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
103 ADAMS, SAMUEL. 1722-1803.

Printed document accomplished in manuscript signed ("Saml. Adams"). Massachusetts, September 25, 1784

Massachusetts, September 25, 1784 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
104

State of Newhampshire...An Act Directing the Mode of Choosing Representatives in the Congress of the Unitedstates. [Exeter]: [Printed by Henry Runlet]

1790 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 896.00
105 MONROE, JAMES. 1758-1831.

Autograph manuscript (unsigned), a fragment from his notes concerning a Bill of Rights for France's Consitution. N.p., [June 1795].

USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 Not Sold
106 MADISON, JAMES. 1751-1836.

Letter signed ("James Madison"), as Secretary of State, to Cato West, Acting Governor of the Mississippi Territory, Washington, D.C., Department of State, December 6

1804 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 Not Sold
107 MACLURE, WILLIAM.

"Carte des Etats-Unis de L'Amerique Nord," accompanying "Observations sur la Geologie des Etats-Unis." In: Journal de Physique, de Chimie et d'Histoire Naturelle, vol 72

1811 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,816.00
108 MONROE, JAMES. 1752-1831.

Autograph draft letter (unsigned), as President, to Mrs. Susan Wheeler Decatur, widow of Commodore Stephen Decatur (1779-1820),

Washington D. C., October 11, 1823 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
109 PENDLETON LITHOGRAPHERS [JOHN AND WILLIAM].

A lithographed terrestrial table globe, twelve handcolored lithographed gores, polar calottes, laid down on a wooden sphere,

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
110

Black Tern.

London [1836]. USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 704.00
111 WILKES, CHARLES. 1798-1877.

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842.

Philadelphia 1845 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,176.00
112 LUCATT, EDWARD. 1815-1853.

Rovings in the Pacific , from 1837 to 1849; with a Glance at California.

London 1851 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 51.20
113

The Manual of the Corporation of the City of San Francisco, Containing a Map of the City.... San Francisco: G.K. Fitch & Co

1852 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 3,328.00
114 GRAY, ASA. 1810-1888. EDITOR.

United States Exploring Expedition during the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes. (Volume XV: Botany. Phanerogamia.)

New York 1854/1857. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,816.00
115 MCKENNEY, THOMAS L. 1785-1859; AND JAMES HALL. 1793-1868.

History of the Indian Tribes of North America.

Philadelphia 1868/1855/1868. USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,120.00
116 AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. 1785-1851.

The Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories.

New York 1856 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 17,920.00
117 [BECKER, WILHELM].

Album of the Finest Birds of all Countries.

Philidelphia [c. 1860]. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,536.00
118 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. 1814-1869. CUTTS, JAMES MADISON. 1837-1903.

Partially printed document signed ("Abraham Lincoln") as President, appointing James Madison Cutts to the position of Captain in the Eleventh Regiment Infantry, 1 p, 440 x 347 mm,

City of Washington, 15 August 1861, USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,320.00
119

A Dance Card from Lincoln's Second Inauguration Ball,

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,584.00
120 VANDERBILT, CORNELIUS. 1794-1877.

Document Signed ("C. Vanderbilt") on verso, partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, a stock certificate granting Vanderbilt 3500 shares in the New York and Harlem Railroad Company,

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 7,040.00
121 DOUGLASS, FREDERICK; ET AL.

Autograph book belonging to activist and magistrate of New London George F. Tinker, who for 30 years hosted a Lyceum Course there, signed by Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Anna E. Dickinson, and other reformers,

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,536.00
122

Seeley, H. J. Photograph signed ("H. J. Seeley") on the mount, 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches (235 x 185 mm) albumen silver print, on original 12 x 10 inches (305 x 255 mm) board mount, a full-length portrait of Barnum & Bailey Circus performer Otto Klein,

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
123

Typed Letter Signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") as Civil Service Commissioner, to Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart, complimenting Hart on an article he wrote and defending manufacturing magnates and their status in the United States, 1 p, 264 x 203 mm,

Washington D. C. January 4, 1895 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 588.80
124

Typed Letter Signed ("Franklin D Roosevelt") as Governor of New York, to Adolph Cianchetti, Esq., thanking him for his letter and extending a New Year's greeting.

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 281.60
125 AOYAGI, YOKNEKO.

A 2-year autograph diary of Yoneko Aoyagi recording daily life at Poston Relocation Camp in Parker, Arizona, during the years 1943-1944,

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 4,352.00
126

A group of ephemera from a dinner celebrating General George Patton's return to Massachusetts.

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 832.00
127

A RARE 1945 TICKER TAPE ANNOUNCING THE JAPANESE SURRENDER ENDING WORLD WAR II.

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
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