• 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
Rock (Brothers) ASIA

1794

USD - 460.00
Johann [Jean] Walch Asien

1812

USD - 92.00
Delisle/Dezauche Carte d'Asie Dressee pour l'Instruction ... par G. Delisle et Phil. Buache …

1827

USD - 517.50
William Houghton Allen & Co. The Pathways of Empire Delineated: Map Showing The Steam Comunication And Overland Routes between England, India, China & Auastralia…

1856

USD - 1,725.00
Abraham Ortelius Indiae Orientalis, Insularumque Adiacientium Typus. . .

1574

USD - 1,782.50
Petrus Plancius Insulae Moluccae celeberrimæ sunt ob Maximam aromatum copiam quam per totum terrarum orbem mittunt…

1594

USD - 84,272.00
Jan Huygen van Linschoten Exacta & Accurata Delineatio cum Orarum Maritimarum tum etiam Locorum Terrestrium quae in Regionibus China, Cauchinchina, Camboja sive Champa, Syao, Malacca, Arracan & Pegu…

1595

USD - 25,587.50
Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas Descripcion de las indias del Poniente. 14

1622

USD - 1,150.00
Francois Jollain Les Isles des Indes Orientalle

1687

USD - 460.00
Vicenzo Maria Coronelli Isole dell'Indie, Divise in Filippine, Molucche, e della Sonda …

1698

USD - 1,667.50
Heinrich Scherer Nova Et Vera Exhibitio Gerographica Insularum Marianarum . . .

c. 1702

USD - 920.00
Robert de Vaugondy [Family] Archipel des Indes Orientales, qui Comprend les Isles de la Sonde, Moluques et Philippines…

1750

USD - 575.00
Antonio Zatta Le Indie Orientali E Il Loro Arcipelago . . .

1784

USD - 297.85
Brion de la Tour/Desnos Chine, et Indes Avec les Isles avec les Isles, d'après les descriptions les plus exactes . . .

1790

USD - 172.50
Rigobert Bonne Carte des Indes en Deca et au Dela du Gange, avec les Isles de la Sonde, Borneo, les Moluqes et les Philippines partie Orientale

1790

USD - 172.50
Allan Bell East Indies

c. 1797

USD - 115.00
Lapie [Family] Océanique Occidentale

1812

USD - 115.00
Conrad Malte-Brun Carte de la Malaisie ou Grand archipel d'Asie

1835

USD - 115.00
Thomas Starling East India Islands

c. 1835

USD - 57.50
Jeremiah Greenleaf East India Isles

1840

USD - 230.00
Johann Wolfgang Heydt Ein Prospect der Stadt Batavia, wie sich dieselbe von der Reede oder dem Hafen praesentiret

1744

USD - 46.00
Giovanni Battista Ramusio Sumatra

1556

USD - 1,035.00
Rigobert Bonne Empire de la Chine, Rme. de Coree, ad Isles Du Japon

c. 1780

USD - 115.00
Archibald Fullarton [& Co.] China

1854

USD - 109.25
Bartholomew [Family] Street Plan of the Northern & Eastern Districts of the Foreign Settlement at Shanghai

1908

USD - 138.00
Johannes Blaeu Xantung Sinarum Imperii Provincia Quarta

1655

USD - 402.50
Jacob van der Schley Kaart der Baai van Chin-Chew, of Chang-Chew

1759

USD - 28.75
John BARROW Sketch of A Journey from Hang-Tchoo-Foo To Quang-Tchoo-Foo or Canton in China

1796

USD - 126.50
Barent Langenes Insulae Philippinae

1598

USD - 1,725.00
Rene Augustin Constantin de Renneville Baye la Baye

1725

USD - 207.00
Isaac Tirion Nieuwe kaart van de Filippynsche, Ladrones, Moluccos of Specery Eilanden als mede Celebes etc.

1740

USD - 402.50
George Anson Plan de la Baye de Manille

1751

USD - 345.00
Jacques Nicolas Bellin Carte Des Isles Philippines . . .1re Feuille

1752

USD - 253.00
George Anson A Chart of the Channel in the Phillippine Islands through which the Manila Galeon Passes together with the Adjacent Islands

1760

USD - 805.00
James Imray & Son East India archipelago (Western route to China, chart No. 6)

1888

USD - 1,322.50
U.S. Government Printing Office Atlas de Filipinas. Trabajados por delineantes Filipinos. . .

1900

USD - 253.00
London Geographical Institute The Philippine Islands

1902

USD - 28.75
Ted Kautzky [World War II - Pacifc Theater]

1944

USD - 184.00
British Admiralty Philippine Islands - Luzon Island North of latitude 16°20' north from the United States and Philippine charts to 1980. . . (3805)

1999

USD - 115.00
British Admiralty Philippine Islands - Mindoro Strait and Sibuyan Sea. . . (3807)

2004

USD - 115.00
British Admiralty Philippine Islands - Tagolo Point to Cuyo Islands including Cebu, Negros andparts of Panay and Palawan. . . (3809)

2005

USD - 149.50
British Admiralty Philippine Islands - Mindanao West Coast - Basilan Strait to Camiguin Island including Tubbataha Reefs. . . (3811)

2005

USD - 115.00
British Admiralty Philippine Islands - Luzon - west and east coast. Cabra I. to S.n Fernando P.t. Diapitan B. to S.n Miguel B. . . (3806)

2006

USD - 115.00
Jacob van der Schley Ville de Cochin de Stad Coestsijen

1755

USD - 109.25
Gustav Georg Endner Charte von Indostan

1800

USD - 172.50
Daniel Lizars Hindostan

1833

USD - 138.00
Richard Blome Kingdoms of Tartaria

1680

USD - 345.00
Cluver/Jansson Arabia Eudaemon ex. Plinio Lib VI Cap. 28.

1629

USD - 149.50
Abraham Ortelius Persici sive Sophorum Regni Typus

1612

USD - 126.50
Jan Jansson Isfahan

1657

USD - 575.00
Robert Wilkinson The Islands of the East Indies with the Channels between India, China & New Holland

1814

USD - 172.50
George Philip [& Son] War Map of the Far East

1944

USD - 92.00
Joseph Stocklein Die Insel Formosa neu abgemessen auf Befehl Kaysers Kamhi

1726

USD - 862.50
Bartholomew [Family] Plan of Singapore

1908

USD - 632.50
J.M. Darmet Carte générale du pays entre les mers Noire et Caspienne, avec la désignation des nouvelles frontières de la Russie et de la Perse. . .

1819

USD - 74.75
British Admiralty Cochin China. Phan-Rang Bay to Touron Bay

1871

USD - 115.00
Edward Stanford Burma and adjacent countries

1894

USD - 57.50
John Bew A Chart exhibiting the New Discoveries in the North & South Pacific Ocean, also those on the Northwest Coast of America

c. 1790

USD - 264.50
Clement Fraser Australia, The Awakening Giant

1967

USD - 57.50
Manuscript Maps [A Book of Maps]

c. 1800

USD - 287.50
Abraham Ortelius Typus Orbis Terrarum

1584

USD - 6,555.00
Heinrich Bunting Die gantze Welt in ein Kleberblatt. . .

1600

USD - 4,600.00
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

1676

USD - 9,200.00
Frederick de Wit Nova Orbis Tabula in Lucem edita

1680

USD - 4,830.00
Vicenzo Maria Coronelli Aevi Veteris Usque Ad Annum Salutis Nonagesimum Supra Milles Quaringentos Cogniti Tantum Typus Geogrpahic…

1690

USD - 1,150.00
Alexis-Hubert Jaillot Nova Orbis Tabula, adusum Serenissimi Burgundiae…

1694

USD - 2,300.00
Thomas Jefferys North America [in set with] South America [and] Asia [and] Europe [and] Africa

1764

USD - 207.00
Brion de la Tour/Desnos Mappe-monde dréssée pour l'étude de la géographie, relativement aux auteurs les plus modernes . . .

1790

USD - 345.00
Esaias Budai A' FOLD OT RESZEINEK LERAJZOLASA [in set with] AMERIKA [and] AFRIKA [and] ASIA[and] EUROPA

c. 1799

USD - 1,036.15
Charles Francois Delamarche Mappe-Monde ou Carte Generale de toutes les Parties connues

c. 1805

USD - 34.50
Johann [Jean] Walch Halb = Kugel der Erde nach Sicklers Theorie der vulkanischen Linien

1812

USD - 46.00
Johann [Jean] Walch Halb = Kugel der Erde nach Sicklers Theorie der vulkanischen Linien

1812

USD - 46.00
Charles V. Monin Mappemonde en deux Hemispheres

1840

USD - 97.75
Augusto Grossi La Spagna e Tranquilla. Papagallo No. 4. Anno II

1874

USD - 287.50
Augusto Grossi Allegoria sull'Impero Inglese. Papagallo No. 50. Anno VI

1878

USD - 2,587.50
Heinrich Bunting Africa tertia pars terrae

c. 1580

USD - 793.50
Henry Abraham Chatelain Carte de L'Afrique selon les auteurs Ancienne enrichie de remarques historiques. . .

c. 1716

USD - 172.50
Guillaume Delisle L'Afrique dressée sur les observations de Mr de l'Académie Royale des Sciences. . .

1707

USD - 402.50
Infrequent Publ. - Advertising Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens Roetekaart dui binnenlandse dienste en die Springbokdiens-route... [with on verso] South African Airways Route Map Shewing Internal Services and Springbox Service Routes between South Africa and the United Kingdom

c. 1950

USD - 57.50
Girolamo Ruscelli Africa minor nuova tavola

1598

USD - 57.50
Girolamo Ruscelli Marmarica nuova tavola

1598

USD - 57.50
Girolamo Ruscelli Tabula Africae III

1598

USD - 57.50
Girolamo Ruscelli Tabula Africae IIII

1598

USD - 109.25
Ptolemy/Mercator Tab. IV. Africae in qua Libya Interior et Exterior. Aethiopia sub Aegypto et Interior. . .

c. 1695

USD - 149.50
Hartmann Schedel Damiata

1493

USD - 86.25
Girolamo Ruscelli Egitto nuova tavola

1598

USD - 57.50
Jan Jansson Aethopia Superior vel Inferior vulgo Abissinorum sive

c. 1657

USD - 207.00
Matthaus Merian Aethopia Inferior vel Exterior Monomotapa

c. 1650

USD - 126.50
Alphonsus Lasor a Varea Quiloa

1713

USD - 51.75
Jean-Francois Daumont Vue perpective de l'Isle de St.Helene appartenant a la Compagnie Angloise pour les Indes Orientales

1780

USD - 172.50
Vicenzo Maria Coronelli Isola della Guinea [on verso] Isola Gore

1690

USD - 195.50
Victor Levasseur Colonies Françaises (en Afrique)

1850

USD - 115.00
Jylbert La Réunion

1943

USD - 69.00
Johannes Stradanus Nova Reperta

1596

USD - 1,035.00
Homann Heirs Americae Mappa generalis…

1746

USD - 373.75
Jean Janvier L'Amerique divisee Par Grand Etats

1783

USD - 287.50
Laurie & Whittle America North and South and the West Indies, with the Atlantic, Aethiopic and Pacific Oceans. . .

1794

USD - 224.25
Wyld [Family] Map of America

c. 1850

USD - 126.50
Sidney Hall Mexico. And Central States Corrected from original information communicated by Simon A.G. Bourne Esq.

c. 1835

USD - 42.55
Victor Levasseur Amérique Septentrionale

c. 1850

USD - 71.30
  • 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.