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Auction Report
Auction Date
March 30, 2024 - March 30, 2024
Page Size: 204 items in 9 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 JOHN ADAMS and TIMOTHY PICKERING

1797 President JOHN ADAMS and TIMOTHY PICKERING Signed Impressive Four Language Ship Papers

1797 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 7,800.00
2 WILLIAM AYSCOUGH

1680 WILLIAM AYSCOUGH ALS as British MP, for Preservation of Religious Freedom + Property Rights

1680 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,820.00
3 WILLIAM BAINBRIDGE

1802 WILLIAM BAINBRIDGE ALS to the Father of a Midshipman Killed in a Duel on the USS Essex

1802 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,040.00
4 WILLIAM BAINBRIDGE

1833 Commodore WILLIAM BAINBRIDGE Letter Signed, Ordering a Purser to Norfolk

1833 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 845.00
5 WILLIAM BAINBRIDGE

1814 WILLIAM BAINBRIDGE + CHARLES STEWART DS, 1st + 2nd USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) Commanders

1814 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 650.00
6 NATHANIEL BARBER

1776 NATHANIEL BARBER Signed Boston Harbour Boat Pass Permit Commanding at Boston Harbor

1776 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,380.00
7 Francis Bernard

1762, Governor Francis Bernard Signed French and Indian War Massachusetts-Bay Military Commission

1762 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,120.00
8 GEORGE BIBB

1828 GEORGE BIBB Treasury Secretary Autograph Document Signed Re: the Theft of a Slave and Her Child

1828 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 910.00
9 ELIAS BOUDINOT

1805 ELIAS BOUDINOT ALS President of the Continental Congress + Founding Father, Collecting a Debt

1805 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,105.00
10 DAVID BUSHNELL

DAVID BUSHNELL Signed Continental Army First Corps of Sappers + Miners Document Payment Document

c.1781 USD 12,000.00 - 16,000.00 USD 15,600.00
11 JIMMY CARTER

1978 JIMMY CARTER Presidentially Signed Document

1978 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,300.00
12 LEWIS CASS

1842 LEWIS CASS as U.S. Secretary of War Signed Revolutionary War Pension Claim

1842 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 195.00
13 GEORGE CLINTON

1779 GEORGE CLINTON New York Military Commission Document Signed to Samuel Allen

1779 USD 800.00 - 1,400.00 USD 2,600.00
14 GEORGE CLYMER

1793 GEORGE CLYMER ALS to US Treasurer Samuel Meredith Re Alexander Hamilton + The Whiskey Rebellion

1793 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,225.00
15 CALVIN COOLIDGE

1932 ORIGINAL TRANSCRIPT OF CALVIN COOLIDGE - SETTLING THE WAR DEBTS, Signed Important Archive

1932 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 7,800.00
16 William B. Cushing

1861 Civil War William B. Cushing ALS Regarding a Contraband Servant and expected CSA Rebel Fleet

1861 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,170.00
17 William B. Cushing

1862 Civil War Union Navy Hero William B. Cushing ALS With Superb Naval Battle Content

1862 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,300.00
18 GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER

1870 GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER Signed Kansas Document, Promissory Note - One of Only Two Known !

1870 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,500.00
19 James Dana

1777 Rev. War Bond Signed James Dana who Claimed to have Fired the First Shot at Bunker Hill !

1777 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,950.00
20 JEFFERSON DAVIS

Nov 1861 JEFFERSON DAVIS Autograph Letter Signed While Provisional Confederate + CSA President-Elect

1861 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
21 STEPHEN DECATUR

STEPHEN DECATUR 1818 Letter Signed Regarding Advertisements for Mattresses for the U.S. Navy

1818 USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 USD 780.00
22

1859 Publication Date Pre Civil War, The Declaration of Independence and Portraits of the Presidents

1859 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,820.00
23 Eleazar Huntington

c. 1820 Rare Eleazar Huntington Engraved, DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Printed Broadside

c.1820 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,150.00
24 Samuel F. Du Pont

1862 Letter to Abraham Lincoln from Admiral Samuel F. Du Pont Recommending a Chaplain's Appointment

1862 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,170.00
25 WILLIAM DUMMER,

1754 Dated, WILLIAM DUMMER, Autograph Rare Document Signed, Province of Massachusetts Bay

1754 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,040.00
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Isaac Newton on chemistry and matter, and alchemy, Autograph Manuscript, "A Key to Snyders," 3 pp, after 1674. $100,000 - $150,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Exceptionally rare first printing of Plato's Timaeus. Florence, 1484. $50,000 - $80,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: On the Philosophy of Self-Interest: Adam Smith's copy of Helvetius's De l'homme, Paris, 1773. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: "Magical Calendar of Tycho Brahe" - very rare hermetic broadside. Engraved by Merian for De Bry. c.1618. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Author's presentation issue of Einstein's proof of Relativity, "Erklärung der Perihelbewegung des Merkur aus der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie." 1915. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: First Latin edition of Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed. Paris, 1520. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: De Broglie manuscript on the nature of matter in quantum physics, 3 pp, 1954. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Tesla autograph letter signed on electricty and electromagnetic theory. 1894. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Heinrich Hertz scientific manuscript on his mentor Hermann Von Helmholtz, 1891. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: The greatest illustrated work in Alchemy: Micheal Maier's Atalanta Fugiens. Oppenheim, 1618. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Illustrated Alchemical manuscript, a Mysterium Magnum of the Rosicurcians, 18th-century. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Rare Largest Paper Presentation Copy of Newton's Principia, London, 1726. The third and most influential edition. $60,000 - $90,000
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