Early American: History Auction, 121424, Rancho Santa Fe

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Auction Report
Auction Date
December 14, 2024 - December 14, 2024
Page Size: 172 items in 7 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
76

Historic 1766 British Parliament "Declaratory Act" Imprint Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty, London

1766 USD 1,800.00 - 3,400.00 USD 9,100.00
77

December 13, 1773 Philadelphia Postscript Newspaper Broadsheet Imortant Reports on a Boston Tea Party Meeting

c. December 13, 1773 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,225.00
79

Exceedingly Rare Original 1634 Engraving Depicting Pocahontas Rescuing Captain John Smith from Execution by Clubbing, by Thoedore De Bry (1528-1598) and Sons

c. 1634 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 12,350.00
80

A South East View of the Great Town of Boston in New England in America, I. Carwitham Sculp. Rare Plate State

c. 1731 to 1736 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
81

A Prospective of the BATTLE fought near Lake George, on the 8th of Sep. 1755, between 2000 English with 250 Mohawks, under the command of Gen. JOHNSON: ... the Only Other Example to Appear at Auction in the Last 40 Years was 2005 Handcolored Middendorf-G

1756 USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 Not Sold
82

TWO Nathaniel Hurd (Silversmith) Engraved Copper-Plate Bookplate Prints for "Theodore Atkinson" & "Wentworth"

1. c. 1760 USD 1,200.00 - 1,600.00 USD 780.00
83

c. 1761 "A View of the City of Boston the Capital of NEW ENGLAND, in North America." After Governor Pownal, Extremely Rare Original Colonial Boston Harbor Engraving

c. 1761 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,400.00
84

One of the Rarest of Benjamin Franklin Portraits, Stauffer's First State of Three, published by Edward Savage in 1793

published by Edward Savage, London, published Sept. 17. 1793 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 14,300.00
85

Paul Revere Engraved Personal Custom Bookplate Print For American Patriot & Newspaper Publisher "Isaiah Thomas"

c. 1798 USD 1,200.00 - 2,400.00 USD 1,560.00
86

Esek Hopkins Commander Continental Navy Engraving Don't Tread On Me & Liberty Tree - An appeal to God.

c. 1776 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 845.00
87

Orations, Delivered at the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, to Commemorate the Evening of the Fifth of March, 1770; When a Number of Citizens Were Killed by a Party of British Troops, Quartered among Them, in a Time of Peace., Published b

1807 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,860.00
88

July 19, 1775 Sermon Printed by Benjamin Edes Preached After the Battles of Lexington & Concord with Content on Bunker Hill with Interesting Commentary on the "Role of Jews" in History

July 19, 1775 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,860.00
89

1778 Capture of the Prize Schooner "Hawke" American Privateer Nathaniel Bently, the Commander of the American Armed Schooner "Hornet" in a Legal case involving Aaron Lopez & the American Congress

October 17, 1778 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 7,800.00
90

1779-Dated Revolutionary War Enlistment Document Men who Fought & Served in the 6th Massachusetts Regiment

April 14th, 1779 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,600.00
91

1779 Military Appointment Commission made to James Keith Esquire as Major in the Continental Army at Boston

November 26th, 1779 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,105.00
92

1780 Revolutionary War Printed Broadsheet Draft ACT Order for Raising Massachusetts' Soldiers Quota to Serve in the Continental Army "Sixteen years old and upwards..."

June 22, 1780 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,175.00
93

British Loyalist Sir William Pepperell's Land is Confiscated

c. 1780s USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,040.00
94

Exceedingly Rare South Carolina Revolutionary War Parole of British Prisoner Partially-Printed Charleston, Dec. 1782

December 23, 1782 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,640.00
95

The Action Between the Serapis and the Bon Homme Richard, September 23, 1779 Historic Lithograph Print with American Commodore John Paul Jones in Command

c. 1870 USD 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,120.00
96

1775 "A New and Correct PLAN of the TOWN of BOSTON" Revolutionary War Map: Showing "Charles Town in Ruins" Following The Battle of Bunker Hill

1775 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 2,080.00
97

Plan of the Town of Boston, with the ATTACK on BUNKERS-HILL, in the Peninsula of CHARLESTOWN, the 17th of June, 1775 J. Norman, Sc.

USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,550.00
98

New England, Rules and Saves Columbians - never never never Shall be Slaves American Revolutionary War Era Printed Songsheet titled "RULE NEW-ENGLAND: A NEW PATRIOTIC SONG," Written by Thomas PAINE

c. 1776 USD 1,800.00 - 2,400.00 USD 2,080.00
99

General "Mad" Anthony Wayne's Descriptive Account of Battle Action that Followed The Battle of Stony Point, NY

August 12, 1779 USD 2,200.00 - 2,800.00 USD 2,080.00
100

BOSTON MASSACRE Reported in Great Detail in the Full Year of January to December Issues of 1770 in the "Town and Country Magazine" London All 12 Bound Issues

January to December of 1770 USD 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,860.00
101

May the Genius of LIBERTY Be proof against the evils of TYRANNY Revolutionary War Battersea Enameled Box

c. 1776 USD 1,800.00 - 2,400.00 USD 2,860.00
  • High Bids Win
    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
    and Machine Manuals
    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.
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    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Specimen book of type faces. Job composition department, Philadelphia gazette publishing company .
    High Bids Win
    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.
    High Bids Win
    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
    and Machine Manuals
    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
    The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
    A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Golding.
    Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD
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    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
    Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
    The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: John Milton.
    Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD
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