- Auction
23758
Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana
22 January 2026 - 5 February 2026, New York -
Auction overview
Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts Including Americana brings together a superb selection of material, including early printed books, important works of science, travel and literature, 19th- and 20th-century American historical documents and more.
Headlining the auction is Valuable Books in the History of Astronomy from the Collection of Jay M. Pasachoff, featuring a fine and unpressed first edition of Newton’s Principia, a first edition of Kepler’s masterpiece Astronomia Nova, and a first edition of Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius as its top lots.
This is followed by Rare Books from the Collection of Rudy Ruggles, Jr., which includes the hand-coloured Perrette copy of Schedel’s Liber Chronicarum, a handsome first edition of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, and a first edition of Hooke’s Micrographia, with contemporary binding and provenance.
Other highlights include property from the Estate of Goodman Basil Espy, a fine copy of Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, and letters from Albert Einstein, Ernest Hemingway and Mark Twain.
Explore the auction in person at our Rockefeller Center galleries from 29 January to 4 February 2026.
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Auction information
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Auction
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Online22 Jan, 10am (Lots 1 - 171)
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Contact the department
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Specialist, Books, Manuscripts, & ArchivesHeather Weintraubhweintraub@christies.comTel: +1 212 636 2673
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Sale CoordinatorTheodore ShieldsTshields@christies.comTel: +1 (212) 484-4896
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Lot 1 Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible II Chronicles 3:8-6:3, describing the building of the First Temple, c. 1455 |
estimate $30,000 - $50,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 2 Pflaum's Kalendarium 1477-1552 Johannes Zainer, 1478 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 3 The Alphonsine Tables Erhard Ratdolt, 1483 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 4 Quadrans Apiani astronomicus, with two other works Peter Apian and Johann Stöffler, 1532, 1514, and 1528 |
estimate $25,000 - $35,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 5 Ptolemy's Almagest, 1515 Bound with Peurbach's Tabulae eclypsium and Regiomontanus's Tabula primi |
estimate $25,000 - $35,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 6 De lateribus et angulis triangulorum tum planorum rectilineorum tum sphaericorum Nicolaus Copernicus, 1542 |
estimate $150,000 - $250,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 7 A Prognostication euerlasting Leonard Digges, 1556 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 8 De coniunctionibus magnis insignioribus superiorum planetarum, Solis... Cyprián Karásek Lvovicky, 1564 |
estimate $1,200 - $1,800 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 9 A Perfit Description of the Celestiall Orbes Thomas Digges, 1596 |
estimate $15,000 - $25,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 10 In sphaeram Ioannis de Sacro Bosco commentarius Christopher Clavius, 1596 |
estimate $1,000 - $2,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 11 Mysterium cosmographicum Johannes Kepler, 1596 |
estimate $80,000 - $120,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 12 Astronomiae instauratae progymnasmata Tycho Brahe, 1602 |
estimate $40,000 - $60,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 13 Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, quibus astronomiae pars optica traditur Johannes Kepler, 1604 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 14 De stella nova in pede serpentarii Johannes Kepler, 1606 |
estimate $40,000 - $60,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 15 Astronomia nova Johannes Kepler, 1609 |
estimate $300,000 - $500,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 16 Sidereus nuncius, and 3 other works Galileo Galilei, 1610 |
estimate $300,000 - $500,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 17 Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti Galileo Galilei, 1613 |
estimate $25,000 - $35,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 18 Mundus Iovialis Simon Marius, 1614 |
estimate $30,000 - $50,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 19 Harmonices mundi, Norman copy Johannes Kepler, 1619 |
estimate $120,000 - $160,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 20 Il Saggiatore Galileo Galilei, 1623 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 21 Tabulae Rudolphinae Johannes Kepler, 1672 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 22 Dialogo, the Honeyman copy Galileo Galilei, 1632 |
estimate $80,000 - $120,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 23 Selenographia Johannes Hevelius, 1647 |
estimate $30,000 - $50,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 24 Mercurius in sole visus Gedani anno Christiano 1661 Johannes Hevelius, 1662 |
estimate $15,000 - $25,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 25 Systema cosmicum Galileo Galilei, 1663 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 26 Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica Isaac Newton, 1687 |
estimate $400,000 - $600,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 27 The Shadow of the Moon over England, in the Total Eclipse of the Sun Edmund Halley, 1715 |
estimate $15,000 - $25,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 28 Miscellanea Curiosa Edmund Halley, and other members of the Royal Society, 1726 |
estimate $600 - $800 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 29 The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended Isaac Newton, 1728 |
estimate $800 - $1,200 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 30 A Treatise of the System of the World Isaac Newton, 1728 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 32 Limited and scholarly editions 1965-2017 |
estimate $1,200 - $1,800 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 33 Nehmad ve-Na’im David Gans, 1743 |
estimate $500 - $800 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 34 Tabulae astronomicae Edmund Halley, 1749 |
estimate $15,000 - $25,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 35 Eccliptischen Tafel J.H. Lambert, 1765 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 36 Ephemerides [and] Observatio transitus Veneris ante discum solis Maximilian Hell, 1769-1782 |
estimate $1,200 - $1,800 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 37 Account of a Comet William Herschel, 1781 |
estimate $400 - $600 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 38 Cométographie Alexandre-Guy Pingré, 1783-1784 |
estimate $1,200 - $1,800 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 39 Catalogue of Stars, taken from Mr. Flamsteed’s Observations Caroline Herschel, 1798 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 40 Solar eclipses Various authors, 1820-1929 |
estimate $800 - $1,200 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 41 Brechungs- und Farbenzerstreuungs-Vermgens verschiedener Glasarten Joseph Fraunhofer, 1817 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 42 Photons, Brownian motion, and special relativity Albert Einstein, 1905 |
estimate $7,000 - $9,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 43 Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie Albert Einstein, 1916 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 44 Apollo Expeditions to the Moon NASA Special Publication, 1975 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 45 QED Richard Feynman, 1985 |
estimate $12,000 - $18,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 46 De le stelle fisse Alessandro Piccolomini, 1540 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 47 Astronomical maps and atlases Various dates |
estimate $1,000 - $1,500 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 48 Uranometria Johannes Bayer, 1603 |
estimate $30,000 - $50,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 49 Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia Johannes Hevelius, 1687⁄1690 |
estimate $30,000 - $50,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 50 Atlas coelestis John Flamsteed, 1729 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 51 Atlas céleste John Flamsteed, 1776 |
estimate $1,000 - $1,500 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 52 Atlas céleste John Flamsteed, 1795 |
estimate $1,200 - $1,800 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 53 Celestial Atlas John Bevis, circa 1749 |
estimate $12,000 - $18,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 54 Uranographia Johann Bode, 1801 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 55 La Geographia Ptolemy, 1548 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 56 Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori Giorgio Vasari, 1568 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 57 Theatrum orbis terrarum Abraham Ortelius, 1573 |
estimate $60,000 - $80,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 58 Americae pars, Nunc Virginia dicta, primum ab Anglis inventa VIRGINIA – John White; Theodor de Bry |
estimate $14,000 - $18,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 59 Primera y segunda parte de la Araucana Alonso de Ercilla, 1578 |
estimate $18,000 - $25,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 60 Primera, segunda, y tercera partes de la Araucana Alonso de Ercilla, 1592 |
estimate $6,000 - $8,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 61 La Araucana Alonso de Ercilla, 1597 |
estimate $2,000 - $4,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 62 Collection of La araucana Editions Alonso de Ercilla, 17th–19th centuries |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 63 Relaciones Universales del Mundo Giovanni Botero, 1603 |
estimate $15,000 - $25,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 64 Primera parte de los Commentarios Reales Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 1609 |
estimate $12,000 - $18,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 65 Historia general del Perú Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 1617 |
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 66 Hechos de don García Hurtado de Mendoza Cristóbal Suárez de Figueroa, 1613 |
estimate $6,000 - $8,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 67 Viertzehende Schiffart, oder, Gru¨ndliche und warhaffte Beschreibung dess... John Smith, 1617 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 68 Discours de la méthode René Descartes, 1637 |
estimate $15,000 - $20,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 69 Histórica relación del Reyno de Chile Alonso de Ovalle, 1646 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 70 Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Sir Isaac Newton, 1726 |
estimate $25,000 - $30,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 71 Lucas' Progressive Drawing Book Fielding Lucas, 1827 |
estimate $30,000 - $50,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 72 History of the Indian Tribes of North America McKenney & Hall 1837 |
estimate $30,000 - $50,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 73 Presentation copy of Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens, 1844 |
estimate $40,000 - $60,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 74 The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia [With:] Egypt &... David Roberts and George Croly, 1842–1849 |
estimate $80,000 - $120,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 75 Atlas de la historia física y política de Chile Claudio Gay, 1854 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 76 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain, 1885 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 77 Mela's Cosmographia Venice, 1478 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 78 Sphaera mundi and Theorica planetarum First illustrated edition, 1478 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 79 Introductorium in astronomiam Albumasar, 1489 |
estimate $15,000 - $25,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 80 Liber chronicarum Hartmann Schedel, 12 July 1493 |
estimate $80,000 - $120,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 81 Gesta Proxime Per Portugalenses in India, Ethiopia, & Aliis Orie[n]talibus... MALHEIRO, PEDRO ALFONSO, 1507 |
estimate $30,000 - $50,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 82 The myrrour: and Dyscrypcyon of the Worlde with many mervaylles William Caxton, translator, c.1527 |
estimate $12,000 - $18,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 83 The Almagest Ptolemy, 1528 |
estimate $15,000 - $25,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 84 Organum Uranicum Sebastian Münster, 1536 |
estimate $15,000 - $25,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 85 Geographia Ptolemy – Sebastian Münster, 1552 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 86 The Castle of Knowledge Robert Recorde, 1556 |
estimate $30,000 - $50,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 87 The Ship of Fools Sebastian Brant, 1570 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 88 The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies Peter Martyr, 1577 |
estimate $50,000 - $70,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 89 Historie of the Discouerie and Conquest of the East Indias Fernão Lopes de Castanheda, 1582 |
estimate $15,000 - $25,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 90 Cosmographia, sive Descritpio universi Orbis Petrus Apianus and Gemma Frisius, 1584 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 91 A Report of the Kingdome of Congo, a region of Africa English edition of Pigafetta and Lopez, 1597 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 92 The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English... Richard Hakluyt, 1599-1600 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 93 Ortelius pocket atlas Accademia dei Lincei copy |
estimate $7,000 - $10,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 94 The Essayes Montaigne, 1603 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 95 The Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies Jose de Acosta, 1604 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 96 Of the Citie of God St. Augustine, 1610 |
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 97 The Whole Works of Homer Homer; George Chapman, [c.1616] |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 98 De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Jesu Nicholas Trigault and Matteo Ricci, 1615 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 99 Histoire de la navigation – Le grand routier de mer – Description de l’Amerique Jan Huygen Linschoten, 1619 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 100 Libra astronomica Orazio Grassi, 1619 |
estimate $7,000 - $9,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 101 Discorso delle comete di Mario Guiducci Galileo, 1619 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 102 Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche Galileo, 1638 |
estimate $40,000 - $60,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 103 His Meditations Marcus Aurelius,1634 |
estimate $7,000 - $9,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 104 A Voyage to Bengalla William Bruton, 1638 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 105 Novae coelestium terrestriumq rerum observationes, Et fortasse hactenus non... FONTANA, FRANCESCO, 1646 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 106 A Discourse Rene Descartes, 1649 |
estimate $15,000 - $25,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 107 Leviathan, or The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall... Thomas Hobbes, 1651 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 108 Systema Saturnium Christiaan Huygens, 1659 |
estimate $15,000 - $25,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 109 Galileus Galileus, His System of the World Thomas Salusbury, 1661 |
estimate $25,000 - $35,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 110 Micrographia Robert Hooke, 1665 |
estimate $40,000 - $60,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 111 Paradise Lost John Milton, 1669 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 112 An Essay concerning Humane Understanding. John Locke, 1690 |
estimate $12,000 - $18,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 113 Early manuscript account of his voyages Francesco Carletti, [c. late 17th century] |
estimate $12,000 - $18,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 114 Opticks Isaac Newton, 1704 |
estimate $30,000 - $50,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 115 The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy NEWTON, ISAAC, 1729 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 116 Experiments and Observations on Electricity Benjamin Franklin, 1769 |
estimate $12,000 - $18,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 117 Account of a journey to India, with reference to the Siege of Tanjore [East India Company], 1773 |
estimate $15,000 - $25,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 118 The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith, 1776 |
estimate $80,000 - $120,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 119 Tales and The Raven, the Kaye copy Edgar Allan Poe, 1845 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 120 Birds of Paradise, and Bower-Birds R. Bowdler Sharpe, 1891-1898 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 121 Complete Set of First Edition Pooh Books A.A. Milne and E.H. Shepard, 1924–1928 |
estimate $12,000 - $18,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 122 An eloquent justification of the American Revolution and the preservation of... James Iredell, c. June 1788 |
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 123 On the Asgill Affair Henry Francis Greville, 29 May 1782 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 124 Autograph letter signed on his Supreme Court duties and Jay's Treaty James Iredell, 30 July 1795 |
estimate $6,000 - $8,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 125 Notable military figures from the Civil War Judah P. Benjamin, David Farragut, et al. |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 126 Autographs from Abraham Lincoln's cabinet Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, et al. |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 127 Five appointment documents Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1864 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 128 Pardoning the treasurer of the Confederate government of Kentucky Abraham Lincoln, 21 December 1863 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 129 Notable twentieth-century presidents and politicians Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, Richard Nixon, and others |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 130 Presidential appointment documents Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and others, 1879-1923 |
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 131 An unpublished maxim on Christian theology Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, n.d. |
estimate $7,000 - $10,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 132 \"Keep right on to the end of the road.\" Winston Churchill, 8 December 1942 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 133 Autograph letter signed by Mahatma Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi, 12 November 1947 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 134 On supporting Jewish refugees Albert Einstein, 10 June 1939 |
estimate $40,000 - $60,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 135 On Hitler's handwriting Albert Einstein, 4 September 1942 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 136 EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). Draft autograph letter signed (\"A. Einstein\") to... |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 137 On his new posting, and a new singularity theorem Stephen Hawking. 12 February 1968 |
estimate $15,000 - $25,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 138 Renovation plans for Windows on the World Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, 1995 |
estimate $6,000 - $8,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 139 Toy Story Signed by Steve Jobs |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 140 To Richard Dodge George Washington, 24 August 1775 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 141 Autograph letter from Marie Antoinette Marie Antoinette, 12 December 1775 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 142 To John Jay Benjamin Franklin, 15 May 1780 |
estimate $12,000 - $18,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 143 Autograph signed document Daniel Boone, 28 December 1782 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 144 A correspondence from the California Gold Rush J.P. Webster, 1849-1850 |
estimate $7,000 - $10,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 145 An invitation to Lincoln's second Inaugural Ball J. Goldsborough Bruff and Dempsey & O'Toole, 1865 |
estimate $800 - $1,200 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 146 To Salmon P. Chase Abraham Lincoln, March 2 1863 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 147 Two autograph letters Samuel Clemens, 1893 & 1887 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 148 To Margery Clinton Samuel Clemens, 30 October 1908 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 149 Autograph Document Signed ('Thomas A Edison') Thomas Edison, 17 September 1896 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 150 Three letters Thomas Edison, 1899-1926 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 151 Two letters on naval affairs Winston Churchill, 1910-1913 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 152 Signed Photograph of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill, May 1943 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 153 To George V Winston Churchill, 19 October, 1933 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 154 A large signed photograph of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill, 1942 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 155 Three typed letters signed Amelia Earhart, 1929-1933 |
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 156 A typed letter signed by Amelia Earhart Amelia Earhart, 31 August 1933 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 157 Autograph letter signed ('A. Einstein') regarding upcoming travel Albert Einstein, 12 December 1923 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 158 A engraved portrait, signed Albert Einstein, 1933 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 159 On pro-German bias at the New School Albert Einstein, 1934-1950 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 160 The Gravitational Equations and the Problem of Motion Albert Einstein, January 1938. |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 161 On a mechanical proof for the theory of relativity. Albert Einstein, 1950-1954 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 162 Typed letter signed Ernest Hemingway, 22 December 1936 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 163 Typed letter signed Ernest Hemingway, 16 February 1920 |
estimate $2,500 - $3,500 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 164 Autograph letter signed to Bumby, with a sketch Ernest Hemingway, 6 June 1956 |
estimate $3,000 - $4,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 165 On the Sullivan Brothers Franklin D. Roosevelt, 6 February 1943 |
estimate $7,000 - $10,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 166 Typed letter signed quoting Stephen Decatur Dwight Eisenhower, May 18 1943 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 167 On the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty John F. Kennedy, 1 October 1943 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 168 On the justification of sit-ins Martin Luther King Jr., 25 April 1961 |
estimate $6,000 - $8,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 169 On receiving an honorary degree from the University of Bridgeport. Martin Luther King Jr., 12 May 1961 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 170 On civil rights for Indigenous Americans Martin Luther King Jr., 27 April 1964 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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Lot 171 On being named Time's Man of the Year. Martin Luther King Jr., 25 March 1964 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 PRICE REALIZED ________________________ ________________________ |
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