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Source Title	The Pierre S. duPont III Collection of Navigation, Voyages, Cartography and Literature of the Sea
Description	This collection of 255 lots, many of which contain multiple volumes, is a very important sale in the travel and voyages category. Many of these items have not come to auction since. At the time (1991), the prices were considered to be high, but many have in time come to look like a bargain. DuPont was a descendant of the famed DuPont family which founded the chemical company that bears their name. Pierre III was not a particularly public individual though his son went on to be a Delaware Governor and one-time presidential candidate. However, Pierre III did achieve great recognition for his spectacular collection of books in the field of voyages and navigation.
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Total Records in AED	255

Bonhams, Oct. 23: SMITH, CHRISTOPHER WEBB. 1793-1871. Indian Ornithology. [Patna, India]: 1828. $50,000 to $80,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: DUPRÉ, LOUIS. 1789-1837. Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople, ou Collection de portraits, vues et costumes grecs et ottomans. Paris: Dondey-Dupré, 1825. $60,000 to $90,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: ADAMS, JOHN. Autograph Letter Signed ("J Adams"), [to Dr. Perkins?] while recovering from his small pox inoculation, [late-April, 1764]. $30,000 to $50,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: AUSTEN, JANE. Autograph Letter Signed ("J. Austen"), to her sister Cassandra, 4 pp, "Thursday – after dinner," [September 16, 1813,] Henrietta St. $80,000 to $120,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. 1785-1851. The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories. New York & Philadelphia: J.J. Audubon & J.B. Chevalier, 1840-1844. $20,000 to $30,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: DODWELL, EDWARD. 1767-1832. Views in Greece. London: Rodwell and Martin, 1821. $20,000 to $30,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: JAMES, JESSE. Autograph Letter Signed ("Jesse W. James"), to Mr. Flood demanding Flood retract spurious accusations, 3 pp, June 5, 1875. $200,000 to $300,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: DE CORDOBA, JACOB. Map of the State of Texas. New York, 1866. $15,000 to $20,000

Bonhams, Oct. 23: ARNOLD, BENEDICT. Autograph bookseller's receipt for Dr. John Dickinson, Signed ("B. Arnold"), February 1767. $3,000 to $5,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 4 Typed Letters Signed ("A Einstein") to Cleveland E. Dodge offering early reports on the meetings of the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists. $10,000 to $15,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D. Typed Letter Signed ("Dwight D. Eisenhower") to General Henri Giraud written from a secret bunker in Gibraltar on the eve of Operation Torch, November 4 [but 6], 1942. $10,000 to $15,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: Early Broadside Printing of the GADSDEN PURCHASE, Puebla, August 16, 1854. $2,000 to $3,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: ALLEN, ETHAN. Autograph Letter Signed to Crevecouer during the Constitutional Debates in Congress, 2 pp, August 29, 1787. $30,000 to $50,000.
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Hindman Auctions, Nov. 5: DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species. London John Murray, 1859. FIRST EDITION. THE VERY FINE MELLON-GARDEN COPY. $120,000 to $180,000

Hindman Auctions Auctioneers, Nov. 5: ECKERT, J. P, H. H. GOLDSTINE, and J. G. BRAINERD. Description of the ENIAC and comments on electronic digital computing machines. N.p., 1945. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY GOLDSTINE. $5,000 to $7,000

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 5: EUCLID. Elementa geometriae. Translated from the Arabic by Adelard of Bath. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 25 May 1482. FIRST EDITION. $60,000 to $80,000

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Hindman Auctions, Nov. 5: [HAMILTON, Alexander, James MADISON and John JAY]. The Federalist: A Collection of Essays… New York: John and Andrew M'Lean, 1788. FIRST EDITION. $60,000 to $80,000

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 5: GALILEI, Galileo. Dialogo...Dove ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano. Florence, 1632. FIRST EDITION. $30,000 to $40,000

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 5: JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY JOYCE. $120,000 to $180,000

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Hindman Auctions, Nov. 5: KEYNES, John Maynard. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money. London: Macmillan, 1936. FIRST EDITION. $5,000 to $7,000

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 5: NEWTON, Isaac, Sir. Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. London: Joseph Streater for the Royal Society, 1687. FIRST EDITION. $150,000 to $250,000

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 5: ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. London: Bloomsbury, 1997. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY ROWLING. $80,000 to $120,000

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 5: SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776. FIRST EDITION. $70,000 to $90,000
Swann Auction Galleries Oct 24: Sir Isaac Newton, Opticks, first edition, first issue, London, 1704. $15,000 to $25,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 24: Johannes Jacobus Canis, De modo studendi in utroque iure, first edition, Padua, 1476. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 24: Pope Clemens V, Constitutiones, Nuremberg, 1482. $2,500 to $3,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 24: Nicolaus Panormitanus de Tudeschis, Lectura super V libris Decretalium, Basel, 1480-81. $5,000 to $7,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 24: Michael Faraday, Experimental Researches in Electricity, complete set, first editions, London, 1832-56. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 24: William Gilbert, Tractatus sive physiologia nova de magnete, Sedini, 1628. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 24: John Bulwer, Philocophus, first edition of the first book in English on the deaf, London, 1648. $1,000 to $2,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 24: James Cook, complete set, 9 volumes, London, 1773-84. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 24: Nicolaus Bertrand, Opus de Tholosano[rum] Gestis ab Urbe Condita, with the earliest known view of the city of Toulouse, 1515. $2,000 to $3,000.
<center>Hindman Auctions Fine Books and Manuscripts Including Americana November 6, 2019

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 6: RATZER, Bernard. Plan of the City of New York in North America, surveyed in the years 1766 & 1767. London: Jefferys and Faden, “Jan.y” 12, 1776. $80,000 to $120,000

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 6: [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. COCKERELL, Sydney C. Some German Woodcuts of the Fifteenth Century. Hammersmith: The Kelmscott Press, 1897 [issued 1898]. $20,000 to $30,000

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 6: [GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS]. KEATS, John. Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of Saint Agnes and Other Poems. Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. $6,000 to $8,000

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Hindman Auctions, Nov. 6: [GRANT, Ulysses S.— GRANT, Julia, First Lady]. Carved Applewood and 18-karat Gold Jewelry Suite, Browne & Spaulding, Jewelers, New York City, 1865. $20,000 to $30,000

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 6: [LINCOLN ASSASSINATION]. GARDNER, Alexander. Incidents of the War |Sic Semper Sicariis [caption title]. Washington, D. C.: Philip & Solomons, 1865. $5,000 to $7,000

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 6: A COMPLETE COLLECTION of 115 titles published in R. R. Donnelley's Lakeside Classics series. Chicago, 1903-2017. COMPLETE RUN OF THE LONGEST-RUNNING CONTINUOUS SERIES OF BOOKS IN THE WORLD. $5,000 to $7,000

<center>Hindman Auctions Fine Books and Manuscripts Including Americana November 6, 2019

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 6: GLEIZES, Albert. METZINGER, Jean. Du Cubisme. Paris, 1947. LIMITED EDITION, number 19 of 20 copies on papier d'Auvergne. $3,000 to $4,000

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 6: [THE LITTLE REVIEW]. ANDERSON, Margaret, ed. POUND, Ezra, ed. HEAP, Jane, ed. The Little Review. Vol. I, No. 1 through Vol. XII, No. 2. 1914-1929. $3,000 to $4,000

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 6: [MOUNTENEY, Leonard, binder]. LOUŸS, Pierre. Songs of Bilitis. Chicago: Argus Books, 1931. $2,000 to $3,000

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 6: [HANCOCK, John]. Partly-printed U.S. Loan-Office Transfer Certificate issued on behalf of Hancock. Sgn’d on recto by William Imlay, as Commissioner of Loans of Connecticut. 28 February 1793. $2,000 to $3,000

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