Quinn's Auction Galleries: Fall Rare Book, Manuscript, and Ephemera Auction, 692726, Falls Church

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 20, 2025 - November 20, 2025
Page Size: 169 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
126

15 Issues of The London Gazette

1695 to 1700 USD 80.00 - 120.00 USD 101.60
127

3 Issues of The London Gazette

1666 USD 80.00 - 120.00 USD 127.00
128

4 Issues of Newspapers, Deaths of Presidents 1. The Massachusetts Spy. No.28, Vol. LV. Wednesday, July 12, 1826

1826 USD 120.00 - 240.00 USD 381.00
129

9 Early Colonial Newspapers

1735-1797 USD 120.00 - 240.00 USD 1,016.00
130

The Boston Evening-Post. Monday, November 1, 1773

1773 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
131

The Boston Gazette and Weekly Republican Journal. November 2, 1795.

1795 USD 120.00 - 240.00 USD 152.40
132

The Daily Telegram. Washington, D.C. Wednesday, November 5, 1876.

1876 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 101.60
133

The New-Haven Gazette And The Connecticut Magazine. Volume II. Number 10. Thursday, April 26, 1787

1787 USD 120.00 - 240.00 Not Sold
134

3 18th C. European Newspapers. 1. "The Dublin Journal,"

1798 USD 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
135

A Perfect Diurnall of the Passages In Parliament: From the 23 of January to the 30 of January, 1642.

1642 USD 80.00 - 120.00 USD 63.50
136 Richard Saunders

Poor Richard, 1733. An Almanack, Reprint 1849

Philadelphia Reprint from1849 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
137

The American Museum; or Repository of Ancient and Modern Fugitive Pieces &c. Prose and Poetical.

Philadelphia, 1789 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 127.00
138

The Gentleman's Magazine

London 1774 USD 120.00 - 240.00 USD 101.60
139

The Present State of Europe; or, The Historical and Political Monthly Mercury.

London, England 1691 USD 120.00 - 240.00 USD 88.90
140

3 Vols. of The Weekly Register, 1813-1814.

1813 USD 80.00 - 120.00 USD 76.20
141 Charles Dickens

3 Issues of Dicken's "Household Words"

1850-1859 USD 80.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
143

Deposition of W.H. Stubblefield c. 1850

c. 1850 USD 120.00 - 240.00 Not Sold
144

Various Dutch genealogical ephemera written on laid paper.

18th/19th C. USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 190.50
145

1864 War Department Appointment

October 10th, 1864 USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
146

CSA Scrip Certificate

London, England January 25,1884 USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
147 Edwards, George

Itenera Varia Auctoris

circa 1746 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
148

Carte de la Virginie et du Maryland.

circa 1755 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 571.50
149 Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg

3 Maps by Braun and Hogenberg from "Civitatis Orbis Terrarum"

circa 1595 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 190.50
150 Frans Hogenberg

Map depicting the Siege of Middleburg

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
151 Rigobert Bonne

Amerique Septentrionale.

circa 1780 USD 120.00 - 240.00 Not Sold
  • SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.
    SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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  • Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    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.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.