• 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
Royal Geographical Society Anegada with its Reefs by R.H. Schomburgk [on sheet with] Virgin Islands

1832

USD - 271.00
Royal Geographical Society Map of Eastern Australia on which are Delineated the Routes of Messrs. Burke & Wills, Mckinlay, Landsborough & Walter &c.

1863

USD - 225.00
Royal Geographical Society Map of Guayana to Illustrate the Route of R.H. Schomburgk Esq. 1840

1840

USD - 60.00
Royal Geographical Society Map of Guayana to Illustrate the Route of R.H. Schomburgk Esq. 1840

1840

USD - 60.00
Royal Geographical Society Map of Sikkim

1881

USD - 4.00
Royal Geographical Society Map of the Provinces of Canterbury and Otago (New Zealand) to Illustrate the Papers of Mr. James M'Kerrow, Dr. J. Haast & Dr. Hector

1864

USD - 75.00
Royal Geographical Society Map of the Routes in Eastern Africa between Zanzibar, the Great Lakes and the Nile Explored and Surveyed by Captn. J. H. Speke 1857-1863

1864

USD - 250.00
Royal Geographical Society Map of the South East Portion of Australia, Shewing the Progress of Discovery, in the Interior of New South Wales

1837

USD - 150.00
Royal Geographical Society Map of Vancouver Island

1864

USD - 65.00
Royal Geographical Society Map of Vancouver Island & Part of British Columbia

1869

USD - 60.00
Royal Geographical Society Map of Vancouver Island & Part of British Columbia

1869

USD - 60.00
Royal Geographical Society Map of Vancouver Island to Illustrate the Paper of Dr. C. Forbes, RN

1864

USD - 60.00
Royal Geographical Society Map of Vancouver Island to Illustrate the Paper of Dr. C. Forbes, RN

1864

USD - 475.00
Royal Geographical Society Map of Vancouver Island, with the Adjacent Coast to Illustrate a Description of the Island

1857

USD - 385.00
Royal Geographical Society Map to Complete Diaries of Exploration across Australia (from South to North) by ... Stuart Esq. 1861 & 1862

1863

USD - 60.00
Royal Geographical Society Map to Illustrate Diaries of Exploration of Central Australia by ... Stuart Esq. 1860 & 1861

1861

USD - 120.00
Royal Geographical Society Melville & Bathurst Island with Coburg Peninsula, Northern Australia

1834

USD - 70.00
Royal Geographical Society Part of British Columbia to Illustrate the Papers of Mr. Justice Begbie, Comr. Mayne ... Palmer & Dowie

1861

USD - 75.00
Royal Geographical Society Sketch Map of the Island of Formosa ...

1864

USD - 143.00
Royal Geographical Society Sketch of Part of the Himma-Leh Mountains to Illustrate the Paper by Capt. Johnson

1834

USD - 40.00
Royal Geographical Society Sketch Shewing the Route of the Recent Arctic Land Expedition

1835

USD - 110.00
Royal Geographical Society The South Polar Regions to Illustrate the Paper by Staff Commander J.E. Davis

1869

USD - 70.00
Royal Geographical Society Upper California to Illustrate the Paper by Dr. Coulter

1835

USD - 50.00
Royal Magazine A New and Accurate Map of the Present Seat of War in North America

1759

USD - 95.00
Royal Magazine A New and Accurate Map of the Present Seat of War in North America

1759

USD - 225.00
Royal Magazine A New and Accurate Map of the Present Seat of War in North America

1759

USD - 100.00
Royal Magazine A North View of Fort Johnson Drawn on the Spot ...

c.1760

USD - 40.00
Royal Magazine A Perspective View of Quebec Drawn on the Spot

1760

USD - 110.00
Royal Magazine A Plan of the Siege of the Havana, Drawn by an Officer on the Spot. 1762

1762

USD - 65.00
Royal Magazine A Plan of the Siege of the Havana, Drawn by an Officer on the Spot. 1762

1762

USD - 145.00
Royal Magazine A View of Niagara Fort, Taken by Sir William Johnson, on the 25th of July 1759. Drawn on the Spot in 1758

1760

USD - 40.00
Royal Magazine A View of Niagara Fort, Taken by Sir William Johnson, on the 25th of July 1759. Drawn on the Spot in 1758

1760

USD - 95.00
Royal Magazine An Authentic Plan of the River St. Lawrence, from Sillery to the Fall of Montmerenci. With the Operations of the Siege of Quebec, under the Command of Vice-Adml. Saunders & Majr. Genl. Wolfe down to the 5 Sepr. 1759. Drawn by a Captain ...

1759

USD - 110.00
Royal Society of London Philosophical Trans. A Passage by Land to California Discover'd by the Rev: Father Eusebius Francis Kino Jesuite between ye Years 1698 and 1701

1708

USD - 550.00
John Royce A Map of the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Isle of Man, Isle of Wight

c.1770

USD - 65.00
Giovanni Giamcomo de Rossi Recentis Romae Ichnographia et Hypsographia sive Planta et Facies ...

1756

USD - 3,000.00
Olaf Rudbeck (Uppsala and environs)

1679

USD - 638.00
Rudolphi (Niedermarsberg)

1714

USD - 183.00
Rudolphi (Wunnenberg)

1714

USD - 37.00
Rudolphi Dioecesis Paderbornensis sub Imperio Francorum et Saxonum Descriptio Nova

1714

USD - 102.00
Rudolphi Driburgum Oppidum, Ruder a Vetusti Castri Driburg

1714

USD - 195.00
Rudolphi Iburgum, nunc Driburg

1713

USD - 275.00
Rudolphi Lipspring seu Luppiae Fontes ...

1714

USD - 195.00
Edward Ruggles A Map of Massachusetts, Connecticut, & Rhodeisland. Humbly Submitted to the Citizens thereof

1819

USD - 375.00
Edward Ruggles New-Hampshire, from Late Survey; to the Citizens of which, this Map is Most Respectfully Dedicated ...

1817

USD - 950.00
Fausto Rughesi America

1597

USD - 3,850.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Africa Nuova Tavola

1562

USD - 150.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Africa Nuova Tavola

1562

USD - 225.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Africa Nuova Tavola

1561-99

USD - 218.00
Girolamo Ruscelli America

1599

USD - 850.00
Girolamo Ruscelli America

1599

USD - 402.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Anglia et Hibernia Nova / Angliae, Hyberniae, Aliarumq Insularum Nova Tabula

1562

USD - 340.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Asia

1599

USD - 360.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Brasil Nuova Tavola

1599

USD - 460.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Carta Marina Nuova Tavola

1561

USD - 950.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Carta Marina Nuova Tavola

1561

USD - 550.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Carta Marina Nuova Tavola

1598

USD - 600.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Carta Marina Nuova Tavola

1562

USD - 645.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Carta Marina Nuova Tavola

1574

USD - 450.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Carta Marina Nuova Tavola

1599

USD - 600.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Carta Marina Nuova Tavola

1561-

USD - 796.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Di Hungaria et Transilvania. Tavola Novissima

1599

USD - 91.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Di Hungaria et Transilvania. Tavola Novissima

1599

USD - 125.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Espositioni

1561

USD - 75.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Europa

1599

USD - 400.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Europae Tabula VI

1561

USD - 100.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Europae Tabula VI

1561

USD - 325.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Hispania Nova Tabula

1562

USD - 190.00
Girolamo Ruscelli India Tercera Nuova Tavola

1562

USD - 225.00
Girolamo Ruscelli India Tercera Nuova Tavola

1574

USD - 863.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Isola Cuba Nova

1561

USD - 220.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Isola Cuba Nova

1562

USD - 225.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Isola Cuba Nova

1561

USD - 425.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Isola Cuba Nova

1564

USD - 485.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Isola Cuba Nova

1561

USD - 349.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Isola Spagnola Nova

1561

USD - 200.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Isola Spagnola Nova

1562

USD - 150.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Moschovia Nuova Tavola

1561

USD - 125.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Natolia Nuova Tavola

1599

USD - 74.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Nueva Hispania Tabula Nova

1561

USD - 400.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Nueva Hispania Tabula Nova

1561 / 1598

USD - 650.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Nueva Hispania Tabula Nova

1561-1598

USD - 693.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Nueva Hispania Tabula Nova

1561

USD - 750.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Nueva Hispania Tabula Nova

1562

USD - 500.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Orbis Descriptio

1598

USD - 650.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Orbis Descriptio

1561

USD - 675.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Orbis Descriptio

c.1598

USD - 1,097.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Orbis Descriptio

1562

USD - 575.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Orbis Descriptio

1561

USD - 745.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Persia Nuova Tavola

1561

USD - 90.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Persia Nuova Tavola

1561

USD - 90.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Ptolemaei Cognita

1599

USD - 390.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Ptolemaei Typus

1562

USD - 185.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Schonladia Nuova

1562

USD - 275.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Schonladia Nuova

1561

USD - 325.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Septentrionalium Partium Nova Tabula

1561-1574

USD - 526.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Septentrionalium Partium Nova Tabula

1562

USD - 450.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Septentrionalium Partium Nova Tabula

1574

USD - 650.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Septentrionalium Partium Nova Tabula

1562

USD - 350.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Septentrionalium Partium Nova Tabula

1561 / 1599

USD - 450.00
  • 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.