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Parke Bernet

Auction Info

Sale Name
The Celebrated Collection of Americana formed by the late Thomas Winthrop Streeter
Auction Date
10/21/1969 - 10/21/1969
Year of Sale
1969
Sale Number
#1969yr
Total Lots
1094
Sold Lots
1077
Lots Sold
98.4%
Unsold Lots
17
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (USD)
371,014.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
0.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
0.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
0.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
0.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
Inf%
Currency
USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
2,822,300.00

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
CARTIER, JACQUES A Shorte and briefe narration of the two Navigations and Discoveries to the Northweast partes called Newe Fraunce: First translated out of French into Italian, by that famous learned man Gio: Bapt: Ramutius, and now turned into English by Iohn Florio: Wor

1580

 USD - 21,000.00
HARTSHORNE, RICHARD, and others A Further Account of New Jersey, In an Abstract of Letters Lately Writ from thence, By several Inhabitants there Resident. [Printer's device.] 18.5 cm. Disbound, red edges. Title and last (blank) page dust-soiled, small tears at inside margins, ink markin

Printed in the Year 1676

 USD - 11,000.00
WHITMAN, WALT Leaves of Grass. 28 cm. Original blind-stamped cloth, gilt titles on backstrip and covers. Portrait frontispiece foxed, title-leaf lightly foxed, spine cracked. With the Arthur Swann bookplate. In a morocco case.

1855

 USD - 9,000.00
LUTKE, FYODOR PETROVITCH Voyage Author du Monde, execute par ordre de sa Majeste l'Empereur Nicolas Ier, Sur la Corvette Le Seniavine, Dans les annees 1826, 1827, 1828, et 1829, par Frederick Lutke, Captaine de Vaisseau, Aide-de-Camp de S. M. l'Empereur, Commandant de l'Expeditio

1835--36

 USD - 5,500.00
CHAMPLAIN, SAMUEL DE Les Voyages du Sieur de Champlain Xaintongeois, Capitaine ordinaire pour le Roy, en la marine. Divisez en Deux Livres. Ou, Journal Tresfidele des Observationes faites es descouvertures de la Nouvelle France: tant en la description des terres, costes, rivi

1613

 USD - 5,000.00
JOHNSON, EBENEZER A Short Account of a Northwest Voyage, Performed in the Years 1796, 1797 & 1798. By Ebenezer Johnson. [Woodcut of a ship, above two lines of quotation.] 21.5 cm. Full brown levant morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Brief title in gilt on spine, leaves stai

1798

 USD - 4,500.00
RUSSIAN AMERICAN COMPANY A group of five documents, all in Russian, concerning the establishment of the Russian American Company. In a quarter morocco slipcase.

1799--1929

 USD - 4,500.00
FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN. (Three works.) Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Made at Philadelphia in America, by Mr. Benjamin Franklin, and Communicated in several Letters to Mr. P. Collinson, of London, F. R. S. 22.1 cm. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, red speckled edges.

1751

 USD - 4,250.00
LEDYARD, JOHN A Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and in quest of a North-West Passage, between Asia a America; Performed in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, and 1779. Illustrated with a Chart, shewing the Tracks of the Ships employed in this Exped

1783

 USD - 4,100.00
RINDISBACHER, PETER Views in Hudson's Bay. Taken by a Gentlemen on the Spot in the Years, 1823 and 1824. Illustrative of the Customs, Manners and Costumes of those Tribes of North American Indians Amongst whom Capt'n. Franklin has passed in his present and former arduous und

[1825?]

 USD - 4,000.00
OREGON. State. CONSTITUTION The Constitution of Oregon, Framed by the Convention which met at Salem, On Monday, August 17th 1857, and which is to be submitted for the adoption or rejection of the people on Monday, November 9th A. D. 1857. [Signed at end:] Done in Convention at Salem

USD - 3,700.00
COLLES, CHRISTOPHER A Survey of the Roads of the United States of America by Christopher Colles. 1789 References. ... Scale of one mile. ... Ca. 21.5 cm., untrimmed except for title leaf and the first five maps (supplied from another copy). Original boards, printed paper lab

1789

 USD - 3,500.00
ELLIS, WILLIAM, and HIRAM BINGHAM Na Himeni Hawaii; he me Ori Ia Iehova, ke Akua Mau. [Translation: The Hawaiian Hymns; for Praise to Jehova, the Eternal God.] [Three lines of quotation from the Psalms in Hawaiian.] 11.9 cm. Original boards covered with native striped bark paper, edges sp

1823

 USD - 3,000.00
HAWAIIAN MISSION PRESS. (Three items.) (No. 1.) [:at head; non title. Text begins:] A E I O U a e i o u. Edges and last page browned.

[April, 1825]

 USD - 2,750.00
CHAMPLAIN, SAMUEL DE Les Voyages de la Nouvelle France Occidentale, Dicte Canada, Faits par le Sr de Champlain Xainctongeois, Capitaine pour le Roy en la Marine du Ponant, & toutes des Descouvertes qu'l a faites en ce pais depuis l'an 1603. jusques en l'an 1629. Ou se voit de

1632

 USD - 2,700.00
HAWAIIAN MISSION PRESS. (Five items.) Ka Mooolelo Kinohi, I-Wacia Noloko Ae O Ka Palapala Mua A Mose. [At head:] (No. 7.) [Caption title.]

[Dec. 1829]

 USD - 2,700.00
GREAT BRITAIN. Treaty Articles of Peace Between The Most Serene and Mighty Prince Charles II. By the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. And Several Indian Kings and Queens, &c. Concluded the 29th day of May, 1677. Published

1677

 USD - 2,600.00
JEWITT, JOHN RODGERS A Journal, Kept at Nootka Sound, by John R. Jewitt, one of the Surviving Crew of the Ship Boston, of Boston, John Salter, Commander, who was Massacred on 22d of March, 1803. Interpersed with Some Account of the Natives, their Manners and Customs. 16.8 cm.

1807

 USD - 2,200.00
DELISLE, JOSEPH NICOLAS Explication de la Carte des Nouvelles Decouvertes Au Nord de la Mer du Sud; Par M. de l'Isle, de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, & Professeur de Mathematiques au College Royal. [Ornament.] 23 cm. Later plain light blue wrappers. Browning. In a cloth case

1752

 USD - 2,100.00
COOLEY, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A Summary Exposition of the Social Theory of the Dissenters, Called Perfectionists, Which Theory is Called by Them the Bible Argument, Showing the Relation of the Sexes in the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, Unto Which Some of Them Profess to Have Attained, E

1850

 USD - 2,000.00
SAMWELL, DAVID A Narrative of the Death of Captain James Cook. To which are added some Particulars, concerning his Life and Character. and Observations respecting the Introduction of the Venereal Disease into the Sandwich Islands. By David Samwell, Surgeon of the Discov

1786

 USD - 2,000.00
TATARINOFF, MICHAEL, Supposed artist [Ms. Russian map with title (in translation): An Accurate map of part of Kamchatka with the situation of the Ochotsky Shore with all the Curille Islands and a part of Japan also of N. W. America with all the Aleut Islands or the Northern Archipelagos (as)

USD - 2,000.00
SMITH, WILLIAM (1727--1803) Some Thoughts on Education: With Reasons for Erecting a College in this Province, and fixing the same at the City of New-York: To which is added, A Scheme for employing Masters or Teachers in the mean Time: And also for raising and endowing an Edifice in

1752

 USD - 1,900.00
DOBBS-MIDDLETON CONTROVERSY Report Relating the Finding a North-West Passage. [Deposition, pp. 6--7, signed:] John Rankin. Rob. Wilson. 27 cm. Marbled paper wrapper. Small marginal tears on leaf B1, some offsetting on all pages.

[1742]

 USD - 1,900.00
PALLISER, JOHN. (Three items.) Exploration---British North America. Papers Relative to the Exploration by Captain Palliser of that Portion of British North America which lies between the Northern Branch of the River Saskatchewan and the Frontier of the United States; and between the Re

1859

 USD - 1,900.00
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
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