• 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 Details

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
Michael Drayton Chesshyre

1622

USD - 291.00
Pieter van der Aa Nova Orbis Terraquei Tabula Accuratissime Delineata [in set with] Africa in Praecipuas ipsius Partes Distributa ... [And] America in Praecipuas ... [and] Asia in Praecipuas ... [and] Europa in Praecipuas ...

1713

USD - 15,336.00
Meyer [Family] Vereinigte Staaten von Nord-America und Mexico

1852

USD - 135.00
Mount & Page A New and Correct Chart of England Scotland and Ireland

c.1750

USD - 209.00
Vicenzo Maria Coronelli Isola di Madagascar, o di S. Lorenzo ...

1690-97

USD - 725.00
SDUK Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge Edinburgh

1834

USD - 145.00
Real Estate & Promotional Maps Topographical Map Gilpin County Colo. Mineral Belt - Gold Production $125,000,000.00

c.1906

USD - 374.00
British Admiralty Sound of Islay

1901

USD - 39.00
ROGGEVEEN, Arent De Cust van Westindien … Punta St. Blaes

1680

USD - 3,371.25
Edward Wells A New Map of Present Spain and Portugal shewing their Principal Divisions...

1700

USD - 435.99
Ortelius/Galle Spectandum dedit Ortelius mortalib. orbem, Orbi spectandum Galleus Ortelium

1579

USD - 440.00
Jan Jansson Indiae Orientalis Nova Descriptio

1645

USD - 2,179.95
Samuel Augustus Mitchell County Map of the State of Maine

1863

USD - 150.00
Braun & Hogenberg Staden

c. 1588

USD - 240.00
Sebastian Munster Die Erst General Tafel / Die Beschreibung und den Circkel des Gantzen Erdtrichs und Meeres Innhaltende

c.1588

USD - 1,250.00
Delisle/Covens & Mortier Carte du Mexique et de la Floride des Terres Angloises et des Isles Antilles…

1722

USD - 1,568.00
Mariano Felipe Paz Soldan [Atlas] Atlas Geografico del Peru

1865

USD - 1,225.00
Philipp Cluver Svecia Dania et Norvegia

1697

USD - 134.40
U.S. State Surveys Sketch of Public Surveys in New Mexico ...

1863

USD - 65.00
Rudolf Von Endt Das Fröhliche Rheinland in Wort und Bild.

1937

USD - 285.00
Schenk [Family] Carte du Teatre de la Guerre dans la Pologne, Moscovie & Turquie

1733

USD - 785.00
George F. Cram [& Co.] UTAH

1885

USD - 120.00
U.S. Government Map of the Sangre de Cristo Grant, Situate in San Luis Valle, Colorado Territory

c.1880's

USD - 125.00
U.S. Government Map of Public Surveys in Nevada Territory

1862

USD - 150.00
Mercator [Family] Russia cum Confinijs

c.1630

USD - 575.00
Sanson [Family] La Floride

1692

USD - 220.00
Giovanni Giamcomo de Rossi Romani Imperii qua Occidens est Descriptio...

1699

USD - 285.00
Jacques Nicolas Bellin Carte de la Coste Orientale d'Afrique, Depuis le Cap de Bonne Esperance, Jusqu'au Cap del Gada...

1740

USD - 60.00
Jan Jansson Insulae de Cabo Verde, olim Hesperides, sive Gorgades: Belgice de Zoute Eylanden

1652

USD - 1,692.00
J. Francis Le Baron City of Jacksonville, Duval Co.

1887

USD - 2,250.00
Pacific Coast Atlas Map Showing Part Mariposa, Mona, Fresno, Inyo & Tulare Counties

1892

USD - 50.00
Homann [Family] Cartagena in Terra Firma Americae Sita ... [on sheet with] Havana... [and] Portus Pulchri ex Isthmo Panamensi ... [and] Portobello...

1740

USD - 850.00
Antonio Zatta Il Paese De Cherachesi, Con La Parte Occidentalle Della Carolina Settentionale E Della Virginia

1778

USD - 575.00
Anonymous Planisphaerium Terrestre cum…

1750

USD - 840.00
Nicolas de Fer Mogul par N. De Fer

c.1705

USD - 34.00
Samuel Augustus Mitchell Map of Africa

1839

USD - 45.00
Jeremiah Greenleaf New Jersey

1842

USD - 160.00
SDUK Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge Eastern Hemisphere

1872

USD - 24.00
Jacques Nicolas Bellin Carte du Spits-Berg Suivant les Hollandois pour Servir a l'Histoire Generale des Voyages

1758

USD - 76.00
Antonio Zatta Le Isole Bermude

1778

USD - 750.00
Anonymous Guide to Boston

c.1878

USD - 275.00
John Speed A New and Accurat Map of the World Drawne According to ye Truest Descriptions Latest Discoveries & Best Observations yt have beene Made by English or Strangers

1627-1651

USD - 22,656.00
Gerard de Jode China Regnum

1593

USD - 9,195.00
Fielding Lucas North America

1823

USD - 200.00
Jodocus Hondius Japonia

1630

USD - 2,179.95
Robert Dudley Al Sermo. Ferdinando II Granduca di Toscana suo Signore Don Roberto Dudleo Duca di Northumbria

1646

USD - 4,500.00
Meyer [Family] Vereinigte Staaten von Nord-America: Californien, Texas und die Territorien New Mexico u. Utah nach den Neustren Hulfsmitteln Gezeich von J. Grassl, 1852

1852

USD - 225.00
Thomas Hutchins Plat of the Seven Ranges of Townships…N.W. of The River Ohio

1800 ca.

USD - 667.00
Blaeu [Family] Meklenburg Ducatus

c.1640

USD - 161.00
Thomas Kitchin China as Surveyed by the Jesuit Missionaries between the Years 1708 & 1717 with Korea & the adjoining Parts of Tartary

1770

USD - 138.00
Nicolas Sanson Royaume de la Chine

1683

USD - 184.00
Antonio Zatta Emisfero Terrestre Meridionale Tagliato su l'Equatore

1779

USD - 228.00
Jaillot [Family] La Bretagne Divisee en ses Neuf Evesches qui font aussi l'Estendue des Receptes de la Generalite de Nantes

1706

USD - 819.00
Isaac Tirion Quebek, de Hoofdstad van Kanada; aan de Rivier van St. Laurens: door de Engelschen Belegerd en by Verdrag Bemagtigd, in 't Jaar 1759

1769

USD - 157.00
Owen & Bowen Berkshire

1736

USD - 85.82
John van Voorst Geological Map of the County of Surrey

1863

USD - 819.00
Jan Jansson Iudaeae seu Terrae Israelis Tabula Geographica; in qua Locorum in Veteri et Novo Testamento Celebratissimorum Situs Accurate Descripti

1652

USD - 1,100.00
Jan Jansson Sumatrae et Insularum Locorumque Nonnullorum Circumiacentium Tabula Nova

1657

USD - 1,900.00
Romain de Hooghe Hierusalem

1721

USD - 336.00
William M. Bradley [& Bros.] County and Township Map of Dakota

1884

USD - 70.00
Braun & Hogenberg Hesdynfort - Hesdinum Oppidum et Castrum ...

1588

USD - 209.00
Hondius [Family] Asiae Nova Descriptio Auctore Jodoco Hondio

1606-23

USD - 650.00
Abraham Ortelius Gallia Vetus, ad Iulij Caesaris Commentaria

1590

USD - 546.25
Wyld [Family] Wyld's Plan of the City of London

1842

USD - 6,367.00
Cornelis Wytfliet Castilia Aurifera cum Vicinis Provinciis

1611

USD - 302.00
Japanese Cartography Dainihon Shinsen Dochu zen-zu [Newly selected Complete Road Map of Great Japan]

1884

USD - 420.00
John Franklin Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1919, 20, 21, and 22...With an Appendix on Various Subjects Relating to Science and Natural History

1823

USD - 1,680.00
Abraham Ortelius Iaponiae Insulae Descriptio. Ludoico Teisera Auctore

c. 1595

USD - 750.00
Jacques Nicolas Bellin Verfolg Von Brasilien… Bis Nach St Paul

1750 - 60

USD - 193.27
Richard Blome A MAPP OF YE COUNTY OF DORSET

1715

USD - 90.42
Herman Moll A New Map of the North Parts of America Claimed by France under ye Names of Louisiana, Mississipi, Canada and New France with ye Adjoyning Territories of England and Spain

1708-20

USD - 1,800.00
Jacques Nicolas Bellin Carte du Perou

1754

USD - 95.00
Leonhard Euler Mappa Geographica Americæ Septentrionalis

1750 c

USD - 1,961.96
Colton [Family] Township Map of the State of Missouri

1869

USD - 650.00
Luigi Rossi Spagna e Portogallo

1820

USD - 27.00
Abraham Goos Paskaert van de Zeeusche en Vlaemsche Kusten…

1666

USD - 2,150.00
Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the Various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics of the World...

1852

USD - 2,760.00
Mercator/Jansson Sclavonia Croatia Bosnia cum Dalmatiae parte

1628

USD - 78.00
U.S. Coast Survey Reconnaissance of Catalina Harbor And the Anchorage on the NE Side of the Island…

1852

USD - 175.00
Case, Tiffany & Company Map of the United States

1854

USD - 616.00
U.S. War Department Map[s] Illustrating the Military Operations of the Atlanta Campaign ... 1864 [set of 5 maps]

1874-77

USD - 1,400.00
John Speed The Kingdome of China newly augmented by I.S.

1676

USD - 7,500.00
Blaeu [Family] Canibales Insulae

1662

USD - 1,694.00
U.S. State Surveys Sketch of Public Surveys in New Mexico ...

1855

USD - 55.00
Samuel Augustus Mitchell Map of North America

1872

USD - 75.00
Johann Michael Seligmann Carolinae Floridae nec non Insularum Bahamensium…

1755

USD - 4,312.50
George F. Cram [& Co.] California

1883

USD - 22.00
Jean Baptiste Fortin Position des Etoiles Fixes pour l'Annee 1780

c.1780

USD - 4,930.00
Willem Blaeu Regiones Sub Polo Arctico

1645

USD - 1,540.00
Auguste-Henri Dufour Monde Connu des Anciens

1860

USD - 145.00
Valk [Family] Orbis Terrarum Nova et Accurata Tabula ...

c.1690

USD - 3,150.00
David H. Burr North America

1835

USD - 140.00
Mathew Carey Maryland

1801

USD - 150.00
Victor Levasseur Europe

1852

USD - 123.20
O.W. Gray Gray’s Atlas Map of Germany.  No. 4

1873

USD - 50.00
VAN GEELKERKEN, J. Nova illustrissimi principatus Pomeraniae descrptio… [One sheet only]

1618-1757

USD - 345.00
Heinrich Scherer Mappa Geographica Exhibens Religionem Catoli cum Alicubi per Africam Sparsam

1710

USD - 115.00
Hondius [Family] Iaponia

1606

USD - 3,800.00
Joseph Hutchins Colton Minnesota

1955

USD - 180.00
John Calvin Smith [& Son] Map of the State of New York, Showing the Boundaries of Counties & Townships, the Location of Cities, Towns, and Villages; the Courses of Railroads, Canals, & Stage Roads

1858

USD - 125.00
  • 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.