• Auction 23736

    Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana

    2 October 2025 - 16 October 2025, New York

    SALE TOTAL: 5,410,327 (USD)
160 Lots for Sale 23736
Lot 1
Epistolae ad familiares
Marcus Tullius Cicero, 1469
estimate
$30,000 - $40,000

price realized
$107,950
Lot 2
Orationes
Marcus Tullius Cicero, 1471
estimate
$15,000 - $20,000

price realized
$60,960
Lot 3
Rhetorica ad C. Herennium and De inventione
[Pseudo-]Cicero, 8 July 1496
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$5,715
Lot 4
Decisiones Rotae Romanae
20 November 1472
estimate
$15,000 - $20,000

price realized
$16,510
Lot 5
Epistolae
Pliny the Younger, not after 1 June 1474
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$19,050
Lot 6
The Golden Legend
Jacobus de Voragine, not after 1472
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$17,780
Lot 7
The Golden Legend
Jacobus de Voragine, 1485
estimate
$20,000 - $25,000

price realized
$27,940
Lot 8
De civitate Dei
Saint Augustine, 1475
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$24,130
Lot 9
Cato's Distichs, with the Speculum regiminis
2 November 1475
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$24,130
Lot 10
Cato's Distichs
William Caxton, 1483
estimate
$50,000 - $70,000

price realized
$190,500
Lot 11
De animalibus
Aristotle, 1476
estimate
$70,000 - $100,000

price realized
$279,400
Lot 12
Bibliothecae historicae libri VI and Germania
Diodorus and Tacitus, 1476⁄77
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$25,400
Lot 13
Bibliothecae historicae libri VI and Germania
Diodorus and Tactius, 25 November 1481
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$17,780
Lot 14
Problemata
Plutarch, c.1477
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$8,890
Lot 15
Institutiones oratoriae
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, c.1480
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$3,810
Lot 16
Disputationum Camaldulensium
Cristoforo Landino, 1481
estimate
$15,000 - $20,000

price realized
$38,100
Lot 17
De proprietatibus rerum
Bartholomaeus Anglicus, 1481
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$17,780
Lot 18
Abbreviatio supra Decades Blondi
Pius II; Blondus, 1481
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$12,065
Lot 19
Cosmographia
Pomponius Mela, 1482
estimate
$12,000 - $16,000

price realized
$27,940
Lot 20
Gesta Romanorum
circa 1484
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$8,255
Lot 21
Opera
Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, c.1487
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$57,150
Lot 22
Carmina and other texts
Catullus and others, 1487 and 1488
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$10,160
Lot 23
Supplementum chronicarum
Jacobus Philippus de Bergamo, 15 May 1490
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$22,860
Lot 24
Nuremberg Chronicle
Hartmann Schedel, 12 July 1493
estimate
$28,000 - $35,000

price realized
$48,260
Lot 25
De rerum natura
Lucretius, 4 Sept. 1495
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$38,100
Lot 26
Homer's Iliad
6 September 1497
estimate
$6,000 - $8,000

price realized
$27,940
Lot 27
De triplici regione claustralium et spirituali exercitio monachorum
Johannes Trithemius, 6 August 1498
estimate
$6,000 - $8,000

price realized
$10,795
Lot 28
Xenophon's Opera, 1534
Bound for Jean Grolier
estimate
$25,000 - $30,000

price realized
$63,500
Lot 29
La prima parte delle vite
Plutarch, 1537
estimate
$12,000 - $16,000

price realized
$24,130
Lot 30
Pierce Plowman
William Langland, 1550
estimate
$30,000 - $50,000

price realized
$95,250
Lot 31
De Insulis nuper inventis
Christopher Columbus, 1494
estimate
$1,500,000 - $2,000,000

price realized
$1,651,000
Lot 32
De le maraueliose cose del Mondo
Marco Polo, 1500
estimate
$120,000 - $180,000

price realized
$228,600
Lot 33
Ad Hemanuelem Lusitaniae regem Oratio
Pietro Pasqualigo, 1501
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$13,970
Lot 34
Almanach perpetuum
Abraham ben Samuel Zacuto, 1502
estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

Lot 35
Gesta proxime per Portugalenses in India, Ethiopia, & aliis orientalibus...
November 1506
estimate
$40,000 - $60,000

price realized
$95,250
Lot 36
Portugalien in Indian, Morenland, um andern erdtrich
Pedro Alfonso Malheiro, circa 1506
estimate
$25,000 - $35,000

price realized
$35,560
Lot 37
Epistola ... de Victoriis habitis in India, et Malacha
King Manuel I, 1513
estimate
$20,000 - $30,000

price realized
$25,400
Lot 38
Abtruck ains lateinischen Sandtbrieues ... ausgangen von der eroberten Stadt...
Manuel I, King of Portugal, 1513
estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

Lot 39
Epistola ... de victoriis habitis in India, et Malacha
Manuel I, King of Portugal, 1513
estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

price realized
$12,700
Lot 40
Emanuelis Lusitan. Algarbior. Africae Aethiopiae Arabiae Persiae Indiae reg....
Diogo Pacheco, 1514
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$16,510
Lot 41
O primeiro[-quinto] livro das ordenac¸oe~s
Manuel I, 1521
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$6,096
Lot 42
Super insigni victoria, rebusque foeliciter in Oriente gestis
John III, King of Portugal, 1536
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$16,510
Lot 43
Fides, religio moresque Aethiopum
Damião de Góis, 1540
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$17,780
Lot 44
Verdadera informaçam das terras do Preste Ioam das Indias
Francisco Álvares, 1540
estimate
$25,000 - $30,000

Lot 45
Geographia Universalis
Claudius Ptolemaeus, 1545
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$25,400
Lot 46
Comentarius de rebus in India apud Dium gestis
Jacobus Tevius, 1548
estimate
$30,000 - $50,000

Lot 47
De bello Cambaico ultimo
Damião de Góis, 1549
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

Lot 48
Dos priveilgios & praerogatius que ho genero feminina
Rui Gonçalves, 1557
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$17,780
Lot 49
Urbis Olisiponis descriptio
Damião de Góis, 1554
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$3,556
Lot 50
Coronica do condestabre de Portugall dom Nuna Alurez Pereyra
probably Fernão Lopes, 1554
estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

Lot 51
De multiplici hæreticorum tentatione
Jean de La Vacquerie, 1560
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$1,524
Lot 52
Neuwe Welt
Ulrich Schmidel and Hans Staden, 1567
estimate
$40,000 - $60,000

price realized
$48,260
Lot 53
Ley de como ham de hir armados os Navios que destes Reynos navegaren
Lisbon, 1574
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$9,525
Lot 54
Commentarios do Grande Afonso Dalboquerque
Afonso de Albuquerque, 1576
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$11,430
Lot 55
Orthographia da lingoa Portuguesa
Duarte Nunez de Leão, 1576
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$2,540
Lot 56
Histoire nouvelle du nouveau monde
Girolamo Benzoni, 1579
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$9,525
Lot 57
Regra da Companhia de Iesu
JESUIT, 1582
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$5,715
Lot 58
Naufrágio e lastimoso sucesso da perdiçam de Manuel de Sousa de Sepulveda
Jerónimo Corte-Real, 1594
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$15,240
Lot 59
Jesuit letters from India and the East Indies
Nicolao Pimenta, 1602
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$11,430
Lot 60
Arte da caçada Altaneria
Diogo Fernandez Ferreira, 1616
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$12,700
Lot 61
Historia da muy notavel perda do Galeam Grande S. Joam
Shipwreck narrative, circa 1625⁄1633
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

Lot 62
Collection of shipwreck narratives
18th century
estimate
$6,000 - $8,000

price realized
$5,715
Lot 63
Six Portuguese pamphlets on Brazil
1625–1757
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$12,065
Lot 64
Sphaera mundi – Theoricae novae planetarum – Disputationes contra Cremonensia...
Johannes de Sacro Bosco; Georgius Purbachius; Regiomontanus, 6 July 1482
estimate
$10,000 - $20,000

price realized
$21,590
Lot 65
London land indenture
Sir Thomas More, 1533
estimate
$25,000 - $35,000

price realized
$33,020
Lot 66
Morie Encomion, in German
Erasmus and Sebastian Frank, [1534]
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$10,795
Lot 67
La Geographia
Ptolemy & Gastaldi, 1548
estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

price realized
$33,020
Lot 68
La Geografia
Ptolemy & Gastaldi, 1561
estimate
$6,000 - $8,000

price realized
$12,700
Lot 69
De Architectura
Vitruvius, 1567
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$8,890
Lot 70
Sepher Tehilim
[Queen Elizabeth I], 1581
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$25,400
Lot 71
Joyfull Newes Out of the New-found World
Nicholás Monardes, 1596
estimate
$6,000 - $9,000

price realized
$11,430
Lot 72
Kurtzer gründlicher gebesserter unnd vermehrter Underricht, zubereitung und...
Galileo, Galgemair, and Brentel, 1615
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,302
Lot 73
Tractatus de proportionum instrumento
Galileo and Bernegger, 1635
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$4,064
Lot 74
Tabulae Rudolphinae
Johannes Kepler, 1627-29
estimate
$20,000 - $30,000

price realized
$38,100
Lot 75
Trattato del legno fossile minerale nuovamente scoperto nel quale brevemente si...
Francesco Stelluti, 1637
estimate
$2,500 - $3,500

price realized
$5,334
Lot 76
De Motu Cordis & Sanguinis in animalibus, Anatomica Exercitatio
William Harvey, 1640
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$16,510
Lot 77
Sammelband of 5 works mostly on the controversy of the comets
Fortunio Liceti, 1640
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$9,525
Lot 78
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes, 1651
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$22,860
Lot 79
Le Pastissier François
1655
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

price realized
$63,500
Lot 80
Novus orbis sive descriptio Indiae occidentalis
Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, 1622
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$13,970
Lot 81
Paradise Lost
John Milton, 1669
estimate
$20,000 - $30,000

price realized
$35,560
Lot 82
Pardise Regain'd
John Milton, 1671
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$9,525
Lot 83
Opuscula posthuma, physica et mathematica
René Descartes, 1701
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$5,080
Lot 84
Ars conjectandi
Jacob Bernoulli, 1713
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$7,620
Lot 85
Principia, third edition
Isaac Newton, 1726
estimate
$15,000 - $20,000

price realized
$33,020
Lot 86
Kupfer-Bibel, in welcher Die Physica Sacra
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, 1731
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$7,620
Lot 87
Fables choisies, mises en vers
Jean de la Fontaine and Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1755–59
estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

price realized
$16,510
Lot 88
On perspective and Newton's color theory
Nicolas-Louis Lacaille, 1757
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$5,715
Lot 89
Anatomici summi
Giovanni Domenico Santorini, 1775
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$1,778
Lot 90
Recueil d'estampes représentant [...] l'Indépendence aux Etats unis
Ponce and Godefroy, [1784]
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

Lot 91
Christianismi Restitutio
Michael Servetus, 1790
estimate
$6,000 - $8,000

Lot 92
Della specola astronomica & Praecipuarium Stellarum
Guiseppe Piazzi, 1792-1794 & 1803
estimate
$2,500 - $3,500

price realized
$2,032
Lot 93
Traité du calcul différentiel et du calcul intégral
Sylvestre François Lacroix, 1797-1800
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$7,620
Lot 94
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen, 1811
estimate
$80,000 - $120,000

Lot 95
Sense and Sensibility, second edition
Jane Austen, 1813
estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

Lot 96
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen, 1813
estimate
$120,000 - $180,000

price realized
$190,500
Lot 97
Pride and Prejudice, second edition
Jane Austen, 1813
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

price realized
$15,240
Lot 98
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen, 1814
estimate
$30,000 - $50,000

price realized
$48,260
Lot 99
Mansfield Park, second edition
Jane Austen, 1816
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$7,620
Lot 100
Emma
Jane Austen, 1816
estimate
$15,000 - $20,000

price realized
$35,560
Lot 101
Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, in original boards
Jane Austen, 1818
estimate
$40,000 - $60,000

price realized
$76,200
Lot 102
Northanger Abbey and Persuasion
Jane Austen, 1818
estimate
$20,000 - $30,000

price realized
$38,100
Lot 103
Original illustrations for Jane Austen's Novels
Brock Brothers, 1898
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$33,020
Lot 104
Hebrew Melodies, uncut
Lord Byron, 1818
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$1,905
Lot 105
Alastor
Percy Shelley, 1816
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$8,890
Lot 106
Poems
John Keats, 1817
estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

price realized
$17,780
Lot 107
Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems
John Keats, 1820
estimate
$7,000 - $9,000

price realized
$10,795
Lot 108
Celebrated Sailing Vessels
John Rogers, 1825
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,302
Lot 109
The Life of Samuel Johnson
James Boswell, 1826
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$3,048
Lot 110
The Aboriginal Port Folio
James Otto Lewis, 1835-1838
estimate
$60,000 - $80,000

price realized
$60,960
Lot 111
Voobrazhayemaya geometriya with Primenenie voobrazhaemoi geometrii k nekotorym...
Nikolai Lobachevsky, 1835, 1836
estimate
$30,000 - $50,000

price realized
$30,480
Lot 112
The Birds of Europe
John Gould with Elizabeth Gould and Edward Lear, 1832-1837
estimate
$40,000 - $60,000

price realized
$63,500
Lot 113
Dining with botanist Joel Roberts Poinsett
John Quincy Adams, 4 February 1841
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,540
Lot 114
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens, 1843
estimate
$5,000 - $7,000

price realized
$10,160
Lot 115
The Quadrupeds of North America
John James Audubon, 1849-1854
estimate
$7,000 - $9,000

price realized
$10,795
Lot 116
Kurzer Grundriss eines Versuchs I. Die Arithmetik […] II. In der Geometrie
Farkas Bolyai, 1851
estimate
$5,000 - $7,000

price realized
$4,064
Lot 117
Ricreatione dell'occhio
Filippo Buonanni, 1681
estimate
$2,500 - $3,500

price realized
$2,540
Lot 118
History of the Indian Tribes of North America
Thomas L. McKenny and James Hall, 1855
estimate
$6,000 - $8,000

price realized
$7,620
Lot 120
Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson, 1885
estimate
$25,000 - $35,000

price realized
$30,480
Lot 121
Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise, and Ptilonorhynchidae, or...
R. Bowdler Sharpe, 1891-1898
estimate
$30,000 - $50,000

price realized
$35,560
Lot 122
Drafts of his manuscripts on the right of secession
James Buchanan, December 1860 - February 1861
estimate
$40,000 - $60,000

Lot 123
On recalling the Ship Brooklyn from relieving Fort Sumter and his resolve to...
James Buchanan, 1861
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

Lot 124
On his communications with the South Carolina Commissioners
James Buchanan, February 1861
estimate
$30,000 - $50,000

Lot 125
An early legal petition
Abraham Lincoln, 14 March 1842
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$5,334
Lot 126
A demand notice
Abraham Lincoln, 16 May 1850
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$2,540
Lot 127
Franking signature addressed to Benjamin Brown French
Abraham Lincoln, ca. 1861-65
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$6,096
Lot 128
Appointing an Assessor of Internal Revenue in Kentucky
Abraham Lincoln, 17 January 1865
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$8,255
Lot 129
Autographs from Abraham Lincoln's cabinet
Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, et al.
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,302
Lot 130
Parallèlement
Pierre Bonnard and Paul Verlaine, 1900
estimate
$7,000 - $9,000

price realized
$7,620
Lot 131
Archive of the Discovery Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott
Sir Charles Royds, 1902-1904
estimate
$100,000 - $150,000

Lot 132
Vor-geschichtliche Steinbauten
Anton Ritter von Perger, 1867
estimate
$7,000 - $9,000

Lot 133
Complete Works and Journals
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1903–14
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,302
Lot 134
Explaining a riddle to a young girl
Lewis Carroll, [c.1860]
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$4,826
Lot 135
An archive of official correspondence as President and Secretary of State
Woodrow Wilson and William Jennings Bryan, ca. 1913-1915
estimate
$6,000 - $8,000

Lot 136
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell, 1877
estimate
$6,000 - $8,000

price realized
$4,064
Lot 137
Nothing New
Robert Frost, 1918
estimate
$20,000 - $30,000

price realized
$44,450
Lot 138
Autograph Book signed by Twain, Stowe, George Griffin and others
Bertha James Lane, late 1800s
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$12,700
Lot 139
Patent for the method of producing nuclear reactions
Enrico Fermi and others, 1937
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$11,430
Lot 140
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Presentation copy, 1881
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$48,260
Lot 141
\"Products of the Fission of the Uranium Nucleus\"
Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch, 1939
estimate
$2,500 - $3,500

price realized
$1,143
Lot 142
A Monograph of the Bucerotidae, or Family of the Hornbills
D.G. Elliot, [1877]-1882
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$9,525
Lot 143
His will and testament
Albert Einstein, May 1934
estimate
$20,000 - $30,000

price realized
$53,340
Lot 144
An archive of his relationship with Estella Katzenellenbogen
Albert Einstein, 1937-1951
estimate
$20,000 - $30,000

price realized
$40,640
Lot 146
A signed portrait, depicting his pipe
Albert Einstein, 1943
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$8,255
Lot 147
Letters to Konrad Kellen
Albert Einstein, 1934-1954
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$38,100
Lot 148
Inscribed to Estella Katzenellenbogen
Albert Einstein, 1945
estimate
$6,000 - $8,000

price realized
$44,450
Lot 149
To artist and chef, Jacob Jacobson
Albert Einstein, 10 October 1952
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,810
Lot 150
On resettlement of Jewish refugees in Palestine
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 9 April 1943
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$9,525
Lot 151
Letters to Konrad Kellen
Thomas Mann, 1943-1954
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$12,700
Lot 152
Stride Toward Freedom
Martin Luther King, Jr., 1958
estimate
$6,000 - $8,000

price realized
$12,065
Lot 153
Inscribed to Sammy Davis, Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr., 1965
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$16,510
Lot 154
A signed photograph and letter to the Director of Convocations at Yale...
John F. Kennedy, 12 June 1962
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$6,985
Lot 155
Submitting an article to Black Belt Magazine
Bruce Lee, 1964
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$17,780
Lot 156
Archive of literary correspondence
Julio Cortázar and Gregory Rabassa, 1964–1982
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

price realized
$17,780
Lot 157
Archive of literary correspondence
Mario Vargas Llosa and Gregory Rabassa, 1967–74.
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

price realized
$20,320
Lot 158
A GOLD CROCHETED VEST
[Janis Joplin, c. 1968-1970]
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

price realized
$30,480
Lot 159
The Beatles in India
Lennon, John (1940-1980); McCARTNEY, Paul (b. 1942); HARRISON, George
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$19,050
Lot 160
WAR IS OVER! (IF YOU WANT IT)
John Lennon and Yoko Ono, 1969
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$9,525
Lot 161
Scrapbook 3
William S. Burroughs, 1979
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$10,160
Lot 162
A pair of illustrated high school yearbook inscriptions
Keith Haring, 1972-1973
estimate
$1,000 - $3,000

price realized
$6,985
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