• 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
Ensign, Thayer [& Co.] Ornamental Map of the United States & Mexico

1848

USD - 1,500.00
John Hinton A Plan of Quebec

1759

USD - 97.75
Robert de Vaugondy [Family] Partie Meridionale du Royaume de Portugal

1751

USD - 185.00
Benjamin Cole A Physical Planisphere Wherein Are Represented All the Known Lands and Seas wth. the Great Chains of Mountains...

1757

USD - 51.75
Joseph Christmas Ives Map No. 1 [and] Map No. 2 Rio Colorado of the West explored by 1st Lieut. Joseph C. Ives [bound in] Report upon the Colorado River of the West, Explored 1857 and 1858...

1861

USD - 360.00
British Admiralty The Harbour of St. John

c.1846

USD - 326.00
Jan Jansson Lucerna Helvetiorum vulgo Lucernn

1657

USD - 1,800.00
British Admiralty Ile de Bas and Adjacent Coast

1868

USD - 43.00
Charles E. Goad Roseau, Dominica-British Leeward Islands, West Indies

1897

USD - 250.00
Hartmann Schedel Mantua

1493

USD - 183.00
Conrad Malte-Brun Carte du Duche d'Anhalt

c.1880

USD - 58.00
Felix de Azara [Atlas] Voyages dans l'Amerique Meridionale. Collection de Planches

1809

USD - 3,840.00
Bancroft & Co. Bancroft's Map of California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona

1864

USD - 1,800.00
U.S. War Records Office Map of the United States of America Showing the Boundaries of the Union and Confederate Geographical Divisions and Departments, April 9, 1865

1895

USD - 110.00
George Vancouver A Chart Shewing Part of the Coast of N.W. America with the Tracks of His Majesty's Sloop Discovery ... from Lat. of 51¦45' N. & Long. 232¦08' E. to Lat. 57¦30' N. & Long. 226¦44' E. ...

1798

USD - 862.00
Conrad Malte-Brun Bassin de la Ruhr

c.1880

USD - 115.00
Homann Heirs Tabula Americae Specialis Geographica Regni Peru, Brasiliae, Terrae Firmae & Reg. Amazonum

c. 1740

USD - 625.00
Johann Baptist Homann NOVISSIMA & EXACTISSIMA TOTIUS REGNI NEAPOLIS TABULA.…

1730 c

USD - 490.00
Depot de la Marine Carte Reduite des Mers du Nord ...

1838-46

USD - 295.00
John Senex The Dutch Netherlandsor the Seven United Provinces commonly called Holland . . .

1721

USD - 575.00
Blaeu [Family] Meklenburg Ducatus

1643

USD - 251.00
Jansson/Pitt Tractus Borysthenis Vulgo Dniepr et Niepr dicti, a Kiovia ad Urbum Oczakow ubi in Pontum Euxinum se exonerat

1680

USD - 392.00
Vicenzo Maria Coronelli Frislanda, Scoperta da Nicolo Zeno Patritio Veneto Creduta Favolosa, o nel Mare Somersa ...

c.1696

USD - 122.00
Giacomo Gastaldi Nueva Hispania Tabula Nova

1548

USD - 2,200.00
Antoine de Sartine Carte Reduite des Cotes Orientales de l'Amerique Septentrionale ...

1778

USD - 1,800.00
Robert Sayer Asia and its Islands According to d'Anville ...

1787

USD - 199.00
Samuel Augustus Mitchell Plan of Cincinnati and Vicinity

1860

USD - 125.00
Robert Wilkinson Prussia

c.1808

USD - 33.00
Issac Weld A Plan of the City of Quebec

1798

USD - 86.25
Sebastian Munster Secunda Rheni et IX Nova Tabula

1545

USD - 220.00
Real Estate & Promotional Maps Lot 431 of 516: Map and Prospectus of the Valverde Oil Company, Bakersfield, California

c. 1920

USD - 270.00
Louis Charles Desnos Histoire de la Découverte Des Mondes Nouveau et Inconnu

1770 c.

USD - 353.34
Ottens [Family] Carte la Plus Nouvelle de la Scandinivie ou les Couronnes du Nord ...

c.1730

USD - 428.00
George F. Cram [& Co.] New Orleans

1893

USD - 35.00
Nicolas Sanson Anatolien

1705

USD - 100.80
Robert de Vaugondy [Family] L'Empire de la Chine Dresse d'apres les Cartes de l'Atlas Chinois ...

1751

USD - 595.00
Petrus Bertius Coloniensis Dioecesis

1618 ca

USD - 71.50
The Graphic BIRDS EYE VIEW OF CAIRO LOOKING NORTH EAST

1882

USD - 235.72
Ortelius/Marchetti Portugalliae que olim Lusitania Novissima et Exactissima Descriptio

1667

USD - 92.00
Claude Buffier Carta del Paese degli Suizzeri

1772

USD - 25.60
Ortelius/Vrients Zara, et Sebenic

1601

USD - 115.00
ARROWSMITH, Aaron To The Hon[oura]ble the Court Directors of the East India Company This Improved Map of India Compiled from all the Latest & most Authentic Materials Is Respectfully Dedicated by their most Obedient & most Humble Servant A. Arrowsmith.

1816

USD - 13,485.00
Samuel Augustus Mitchell A New Map of Kentucky with its Roads & Distances from place to place along the Stage & Steam Boat Routes

1848

USD - 134.40
Arthur J. Stansbury [Book with maps] Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, Including a Reconnoissance of a New Route through the Rocky Mountains

1852

USD - 431.00
Phelps & Watson Phelps and Watson's Historical and Military Map of the Border & Southern States

1867

USD - 600.00
Johann Nieuhoff Kanton in platte grondt

1665

USD - 77.00
Jan Jansson Sumatrae et Insularum Locorumque Nonnullorum Circumiacentium Tabula Nova

1650

USD - 957.00
George F. Cram [& Co.] California and Nevada

c.1896

USD - 55.00
Anonymous Map of Ashland County Wis. and Portions of Bayfield and Sawyer Counties

1915 c.

USD - 375.00
Auguste-Henri Dufour Monde Connu des Anciens

1860

USD - 145.00
Alvin Jewitt Johnson [& Co.] [Atlas] Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas of the World ...

1867

USD - 1,150.00
Pierre Duval Carte de la Virginie

1682

USD - 460.00
Braun & Hogenberg Hierosolyma, Clarissima totius Orientis civitas…

1572

USD - 952.00
Blunt [Family] Savannah River from its Mouth to the City of Savannah by John LeConte, Topl. Engr. 1821

1833

USD - 75.00
Johann Baptist Homann Regni Poloniae Magnique Ducatus Lithuaniae Nova et Exacta Tabula

1759

USD - 402.50
Alain Manesson-Mallet D'Ingria et de Cerigo

1686 ca

USD - 78.65
Asher & Adams Asher & Adams' Arizona

1875

USD - 135.00
Harper & Brothers Hot Springs, Arkansas, Looking South, down the Valley

1877

USD - 20.00
Willem Blaeu Scotia Regnum

1635

USD - 551.00
John Thomson [& Co.] Russian Empire

1816

USD - 75.00
U.S. War Department War Department Atlas Map No. 78.

1891-95

USD - 85.00
Anthony Finley North America

1824

USD - 50.00
George Anson A Chart, Shewing the Track of the Centurion Round the World

1748

USD - 230.00
Real Estate & Promotional Maps Map of Sutro Heights. Lots for Sale by Will E. Fisher & Co.

c.1900

USD - 175.00
Christopher Weigel Anglia Cambdeni

1724

USD - 400.00
Johann Baptist Homann Imperium Turcicum in Europa, Asia et Africa Regiones Proprias, Tributarias, Clientelares ...

c.1720

USD - 172.00
Jan Jansson Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula. A Pet. Kaerio

c.1640

USD - 5,119.00
George Washington Bacon & Company Bacon's Large-Print Map of London and Suburbs with Guide

1882

USD - 250.00
Hondius [Family] Asiae Nova Descriptio Auctore Jodoco Hondio

1606-23

USD - 650.00
Rand, McNally & Co. Map of Milwaukee

1894

USD - 45.00
Martin Waldseemuller Tabula Quarta Africae

1513

USD - 2,600.00
Melchisedech Thevenot Imperii Sinarum Nova Descriptio

1664

USD - 3,073.79
Vicenzo Maria Coronelli Isola di Cipro

1696

USD - 433.00
Mercator/Hondius Aeneae Troiani Navigatio

1610

USD - 120.00
Samuel Augustus Mitchell Map of Persia, Turkey in Asia, Afghanistan, Beloochistan

1870

USD - 45.00
Mathew Carey Map of the United States of America

1818

USD - 420.00
William Russell An Exact Map of New Jersey, Pensylvania, New York, Maryland & Virginia from the Latest Surveys

1800

USD - 100.00
Martin Waldseemuller Tabula Moderna Terre Sanctae

1513

USD - 15,000.00
Nicolaus Person Accurata Territorii Coloniensis Descriptio

1692

USD - 1,267.00
Johnson & Browning Johnson's Cuba, Jamaica and Porto Rico

c.1860

USD - 20.00
Abraham Ortelius Gallia Narbonens [on sheet with] Sabaudiae Ducat [and] Venuxini Comitatus Nova Descr.

1603

USD - 278.00
Frederick de Wit Nova Orbis Tabula, in Lucem Edita, A. F. De Wit

c.1680

USD - 2,800.00
ILYIN, A. [Africa].

1899

USD - 57.50
Blaeu [Family] Guiana sive Amazonum Regio

1630-64

USD - 700.00
Anonymous Guide to Boston

c.1878

USD - 275.00
George Louis Le Rouge Caroline Meridionale et Partie de la Georgie ... [on sheets with] Course de la Riviere d'Hudson ...

1778

USD - 9,500.00
WEST, William A New and Correct Map of the World with the latest Discoveries of Captn. Cook and other Circumnavigators; Also Geographical and Astronomical Observations of the, Earth, Moon, Stars, &c.

1816

USD - 10,788.00
Joseph Roux Livourne. [25]

1764

USD - 58.00
Henn, Williams & Co. Township Map of the State of Iowa

1855

USD - 600.00
Emanuel Bowen A New & Correct Chart of All the Known World. Laid down According to Mercator's Projection. Exhibiting All the Late Discoveries & Improvements ...

1764

USD - 375.00
James A. Knipe Geological & Mineralogical Map of England and Wales with parts of Scotland, Ireland & France, Showing also the Inland Navigation By means of Rivers & Canals With their Elevation in feet above the Sea. The Rail Roads and Principal Roads

1857

USD - 458.61
Herman Moll A Map of the North Pole with All the Territories That Lye Near It, Known to Us &c. According to the Latest Discoveries...

1739

USD - 144.00
Walling, Tackabury & Co. Madison, Dane County

1876

USD - 45.00
Sebastian Munster Moderna Europae Descriptio

1558

USD - 775.00
Johann Baptist Homann Planiglobii Terrestris cum Utroq Hemisphaerio Caelesti Generalis Exhibitio...

1720

USD - 2,160.00
Matthias Quad von Kinckelbach Terra Australis

1608

USD - 697.00
Colton [Family] Mississippi

1855

USD - 185.00
John Halsall Sectional Map of the Territory of Kansas compiled from the field notes in the Surveyor General's Office

1857

USD - 780.00
Carl Christian Franz Radefeld Vereinigte Staaten von Nord-America und Mexico

1857

USD - 65.00
Johnson & Ward Johnson's Mexico

1865

USD - 75.00
  • 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.