• 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.

Leavitt & Co.: Catalogue of the American library of the late Mr. George Brinley, of Hartford, Conn. Part I, 1879yr,

Auction Details

Auction Date
March 10, 1879 - March 10, 1879
Page Size: 2714 items in 28 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
Sanitary Commission. Report of a General Plan for the Promotion of Public and Personal Health, [by Lemuel Shattuck,]

1850

USD - 0.50
SMITH (J. V. C.) Natural History of the Fishes of Massachusetts; with a Practical Essay on Angling

1833

USD - 2.00
SOCIETY FOR PROPAGATING THE GOSPEL among the Indians and others in North America. Cary (R.) Letter to the Members of the Society, [relating to the Alford estate,]

1789--1850

USD - 23.10
SPOFFORD (J.) Gazetteer of the State Newburyport

1828

USD - 1.00
STATISTICS of Industry, for the Year ending April 1, 1837, prepared by J. P. Bigelow.---<i>The same</i>, for the Year ending April 1, 1845, by J. G. Palfrey.

1838, 1846

USD - 0.50
STRONG (<i>Gov.</i> Caleb) Speeches to the Senate and House of Representatives of Massachusetts, with their Answers, etc., 1800--1807 Newburyport

1808

USD - 0.25
[SULLIVAN (<i>Hon.</i> JAMES)] The Altar of Baal thrown down; or, the French Nation defended, against the Pulpit Slander of David Osgood...Par Citoyen de Novion Boston

1795

USD - 1.00
SULLIVAN (JAS.) History of Land Titles in Massachusetts.

1801

USD - 1.00
[SWAN (J.)] National Arithmetick: or, Observations on the Finances of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

[1786]

USD - 0.50
SYNODS. --- The Results of Three Synods Held by the Elders and Messengers of the Churches of Massachusetts Province, New-England. Containing, I. The Platform of Church Discipline, in the year 1648. II. Propositions concerning the Subject of Baptism, in 1662. III. The

1725

USD - 13.00
Thomas (Isaiah) Massachusetts Kalendar, or an Almanac for 1772;

1772

USD - 9.00
WALDO (S.) Defence of the Title of John Leverett to a Tract of Land in the Eastern Parts of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, commonly called Muscongus Lands

1736

USD - 9.50
WASHBURN (E.) Sketches of the Judicial History of Massachusetts, 1630--1775

1840

USD - 3.00
WINTHROP (JOHN) <i>Governor of Massachusetts.</i> Life and Letters of; by Robert C. Winthrop

1867

USD - 1.50
WOOD (I.) Massachusetts Compendium; Stating the Boundaries of the several Counties and Towns, and a Description of the District of Maine Hallowell

1814

USD - 1.25
YOUNG (ALEX.) Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Mass. Bay, 1623--1636

1846

USD - 4.50
Abington. Hobart (A.) Historical Sketch of Abington, Plymouth Co.

1839

USD - 1.50
Andover. Abbot (A.) History of Andover Andover

1829

USD - 2.00
Andover. Phillips Academy: Address to the Students, July 18, 1791; Tappan's Address, 1794; Morse's Address, 1799; Constitution and Statutes of the Theolog. Seminary, with Pearson's [Hist.] Sketch, 1808

v. y.

USD - 10.50
PAMPHLETS (8) Acton. Swift's Fast Sermon, 1761; Adams's Centennial Address, 1835.

USD - 2.80
Attleborough. Daggett (J.) Sketch of the History of Attleborough, to the present time. Dedham

1834

USD - 3.00
PAMPHLETS (11) Barre Sprague's Dedica. and Ordin. Ser. 1829; Thompson's 37th Anniv. Discourse, 1841, and Half-century Sermon, 1854.

USD - 3.30
Belchertown. Doolittle (M.) Historical Sketch of Congregational Church, and Early History of the Town Northampton

1852

USD - 1.63
Berkshire Co. Dewey (C.) and others History of the County Pittsfield

1829

USD - 3.25
Berkshire Co. Dewey (C.) and others Jubilee, celebrated at Pittsfield, 1844. Albany

1845

USD - 1.00
Beverly. Stone (E. M.) History, Civil and Ecclesiastical Boston

1843

USD - 3.50
PAMPHLETS (13) Becket. Mills's 10th Anniv. Discourse, 1816; Cooley's dedica. Ser., 1850.

USD - 13.00
Blandford. Gibbs (Wm. H.) Historical Address Springfield

1850

USD - 2.25
Bolton. Adams (Zabdiel) Sermon on Christian Unity, preached August 26, 1772.

1772--1773

USD - 2.50
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)]BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Appeal to the World; or, a Vindication of the Town of BostonAppeal to the World; or, a Vindication of the Town of Boston Boston

1769

USD - 4.50
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] The same Reprinted, London

1769

USD - 3.00
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] The same. London

1770. (2)

USD - 2.00
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] An Address to the Inhabitants of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, more especially, to the Inhabitants of Boston; occasioned by the late .. Attack upon their Liberties, and the Confusion and Disorders consequent thereon. By a Lover of his Country.

[1747]

USD - 3.50
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] ARTILLERY ELECTION SERMONS: 1675, and from 1701 to 1859, inclusive, <i>the series of printed sermons very nearly complete</i>, 86 Sermons

USD - 21.50
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] ARTILLERY ELECTION SERMONS. Symmes (Thomas) Good Soldiers Described and Animated. Artillery Election Sermon, in Boston, June 6, 1720. (Preface by Benj. Colman.) Boston

1720

USD - 2.00
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Artillery Election Sermon.

1675

USD - 3.60
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] BIGELOW (J.) Plants of Boston. Boston

1824

USD - 3.50
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Boston Directory

1796 (map torn), 1800, 1803, 1809

USD - 14.00
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] The same, 1798, 1807, <i>bound with</i> I. Thomas's Almanack, 1805; <i>and</i> Catalogue of Books in The Boston Library

1805

USD - 5.00
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] The same, 1806, <i>bound in vol. with</i> Catalogue of Books in Library of Amer. Academy, 1802; Catalogue of Books in the Boston Library, 1805; CATALOGUE OF BOOKS PRINTED IN THE U. States, with prices, and places where published, 1804; Catalogue of R. I.

USD - 4.00
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Bowen (A.) Picture of Boston, or Citizen's and Stranger's Guide

1829

USD - 1.00
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] BRIDGMAN (T.) Epitaphs from Copp's Hill Burial Ground

1851

USD - 3.25
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Bridgman (T.) The Pilgrims of Boston and their Descendants. Introduction by Edw. Everett. Also, Inscriptions from Granary Burial Ground New York

1856

USD - 4.50
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] BUCKINGHAM (J. T.) Specimens of Newspaper Literature, with Personal Memoirs and Reminiscences Boston

1850

USD - 3.00
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] CADOGAN (WM.) A Dissertation on the Gout, and all Chronic Diseases, jointly considered, as proceeding from the same Causes, <i>etc.</i> London: repr. Boston

1772

USD - 1.00
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Census Report for the Year, 1845, by L. Shattuck Boston

1846

USD - 3.75
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] [CHAUNCY (C.)] Letter to a Friend, giving a representation of Sufferings the town of Boston is exposed to, in consequence of the [Port Bill]; by T. W. a Bostonian Boston

1774

USD - 3.75
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] First Church. Foxcroft (T.) Rise and Primitive State of New England, with special reference to the Old or First Gather'd Church in Boston; a Century Sermon

1730

USD - 4.50
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] First Church. Foxcroft (T.) The Divine Right of Deacons. Sermon on the Ordination of Zech. Thayer, to the office of Deacon, in the First Church, May, 1731; with the Charge;

USD - 0.75
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] First Church. Emerson (W.) Historical Sketch of the First Church; with Two Sermons

1812

USD - 2.00
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] First Church. Chauncy (C.) Sermon on the Return of the Society to their House of Worship.

1785

USD - 0.50
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Second Church. (Old North.) Prince (T.) Sermon at his own Ordination, Oct. 1, 1718, (Charge by I. Mather, R. Hand by C. Mather,) and a Serm. on Ordination of Presbyters, by E. Pemberton, at Ordin. of Mr. Sewall, 1713

1718

USD - 2.50
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Second Church. Prince (T.) Sermon, before the choice of a Colleague Pastor, to succeed Cotton Mather.

1732

USD - 3.75
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Second Church. Ware (H.) Two Century Discourses; History of the Old North and New Brick Churches

1821

USD - 0.50
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Second Church. Robbins (C.) Two [Historical] Sermons, March 10, 1844

USD - 0.50
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Second Church. Robbins (C.) History of the Second or Old North Church, With a History of the New Brick Church

1852

USD - 1.00
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Old South Church. Wisner (B. B.) History of the Old South Church

1830

USD - 1.50
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Old South The Confession of Faith, and Form of Covenant; with Lists of the Pastors, <i>etc.</i>, and the Members.

1841

USD - 0.70
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] New-North Church An Account of the Reasons Why a Considerable Number, (about Fifty, whereof Ten are Members in full Communion) Belonging to the New North Congregation in Boston, could not Consent to Mr. Peter Thacher's Ordination there, <i>etc.</i> n. p. [Boston]

1720

USD - 2.25
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] New-North Church A Vindication of the New-North-Church in Boston, from Several Falshoods spread in a Pamphlet Lately Published, Tending to their Defamation, Entituled, An Account of the Reasons <i>etc.</i>, ... By several of the Members of that Church Boston

1720

USD - 3.50
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] New-North Church. Eliot (Andrew) Sermon, after the Funeral of the late Rev. John Webb, who died April 16, 1750 Boston

[1750]

USD - 1.00
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] New-North Church. Parkman (F.) [Century] Sermon, Nov. 27, 1814.

USD - 2.00
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Brattle Street Church. Lothrop (S. K.) History of the Church in Brattle Street Boston

1851

USD - 1.50
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Brattle Street Church. Colman (B.) Sermon, Aug. 2, 1715, on Day of Prayer, for Election of a Pastor.

1715

USD - 5.60
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Baptist. Baldwin (T.) Discourse, Jan. 1, 1811, at opening New Meeting House of 2d Bapt. Church.

n. d. [1811]

USD - 1.00
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Baptist Bowdoin Square (Baptist) Church Book; History and Manual. By Rev. R. W. Cushman Boston

1843

USD - 1.00
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Christ Church. Caner (Henry) A Sermon, at Christ Church in Boston, August 20, 1765, at the Funeral of the Rev. Timothy Cutler, D.D., late Rector of said Church Boston

1765

USD - 1.75
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Christ Church. Eaton (Asa) Historical Account of Christ Church. Discourse, Dec. 28, 1823.

1824

USD - 1.40
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Church of the Disciples. Clarke (J. F.) Sermon on the Principles and Methods of the Church, 1845; Dedication Sermon

1848. (2)

USD - 1.00
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Church of the Savior. Waterston's Dedication Discourse.

1847

USD - 0.38
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Essex Street (Union). Sabine (J.) Sermon at Dedication of the House.

1819

USD - 0.75
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Franklin Street Origin and Formation &c., with Names of Members.

1836

USD - 0.50
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Hanover Street. Stuart (M.) Dedication Sermon, March 1, 1826.

USD - 0.75
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Hollis Street Proceedings of Eccles. Council, in case of the Proprietors and Rev. John Pierpont; prepared by S. K. Lothrop.

1841

USD - 0.75
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Hollis Street. Pierpont (J.) Sermon, after the Church was struck by Lightning.

1837

USD - 2.10
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Hollis Street. Fosdick (D.) Anniversary and Farewell Sermons.

1847

USD - 0.25
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Indiana St. Chapel. Fox (B.) Dedication Sermon.

1847

USD - 0.25
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] King's Chapel. Greenwood (F. W. P.) History of Kings Chapel, the First Episcopal Church in America

1833

USD - 2.50
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Park Street. Griffin (E. D.) Dedication Sermon, Jan. 10, 1810

USD - 0.50
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Presbyterian, First. Sabine (J.) Dedication Sermon, Jan. 31, 1828

USD - 1.00
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Trinity Church. Hooper (Wm.) Sermon in Trinity Church, at the Funeral of Thomas Greene, Esq; August 5, 1763

1763

USD - 0.50
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Trinity Church Six pamphlets relating to the Greene Foundation, Report on proceedings of Trustees, sale of Pews, <i>etc.</i>

1846--1847

USD - 1.00
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] West Church. Lowell (C.) Historical Discourse.

1820

USD - 0.50
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] [COLMAN (<i>Rev.</i> BENJAMIN)] Some Reasons and Arguments Offered to the Good People of Boston and Adjacent Places, for The setting up Markets in Boston Boston

1719

USD - 17.00
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] COLMAN (JOHN) The Distressed State of the Town of Boston Once more Considered ... With a Schaeme for a Bank Laid down; And Methods for bringing in Silver Money, Proposed.

[1720]

USD - 26.00
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] The Constable's Pocket-Book: or, a Dialogue between an Old Constable & a New, Being a Guide, In their Keeping the Peace, &c. By N. B. a late Constable in the Town of Boston

1710

USD - 2.50
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] The Constable's Pocket-Book.

1727

USD - 1.50
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] CROSWELL (ANDREW) Narrative of the Founding and Settling the New-gathered Congregational Church in Boston; to which is added, The Defence of that Doctrine of Justifying Faith, which hath been so much condemned in New-England, <i>etc.</i>, never before printed in New-Englan

1749

USD - 3.00
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] Dana (James F. <i>and</i> S. L.) Outlines of the Mineralogy and Geology of Boston and Vicinity Boston

1818

USD - 1.25
BOSTON. [ADAMS (SAM.)] DEARBORN (N.) Boston Notions, 1630--1847 Boston

1848

USD - 4.25
BOSTON. DRAKE (S. G.) The History and Antiquities of Boston, from its Settlement in 1630, to the year 1770, <i>etc.</i> Boston

1856

USD - 9.00
BOSTON. DRAKE (S. G.) The History and Antiquities of Boston, <i>etc.</i> Boston

1856

USD - 14.00
BOSTON. DRAKE (S. G.) The History and Antiquities of Boston, <i>etc.</i> Boston

1856

USD - 13.00
BOSTON. FIRE SOCIETY Articles of Association, March 7, 1733--4, of the "Society first incorporated September 30, 1717," for mutual aid "in case it should please Almighty God to permit the breaking out of FIRE in Boston (where we live)." Boston

1733--1734

USD - 7.50
BOSTON. FIRE of 1760. Janeway's Address to the Citizens of London soon after the Dreadful Fire in 1666, to which is added a Relation of the Great Fire in Boston, March 20, 1760 Boston

1760

USD - 1.00
BOSTON. FLETCHER <i>vs.</i> VASSALL The State of the Action brought by William Fletcher against William Vassall, for Defaming him: Tried at Boston, August, 1752, and now Pending by Appeal to His Majesty in Council Boston

1753

USD - 4.25
BOSTON. Fletcher <i>vs.</i> Vassall /book_records/36518

USD - 3.50
BOSTON Fourth of July Orations, 1787--1811 Boston

1787--1811

USD - 8.50
BOSTON Fourth of July Orations, 1813--1854

USD - 5.00
BOSTON. FROTHINGHAM (R.) History of the Siege of Boston, and of the Battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill Boston

1849

USD - 2.00
  • 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.