- Auction
19027
Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts Including Americana
1 October 2020 - 16 October 2020, New York
SALE TOTAL: 2,732,750 (USD)
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77 Lots for Sale 19027
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Lot 1 The Singularities of France Antarctique André Thevet, 1558 |
estimate $18,000 - $22,000 price realized $52,500 |
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Lot 2 Cities of the World Braun & Hogenberg, 1599-1606 |
estimate $30,000 - $50,000 price realized $250,000 |
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Lot 3 Portolan Chart of the Mediterranean Messina, Sicily, 1617 |
estimate $40,000 - $60,000 price realized $112,500 |
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Lot 11 Visscher's World Map Amsterdam, c.1679 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $7,500 |
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Lot 16 Hôtel-Dieu de Québec J.-F. Juchereau de St.-Ignace, 1751 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 price realized $6,250 |
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Lot 17 Travels in Louisiana Country J. Bossu, 1768 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 price realized $1,875 |
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Lot 18 Captain Cook's second voyage The official account, 1777 |
estimate $6,000 - $9,000 price realized $11,875 |
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Lot 20 Burney's history of the South Sea discoveries Fine first edition set, 1803-17 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $6,875 |
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Lot 21 Ottoman Costumes Watercolors, c.1800 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 price realized $9,375 |
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Lot 22 First publication on Mayan archaeology A. Río & P.-F. Cabrera, 1822 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 price realized $2,500 |
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Lot 23 Views of Guiana Robert Hermann Schomburgk, 1841 |
estimate $2,000 - $4,000 price realized $2,375 |
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Lot 24 The Valley of the Nile, 1848 Prisse d'Avennes, deluxe issue |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 price realized $18,750 |
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Lot 25 On his mission to Fort Le Boeuf George Washington, 1754 |
estimate $80,000 - $120,000 price realized $75,000 |
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Lot 27 Lewis Evans on his Map printed by Ben Franklin, 1756 |
estimate $7,000 - $9,000 price realized $30,000 |
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Lot 28 The Great Town of Boston John Carwitham, c.1763 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 price realized $5,000 |
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Lot 29 On the Battle of Bunker Hill Elihu Humphrey, 1775 |
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 price realized $8,125 |
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Lot 30 Boston under Siege Henry Pelham, 1777 |
estimate $80,000 - $120,000 price realized $300,000 |
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Lot 31 The Declaration of Independence Peter Force, 1833 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 price realized $20,000 |
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Lot 32 \"Holster Atlas\" of the Revolution Sayer & Bennett, 1776 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $11,250 |
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Lot 33 The essential manual for British Officers Thomas Simes, 1776 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $3,750 |
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Lot 35 On Arnold's treason William Strachan, 22 October 1780 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $2,750 |
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Lot 36 The First National Thanksgiving Continental Congress, 1777 |
estimate $500,000 - $800,000 price realized $475,000 |
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Lot 37 Atlas & Pilote Americain Le Rouge, 1778 |
estimate $60,000 - $90,000 price realized $75,000 |
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Lot 38 The siege of Charleston George Sproule, 1780 |
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 price realized $12,500 |
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Lot 39 Travels in revolutionary America F.J. Chastellux, 1786 |
estimate $800 - $1,200 price realized $750 |
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Lot 41 Linking the American Revolution and Túpac Amaru Jerónimo de Ruedas, 1781 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 price realized $22,500 |
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Lot 42 Early published image of the American Flag Berlin, 1783 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 price realized $3,000 |
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Lot 43 French views of the American Revolution Paris, 1784 |
estimate $800 - $1,200 price realized $1,250 |
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Lot 44 Southern campaigns of the American Revolution Banastre Tarleton, 1787 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $3,500 |
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Lot 45 The American Revolution as told in Britain Charles Stedman, 1794 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $10,000 |
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Lot 46 Presidential Autographs Washington to Eisenhower, c.1783-1950 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 price realized $25,000 |
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Lot 47 On the Mason Dixon Line & the Barbary Pirates Thomas Jefferson, 1785 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 price realized $20,000 |
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Lot 48 Surveying his lands on the Ohio River George Washington, 1787 |
estimate $40,000 - $60,000 price realized $100,000 |
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Lot 50 The Planned Federal Capital City Andrew Ellicott, 1792 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $13,750 |
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Lot 52 To Denis Decrès R. Livingston, 1806 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $3,750 |
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Lot 54 Fenimore Cooper on Tecumseh Paris, April 1827 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 price realized $2,750 |
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Lot 55 Wild Turkey Audubon, 1830 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 price realized $20,000 |
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Lot 56 The City of Boston Robert Havell, 1841 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $5,000 |
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Lot 57 In support of Cresson's colonization campaign Henry Clay & Dolley Madison, 1834 |
estimate $800 - $1,200 price realized $875 |
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Lot 58 Mid-19th-century Manhattan Color Aquatint, 1849 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 price realized $16,250 |
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Lot 59 A 19th-century version of the Ratzer plan Joseph Hutchins Colton, 1853 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $4,375 |
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Lot 60 THE UNION IS DISSOLVED! Charleston, South Carolina, 1860. |
estimate $25,000 - $35,000 price realized $32,500 |
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Lot 61 Riding the Illinois Eighth Circut Abraham Lincoln, November 1851 |
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 price realized $6,875 |
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Lot 62 To Secretary of War Edwin Stanton Abraham Lincoln, 13 October 1862 |
estimate $6,000 - $8,000 price realized $21,250 |
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Lot 64 Enlisting former slaves to secure Vicksburg William T. Sherman, 4 September 1863 |
estimate $6,000 - $8,000 price realized $8,125 |
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Lot 65 Offering thanks for two canes Abraham Lincoln, 25 July 1864 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 price realized $60,000 |
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Lot 66 \"I am sick at heart\" Mary Lincoln, 1871 |
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 price realized $5,250 |
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Lot 67 Writing from his deathbed Ulysses Grant, 18 July 1885 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 price realized $11,875 |
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Lot 68 \"I Want You!\" James Montgomery Flagg, 1917 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $7,500 |
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Lot 69 Commending a technician at Los Alamos J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1 October 1945 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $6,875 |
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Lot 70 Observations on rock music, drugs, and exteriorization L.R.Hubbard, 1950s-80s |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 price realized $10,625 |
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Lot 71 Notes from the first Presidential debate John F. Kennedy, 26 September 1960 |
estimate $30,000 - $50,000 price realized $40,000 |
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Lot 72 World Trade Center Minoru Yamasaki, 1968-72 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 price realized $43,750 |
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Lot 73 The complete editio princeps Aristotle, 1495-1498 |
estimate $200,000 - $300,000 price realized $475,000 |
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Lot 74 Empiricism and Engravings Accademia del Cimento, 1666 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $3,000 |
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Lot 75 Ora Maritima Avienus, 1488 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $2,500 |
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Lot 76 Hutter's Hebrew Bible Hamburg, 1587 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $4,000 |
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Lot 77 Illuminated Schoeffer New Testament Mainz, 1472 |
estimate $25,000 - $45,000 price realized $30,000 |
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Lot 78 Hermetic Emblems A. Bocchi, 1555 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $8,125 |
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Lot 80 Greek Anthology, heavily annotated Aedibus Aldi, 1521 |
estimate $1,500 - $3,000 price realized $15,000 |
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Lot 83 Second Aldine Lucretius Lucretius, 1515 |
estimate $2,000 - $4,000 price realized $2,125 |
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Lot 84 Austrian chained binding Manuscript on paper, 15th century |
estimate $25,000 - $35,000 price realized $25,000 |
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Lot 86 Hans Bellmer's U.S. debut Paris to New York, 1950-52 |
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 price realized $6,250 |
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Lot 89 Signed limited edition photobook Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1912 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 price realized $3,750 |
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Lot 90 The Christmas Books Charles Dickens, 1843-1848 |
estimate $7,000 - $9,000 price realized $13,750 |
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Lot 91 To a budding inventor Albert Einstein, 17 August 1943 |
estimate $2,500 - $3,500 price realized $11,250 |
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Lot 92 Reflecting on Germany's crimes as Allied victory nears Albert Einstein, 1945 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 price realized $12,500 |
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Lot 93 Gödel on the continuum hypothesis Rare presentation copy, 1953 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $25,000 |
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Lot 94 This Side of Paradise Wedding day presentation copy, 3 April 1920 |
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 price realized $8,125 |
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Lot 97 Carl Jung on happiness Zurich, 1950 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 price realized $21,250 |
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Lot 99 Franz Kafka to Klopstock's supervisor Prague, July 1922 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 price realized $22,500 |
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Lot 101 Encouraging a young artist Henry W. Longfellow, 11 April 1878 |
estimate $600 - $800 price realized $500 |
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Lot 102 Their first B-side: \"End of the Night\" Jim Morrison & Ray Manzarek, 1965 |
estimate $7,000 - $9,000 price realized $7,500 |
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Lot 104 Rare inscribed photograph Louis Pasteur, 1869 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $7,500 |
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Lot 106 Christening of the Prince of Wales Manuscript panorama, 1841 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $9,375 |
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Lot 107 On the death of Princess Alice Queen Victoria, 14 December 1878 |
estimate $800 - $1,200 price realized $1,250 |
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Lot 108 With a letter to psychiatrist Strauss Evelyn Waugh, 1957 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $9,375 |
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