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Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 567. One of the Earliest & Most Desirable Printed Maps of Arabia - by Holle/Germanus (1482) Est. $55,000 - $65,000Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 681. Zatta's Complete Atlas with 218 Maps in Full Contemporary Color (1779) Est. $27,500 - $35,000Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 347. MacDonald Gill's Landmark "Wonderground Map" of London (1914) Est. $1,800 - $2,100Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 1. Fries' "Modern" World Map with Portraits of Five Kings (1525) Est. $4,000 - $4,750Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 539. Ortelius' Superb, Decorative Map of Cyprus in Full Contemporary Color (1573) Est. $1,100 - $1,400Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 51. Mercator's Foundation Map for the Americas in Full Contemporary Color (1630) Est. $3,250 - $4,000Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 667. Manuscript Bible Leaf with Image of Mary and Baby Jesus (1450) Est. $1,900 - $2,200Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 226. "A Powerful Example of Color Used to Make a Point" (1895) Est. $400 - $600Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 290. One of the Most Decorative Early Maps of South America - from Linschoten's "Itinerario" (1596) Est. $7,000 - $8,500Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 62. Coronelli's Influential Map of North America with the Island of California (1688) Est. $10,000 - $12,000Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 589. The First European-Printed Map of China - by Ortelius (1584) Est. $4,000 - $5,000
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Forum Auctions
A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library
19th June 2025Forum, June 19: Euclid. The Elements of Geometrie, first edition in English of the first complete translation, [1570]. £20,000 to £30,000.Forum, June 19: Nicolay (Nicolas de). The Navigations, peregrinations and voyages, made into Turkie, first edition in English, 1585. £10,000 to £15,000.Forum, June 19: Shakespeare source book.- Montemayor (Jorge de). Diana of George of Montemayor, first edition in English, 1598. £6,000 to £8,000.Forum, June 19: Livius (Titus). The Romane Historie, first edition in English, translated by Philemon Holland, Adam Islip, 1600. £6,000 to £8,000.Forum Auctions
A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library
19th June 2025Forum, June 19: Robert Molesworth's copy.- Montaigne (Michel de). The Essayes Or Morall, Politike and Millitarie Discourses, first edition in English, 1603. £10,000 to £15,000.Forum, June 19: Shakespeare (William). The Tempest [&] The Two Gentlemen of Verona, from the Second Folio, [Printed by Thomas Cotes], 1632. £4,000 to £6,000.Forum, June 19: Boyle (Robert). Medicina Hydrostatica: or, Hydrostaticks Applyed to the Materia Medica, first edition, for Samuel Smith, 1690. £2,500 to £3,500.Forum, June 19: Locke (John). An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding in Four Books, first edition, second issue, 1690. £8,00 to £12,000. -
ALDE, June 18: CHAPPE D'AUTEROCHE (JEAN). Voyage en Sibérie fait par ordre du Roi en 1761 contenant les mœurs…, Paris, 1768. €4,000 to €5,000.ALDE, June 18: HENNEPIN (LOUIS). Description de la Louisiane nouvellement découverte au Sud-Ouest de la Nouvelle France…, Paris, 1688. €3,000 to €4,000.ALDE, June 18: LA BOULLAYE-LE GOUZ (FRANÇOIS DE). Les Voyages et Observations, Paris, 1653. €1,500 to €2,000.ALDE, June 18: LE BRUN (CORNELIS DE BRUYN DIT CORNEILLE). Voyage au Levant, c'est à dire dans les principaux endroits de l'Asie mineure..., Delft, 1700. €6,000 to €8,000.ALDE, June 18: SAINT-NON (J.-CL. RICHARD, ABBÉ DE). Voyage pittoresque ou description du royaume de Naples et de Sicile, Paris, 1781-1786. €3,500 to €5,000.ALDE, June 18: (CALVIN JEAN). SÉNÈQUE. Annei Senecae..., Paris, 1532. €2,000 to €3,000.ALDE, June 18: ADRIEN LE CHARTREUX. De remediis utriusque fortunæ, [Cologne, vers 1470]. €5,000 to €6,000.ALDE, June 18: GAZA (THÉODORE). [...] Introductivæ grammatices libri quatuor. Ejusdem de mensibus opusculum sanequampulchrum, Venise, 1495. €8,000 to €10,000.ALDE, June 18: LACTANCE. De divinis institutionibus. De ira Dei. De opificio Dei. De phoenice carmen, Rome, 1468. €30,000 to €40,000.ALDE, June 18: LUTHER (MARTIN). Der Erste [– Achte und letze] Teil aller Bücher und Schrifften des thewren, seligen Mans Doct. Mart. Lutheri, Iéna, 1555-1568. €5,000 to €6,000.ALDE, June 18: POLITIEN (ANGE). Omnia opera, et alia quædam lectu Digna, Venise, 1498. €8,000 to €10,000.ALDE, June 18: SIDOINE APOLLINAIRE. Poema aureum ejusdemque Epistole, Milan, 1498. €3,000 to €4,000.
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SD | Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Øiesvold Collection
June 14, 2025SD | Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions, June: 14: HIERONYMUS MÜNTZER (1437 – 1508): (Northern and Central Europe) No title recto. Nuremberg, 1493.SD | Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions, June: 14: SIGISMUND VON HERBERSTEIN (1486 – 1566): «Commentari della Moscovia et partmente della Russia.» Venice, 1550.SD | Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions, June: 14: SEBASTIAN MÜNSTER: «Cosmographiae universalis Lib. VI in quibus iuxta certioris […]» Basel, 1559.SD | Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions, June: 14: SEBASTIAN MÜNSTER: «Deerwunder und seltzame Thier / wie die in den Mitnächtigen Länder im Meer […]» Basel, c. 1550.SD | Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions, June: 14: WILLEM BARENTSZ (1550 – 97): «Deliniatio cartæ trium navigationum per Batavos, ad Septentrionalem plagem [...]» Amsterdam, 1598.
Rare Book Monthly
Book Catalogue Reviews - November - 2006 Issue
Signed Documents by the Famed and Their Families from Joe Rubinfine
By Michael Stillman
Joe Rubinfine of West Palm Beach, Florida, has issued his List 157 of American Historical Autographs. As always, Rubinfine offers a group of documents signed by people you know, or at least people whose places in history are familiar. That latter category includes people like Oliver Wolcott, Caesar Rodney, Richard Stockton, Edward Rutledge and Robert Morris. If their names don't immediately jump out at you, you will recognize their signatures as being highly collectible when you realize they were signers of the Declaration of Independence. Most of the other names herein, however, will be more familiar without the explanation. Here are a few of the names and their documents now being offered by Joe Rubinfine.
Item 34 is a touching but very sad letter from Robert Todd Lincoln, the only one of Abraham Lincoln's four children to survive to adulthood. Robert Lincoln served as Secretary of War in the early 1880s, and at the time of this letter, was the U.S. Minister to Great Britain. Robert had three children, one son and two daughters, meaning that young Abraham Lincoln II, known as "Jack," was the last possible descendant to carry forward the Lincoln name. However, at the time of this letter, January 13, 1890, Jack was seriously ill in France. His father writes to an evident friend that the French doctors have said "il est perdue" (he is lost). Robert recognizes that the odds are against his son, but an English or American doctor thinks he has a better chance if moved to England. "I now feel that he is sure to die remaining here & that a slender chance is given him by taking him away..." Robert did remove his son to England, but on March 5, Abraham II died at the age of 16. That spelled an end to the name "Lincoln" in the President's line. Ultimately, Robert's two daughters produced three grandchildren, but none of them had heirs. The President's line ended when his twice married but childless great-grandchild Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith died in 1985 at the age of 81. Priced at $3,000.
Here is another letter from a presidential relative, a much happier one, though the writer experienced terrible tragedy in her life. The writer is Anna Harrison, widow of President William Henry Harrison; the recipient was her grandson J. Cleves Short Harrison. The letter is chatty, filled with news about aunts and uncles, cousins and neighbors. Mrs. Harrison tells her grandson to be sure to read the Bible and attend church, and "never think yourself too old or large to learn any thing that is good or usefull." Anna had the shortest stint as first lady as her presidential husband took sick and died after only one month in office. Anna herself was ill at the time of his inauguration, never making it to the White House (William Henry died as she was planning the trip from Ohio to Washington, which she then cancelled). At the time of this letter, January 26, 1847, not only was her husband gone, but nine of her ten children had died, including Cleves' father, yet Anna would live for another 17 years. She resided with her one surviving child, John Scott Harrison, and when his wife died three years after this letter was written, she would help raise her grandson, future President Benjamin Harrison. Anna would outlive a whole slew of grandchildren as well, but J. Cleves would survive to have a successful banking career in Indiana and later retire to Los Angeles. His L.A. home is an official Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument. Item 47. $2,500.