• Sotheby’s
    Fine Books & Manuscripts
    June 24-25
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Keats, John. The most significant collection of Keats’s love letters to come to market since 1885. $1,500,000 to $2,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Chassériau, Benoît. The “Expedicion secreta” of the Free State of Cartagena de Indias against the forts of Portobelo (Panama). $50,000 to $70,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 25: (Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison, and John Jay). "One of the new nation's most important contributions to the theory of government”. $150,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin. "the Day of the Declaration of Independence is everywhere annually celebrated". $80,000 to $120,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: (Johann Conrad Beissel). A Sammelband of two of Benjamin Franklin's rarest imprints. $70,000 to $100,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 25: [Pernambuco]. First printed work in favor of Brazilian Independence. $150,000 to $200,000.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.

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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
Henry Teesdale [& Co.] The World on Mercator's Projection

1831

USD - 50.00
Henry Teesdale [& Co.] The World on Mercator's Projection

1842

USD - 40.00
Henry Teesdale [& Co.] The World on Mercator's Projection

1831

USD - 40.00
Henry Teesdale [& Co.] The World on Mercator's Projection

1832

USD - 49.00
Henry Teesdale [& Co.] United States

c.1842

USD - 60.00
Henry Teesdale [& Co.] United States

1831

USD - 43.00
Henry Teesdale [& Co.] United States

1831

USD - 61.00
Henry Teesdale [& Co.] United States

1848

USD - 75.00
Henry Teesdale [& Co.] United States

1849

USD - 55.00
Henry Teesdale [& Co.] United States

1831

USD - 65.00
Henry Teesdale [& Co.] United States

1845

USD - 150.00
Henry Teesdale [& Co.] United States

c.1835

USD - 95.00
Henry Teesdale [& Co.] United States

1845

USD - 150.00
Henry Teesdale [& Co.] United States

c.1835

USD - 150.00
Henry Teesdale [& Co.] United States

c.1830

USD - 150.00
Henry Teesdale [& Co.] United States

c.1830

USD - 175.00
Henry Teesdale [& Co.] United States

1831

USD - 39.00
Henry Teesdale [& Co.] Van Diemens Land

1831

USD - 65.00
Henry Teesdale [& Co.] Van Diemens Land

c.1850

USD - 50.00
Henry Teesdale [& Co.] Van Diemens Land

c.1830

USD - 51.00
Henry Teesdale [& Co.] West Indies

c.1845

USD - 33.00
Henry Teesdale [& Co.] Western Hemisphere

1832

USD - 40.00
Henry Teesdale [& Co.] Western Hemisphere

1841

USD - 50.00
Henry Teesdale [& Co.] Western Hemisphere

1838

USD - 65.00
Thomas Tegg Asia from the Best Authorities

1823

USD - 20.00
Thomas Tegg Europe, from the Best Authorities

1823

USD - 12.00
Thomas Tegg Japan

1829

USD - 175.00
Thomas Tegg Mexico and Guatimala

1816

USD - 90.00
Thomas Tegg Mexico and Guatimala

1829

USD - 65.00
Thomas Tegg North America

c.1827

USD - 35.00
Thomas Tegg North America from the Best Authorities

1823

USD - 33.00
Thomas Tegg Polar Regions Including British Nth. America, &c.

1829

USD - 55.00
Thomas Tegg South America from the Best Authorities

1823

USD - 16.00
Thomas Tegg Tegg's New Plan of London &c. with 360 References to the Principal Streets, &c. 1829

1829

USD - 345.00
Thomas Tegg United States

1828

USD - 125.00
Thomas Tegg West Indies from the Best Authorities

1823

USD - 244.00
Teubet & Burty France Legislative

1849

USD - 30.00
Texas Dallas County. State of Texas 1888

1888

USD - 3,000.00
Texas Tarrant County. State of Texas 1888

1888

USD - 2,750.00
Texas & Pacific Railway Company Geographically Correct Map of the State of Texas

1876

USD - 175.00
Texas & Pacific Railway Company Map of Northern Texas

1876

USD - 350.00
Thackara & Vallance Plan of the City of Washington in the Territory of Columbia, Ceded by the States of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America, and by them Established as the Seat of their Government, after the Year MDCCC

1792

USD - 15,000.00
W. Thacker Thacker's Reduced Survey Map of India. By J.G. Bartholomew, F.R.G.S.

1897

USD - 200.00
S. Thaxter & Son Chart of the Vineyard Sound and Nantucket Shoals, Surveyed by George Eldrige, Hydrographer

1865

USD - 400.00
S. Thaxter & Son Eldridge's Chart of Chesapeake Bay, with the James, York ...

1880

USD - 475.00
R. Thayer Map Exhibiting the Androscoggin Railroad and its Connections

1851

USD - 145.00
Horace Thayer [& Co.] Map of Canada East and West

1853

USD - 250.00
Horace Thayer [& Co.] Pictorial Map of the United States

1853

USD - 650.00
Horace Thayer [& Co.] Pictorial Map of the United States

1853

USD - 650.00
H.L. Thayer Thayer's Map of Colorado

1875

USD - 750.00
H.L. Thayer Thayer's Map of New Mexico

c.1880

USD - 700.00
H.L. Thayer Thayer's New Map of the State of Colorado, Compiled from Official Surveys and Explorations

1880

USD - 500.00
H.L. Thayer Thayer's Sectional Map of Colorado Compiled from the Plats and Records of the Surveyor General's Office, Denver Colorado

1871

USD - 800.00
H.L. Thayer Thayer's Sectional Map of Colorado Compiled from the Plats and Records of the Surveyor General's Office, Denver Colorado

1871

USD - 1,000.00
H.L. Thayer Thayers Map of the Leadville Mines, California Mining District, Lake County, Colorado, Township 9S Ranges 79 and 80, Compiled from U.S. Surveys and County Records

1880

USD - 800.00
Thayer, Bridgman & Fanning Map of Canada East and West

1853

USD - 219.00
Thayer, Bridgman & Fanning Pictorial Map of the United States

1853

USD - 650.00
Horace Thayer [& Co.] Map of Canada East and West

1853

USD - 600.00
Horace Thayer [& Co.] Map of New York State

1851

USD - 75.00
S.W. Theakston The Vicinity of Scarborough

c.1870

USD - 40.00
Laurids de Therbu Attaques du Fort William-Henri en Amerique par les Troupes Francaises aux Ordres du Marquis de Montcalm. Prise de ce Fort le 7 Aout 1757 ...

1793

USD - 450.00
Laurids de Therbu Attaques du Fort William-Henri en Amerique par les Troupes Francaises aux Ordres du Marquis de Montcalm. Prise de ce Fort le 7 Aout 1757 ...

c.1793

USD - 2,200.00
Thesaurus Geographicus A General and Particular Description of Asia

1695

USD - 39.00
Thesaurus Geographicus A Map of the English Plantations in America

1695

USD - 150.00
Thesaurus Geographicus America

1695

USD - 150.00
Thesaurus Geographicus Europe

1695

USD - 36.00
Thesaurus Geographicus Scandinavia or the Kingdoms of Denmark, Sueden, Norway & Lapland

1695

USD - 42.00
Thesaurus Geographicus Scotland

1695

USD - 43.00
Thesaurus Geographicus The General and Particular Description of Africa

1695

USD - 65.00
Thesaurus Geographicus The Kingdom of England

1695

USD - 58.00
Thesaurus Geographicus The World in Planisphere

1695

USD - 275.00
Melchisedech Thevenot (Africa, East Coast)

1649-72

USD - 975.00
Melchisedech Thevenot (Southeast Asia)

1664

USD - 1,900.00
Melchisedech Thevenot (Southeast Asia)

c.1664-1690

USD - 2,300.00
Melchisedech Thevenot (Western Pacific Ocean)

1664

USD - 1,200.00
Melchisedech Thevenot (Southeast Asia)

c.1633

USD - 750.00
Melchisedech Thevenot Carte de la Colchide Appelee Maintenant Mengrelie et par ceux du Pays, Odisci

c.1660

USD - 150.00
Melchisedech Thevenot Description de la Partie des Indes Orientales qui est sous la Dominations du Grand Mogol

1663

USD - 510.00
Melchisedech Thevenot Description de la Partie des Indes Orientales qui est sous la Dominations du Grand Mogol

1683

USD - 385.00
Melchisedech Thevenot Imperii Sinarum Nova Descriptio

1663

USD - 111.00
Melchisedech Thevenot Imperii Sinarum Nova Descriptio

1663

USD - 500.00
Melchisedech Thevenot Imperii Sinarum Nova Descriptio

1664

USD - 1,700.00
Melchisedech Thevenot Imperii Sinarum Nova Descriptio

1663

USD - 1,001.00
Melchisedech Thevenot Route du Voyage de Canton a Peking

1681

USD - 65.00
Melchisedech Thevenot Vera Delineatio Civitatis Bassorae

c.1680

USD - 149.00
Melchisedech Thevenot Vera Delineatio Civitatis Bassorae

c.1680

USD - 105.00
Melchisedech Thevenot (Southeast Asia)

1663

USD - 2,950.00
Melchisedech Thevenot (Australia, New Zealand & New Guinea)

1663

USD - 4,443.00
Melchisedech Thevenot (Africa, East Coast)

1663

USD - 2,233.00
Melchisedech Thevenot (Southeast Asia)

1664

USD - 6,500.00
Andre Thevet Europe

1575

USD - 299.00
Andre Thevet Ile Madagascar

1595

USD - 39.00
Andre Thevet Table d'Afrique

1575

USD - 1,285.00
Andre Thevet Table d'Afrique

1575

USD - 699.00
Thierry Amerique Septentrionale

c.1830

USD - 40.00
Thierry Carte des Etats-Unis du Mexique

c.1830's-40's

USD - 125.00
Thierry Carte du Bresil 1836

1836-37

USD - 35.00
Thierry Chili, Plata et Patagonie 1836

1836-37

USD - 20.00
Thierry Perou et Bolivia

1836-37

USD - 20.00
J. Thissel Map of the Town of Clinton, Worcester Co., Mass.

1857

USD - 425.00
  • 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
  • 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.