Bonhams: Americana, Natural History, and Travel, 29515, New York

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Auction Date
October 24, 2024 - October 24, 2024
Page Size: 102 items in 5 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51 JEFFERSON, THOMAS. 1743-1826.

Autograph Letter Signed ("Th. Jefferson") to Debures Freres reconstructing his library, which he had sold at tremendous loss to the Library of Congress,

Monticello in Virginia 1817 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 Unknown
52 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. 1809-1865.

Autograph Document Signed ("Lincoln & Herndon"), a legal filing for George D. Berry, in the case against Cagle, seeking additional damages caused by Cagle's impregnating Berry's daughter Elizabeth,

1849 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 Unknown
53 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. 1809-1865.

Autograph Endorsement Signed ("Abraham Lincoln"), "Let this man take the Oath of Dec 8 1863 and be discharged,"

1864 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
54

Autograph Letter Signed ("Charles Lindbergh") to Richard Blythe on the continued adoration on the heels of his ground-breaking solo transatlantic flight and the Spirit of St. Louis,

1927 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Unknown
55 BREED, EBENEZER. 1766-1839.

Autograph Letter Signed "Eben: Breed," to Dolly Madison, regarding shoes sent to her and James Madison,

1927 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
56 TIDDEMAN, MARK.

A Draught of New York from the Hook to New Yorktown.

London [1737, or later]. USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
57 PAINE, THOMAS. 1737-1809.

Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America...

Philadelphia 1776 USD 120,000.00 - 180,000.00 Unknown
58

Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. An act for rendering more effectual the laws already made relating to shingles, and for regulating the assize of staves, hoops and clapboards.

[Boston] 1762 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
59

Boston, September 14, 1768. Gentlemen, you are already too well acquainted with the melancholy & very alarming circumstances to which this Province, as well as America in general, is now reduced....

[Boston] 1768 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 Unknown
60 BOWDOIN, JAMES. 1726-1790.

State of Massachusetts Bay. In Convention, June 16, 1780. Whereas... more than Two-thirds of the Inhabitants... have expressed their Approbation of the Form of Government agreed upon by this Convention....

[Boston] 1780 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Unknown
61 HANCOCK, JOHN. 1737-1793. And JOHN AVERY. 1739-1806.

State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, 23d June, 1780.

[Boston] 1780 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Unknown
62 ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. 1858-1919.

Typed Letter Signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") to Alfred Henry Lewis on corruption, the Rough Riders, and Bat Masterson,

Oyster Bay, NY 1907 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Unknown
63

View of Sacramento City as it Appeared during the Great Inundation of January 1850.

New York c. 1850. USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
64

Bird's Eye View of the City of San Jose Cal..

San Jose 1869 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
65 TANNER, HENRY SCHENCK. 1786-1858.

A New American Atlas containing Maps of the Several States of the North American Union.

Philadelphia 1823 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 Unknown
66

Laws of the United States of America.

Boston 1795 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
67

Including:
1. Typed Document Signed ("Harry S. Truman/ Independence, Mo"), a fair copy of Truman's historic telegram to Eisenhower on the transfer of power after Eisenhower's electoral victory,

USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
68

Memoire presente au Congres des Etats-Unis d'Amerique par les habitans de la Louisiane.

New Orleans 1804 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
69

Examen des droits des Etats-Unis et des pretentions de Mr. Edouard Livingston sur la batture en face du Faubourg Ste. Marie.

New Orleans 1808 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Unknown
70

A Digest of the Civil Laws Now in Force in the Territory of Orleans with Alterations and Amendments Adapted to its Present System of Government.

New Orleans 1808 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Unknown
71 MOREAU-LISLET, LOUIS. 1766-1832; and HENRY CARLTON. 1785-1863, translators.

The Laws of Las Siete Partidas which are still in force in the State of Louisiana.

New Orleans 1820 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Unknown
72 PAXTON, JOHN A.

New Orleans Directory and Register.

New Orleans 1822 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
73 MOREAU-LISLET, LOUIS. 1766-1832.

A General Digest of the Acts of the Legislature of Louisiana: Passed from the Year 1804 to 1827....

New Orleans 1828 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Unknown
74 ST. CERAN, TULLIUS.

Mil Huit Cent Quatorze et Mil Huit Cent Quinze, ou les Combats et la Victoire des Fils de La Louisiane.

New Orleans 1838 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
75 LELIEVRE, JACQUES-FELIX. 1795-?

Nouveau Jardinier de la Louisiane.

New Orleans 1838 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
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