Item 16 is a rare and obscure flower book from the 1820s entitled Ten Lithographic Coloured Flowers with Botanical Descriptions drawn and coloured by a Lady. For starters, you're going to get four times your money's worth with this one. There are 40 flowers. Evidently, three more sections were added after the title page was printed. The author/artist of this work is unknown (other than that she was a lady). While not quite another Redoute, the lady's artistic skills were still quite developed and the book has been described as "a delightful work very carefully drawn and coloured." Pages facing the plates show both English and Latin names along with a description of the flower. $6,500.
Item 53 is The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the 1872 third edition of the Fitzgerald translation from Bernard Quaritch. Normally, this is an inexpensive book. This is not a normal copy. This is not a book to be opened, as it is valued strictly for the binding. The cover shows the image of a peacock, 31 radiating tail feathers each leading to a set garnet. Five pearls have been inlaid in the peacock's crest. This is one of the fantastic bindings from the London firm of Sangorski and Sutcliffe, probably from around 1910. $37,500.
Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Reaffirms the US Treaty of Friendship and Peace with Morocco, the Longest Unbroken Treaty in US History. $50,000 – 80,000.
Freeman’s, August 20. Weeks After Victory at Yorktown, Benjamin Franklin Promises Repayment of a French Loan that Funded the American Revolution. $200,000 – 300,000.
Freeman’s, August 20. Rare First Edition of the Foundational Text of the Mormon Church. $100,000 – 150,000.
Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Sends the First Major Law Passed by Congress, the Tariff Act of 1789. $100,000 – 150,000.
Freeman’s, August 20. A Scarce Example of Audubon's Depiction of a Brown Pelican, Plate CCLI from his Birds of America. $30,000 – 50,000.
Freeman’s, August 20. The Official and First Obtainable Broadside Printing of the Lincoln's Final Emancipation Proclamation. $30,000 – 50,000.
