• 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
William Faden Battle of Brandywine in which the Rebels were Defeated, September the 11th 1777 ... under the Command of General Sr. Willm. Howe ...

1778

USD - 10,657.00
Case, Tiffany & Company Map of the United States

1850

USD - 450.00
Sanson [Family] Terra Promissa in suas Tribus partesque divisa

1720

USD - 82.50
Leonhard Euler Mappa Geographica Americæ Septentrionalis

1750 c

USD - 1,961.96
Samuel Augustus Mitchell Mexico & Guatemala

1849

USD - 225.00
Daniel Stoopendaal Werelt Caert

1716

USD - 1,265.00
Jeremiah Greenleaf New York

1842

USD - 90.00
John Mullan [Book with maps] Miners and TravelersÆ Guide to Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado. Via the Missouri and Columbia Rivers. Accompanied by a General Map of the Mineral Region of the Northern Sections of the Rocky Mountains

1865

USD - 2,300.00
Gentleman's Magazine A Map of the Island of Orleans with the Environs of Quebec

c.1760

USD - 25.00
Bartholomew [Family] The Pacific States, the Territories, and a Portion of the North-Western States

1864

USD - 120.00
Mercator/Jansson Natoliae sive Asia Minor

1628

USD - 84.00
Thomas Gamaliel Bradford Baltimore

1842

USD - 75.00
Matthias Seutter Novus Orbis sive America Meridionalis et Septentrionalis, per sua Regna Provincias et Insulas Iuxta Observationes et Descriptiones Recentiss. Divisa et Adornata...

1740

USD - 1,200.00
Frederick de Wit Nova Persiae Armeniae Natoliae et Arabiae

1680

USD - 1,200.00
British Admiralty The Harbour of St. John

c.1846

USD - 326.00
Nicolas Sanson Les Isles Molucques; Celebes Gilolo &c. ...

1656-67

USD - 31.00
Speed/Kaerius Cathanes And Orknay Ins:

1646

USD - 145.00
Covens & Mortier Partie Orientale du Monde ...

c.1730

USD - 269.00
Jan van den Avelen Het Beloofde Landt Canaan, door wandelt van onsen Salichmaaker Iesu Christo, neffens syne Apostelen

1736

USD - 230.00
Augustus Heinrich Petermann Der Stadt Sinaloa in Mexiko

1884

USD - 85.00
Owen & Bowen Carnarvanshire

1736

USD - 85.82
Pierre Mortier Plan de la Ville de Guermsheim

c.1705

USD - 252.00
Heinrich Scherer Svecia Norvegia Russia Moscovitica

1699

USD - 156.80
van Keulen [Family] Pas Kaart van de Golff van Mexico ...

1684

USD - 5,500.00
Johann Baptist Homann Regni Poloniae Magnique Ducatus Lithuaniae Nova et Exacta Tabula

1759

USD - 402.50
V. Dufertre View of Blewfields, Mosquito Territory

1868

USD - 20.00
Paolo Santini Carte de la Georgie et des Pays Situes Entre de la Mer Noire et la Mer Caspienne…

1775

USD - 224.00
Theodore de Bry Cusco Urbs Nobilissima et Opuletissima Peruani Regni ...

1596

USD - 245.00
Abraham Ortelius Nobilis Hannoniae Comitatus Descrip. Auctore Iacobo Surhonio Montano

1579

USD - 132.00
John Tallis Asia

1851

USD - 45.00
Johannes Zahn Pro Crisibus Morborum et Aspectibus Planetarum

1696

USD - 308.00
SDUK Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge New South Wales

1833

USD - 103.50
Girolamo Ruscelli Tabula Asiae XII

1574

USD - 46.00
Edward Wells A New Map of the Land of Canaan and Parts Adjoining Shewing the Division thereof among the Twelve Tribes of Israel ...

c.1700

USD - 145.00
Alexander Hogg A View of the Habitations in Nootka Sound

1785

USD - 45.00
Mercator/Jansson Sclavonia Croatia Bosnia cum Dalmatiae parte

1628

USD - 78.00
Alain Manesson-Mallet Figure XXXIV [and] Figure XXXVI

1683

USD - 144.00
Rudolf Von Endt Das Fröhliche Rheinland in Wort und Bild.

1937

USD - 285.00
Henry Abraham Chatelain Nouvelle Carte de la Hongrie, Divisee selon ses Differents Etats

1708

USD - 168.00
Infrequent Publ. - Pocket Maps St. Louis World's Fair, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, May to December, 1904

1904

USD - 60.00
Herman Moll The Conty Palatine of Cheshire

1724

USD - 230.00
Homann [Family] Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americae Implantata Anglorumque Coloniis Florentissima Geographice Exhibita ...

1724

USD - 1,035.00
Samuel Augustus Mitchell County Map of Georgia and Alabama

1871

USD - 40.00
Giovanni Battista Ramusio La Terra de Hochelaga nella Nova Francia

1606

USD - 1,600.00
Louis Charles Desnos Afrique

1768

USD - 90.00
U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey West Coast of North America from San Francisco to Queen Charlotte Island

1882

USD - 175.00
Manuscript Maps Isollario del Mediteraneo et colpho di Venezia

1645-1675 ca.

USD - 85,000.00
Andrew Ellicott [Facsimile] Map of the City of Washington in the Territory of Columbia, Ceded by the States of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America and by them Established as the Seat of their Government after the Year MDCCC

c.1850

USD - 127.00
Mercator/Jansson Tartaria

1628

USD - 112.00
Jacques Nicolas Bellin CARTE DES ISLES DE MADERE ET PORTO SANTO

1780 ca.

USD - 66.77
Gerard de Jode Italiae Totius Orbis olim Domatricis Nova Exactiss Descriptio Iacobo Castaldo Auctore. Antwerpiae Celabat Gerardus de Jode Anno 77 cum Privilegio

1593

USD - 2,263.00
Willem Blaeu Rugia Insula ac Ducatus

1630

USD - 616.00
Braun & Hogenberg Tunes Urbs - Tunetis Urbis, ac Novae Eius Arcis, et Guletae, quae Philippo Hispan Regi Parent ...

1572-1618

USD - 600.00
Bellin/Van Schley Carte de l'Isthme de Panama et des Provinces de Veragua, Terre Ferme, et Darien, pour l'Histoire Generale des Voyages

1754

USD - 90.00
U.S. War Department Cohasset Harbor, Mass. Survey in Accordance with the Rivers & Harbors Act ...

1899

USD - 50.00
Homann [Family] [Atlas] Atlas Regni Bohemiae

1776

USD - 1,852.00
Johannes van Keulen Nieuwe Caart Van De Rivier Van Glasgow…

1756

USD - 912.80
Union Pacific R.R. Map of Union Pacific Railway (Kansas Division) Lands in Western Kansas

1875

USD - 80.00
George Louis Le Rouge Nouveau Plan de Luxembourg

1745

USD - 280.00
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
Carey & Lea Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of America

1822

USD - 209.00
Mathew Carey Maryland

1801

USD - 150.00
Mercator/Hondius Island

1607

USD - 195.50
Abraham Ortelius Burgundiae Inferioris

1608

USD - 532.95
Infrequent Publ. - Anthropomorphic & Cartoon Maps Oregon's Historic Trails and "Story Spots"

1945

USD - 74.75
Colton [Family] Colton's Georgetown and the City of Washington, The Capital of the United States of America

1861

USD - 75.00
Justus Danckerts Ducatus Mediolanensis Parmensis et Montisferrati …

1700 c

USD - 884.00
Laurie & Whittle A Chart Of The Island of Jersey

1779-1796

USD - 978.00
Lucas Jansz Waghenaer Die Zee Custe van t Landt van Poictou ende Bordeaux Tuschen Picqueliers ende de Riviere van Bordeaux...

1585

USD - 600.00
Infrequent Publ. - Puzzles & Games Europe for the Elucidation of the Abbe Gaultiers' Geographical Games

1832

USD - 44.00
Didier Robert de Vaugondy Carte de L'Egypte Ancienne et Moderne…

1753

USD - 224.00
Hondius/Purchas Abissinorum regnu

1645

USD - 56.00
Olfert Dapper Insulae Promontorii Viridis... Cabo Verde…

1680

USD - 100.00
Antonio Zatta Parte dela Costa a Orientale… Africa... Madagascar

1784

USD - 135.00
Nicolas Sanson 't Land en de Kusten… Monomotapa, Monoemugi enz

1690

USD - 291.00
Abraham Ortelius Europae

1590

USD - 1,792.00
GREENWOOD, Christopher Map of the County of York Made on the Basis of Triangles in the County, determined by Lieu. Col. Wm. Mudge, Royal Arty. F.R.S. and Captn. Tho. Colby, Royal Engrs. in the Trigonometrical Survey of England, by Order of the Board of Ordnance, and Surveyed in

1817

USD - 2,697.00
Carington Bowles BOWLES’S MAP OF THE SEAT OF WAR IN NEW ENGLAND…

1776

USD - 9,500.00
Probst [Family] Nova Mappa Principatus Walachiae MDCCLXXXIX - Neue Landkarte von dem Furstenthum Walachey

1789

USD - 707.00
Louis Nell Nell's Topographical & Township Map of the State of Colorado

1885

USD - 1,500.00
Francesco Maria Levanto Carta Maritima di Tutto l'Arcipelago

1664

USD - 166.00
James Wyld The United States & the Relative Position of the Oregon & Texas

1864

USD - 230.00
Sebastian Munster (Europe as a Woman)

1588-

USD - 772.00
U.S. War Department Coronado Heights San Diego County, California

1891

USD - 95.00
Morse & Breese Missouri

1846

USD - 110.00
Vicenzo Maria Coronelli Isola di Mayen, Scoperta l'Anno 1614

1688

USD - 375.00
Joannes de Laet Florida, et Regiones Vicinae

1630

USD - 2,200.00
Colton [Family] Australia

1855

USD - 46.00
Rigobert Bonne Canada

1787

USD - 145.00
Vicenzo Maria Coronelli Isola di Wight [on sheet with] Jarsey Isola [and] Mona Insula [and] Anglesey Isola

1695

USD - 450.00
Abraham Ortelius Pontus Euxinus. Aequor Iasonis Pulsatum Remige Primum

1590

USD - 201.00
Pierre Francois Tardieu Carte de la Floride et de la Georgie

1797

USD - 460.00
Colton [Family] G. Woolworth Colton's New Guide Map of the United States & Canada, with Railroads, Counties, etc.

1862

USD - 250.00
Vandermaelen Europe. Spitsberg. No 1 (Ter)

1825

USD - 60.00
Samuel Augustus Mitchell Map of Mexico, Including Yucatan & Upper California, Exhibiting the Chief Cities and Towns, the Principal Travelling Routes &c. ...

1847

USD - 8,500.00
Philipp Cluver Cyprus ex deliniatione Ubonis Emmii

1661

USD - 1,792.00
Covens & Mortier Iaponia Regnum

c.1715

USD - 661.00
Elisha Kent Kane Chart Exhibition the Discoveries of the Second American Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin by E.K. Kane

1853-56

USD - 77.00
John Cartwright BRITISH AMERICA, Bounded and Divided as proposed by the Author of AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE

1775

USD - 3,500.00
Thompson and West Map of the States of California and Nevada Carefully Compiled From Actual Surveys Personal examinations and Information furnished by County Surveyors … expressly for this Work

1876

USD - 395.00
  • 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.