Sothebys: Fine Books and Manuscripts - Part 2, N11830, New York

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Auction Report
Auction Date
June 26, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Page Size: 88 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1001 Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, et al.

Archive of manuscript documents and letters from British military commanders in the Southern Theater...

circa 1739-1794 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 17,780.00
1002 Wilson, Benjamin

The Repeal.

London 1766 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 8,255.00
1003 Catesby, Mark.

The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands: Containing the figures of birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, insects, and plants.

London 1731-1743 USD 50,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 88,900.00
1004 Clark, Matthew

Chart of the Coast of America From [Ge]orge's Bank to Rhode Island including Nantucket Shoals &c. From the latest Surveys J. Norman Sc.

Boston 1790 USD 35,000.00 - 45,000.00 Not Sold
1005 Clark, Matthew

Chart of the Coast of America from C. Eliz to Mouse Harbor from the Latest Surveys.

Boston 1790 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 Not Sold
1006 Douglass, Frederick

Autograph letter signed ("Frederick Douglas"), to F. P. Noble, the Secretary of the African Congress on the temerity of revisionist history

1893 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 25,400.00
1007 Franklin, Benjamin

A Catalogue of the Books, Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia

Philadelphia 1789 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,810.00
1008 Gass, Patrick

A Journal of the Voyages and Travels of a Corps of Discovery, under the Command of Capt. Lewis and Capt. Clarke ...

Pittsburgh 1807 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,334.00
1009 Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison, and John Jay

The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787.

New York 1788 USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 120,650.00
1010 Humboldt, Alexander von, and Aime Bonpland

Vues des Cordilleres et Monumens des Peuples Indigenes de l'Amerique.

Paris 1810 but 1813 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 17,780.00
1011 Jefferys, Thomas

A Description of the Spanish Islands and Settlements on the Coast of the West Indies...

London 1762 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 5,080.00
1012 Lewis, Meriwether, and William Clark

Map of Lewis and Clark's Track, Across the Western Portion of North America from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean

Dublin 1817 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 27,940.00
1013 Lincoln, Abraham

Document signed ("A. Lincoln"), as 16th president

Washington 1864 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 30,480.00
1014 Maudslay, Alfred Percival, and Goodman, J.T.

Biologia Centrali-Americana. Contributions to the Knowledge of the Fauna and Flora of Mexico and Central America. Archaeology.

London 1889--1902 USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
1015 Moll, Herman

A New and Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain on ye continent of North America ...

London 1715 but circa 1730 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
1016 William Smith and William Livingston eds.

Laws Of New-York, From The Year 1691, To 1751, Inclusive... [And:] Laws Of New-York, From 11 November 1752 To 22 May 1762...

New York 1752--1762 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,302.00
1017 Paine, Thomas

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

Philadelphia 1776 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 27,940.00
1018 Pike, Zebulon

An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi, and through the Western Parts of Louisiana, to the Sources of Arkansaw, Kans, La Platte, and Pierre Juan, Rivers...

Philadelphia, Petersburgh, Norfolk, and Baltimore 1810 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
1019 Reiss, Wilhelm and Alphonse Stubel

The Necropolis of Ancon in Peru: A Contribution to Our Knowledge of the Culture and Industries of the Empire of the Incas.

Berlin 1880--1887 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 5,080.00
1020 Rivero, Mariano Eduardo de, and Johann Jakob von Tschudi

Antiguedades Peruanas.

Vienna 1851 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
1021 Rodrigeuz Delgado, Don Augustin

Constituciones Synodales establecidas por el Illustrissimo Senor Doctor Don Augustin Rodriguez Delgado... Obispo de la Ciudad de Nuestra Senora de La Paz...

Lima 1739 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 635.00
1022 Henry Firks

San Francisco 1849.

No place circa 1880 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
1023

Regulations for the Uniform & Dress of the Army of the United States, June, 1851. From the original Text and Drawings in the War Department.

Philadelphia 1851 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,540.00
1024

Plan of the New Constitution for the United States of America, Agreed Upon in a Convention of the States. With a Preface by the Editor.

London 1787 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,350.00
1025 Austen, Jane

Pride and Prejudice: a Novel.

London 1813 USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 127,000.00
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    Forum, July 17: Lucianus Samosatensis. Dialogoi, editio princeps, second issue, Florence, Laurentius Francisci de Alopa, 1496. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, July 17: Boccaccio (Giovanni). Il Decamerone, Florence, Philippo di Giunta, 1516. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, July 17: Henry VII (King) & Philip the Fair (Duke of Burgundy). [Intercursus Magnus], [Commercial and Political Treaty between Henry VII and Philip Duke of Burgundy], manuscript copy in Latin, original vellum, 1499. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, July 17: Bible, English. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New, Robert Barker, 1613. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, July 17: Bond (Michael). A Bear Called Paddington, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1958. £4,000 to £6,000.
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    Forum, July 17: Yeats (William Butler). The Secret Rose, first edition, with extensive autograph corrections, additions and amendments by the author for a new edition, 1897. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, bound in dark green morocco elaborately tooled in gilt and with 3 watercolours to fore-edge, by Fazakerley of Liverpool, 1841. £4,000 to £6,000.
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    Forum, July 17: Sowerby (George Brettingham). Album comprising 22 leaves of original watercolour drawings of fossil remains of Cheltenham and Vicinity, [c.1840]. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Mathematics.- Blue paper copy.- Euclid. De gli Elementi, Urbino, Appresso Domenico Frisolino, 1575. £12,000 to £18,000.
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    Sotheby’s, July 17: Operating and Maintenance Manual for the BINAC Binary Automatic Computer Built for Northrop Aircraft Corporation. Philadelphia, 1949. $30,000 to $50,000.
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