Kestenbaum and Company: The Library of the late Dr. Michael D. Paul of St. John’s, Newfoundland., 115, Brooklyn

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Auction Date
March 05, 2026 - March 05, 2026
Page Size: 200 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51 MORIER, JAMES.

A Second Journey Through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, between the Years 1810 and 1816.

London 1818 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
52 ACKERMANN, RUDOLPH.

Historical Sketch of Moscow: Illustrated by Twelve Views of Different Parts of that Imperial City, the Kremlin.

London 1813 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
53 MORNAY.

A Picture of St. Petersburgh, Represented in a Collection of Twenty Interesting Views of the City, the Sledges and the People.

London 1815 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 Unknown
54 FREZIER, AMEDEE-FRANCOIS.

Relation du voyage de la Mer du Sud aux cotes du Chily et du Perou.

Paris 1732 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
55 STEDMAN, JOHN GABRIEL.

Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam...on the Wild Coast of South America...Elucidating the History of that Country.

London 1796 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
56 ROBERTS, DAVID.

Picturesque Sketches in Spain taken During the Years 1832 & 1833.

London 1837 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Unknown
57 PUFENDORF, SAMUEL.

De Rebus a Carolo Gustavo Sueciae Rege gestis Commentariorum.

Nurnberg 1696 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
58 DENNIS, JOHN.

Views in Savoy, Switzerland, and on the Rhine, From Drawings Made upon the Spot.

London circa 1822. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
59 HONTER, JOHANNES.

Circuli Sphaerae Cvm V. Zonis.

Zurich 1546 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
60 (PTOLEMY).

Geographiae universae tum veteris, tum novae absolutissimum opus, duobus voluminibus distinctum.

Venice 1596 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Unknown
61 (PTOLEMY).

Geografia cioe Descrittione Universalle Della Terra Partita in due volumi, Nel Primo de quali si contengono gli Otto Libri della Geografia di Cl. Tolomeo...

Venice 1598 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Unknown
62 MERCATOR, GERARD.

L'Atlas ou Meditations Cosmographiques de la fabrique du monde et Figure diceluy.

Amsterdam 1613 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 Unknown
63 BLAEU, WILLEM JANZOON.

Le Flambeau de la Navigation, Monstrant la Description & Delineation de toutes les Costes & Havres de la Meer Occidentale, Septentrionale, & Orientale.

Amsterdam 1620 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 Unknown
64 BLAEU, WILLEM & JOHANNES.

Appendix Theatri A. Ortelii et Atlantis G. Mercatoris, continens tabulas geographicas diversarum orbis regionum, nunc primum editas cum descriptionibus.

Amsterdam 1631 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 Unknown
65 BLAEU, JOHANNES.

Novus Atlas, Das ist Welt-beschreibung. Mit schonen newen aussfuhrlichen Land-Taffeln in Kupffer gestochen.

Amsterdam 1648 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
66 BLAEU, JOHANNES.

Theatrum Civitatum et Admirandorum Italiae.

Amsterdam 1663 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Unknown
67 SPEED, JOHN.

England Wales Scotland and Ireland described and abridged with ye historic relation of things worthy memory.

London 1627 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
68 MERCATOR, GERARD.

Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica mundi et fabricati figura.

Amsterdam 1632 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Unknown
69 MAGINI, GIOVANNI ANTONIO.

Italia.

Bologna 1642 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
70 VISSCHER, NICHOLAS (Frederick de Wit, and others).

Atlas minor sive totius orbis terrarum contracta delineat ex conatibus.

Amsterdam [c.1649-95]. USD 20,000.00 - 40,000.00 Unknown
71 JANSSONIUS, JOHANNES.

Theatrum Urbium celebriorum totius Belgii sive Germaniae inferioris.

Amsterdam 1657 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 Unknown
72 MALLET, ALLAIN MANESSON.

Description de l'univers, contenant les Differents Systemes du Monde, les Cartes Generals et Particulieres de la Geographie Ancienne et Modern.

Paris 1683 USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 Unknown
73 MULLER, JOHANN ULRICH.

Geographia Totius Orbis Compendiaria.

Ulm 1692 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
74 PEETERS, JACQUES.

L'Atlas en Abrege; ou Nouvelle Description du Monde.

Antwerp 1692 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Unknown
75 MERCATOR, GERARD.

Claudii Ptolemaei Tabulae Geographicae Orbis Terrarum Veteribus cogniti.

Amsterdam 1704 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
  • Sotheby's Fine Books & ManuscriptsAvailable for Immediate Purchase Sotheby’s: Balthus, Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights, New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1993. 6,600 USD. Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. Complete Works, Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company & Chapman & Hall, LD, 1850. Limited Edition set of 30 volumes. 7,500 USD. Sotheby’s: John Lennon, Yoko Ono. Handwritten Letter from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to their Chauffer. 1971. 32,500 USD. Sotheby’s: Winston Churchill. First edition of War Speeches, Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1941. Set of 7 volumes. 5,500 USD. Sotheby’s: Andy Warhol, Julia Warhola. Holy Cats First Edition, Signed by Andy Warhol. 1954. 30,000 USD.
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    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Balthus, Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights, New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1993. 6,600 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. Complete Works, Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company & Chapman & Hall, LD, 1850. Limited Edition set of 30 volumes. 7,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: John Lennon, Yoko Ono. Handwritten Letter from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to their Chauffer. 1971. 32,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Winston Churchill. First edition of War Speeches, Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1941. Set of 7 volumes. 5,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Andy Warhol, Julia Warhola. Holy Cats First Edition, Signed by Andy Warhol. 1954. 30,000 USD.
  • Forum AuctionsOnline: IndiaEnds 19th February 2026 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 40Ramasvami (Kavali Venkata). A Digest of the Different Castes of India, 83 charming hand-coloured lithographed plates, Madras, 1837. £5,000-7,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 50Watson (John Forbes) & John William Kaye. The People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations...of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan, 8 vol., 480 mounted albumen prints, 1868-75. £4,000-6,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 53Afghanistan.- Elphinstone (Hon. Mountstuart). An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, first edition, hand-coloured aquatint plates, a fine copy, 1815. £2,000-3,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 57[Album and Treatise on Hinduism], manuscript treatise on Hinduism in French, 31 watercolours of Hindu deities, Pondicherry, 1865. £3,000-4,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 62 Allan (Capt. Alexander). Views in the Mysore Country, [1794]. £2,000-3,000 Forum AuctionsOnline: IndiaEnds 19th February 2026 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 76Bird (James). Historical Researches on the Origin and Principles of the Bauddha and Jaina Religions..., first edition, lithographed plates, Bombay, American Mission Press, 1847. £3,000-4,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 100Ceylon.- Daniell (Samuel). A Picturesque Illustration of the scenery, animals, and native inhabitants, of the Island of Ceylon: in twelve plates, 1808. £5,000-7,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 123D'Oyly (Charles). Behar Amateur Lithographic Scrap Book, lithographed throughout with title and 55 plates mounted on 43 paper leaves, [Patna], [1828]. £3,000-5,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 139Gandhi (known as Mahatma Gandhi,) Fine Autograph Letter signed to Jawaharlal Nehru, Sevagram, Wardha, 1942, emphasising the importance of education in rural communities. £10,000-15,000 Forum AuctionsOnline: IndiaEnds 19th February 2026 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 140Gantz (John). Indian Microcosm, first edition, Madras, John Gantz & Son, 1827. £10,000-15,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 146Grierson (Sir George Abraham). Linguistic Survey of India, 11 vol. in 20, folding maps, original cloth, Calcutta, Superintendent Government Printing, 1903-28. £2,000-3,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 195Madras.- Fort St. George Gazette (The), No.276-331, pp.493-936 and Index to all of 1834 at end, modern half calf, Madras, 2nd July - 31st December 1834. £2,000-3,000 Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 205Marshall (Sir John) and Alfred Foucher. The Monuments of Sanchi, 3 vol., first edition, 141 plates, most photogravure, [Calcutta], [1940]. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    Online: India
    Ends 19th February 2026
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 40
    Ramasvami (Kavali Venkata). A Digest of the Different Castes of India, 83 charming hand-coloured lithographed plates, Madras, 1837. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 50
    Watson (John Forbes) & John William Kaye. The People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations...of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan, 8 vol., 480 mounted albumen prints, 1868-75. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 53
    Afghanistan.- Elphinstone (Hon. Mountstuart). An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, first edition, hand-coloured aquatint plates, a fine copy, 1815. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 57
    [Album and Treatise on Hinduism], manuscript treatise on Hinduism in French, 31 watercolours of Hindu deities, Pondicherry, 1865. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 62 Allan (Capt. Alexander). Views in the Mysore Country, [1794]. £2,000-3,000
    Forum Auctions
    Online: India
    Ends 19th February 2026
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 76
    Bird (James). Historical Researches on the Origin and Principles of the Bauddha and Jaina Religions..., first edition, lithographed plates, Bombay, American Mission Press, 1847. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 100
    Ceylon.- Daniell (Samuel). A Picturesque Illustration of the scenery, animals, and native inhabitants, of the Island of Ceylon: in twelve plates, 1808. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 123
    D'Oyly (Charles). Behar Amateur Lithographic Scrap Book, lithographed throughout with title and 55 plates mounted on 43 paper leaves, [Patna], [1828]. £3,000-5,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 139
    Gandhi (known as Mahatma Gandhi,) Fine Autograph Letter signed to Jawaharlal Nehru, Sevagram, Wardha, 1942, emphasising the importance of education in rural communities. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Online: India
    Ends 19th February 2026
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 140
    Gantz (John). Indian Microcosm, first edition, Madras, John Gantz & Son, 1827. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 146
    Grierson (Sir George Abraham). Linguistic Survey of India, 11 vol. in 20, folding maps, original cloth, Calcutta, Superintendent Government Printing, 1903-28. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 195
    Madras.- Fort St. George Gazette (The), No.276-331, pp.493-936 and Index to all of 1834 at end, modern half calf, Madras, 2nd July - 31st December 1834. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 205
    Marshall (Sir John) and Alfred Foucher. The Monuments of Sanchi, 3 vol., first edition, 141 plates, most photogravure, [Calcutta], [1940]. £3,000-4,000
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