• Auction 22093

    Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana

    5 October 2023 - 19 October 2023, New York

    SALE TOTAL: 7,333,198 (USD)
358 Lots for Sale 22093
Lot 1
Arataea sive signa coelestia
Jakob van Gheyn, 1621
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$4,788
Lot 2
Naturalist on the River Amazons
Henry Walter Bates, 1863
estimate
$2,500 - $3,500

price realized
$2,520
Lot 3
Ein newe und schöne Art der Vollkommenen Visier-Kunst
Johann Hartmann Beyer, 1603
estimate
$1,600 - $2,000

price realized
$1,764
Lot 5
Experimentum anatomicum quo arteriolarum lymphaticarum existentia probabiliter...
Jan Bleuland, 1784
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$1,638
Lot 6
Icon tunicae villosae intestini duodone
Jan Bleuland, 1789
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

Lot 7
Die sogenannten Kunst-Uhren
Joseph Georg Böhm, 1863
estimate
$3,000 - $4,000

price realized
$2,772
Lot 8
Wissenschaftslehre
Bernard Bolzano, 1837
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$2,772
Lot 9
Risposta ... alle considerazioni fatte sopra alcuni luoghi del suo libro della...
Giovanni Borelli, 1668
estimate
$3,000 - $4,000

price realized
$2,772
Lot 10
De motu animalium
Borelli, 1680-1
estimate
$4,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,780
Lot 11
A contemporary account of the 1766 comet
Joao de Souza Freire de Araujo Borges Da Veiga, 1766
estimate
$900 - $1,200

price realized
$3,024
Lot 12
Catalogo ragionato di una raccolta di rocce
Giovanni Battista Brocchi, 1817
estimate
$900 - $1,400

price realized
$630
Lot 13
A Brief Account of some Travels in Hungaria [and] An Account of Several Travels...
Edward Brown, 1673 and 1677
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,528
Lot 14
The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica
Patrick Browne, 1789
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

Lot 15
Herbarium vivae eicones ad nature imitationem
Otto Brunfels, 1532
estimate
$4,000 - $5,000

price realized
$6,930
Lot 16
Ricreatione dell’occhio
Filippo Buonanni, 1681
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

Lot 17
Monument Élevé a la Gloire ou Relation des Travaux et des Moyens Mechaniques
Marin Carburi de Ceffalonie, 1777
estimate
$500 - $800

price realized
$756
Lot 18
Mémoire sur les intégrales définies
Augustin-Louis Cauchy, 1825
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$756
Lot 19
Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière
Bourneville and Regnard, 1876-1880
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

Lot 20
Lexicon philosophicum
Étienne Chauvin, 1713
estimate
$600 - $900

price realized
$126
Lot 21
La dioptrique oculaire
Cherubin d’Orléans, 1670
estimate
$4,500 - $6,000

price realized
$4,032
Lot 22
Pierre Chirac's lectures on medicine
Lamarque, 1714-1715
estimate
$900 - $1,400

price realized
$3,276
Lot 23
Medical Reports from the West Riding Lunatic Asylum
James Crichton-Browne, 1871-76
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,780
Lot 24
Le Triparty en la Science des Nombres
Nicolas Chuquet, 1881
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$252
Lot 25
Preparing \"The Voyage of the Beagle\" for publication
Charles Darwin, late October 1837
estimate
$15,000 - $20,000

Lot 26
On the delay in publication of his Journal of Researches
Charles Darwin, 1839
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

Lot 27
Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the various...
Charles Darwin, 1839
estimate
$7,000 - $9,000

price realized
$13,860
Lot 28
The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle
Charles Darwin and others, 1838-1843
estimate
$70,000 - $90,000

price realized
$88,200
Lot 29
Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle
Charles Darwin, et al., 1839
estimate
$7,000 - $9,000

price realized
$8,190
Lot 30
Geological Observations on South America
Charles Darwin, 1846
estimate
$20,000 - $30,000

price realized
$22,680
Lot 31
The Tendency of Species to form Varieties
Charles Darwin and A.R. Wallace, 1858
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,024
Lot 32
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin, 1861
estimate
$30,000 - $50,000

price realized
$50,400
Lot 33
The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals
Charles Darwin, 1872
estimate
$15,000 - $20,000

price realized
$17,640
Lot 34
John Stuart Mill's copy
Charles Darwin, 1872
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$11,340
Lot 35
On the nesting habits of birds
Charles Darwin, 1873
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$7,560
Lot 36
The Descent of Man
Charles Darwin, 1871
estimate
$35,000 - $55,000

price realized
$47,880
Lot 37
The Descent of Man
Charles Darwin, 1871
estimate
$3,500 - $6,000

price realized
$3,780
Lot 38
Presentation copy of Insectivorous Plants
Charles Darwin, 1875
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

price realized
$15,120
Lot 39
On the \"gradation of structure\"
Charles Darwin, 28 August [1871]
estimate
$25,000 - $35,000

price realized
$25,200
Lot 40
Annulorum trium diversi generis instrumentorum astronomicorum componendi ratio...
Johann Dryander et al., 1537
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$756
Lot 41
Supporting Austrian Jewish educator Eugenie Schwarzwald
Albert Einstein, 6 October 1938
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$4,788
Lot 42
To his former student
Albert Einstein, 29 August 1915
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$4,788
Lot 43
Alluding to E=mc2
Albert Einstein, 14 August 1950
estimate
$30,000 - $50,000

price realized
$35,280
Lot 44
Posing in his famous bomber jacket
Albert Einstein, 1947
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

price realized
$15,120
Lot 45
Vom Garten-Baw: Oder Unterricht von der Gärtnerey auff das Clima der Chur-Marck...
Johann Sigismund Elsholtz, 1672
estimate
$900 - $1,200

price realized
$504
Lot 46
Opera observationum et curationum medico-chirurgicarum quae extant omnia
Wilhelm Fabri von Hilden 1646
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$1,512
Lot 47
De medicatis aquis, atque de fossilibus
Gabriele Falloppio, 1564
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$756
Lot 48
In Hippocratis librum de vulneribus capitis
Gabriele Falloppio, 1566
estimate
$3,500 - $6,000

Lot 49
Expositio in librum Galeni De Ossibus huic accesserunt observationes anatomicae...
Gabriele Falloppio, 1570
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,512
Lot 50
Experimental Researches in Electricity and Magnetism
Michael Faraday, 1831-1855
estimate
$25,000 - $45,000

Lot 51
A manuscript abstract for his late work on electromagnetism
Michael Faraday, 1855
estimate
$3,500 - $6,000

price realized
$15,120
Lot 52
Photographs of his private zoological museum in Manila
Hipólito Fernández, 1886
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$1,638
Lot 53
De florum cultura
Giovanni Battista Ferrari, 1633
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,394
Lot 54
De motu cordis, et sanguinis in animalibus pro Aristotele, & Galeno...
Girolamo Franzosi, 1651
estimate
$700 - $900

price realized
$3,528
Lot 55
Newe geometrische und perspectivische Inventiones etlicher sonderbahrer...
Johann Faulhaber, 1610
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$6,930
Lot 56
Descrizzione della barriera, e della mascherata, fatte in Firenze a’ XVII. et...
A masque honoring Galileo and Jupiter's moons, 1613
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$8,190
Lot 57
Kurtzer gründlicher gebesserter unnd vermehrter Underricht, zubereitung und...
Galileo, Galgemair, and Brentel, 1615
estimate
$4,500 - $6,000

Lot 58
Tractatus de proportionum instrumento
Galileo and Bernegger, 1635
estimate
$2,500 - $3,500

Lot 59
De La Grossesse et accouchement des femmes
Jacques and Charles Guillemeau, 1621
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

Lot 60
On the current state of scientific research
John Frederick William Herschel, 1845
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$21,420
Lot 61
His first published work on his first major experiment
Heinrich Hertz, ca 1878-1880
estimate
$80,000 - $120,000

Lot 62
Phytologia Britannica
William How, 1650
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

Lot 63
The Ichnology of Annandale or Illustrations of Footmarks impressed on the New...
Sir William Jardine, [1850-] 1853
estimate
$3,500 - $6,000

price realized
$27,720
Lot 64
Signed Applesoft ROM Chips
Steve Jobs, 1983 and Steve Wozniak, 2003
estimate
$20,000 - $30,000

price realized
$37,800
Lot 65
A suite of emblematic florilegium engravings
Theodor de Bry after Jacob Kempener, 1604
estimate
$4,500 - $6,000

Lot 66
Tabulae Rudolphinae
Johannes Kepler, 1627-29
estimate
$30,000 - $50,000

Lot 67
Spicilegium anatomicum
Theodor Kerckring, 1670 and 1671
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$1,512
Lot 68
Magnes sive de arte magnetica opus tripartitum
Athanasius Kircher, 1643
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,772
Lot 69
Itinerarium exstaticum
Athanasius Kircher, 1656
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$2,772
Lot 70
Mundus subterraneus
Athanasius Kircher, 1665
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

price realized
$15,120
Lot 71
On expanding Gibbs' grand ensemble theory
Hendrik Anthony Kramers, 1937
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$630
Lot 72
On perspective and Newton's color theory
Nicolas-Louis Lacaille, 1757
estimate
$2,500 - $3,500

Lot 73
An Herbal for the Bible
Levinus Lemnius, 1587
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$1,764
Lot 74
De miraculis occultis naturae
Levinus Lemnius, 1598
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$882
Lot 75
Histoire naturelle des perroquets
François Levaillant, 1801-1805
estimate
$100,000 - $150,000

price realized
$107,100
Lot 76
Sammelband of 5 works mostly on the controversy of the comets
Fortunio Liceti, 1640
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

Lot 77
De perfecta constitutione hominis in utero
Fortunio Liceti, 1616
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$378
Lot 78
Systema Naturae
Carl Linnaeus, 1758-1759
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$4,410
Lot 79
Fundamenta testaceologiae
Carolus Linnaeus, 1771
estimate
$900 - $1,400

price realized
$1,512
Lot 80
Tractatus de corde. Item De Motu & Colore Sanguinis et Chyli in eum Transitu
Richard Lower, 1669
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

Lot 81
De rerum natura libri sex. Una` cum paraphrastica explanatione, &...
Lucretius and Giovanni Nardi, 1647
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$1,512
Lot 82
Dissertatio epistolica de formatione pulli in ovo
Marcello Malpighi, 1673
estimate
$900 - $1,200

price realized
$882
Lot 83
The Universal Conchologist
Thomas Martyn, 1789
estimate
$30,000 - $50,000

price realized
$32,760
Lot 84
Anatomia universale
Paolo Mascagni, 1833
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$4,032
Lot 85
Commentarii secundo aucti in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de Medica...
Pier Andrea Mattioli, 1558
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$5,040
Lot 86
I Discorsi … ne i sei libri di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo della Material...
Pietro Andrea Mattioli, 1563
estimate
$3,500 - $6,000

price realized
$5,670
Lot 87
Original woodblock for Aquilina Aquilegia vulgaris [Columbine], from Mattioli's...
Giorgio Liberale and Wolfgang Meyerpeck, c.1563
estimate
$6,000 - $9,000

price realized
$9,450
Lot 88
Four original woodblocks from the celebrated Mattioli Herbal
Giorgio Liberale and Wolfgang Meyerpeck, 1562-1565
estimate
$25,000 - $35,000

price realized
$37,800
Lot 89
James Clerk Maxwell's \"On Physical Lines of Force\"
in The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

price realized
$27,720
Lot 90
Soemmerringio anatomico et physiologo
Johann Friedrich Meckel & Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring, 1828
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$3,024
Lot 91
Cogitata physico mathematica; Universae geometriae, mixtaeque mathematicae...
Marin Mersenne, 1644-1647
estimate
$12,000 - $15,000

price realized
$7,560
Lot 92
Opera de medicamentorum purgantium delectu, castigatione, & in usu, libri...
Johannes Mesue, 1589
estimate
$2,000 - $4,000

price realized
$3,024
Lot 93
Microphotography
Conrad Palm, c.1875
estimate
$5,000 - $7,000

Lot 94
The moon
Mount Wilson, 1919
estimate
$500 - $800

price realized
$2,142
Lot 95
A summons in a counterfeiting case
Isaac Newton, 24 February 1698/9
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

price realized
$17,640
Lot 96
Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and...
Isaac Newton, 1718
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$4,032
Lot 97
A Treatise of the System of the World and A Panegyric upon Sir Isaac Newton.
Isaac Newton, 1728 and Fontenelle, 1728
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$27,720
Lot 98
Atomic Energy for Military Purposes
signed by Oppenheimer, Groves, and other key physicists
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$11,340
Lot 99
The only color photograph of the Trinity Test
Jack Aeby, [16 July 1945]
estimate
$20,000 - $30,000

price realized
$20,160
Lot 100
Photographs of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima
6 August 1945
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$5,040
Lot 101
The nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll
Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1946
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$18,900
Lot 102
Discours admirables, de la nature des eaux et fonteines, tant naturelles...
Bernard Palissy, 1580
estimate
$18,000 - $25,000

Lot 103
On his most important scientific discoveries
Louis Pasteur, 1856
estimate
$5,000 - $7,000

price realized
$8,190
Lot 104
Gabinetto mineralogico del Collegio Nazareno
Giovanni Vincenzo Petrini, 1791-1792
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,008
Lot 105
Della specola astronomica & Praecipuarium Stellarum
Guiseppe Piazzi, 1792-1794 & 1803
estimate
$3,500 - $6,000

Lot 106
De partibus generationi inservientibus
Francesco Plazzoni, 1621
estimate
$700 - $1,000

price realized
$378
Lot 107
Historia Naturale
Pliny the Elder, 1534
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,142
Lot 108
Micro-photographs from the Diatomaceae
John Thomas Redmayne, [1876].
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$3,780
Lot 109
Tabulae Mediceae
Vincenzio Renieri, 1639
estimate
$3,500 - $6,000

price realized
$3,276
Lot 110
Essays ... sur la recherche de la cause pour laquelle l’estain et le plomb...
Jean Rey, 1777
estimate
$500 - $700

price realized
$630
Lot 111
Delle porpore e delle materie vestiarie presso gli antichi
Michele Rosa, 1786
estimate
$500 - $800

price realized
$126
Lot 112
Il medico
Giuseppe Rosaccio, 1621
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

Lot 113
Der Swangern Frawen und Hebammen Rosengarten
Eucharius Rösslin, 1518
estimate
$15,000 - $16,000

Lot 114
Anatomici summi
Giovanni Domenico Santorini, 1775
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

Lot 115
Kupfer-Bibel, in welcher Die Physica Sacra
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, 1731
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

Lot 116
Refleksy golovnago mozga
Ivan Mikhaylovich Sechenov, 1866
estimate
$700 - $900

price realized
$630
Lot 117
Curiosa Niendorpiensia
Heinrik Sivers, 1732-1734
estimate
$900 - $1,400

price realized
$1,386
Lot 118
Gynaeciorum sive de mulierum tum communibus, tum gravidarum, parientium, et...
Israel Spach, 1597
estimate
$3,500 - $6,000

price realized
$3,528
Lot 119
Renati Des Cartes Principiorum Philosophiae
Baruch Spinoza, 1663
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

Lot 120
Theatrum fungorum
Franz van Sterbeeck, 1675
estimate
$7,000 - $9,000

Lot 121
Historia insectorum Generalis
Jan Swammerdam, 1669
estimate
$1,600 - $2,000

Lot 122
Lezione Accademica intorno l’origine delle fontane
Antonio Vallisneri, 1726
estimate
$900 - $1,400

price realized
$378
Lot 123
Opere Fisico-Mediche stampate e manoscritte
Antonio Vallisnieri, 1733
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$630
Lot 124
Vesalius's Icones anatomicae
Printed from the original woodblocks, 1935
estimate
$12,000 - $16,000

Lot 125
The discovery of the structure of DNA
Crick & Watson, April 1953
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

Lot 126
The template of genetic replication
Crick & Watson, May 1953
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$15,120
Lot 127
The Structure of DNA
Watson & Crick, June 1953
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,276
Lot 128
The complementary structure of deoxyribonucleic acid
Crick and Watson, April 1954
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$1,638
Lot 129
Hecatosteae
Georg Welsch, 1675
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,890
Lot 130
American Ornithology
Alexander Wilson, 1808-1826
estimate
$15,000 - $20,000

Lot 131
Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus sive Telescopium
Johannes Zahn, 1685
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$12,600
Lot 132
Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian
Robert Adam, 1764
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

Lot 133
Addison's Damascus and Palmyra: a Journey to the East
Illustrated by William Thackeray, 1838
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$3,276
Lot 134
Chinese cartography
Four scrolls
estimate
$30,000 - $50,000

Lot 135
A complete set of the official accounts of Cook’s Pacific voyages
Nine volumes total, comprising the first editions of each published in 1773,
estimate
$40,000 - $60,000

price realized
$40,320
Lot 136
Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities from the Cabinet of the...
William Hamilton and P.F.H. d'Hancarville, 1766[-1776]
estimate
$100,000 - $150,000

price realized
$107,100
Lot 137
Travels through the Canadas
George Heriot, 1807
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$6,048
Lot 138
I riti nuziali degli antichi romani
In a Lafertè binding, 1762
estimate
$2,000 - $4,000

Lot 139
Ecole de cavalerie contenant la connoissance, l'instruction et la conservation...
François Robichon de La Guérinière, 1733
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

Lot 140
Reporting on the state of Havana and Vera Cruz
Arsène Lacarrière Latour, 1820-1833
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

Lot 141
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
David Livingstone, 1857
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,134
Lot 142
The Holy Land
David Roberts, 1855-56.
estimate
$35,000 - $45,000

Lot 143
Historia general de la Yndia Oriental. Los descubrimientos, y conquistas que...
Antonio de San Roman, 1603
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

price realized
$15,120
Lot 144
Polar Regions of the Western Continent Explored
W.J. Snelling, 1831
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$756
Lot 145
Labyrinthe Royal de l'Hercule Gaulois triumphant
André Valladier, 1601
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

Lot 146
The Arabian Nights
Leon Carré edition, 1926-1932
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$21,420
Lot 147
The Quadrupeds of North America
Audubon & Bachman, 1849-1854
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$47,880
Lot 148
Audubon's Birds of America
First octavo edition, 1840-1844
estimate
$40,000 - $60,000

price realized
$47,880
Lot 149
L'Ensorcelée
Société Normande du Livre Illustré, 1912
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$630
Lot 150
Le grand tableau de l'univers
Illustrated by Romeyn de Hooghe, 1714
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$4,032
Lot 151
L'Oeuvre gravé et lithographié de Félicien Rops
Paul Bonet binding, 1928
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$2,142
Lot 152
Works of Jules Vallès
Paul Bonet bindings
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$2,772
Lot 153
Three erotic livres d'artiste in fine bindings
René Boylesve, 1923-1930
estimate
$6,000 - $9,000

price realized
$4,410
Lot 154
Document signed by Catherine the Great
Granting retirement to a distinguished general, 1789
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,016
Lot 155
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer and Sir William Russell, 1913
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$4,032
Lot 156
D'après Paris
Creuzevault binding, 1931
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$6,300
Lot 157
Doves Bindery
John Ruskin's Unto this Last
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$18,900
Lot 158
Louis XV et Madame de Pompadour
Presentation copy from the Prince and Princess of Wales to Tsar Nicholas II
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$8,820
Lot 159
Litanies de la rose
René Kieffer, 1919
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,024
Lot 160
L'Ancre de Miséricorde
Paris, 1945
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$504
Lot 161
Guérin's Poèmes en prose
Barbier & Schmied, 1927
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$5,670
Lot 162
Life of George Washington
Extra-illustrated set
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$47,880
Lot 163
Isocrates's Orationes
Scinzenzeler, 1493
estimate
$7,000 - $9,000

price realized
$27,720
Lot 164
Seeking an appointment
Josephine, Empress of France, 12 February 1813
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$1,008
Lot 165
La Cathédrale
René Kieffer binding, 1909
estimate
$2,500 - $3,500

price realized
$756
Lot 166
En Rade
Paul Guignebault, illustrator
estimate
$2,500 - $3,500

price realized
$1,008
Lot 167
Les Liaisons dangereuses
Binding by Georges Levitsky
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$4,410
Lot 168
Les poésies de Méléagre
Illustrated by Edouard Chimot, 1926
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$2,772
Lot 169
Un Pèlerin d'Angkor
Jouve and Schmied, 1930
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$4,032
Lot 170
Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln
Extra-illustrated including a Lincoln-signed appointment
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$27,720
Lot 171
History of the Tribes of North America
McKenney & Hall, 1848-1854
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$8,820
Lot 172
Life of Napoleon Bonaparte
12 volumes, extra-illustrated and finely bound
estimate
$30,000 - $50,000

price realized
$30,240
Lot 173
Letters and documents on Napoleon's exile in St. Helena
Various authors, circa 1811 - 1838
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$18,900
Lot 174
Commuting the sentence of a deserter
Napoleon I, 14 March 1814
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$9,450
Lot 175
Signed during the Egyptian Campaign
Napoleon I, 2 July 1799
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$5,040
Lot 176
An elaborate marriage contract
Josephine, Empress of France, 1 April 1813
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$1,008
Lot 177
Important letter on recovering funds held by France
Madame de Staël, 20 May 1815
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$504
Lot 178
The Rubáiyát
Pictorial morocco binding by Rivière, 1928
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$4,410
Lot 179
Edgar Allan Poe, translated by Baudelaire
Binding by Georges Levitsky, 1927
estimate
$5,000 - $7,000

price realized
$4,410
Lot 180
Rabelais's Pantagruel
André Derain, 1943
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

price realized
$15,120
Lot 181
Le Morte Darthur
Riccardi Press, 1910-1911
estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

price realized
$47,880
Lot 182
On a visit to Barcelona
Cardinal Richelieu, 1 March 1642
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$1,512
Lot 183
The Hound of Heaven
Sangorski illuminated manuscript in Riviere binding
estimate
$20,000 - $30,000

price realized
$18,900
Lot 184
Histoire charmante de l'adolescente
Schmied & Mardrus, 1927
estimate
$30,000 - $50,000

Lot 185
The World in Miniature
Frederic Shoberl, 1821-1827
estimate
$6,000 - $9,000

Lot 186
The Tempest
Davenant and Dryden’s adaptation, 1676
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$11,340
Lot 187
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Extra-illustrated and in pictorial morocco binding
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$3,780
Lot 188
A leaf from a Psalter on vellum
Central or Southern Italy, 12th century
estimate
$2,500 - $3,500

price realized
$1,764
Lot 189
A leaf from the Josephinum / 'Ste-Genevieve' Bible
'Johannes Grusch Atelier', Paris, c.1250
estimate
$1,800 - $2,500

price realized
$2,394
Lot 190
St Paul, from an illuminated Oxford Bible
Oxford, 3rd quarter 13th century
estimate
$1,800 - $2,500

price realized
$2,394
Lot 191
Hosea and Gomer, on a leaf from an illuminated Bible
Paris, 3rd quarter 13th century
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,780
Lot 192
A leaf from the Beauvais Missal, illuminated manuscript on vellum
Northern France, perhaps Beauvais or Amiens, late 13th or early 14th century
estimate
$1,800 - $2,500

price realized
$5,670
Lot 193
A prophet, from an illuminated Psalter-Hours
Flanders or the Rhinelands, c.1250-75
estimate
$1,800 - $2,500

price realized
$2,772
Lot 194
A Saint or Prophet in prayer, cut from an illuminated choirbook on vellum
Second Master of the San Domenico Prayerbooks, Bologna, c.1320
estimate
$2,500 - $3,000

Lot 195
St Ursula, on a leaf from an Antiphonal on vellum
Tuscany, Florence, late 13th century
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$3,528
Lot 196
A leaf from an early French Book of Hours
Paris, c.1300
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$1,638
Lot 197
The Presentation in the Temple
Circle of Pacino di Bonaguida, Florence, c.1340s
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$2,268
Lot 198
A Young Saint in Prayer, from an illuminated Gradual or Missal
Paris, early 14th century
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$1,890
Lot 199
A Confessor Saint, on a leaf from a Gradual on vellum
Tomasino da Vimercate, Milan, c.1405
estimate
$2,500 - $3,500

price realized
$1,512
Lot 200
The Prophet Ezechiel, on a leaf from an illuminated Bible on vellum
Bohemia (or perhaps Germany/Austria), mid-15th century
estimate
$2,500 - $3,500

price realized
$2,016
Lot 201
The Annunciation, miniature on a leaf from a Book of Hours
Dunois Master, Paris, c.1445-50
estimate
$18,000 - $25,000

price realized
$30,240
Lot 202
A physician Saint holding a casket, cut from an illuminated Antiphonal
Frate Nebridio, northern Italy, perhaps Cremona, c.1460-80
estimate
$9,000 - $12,000

Lot 203
Three Old Testament prophets, cut from an illuminated choirbook
Workshop of the Master of the Murano Gradual, Veneto, c.1470
estimate
$6,000 - $9,000

Lot 204
Four leaves from an important illuminated Italian Ferial Psalter
Florence, c.1470-90
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$3,528
Lot 205
A young man in profile, on a leaf from the Breviary of Lionello d'Este
Ferrara, c.1441-1448
estimate
$2,500 - $3,500

price realized
$5,292
Lot 206
Three Leaves from the Breviary of Lionello d'Este
Ferrara, c.1441-1448
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$4,788
Lot 207
A Burial, from an illuminated Book of Hours on vellum
Master of Jacques de Besançon, Paris, c.1490
estimate
$1,800 - $2,500

price realized
$3,024
Lot 208
Mary Magdalene, miniature from a Book of Hours
Georges Trubert, Lorraine?, last quarter 15th century
estimate

This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 209
The Ascension, from an illuminated Antiphonal on vellum
Florence, 2nd half 15th century
estimate
$2,500 - $3,500

price realized
$4,032
Lot 210
St Michael vanquishing Satan, from a Book of Hours
Rouen, c.1500
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$2,772
Lot 211
A leaf from an illuminated Ferial Psalter
?Spain, c.1500
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$2,772
Lot 212
St Agnes, from an illuminated choirbook
Master B.F., Lombardy, Lodi?, 1st decade 16th century
estimate
$40,000 - $60,000

Lot 213
The Presentation in the Temple, on a cutting from a Choirbook
France?, 15th and 19th century
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$630
Lot 214
A group of leaves from illuminated manuscripts
France and Italy, 13th to 15th centuries
estimate
$2,500 - $3,500

price realized
$2,520
Lot 215
A group of leaves from Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts
Central Europe, c.1200 to 16th century
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$1,890
Lot 216
A group of leaves from Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts
Central Europe, 13th to 16th centuries
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$2,016
Lot 217
Aesop's Fables
Illustrated by Francis Barlow, 1666
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

price realized
$21,420
Lot 218
Bible, in Latin
London, 1578-1580
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$1,764
Lot 219
Macklin Bible
Thomas Bensley for Thomas Macklin, 1800
estimate
$4,000 - $7,000

price realized
$6,300
Lot 220
De montibus, William Morris's copy
Giovanni Boccaccio, 1473
estimate
$40,000 - $60,000

price realized
$60,480
Lot 221
An Account of Corsica
James Boswell, 1768
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$378
Lot 222
The Life of Samuel Johnson
James Boswell, 1791
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$12,600
Lot 223
Legibus & consuetudinibus Angliae
Henry of Bracton, 1569
estimate
$6,000 - $9,000

price realized
$17,640
Lot 224
Robert Burns's \"Scots Wha Hae...\"
Alberto Sangorski, 1931-1932
estimate
$25,000 - $35,000

price realized
$30,240
Lot 225
Fama, y obras posthumas del fenix de Mexico, decima musa, poetisa Americana
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 1700
estimate
$20,000 - $30,000

price realized
$52,920
Lot 226
Pseudo-Martyr
John Donne, 1610
estimate
$5,000 - $7,000

price realized
$4,410
Lot 227
Ignatius his Conclave, the Bradley Martin copy
John Donne, 1634
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,528
Lot 228
LXXX Sermons and Fifty Sermons
John Donne, 1640 and 1649.
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,890
Lot 229
De duplici Copia, Parabolae, and Collectanea Adagiorum
Desiderius Erasmus, 1514 and 1515
estimate
$6,000 - $8,000

price realized
$6,300
Lot 230
Tom Jones
Henry Fielding, 1749
estimate
$2,500 - $3,500

price realized
$1,890
Lot 231
De claris mulieribus
Jacobus Foresti da Bergamo, 1497
estimate
$20,000 - $30,000

price realized
$27,720
Lot 232
Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible
from Wells' A Noble Fragment
estimate
$50,000 - $80,000

price realized
$119,700
Lot 233
Marmor Norfolciense
Samuel Johnson, 1739
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$3,528
Lot 234
A Dictionary of the English Language
Samuel Johnson, 1755
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

Lot 235
Thoughts in Prison: In Five Parts
Samuel Johnson, William Dodd, 1777
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,008
Lot 236
The Workes
Ben Jonson, 1616 & 1640
estimate
$5,000 - $7,000

price realized
$10,080
Lot 237
The Kelmscott Chaucer
in royal blue morocco gilt, 1896
estimate
$30,000 - $50,000

price realized
$60,480
Lot 238
A Treatise of Painting
Leonardo da Vinci, 1721
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,528
Lot 239
The Works of the Famous Nicolas Machiavel
Translated by Henry Neville, 1675
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

Lot 240
Mary Stuart
Cosway binding
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

Lot 241
Paradise Lost
John Milton, 1669
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$10,080
Lot 242
The Workes
Sir Thomas More, 1557
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$10,080
Lot 243
The True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus
Translated by Theophilus de Garencières, 1672
estimate
$6,000 - $9,000

price realized
$9,450
Lot 244
Arauco Domado
Pedro de Oña, 1605
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$5,292
Lot 245
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Illustrated by Picart, 1732
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$1,260
Lot 246
Memoirs
Samuel Pepys, 1825
estimate
$3,500 - $4,500

price realized
$6,300
Lot 247
Diary, extra-illustrated
Samuel Pepys, 1876-79
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,276
Lot 248
First collected Petrarch
Johann Amerbach, 1496
estimate
$7,000 - $9,000

price realized
$6,930
Lot 249
Plautus's Comedies
Heirs of Aldus, 1522
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,260
Lot 250
Andrew & Nathaniel Plimer, Miniature Painters
George C. Williamson, 1903
estimate
$15,000 - $20,000

price realized
$15,120
Lot 251
Vite di Plutarcho
Plutarch, 1525
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

Lot 252
Sensuyt Ihistoyre de Morgant le Geant
Luigi Pulci, c.1536
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

Lot 253
On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation
David Ricardo, 1817
estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

price realized
$35,280
Lot 254
Gammer Gurton's Garland
Or the Nursery Parnassus, 1810
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$1,386
Lot 255
Letters of Madame de Sevigne, extra-illustrated
Marie Sevigne, 1801
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$3,780
Lot 256
The Second Folio
William Shakespeare, 1632
estimate
$60,000 - $90,000

price realized
$138,600
Lot 257
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Cosway-style binding by Bayntun, 1921
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,260
Lot 258
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith, 1776
estimate
$70,000 - $90,000

price realized
$151,200
Lot 259
The Works of that Famous Poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser ... with other new Additions...
Edmund Spenser, 1679
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$882
Lot 260
Pliny's Natural History
Jonathan Swift's annotated copy, 1635
estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

price realized
$44,100
Lot 261
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World
Jonathan Swift, 1726
estimate
$50,000 - $80,000

Lot 262
The Book of Were-wolves
Sabine Baring-Gould, 1865
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$1,764
Lot 263
Humboldt's Gift
Saul Bellow, annotated draft
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,260
Lot 264
The Holy Bible
Bruce Rogers, 1935
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$10,710
Lot 265
Paracelsus
Robert Browning, 1835
estimate
$1,500 - $2,000

price realized
$1,008
Lot 266
First Russia, Then Tibet
Robert Byron, 1933
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$3,528
Lot 267
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.
Signed by the original Alice, 1932 and 1935
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,772
Lot 268
Grant's Memoirs, Inscribed to Capt. Frank Mason
Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain), 1892
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$23,940
Lot 269
The Comic Almanack
George Cruikshank, 1835-1853
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$1,260
Lot 270
Cruikshank’s Water Colours
Morrell pictorial binding, 1903
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$5,040
Lot 271
Memoirs of Grimaldi
Charles Dickens, 1838
estimate
$700 - $1,000

price realized
$1,386
Lot 272
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Charles Dickens, 1843-1844
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$1,260
Lot 273
Dombey and Son
Charles Dickens, 1846-1848
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$504
Lot 274
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens, 1859
estimate
$7,000 - $9,000

price realized
$8,820
Lot 275
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens, 1859
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$1,008
Lot 276
Charles Dickens
Full set of the Christmas Numbers, 1850-1867
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,008
Lot 277
Porgy and Bess
George and Ira Gershwin, 1935
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$2,520
Lot 278
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame, 1908
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$756
Lot 279
The Wind in the Willows
Sangorski & Sutcliffe, 1951
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$4,788
Lot 280
Good-bye, Mr. Chips!
James Hilton, 1934
estimate
$1,500 - $2,000

price realized
$1,512
Lot 281
Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm
David Hockney, 1970
estimate
$5,000 - $7,000

price realized
$5,292
Lot 282
Homer's Odyssey
T.E. Lawrence translation, 1932
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$5,670
Lot 283
An archive of correspondence
Rockwell Kent, et al, 1943-1949
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,016
Lot 284
Hike and the Aeroplane
Sinclair Lewis, 1912
estimate
$5,000 - $7,500

price realized
$5,040
Lot 285
Narrative of a Four Months' Residence Among the Natives, a family copy
Herman Melville, 1846
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$630
Lot 286
Mardi, unrecorded remainder issue
Herman Melville
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$3,780
Lot 287
Omoo, a presentation to Capt. Paul
Herman Melville, 1869
estimate
$25,000 - $35,000

price realized
$30,240
Lot 288
The Piazza Tales, inscribed by Allan Melville
Herman Melville
estimate
$6,000 - $9,000

Lot 289
The Piazza Tales
Herman Melville, 1858
estimate
$2,500 - $3,500

Lot 290
Typee, presentation to Henry Smythe
Herman Melville, 1865
estimate
$60,000 - $90,000

Lot 291
Criticism on Art by William Hazlitt
Herman Melville's copy
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$11,970
Lot 292
Herman Melville
Three presentations from Melville to family members
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$5,292
Lot 293
Belinda
A.A. Milne, 1922
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,008
Lot 294
A Gallery of Children
A.A. Milne & H. Willebeek Le Mair, 1925
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$630
Lot 295
The Pooh books
A.A. Milne, 1924-1928
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

price realized
$63,000
Lot 296
The Pooh Books
First editions in jacket, 1924-1928
estimate
$6,000 - $8,000

price realized
$6,300
Lot 297
Winnie-the-Pooh, limited signed edition
A.A. Milne and Ernest Shepard, 1926
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$9,450
Lot 298
The Pooh Books
A.A. Milne, 1934
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$5,292
Lot 299
The Christopher Robin Story Book
A.A. Milne, 1929
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,512
Lot 300
Ten books by Saki
Mostly first editions, 1902-1927
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$2,520
Lot 301
Two Wallace Stevens limited editions
Cummington Press, 1945 & 1947
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$252
Lot 302
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson, 1884
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,520
Lot 303
Dracula
Bram Stoker, 1897
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$10,710
Lot 304
A signed photograph
Rabindranath Tagore
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$1,008
Lot 305
Autograph manuscript for Gora
Rabindranath Tagore, c.1907
estimate
$25,000 - $40,000

price realized
$40,320
Lot 306
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, a Conversation Piece
Evelyn Waugh, 1957
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$1,386
Lot 307
An Ideal Husband
Oscar Wilde, 1899
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$9,450
Lot 308
Epistola de insulis nuper inventis
Christopher Columbus, 1493
estimate
$1,000,000 - $1,500,000

price realized
$3,922,000
Lot 309
Americae sive novi orbis
Abraham Ortelius, c.1608
estimate
$2,500 - $3,500

price realized
$3,276
Lot 310
Americae nova descriptio
Pieter van den Keere, 1614
estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

Lot 311
A Florida captivity narrative
after Robert Barrow, 23 February 1696/7
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$4,032
Lot 312
Histoire de la Louisiane
Antoine Simon Le Page du Pratz, 1758
estimate
$700 - $1,000

price realized
$756
Lot 313
A legal case involving free Black people in Massachusetts
John Adams, 1768
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$6,048
Lot 314
An Exact Chart Of the River St. Lawrence
Thomas Jeffreys, 1775
estimate
$500 - $800

price realized
$252
Lot 315
A Map of South Carolina and a Part of Georgia
William Faden, 1780
estimate
$25,000 - $35,000

price realized
$47,880
Lot 316
The Provinces of New York and New Jersey
Samuel Holland, 1775
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$3,024
Lot 317
A Map of the Most Inhabited Part of Virginia
Fry & Jefferson, 1775
estimate
$6,000 - $8,000

price realized
$8,820
Lot 318
Mouzon's Map of the Carolinas
London, 1794
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$12,600
Lot 319
Course of the River Mississippi
John Ross, 1775
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$3,024
Lot 320
A Map of Pennsylvania
William Scull, 1775
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$6,930
Lot 321
Province de New-York
John Montresor, 1777
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$2,772
Lot 322
A lock of hair
George and Martha Washington, 1783
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$8,820
Lot 323
The first official printing of the Constitution in Massachusetts
[Adams and Nourse, 1787]
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$8,820
Lot 324
The Federalist Papers
Hamilton, Madison and Jay, 1788
estimate
$80,000 - $120,000

price realized
$100,800
Lot 325
Travels through the states of North America, and in the provinces of upper and...
Isaac Weld, 1799
estimate
$700 - $1,000

price realized
$756
Lot 326
An appointment of a former Revolutionary War officer
John Adams, 27 January 1801
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$4,032
Lot 327
Life of Washington, extra-illustrated and finely bound
John Marshall, 1804
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$11,970
Lot 328
On construction work at Monticello
Thomas Jefferson, 27 February 1809
estimate
$6,000 - $8,000

price realized
$12,600
Lot 329
Exchanging prisoners after the Battle of New Orleans
Harry George Wakelyn Smith, 1815
estimate
$1,500 - $2,000

price realized
$1,260
Lot 330
Offering sentiments for Concord's Independence Day celebration
John Quincy Adams, 30 June 1834
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,772
Lot 331
Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth, 1850
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$10,710
Lot 332
Common Sights in Town and Country
Augustus Köllner, c.1850s
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$882
Lot 333
By-Laws of the Central Pacific Railroad Company
Leland Stanford, 1862
estimate
$20,000 - $30,000

Lot 334
Regarding the appointment of the Minister of Peru
Abraham Lincoln, 11 November 1861
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$8,820
Lot 335
A judicial appointment for the Court of Claims
Abraham Lincoln, 23 May 1861
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$6,930
Lot 336
Regarding an appointment to Major General
Abraham Lincoln, 27 September 1862
estimate
$6,000 - $8,000

price realized
$7,560
Lot 337
To Stanton on a military appointment
Abraham Lincoln, 20 April 1864
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$16,380
Lot 338
A signed military commission
Abraham Lincoln, 16 May 1863
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$6,300
Lot 339
A military commission for wounded Antietam infantryman
Abraham Lincoln, 1 August 1864
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$7,560
Lot 340
Pardoning a Confederate soldier
Abraham Lincoln, 1 February 1864
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$8,190
Lot 341
A piece of costume worn on the night of Lincoln's assassination
Laura Keene, [14 April 1865]
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$17,640
Lot 342
A contemporary souvenir issue of the Ford's Theatre playbill
H. Polkinhorn & Sons, 1865
estimate
$700 - $900

price realized
$2,772
Lot 343
Remitting the fine of a previously-pardoned whiskey bond broker
Ulysses S. Grant, 11 December 1869
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$1,134
Lot 344
Pardoning an arrested gambler
Ulysses S. Grant, 10 April 1872
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$882
Lot 345
The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally...
Translated by Julia Evelina Smith, 1876
estimate
$3,000 - $4,000

price realized
$4,788
Lot 346
Original views of California
Henry J. Warre, 1881
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$13,860
Lot 347
Life, including his Escape and Struggle for Liberty
Charles Garlick, 1902
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$1,638
Lot 348
Her first U.S. studio contract
Greta Garbo, 30 January 1925
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

Lot 349
An excellent foreign policy letter to Norman Davis
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 20 April 1928
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$2,268
Lot 350
Signed photograph inscribed to Norman Davis
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 16-29 June 1933
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$1,890
Lot 351
Sending Christmas greetings to disabled World War I veterans
Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 1935
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$2,142
Lot 352
Her first motion-picture contract
Marilyn Monroe, 31 July 1946
estimate
$25,000 - $35,000

Lot 353
Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People
Woody Guthrie, c.1940s
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$4,788
Lot 354
Inscribed to his nurse at Harlem Hospital
Martin Luther King, Jr., 1958
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$10,080
Lot 355
The Kennedy assassination as captured by the Associated Press
James Altgens, Robert Jackson, et al, 1963
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$11,970
Lot 356
Early plans for The World Trade Center
Minoru Yamasaki and Associates, et al., 1964
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$5,670
Lot 357
A pen used to sign the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Lyndon Johnson, 6 August 1965
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$6,300
Lot 358
Preparation notes for his debate against Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan, [25 October 1980]
estimate
$30,000 - $50,000

price realized
$37,800
Lot 359
The Situation Room
Barack Obama, Joseph R. Biden, et al, 1 May 2011
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$20,160
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