• Auction 22651

    Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts including Americana

    17 January 2024 - 2 February 2024, New York

    SALE TOTAL: 4,553,078 (USD)
248 Lots for Sale 22651
Lot 1
A commentary on Aristotle's Physics
Pisa? late 1500s
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,276
Lot 2
A treatise on cosmology and mathematics
France, c. 1630
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$4,410
Lot 3
The Milky Way
& Halley's Comet
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$882
Lot 4
Atlas of the Milky Way
E.E. Barnard, 1927
estimate
$1,800 - $2,500

price realized
$3,024
Lot 5
Ars conjectandi
Jacob Bernoulli, 1713
estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

Lot 6
Kurzer Grundriss eines Versuchs I. Die Arithmetik […] II. In der Geometrie
Farkas Bolyai, 1851
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

Lot 7
Theses seu communes loci, totius rei medicae
Otto Brunfels, 1532
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,386
Lot 8
Opus Novum de proportionibus numerorum
Girolamo Cardano, 1570
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,024
Lot 9
Mechanicorum libri octo
Paolo Casati, 1684
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

Lot 10
An important and coherent collection of manuscript notes and lunar tables,...
Bologna and Paris, c.1651-1710
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$21,420
Lot 11
Alcuni opuscoli filosofici
Benedetto Castelli, 1669
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$2,520
Lot 12
“Desmanthus cinereus” and “Tagetes erecta fl[ore] pl[eno] var”
Two drawings on vellum by Baldassare Cattrani, c.1800
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$7,560
Lot 13
Observationum solarium libri tres
Jacob Christmann, 1601
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$3,780
Lot 14
Monographia molluscorum terrestrium fluvialium, lacustrium insularium...
António da Costa, 1867
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$378
Lot 15
Opuscula posthuma, physica et mathematica
René Descartes, 1701
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

Lot 16
Rerum Arithmeticarum Libri sex -Liber de numeris Polygonis seu Multiangulis
Diophantus of Alexandria, 1575
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

price realized
$15,120
Lot 17
Beschreibung allerfurnemisten mineralischen Ertzt unnd Bergwercks Arten
Lazarus Ercker, 1580; bound with the second German edition of Agricola
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$11,970
Lot 18
Euclid's Elements
Ratdolt, 1482; extensively annotated
estimate
$300,000 - $400,000

price realized
$403,200
Lot 19
Euclid's Elements
First Italian edition, 1543
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$2,520
Lot 20
First printing of Fermat's Last Theorem
in Diophantus's Arithmeticorum libri sex, 1670
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

Lot 21
Varia opera mathematica
Pierre de Fermat, 1679
estimate
$40,000 - $60,000

price realized
$56,700
Lot 22
Patent for the method of producing nuclear reactions
Enrico Fermi and others, 1937
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

Lot 23
Compendiosa totius Anatomie delineatio
Thomas Geminus, 1545
estimate
$40,000 - $60,000

Lot 24
Manuscript on the inquisition in Naples
Anonymous, c. 1630
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,764
Lot 25
Hortus sanitatis
Meydenbach, 1491
estimate
$40,000 - $60,000

price realized
$44,100
Lot 26
Gyocho ruishu
Edo Period natural history album
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$10,080
Lot 27
Prodromus coptus sive aegyptiacus
Athanasius Kircher, 1636
estimate
$2,000 - $4,000

price realized
$2,268
Lot 28
14 woodblocks from Athanasius Kircher's Prodromus Coptus
Rome, c.1636
estimate
$10,000 - $20,000

price realized
$44,100
Lot 29
Die Hermannshöhle bei Rübeland
Illustrated with 20 collotype plates, 1889
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$252
Lot 30
First editions of four major papers on Kummer’s theory of ideal prime factors
Ernst Kummer, 1857-1862
estimate
$500 - $800

price realized
$1,512
Lot 31
Traité du calcul différentiel et du calcul intégral
Sylvestre François Lacroix, 1797-1800
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

Lot 32
The Pomological Magazine
John Lindley, 1828-1830
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

Lot 33
Commentarii in sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de Medica materia
Pietro Andrea Mattioli, 1565
estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

price realized
$27,720
Lot 34
Original woodblock for Cardus vulgaris [Carline Thistle], from Mattioli's Herbal
Giorgio Liberale and Wolfgang Meyerpeck, c.1562
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$16,380
Lot 35
Seven autograph manuscript notebooks
Henry Maxwell, c.1818-1823
estimate
$1,800 - $2,500

price realized
$1,260
Lot 36
On nuclear fission
Lise Meitner, et al, 1937
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,016
Lot 37
\"Disintegration of Uranium by Neutrons: A New Type of Nuclear Reaction\"
Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch, 1939
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

Lot 38
“Products of the Fission of the Uranium Nucleus”
Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch, 1939
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

Lot 39
Opera de medicamentorum purgantium delectu, castigatione, & in usu
Mesue, 1581
estimate
$1,800 - $2,500

price realized
$1,260
Lot 40
The Apollo 11 moon landing
NASA transcripts, 20 July 1969
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,780
Lot 41
Katalog der bibliothek des K.K. Hof-mineralien-cabinetes in Wien
Paul Maria Partsch, 1851
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$378
Lot 42
Album of original botanical drawings, from the garden of Rouen
Madame Pinard, 1762
estimate
$3,500 - $5,500

price realized
$10,710
Lot 43
Recherches sur l’origine probable des formations lunaires
Pierre Puiseux, 1896
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$756
Lot 44
Esperienze intorno alla generazione degl'insetti
Francesco Redi, 1668
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,638
Lot 45
La Botanique
Redouté and Rousseau, 1805
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$13,860
Lot 46
Ars analytica mathematum
Carlo Rinaldini, 1684
estimate
$5,000 - $7,000

price realized
$5,040
Lot 47
On the Great Comet of 1618
Giovanni Antonio Roffeni, c.1619
estimate
$500 - $700

price realized
$2,772
Lot 48
Abhandlung der Oekonomie
Joachim Johann Nepomuk Spalowsky, 1787
estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

price realized
$11,340
Lot 49
Trattato del legno fossile minerale nuovamente scoperto nel quale brevemente si...
Francesco Stelluti, 1637
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

Lot 50
Raccolta di fiori, frutti e agrumi
Antonio Targioni-Tozzetti, 1822-1829
estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

price realized
$16,380
Lot 51
L’Origine delle fontane
Antonio Vallisneri, 1726
estimate
$500 - $700

price realized
$252
Lot 52
Neurographia universalis
Raymond Vieussens, 1685
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

Lot 53
Tropical Nature and other Essays
Alfred Russel Wallace, 1878
estimate
$400 - $600

price realized
$756
Lot 54
An Account of the Foxglove
William Withering, 1785
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

Lot 55
The Berlin-Neubabelsberg observatory
Carl Zeiss AG, 1915
estimate
$700 - $900

price realized
$126
Lot 56
The Birds and The Quadrupeds
John James Audubon, 1860
estimate
$20,000 - $30,000

Lot 57
Responding to atomic physicist James Franck
Niels Bohr, 1 March 1922
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$1,260
Lot 58
Philosophia Libera
Nathanael Carpenter, 1637
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

Lot 59
On the public's appreciation of science
Marie Curie
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$4,032
Lot 60
A self winding stock ticker
Thomas Edison, c. 1900
estimate
$6,000 - $8,000

price realized
$119,700
Lot 61
On his family's applications for U.S. citizenship
Albert Einstein, 23 May 1935
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$13,860
Lot 62
Writing to Mount Wilson astronomer Gustaf Stromberg
Albert Einstein, 19 December 1938
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$4,410
Lot 63
A signed photograph
Albert Einstein, [1955]
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$12,600
Lot 64
Pair of scientist letters signed
Michael Faraday and Robert Bunsen, 1858-60
estimate
$600 - $800

price realized
$1,638
Lot 65
On opposition to vaccines
Edward Jenner, 13 December 1810
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$4,410
Lot 66
Great American Mastodon!!
Exhibition broadside, c.1845
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$9,450
Lot 67
On the spread of telegraphy across the world
Samuel F.B. Morse, 18 June 1867
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$6,048
Lot 68
On Russian research into the atomic bomb
J. Robert Oppenheimer, 10 March 1948
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$8,820
Lot 69
Opera
Ambrose Paré, 1582
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$2,772
Lot 70
Seven signed letters from notable scientists
Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister, Antione Lavoisier, et al
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$4,788
Lot 71
Criticizing Nazi attempts to discredit Einstein's theory of relativity
Max Planck, 5 February 1941
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$8,190
Lot 72
De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem
Gaspare Tagliacozzi, 1597
estimate
$10,000 - $20,000

price realized
$7,560
Lot 73
On the first photographs taken with phosphorescent light
Nikola Tesla, 26 January 1894
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$8,820
Lot 74
Les Affiches étrangères illustrees
Presented by Nikola Tesla, c. 1897
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$5,670
Lot 75
De humani corporis fabrica
Andreas Vesalius, 1555, his annotated copy
estimate
$800,000 - $1,200,000

price realized
$2,228,000
Lot 76
Vesalius's Icones anatomicae
Printed from the original woodblocks, 1935
estimate
$6,000 - $8,000

price realized
$7,560
Lot 77
The Orchid Album
Robert Warner, Benjamin Samuel Williams and Thomas Moore, 1882-1897
estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

Lot 78
The discovery of the structure of DNA
Crick & Watson, April 1953
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$30,240
Lot 79
On his patent infringement lawsuit
James Watt, 9 August 1795
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,528
Lot 80
The Essayes
Sir Francis Bacon, 1625
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$8,190
Lot 81
The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and advancement of...
Francis Bacon, 1605
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$4,788
Lot 82
A Collection of Devotional Tracts, including \"Observations on the inslaving ......
Anthony Benezet, 1760. Franklin imprint.
estimate
$6,000 - $9,000

Lot 83
Some Observations on the Situation, Disposition, and Character of the Indian...
Anthony Benezet, 1784
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$2,772
Lot 84
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
William Blake, 1839
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$9,450
Lot 85
A Declaration of the Sad and Great Persecution and Martyrdom of the People of...
Edward Burrough, 1661
estimate
$7,000 - $9,000

Lot 86
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed
Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1551
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$13,860
Lot 87
The Woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed, with divers addicions
Geoffrey Chaucer, 1561
estimate
$7,000 - $9,000

price realized
$11,970
Lot 88
The Workes of Geoffrey Chaucer
Edited by Thomas Speght, 1598
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

Lot 89
The Workes of Our Ancient and Learned English Poet
Geoffrey Chaucer, 1687
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$1,512
Lot 90
Divi Britannici
Sir Winston Churchill, 1675
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

Lot 91
Poems
John Donne, 1633
estimate
$10,000 - $20,000

price realized
$10,080
Lot 92
Iuvenalia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problems
John Donne, 1633
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$2,520
Lot 93
The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress, of the Christian People called...
William Sewel, 1728; the first work from Ben Franklin's new press
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$10,710
Lot 94
The Charters of the Province of Pennsylvania and the City of Philadelphia
Printed by Benjamin Franklin, 1742 [but 1743]; previously owned by Joseph
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

Lot 95
The Charters of the Province of Pennsylvania and the City of Philadelphia
Printed by Benjamin Franklin, 1742 [but 1743]
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$3,780
Lot 96
Cicero's Cato Major
Printed by Ben Franklin, 1744
estimate
$10,000 - $20,000

price realized
$12,600
Lot 97
An Act for Granting the Sum of Sixty thousand Pounds to the King's Use
London, 1755
estimate
$500 - $800

price realized
$630
Lot 98
The Liberty of the Spirit and of the Flesh Distinguished: in an Address to...
John Rutty, 1759; printed by Benjamin Franklin
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,386
Lot 99
Group of five Ben Franklin Imprints
Philadelphia, 1757-1760
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$4,788
Lot 100
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon, 1776-1788
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$8,820
Lot 101
An Exhortation to the Inhabitants of the Province of South Carolina
Sophia Hume, 1747
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$2,520
Lot 102
The Most Ancient and Famous History of the Renowned Prince Arthur King of...
Thomas Malory, 1634
estimate
$30,000 - $50,000

price realized
$47,880
Lot 103
Miscellaneous Poems
Andrew Marvell, 1681
estimate
$7,000 - $9,000

price realized
$6,930
Lot 104
Epigrammata antiquae urbis
Jacobus Mazzocchius, 1521; Charles I's copy
estimate
$30,000 - $50,000

price realized
$81,900
Lot 105
Eikonoklastes and Pro populo Anglicano defensio
John Milton, 1649 and 1651
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

Lot 106
Paradise Lost
John Milton, 1668; first issue title
estimate
$30,000 - $50,000

price realized
$30,240
Lot 107
Paradise Lost, third issue title
John Milton, 1669
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

price realized
$11,970
Lot 108
Paradise Regain'd
John Milton, 1671
estimate
$2,000 - $4,000

price realized
$6,930
Lot 109
Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions
John Milton, 1673
estimate
$2,000 - $4,000

price realized
$1,764
Lot 110
Collected works of Thomas More in Latin
Basel, 1563
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$3,780
Lot 111
The Great Case of Liberty of Conscience Once More Briefly Debated &...
William Penn, 1671
estimate
$2,000 - $4,000

price realized
$3,780
Lot 112
A Reply to a Pretended Answer by a Nameless Author to W.P.'s Key : in which the...
William Penn, 1695
estimate
$2,000 - $4,000

price realized
$1,260
Lot 113
Two parliamentary acts defending religious freedom
British Parliament, 1696 and 1715
estimate
$2,000 - $4,000

Lot 114
The Second Folio
William Shakespeare, 1632
estimate
$200,000 - $300,000

price realized
$277,200
Lot 115
The Historie of Henry the Fourth
William Shakespeare, 1639
estimate
$20,000 - $30,000

price realized
$60,480
Lot 116
The Fourth Folio
William Shakespeare, 1685
estimate
$80,000 - $120,000

price realized
$88,200
Lot 117
A Collection of Poems
William Shakespeare, 1709
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$10,080
Lot 118
A Collection of Poems
William Shakespeare, 1709-1711
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$11,970
Lot 119
A Collection of Prints from pictures painted for the purpose of illustrating...
William Shakespeare, 1803
estimate
$7,000 - $9,000

price realized
$7,560
Lot 120
The Works
William Shakespeare, 1853-1865
estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

price realized
$16,380
Lot 121
Colins Clouts Come home againe
Edmund Spenser, 1595
estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

Lot 122
The Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser, 1590-1596; Bradley Martin copy
estimate
$30,000 - $50,000

price realized
$60,480
Lot 123
The Faerie Queene: The Shepheard's Calendar: together with the other works of...
Edmund Spenser, 1611-13 and later
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$3,780
Lot 124
Letters Concerning the English Nation
François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire, 1733
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$756
Lot 125
Commentaries on the Laws of England
William Blackstone, 1765-1769
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

Lot 126
Life of Samuel Johnson
James Boswell, 1791
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

Lot 127
Cicero's Works
printed by Elzevir, 1642
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$2,142
Lot 128
Memoirs of an Oxford Scholar
John Cleland, 1756
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,016
Lot 129
The Magdeburg Centuries
Matthias Flacius et al., 1560-1574
estimate
$1,500 - $2,000

price realized
$882
Lot 130
On the succession of his Lords of the Bedchamber
King George III, 6 September 1780
estimate
$400 - $600

price realized
$1,890
Lot 131
A Dictionary of the English Language
Samuel Johnson, 1755
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$4,788
Lot 132
The Plays of William Shakespeare
Samuel Johnson edition, 1765.
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$7,560
Lot 133
Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
Samuel Johnson, 1775
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$1,134
Lot 134
A Journey into North Wales, in the Year 1744
Samuel Johnson, 1816
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$756
Lot 135
Fables choisies, mises en vers
Jean de la Fontaine & Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1755-59
estimate
$60,000 - $90,000

Lot 136
The Works of the Famous Nicolas Machiavel
Translated by Henry Neville, 1675
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$8,190
Lot 137
The Village Coquettes
Charles Dickens, 1836
estimate
$600 - $800

price realized
$504
Lot 138
Sketches by \"Boz\"
Charles Dickens, 1836
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

Lot 139
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens, 1838
estimate
$2,500 - $3,500

price realized
$4,032
Lot 140
First American and first English Pic Nic Papers
Charles Dickens, 1841
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$630
Lot 141
American Notes for General Circulation
Charles Dickens, 1842.
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$504
Lot 142
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens, 1849-1850
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

Lot 143
Master Humphrey's Clock
Charles Dickens, 1850
estimate
$1,500 - $2,000

price realized
$630
Lot 144
Bleak House
Charles Dickens, 1852-1853
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,528
Lot 145
Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens, 1855-1857
estimate
$2,500 - $3,500

price realized
$2,016
Lot 146
Our Mutual Friend, in Harper's Magazine
Charles Dickens, 1864-1865
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$504
Lot 147
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Charles Dickens, 1870
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$504
Lot 148
The Life of Our Lord, inscribed by Dickens's grandson
Charles Dickens, 1934
estimate
$700 - $1,000

price realized
$378
Lot 149
“Read your Ecclesiastes…”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, c.1930
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$9,450
Lot 150
A portable charkha spinning wheel
Mohandas Gandhi, c. 1931
estimate
$50,000 - $80,000

Lot 151
The Piazza Tales
Herman Melville, 1858
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$1,260
Lot 152
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, 1951
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$5,040
Lot 153
\"When Helen Lived\"
William Butler Yeats, circa 1916
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$12,600
Lot 154
Alice in Wonderland menu cards
Unique set, attributed to John Tenniel
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

Lot 155
Ten plays, all signed
A.A. Milne, 1921-1936.
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,764
Lot 156
The Pooh Books
In special leather bindings and gift boxes
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$8,820
Lot 157
On copyright and publishing frustrations
A.A. Milne, c.1928
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$630
Lot 158
The Hums of Pooh
A.A. Milne, 1931.
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$378
Lot 159
Pooh Goes Visiting
A.A. Milne, 1931
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$630
Lot 160
American Children's Books
1808-1828
estimate
$800 - $1,200

Lot 161
Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova
William Blaeu, c.1635
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$1,890
Lot 162
Seven engraved maps
Mercator, Blaeu, Jansson, et al, 16th-18th century
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,772
Lot 163
Cochin-China
Christoforo Borri, 1633
estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

price realized
$13,860
Lot 164
A Voyage Round the World in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora
George Hamilton, 1793.
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$4,410
Lot 165
An account of the mutiny on the Bounty
Family of Peter Heywood, c.1818
estimate
$25,000 - $35,000

Lot 166
The Bounty Trilogy
Nordhoff and Hall, 1932 & 1934
estimate
$700 - $1,000

price realized
$1,512
Lot 167
The North part of America
Henry Briggs, 1625
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$11,970
Lot 168
A complete set of the three voyages
Captain James Cook, 1773-1784
estimate
$18,000 - $25,000

price realized
$47,880
Lot 169
America settentrionale
Vincenzo Coronelli, c.1690
estimate
$10,000 - $20,000

price realized
$10,080
Lot 170
Isole dell' Indie diuise in Filippine, Molucche, e della Sonda
Vincenzo Coronelli, c.1695
CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria (1650-1718). Isole dell' Indie diuise in Filippine, Molucche, e della Sonda. Venice: c.1695.

Lovely map of Southeast Asia. It includes the Indochinese peninsula, present-day Indonesia, the Philippines, and part of New Guinea and the north coast of Australia.

Engraved map hand-colored in outline, 465 x 610mm on 500 x 698mm sheet (short wormtrail on southern coast of Borneo, some toning near centerfold, couple of edge tears and two tiny wormholes in cartouche).
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$1,134
Lot 171
Carte du Mexique et de la Floride
Guillaume Delisle,
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,638
Lot 172
The South Seas
Robert Dudley, 1661
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,764
Lot 173
America Septentrionalis
Hondius and Jansson, c.1639
estimate
$2,000 - $4,000

price realized
$3,276
Lot 174
China, Cochinchina, Camboja sive Champa
Linschoten and Langren, 1596
estimate
$10,000 - $20,000

price realized
$5,292
Lot 175
Map of North America
Herman Moll, c.1719
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$7,560
Lot 176
Die neüwen Inseln
Sebastian Münster, c.1550
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$2,142
Lot 177
Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio
Abraham Ortelius, c.1579
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$4,032
Lot 178
Maris Pacifici
Abraham Ortelius, 1608-1612
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$3,276
Lot 179
America Septentrionalis
Henry Popple, 1733
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$6,930
Lot 180
De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Jesu
Matteo Ricci and Nicolas Trigault, 1615
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

Lot 181
Amerique Septentrionale
Nicholas Sanson, c.1660
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,772
Lot 182
A concentric celestial and terrestrial globe
Hugh Williamson, 1867
estimate
$20,000 - $30,000

price realized
$25,200
Lot 183
On his short trip to England
John Adams, 31 January 1784
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$7,560
Lot 184
Mexico
John Arrowsmith, 1842
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,764
Lot 185
From the U.S.S. Constitution
c.1796, collected c.1907
estimate
$6,000 - $9,000

price realized
$5,292
Lot 186
A Plan of the Operations of the King’s Army under the Command of General Sr....
Faden and Sauthier, February 1777
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

Lot 187
Summoning a member of a General Court Martial
David Farragut, 20 October 1862
estimate
$300 - $400

price realized
$252
Lot 188
Praising Union volunteers
Ulysses S. Grant, 6 June 1865
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$3,276
Lot 189
Pardoning a Union survivor of Mosby's Rangers
Ulysses S. Grant, 14 December 1869
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$6,300
Lot 190
A signed four-language ship's paper
Andrew Jackson, 17 September 1833
estimate
$600 - $900

price realized
$1,386
Lot 191
Nineteenth Century Presidents and Politicians
Andrew Jackson, et al.
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$15,120
Lot 192
On George Washington's aide-de-camp
Thomas Jefferson, 14 January 1822
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$10,080
Lot 193
Presidents of the late nineteenth century
Andrew Johnson, Ulysses Grant, et al
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$7,560
Lot 194
Eight signed items
20th-century Presidents
estimate
$3,000 - $4,000

price realized
$2,394
Lot 195
A twice signed check
Jacqueline Kennedy, 1960
estimate
$500 - $800

price realized
$756
Lot 196
Endorsing a chaplain at Armory Square Hospital
Abraham Lincoln, 4 December 1861
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$8,820
Lot 197
On the endorsement of a future Major General
Abraham Lincoln, 1 September 1863
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$6,930
Lot 198
Discharging a Michigan cavalryman
Abraham Lincoln, 25 April 1864
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$8,190
Lot 199
On the former U.S. Consul at Tangier
Abraham Lincoln, 30 March 1864
estimate
$5,000 - $7,000

price realized
$12,600
Lot 200
A safe-conduct pass through enemy lines
Abraham Lincoln, 7 March 1865
estimate
$6,000 - $8,000

price realized
$13,860
Lot 202
Abraham Lincoln: A Biography
With Cosway-style portrait miniature
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$4,032
Lot 203
On the public's reception throughout his U.S. tour
Charles Lindbergh, 29 September 1927
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

Lot 204
Two autograph letters
James Madison, 24 March 1809 & 11 August 1803
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$20,160
Lot 205
The journal of a '49er
Lewis Meyer, 1849
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$8,820
Lot 206
On the pressures of the War of 1812
James Monroe, 19 April 1813
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$1,638
Lot 207
On a War of 1812 land bounty
James K. Polk, 30 December 1838
estimate
$500 - $800

price realized
$1,134
Lot 208
Plan of the City of New York
Bernard Ratzer, 1776
estimate
$30,000 - $50,000

Lot 209
From the 1980 presidential debates
Ronald Reagan, 21 September 1980
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,528
Lot 210
On a political appointment, and other letters
Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley, 1891-1910
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,268
Lot 211
Appointing a former \"Rough Rider\" as territorial governor of New Mexico
Theodore Roosevelt, 27 July 1907
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

Lot 212
Three typed letters signed
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1918 to 1929
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$1,386
Lot 213
On his plans to restore the USS Hartford and construct a naval museum
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 13 March 1941
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$756
Lot 214
A Plan of the Battle of Bunker Hill
Sayer and Bennett, 1775
estimate
$6,000 - $9,000

price realized
$18,900
Lot 215
Regarding the Treaty of Hartford
Charles Thomson, 1785
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

Lot 216
Contributing funds \"to purchase slaves\"
George Washington, 23 January 1771
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$27,720
Lot 217
Purchasing a gold watch chain with a \"cypher\"
George Washington, 10 August 1787
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$5,292
Lot 218
A collection of Presidential autographs
George Washington, et al.
estimate
$30,000 - $50,000

Lot 219
Seven signed letters
William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson, et al
estimate
$3,000 - $4,000

price realized
$4,032
Lot 220
Relation de ce qui s'est passé en La Nouvelle France en l'année 1633
Paul Le Jeune, 1634, 2nd Relation
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 221
Relation de ce qui s'est passé en La Nouvelle France en l'année 1637
Paul Le Jeune, 1638; The 6th Relation
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 222
Relation de ce qui s'est passé en La Novvelle France en l'année 1638
Paul Le Jeune, 1638; 7th Relation
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 223
Relation de ce qui s'est passe en La Nouvelle France, en l'année 1639
Paul Le Jeune, 1640; 8th Relation
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 224
Relation de ce qui s'est passé en La Nouvelle France en l'Année MDCXL
Barthélemy Vimont and Paul Le Jeune, 1641; 9th Relation
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 225
Relation de ce qui s'est passé en La Nouvelle France, es années 1640 et 1641
Barthélémy Vimont, Paul Le Jeune, and Jérôme Lalemant, 1642; 10th Relation
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 226
Relation de ce qui s'est passé en La Nouvelle France en l'Année 1642
Barthélemy Vimont, 1643; 11th Relation
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 227
Relation de ce qui s'est passé en La Nouvelle France en l'Année 1642 & 1643
Barthélemy Vimont, 1644; 12th Relation
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 228
Relation de ce qui s'est passe’ en La Nouvelle France, es Années 1643 & 1644
Barthélemy Vimont, 1645; 13th Relation
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 229
Relation de ce qui s'est passé en La Nouvelle France, és années 1644 & 1645
Barthélemy Vimont, 1646; 14th Relation
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 230
Relation de ce qui s'est passé de Plus Remarquable és Missions des Pères de la...
Jérôme Lalement and Paul Ragueneau, 1647; 15th Relation
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 231
Relation de ce qui s'est passé de plus remarquable és missions des pères de la...
Jérôme Lalemant, 1648; 16th Relation
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 232
Relation de ce qui s'est passé en la mission des Pères de la Compagnie de Iésus...
Paul Ragueneau, 1650; 18th Relation
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 233
Relation de ce qui s'est passé en les Missions des Pères de la Compagnie de...
Paul Ragueneau, 1651; 19th Relation
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 234
Relation de ce qui s'est passé de plus remarquable és missions des pères des la...
Paul Ragueneau, 1652; 20th Relation
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 235
Relation de ce qui s'est passé en la mission des pères de la Compagnie de...
Paul Ragueneau and Marie de l'Incarnation, 1653; 21st Relation
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 236
Relation de ce qui s'est passé en la Mission des Peres de la Compagnie de Jésus...
François Le Mercier, 1655
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 237
Relation de ce qui s'est passe en la Mission des Pères de la Compagnie de Iesus...
Jean de Quen, 1657; 25th Jesuit Relation
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 238
Relation de ce qui c'est passé de plus remarquable aux Missions des Peres de la...
Paul Le Jeune, 1658; 26th Jesuit Relation
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 239
Relation de ce qui s'est passe de plus remarquable aux missions des PP de la...
Paul Ragueneau, 1659; 27th Jesuit Relation
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 240
Relation de ce qui s'est passé de plus remarquable é aux missions des pères de...
Jérôme Lalemant, 1661; 29th Jesuit Relation
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 241
Relation de ce qui s'est passé de plus remarquable aux missions des pères de la...
Paul Le Jeune, 1662; 30th Jesuit Relation
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 242
Relation de ce qui s'est passe de plus remarquable aux missions es Peres de la...
Jérôme Lalemant, 1663
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 243
Relation de ce qui s'est passé de plus remarquable aux missions des pères de la...
Jérôme Lalemant, 1664; 32nd Jesuit Relation
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 244
Relation de ce qui s'est passé de plus remarquable aux missions des Pères de la...
Jérôme Lalemant, 1665; 33rd Jesuit Relation
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 245
Relation de ce qui s'est passé en La Nouvelle France és années 1664 & 1665
François Le Mercier, 1666; 34th Jesuit Relation
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 246
Relation de ce qui s'est passé de plus remarquable aux missions des peres de la...
François Le Mercier, 1668; 36th Jesuit Relation
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 247
Relation de ce qui s'est passé de plus remarquable aux missions des Peres de la...
François Le Mercier, 1669; 37th Jesuit Relation
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 248
Relation de ce qui s'est passe de plus remarquable aux missions des pères de la...
Paris, 1670; 38th Jesuit Relation
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 249
Relation de ce qui s'est passé de plus remarquable aux Missions des Pères de la...
Claude Dablon, 1673; the Final Jesuit Relation
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This lot was withdrawn from the sale

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