• 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
  • 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
  • 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.

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Auction Date
February 07, 2025 - February 07, 2025
Page Size: 237644 items in 2377 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres [Untitled chart of the coast line around Portsmouth, New Hampshire]

1779

USD - 6,500.00
van Keulen [Family] Nieuwe Wassende Gradige Pas-Kaart van het Inkomen van het Canaal op de Hoofden ...

c.1720

USD - 342.00
Jacques Nicolas Bellin Carte de la Mer de Marmara

1764

USD - 33.00
Braun & Hogenberg Huum Opp. Condrusorum Caput

1572-1617

USD - 247.00
Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron Carte Generale du Cours du Gange et du Gagra dressee sur les Cartes particulieres

1784

USD - 575.00
Perthes [Family and Companies] Stand der Geodatischen Arbeiten in den Vereinigten Staaten

1900

USD - 90.00
Isaac Tirion Nieuwe Kaart van de Grootbrittannische Volkplantingen in Noord America waar in Tevens de Fransche Bezittingen en de Landen tuschen die Beide Volken in Geschil Staande en de Wederzydsche Pretensien Duidelyk Aangewezen worden ...

1769

USD - 1,250.00
Homann [Family] Theatrum Belli inter Imperat. Carol VI. et Sult. Achmet IV. in Partibus Regnorum Serviae et Bosniae

c.1740

USD - 555.00
Morse & Breese New Jersey

1842

USD - 70.00
Gilles Robert de Vaugondy L'Empire De La Chine dresse d'apres les Cartes de l'Atlas Chinois . . . 1751

1751

USD - 495.00
John Speed The West Ridinge of Yorkeshyre with the Most Famous and Fayre Citie Yorke Described

1646-

USD - 1,800.00
Sebastian Munster Taprobana Insula

1550

USD - 276.00
American Antiquarian Society MAP OF THE INDIAN TRIBES OF NORTH AMERICA About 1600 A.D. Along The Atlantic; & About 1800 A.D. Westwardly. Published By The Amer: Antiq: Soc: From A Drawing By Hon. A. Gallatin. Pendleton's Lithography..

1836

USD - 2,000.00
Mercator [Family] Septentrionalium Terrarum Descriptio

1619

USD - 1,920.00
John Russell Map of the State of Kentucky; with the Adjoining Territories.

1794

USD - 517.50
Ortelius/Coignet India Orient.

1601

USD - 172.50
Emanuel Bowen An Accurate Map of the County of Bedford, Divided into its Hundreds ...

1749

USD - 157.00
William M. Bradley [& Bros.] County and Township Map of Montana Idaho and Wyoming

1887

USD - 75.00
Abraham Ortelius Peregrinationis Divi Pauli Typus Corographicus ...

1601 or 1612

USD - 1,285.00
Jacques Nicolas Bellin Carte Reduite de la Mer du Sud

1753

USD - 472.32
T. Elwood Zell Europe

1873

USD - 39.00
Samuel Augustus Mitchell Plan of Boston

1868

USD - 85.00
Jan Jansson Paraguay, O Prov. De Rio De La Plata

1666 ca

USD - 570.50
John Seller Flintshire

1693-1787

USD - 24.00
Frederick de Wit Orientaliora Indiarum Orientalium cum Insulis Adjacentibus a Promontorio C. Comorin ad Iapan

1675

USD - 4,312.50
John Marshall Plan of the Country from Frogs Point to Croton River Shewing the Positions of the American & British Armies from the 12th of Oct.1776 until the Engagement on the White Plains on the 28th

1832

USD - 90.00
Thomas Jefferys A New Plan of the City and Liberty of Westminster… [together with] A New Plan of the city of London and Borough of Southwark, Exhibiting all the New Streets, Roads &c. Not extant in any other Plan

c. 1772

USD - 1,580.40
Anonymous Descriptio terrarum in quasdispersi sunt structores turris Babel

1700

USD - 308.00
William Guthrie [Book with maps] Guthrie's Universal Geography, Improved ...

1795

USD - 242.00
John Speed A New Map Of Ye XVII Provinces of Low Germanie …

1626-1631

USD - 3,247.20
G.W. & C.B Colton [& Co.] Colton's General Atlas, Containing One Hundred and Eighty Steel Plate Maps and Plans, on One Hundred and Nineteen Imperial Folio Sheets

1868

USD - 2,070.00
Luigi Guicciardini Aquisgranum vulgo Aich per Antiqua Imperij Urbs, Monumento Caroli Magni, Therma Prestantia et Memorablis

1648

USD - 230.00
John Pinkerton British Possessions in North America

1814

USD - 225.00
Lotter [Family] Partie Orientale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada avec l'Isle de Terre-Neuve et de Nouvelle Escosse, Acadie et Nouv. Angleterre avec Fleuve de St Laurence ...

c.1740

USD - 1,000.00
Grave Schmandt Vizitu Germanion.

1955

USD - 95.00
Antonio Garcia y Cubas [Atlas] Atlas Geographico, Estadistico e Historico de la Republica Mexicana ...

1858

USD - 14,500.00
Vicenzo Maria Coronelli Isola di Madagascar, o di S. Lorenzo ...

1690-97

USD - 725.00
Nicolas Sanson Les Isles de la Sonde, entre lesquelles sont Sumatra, Iava, Borneo, &c.

1700

USD - 280.00
Rigobert Bonne Amerique Septentrionale ...

c.1780

USD - 45.00
Abraham Ortelius Galliae Veteris Typus

1594

USD - 293.00
Thomas Campanius Holm Virginiae N. Angliae N. Hollandiae nec non Novae Sueciae Delineatio

1702

USD - 225.00
Sebastian Munster Die Erst Tafel Inhaltend das Schweitzerlandt ...

1592

USD - 274.00
Mount & Page A New Mapp of the Island of St. Christophers Being an Actual Survey Taken by Mr. Andrew Norwood ... [on sheet with] A New Mapp of the Island Martineca [and] A New Mapp of the Island Guardalupa

1698

USD - 1,010.60
Pierre Mortier Carte Particuliere des Costes de l'Afrique 'les Pays de Cafres' (Mozambique)

1705

USD - 704.00
Hondius [Family] Asiae Nova Descriptio Auctore Jodoco Hondio

1606-23

USD - 550.00
John Cary A New Map of North America from the Latest Authorities

1806

USD - 550.00
Willem Blaeu Terra Firma et Novum Regnum Granatense et Popayan

1642

USD - 895.00
Bonne/Lattre Indes IVe. Feuille

1787

USD - 144.00
Jacques Nicolas Bellin Carte de l'Amerique et des Mers Voisines 1763

1764

USD - 385.00
Illustrated London News New York from Bergen Hill: Hoboken

1876

USD - 350.00
Infrequent Publ. - Spanish-American War Goff's Historical Map of the Spanish-American War in the West Indies, 1898 ...

1899

USD - 475.00
Citoyen Bertholon Carte de la Virginie et du Mariland

1799

USD - 364.00
Antonio Zatta Isole di Majorca, d'Ivica e di Formentera di Nuova Projezione

1778

USD - 811.00
Mercator/Hondius Russia cum Confinijs

1628

USD - 287.50
General Drafting Corp. New York to Florida 'Upside-Down' Map

1955

USD - 150.00
Samuel Augustus Mitchell County Map of Ohio and Indiana

1868

USD - 65.00
Manuscript Maps Isollario del Mediteraneo et colpho di Venezia

1645-1675 ca.

USD - 85,000.00
U.S. War Department General Map of Charleston Harbor South Carolina Showing Rebel Defenses and Obstructions

1865

USD - 201.25
Robert Morden America by R. Morden

c.1700

USD - 150.00
Jean Alexandre Buchon Carte Geographique, Statistique Et Historique De Porto-Rico

1825

USD - 464.00
John Tallis Australia

1850

USD - 216.00
Charles Francois Delamarche Tableau Analytique des Differentes Positions de la Sphere, des Differens Systemes, des Revolutions et des Distances des Planetes, &c.

1810

USD - 192.00
Blaeu [Family] Dissegno della Citta di Mondovi in Piemonte

1682

USD - 431.00
JOHANN BAPTIST HOMANN Belgii Pars Septentrionalis Communi Nominee Vulgo Hollandia

circa 1740

USD - 375.00
Mercator/Hondius Island

1607

USD - 195.50
U.S. War Department Extract of Military Map of N.E. Virginia Showing Forts and Roads

1865

USD - 250.00
Jacques Nicolas Bellin AUSSICHT VON PEKING

1750 c

USD - 169.90
Braun & Hogenberg Emuda, Vulgo Embden Urbs Frisiae Orientalis Primaria

1575

USD - 240.00
Samuel Augustus Mitchell Plan of Philadelphia

1860

USD - 40.00
John Speed Greece

1627

USD - 575.00
William Collins [Sons & Co.] Collin's Standard Map of London

1885 ca.

USD - 175.00
Colton [Family] Arkansas

1855

USD - 105.00
Colton [Family] City of New Orleans [on sheet with] City of Louisville

1855

USD - 95.00
George Woolworth Colton Colton's Common School Geography. Map No. 12. United States

1874

USD - 45.00
George Woolworth Colton Colton's Common School Geography Reference Map of the United States Section 10 [Texas]

1880

USD - 75.00
Colton [Family] Colton's Georgetown and the City of Washington, The Capital of the United States of America

1861

USD - 75.00
Colton [Family] Colton's Kansas and Nebraska

1861

USD - 150.00
Colton [Family] Colton's Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and British Columbia

1869

USD - 125.00
Colton [Family] Colton's Persia and Arabia

1869

USD - 45.00
Joseph Hutchins Colton Colton's Territories of New Mexico and Utah

1861

USD - 225.00
Colton [Family] Colton's United States of America

1861

USD - 185.00
Colton [Family] Indiana

1861

USD - 70.00
Colton [Family] Massachusetts and Rhode Island

1861

USD - 75.00
Clason Map Company Topographical Map Gilpin County Colo. Mineral Belt Gold Production $125,000,000.00.

1906

USD - 375.00
Jean Alexandre Buchon Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique du Maine

1825

USD - 57.50
Nicolas Visscher Rhenolandia, Amstelandia et Circumjacentia aliquot Territori

c. 1670

USD - 219.00
Abraham Ortelius Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio…

1598

USD - 1,725.00
Manuscript Maps (Germantown, Philadelphia - Surveyor's Journal)

1829-30

USD - 5,760.00
Ptolemy/Ruscelli La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino...

1574

USD - 6,900.00
Homann [Family] Statuum Totius Italiae Novissima Repraesentatio Geographica ...

c.1720

USD - 800.00
Louis Charles Desnos Almanach Geographique ou Petit Atlas Elementaire Compose de Cartes Generales et Particulieres des Differens Empires, Royaumes et Republiques de l'Europe...

1770

USD - 690.00
Mercator/Hondius Veronae Vicentiae et Pataviae Dit.

1607

USD - 92.00
Rufus L. Barnes Barnes' Map of Philadelphia: Built Portion of the City

1859

USD - 200.00
U.S. Pacific Railroad Surveys Skeleton Map Exhibiting the Route Explored by Capt. J.W. Gunnison U.S.A., 38 Parallel of North Latitude (1853), also that of the 41 Parallel of Latitude Explored by Lieutenant E.G.P. Beckwith 3d. Arty. (1854)

1853

USD - 150.00
John Tallis Asia Minor

1851

USD - 145.00
Abraham Ortelius Africae Propriae Tabula, in qua, Punica Regna Vides; Tyrios, et Agenoris Urbem

1590

USD - 540.00
Albert Jouvin de Rochefort Plan de la Ville, Cite, Universite et Fauxbourgs de Paris ...

c.1705

USD - 2,000.00
U.S. Government Totopotomoy ...

1867

USD - 175.00
Meyer [Family] Wheeling in Virginia

c.1850

USD - 45.00
Frederick de Wit Tabula Tartariae et Majoris Partis Regni Chinae

1662

USD - 525.00
  • 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
  • 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.