• Auction 19988

    Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana

    1 October 2021 - 15 October 2021, New York

    SALE TOTAL: 4,655,875 (USD)
173 Lots for Sale 19988
Lot 1
Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible
Mainz, c.1455
estimate
$30,000 - $50,000

price realized
$75,000
Lot 2
De trinitate
Saint Augustine, not after 1474
estimate
$7,000 - $9,000

price realized
$16,250
Lot 3
Bible, in Latin
Venice, 1481
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$8,125
Lot 4
Justinian's Digestum vetus
Anton Koberger, 1482
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$10,000
Lot 5
Tabulae Directionum et Profectionum, [bound with:] Astrolabium planum in...
Johannes Regiomontanus and Johannes Angelus, 1490 and 1488
estimate
$40,000 - $60,000

price realized
$47,500
Lot 6
Complete works of Statius
Jacobus de Paganinis, 1490
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$5,625
Lot 7
Nuremberg Chronicle
Anton Koberger, 1493
estimate
$20,000 - $30,000

price realized
$68,750
Lot 8
Epistolae et Carmina
Sidonius Apollinaris, 1498
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$5,250
Lot 9
Complete works of Angelo Poliziano
Aldus Manutius, 1498
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$18,750
Lot 10
Epistolae diversorum philosophorum
Aldus Manutius, 1499
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$23,750
Lot 11
Cologne Chronicle
Johann Koelhoff, 1499
estimate
$10,000 - $20,000

price realized
$10,000
Lot 12
Sophocles's Tragaediae septem
Aldus Manutius, 1502
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$22,500
Lot 13
Herodotus's Historia
Aldus Manutius, 1502
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

price realized
$30,000
Lot 14
Gratian's Decretum
Thielman Kerver, 1510
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$7,500
Lot 15
Iliad, in Latin
Homer, 1512
estimate
$2,000 - $4,000

price realized
$18,750
Lot 17
Utopia
Thomas More, 1518
estimate
$25,000 - $35,000

price realized
$25,000
Lot 18
Dux seu director dubitantium aut perplexorum
Maimonides, 1520
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$13,750
Lot 19
De asse
Guillaume Budé, 1522
estimate
$2,000 - $4,000

price realized
$4,000
Lot 20
Protomathesis
Oronce Finé, 1532
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$30,000
Lot 21
Inscriptiones sacrosanctae vetustatis
Peter Apian, 1534
estimate
$2,000 - $4,000

price realized
$7,500
Lot 22
First complete edition of Aeschylus
Henri II Estienne, 1557
estimate
$2,000 - $4,000

price realized
$5,250
Lot 23
De re metallica
Georgius Agricola, 1561
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$17,500
Lot 24
First complete Spanish Bible
Basel, 1569
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$12,500
Lot 25
Douai-Rheims Bible
1582 and 1609-10
estimate
$6,000 - $8,000

price realized
$13,750
Lot 26
Astronomia nova
Johannes Kepler, 1609
estimate
$200,000 - $300,000

price realized
$687,500
Lot 27
Cosmographia
Sebastian Münster, 1628
estimate
$6,000 - $9,000

price realized
$20,000
Lot 28
Dialogo
Galileo Galilei, 1632
estimate
$40,000 - $60,000

price realized
$137,500
Lot 29
Original Leaves from Famous Books, Eight Centuries
Otto F. Ege, portfolio
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$3,000
Lot 30
Fifteen Original Oriental Manuscripts
Otto F. Ege, 12th-18th centuries
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$5,000
Lot 31
Horace's Opera
John Pine, 1733-37
estimate
$2,000 - $4,000

price realized
$3,250
Lot 32
Historia de la Vida y Viages del Capitan Jaime Cook
Andrew Kippis, 1795
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,000
Lot 33
Essay on the Principle of Population
Thomas Malthus, 1798
estimate
$100,000 - $150,000

price realized
$187,500
Lot 34
Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville, 1838 & 1840
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$10,000
Lot 35
Origin of Species
Charles Darwin, 1859
estimate
$150,000 - $250,000

price realized
$300,000
Lot 36
The Descent of Man
Charles Darwin, 1871
estimate
$4,000 - $7,000

price realized
$5,625
Lot 37
Offprints on Relativity
Albert Einstein, 1915-1917
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$27,500
Lot 38
The discovery of the structure of DNA
Crick & Watson, April 1953
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$20,000
Lot 39
Colonna Traiana
Pietro Bartoli
estimate
$2,000 - $4,000

price realized
$2,125
Lot 41
Le Antichità de Ercolano esposte
Naples, 1757-1792
estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

price realized
$11,875
Lot 42
The Antiquities of Athens
James Stuart and Nicholas Revett, 1762-1830
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$11,875
Lot 43
Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums
Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 1764
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,750
Lot 44
Monumenti antichi inediti
Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 1767
estimate
$2,000 - $4,000

price realized
$2,750
Lot 45
Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities from the Cabinet of the...
Pierre-François d'Hancarville, 1766-7
estimate
$80,000 - $120,000

price realized
$212,500
Lot 46
Diverse maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi desunte...
Giambattista Piranesi, 1769
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$8,125
Lot 47
Les Ruines des plus beaux Monuments de la Grèce
Julien-David Le Roy, 1770
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,000
Lot 48
Peintures antiques trouvées à Rome
Pietro Bartoli, 1783-1787
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

price realized
$30,000
Lot 49
Serie di trecento tavole in rame rappresentanti pitture di vasi degli antichi...
Giovanni Battista Passeri, 1787
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$6,875
Lot 50
Topography of Troy
William Gell, 1804
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$4,000
Lot 52
Description de l'Egypte
Second edition, 1820-1830
estimate
$150,000 - $250,000

price realized
$175,000
Lot 53
Grecian Remains in Italy
John Middleton, 1812-1819
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$13,750
Lot 54
Antiquities of Mexico
Viscount Kingsborough, 1830-1848
estimate
$20,000 - $30,000

price realized
$21,250
Lot 55
Antiquités mexicaines
Guillaume Dupaix, 1834
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$8,125
Lot 57
The Holy Land
David Roberts, 1842-1849
estimate
$100,000 - $150,000

price realized
$100,000
Lot 58
The Holy Land and Egypt
David Roberts, 1855-1856
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$4,000
Lot 59
Le case ed i monumenti di Pompeii
Fausto and Felice Niccolini, 1854-1896
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,250
Lot 60
Choix de Peintures de Pompei
Désiré Raoul-Rochette, 1867
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,000
Lot 61
Pintura del gobernador, alcades y regidores de Mexico
Codex Osuna, 1878
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,500
Lot 62
The Necropolis of Ancon in Peru
Reiss and Stuebel, 1880-1887
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$10,000
Lot 63
Biologia Centrali-Americana
Alfred Percival Maudslay, 1889-1902
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$5,000
Lot 64
Julien Gréau Collection of Ancient Glass
John Pierpont Morgan, 1903
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$6,875
Lot 65
The Morgan Bronzes
Deluxe folio, 1913
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,250
Lot 66
La Geografia
Ptolemy, 1561
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$5,250
Lot 67
Atlas of England and Wales
Christopher Saxton, c.1590
estimate
$60,000 - $90,000

price realized
$87,500
Lot 68
Theatrum orbis terrarum
Abraham Ortelius, 1592
estimate
$100,000 - $150,000

price realized
$237,500
Lot 69
Plan de Paris
Michel-Étienne Turgot, 1739
estimate
$7,000 - $9,000

price realized
$23,750
Lot 70
Huai’an Prefecture
[Ming dynasty, 1537-1619]
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estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

price realized
$11,250
Lot 71
Complete Map of Human Traces and Travel Routes within the Myriad States of the...
Kyoto, 1700-1719
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estimate
$40,000 - $60,000

price realized
$40,000
Lot 72
Ricci world map on a Japanese screen
late 17th or early 18th century.
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estimate
$60,000 - $90,000

price realized
$200,000
Lot 74
17th Century study of international trade, from a Chinese perspective
ZHANG Xie, 1618
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estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$7,500
Lot 78
All the Countries in Jambudvipa
Japan, 1710
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estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$10,000
Lot 80
Xing Tu, manuscript star map
After Ferdinand Verbiest, 1712
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estimate
$30,000 - $50,000

price realized
$30,000
Lot 81
Manuscript handscroll of China's east coast
Kangxi period, 1687
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estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$32,500
Lot 82
Lu'an Prefecture, Shanxi Province
Qing dynasty
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estimate
$2,000 - $30,000

price realized
$1,750
Lot 83
Licheng County, Lu’an Prefecture, Shanxi Province
Qing dynasty
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estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,000
Lot 84
Huguan County, Lu’an Prefecture, Shanxi Province
Qing dynasty
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estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,000
Lot 85
Nangong County
Qing dynasty
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estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$3,750
Lot 86
Xiangyangfu Tu [Map of Xiangyang Prefecture]
Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
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estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$6,875
Lot 87
Shanxi Pingluxian Yutu [Map of Pinglu County, Shanxi]
[Qing dynasty, 1644-1912]
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estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$3,750
Lot 88
Jian'an and Ouning Counties
Qing dynasty
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estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$625
Lot 89
Xigu Town
Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
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estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$6,250
Lot 90
Revision of Records of the Vast Earth
CAI Fangbing, 1686
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estimate

This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 92
Complete Atlas of the Unified Empire
Tongzhi period, 1863
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estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$5,250
Lot 93
Nouvel Atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie Chinoise et du Thibet
J-B. B. d'Anville, 1737
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estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$13,750
Lot 94
The \"Blue Map\" of the World
Jiaqing period, c. 1811
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estimate
$50,000 - $80,000

price realized
$50,000
Lot 97
Manuscript \"Chart of the Vast World\"
[Qianlong period, 1736-1796.]
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estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,000
Lot 98
Manuscript Map of the Three Kingdoms
Japan, 1785
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estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$6,875
Lot 99
Manuscript map of the Ryukyu Kingdom
Japan, after 1785
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estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$4,375
Lot 100
Coastal Control of Guangdong
Jiaqing period
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estimate
$30,000 - $50,000

price realized
$50,000
Lot 101
Guangdong Naval Garrison
Qing dynasty
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estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

price realized
$37,500
Lot 104
Map of Qing China
Japan, 1835
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estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$4,375
Lot 105
Complete Map of the Unified Empire
LI Zhaoluo, 1832
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estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$27,500
Lot 109
Report on Tibet
HUANG Peiqiao, 1894
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estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$4,000
Lot 110
Complete Map of Tibet
Xianfeng or Guangxu period, 1854-1894
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estimate
$700 - $1,000

price realized
$500
Lot 111
Chongjiao Temple by Jilin River on the China-Russian border
Late Qing period, 1882-1912
Please note that this lot is subject to an import tariff. If the buyer instructs Christie’s to arrange shipping of the lot to a foreign address, the buyer will not be required to pay the import tariff. If the buyer instructs Christie’s to arrange shipping of the lot to a domestic address, if the buyer collects the property in person, or if the buyer arranges their own shipping (whether domestically or internationally), the buyer will be required to pay the import tariff. Please contact Post Sale Services on +1 212 636 2650 prior to bidding for more information.
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$1,250
Lot 112
Eastern Tumed Right Banner, Inner Mongolia
Guangxu period, c. 1907
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estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$8,125
Lot 114
Large woodblock map of China
Guangxu period, 1895
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estimate
$30,000 - $50,000

price realized
$30,000
Lot 115
World Atlas
Qing dynasty
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estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$625
Lot 117
Boundary map for Yunan and Burma
Guangxu period, 1894
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estimate
$700 - $1,000

price realized
$1,625
Lot 118
Xiangcheng County Salt Trade Map
1904 or later
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estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$6,875
Lot 119
Map of China
LI Peilan, 1896
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estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,250
Lot 120
Complete and Accurate Map of the Great China
Late Qing period
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estimate
$1,500 - $2,000

price realized
$2,500
Lot 121
East and South Asia wall map

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estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$6,250
Lot 123
Imperial Atlas of the Great Qing
Xuantong period, 1902
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estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$2,125
Lot 124
Two cartographic fans
Republic of China, 1915-1923
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estimate
$500 - $800

price realized
$4,750
Lot 125
The Shop Signs of Peking
Chinese Painting Association of Peking, 1931
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estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$4,375
Lot 128
A Myrrour for Magistrates
William Baldwin, 1563
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$47,500
Lot 129
The Essayes
Michel de Montaigne, 1603
estimate
$7,000 - $9,000

price realized
$20,000
Lot 130
Plutarch's Moralia
Translated by Philemon Holland, 1603
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$4,375
Lot 131
The Ancient Historie of the Destruction of Troy.
Lefèvre & Caxton, 1607
estimate
$7,000 - $9,000

price realized
$6,875
Lot 132
Coryat's Crudities
London, 1611
estimate
$2,500 - $3,500

price realized
$7,500
Lot 133
The Second Folio
William Shakespeare, 1632
estimate
$50,000 - $80,000

price realized
$118,750
Lot 134
The Workes
Ben Jonson, 1616 & 1640
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$10,625
Lot 135
The Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole, 1765 [but 1764]
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$10,000
Lot 136
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon, 1776-1788.
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$20,000
Lot 137
Things as they are
William Godwin, 1795
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$1,000
Lot 140
Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$3,500
Lot 141
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman, 1856
estimate
$7,000 - $9,000

price realized
$11,250
Lot 142
Madame Bovary, extra-illustrated
Gustave Flaubert, 1857
estimate
$2,500 - $3,500

price realized
$5,250
Lot 143
Middlemarch in original parts
George Eliot, 1871-72
estimate
$40,000 - $60,000

price realized
$87,500
Lot 144
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot, 1876
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$8,750
Lot 145
Autograph letters to Frederic Leighton
George Eliot, 1862
estimate
$5,000 - $7,000

price realized
$5,625
Lot 147
Ravenna
Oscar Wilde, 1878
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,000
Lot 148
Poems, first and second series
Emily Dickinson, 1890
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$13,750
Lot 149
The Native Born
Rudyard Kipling, [1894]
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$4,750
Lot 150
Kelmscott Chaucer
William Morris, 1896
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

price realized
$68,750
Lot 151
Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery, 1908
estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

price realized
$11,875
Lot 152
Spark of Life, autograph manuscript
Erich Maria Remarque
estimate
$15,000 - $20,000

price realized
$15,000
Lot 153
Eugène Delacroix
Original drawing and manuscript
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$4,375
Lot 155
Fernand Léger and André Malraux
Lunes en papier, 1921
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$4,000
Lot 156
The Matisse Ulysses
Signed by James Joyce and Henri Matisse, 1935
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$21,250
Lot 158
A Wild Thing for Peace
Maurice Sendak, 1989
estimate
$20,000 - $30,000

price realized
$22,500
Lot 159
A Literary Feast
Maurice Sendak, 1983
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

price realized
$40,000
Lot 160
A previously unknown invoice for furnishings
Thomas Chippendale to David Garrick, 1770
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$5,250
Lot 162
An appeal to Italy with twelve lines in his hand
Napoleon I, 10 December 1796
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$7,500
Lot 163
Assigning the order of sailing
Horatio Nelson, 10 April 1797
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$6,875
Lot 164
Poets and Playwrights
Shaw, Wordworth & Scott
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,000
Lot 165
Pardoning political opponents
Ferdinand V and Isabella I, 22 May 1476
estimate
$6,000 - $9,000

price realized
$8,750
Lot 167
An Account of Two Voyages to New-England
John Josselyn, 1674
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$9,375
Lot 168
Eliot Bible, fragment
in Massachuset, c. 1680-85
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$10,000
Lot 169
Letter from William Penn Proprietary and Governour of Pennsylvania in America,...
Bound with significant manuscript material relating to the colony of
estimate
$15,000 - $20,000

price realized
$30,000
Lot 170
\"No Cross, No Crown\" in Dutch
William Penn's copy, 1687
estimate
$20,000 - $30,000

price realized
$30,000
Lot 171
Populating the colony of Pennsylvania
William Penn, 8 January 1690/91
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$13,750
Lot 172
A birth certificate for an early member of the Penington family
William & Hannah Penn, 22 November 1700
estimate
$5,000 - $7,000

price realized
$4,750
Lot 173
First history of the Mennonites
Hermann Schyn, 1723
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$1,875
Lot 174
The Treaty of Lancaster
Printed by Benjamin Franklin, 1744
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$18,750
Lot 175
Cicero's Cato Major
Benjamin Franklin, 1744
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$17,500
Lot 176
Poor Richard Improved for 1750
Benjamin Franklin, 1749
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$13,750
Lot 177
Defending colonial paper money
Anonymous, c. 1750
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$30,000
Lot 178
Settling accounts with William Payne, Fairfax County Sheriff
George Washington, 1762
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$9,375
Lot 179
An early report on what would become Dartmouth College
Eleazar Wheelock, 1763
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$1,500
Lot 180
The Declaration of Independence
Peter Force, c. 1833
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$20,000
Lot 181
The Way to Wealth
Rare broadside with Franklin's portrait
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$4,750
Lot 182
Filling the Continental Ranks
George Washington, 20 February 1780
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$21,250
Lot 183
A sympathetic British history of the War of Independence
Edmund Burke, 1780
estimate
$1,500 - $2,000

price realized
$3,250
Lot 185
Aiding the family of a Revolutionary War Veteran
Benjamin Franklin, 3 December 1785
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$13,750
Lot 186
Expanding the Mount Vernon Estate
George Washington, 18 October 1786
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$56,250
Lot 187
Notes on the State of Virginia
Thomas Jefferson, 1787
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

price realized
$15,000
Lot 188
Approving a petition against a bankrupt merchant
Benjamin Franklin, 17 January 1788
estimate
$6,000 - $8,000

price realized
$15,000
Lot 189
Printed with Franklin's Passy type
Francis Childs, 1788
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$2,125
Lot 191
The Birth of the U.S. Navy
Henry Knox, 7 August 1794
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$17,500
Lot 192
Autographs of the Presidents
George Washington, 1795 to Lyndon Johnson (c. 1965).
estimate
$24,000 - $35,000

price realized
$56,250
Lot 193
A four-language ship's paper signed as President
John Adams, 1798
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$5,250
Lot 195
On wearing a Cincinnati medal in uniform
Napoleon I, 17 October 1811
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$4,375
Lot 196
Bilingual treaties between the U.S. & Mexico
[Mexico, 1835 &]
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$2,500
Lot 197
On a rebellion against Santa Ana in Santa Fe
Joaquín Gómez de la Cortina, Duke of Morante, 20 January 1838
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$3,750
Lot 198
Recording a voyage from New York to San Francisco.
John E. Randall, 1854
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$5,000
Lot 199
A Civil War correspondence by Jefferson Davis' nephew
Isaac Davis Stamps, 1854-1863
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$11,250
Lot 200
Texas and the Civil War
Various correspondents, 1837-1865
estimate
$7,000 - $9,000

price realized
$18,750
Lot 201
An illustrated archive
Montgomery Meigs, 1821-1925
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$12,500
Lot 202
Short-Snorters from the Tehran Conference
Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, et al, 1943
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

price realized
$17,500
Lot 203
Tuskegee Airmen souvenir book, extensively inscribed
Milton T. Hall, 1943
estimate
$6,000 - $8,000

price realized
$6,000
Lot 205
Signed photographs from the Washington Naval Conference
Warren Harding, et al, 1922
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$3,500
Lot 206
Signed by the President and his two long-serving secretaries
Franklin Roosevelt, Marguerite LeHand & Grace Tully, c. 1939-1941
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$3,750
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