Freeman's | Hindman: Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana, 6417, Philadelphia

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 10, 2025 - September 10, 2025
Page Size: 289 items in 12 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 Lucas, F(ielding).

Plan of the City of Baltimore, Compiled from Actual Survey...

Baltimore 1822 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,520.00
27

An Act to Incorporate the Long Island Sound Harbour Company, Passed April 16, 1830

New-York 1830 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
28 De Peyster, Isaac, et al.

Manuscript Document, signed

New York 1739 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 5,440.00
29 De Witt, Simeon.

A Map of the State of New York

New York 1804 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 768.00
30 [Pacific Railroad Survey]

Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean...

Washington 1855-1860. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,160.00
31 Paine, Thomas.

The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and of Fabulous Theology

Boston 1794 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 5,440.00
33 [Philadelphia]

Archive of Letters from Elizabeth Wilcocks Ingersoll to Bessie Mason Coles, ca.1862-63

Philadelphia, 1862-1863. USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 4,160.00
34 Taylor, John.

An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of Government of the United States

Fredericksburg 1814 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 576.00
35 Trumbull, John.

Engraved Admission Ticket for the American Academy of the Fine Arts

New York 1818 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 832.00
36 Vanderbilt, William K.

West Made East With The Loss of a Day A Chronicle of the First Circumnavigation of the Globe Under the United States Naval Reserve Yacht Pennant...

New York 1933 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 896.00
37 Findley, William.

History of the Insurrection, in the Four Western Counties of Pennsylvania; in the Year M.DCC.XCIV...

Philadelphia 1796 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 896.00
38 Poleni, Giovanni.

Exercitationes Vitruvianae primae, hoc est: Ioannis Poleni commentarius criticus de M. Vitruvii...

Padua/Venice 1739-41. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 576.00
39 Wright, Frank Lloyd.

The Japanese Print An Interpretation

Chicago 1912 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 768.00
40 Albers, Josef.

Die Oberflache

Baden-Baden Germany 1965 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 21,760.00
41 Albers, Josef.

Interaction of Color

New Haven and London 1963 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,432.00
42 [Appel, Karel] Schierbeek, Bert.

A beast-drawn man

Amsterdam ca.1963. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,480.00
43 Bauer, John.

Troll

Gothenburg 1915 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 2,176.00
44 Blumberg, Donald.

Daily Photographs 1969-1970

New York 1971 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 384.00
45 Brodovitch, Alexey.

Ballet

New York 1945 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,560.00
46 [Chagall, Marc]

Senghor, Leopold Sedar. Lettres d'hivernage

Paris 1973 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,920.00
47 Copley, William, et al.

S.M.S.: A Collection of Multiples

New York 1968 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,520.00
48 Delauney, Sonia.

Compositions Couleurs Idees

Paris 1930 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,840.00
49 Eluard, Paul, and Rene-Jean.

Jacques Villon ou L'Art Glorieux

Paris 1948 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 256.00
50 Flocon, Albert.

Jamnitzer Orfevre de la Rigueur Sensible Etude sur la Perspectiva Corporum Regularium

Paris 1964 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,280.00
51 Gilot, Francoise.

Sur la Pierre Poemes et Lithographies

Michigan 1972 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,920.00
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