Freeman's | Hindman: The Collected Library, 6286, Chicago

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Auction Date
March 18, 2025 - March 18, 2025
Page Size: 364 items in 15 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 ANDREWS, James and Louisa Anne TWAMLEY

[NATURAL HISTORY]. Flora's Gems: or, The Treasures of the Parterre

London n.d. [before 1837] USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,152.00
2 BECKER, George Ferdinand (1847-1919)

[NATURAL HISTORY]. Geology of the Comstock Lode and the Washoe District

Washington, D.C. 1882 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 768.00
3 BEEBE, Charles William (1877-1962)

[NATURAL HISTORY]. Galapagos. World's End

New York 1924 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,024.00
4 BEEBE, William (1877-1962)

[NATURAL HISTORY]. A group of works

New York 1906 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 512.00
5 BERGHAUS, Heinrich (1797-1884)

[NATURAL HISTORY]. Berghaus' Physikalischer Atlas

Gotha 1887-1892 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 192.00
6 BEWICK, Thomas (1753-1828)

[NATURAL HISTORY]. A History of British Birds

Newcastle 1805 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 320.00
7 BLACKWALL, John (1790-1881)

[NATURAL HISTORY]. A History of the Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland

London 1861-1864 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 320.00
8 BOUTCHER, William (fl. 1734-1781)

[NATURAL HISTORY]. A Treatise on Forest-Trees: Containing not only the Best Methods of their Culture hitherto Practiced, but a Variety of New and Useful Discoveries

Edinburgh 1775 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 768.00
9 BROOKSHAW, George (1751-1823)

[NATURAL HISTORY]. Groups of Flowers, Drawn and Accurately Coloured After Nature

London 1819 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 320.00
10 BROWN, Thomas (1785-1862)

[NATURAL HISTORY]. Illustrations of Fossil Conchology

London 1849 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 768.00
11 BUDGEN, Louise M.

[NATURAL HISTORY]. Episodes of Insect Life

London 1849-1851 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 448.00
12 BUFFON, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de (1707-1788)

[NATURAL HISTORY]. A Natural History, General and Particular, Containing the History and Theory of the Earth...

London n.d. USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 512.00
13 BUFFON, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de (1707-1788)

[NATURAL HISTORY]. A group of 3 works

London 1791-1793 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 640.00
14 CARSON, Joseph (1808-1876)

[NATURAL HISTORY]. Illustrations of Medical Botany

Philadelphia 1847 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 832.00
15 CASSIN, John (1813-1869)

[NATURAL HISTORY]. Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian American

Philadelphia 1853]-1856 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,408.00
16 CLAIRAUT, Alexis Claude (1713-1765)

[NATURAL HISTORY]. Theorie de la figure de la terre, tiree des principes de l'hydrostatique

Paris 1743 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 640.00
17 CROSSMAN, Charles

[NATURAL HISTORY]. Chart (25 x 37 inches) showing graphically the fluctuations of the water surface and the rainfall from 1859 to 1888 : line of deepest water, greatest depth, areas of water surfaces and basins, discharge and tides, of the Great Lakes

Milwaukee 1888 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 128.00
18 CURTIS, William (1746-1799)

[NATURAL HISTORY]. Lectures on Botany

London 1805 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,152.00
19 CURTIS, William (1746-1799) and others

[NATURAL HISTORY]. The Botanical Magazine, or, Flower-Garden Displayed...

London 1797-1816 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 7,680.00
20 CURTIS, William (1746-1799)

[NATURAL HISTORY]. Lectures on Botany...

London 1805 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 640.00
21 CURTIS, William and William SALISBURY

[NATURAL HISTORY - SPECIMEN ALBUMS]. Hortus siccus gramineus or, a collection of dried specimens of British grasses

Brompton 1802 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 384.00
22 LEIGHTON, William Allport, Rev. (1805-1889)

[NATURAL HISTORY - SPECIMEN ALBUM]. Lichenes Britannici Exsiccati

London and Shrewsbury 1851-54 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 192.00
23

[NATURAL HISTORY - SPECIMEN ALBUMS]. A group of 15 albums of various plants

Circa 19th century USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,088.00
24 DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)

[NATURAL HISTORY]. Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World...

London 1845 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 384.00
25 DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)

[NATURAL HISTORY]. The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Action of Worms with Observations on their Habits

London 1881 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 192.00
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers

    April 9
    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Johnson (C.). A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most Notorious Pyrates, 1724. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ordonez de Cevallos (Pedro). Viage del Mundo, 1st edition, Madrid: Luis Sanchez, 1614. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: North America. Merian (Matthaus), Virginia..., 1627 or later. £1,500-2,500
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers

    April 9
    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: World. Waldseemuller (Martin), Tabula Nova Totius Orbis, Vienne: 1541. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Erasmus (Desiderius). The ... paraphrase of Erasmus... 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1549. £3,000-5,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Bible [English]. [The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament, 1562]. £3,000-5,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers

    April 9
    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Smith (Lucy). Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, 1st edition, 1853. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Derain (Andre). Pantagruel, signed limited edition, Albert Skira, 1943. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, Large Paper edition, 1894. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers

    April 9
    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ellison (Ralph). Invisible Man, 1st edition, New York: Random House, 1952. £200-300
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Taschen Collector's Edition. Annie Leibovitz, limited edition, 2014. £1,000-1,500
  • Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 4: Various entertainers, Group of 30 items, signed or inscribed, various dates. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 27: John Adams, Autograph Letter Signed to Benjamin Rush introducing Archibald Redford, Paris, 1783. $35,000 to $50,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 36: Robert Gould Shaw, Autograph Letter Signed to his father from Camp Andrew, Boston, 1861. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 53: Martin Luther King Jr., Time magazine cover, signed and inscribed "Best Wishes," 1957. $5,000 to $7,500.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 127: Paul Gauguin, Autograph Letter regarding payment for paintings, with woodcut letterhead, 1900. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 169: Suck: First European Sex Paper, complete group of eight issues, 1969-1974. $800 to $1,200.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 173: Black Panthers, The Racist Dog Policemen Must Withdraw Immediately From Our Communities, poster, 1969. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 187: Marc Attali & Jacques Delfau, Les Erotiques du Regard, first edition, Paris, 1968. $300 to $500.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 213: Andy Warhol, Warhol's Index Book, first printing, New York, 1967. $800 to $1,200.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 215: Cookie Mueller, Archive of 17 items, including 4 items inscribed and signed. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 249: Jamie Reid, The Ten Lessons / The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle; Sex Pistols, chromogenic print with collage, signed, circa 1980. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    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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    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    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
  • Bonhams, Apr. 8: First report outside of the colonies of the American Revolution, from American accounts. Printed broadsheet, The London Evening-Post, May 30, 1775. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce, James. The earliest typescript pages from Finnegans Wake ever to appear at auction, annotated by Joyce, 1923. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce's Ulysses, 1923, one of only seven copies known, printed to replace copies destroyed in customs. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: ATHANASIUS KIRCHER'S COPY, INSCRIBED. Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell' Accademia del Cimento, 1667. $2,000 - $3,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Bernoulli's Ars conjectandi, 1713. "... first significant book on probability theory." $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Aristotle's Politica. Oeconomica. 1469. The first printed work on political economy. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: John Graunt's Natural and political observations...., 1662. The first printed work of epidemiology and demographics. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: William Playfair's Commercial and Political Atlas, 1786. The first work to pictorially represent information in graphics. $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Anson's A Voyage Round the World, 1748. THE J.R. ABBEY-LORD WARDINGTON COPY, BOUND BY JOHN BRINDLEY. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: La Perouse's Voyage de La Perouse autour du monde..., 1797. LARGE FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Francesca Woodman's Some Disordered Interior Geometries, 1981. Untrimmed publisher's proof sheets. $4,000 - $6,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Charles Schulz original 8-panel Peanuts Sunday comic strip, 1992, pen and ink over pencil, featuring Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Lucy as a psychiatrist. $20,000 - $30,000
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