Bonhams: Americana, Exploration, and Travel, 30826, New York

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Auction Date
October 23, 2025 - October 23, 2025
Page Size: 234 items in 10 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 SHEFFIELD, EDMUND, 1st Earl of Mulgrave. 1565-1646.

Manuscript document signed ("E. Sheffield").

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 768.00
3 TWISSE, WILLIAM, 1578-1646 -- [COTTON, JOHN, 1584-1652]

A Treatise of Mr. Cottons, Clearing certain Doubts Concerning Predestination. Together with an Examination Thereof; written by William Twisse, DD. Pastor of Newbury.

London 1646 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,024.00
5 SHEPARD, THOMAS, 1605-1649.

The Sound Beleever. A Treatise of Evangelicall Conversion.

London 1653 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
6

COLONIAL LAND DEED RECORDING THE PURCHASE OF LAND IN SUDBURY FROM NATIVE AMERICANS.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 4,096.00
7 JOSSELYN, JOHN, ca 1608-1704.

New-Englands Rarities Discovered: in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, serpents, and Plants of that Country.

London 1672 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 Not Sold
8 JOSSELYN, JOHN, ca 1608-1704.

An Account of Two Voyages to New-England.

London 1674 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,320.00
9 MATHER, INCREASE, 1639-1723.

A Brief History of the War with the Indians in New-England. From June 24. 1675. (when the first Englishman was Murdered by the Indians) to August 12. 1676. when Philip, alias Metacomet, the principal Author and Beginner of the War, was slain.

London 1676 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 Not Sold
10 BYFIELD, NATHANIEL, 1653-1733 -- MATHER, INCREASE (1639-1723).

An Account of the Late Revolution in New-England. Together with the Declaration of the Gentlemen, Merchants, and Inhabitants of Boston, and the Country Adjacent.

London 1689 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,320.00
11 [SEWALL, SAMUEL. 1652-1730.]

2 manuscript documents signed ("John Joyliffe" and "Edward Wyllys").

Both Boston, 1690 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,536.00
12 MATHER, COTTON, 1663-1728.

The Wonders of the Invisible World: Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches, Lately Executed in New-England....

London USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 17,920.00
13 MATHER, COTTON, 1663-1728.

Magnalia Christi Americana; or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England, From its First Planting in the Year 1620, Unto the Year of Our Lord, 1698.

London 1702 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,072.00
14 MATHER, COTTON, 1663-1728.

A Good Evening for the Best of Dayes: An Essay to Manage an Action of Tresspass, against those who mispend the Lords-Day Evening.

Boston 1708 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 5,120.00
15 MATHER, COTTON, 1663-1728.

The Christian Philosopher: A Collection of the Best Discoveries in Nature, with Religious Improvements.

London 1721 [bud 1720]. USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,432.00
16 MATHER, COTTON. 1633-1728.

Parentator. Memoirs of Remarkables in the Life and the Death of the Ever-Memorable Dr. Increase Mather. Who Expired, August 23, 1723.

Boston 1724 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 384.00
17 MATHER, COTTON, 1633-1728.

Ratio Disciplinae Fratrum Nov-Anglorum. A Faithful Account of the Discipline Professed and Practised in the Churches of New England.

Boston 1726 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,664.00
18 PRINCE, THOMAS -- MATHER, COTTON, 1633-1728.

The Departure of Elijah lamented. A Sermon Occasioned By the Great & Publick Lots in the Decease of the very Referend & Learned Cotton Mather.

Boston 1728 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,024.00
19 BRADSTREET, ANNE. 1612-1672.

Alas All's Vanity or a Leaf from the first American Edition of Several Poems .. printed at Boston, anno 1678.

New York 1942 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 512.00
20 GLANVILL, JOSEPH. 1636-1680.

Saducismus Triumphatus: or, Full and Plain Evidence Concerning Witches and Apparitions. In Two Parts. The First treating of their Possibility. The Second of their Real Existence.

London 1682 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,536.00
21 EXQUEMELIN, ALEXANDRE. c.1645-1707.

Bucaniers of America: Or, a True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults Committed of late Years upon the Coasts of The West-Indies, By the Bucaniers of Jamaica and Tortuga, Both English and French. --Bucaniers of America. The Second Volume.

London 1684, 1685. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,072.00
22

Manuscript deed signed by Thomas Cushman, William Bradford as Deputy Governor, and John and Ro: Cotton as witnesses.

New Plymouth, December 18, 1689. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,048.00
23 ROKEBY, THOMAS, SIR (1631?-1699).

Autograph diary. Ca 1687/8 to August 1697.

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,600.00
24 FOOD AND DRINK.

Autograph document, signed by Joses Buckman, recipient, and Nathaniel Dows, Town Clerk.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
25 GAGE, THOMAS. 1718/19-1787.

THOMAS GAGE ON PAYMENTS DURING PONTIAC'S WAR.

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
26 PRINCE, THOMAS. 1697-1758.

A Chronological History of New-England in the Form of Annals.

Boston 1736 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 768.00
27

18th CENTURY MANUSCRIPT CHARTER FOR A SHIP CALLED MAY FLOWER.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 768.00
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    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
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