• Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000
    Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000
  • Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.
    Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.
    Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.
    Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.
    Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.
    Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.
    Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.
  • 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
    Sotheby's
    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
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€
    Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€
    Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€
    Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€
    Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€
    Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€

Heritage Auctions: Historical Manuscripts Including Texana Signature Auction, 6316, Dallas

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
March 28, 2025 - March 28, 2025
Page Size: 364 items in 15 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
47001 Stephen F. Austin

Stephen F. Austin Signed Texian Loan Certificate.

New Orleans 1836 USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 USD 5,250.00
47002 Jose Justo

Jose Justo Corro Decree Ordering the Confiscation of Property Belonging to Supporters of the Texas Revolution.

1836 USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 USD 4,500.00
47003 Valentin Gomez

Valentin Gomez Farias Broadside Decree Announcing a Provision to Set Up New Colonies in Texas.

1834 USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 USD 4,000.00
47004 Sam Houston

Sam Houston Endorsement Signature on his Final Pay Check as Governor of Texas.

Comptroller's Office, Austin, Texas 1861 USD 3,200.00 - 4,800.00 USD 40,000.00
47005 A. K. Johnston.

A. K. Johnston. United States and Texas,

[Edinburgh and London] circa 1844. USD 960.00 - 1,440.00 USD 750.00
47006 William H. Emory.

William H. Emory. Map of Texas and the Countries Adjacent.

1844 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,750.00
47007 John Disturnell.

John Disturnell. Mapa de los Estados Unidos de Mejico.

Nueva York. 1847 Revised Edition USD 28,000.00 - 42,000.00 USD 21,875.00
47008 Hermenegildo Vilaplana.

Hermenegildo Vilaplana. Vida Portentosa del americano septentrional apostol el V. P. Fr. Antonio Margil de Jesus... Mexico: la Bibliotheca Mexicana, 1763.

Mexico 1763 USD 4,800.00 - 7,200.00 USD 5,625.00
47009

Decree Establishing New Commandancias and Headquarters to Handle Texas Revolt as Published in the January 29, 1836 Issue of La Opinion;

San Luis Potosi 1835 to USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 4,000.00
47010

Mexican Soldier's Letter with News of the Alamo and Goliad Published in the April 15, 1836 Issue of La Opinion;

San Luis Potosi 1836 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 4,500.00
47011

Two Issues of La Opinion;

1836 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,875.00
47012

Durango Broadside with News of the Arrival of Texan Prisoners from the Santa Fe Expedition.

1841 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 7,187.50
47013 Abraham E. Schell

Mexican War Diary of Abraham E. Schell of the 2nd Pennsylvania Infantry.

1847 USD 4,800.00 - 7,200.00 USD 5,250.00
47014 Thomas Toby

[Republic of Texas Scrip]. Thomas Toby Texas Scrip Signed.

New Orleans, Louisiana 1836 USD 960.00 - 1,440.00 USD 2,750.00
47015 Robert Wilson.

Town of Harrisburg Stock Certificate Issued to Robert Wilson.

Harrisburg, [Texas] 1839 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,000.00
47016 [William Penn].

[William Penn]. Petition Requesting a "Bancke" to Lots Facing the River.

1701 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 4,000.00
47017

[Colonial America]. List of Corporal Punishments Issued in Kings County.

1770 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 625.00
47018 Francis Scott Key

Francis Scott Key Autograph Letter Signed.

Washington [D.C.] 1835 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,218.75
47019

[Fur Trade in Michigan]. Indian Trader Bonds Posted in the Sault Ste. Marie Subagency to James Ord.

1840 and 1841 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,750.00
47020 Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass Autograph Quote Signed.

no place 1886 USD 3,200.00 - 4,800.00 USD 31,250.00
47021 Wyatt Earp

Wyatt Earp Autograph Endorsement Signed.

Saint Louis, Missouri 1870 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 17,500.00
47022 Annie Oakley

Annie Oakley Autograph Letter Signed.

New York 1888 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,500.00
47023 Pat Garrett

Pat Garrett Partial Autograph Letter Signed.

El Paso, Texas. USD 960.00 - 1,440.00 USD 1,500.00
47024 Geronimo

Geronimo Signed Card.

U.S. Indian Reservation, Worlds Fair, St. Louis Mo. 1904 USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 USD 9,375.00
47025 Katharine Lee Bates

Katharine Lee Bates Autograph Lyrics to "America the Beautiful" Signed "Katharine Lee Bates."

no place circa 1920 USD 16,000.00 - 24,000.00 USD 12,500.00
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000
  • Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
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