• Jeschke Jádi
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    Saturday April 26, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 962. Baird. United States Exploring Expedition. Philadelphia 1858.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 772. Edith Holland Norton. Brazilian Flowers. Coombe Croft 1893.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 49. Petrarca. Das Gluecksbuch, Augsburg 1536.
    Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 155
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    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 1496. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 8. Augustinus. De moribus ecclesie. Cologne 1480.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 17. Heures a lusaige de Noyon. Paris 1504.
    Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 155
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    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 13. Schedel. Buch der Chronicken. Nürnberg 1493.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 957. Donovan. Insects of China. London 1798.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 123. A holy martyr. Tuscany, Florence, mid-14th century.
    Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 155
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    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 438. Dante. La Divine Comédie. Paris 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 602. Firdausi. Histoire de Minoutchehr. Paris 1919
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 994. Westwood. Oriental Entomology. London 1848.
  • Swann, Apr. 22: Lot 124: Henri Courvoisier-Voisin, et alia, [Recueil de Vues de Paris et ses Environs], depicting precursors of the modern roller coaster, Paris, [1814-1819?]. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, Apr. 22: Lot 148: Pablo Picasso & Fernando de Rojas, La Célestine, First Edition, Paris, 1971. $30,000 to $40,000.
    Swann, Apr. 22: Lot 201: Omar Khayyam & Edward Fitzgerald, Rubaiyat, William Bell Scott's copy of the First Edition, London, 1859. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, Apr. 22: Lot 223: Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, First Edition, extra-illustrated with hand-colored plates by Palinthorpe, London, 1861. $7,000 to $9,000.
    Swann, Apr. 22: Lot 248: L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, First Edition, inscribed by the illustrator, Chicago & New York, 1900. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, Apr. 22: Lot 305: Tycho Brahe & Pierre Gassendi, Tychonis Brahei Vita, Paris, 1654. From the Collection of Owen Gingerich. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, Apr. 22: Lot 338: Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Almagestum Novum, two folio volumes, Bologna, 1651. From the Collection of Owen Gingerich. $8,000 to $10,000.
    Swann, Apr. 22: Lot 350: Tobias Cohn, Ma'aseh Toviyyah, first edition, Venice, 1707-8. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, Apr. 22: Lot 359: Alan Turing, Computing, Machinery, and Intelligence, first edition, Edinburgh, 1950. $3,000 to $5,000.
  • Sotheby's
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    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
  • Gros & Delettrez, Apr. 23: BELLEFOREST (François de). La cosmographie universelle de tout le monde. €12,000 to €15,000.
    Gros & Delettrez, Apr. 23: DESNOS (Louis Charles). Mappe-monde, ou Carte Generale de la Terre. €5,000 to €6,000.
    Gros & Delettrez, Apr. 23: BLAEU (Willem Janszoon & Joan). Theatrum Sabaudiae. €18,000 to €20,000.
    Gros & Delettrez, Apr. 23: LINASSI. Ferdinando Ie Maria Anna Carolina nel Litorale in Settembre 1844. €4,000 to €5,000.
    Gros & Delettrez, Apr. 23: AMBROSOLI (Francesco). Monumento a Francesco Primo in Vienna. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Gros & Delettrez, Apr. 23: Plano de la plaza de Mesina y de su ciudadel y castiglios. €5,000 to €6,000.
    Gros & Delettrez, Apr. 23: ROCKSTUHL (Alois Gustav), GILLE (Florent A.). 78 Lithographies du Musée de Tzarskoe-Selo. €1,000 to €1,500.
    Gros & Delettrez, Apr. 23: Chtchedrovski, Ignatiy Stepanovitch. €2,000 to €3,000.
    Gros & Delettrez, Apr. 23: DE BRUYN (Cornelis). Voyage au Levant. €3,000 to €5,000.
    Gros & Delettrez, Apr. 23: ABI ISHAQ AHMAD B. IBRAHIM AL-THAʿLABI (M. 1035) : TROISIÈME VOLUME DU KASHF WA-L-BAYAN ʻAN TAFSIRI AL-QURʼAN. €3,000 to €5,000.
    Gros & Delettrez, Apr. 23: DESNOS (Louis Charles). L’Afrique. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Gros & Delettrez, Apr. 23: DE BRUYN (Cornelis). Voyages de Corneille Le Brun par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes orientales. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Gros & Delettrez, Apr. 23: DESNOS. (Louis Charles). Amérique septentrionale et Méridionale. €4,000 to €5,000.
    Gros & Delettrez, Apr. 23: ÉLIOT (J.B.) ; MONDHARE (Louis Joseph). Carte du théatre de la guerre actuel entre les anglais et les treize Colonies Unies de l'Amérique Septentrionale. €5,000 to €6,000.

Rare Book Monthly

Articles - April - 2024 Issue

The Discovery of America catalogue of works will be offered for sale at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair 2024

R. David Parsons assembled one of the most important collections of early explorations to the Americas and to Asia.  David passed away in 2014, and his collection was recently acquired from the Parsons family by the William Reese Company, Peter Harrington of London, James Cummins Bookseller, and Hordern House, collectively. Here’s an opportunity to see this material at the ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair (NYIABF).  The fair opens on the 4th.

 

In April 1524, Giovanni da Verrazzano made history as the first European to sail into New York Harbour, marking a pivotal moment in the exploration of the Americas. To commemorate the 500th anniversary of this significant milestone, a remarkable collection of printed works and manuscripts will be unveiled at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair 2024, documenting the earliest accounts of European explorers first setting foot on the uncharted shores of the New World.

 

From the book by Waldseemüller that first named America, to the first eye-witness description of the North American mainland by Fr. Juan Diaz, the first printed description of Brazil in Vespucci’s Mundus Novus, and the famed 1513 Ptolemy, the very first atlas to contain a map of America, the collection chronicles several exceptional “firsts” from the Age of Discovery.

 

Drawn from the esteemed rare book collection of R. David Parsons (1939-2014), this unparalleled assemblage includes, in the words of Parsons himself, "the texts of seaborne discovery, exploration and settlement from the era of Columbus until that point in the first half of the nineteenth century when little remained to be discovered."

  

Many of these exceptional texts have not come to market in the last quarter century, when Parsons first began assembling his collection of rare books charting the two world-defining movements that marked the Age of Discovery: the earliest Spanish push that led to the discovery of the Americas in the West, and the earliest Portuguese voyages to the East. Also included in the collection are several pre-Columbian texts that prompted their exploratory and expansionist thinking. The Eastern Voyages from Parsons’s extensive collection are to be offered separately later this year.

  

Highlights of the Discovery of America collection, include:

  • The first published eye-witness description of the North American mainland by Fr. Juan Diaz, one of only four known copies and the only one believed to be in private hands.
  • An extremely scarce early edition of Martin Waldseemüller’s Cosmographiae, the first book to name America in print.
  • An extraordinary copy in contemporary binding of the famed 1513 Ptolemy atlas, featuring the first printed map of America.
  • The earliest obtainable document relating to Hernan Cortés and the discovery of Mexico, published in a very rare German news sheet from 1520. It precedes the 1521 account by Peter Martyr and the more widely available 1524 edition of Cortés’s second letter.
  • Vespucci’s Mundus Novus, the first published account of Brazil and the New World, and the first to describe it as such.
  • The first printed history of Mexico and the first work to name California in print, this exceedingly rare work by Francisco López de Gomára includes the first Spanish map of the American continent, the first Spanish map of the west coast of America, and the first illustration of a buffalo.
  • The Pillone set of Ramusio, adorned with painted fore edges by a pupil of Titian, including the earliest printed account of Verrazzano's “discovery” of New York harbour.
  • The first and only edition of Bernardinus Carvajal’s pivotal 1494 oration which ignited a geopolitical contest for global dominance, one of the earliest printed documents to mention the discovery of the New World.
  • Rare first edition of the first three Decades of New World historian Peter Martyr, containing the first account of the sighting of the Pacific in 1513 by Balboa.
  • A 16th century manuscript epic poem on the life of Columbus, the earliest entirely original poem inspired by the contemporary sources on his life and discoveries (circa 1550).
  • The first Latin edition of the first printed collection of voyages by Fracanzano da Montalboddo, considered after Columbus’s letter to be the most important contribution to the early history of American discovery.
  • The first complete edition of Peter Martyr’s Eight Decades. It ranks next in interest, value, and rarity to the edition of 1511 and is considered in some respects more correct than Hakluyt’s edition (Paris, 1587), which is usually considered the best.
  • Several of the earliest works on the “Columbian Exchange”, that is, works on the origins of syphilis, including a medical incunable by Joseph Grünpeck de Burckhausenn.

 

“We are honored to be entrusted with this collection by Mary Parsons and her family. These rare texts stand as witnesses to the dawn of a new era that changed the world as it was known at the time, preserving the voices of those who shaped our understanding of it. Their value lies not only in their rarity but in the profound insight they offer into a pivotal chapter of history,” says Nick Aretakis of leading Americana dealer William Reese Company. “It's our hope that these catalogues will serve as fitting tributes to the extraordinary legacy of David Parsons as a collector of early exploratory texts.”

 

Parsons was a passionate and knowledgeable figure in the rare book world. He was a board member of the John Carter Brown Library (which awards an endowed fellowship in his name) and the Folger Library, an active member of the Grolier Club, and a benefactor and supporter of a number of libraries including those of Emory University.

 

For collectors, historians, institutional curators and enthusiasts, the fair will offer an unparalleled opportunity to delve into Parsons's remarkable collection.

 

The Discovery of America collection will be jointly presented at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair 2024 by the William Reese Company (stand D15), Peter Harrington (stand B17) and James Cummins Bookseller (stand E1). All items will be offered for sale individually.

 

Littera mandata della Insula de Cuba de India in la quale se contie ne de le insule Citta Dente et animali novamente trovate de l’anno M.D.XIX. p. li Spagnoli by Juan Fr. Diaz (1520)

 

 The earliest published account of any exploration of the North American mainland, an eyewitness account of the expedition of Juan de Grijalva to the Mexican coast in 1518: an Americanum of the greatest possible interest and importance.

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Cosmographiae introductio cum quibusdam Geometriae ac Astronomiae principiis ad earn rem necessariis, Instiper quattuor Americi Vespucii navigationes. Universalis Cosmographiae descriptio tam in solido quam plano, eis etiam insertis quae Ptholomaeo ignota, a nuperis reperta stint. by Martin Waldseemüller (1509)

 

 Extremely scarce, early edition of one of the icons of discovery literature – the work which named America. The work, first published in 1507, begins with an introduction to geography and the globe, providing definitions of basic technical terms, terrestrial and celestial zones, descriptions of the winds, and, in the final chapter, descriptions of the continents and other geographical features of the earth's surface.

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Geographie opus novissima traductione e Greco cum archetypis castigatissime pressum. by Claudius Ptolemaeus, Martin Waldseemüller (1513)

 

 The atlas is a major Americanum as it contains the first appearance of the map of the world known as "the Admiral's map", from a cartographic source variously believed to be Columbus or, rather less probably, Vespucci. This, the first map of America to appear in an atlas, preceded in print only by the map that should accompany the 1511 Peter Martyr, of which Burden could only locate ten copies worldwide.

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Ein Auszug ettlicher sendbrieff dem aller durchleüchtigisten grossmechtigiste[n] Fürsten und Herren Herren Carl römischen und hyspanische[n] König [et]c. by Hernan Cortés (1520)

 

 This very rare German news sheet is the sole edition of the first printed account of the discovery of Mexico, and of the Cordova expedition of 1517. Since it includes a German translation of the Vera Cruz Council’s letter to Charles V, widely attributed to Cortés, it is cited by Wagner as “the earliest known printed account” of Cortés’s expedition.

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Mundus Novus. by Amerigo Vespucci (1504)

   

 Vespucci's first published work about his American voyages. A rare and important Americanum by the man after whom the Americas would be named. The letter to Vespucci’s patron Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de Medici describes his voyage along the coast of Brazil carried out in the service of King Emmanuel of Portugal between May 1501 and September 1502.

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Primera y segunda parte dela historia general de las Indias con todo el descubrimiento y coas nota bles que han acaccido dende que se ganaron ata el ano de 1551. Con la co[n]quista de Mexico y de la Nueva Espana. by Francisco López de Gomára (1553)

   

 One of the most important early chronicles of the Spanish conquest of the New World, López de Gomára’s work is one of the two chief accounts of Cortés’ conquest of Mexico. He served as Cortés’ secretary and chaplain and made use of his position to gather information relating to the extraordinary exploits surrounding the overthrow of the Aztec empire.

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Delle Navigationi et Viaggi...in Tre Volume divise. by Giovanni Battista Ramusio (1550)

    

 A unique and beautiful set of the first scholarly voyage collection assembled in the 16th century, one of the first in a modern language, with more maps and illustrations than any prior anthology, containing accounts not previously published, and here in a highly personalized copy, with bespoke fore-edge decoration created for one of the most noteworthy private collections of Northern Italy during the 16th century.

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Oratio super praestanda solenni obedientia Sanctissimo D.N. Alexandro Papae vi ex parte Christianissimorum dominor Fernandi & Helisabe Regis & Regina Hispaniae. by Bernardinus Carvajal (1493)

    

 Exceedingly scarce first and only edition of one of the earliest printed documents to mention the discovery of the New World – a mere four months after Columbus’s return from his first voyage – the work is a lynchpin in the geopolitical contest between Spain and Portugal over the division of the newly discovered lands, and a foundational document in providing a justification for the usurpation of these territories by Spain. 

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De Orbe Novo Decades. by Pietro Martire d'Anghiera [Peter Martyr] (1516)

    

 Rare first edition, first issue, of the first three Decades of Peter Martyr, containing the accounts of Columbus’ voyages, the first printed account of the expedition of Sebastien Cabot to North America, and the first account of the 1513 sighting of the Pacific Ocean by Vasco Nunez de Balboa. A cornerstone Americanum of supreme importance and rarity and among the earliest obtainable editions of any of Martyr’s famed Decades.

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Manuscript poem in Italian, being a long biographical account of Columbus (1550)

 

 The only known copy of this long biographical account of Columbus, it is the earliest poetical work in vernacular inspired by the contemporary sources on his life and discoveries. An extraordinary survival, the anonymous epic poem is composed in ottava rima by a skilled versifier and follows the Renaissance model of Boccaccio, Boiardo, Pulci, and Ariosto.

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Itinerarium Portugallensium e Lusitania in Indiam et in de in Occidentem et demum ad aquilonem. by Fracanzano da Montalboddo (1508)

   

  First Latin edition of the first printed collection of voyages, written by Francanzano (aka Fracanzio) da Montalboddo, and considered “after Columbus’s letter the most important contribution to the early history of American discovery”. This copy with the second state woodcut map on the titlepage naming the Arabian Gulf.

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De Orbe Novo Petri Martyris ab Angleria Mediolanen sis Protonotaij C[a]esaris senatoris decades by Pietro Martire d'Anghiera [Peter Martyr] (1530)

   Very rare first edition of all eight of Peter Martyr's Decades, the indispensable source for the discovery period by the first historian of the New World. An intimate of Columbus and contemporary of Vasco da Gama, Cortes, Magellan, Cabot, and Vespucci, Martyr had access to numerous firsthand voyage accounts and became the foremost chronicler of the discovery of the New World.

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Tractatus de pestilentiali Scorra sive mala de Franzos Originem Remediaque eiusdem continens co[m]pilatus a vene rabili. by Joseph Grünpeck de Burckhausenn (1496)

    

Perhaps the earliest global epidemic, cases arrived in Europe with the return of Columbus from his first voyage in 1493 and quickly spread among the army of Charles VIII after the French king invaded Naples. Although over the years some have doubted the Columbian exchange theory as to the origin of the epidemic, modern genetic analysis has all but confirmed the American origins.

 

Questions?  Contact Nick Aretakis at nick@reeseco.com or amorder@reeseco.com or Jeremy Markowitz at jeremy@jamescumminsbookseller.com

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  • Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: ANDERSEN'S EXTREMELY RARE FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT. "Scene af: Røverne i Vissenberg i Fyen." in Harpen, 1822.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST THREE FAIRY TALE PAMPHLETS, WITH ALL INDICES AND TITLE PAGES. Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. 1835-1837.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: THE FIRST FAIRY TALES WITH A SIGNED CARTE DE VISITE OF ANDERSEN AS FRONTIS. Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. 1835-1837.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: KARL LAGERFELD. Original pastel and ink drawing in gold, red and black for Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes (1992), "La cassette de l'Empereur."
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: PRESENTATION COPY OF THE SIXTH PAMPHLET FOR PETER KOCH. Eventyr, Fortalte For Børn, Second Series, Third Pamphlet. 1841. Publisher's wrappers, complete with all pre- and post-matter.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN RARE AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED IN ENGLISH from "The Ugly Duckling," c.1860s.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: HEINRICH LEFLER, ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR FOR ANDERSEN'S SNOW QUEEN, "Die Schneekönigin," 1910.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: FIRST EDITION OF ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES IN ENGLISH. Wonderful Stories for Children. London, 1846.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: ANDERSEN ON MEETING CHARLES DICKENS. Autograph Letter Signed ("H.C. Andersen") in English to William Jerdan, July 20, 1847.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: PRESENTATION COPY FOR EDGAR COLLIN. Nye Eventyr og Historier. Anden Raekke. 1861.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: DOLL HOUSE FURNITURE BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON, DECORATED WITH FANTASTICAL CUT-OUTS, for the children of Jonna Stampe (née Drewsen), his godchildren.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: PRESENTATION COPY FOR GEORG BRANDES. Dryaden. Et Eventyr fra Udstillingstiden i Paris 1867. 1868.
  • Old World Auctions (April 23):
    Lot 748. Second volume of Blaeu's atlas featuring 89 maps of the Americas and Asia (1642) Est. $12,000 - $15,000
    Old World Auctions (April 23):
    Lot 12. A world map with popular cartographic myths and unique embellishments (1788) Est. $3,000 - $3,750
    Old World Auctions (April 23):
    Lot 30. One of the most sought-after charts from Cellarius' work (1708) Est. $1,200 - $1,500
    Old World Auctions (April 23):
    Lot 38. Anti-Vietnam War persuasive cartography on a velvet poster (1971) Est. $350 - $425
    Old World Auctions (April 23):
    Lot 43. Ortelius' influential map of the New World - second plate (1584) Est. $4,750 - $6,000
    Old World Auctions (April 23):
    Lot 95. Scarce German map illustrating the French & Indian War (1755) Est. $8,000 - $9,500
    Old World Auctions (April 23):
    Lot 149. Bachmann's dramatic view of the Mid-Atlantic region (1864) Est. $1,200 - $1,500
    Old World Auctions (April 23):
    Lot 373. De Jode's very rare map of Europe with costumed figures (1593) Est. $6,000 - $7,500
    Old World Auctions (April 23):
    Lot 674. De Bry's Petits Voyages, Part VII with all plates and map of Sri Lanka (1606) Est. $1,400 - $1,700
    Old World Auctions (April 23):
    Lot 704. The first printed map devoted to the Pacific in full contemporary color (1589) Est. $7,500 - $9,000
    Old World Auctions (April 23):
    Lot 734. Superb hand-colored image of the Tree of Jesse (1502) Est. $700 - $850
  • University Archives
    Rare Autographs, Books & Photos; Abraham Lincoln Collection
    April 23, 2025
    University Archives, Apr. 23: Best Image of Abraham Lincoln: "Closest… to ‘seeing' Lincoln… A National Treasure" Original Hesler/Ayres Interpositive. $800,000 to $1,000,000.
    University Archives, Apr. 23: Einstein, 3pp of Unified Field Theory Equations: “I want to try to show that a truly natural choice for field equations exists.” Formalizing His Final Approach, Association to Theory of Relativity. $80,000 to $120,000.
    University Archives, Apr. 23: Marilyn Monroe's Best Personally Owned & Annotated Script for Unfinished Last Film, "Something's Got to Give" (1962). $75,000 to $100,000.
    University Archives
    Rare Autographs, Books & Photos; Abraham Lincoln Collection
    April 23, 2025
    University Archives, Apr. 23: David Ben-Gurion ALS: "The Jewish people have attained the epitome...the State of Israel is born," 1 Day After Signing Israeli Declaration of Independence, Best Ben-Gurion Ever! $80,000 to $100,000.
    University Archives, Apr. 23: Lincoln ALS to Youth: "A young man, before the enemy has learned to watch him...votes... shall redeem the county" Evocative of Famous "Work" Letter. $70,000 to $100,000.
    University Archives, Apr. 23: Lincoln Appointment for Cabinet Member With Largest, Boldest, Full Signature! Important Content: Detente with England. $10,000 to $15,000.
    University Archives
    Rare Autographs, Books & Photos; Abraham Lincoln Collection
    April 23, 2025
    University Archives, Apr. 23: Abraham Lincoln Rare Signed Check To Law Partner W.H. Herndon, Perhaps Unique as Such! $20,000 to $25,000
    University Archives, Apr. 23: Tokyo War Crimes Files of Prosecuting Attorney For POW Camp Atrocities, 500+ Pages, Unpublished Court Documents, Photos and More. $25,000 to $35,000.
    University Archives, Apr. 23: 1698 South Carolina Slavery Archive Huguenot Planters Earliest Rare Plat Maps for Plantations 41 Docs 107 pp. Most Colonial. $25,000 to $35,000.
    University Archives
    Rare Autographs, Books & Photos; Abraham Lincoln Collection
    April 23, 2025
    University Archives, Apr. 23: Adam Smith ALS While Revising “The Wealth of Nations” - A New Discovery Documenting Meeting with Influential Editor. $18,000 to $24,000.
    University Archives, Apr. 23: Margaret Mitchell Rare ALS to Her Editor as Epic Film "Gone With the Wind" Gains Heat "Forgive this scrawl. I haven't written a letter in long hand in years and I've almost forgotten how it's done." $3,000 to $4,000.
    University Archives, Apr. 23: Einstein 1935 TLS, Hopes to Warn Non-Jews of "The true nature of the Hitler regime.” $8,500 to $10,000.

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