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Auction Name	Americana - Travel & Exploration - World History - Maps & Views	Total Sales (USD)	125,781.25
Auction Date	March 19, 2026 - March 19, 2026	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	123,050.00
Sale Number	#859	High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	192,800.00
Total Lots	433
Sold Lots	248.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)	222,650.00
% of Lots Sold	57.27%	High Estimate of All Lots (USD)	348,500.00
Unsold Lots	185	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	36.09%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
142	Franklin, Benjamin	Experiments and Observations on Electricity made at Philadelphia in America... To which are added, Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects. The Whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now first collected into one Volume, and Illustrated with Coppe	1774	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 5,625.00
323	Fellows, Charles	Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc, of the 25 July, 1827	1827	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 4,687.50
128	Galbraith, John Kenneth	The Great Crash 1929	1955	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 4,062.50
408		U.S. Indian Service Maps of Flathead Reservation	[c.1922]	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	USD 4,062.50
261		Spanish colonial manuscripts relating to Revolutionary-Era American public debt	c. 1779-1784	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 3,437.50
246	Kennedy, John F.	Profiles in Courage	[1956]	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	USD 3,125.00
245	Kennedy, John F.	Autograph letter signed by John F. Kennedy as Senator	1955	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 2,812.50
150	Heap, Gwinn Harris	Central Route to the Pacific, from the Valley of the Mississippi to California: Journal of the Expedition of E.F. Beale, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in California, and Gwinn Harris Heap, from Missouri to California, in 1853	1854	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,250.00
186	Muir, John	A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf	1916	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,875.00
224	Marshall, John	The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Forces, During the War Which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States. Compiled under the inspection of the Honourable Bushrod Washington... To	1804-1807	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 1,875.00
1		Happy Phebe	[c.1850]	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,750.00
32		Pocket Guide of Los Angeles, California...	August 1886	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,750.00
184	Muir, John	Steep Trails	1918	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 1,750.00
231	Garfield, James A.	Signature of James A. Garfield [with] portrait plate	1881	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,750.00
131	Keynes, John Maynard	The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money	[1936]	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,625.00
240	Coolidge, Calvin	Autograph letter signed by Calvin Coolidge as President	1923	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 1,625.00
343	Schleiermacher, Friedrich and Friedrich Nietzsche	Predigt Am Zweiten Tage Des Reformations-Jubelfestes in Der Dreifaltigkeits-Kirche [bound with] Also sprach Zarathustra	1818; 1884	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	USD 1,625.00
136		United States Revenue Cutter Service flag	c.1890-1900	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,500.00
281	Killie, Charles A.	50 Views of the Siege of Peking	c. 1900	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 1,500.00
110		Manifiesto Capitania General del Ejercito Libertador de la Isla de Cuba y Gobierno Provisional de la Misma	1868	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 1,250.00
130	Hayek, Friedrich A.	Die Drei Quellen Der Menschlichen Werte	[1979]	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,250.00
179	Muir, John	The Cruise of the Corwin	1917	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,250.00
324	George, Hereford Brooke, Leslie Stephen, & Douglas W. Freshfield, editors	The Alpine Journal: A Record of Mountain Adventure and Scientific Observations by Members of the Alpine Club	1863-1970	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,250.00
127	Galbraith, John Kenneth	American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power	1952	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 1,125.00
12	Bush, Vannevar	The Gentleman of Culture	c. 1958-1959	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 937.50

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.