• 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
Joseph Hutchins Colton Georgetown and the City of Washington, the Capital of the United States of America

1855

USD - 57.50
G. Heck Vereinigte Staaten von Nord Amerika, nebst Mexico

1863

USD - 230.00
Guillaume Delisle Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi

1718

USD - 6,900.00
Jacques Nicolas Bellin Carte Reduite des Costes de la Louisiane et de la Floride

1764

USD - 4,600.00
Nathaniel Cortlandt, Sr. Curtis The Creole City of New Orleans

1930

USD - 178.25
Giovambattista Albrizzi Carta geographica della florida nelp americ settentrionale

1740

USD - 862.50
SDUK Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge North America Sheet XV Utah, New Mexico, Texas, California &c. and the Northern States of Mexico …

1859

USD - 230.00
Victor Levasseur Amerique Meridionale

1851

USD - 34.50
Eugenio Rodriguez Atlante della Guida generale per la navigazione delle coste settentrionali ed orientali dell' America de Sud dal Rio della Plata al Parà…

1857

USD - 4,255.00
Sidney Hall Chili, La Plata and Part of Bolivia

1846

USD - 80.50
Jan Barend Elwe De Golf van Mexico de eilanden en het omleggende land. . .

1792

USD - 368.00
Carl Ferdinand Weiland WEST INDIEN

1844

USD - 115.00
Vicenzo Maria Coronelli Isola di Capo Breton [on verso] Isola e citta di cartagena Nell America

1690

USD - 345.00
Giovanni Tommaso Masi [e Compagni] Carta rappresentante una parte dlla Baja D'Hudson e le Regioni a Maestro Dell'America Settentrle.

1763

USD - 34.50
Jacques Nicolas Bellin Carte Reduite du Detroit de Davids…

1765

USD - 228.85
Depot de la Marine Plan du Port De La Riviere St. Jean Situe a la Cote Septentrionale De La Baie Francoise de L'Acadie. . . [on sheet with] Plan du port e la Heve . . . [and] Plan du port Rochelois. . .

c. 1779

USD - 115.00
Depot de la Marine Plans Particuliers dépendans de l'Isle-Royale. . . [5 inset charts on one sheet]

c. 1780

USD - 115.00
John Tallis West Canada

1851

USD - 66.70
Sebastian Munster Asia wie es Jetziger Zeit nach den Furnemesten Herrschafften Abgetheilet und Beschriben ist

1588

USD - 690.00
Heinrich C. Kiepert Asien

1858

USD - 36.80
Girolamo Ruscelli Tabula Asiae IX

1598

USD - 92.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Tabula Asiae X

1598

USD - 92.00
Vicenzo Maria Coronelli Penisola Dell' Indo di qua del Gange e L'Isola di Ceilan nell' Indie Orientale. . .

1690

USD - 345.00
Sanson [Family] Presqu Isle de L'Inde. deca la Gange. . .

1700

USD - 92.00
Homann Heirs Peninsula Indiae Malabar Coromandel Ceylon.

1733

USD - 115.00
Gabriel Nikolaus Raspe Plan der Stadt und Festung Madrass in Ost-Indien

c. 1762

USD - 57.50
Antonio Zatta Stato del Mogol con l' Isole di Ceilan e Maldive

1785

USD - 86.25
Robert de Vaugondy/Delamarche Presqu 'Isle Des Indes Orientales. . .

1790

USD - 172.50
Francois Valentijn Kaart van de Zuyd-Ooster Eylanden van Banda

1726

USD - 460.00
National Geographic Society Southeast Asia Compiled and Drawn in the Cartographic Section of the National Geographic Society for the National Geographic Magazin Gilbert Grosvenor. . .

1952

USD - 57.50
Jacques Nicolas Bellin Carte de l'Isle de Sumatra…

1750

USD - 51.75
Alexander Findlay Constantinople and the Bosphorus

c. 1850

USD - 57.50
Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville Carte Generale De La Tartarie Chinoise Dressee sur les Cartes Particulieres Faits Sur Les Lieux Par Les R.R. P.P. Jesuites . . .

1735

USD - 2,875.00
Sidney Hall China

c. 1835

USD - 46.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Tabula Asiae I

1598

USD - 97.75
Abraham Ortelius Iaponia Insula

1609

USD - 402.50
Isaac Tirion Nauw-keurige Kaart van 't Keizerryk Japan. . .

1728

USD - 546.25
Girolamo Ruscelli Tabula Asiae III

1598

USD - 92.00
Girolamo Ruscelli Tabula Asiae VII

1598

USD - 92.00
British Admiralty China sea compiled from the latest government surveys 1886

1913

USD - 488.75
British Admiralty China Sea Northen portion - Eastern sheetCompiled from the latest Surveys 1881

1913

USD - 747.50
Willem Blaeu Cyprus Insulae

1638

USD - 1,495.00
Johannes Stradanus America Retectio

1596

USD - 632.50
L. Perego Giuoco Dell'Oca Geografica

c. 1910

USD - 184.00
Giustiniano Delle Guerre di Fiandra, Libri VI

1609

USD - 87.40
William Camden Britannia

1610

USD - 241.50
Daniel Meisner Thesauri Philopolitici Tomi Secundi Pars Quarta

1630

USD - 75.90
John Speed Liber Tertius: Generalem Inspectionem Siue Consyde-Rationem

1616

USD - 115.00
Johannes Stradanus Americus Vespvccius Florentinus

1596

USD - 1,092.50
Johannes Stradanus Ferdinandes Magellanes Lusitanus. . .

1596

USD - 1,092.50
Eimmart/Homann Planisphaerium Caeleste Secundum Restitutionem Hevelianam et Hallejanam. . .

1720

USD - 2,070.00
Jan Barend Elwe Sterre Kaert of Hemels Pleyn. . .

1792

USD - 586.50
Blaeu [Family] Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali, cum Terris Adiacentibus

c.1631

USD - 2,379.00
Blaeu [Family] Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali, cum Terris Adiacentibus

1635

USD - 2,562.00
Blaeu [Family] Insulae Balearides et Pytiusae

1634-

USD - 604.00
Blaeu [Family] Insulae Balearides et Pytiusae

1635

USD - 1,183.00
Blaeu [Family] Insulae Balearides et Pytiusae

c.1640

USD - 360.00
Blaeu [Family] Insulae Canariae alias Fortunatae Dictae

1664

USD - 1,972.00
Blaeu [Family] Karstia, Carniola, Histria et Windorum Marchia

1634-

USD - 458.00
Blaeu [Family] Kiangsi, Imperii Sinarum Provincia Octava

1655-59

USD - 947.00
Blaeu [Family] La Principaute d'Orange et Comtat de Venaissin par Iaques de Chieze Orangeois. 1627

1627

USD - 229.00
Blaeu [Family] Legia, sive Leodium; vulgo, Liege

1649

USD - 3,708.00
Blaeu [Family] Legionis Regnum et Asturiarum Principatus

1634-

USD - 238.00
Blaeu [Family] Leodiensis Dioecesis

1643-50

USD - 781.00
Blaeu [Family] Loanda S. Pauli

1647

USD - 3,565.00
Blaeu [Family] Lusatia Superior

1640-

USD - 147.00
Blaeu [Family] Lutzenburg Ducatus

1643-50

USD - 781.00
Blaeu [Family] Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae Tabula

1634

USD - 2,250.00
Blaeu [Family] Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae Caeterarumque Regionum illi Adiacentium Exacta Descriptio

1613

USD - 2,013.00
Blaeu [Family] Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae Caeterarumque Regionum illi Adiacentium Exacta Descriptio [in set with] (Dnieper River)

1613

USD - 5,491.00
Blaeu [Family] Magni Mogolis Imperium

1640-

USD - 595.00
Blaeu [Family] Magni Mogolis Imperium

c.1640

USD - 360.00
Blaeu [Family] Mappa Aestivarum Insularum, alias Barmudas Dictarum ... Accurate Descripta

c.1630

USD - 2,745.00
Blaeu [Family] Mappa Aestivarum Insularum, alias Barmudas Dictarum ... Accurate Descripta

1635-

USD - 1,593.00
Blaeu [Family] Mappa Aestivarum Insularum, alias Barmudas Dictarum ... Accurate Descripta

1635-

USD - 1,320.00
Blaeu [Family] Mappa Aestivarum Insularum, alias Barmudas Dictarum ... Accurate Descripta

1658

USD - 2,990.00
Blaeu [Family] Marca d'Ancona olim Picenum

c.1650

USD - 473.00
Blaeu [Family] Mechlinia Dominium, et Aerschot Ducatus

1643-50

USD - 623.00
Blaeu [Family] Middle-Sexia

c.1640

USD - 526.00
Blaeu [Family] Middle-Sexia

1645

USD - 270.00
Blaeu [Family] Middle-Sexia

c.1645

USD - 478.00
Blaeu [Family] Moluccae Insulae Celeberrimae

1630-

USD - 549.00
Blaeu [Family] Mona

1659-

USD - 144.00
Blaeu [Family] Moravia Marchionatus

1643-50

USD - 473.00
Blaeu [Family] Namurcum Comitatus

1666

USD - 229.00
Blaeu [Family] Nassovia Comitatus

1630-

USD - 137.00
Blaeu [Family] Natolia, quae olim Asia Minor

1634-

USD - 275.00
Blaeu [Family] Natolia, quae olim Asia Minor

1635

USD - 650.00
Blaeu [Family] Navarra Regnum

1640-

USD - 275.00
Blaeu [Family] Nova Aegypti Tabula

1650

USD - 644.00
Blaeu [Family] Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova

c.1642

USD - 3,348.00
Blaeu [Family] Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova

1643-50

USD - 4,393.00
Blaeu [Family] Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova

1635

USD - 3,660.00
Blaeu [Family] Nova Hispania, et Nova Galicia

c.1635

USD - 390.00
Blaeu [Family] Nova Italiae Delineatio

1634

USD - 2,800.00
Blaeu [Family] Nova Regni Hispaniae Descriptio, de Novo Multis in Locis Aucta et Emendata

1605

USD - 4,576.00
Blaeu [Family] Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula

c.1630

USD - 14,642.00
Blaeu [Family] Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula

c.1635-48

USD - 24,000.00
Blaeu [Family] Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula

c.1630

USD - 10,432.00
Blaeu [Family] Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula

1640

USD - 27,305.00
  • 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.