• 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
Pieter van der Aa 'T Noorder Gedeelte van Virginie, door Bartholomeus Gosnol en Martin Pringe, uyt Engeland Bevaaren

1714

USD - 345.00
Benjamin Franklin Chart of the Gulf Stream

1789

USD - 1,092.50
Martin Fernandez de Navarrete Carta del Oceano Atlantico Septentrional, con las Derrotas que Siguio Dn. Cristobal Colon... [and] Carta de las Costas de Tierra Firme Desde el Rio Orinoco Hasta Yucatan y de las Islas Antillas y Lucayas…

1825

USD - 287.50
Sebastian Munster Description Nouvelle d'Europe

1552

USD - 747.50
Ortelius/Coignet Europa

1601

USD - 115.00
Philipp Cluver Summa Europae Antiquae Descriptio

1616

USD - 103.50
Jodocus Hondius Nova Europae Descriptio

1619

USD - 632.50
Anonymous Europa in de Gedaante eener Zittende Dame

1800

USD - 207.00
Abraham Ortelius Angliae, Scotiae, et Hiberniae, sive Britannicar: Insularum Descriptio

1570

USD - 575.00
John Speed Britain as It Was Devided in the Tyme of the Englishe Saxons Especially During Their Heptarchy

1676

USD - 1,955.00
Alexis-Hubert Jaillot Les Isles Britanniques qui Contiennent les Royaumes d'Angleterre, Escosse, et Irlande Distingues en Leurs Principales Provinces...

1695

USD - 345.00
Herman Moll A Map of Great Britain and Ireland

1720

USD - 34.50
John Cary Cary's New Map of England and Wales, with Part of Scotland. On Which Are Carefully Laid Down All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads, the Course of the Rivers and Navigable Canals...

1794

USD - 460.00
Mercator/Hondius Anglesey [on sheet with] Wight Vectis Olim [and] Garnesay [and] Iarsay

1619

USD - 103.50
Mercator/Hondius Northumbria, Cumberlandia, et Dunelmensis Episcopatus

1619

USD - 126.50
Saxton/Camden Universi Derbiensis Comitatus qui olim Coritanorum Suit Descriptio

1637

USD - 138.00
John Speed Barkshire Described

1616

USD - 575.00
Saxton/Camden Oxoniensis Comitatus Vulgo Oxfordshyre qui pars olim Dobunorum

1637

USD - 218.50
Saxton/Camden Cambridge Comitatus quem olim Iceni Insederunt

1637

USD - 161.00
Saxton/Camden Glocestriae Comitatus olim Sedes Dobunorum

1637

USD - 207.00
John Speed Midle-Sex Described with the Most Famous Cities of London and Westminster

1627

USD - 1,035.00
John Bartholomew, Sr. Children's Map of London

1950

USD - 373.75
Ortelius/Coignet Anglia

1601

USD - 92.00
Mercator/Hondius Anglia Regnum

1613

USD - 316.25
Abraham Ortelius Cambriae Typus Auctore Humfredo Lhuydo Denbigiense Cambrobritano

1588

USD - 460.00
Saxton/Camden Cardigan Comitatus pars Olim Dimetarum

1637

USD - 195.50
Saxton/Camden Caernarvo Comitatus pars olim Ordovicum

1637

USD - 103.50
Blaeu [Family] Denbigiensis Comitatus et Comitatus Flintensis; Denbigh et Flintshire

1645

USD - 138.00
John Ogilby The Road from Monmouth to Llanbeder in Cardigansh South Wales

1694

USD - 184.00
Robert Morden South Wales

1695

USD - 161.00
Mercator/Hondius Scotia Regnum

1613

USD - 207.00
Herman Moll The North Part of Great Britain Called Scotland. With Considerable Improvements and Many Remarks Not Extant in Any Map. According to the Newest and Exact Observations

1714

USD - 517.50
Franz Anton Schrambl Karte von Scotland Verfasst von Herrn J. Dorret…

1787

USD - 172.50
SDUK Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge Scotland [in set with] Scotland I [and] Scotland II [and] Scotland III - Orkneys, Shetlands and Hebrides

1834-41

USD - 80.50
Greenvile Collins [Approaches to Dundee] To the Honble, the Magistrates of the Citty of Aberdeene...

1693

USD - 218.50
Matthaus Merian Edynburgum

1642

USD - 402.50
Tomaso da Castiglione Aretino Porcacchi Irlanda

1620

USD - 207.00
John Speed The Province of Connaugh with the Citie of Galwaye Described

1610

USD - 690.00
Ptolemy/Fries Norbegia & Gottia

1541

USD - 2,415.00
Mercator/Hondius Suecia et Norvegia cum Confinijs

1619

USD - 230.00
Jan Jansson Sueciae, Norvegiae, et Daniae, Nova Tabula

1653

USD - 207.00
Jan Jansson Nova Totius Livoniae Accurata Descriptio

1646

USD - 287.50
Sebastian Munster De la Situation de Danemarch

1552

USD - 103.50
Ortelius/Coignet Dania

1601

USD - 109.25
Mercator/Hondius Fionia

1619

USD - 69.00
Ortelius/Coignet Lutzenburg

1601

USD - 92.00
John Speed A New Mape of ye XVII Provinces of Low Germanie, Mended a New in Manie Places

1676

USD - 1,092.50
Friedrich Wilhelm Delkeskamp Atlas Pittoresque du Rhin Depuis Bale Jusqu'a la Mer...

1847

USD - 316.25
Frederick de Wit Tabulae Dominii Groeningae quae et Complectitur Maximam Partem Drentiae

1680

USD - 69.00
Willem Blaeu Gallia le Royaume de France

1635

USD - 207.00
Gilles Robert de Vaugondy Partie Orientale du Gouvernement General de la Guienne ou se Trouvent le Quercy et le Rouergue

1753

USD - 37.95
Delisle/Covens & Mortier Civitas Leucorum sive Pagus Tullensis Aujourdhui le Diocese de Toul pour Servier a l'Histoire de ce Diocese

1730

USD - 103.50
Nicolas de Fer Le Plan de la Ville, Cite, et Universite de Paris. Capitale du Royaume de France...

1724

USD - 345.00
Delisle/Covens & Mortier Le Plan de Paris, ses Faubourgs et ses Environs / Platte Grond van Parys, zyn Voorburgen en Omleggende Plaatse

1730

USD - 2,300.00
Guillaume Dheulland Ville Cite et Universite de Paris

1908

USD - 241.50
Sebastian Munster La Description d'Espaigne Selon Ses Royaumes, Provinces, Fleuves, & Citez...

1552

USD - 69.00
Sebastian Munster La Description d' Affricque Selon ses Divers Pais, Animaux & Monstres Horribles

1552

USD - 115.00
Ortelius/Coignet Africa

1601

USD - 126.50
Jodocus Hondius Nova Africae Tabula

1611

USD - 1,035.00
Mercator/Hondius Africa ex Magna Orbis Terre Descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris Desumpta, Studio & Industria

1619

USD - 575.00
John Speed Africae, Described the Manners of Their Habits, and Buildinge: Newly Done into English...

1676

USD - 2,875.00
Nicolas Visscher Africae Accurata Tabula

1677

USD - 575.00
John Tallis Africa

1850

USD - 115.00
Mercator/Hondius Barbaria [on sheet with] Cartaginis sive Potius Tunetani Celeberrimi Sinus... [and] [Aegyptus]

1628

USD - 97.75
Sebastian Munster Germaniae Nationis Descriptio

1559

USD - 149.50
Ptolemy/Fries Tabula Nova Provinciarum Rheni [on verso] [Lotharingia]

1541

USD - 546.25
Emanuel Bowen A Correct Map of the North West Part of Germany Containing Westphalia & Lower Saxony Including the Electorates of Brunswick Lunenburg or Hannover & Cologne...

1733

USD - 86.25
Henry Abraham Chatelain Carte Generale des Treize Cantons Suisses et des Differents Etats de Leur Dependance… [and] Carte Ancienne de la Suisse avec des Remarques Abreges sur les Divers Evenemens et Revolutions qui y sont Arrivees…

1708

USD - 287.50
Sebastian Munster Le Pourtraict de la Ville de Basle Selon la Vraye Situation d'Icelle, Ainsi qu'elle a Este l'An 1549

1552

USD - 253.00
Gerard Mercator Austria Archiducatus

1613

USD - 115.00
Ptolemy/Fries Tabula Nova Poloniae, Ungariae, & Russiae

1541

USD - 546.25
Abraham Ortelius Poloniae Finitimarumque Locorum Descriptio. Auctore Wenceslao Godreccio Polono

1571

USD - 805.00
Tobias Conrad Lotter Carte Nouvelle des Royaumes de Galizie et Lodomerie avec le District de Bukowine

1760

USD - 575.00
Frederick de Wit Imperii Russici, sive Moscoviae, Status Generalis, in ejus Regna, Ducatus, Provincias, Populosq Subjacentes Divisus, et ex Tabula Spectatmi. Domini...

1680

USD - 517.50
SDUK Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge [Russia in Europe and Asia]

1834-40

USD - 172.50
SDUK Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge St. Petersburg

1834

USD - 172.50
Delisle/Covens & Mortier Seconde Partie de la Crimee, la Mer Noire &c...

1733

USD - 230.00
Alexis-Hubert Jaillot Le Royaume de Hongrie et les Estats qui ont este Unis a sa Couronne a l'Usage de Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne...

1696

USD - 172.50
Ptolemy/Fries Europae Tabula Quinta Continet Rhetiam & Vindeliciam… [Title on Verso]

1541

USD - 488.75
Abraham Ortelius Schlavoniae, Croatiae, Carniae, Istriae, Bosniae, Finitimarumque Regionum Nova Descriptio, Auctore Augustino Hirsuogelio

1571

USD - 230.00
Petrus Bertius Illyricum

1616

USD - 69.00
Mercator/Hondius Sclavonia, Croatia, Bosnia cum Dalmatiae Parte

1619

USD - 115.00
Ptolemy/Fries Europae Tabula Decima Continet Macedoniam, Epyrum, Achaiam, Peloponesum, & Cretam Insulam [Title on Verso]

1541

USD - 488.75
Abraham Ortelius Graeciae Universae Secundum Hodiernum Situm Neoterica Descriptio

1571

USD - 345.00
Philipp Cluver Cataracta Aerea Monte Aeolic Italiae [on sheet with] A Cataract in the Duchy of Spoletto... [and] The Cataract of the Rhine... [and] Tabula Freti Siculi Charibdis... [and] Cataracta Hydrotechnica... [and] The Cataract of the Rhine att Coblents...

1697

USD - 138.00
John Tallis Northern Italy [and] Southern Italy

1865

USD - 46.00
Hondius/Bertius Veronensis Ager

1616

USD - 46.00
Jan Jansson Territorio di Bologna

1653

USD - 287.50
Jan Jansson Territorio di Cremona

1653

USD - 138.00
Abraham Ortelius Thusciae Descriptio Auctore Hieronymo Bellarmato

1571

USD - 373.75
Mercator/Hondius Latium nunc Campagna di Roma

1619

USD - 86.25
Philipp Cluver Etruriae Latii Umbriae Piceni Sabinorum et Marsorum Vetus et Nova Descriptio

1711

USD - 97.75
Braun & Hogenberg [Map of the Grotto of the Cumaean Sibyl and Lake Agnano]

1581

USD - 345.00
Nicolas de Fer Les Merveilles de Pozzoli ou Pouzzol Cume et Baia ou Bayes. Dans le Voisinage de Naples

1705

USD - 161.00
Jan Jansson Territorio di Pavia, Lodi, Novarra, Tortona, Alessandria et Altri Vicini dello Stato di Milano

1653

USD - 172.50
Sebastian Munster Florence Tresnoble Cite des Tuscans, Figuree Comme Elle est de Nostre Temps

1552

USD - 373.75
Claudio Duchetti Fiorenza

1590

USD - 2,070.00
Mercator/Hondius Siciliae Regnum

1619

USD - 460.00
Henry Abraham Chatelain Rome Ancienne et Moderne

1705

USD - 241.50
Henry Abraham Chatelain L'Idee Generale du Conclave de l'Exaltation des Papes, de Leur Pompe Funebre, et des Differenes Iuridictions de la Cour de Rome

1720

USD - 138.00
  • 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.