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

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Auction Report
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
28

New-York Gazette: or, the Weekly Post-Boy. No 672. New York, December 9

1755 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 537.60
29 HUTCHINSON, THOMAS. 1711-1780.

The History of the Colony of Massachusets-Bay, from the First Settlement thereof in 1628, until its Incorporation with the Colony of Plimouth, Province of Main, &c. by the Charter of King William and Queen Mary, in 1691.

London 1760 [1765]-1768. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
30 WOOD, WILLIAM, 1580-1639.

New England's Prospect. Being a true, lively, and experimental Description of that part of America, commonly called New-England.

Boston, New-England 1764 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,408.00
31 COTTON, JOHN, 1712-1789.

The general Practice of the Churches of New-England, relating to Baptism, vindicated: or, some Essays on this Important Question, Whether the Practice of Persons owning or renewing the Covenant, and having Baptism for their Children without coming immedia

Boston [1772]. USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
32

The Massachusetts Spy Or, Thomas's Boston Journal. Vol. III, No. 151, Thursday, December 23

1773 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 20,480.00
33

A mounted display of a full set of the 8 different denominations of Continental paper currency,

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,352.00
34

A group of 4 religious treatises and lives of religious figures.

USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 614.40
35

A group of 5 works on English culture and daily life.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
36

A group of 13 items, including manuscript deeds and documents from New England and New York, comprising:

USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 2,176.00
37 SCHALPEL, RICHARD.

Autograph letter signed ("Retchard Schalpel"), to hs father. September 21, n.y. (but 15th century).

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,328.00
38 JAMES V, KING OF SCOTLAND. 1512-1542.

Document signed ("James R"), Inveraray, September 3, 1538.

1538 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,072.00
39

A group of 4 manuscripts from The Corsini Correspondence, 1585-1599,

1585-1599, USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 7,680.00
40 FERNE, JOHN.

The Blazon of Gentrie: Devided into two parts. The first named The Glorie of Generositie. The second Lacyes Nobilitie.

London 1586 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,216.00
41 [COLLINGS, RICHARD, editor].

Mercurius Civicus: Londons Intelligencer.

London 4 May-8 June 1643. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 17,920.00
42 [CROUCH, JOHN, editor].

Mercurius Democritus Or, a True and Perfect Nocturnall.

[London] 17-24 November 1652, 22-29 June 1653, 3-10 May 1659. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,120.00
43

PEPYS, SAMUEL. 1633-1703.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,048.00
44 JAMES II, KING OF ENGLAND. 1633-1701. -- PEPYS, SAMUEL. 1633-1703.

JAMES II AND PEPYS ENGLISH NAVAL DOCUMENT.

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,536.00
45 PEPYS, SAMUEL, 1633-1703.

Memoires Relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England... [London]: N.p., 1690.

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
46 RUSSELL, LADY RACHEL. ca. 1636-1723.

Letters of Lady Rachel Russell; from the Manuscript in the Library at Wooburn Abbey.

London 1801 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 512.00
47 DANA, RICHARD HENRY, JR. 1815-1882.

Two Years Before the Mast. A Personal History of Life at Sea. New York: Harper & Brothers

1840 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 6,144.00
48 POLK, JAMES K. 1795-1849.

Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress ... December 5, 1848.

Washington 1848 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 10,240.00
49 BRYANT, EDWIN, 1805-1869

What I Saw in California Being the Journal of a Tour, by the Emigrant Route and South Pass of the Rocky Mountains, across the Continent of North America, the Great Desert Basin, and through California, in the Years 1846, 1847.

New York 1848 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,176.00
50 BOYDEN, SETH. 1788-1870.

A group of 5 autograph letters (including 3 long fragments) written by the man Thomas Edison described as ONE OF AMERICA'S GREATEST INVENTORS, to a variety of recipients, in total 24 pages, c1849-1850,

c1849-1850, USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
51 DELAVAN, JAMES. D. 1891.

Notes on California and the Placers: How to Get There, and What to Do Afterwards. By One Who has been There.

New York 1850 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 7,040.00
52 [EL DORADO COUNTY].

Sheriff's Docket. June 1850 and later.

1850 and later. USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
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