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

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
701		PAMPHLETS. Evarts' Eulogy of Chief-Justice Chase...			USD -	Unknown
702		CATALOGUES. Alex. Farnum and H. Pene Du Bois			USD -	Unknown
703		CATALOGUES. Alex. E. H. Chapin...			USD -	Unknown
704		GALLERY (THE) of Modern British Artists	Lond.	1834	USD -	Unknown
705	MERRIFIELD, MRS.	Dress as a Fine Art	Bost.	1854	USD -	Unknown
706		GEMS OF POETRY, 1880-1884	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
707		FISHER'S VIEWS: Syria, the Holy Land, Asia Minor, etc.	Lond.	1836	USD -	Unknown
708		EDIFICES OF LONDON.Public Building	Lond.	1828	USD -	Unknown
709		NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE and Literary Journal, 1828	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
710	RAGUET, C.	Treatise on Currency and Banking	Lond.	1839	USD -	Unknown
711		WAITE'S Historical Student's Manual...			USD -	Unknown
712	H. S. Drayton and James McNeill	BRAIN AND MIND	N. Y.	1880	USD -	Unknown
713	TAYLOR, GEO. H.	The Movement Cure	N. Y.	1884	USD -	Unknown
714	THOMS, W. J.	Human Longevity	Lond.	1873	USD -	Unknown
715		FIRESIDE PHILOSOPHY for Boys and Girls	N. Y.	1869	USD -	Unknown
716	GLEASON, MRS.R. B.	Talks to My Patients	N. Y.	1874	USD -	Unknown
717		ABERCROMBIE'S Intellectual Powers...			USD -	Unknown
718		GILLIES' Greece			USD -	Unknown
719	Alice and Phoebe Cary, editor	FROM YEAR TO YEAR	N. Y.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
720	TAYLOR, BAYARD	Poems of the Orient	Bost.	1855	USD -	Unknown
721	CURWEN, HENRY	Sorrow and Song; Studies of Literary Struggle	Lond.	1875	USD -	Unknown
722		CHURCHMAN'S YEAR BOOK...			USD -	Unknown
723		ODD VOLUMES. Prior's Life of Goldsmith...			USD -	Unknown
724	CLARENDON, EDWARD, EARL OF	CLARENDON, EDWARD, EARL OF. Life of	Oxford	1817	USD -	Unknown
725	HINTON, J. H.	History of the United States	Lond. and N. Y.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
726		AMERICAN NEWSPAPER ANNUAL...			USD -	Unknown
727		COMPENDIUM of the 10th Census of the United States			USD -	Unknown
728	Frank Moore, editor	CIVIL WAR in Song and Story	N. Y.	1889	USD -	Unknown
729		LINCOLN. Sermons on the Death of President Lincoln...			USD -	Unknown
730		JOHNSON'S History of the United States...			USD -	Unknown
731		PRESIDENTS' SPEECHES...			USD -	Unknown
732		MEMOIRS, Edwin Bartlett...			USD -	Unknown
733		UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONS, N. Y. 1820...			USD -	Unknown
734		NEW COLLECTION of Voyages, Discoveries and Travels	Lond.	1767	USD -	Unknown
735	(BOARDMAN, JAMES)	America and the Americans	Lond.	1833	USD -	Unknown
736		SHERWOOD, J. D., Comic History of the United States, illustrated...			USD -	Unknown
737	FOWLER, W. W.	Twenty Years of Inside Life in Wall Street	N. Y.	1880	USD -	Unknown
738	REAVIS, L. U.	Representative Life of Horace Greeley	N. Y.	1872	USD -	Unknown
739	CHAPLIN, J.	Words of Our Presidents	Bost.	(1891)	USD -	Unknown
740	W. H. Ward, editor	ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Tributes from His Associates	N. Y. and Bost.	(1895)	USD -	Unknown
741	ST. JOHN, J. HECTOR	Letters from an American Farmer	Dublin	1783	USD -	Unknown
742		PERMANENT TEMPERANCE DOCUMENTSof the American Temperance Society	N. Y.	1843	USD -	Unknown
743	EVERTS, W. W.	Life and Thoughts of John Foster	N. Y.	1851	USD -	Unknown
744	CLARKE, CHARLES AND MARY C.	Recollections of Writers	N. Y.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
745	HOWARD, J. R.	Henry Ward Beacher: a Study	N. Y.	1891	USD -	Unknown
746	E. S. Robertson, editor	GREAT WRITERS	Lond.	1888	USD -	Unknown
747	R. C. Jebb	ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERS. Bentley	Lond.	1882	USD -	Unknown
748		ESSAYS and Leaves from a Note Book by George Eliot	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
749	J. M. Scott	THOUGHT ETCHINGS	Bost.		USD -	Unknown
750	FITZGERALD, PERCY	Recreations of a Literary Man	Lond.	1882	USD -	Unknown
751	MCINTOSH, M. J.	Violet; or, The Cross and the Crown	Bost.	1860	USD -	Unknown
752	PERCIVAL, P.	Tamil Proverbs	Madras	1874	USD -	Unknown
753		PLATO'S Republic	Cambridge	1858	USD -	Unknown
754	(MATHIAS, T. J.)	Pursuits of Literature	Phil.	1800	USD -	Unknown
755	John Forster	DICKENS, CHARLES. Life and Letters of	Lond.	1874	USD -	Unknown
756	DICKENS, CHARLES	DICKENS, CHARLES. Letters of	Lond.	1880	USD -	Unknown
757		BEECHER'S Life Thoughts...			USD -	Unknown
758	Paul Stapfer	SHAKESPEARE AND CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY	Lond.	1880	USD -	Unknown
759	C. M. Ingleby	SHAKESPEARE. Hermeneutics; or the Still Lion	Lond.	1875	USD -	Unknown
760	BOADEN, J.	Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons			USD -	Unknown
761	HARLEY, GEORGE D.	Authentic Biographical Sketch of W. H. W. Betty, the Young Roscius	Lond.	1804	USD -	Unknown
762		LIFE of Edmund Kean	N. Y.	1835	USD -	Unknown
763	LAUGEL, AUGUSTE	England, Political and Social	N. Y.	1874	USD -	Unknown
764	Wirt Sikes	STUDIES OF ASSASSINATION	Lond.	1881	USD -	Unknown
765		TAYLOR, W. C., Natural History of Society...			USD -	Unknown
766	MOORE, DR.	Zeluco	Lond.	1810	USD -	Unknown
767	Marcus M. Felix	OCTAVIUS: a Dialogue	Edinburgh	1781	USD -	Unknown
768		WORKS of Anacreon and Sappho, etc.	Lond.	1713	USD -	Unknown
769	(R. L. Price)	TRANSLATIONS, IMITATIONS, ETC.	Lond.	1824	USD -	Unknown
770		REMAINS of the Rev. John Mason	Norwich	1798	USD -	Unknown
771	QUARLES, FRANCIS	The School of the Heart	Chiswick	1812	USD -	Unknown
772		CROLY'S Life of George IV...			USD -	Unknown
773	Ella S. Armitage	CHILDHOOD OF THE ENGLISH NATION	N. Y.	1877	USD -	Unknown
774		WARD AND LOCK'S Pictorial Guide to London		n. d.	USD -	Unknown
775	HOLLAND, E. G.	Reviews and Essays	Bost.	1849	USD -	Unknown
776	JENNINGS, W.	The Confucian Analects	Lond. and N. Y.	1895	USD -	Unknown
777	JENNINGS, W.	Proverbial Philosophy of Confucius	Lond. and N. Y.	1895	USD -	Unknown
778	RALSTON, W. R. S.	Krilof and his Fables	Lond.	1869	USD -	Unknown
779		SEVEN GREAT HYMNS (THE) of the Mediaeval Church	N. Y.	(1868)	USD -	Unknown
780		ANACHARSIS' TRAVELS	Dublin	1795	USD -	Unknown
781		ANCIENT SONGS, from the time of Henry the Third to the Revolution	Lond.	1792	USD -	Unknown
782		ARCHITECTURE. Model Suburban Architecture, Designs for Dwellings			USD -	Unknown
783		ARCHITECTURE. Architectural Sketches and their Completion	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
784	BLAKE, J. L.	Biographical Dictionary	Bost.	1853	USD -	Unknown
785		BRITISH DRAMA (THE)	Lond.	1804	USD -	Unknown
786	BYRON	BYRON. Works			USD -	Unknown
787		BLUE AND GOLD POETS. Aldrich...			USD -	Unknown
788		BLUE AND GOLD POETS. Mrs. Browning, Whittier, Meredith, Longfellow			USD -	Unknown
789		BUNTLING BALL (THE)	N. Y.	1885	USD -	Unknown
790	CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD O.	CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD O. Works of	Lond.	1803	USD -	Unknown
791		OERVANTES. Viage al Parnaso...			USD -	Unknown
792		OERVANTES. Don Quixote	Paris	1814	USD -	Unknown
793		CHINESE BOOK. Nwan tien tan schoot wu Kuen			USD -	Unknown
794	CRUIKSHANK	Three Courses and a Dessert	Lond.	1830	USD -	Unknown
795	CRUIKSHANK	Comic Almanac, 1844-53			USD -	Unknown
796	CRAWLEY, CAPT.	The Billiard Book	Lond.	1866	USD -	Unknown
797		DRAMA. El Teatro Espanol	Londres	1817	USD -	Unknown
798	DANIEL, W. B.	Rural Sports	Lond.	1801	USD -	Unknown
799	DICKENS, CHARLES	Oliver Twist; Nicholas Nickleby; Pictures from Italy			USD -	Unknown
800	DOYLE, RICHARD	Foreign Tour of Brown, Jones and Robinson	Lond.	1855	USD -	Unknown

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

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 &amp; CO. 91 &amp; 93 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. SALE TO BEGIN AT 3 O'CLOCK, Jun021896,

Auction Details

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,