law of Property Oxford

1890

 USD - Unknown
694 CAMPBELL'S Lives of the Lord Chancellors N. Y.

1876

 USD - Unknown
695 AMERICAN LAWYER (THE) N. Y.

1868

 USD - Unknown
696 CORRESPONDENCE of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham Lond.

1838

 USD - Unknown
697 FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED SUNDAY MAGAZINE

1885-88

 USD - Unknown
698 CURRENT LITERATURE...

USD - Unknown
699 SEASIDE LIBRARY

USD - Unknown
700 BOOKS THAT HAVE HELPED ME...

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.