Early American: Early American History Auction, 41925, Rancho Santa Fe

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Auction Report
Auction Date
April 19, 2025 - April 19, 2025
Page Size: 136 items in 6 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
27 KARL SHAPIRO

1948 KARL SHAPIRO Signed Manuscript Poem, ISRAEL

1948 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,950.00
28 Paul Revere

1810 Historic Content Paul Revere Autograph Letter Signed to His Son, Joseph Warren Revere on

1810 USD 50,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 52,000.00
29 JOSEPH WARREN REVERE

JOSEPH WARREN REVERE Civil War General Archive of Revolutionary War Patriot Paul Revere's Grandson !

USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 9,100.00
30 PHILIP H. SHERIDAN

1864 PHILIP H. SHERIDAN Signed Endorsement with CDV and a Patriotic Letter Sheet Sheridan's Ride

1864 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 715.00
31 Ebenezer Smith

Captain Ebenezer Smith 6th Mass. Regt, Valley Forge Officer, 1783 Society of the Cincinnati Member

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 845.00
32 Robert Smith

April 23, 1802 Robert Smith Signed Statement of Costs of the Six United States Navy Yards

1802 USD 1,400.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
33 ROBERT SMITH

ROBERT SMITH Signed as Secretary of the Navy 1807 Letter to Aaron Burr's Treason Trial Prosecutor

1807 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,820.00
34 JOHN PHILIP SOUSA

JOHN PHILIP SOUSA The Stars and Stripes Forever Music Sheet Cover with Its Musical Quotation Signed

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 552.50
35 LOWELL THOMAS

LOWELL THOMAS Signed Dec 12, 1941 Broadcast Capt. Colin Kelly Sinking the Japanese Battleship HARUNA

1941 USD 800.00 - 1,600.00 USD 650.00
36 Jonathan Trumbull, Jr

1807 Jonathan Trumbull, Jr as Governor of Connecticut Appointment of a Judge for our County of

1807 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 552.50
37 Jonathan Trumbull, Sr.

Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., Signed as Connecticut Governor, 1783 Military Appointment for a Minute Man!

1783 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 650.00
38 Richard Varick

New York City Mayor Richard Varick Commissions John Trumbull's George Washington City Hall Portrait

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
39 Artemas Ward

Oct. 10, 1778 Rev. War Military Appointment by Artemas Ward to Boston Tea Party Participant John May

1778 USD 2,400.00 - 3,400.00 USD 5,200.00
40 Olivr. Wolcott Jr.

1785 Autographed Document Signed by Olivr. Wolcott Jr. as Committee and Mary Wooster Widow's Pension

1785 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 552.50
41 JAMES WOOD

1799 JAMES WOOD Signed Virginia Land Document on Vellum Granting 100 Acres, 11th Governor of

1799 USD 1,200.00 - 2,400.00 USD 845.00
42 John Webb

1726 Colonial Boston Book: Practical Discourses on Death, Judgement, Heaven + Hell... by John Webb

1726 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,560.00
43

June 24, 1693-Dated, THE WITCHES OF NEW ENGLAND !, in The Athenian Mercury, Newspaper, London

1693 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
44

1749 The Pennsylvania Gazette, Newspaper Printed by Benjamin Franklin with Treaty of AIX-La-CHAPELLE

1749 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,430.00
45

1756 Imprint, Sermon Preached to the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company in Boston, New England

1756 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,080.00
46 PAUL REVERE

1766 Nathaniel Ames Boston Almanac with PAUL REVERE Eclipse Woodcut Engraving + Stamp Act References

1766 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,300.00
47 HENRY DAWKINS

HENRY DAWKINS (c. 1753-1786) Engraved Bookplate of WHITEHEAD HICKS, Colonial Mayor of New York City

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 520.00
48

Bookplate from the Library of John Campbell 4th Earl of Loudoun (1705-1782), VA. Governor-General

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 552.50
49

1770 Boston Massacre Trial + Verdict of Captain Preston, 29th Regiment, in The Gentleman's Magazine

1770 USD 1,400.00 - 1,800.00 USD 910.00
50

January 1774 London Magazine Report, America. Boston, Dec. 20, pages 51-51, of the BOSTON TEA PARTY

1774 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,560.00
51 Anthony Benezet

1785 Philadelphia Anthony Benezet, Anti-Slavery Imprint, A Caution To Great Britain and Her Colonies

1785 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,950.00
  • 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€
  • 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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    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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    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
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    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
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