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Freeman's | Hindman: Printed and Manuscript Americana

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Auction Name Printed and Manuscript Americana Total Sales (USD) 1,902,496.00
Auction Date January 29, 2026 - January 29, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 908,600.00
Sale Number #6465 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,366,400.00
Total Lots 153
Sold Lots 125.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,033,700.00
% of Lots Sold 81.70% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,557,800.00
Unsold Lots 28 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 122.13%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
29 Hancock, John.

Manuscript Document, signed

USD 150,000.00 - 250,000.00 USD 563,200.00
148 Washington, George.

Autograph Letter, signed

USD 250,000.00 - 350,000.00 USD 371,200.00
23 (Dickinson, John, and Thomas Jefferson).

A Declaration of the Representatives of the United Colonies of North-America, now met in General Congress at Philadelphia, setting forth the Causes and Necessity of their taking up Arms

USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 76,800.00
84 Lincoln, Abraham.

Autograph Note, signed

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 64,000.00
109 Catlin, George.

Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio. Hunting Scenes and Amusements of the Rocky Mountains and Prairies of America...

USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 64,000.00
98 Scull, Nicholas.

To the Honourable Thomas Penn and Richard Penn Esqrs. True & absolute Proprietaries & Governours of the Province of Pennsylvania & Counties of New-Castle Kent & Sussex on Delaware This Map Of the improved Part of the Province of Pennsylvania...

USD 35,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 48,000.00
25 Force, Peter.

In Congress, July 4, 1776... [Declaration of Independence]

ca. 1833 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 41,600.00
66 (Hamilton, Alexander, and John Jay, and James Madison).

The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787

1788 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 41,600.00
149 Washington, George.

Autograph Letter, signed

USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 38,400.00
77 Franklin, Benjamin.

Autograph Letter, signed

October 17, 1788 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 32,000.00
85 Leale, Charles A.

Autograph Notes Recounting Lincoln's Assassination

No date, ca. 1880s-1900s. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 28,800.00
86 Leale, Charles A.

Autograph Notes Recounting Lincoln's Assassination

USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 28,800.00
102

The Deplorable State of New-England, By Reason of a Covetous and Treacherous Governour, and Pusillanimous Counsellors...to be Published in their Boston News-letter...

1708 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 24,320.00
74 [Franklin, Benjamin]

Franklin, Benjamin. Autograph Letter, signed

USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 20,480.00
34 Lafayette, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de.

Autograph Letter, signed

August 27, 1825 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 19,200.00
75 [Franklin, Benjamin]

Remarques Sur la Navigation de Terre-Neuve a New-York afin d'euiter les Courrants et les bas-fonds au Sud de Nantuckett et du Banc de George

ca. 1780-85 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 19,200.00
73 [Franklin, Benjamin]

(Franklin, Benjamin) A Narrative of the Late Massacres, in Lancaster County, of a Number of Indians, Friends of this Province, by Persons Unknown. With some Observations on the same

1764 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 16,640.00
124 [Kennedy, John F.]

Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States From George Washington 1789 to John F. Kennedy 1961

1961 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 16,640.00
21 Adams, Samuel.

Autograph Letter, signed

September 19, 1779 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 15,360.00
76 Franklin, Benjamin.

Manuscript Document, signed

May 10, 1787 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 15,360.00
90 Carroll, Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson).

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

1866 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 15,360.00
41 Revere, Paul.

Manuscript Document, signed

March 12, 1778 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 12,800.00
70 [Franklin, Benjamin]

Sewel, William. The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress, of the Christian People Called Quakers: Intermixed with Several Remarkable Occurrences...

USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 12,800.00
152

Cassidy, Butch, and the Sundance Kid. Pinkerton's National Detective Agency Wanted Poster for the Wild Bunch

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 12,800.00
31 Henry, Patrick.

Autograph Letter, signed

November 21, 1776 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,880.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen miniatures surviving from an original cycle of at least twenty, [c. 1430]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, one of 215 first issue "Proof" copies, this one of 65 copies on "French" paper, Published by the Author, March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Kepler (Johannes). Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, first edition, Augsburg, David Frank, 1611. £12,000-18,000
  • Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.