• 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 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
Pieter Van Den Keere Germania

1627

USD - 41.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Germania

1646

USD - 27.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Glamorganshire

1627

USD - 43.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Gloucestershire

1627

USD - 54.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Graefschappe van Hollandt

1625

USD - 140.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Greece

1627

USD - 37.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Greece

1646

USD - 75.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Hannonia

1625

USD - 70.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Hartforde Shire

1605-46

USD - 52.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Hereford Shire

1599-1646

USD - 37.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Hereford Shire

1627

USD - 41.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Hispania

1646

USD - 38.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Hispaniae Novae Nova Descriptio

1630

USD - 95.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Hispaniae Veteris Des.

c.1595

USD - 110.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Hollandiae Comitatus. Hollandia ... Delineatio. Amstelodami Petrus Kaerius-Excudebat. Anno 1617

1617

USD - 702.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Hungaria

1627

USD - 33.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Hungaria

1646

USD - 38.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Huntington Shire

1627

USD - 34.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Iaponia

1628

USD - 523.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Insularum Cubae, Hispaniolae Iucatanae & Circumjacentium Describtio

1627

USD - 70.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Italia

c.1676

USD - 133.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Italiae Sardiniae, Corsicae, & Confinium Regionum ...

1616

USD - 2,402.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Italiae Veteris Specimen

c.1595

USD - 110.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Iaponia

1620

USD - 122.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Lancaster

1605-76

USD - 61.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Leicestershire

1627

USD - 34.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Leo Belgicus

1617-22

USD - 4,617.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Leo Belgicus

1617-22

USD - 3,131.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Leo Belgicus

1617-22

USD - 5,498.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Leo Belgicus

1617-22

USD - 15,000.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Leo Belgicus

1617

USD - 10,762.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Leo Belgicus

c.1617

USD - 16,500.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Leo Belgicus

1617

USD - 16,000.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Leo Belgicus

1622

USD - 6,000.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Leodiensis Episcopatus

1625

USD - 70.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Limburgensis Ducatus, 1616

1617

USD - 351.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Lutzenburg

1609

USD - 351.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Lutzenburgensis Ducatus Veriss. Descript. Iacobo Suhonio Montano Auctore. Petrus Kaerius Caelavit

1625

USD - 176.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Marchionatus Sacri Romani Imperii

1617

USD - 1,110.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Namurcum Comitatus. Ioes. Surhon Descr. Amsterdam, P. Kaerius Excudit, 1607

1607

USD - 281.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Namurcum Comitatus. Petrus Kaerius Caelavit

1625

USD - 70.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Nobilis Hannoniae Com. Descriptio. P. Kaerius Excudit 1616

1616

USD - 351.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Norfolcke

1605-76

USD - 47.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Norfolcke

1627

USD - 41.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Northamptonshire

1627

USD - 43.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Nottingha Shire

1627

USD - 41.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Nova Descriptio Orientalis et Occidentalis Frisiae ... Anno 1617

1617

USD - 527.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula. A Pet. Kaerio

1608-31

USD - 3,802.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula. A Pet. Kaerio

c.1631

USD - 6,000.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula. A Pet. Kaerio

1608-21

USD - 6,000.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula. A Pet. Kaerio

1608, c.1630-31

USD - 7,500.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Novus XVII Inferioris Germaniae Provinciarum Typus. De Integro Multis in Locis Emendatus a Petro Kaerio. Anno 1617

1617

USD - 527.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Orbis Terrarum Typus de Integro Multis in Locis Emendatus Auctore Petro Kaerio Anno 1607

1607

USD - 9,230.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Orbis Terrarum Typus de Integro Multis in Locis Emendatus Auctore Petro Kaerio Anno 1607

1607

USD - 6,750.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Orbis Terrarum Typus de Integro Multis in Locis Emendatus Auctore Petro Kaerio Anno 1607

1607

USD - 8,769.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Orbis Terrarum Typus de Integro Multis in Locis Emendatus Auctore Petro Kaerio Anno 1607

1607

USD - 7,648.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Oxfordshire

1627-46

USD - 52.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Oxfordshire

1627

USD - 54.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Palaestinae sive Totius Terrae Promissionis Petrus Kaerius

c.1622

USD - 95.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Palestina

c.1620

USD - 81.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Persia

1627

USD - 41.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Persia

c.1646

USD - 40.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Persia

c.1666

USD - 60.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Polonia

c.1640

USD - 24.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Polonia

1646

USD - 34.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Radnor. Breknok, Cardigan and Caermarthen Discribed

1627

USD - 41.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Regni Bohemiae Nova Descriptio

1618

USD - 1,540.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Regni Bohemiae Nova Descriptio

1618 - c.1630

USD - 1,355.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Rutlandshire

1627

USD - 34.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Somersetshire

1627

USD - 54.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Staffordshire

1627

USD - 43.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Surrey

1627

USD - 61.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Sussex

1627

USD - 54.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Tartaria

1627

USD - 33.00
Pieter Van Den Keere The Iles of Hebrides with ther Borders

1627

USD - 30.00
Pieter Van Den Keere The Isle of Man

1627-76

USD - 52.00
Pieter Van Den Keere The Isle of Man

1627

USD - 48.00
Pieter Van Den Keere The Kingdome of England

1627-76

USD - 44.00
Pieter Van Den Keere The Kingdome of Irland

1676

USD - 146.00
Pieter Van Den Keere The Romane Empire

1646

USD - 65.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Totius Lemovici ...

c.1630

USD - 60.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Typus Frisiae Orientalis ... Authore Ubbone. P. Keer. Exc.

1622

USD - 421.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Ultraiectum Dominium, 1616 ...

1617

USD - 421.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Ultraiectum Dominium, 1616 ...

1617

USD - 351.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Wales

1627-76

USD - 56.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Wales

1627

USD - 52.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Westmorland and Cumberland

1627

USD - 41.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Wight Island

1627-76

USD - 52.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Worcestshire

1627

USD - 48.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Zelandiae Comitatus ...

1617

USD - 527.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Zelandiae Comitatus ...

1617

USD - 702.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Zelandiae Typus

1625

USD - 140.00
Pieter Van Den Keere Zipa. Agri Zupani Nova Descriptio. 1617

1617

USD - 246.00
Pieter Van Den Keere (Southeastern Ireland)

c.1599

USD - 546.00
Pieter van der Aa 't Koninkryk van China ...

1706+

USD - 277.00
Pieter van der Aa 't Koninkryk van China met d'Aangrenzende Landen van Siam en Bengale

1720

USD - 1,290.00
Pieter van der Aa 't Landschap Guatimala door Pedro d'Alvarado in een Land-Togt uyt Mexico Bevolkt, 1523

1707

USD - 225.00
Pieter van der Aa 't Landschap Guatimala door Pedro d'Alvarado in een Land-Togt uyt Mexico Bevolkt, 1523

1728

USD - 250.00
Pieter van der Aa (Oldenburg)

c.1640

USD - 1,381.00
Pieter van der Aa Nova Orbis Terraquei Tabula Accuratissime Delineata [in set with] Planisphere Terrestre [and] Africa in Praecipuas ipsius Partes Distributa ... [And] America in Praecipuas ... [and] Asia in Praecipuas ... [and] Europa in Praecipuas ...

1713

USD - 11,000.00
  • 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.