• 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
Pedro de Medina [Book with maps] Arte del Navigare ...

1609

USD - 7,352.00
Jean Francois Galaup de La Perouse Plan of the Bay of Conception in Chili ...

1798

USD - 85.00
J.T. Hammond United States

1833

USD - 86.25
SDUK Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge Copenhagen (Kiobenhaven)

1832

USD - 80.00
Jean Chappe d'Auteroche Nordlicher Theil des Grossen Sud Meers

c.1780

USD - 375.00
Guillaume Delisle Carte des Nouvelles Decouvertes au Nord de la Mer du Sud, tant a l'Est de la Siberie et du Kamtchatka, qu'a l'Ouest de la Nouvelle France. Dressee sur les Memoires de Mr. Del'Isle ...

1750

USD - 900.00
Johann Reinhold Forster History of the Voyages and Discoveries made in the North

1786

USD - 450.00
Alain Manesson-Mallet Arabie

1683 c

USD - 189.87
Carey & Lea Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of Rhode Island

1822

USD - 135.00
Railroad Companies Great Opportunities for Farmers, Business Men and Investors in Nebraska, Northwestern Kansas, and Eastern Colorado

1893

USD - 187.20
Abraham Ortelius Graeciae Universae Secundum Hodiernum Situm Neoterica Descriptio

1592

USD - 358.00
U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey California Monterey Bay

1945

USD - 50.00
Melchisedech Thevenot Imperii Sinarum Nova Descriptio

1664

USD - 3,073.79
Robert de Vaugondy [Family] Atlas Universel

1757

USD - 7,475.00
Thomas Bowles [Family] A Perspective View of ye Harbour, Castles, & Town of Porto Bello: with ye Disposition of ye Ships Under ye Command of Vice Admiral Vernon...

1740

USD - 920.00
Illustrated London News Montreal from the St. Lawrence, Showing Mont Royal ...

1860

USD - 25.00
Jan Jansson Comitatus Dorcestria. vulgo Anglice Dorset Shire

1646

USD - 322.00
Samuel Augustus Mitchell Mexico & Guatemala

1846

USD - 237.92
Jean Palairet Carte des Possessions Angloises & Françoises du Continent de l'Amérique Septentrionale

1755

USD - 2,375.00
Pierre Duval Tabula Itineris Decies Mille Graecorum sub Cyro

c. 1660

USD - 163.00
Willem Blaeu Asia Noviter Delineata

1643

USD - 3,000.00
Nicholas Tindal Attack of the Rebels upon Fort Penobscot in the Province of New England in which their Fleet was Totally Destroyed and their Army Dispersed the 14th August 1779

1785

USD - 1,750.00
Homann Heirs INSULAE ISLANDIAE DELINEATIO …

1761

USD - 1,375.01
Louis Charles Desnos Histoire de la Découverte Des Mondes Nouveau et Inconnu

1770 c.

USD - 353.34
Johannes Zahn Pro Crisibus Morborum et Aspectibus Planetarum

1696

USD - 308.00
Melchior Tavernier Antiquorum Galliae Episcopatuum Geographica Descriptio . . . 1640

1640

USD - 345.00
Abraham Ortelius Pomeraniae, Wandalicae Regionis, Typ. [on sheet with] Livoniae Nova Descriptio [and] Ducatus Oswieczensis, et Zatoriensis, Descriptio

1573-

USD - 344.00
Gaston & Johnson A New Map of our Country, Present and Prospective

1855

USD - 1,500.00
U.S. Government Soil Map - Fargo Sheet

1903

USD - 35.00
Johann Ulrich Muller Peru

1692

USD - 195.00
W. W. Elliott "Condor's Nest," Residence of Victoria de P. Magee, San Diego Co. Cal.

1883

USD - 475.00
Herman Moll America

c.1736

USD - 450.00
Richard William Seale A Map of the Kingdom of Ireland from ye Latest & Best Observations

1732

USD - 336.00
Ortelius/Galle Candia olim Creta

1585

USD - 95.20
Mercator/Hondius Island

1607

USD - 195.50
Johann Georg August Galletti [Atlas] Allgemeine Weltkunde oder Encyklopadie fur Geographie, Statistik und Statengeschichte, mittelst einer Geographisch-Statistisch-Historischen Ubersicht aller Lander ...

1840

USD - 287.00
Theodor Ettling United States of North America (Eastern & Central)

1860

USD - 172.50
William Pinnock Portugal

1832

USD - 131.38
Edward Wells A New Map of the Terraqueous Globe according to the Ancient Siscoveries and most general Divisions of it into Continents and Oceans

1700 c

USD - 3,500.00
Jacques Nicolas Bellin Carte de l'Amerique et des Mers Voisines 1763

1764

USD - 385.00
Daniel Appleton & Company Pittsburgh

1871

USD - 20.00
Charles Gratiot Map Illustrating the Plan of the Defences of the Western & North-Western Frontier, as proposed by Charles Gratiot, in his report of Oct. 31, 1837

1837-1860

USD - 218.50
Willem Blaeu Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae Tabula

1635

USD - 375.00
George H. Walker [& Co.] [Atlas] Atlas of the City of Everrett, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

1896

USD - 250.00
Anonymous A New and Accurate Map of the Island of Menorca

1763

USD - 65.00
Jean Boisseau Profil de la Ville de Constantinople Nomee des Turcs Stamboul

1643

USD - 4,061.00
Thomas Gamaliel Bradford Baltimore

1838-46

USD - 75.00
Willem Blaeu Tabula Magellanica qua Tierrae del fuego cum celeberrimis fretis a F. Magellano et I. Le Maire detectus novissima et accuratissima descriptio exhibeteur

1640 c.

USD - 1,200.00
Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. A New Map of Indiana with its Roads & Distances

1853

USD - 60.00
Andreas Cellarius Scenographia Systematis Mundani Ptolemaici

1708

USD - 3,546.00
Hartmann Schedel XLV [Pisa]

1493

USD - 230.00
Joseph Hutchins Colton Mexico and Central America [on sheet with] Central America

1858

USD - 33.00
Wyld [Family] The World on Mercator's Projection

1849

USD - 73.00
U.S. Government Survey for a Projected Canal Between Mobile and Pensacola Bays in Alabama and Florida

1833

USD - 92.00
Valk [Family] America Aurea Pars Alter Mundi Auctoribus

c. 1700

USD - 2,750.00
Merian [Family] America Noviter Delineata

1630

USD - 750.00
J. Francis Le Baron City of Jacksonville, Duval Co.

1887

USD - 2,250.00
Johnson & Browning Johnson's New Military Map of the United States Showing the Forts, Military Posts & All the Military Divisions with Enlarged Plans of Southern Harbors ...

1861

USD - 145.00
Tavernier [Family] Carte des Isles du Iapon Esquelles est Remarque la Route tant par Mer que par Terre que Tiennent les Hollandois ...

1729

USD - 1,515.00
Herman Moll A New Map of Great Britain According to the Newest and Most Exact Observations

c.1730

USD - 125.00
Anonymous [T-O World Map]

1543

USD - 25,380.30
Johannes Blaeu Vectis Insula. Anglice the Isle of Wight

1658

USD - 373.75
Homann [Family] Magn. Ducatus Lituaniae ...

c. 1795+

USD - 355.00
Henricus Hondius Nova Virginiae Tabula

1647

USD - 2,128.00
Jacques Peeters Le Grand Royaume de Hongrie ou Partie Septentrionale de la Turquiien Europe

1692

USD - 100.80
Emanuel Bowen An Accurate Map of Nottingham Shire

1754

USD - 88.00
Tavernier [Family] Carte du Pais d'Aunis Ville & Gouvernment de la Rochelle ...

c.1653

USD - 446.00
John Speed Wales

1611-27

USD - 931.00
Homann [Family] S. R. Imp. Comitatus Hanau ... et Comitatus Solms Budingen et Nidda Cumreliqua Wetteravia

1728

USD - 308.00
Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. A New Map of the State of California, the Territories of Oregon & Utah, and the Chief Part of New Mexico

1853

USD - 480.00
Automobile Club of Southern California The Pacific highway from San Diego, Calif. to Vancouver, B.C.

c. 1928

USD - 270.00
Blaeu [Family] Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae Tabula

1640

USD - 1,324.00
Pierre Mortier Carte Generale du Monde, ou Description du Monde Terrestre & Aquatique

1700 ca.

USD - 1,100.00
Valk [Family] Orbis Terrarum Nova et Accurata Tabula ...

c.1700

USD - 2,200.00
Depot de la Marine Carte Reduite du Golfe de Gascogne ...

1794-95

USD - 54.00
John Tallis Asia

1851

USD - 50.00
Reverend Samuel Parker [Book with maps] Journal of an Exploring Tour beyond the Rocky Mountains ...

1844

USD - 275.00
John Wilkes North America

1796

USD - 89.60
Mercator [Family] Virginia

1651

USD - 183.00
Jan de Lat Kaartje van het Noorder-Deel van America

1747

USD - 280.00
William & Robert Chambers West India Islands

1845

USD - 75.00
Pierre Mortier Plan de la Ville de Kaiserswert

c.1705

USD - 170.00
Cornelis de Jode Exactissima Flandriae Descriptio . . .

1593

USD - 1,900.00
John Russell Map of the Northern, or, New England States of America, Comprehending Vermont, New Hampshire, District of Main, Massachusetts, Rhode-Island, and Connecticut

1795

USD - 350.00
Wyld [Family] Wyld's Pictorial Map of Cyprus

1878

USD - 8,732.00
U.S. Government Chart of Green Bay. Surveyed under Direction of Capt. W. Williams Assisted by Lt. Gunnison 1845. Reduced by W.B. Franklin

1846

USD - 185.00
Jefferys/Sayer & Bennett A Chart of the Gulf of St. Laurence, Composed from a Great Number of Actual Surveys and Other Materials, Regulated and Connected by Astronomical Observations ...

1775-78

USD - 475.00
Tomaso da Castiglione Aretino Porcacchi S. Giovanni

1590

USD - 402.50
Girolamo Ruscelli Tabula Asiae VI

1562

USD - 101.00
Jan Jansson Paraguay, O Prov. De Rio De La Plata

1666 ca

USD - 570.50
Jacques Nicolas Bellin Carte de la Floride, de la Louisiane et Pays Voisins. Pour Servir a l'Histoire Generale des Voyages

1764

USD - 121.00
John Dower WEST MEATH

1830

USD - 33.38
Charles Stedman A Plan of the Action at Bunkers Hill, on the 17th of June 1775. Between His Majesty's Troops under the Command of Major General Howe, and the American Forces

1793

USD - 425.00
Sebastian Munster Tabula Asiae VIII

1552

USD - 650.00
Giacomo Gastaldi Nueva Hispania Tabula Nova

1548

USD - 2,200.00
Rigobert Bonne Amerique Meridionale ...

1774

USD - 50.00
Sebastian Munster Aphricae Tabula I

1545

USD - 230.00
SDUK Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge Central America II. Including Texas, California and the Northern States of Mexico

1842

USD - 385.00
Meyer [Family] Vereinigte Staaten von Nord-America: Californien, Texas und die Territorien New Mexico u. Utah nach den Neustren Hulfsmitteln Gezeich von J. Grassl, 1852

1852

USD - 285.00
Infrequent Publ. - Pocket Maps Map and Profiles of New-York State Canals

1858

USD - 260.00
  • 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.