- Lot 1
The Singularities of France Antarctique
André Thevet, 1558
EstimateUSD 18,000 - 22,000Price realisedUSD 52,500Closed - Lot 2
Cities of the World
Braun & Hogenberg, 1599-1606
EstimateUSD 30,000 - 50,000Price realisedUSD 250,000Closed - Lot 3
Portolan Chart of the Mediterranean
Messina, Sicily, 1617
EstimateUSD 40,000 - 60,000Price realisedUSD 112,500Closed - Lot 16
Hôtel-Dieu de Québec
J.-F. Juchereau de St.-Ignace, 1751
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 6,250Closed - Lot 17
Travels in Louisiana Country
J. Bossu, 1768
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 1,875Closed - Lot 18
Captain Cook's second voyage
The official account, 1777
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 11,875Closed - Lot 20
Burney's history of the South Sea discoveries
Fine first edition set, 1803-17
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 6,875Closed - Lot 22
First publication on Mayan archaeology
A. Río & P.-F. Cabrera, 1822
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 2,500Closed - Lot 23
Views of Guiana
Robert Hermann Schomburgk, 1841
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 4,000Price realisedUSD 2,375Closed - Lot 24
The Valley of the Nile, 1848
Prisse d'Avennes, deluxe issue
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 18,750Closed - Lot 25
On his mission to Fort Le Boeuf
George Washington, 1754
EstimateUSD 80,000 - 120,000Price realisedUSD 75,000Closed - Lot 27
Lewis Evans on his Map
printed by Ben Franklin, 1756
EstimateUSD 7,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 30,000Closed - Lot 28
The Great Town of Boston
John Carwitham, c.1763
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 5,000Closed - Lot 29
On the Battle of Bunker Hill
Elihu Humphrey, 1775
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 8,125Closed - Lot 30
Boston under Siege
Henry Pelham, 1777
EstimateUSD 80,000 - 120,000Price realisedUSD 300,000Closed - Lot 31
The Declaration of Independence
Peter Force, 1833
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 20,000Closed - Lot 32
"Holster Atlas" of the Revolution
Sayer & Bennett, 1776
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 11,250Closed - Lot 33
The essential manual for British Officers
Thomas Simes, 1776
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 3,750Closed - Lot 35
On Arnold's treason
William Strachan, 22 October 1780
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 2,750Closed - Lot 36
The First National Thanksgiving
Continental Congress, 1777
EstimateUSD 500,000 - 800,000Price realisedUSD 475,000Closed - Lot 37
Atlas & Pilote Americain
Le Rouge, 1778
EstimateUSD 60,000 - 90,000Price realisedUSD 75,000Closed - Lot 38
The siege of Charleston
George Sproule, 1780
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 12,500Closed - Lot 39
Travels in revolutionary America
F.J. Chastellux, 1786
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 750Closed - Lot 41
Linking the American Revolution and Túpac Amaru
Jerónimo de Ruedas, 1781
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 22,500Closed - Lot 42
Early published image of the American Flag
Berlin, 1783
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 3,000Closed - Lot 43
French views of the American Revolution
Paris, 1784
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 1,250Closed - Lot 44
Southern campaigns of the American Revolution
Banastre Tarleton, 1787
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 3,500Closed - Lot 45
The American Revolution as told in Britain
Charles Stedman, 1794
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 10,000Closed - Lot 46
Presidential Autographs
Washington to Eisenhower, c.1783-1950
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 25,000Closed - Lot 47
On the Mason Dixon Line & the Barbary Pirates
Thomas Jefferson, 1785
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 20,000Closed - Lot 48
Surveying his lands on the Ohio River
George Washington, 1787
EstimateUSD 40,000 - 60,000Price realisedUSD 100,000Closed - Lot 50
The Planned Federal Capital City
Andrew Ellicott, 1792
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 13,750Closed - Lot 54
Fenimore Cooper on Tecumseh
Paris, April 1827
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 2,750Closed - Lot 57
In support of Cresson's colonization campaign
Henry Clay & Dolley Madison, 1834
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 875Closed - Lot 58
Mid-19th-century Manhattan
Color Aquatint, 1849
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 16,250Closed - Lot 59
A 19th-century version of the Ratzer plan
Joseph Hutchins Colton, 1853
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 4,375Closed - Lot 60
THE UNION IS DISSOLVED!
Charleston, South Carolina, 1860.
EstimateUSD 25,000 - 35,000Price realisedUSD 32,500Closed - Lot 61
Riding the Illinois Eighth Circut
Abraham Lincoln, November 1851
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 6,875Closed - Lot 62
To Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
Abraham Lincoln, 13 October 1862
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 21,250Closed - Lot 64
Enlisting former slaves to secure Vicksburg
William T. Sherman, 4 September 1863
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 8,125Closed - Lot 65
Offering thanks for two canes
Abraham Lincoln, 25 July 1864
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 60,000Closed - Lot 67
Writing from his deathbed
Ulysses Grant, 18 July 1885
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 11,875Closed - Lot 68
"I Want You!"
James Montgomery Flagg, 1917
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 7,500Closed - Lot 69
Commending a technician at Los Alamos
J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1 October 1945
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 6,875Closed - Lot 70
Observations on rock music, drugs, and exteriorization
L.R.Hubbard, 1950s-80s
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 10,625Closed - Lot 71
Notes from the first Presidential debate
John F. Kennedy, 26 September 1960
EstimateUSD 30,000 - 50,000Price realisedUSD 40,000Closed - Lot 72
World Trade Center
Minoru Yamasaki, 1968-72
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 43,750Closed - Lot 73
The complete editio princeps
Aristotle, 1495-1498
EstimateUSD 200,000 - 300,000Price realisedUSD 475,000Closed - Lot 74
Empiricism and Engravings
Accademia del Cimento, 1666
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 3,000Closed - Lot 77
Illuminated Schoeffer New Testament
Mainz, 1472
EstimateUSD 25,000 - 45,000Price realisedUSD 30,000Closed - Lot 80
Greek Anthology, heavily annotated
Aedibus Aldi, 1521
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 15,000Closed - Lot 84
Austrian chained binding
Manuscript on paper, 15th century
EstimateUSD 25,000 - 35,000Price realisedUSD 25,000Closed - Lot 86
Hans Bellmer's U.S. debut
Paris to New York, 1950-52
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 6,250Closed - Lot 89
Signed limited edition photobook
Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1912
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 3,750Closed - Lot 90
The Christmas Books
Charles Dickens, 1843-1848
EstimateUSD 7,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 13,750Closed - Lot 91
To a budding inventor
Albert Einstein, 17 August 1943
EstimateUSD 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedUSD 11,250Closed - Lot 92
Reflecting on Germany's crimes as Allied victory nears
Albert Einstein, 1945
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 12,500Closed - Lot 93
Gödel on the continuum hypothesis
Rare presentation copy, 1953
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 25,000Closed - Lot 94
This Side of Paradise
Wedding day presentation copy, 3 April 1920
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 8,125Closed - Lot 99
Franz Kafka to Klopstock's supervisor
Prague, July 1922
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 22,500Closed - Lot 101
Encouraging a young artist
Henry W. Longfellow, 11 April 1878
EstimateUSD 600 - 800Price realisedUSD 500Closed - Lot 102
Their first B-side: "End of the Night"
Jim Morrison & Ray Manzarek, 1965
EstimateUSD 7,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 7,500Closed - Lot 104
Rare inscribed photograph
Louis Pasteur, 1869
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 7,500Closed - Lot 106
Christening of the Prince of Wales
Manuscript panorama, 1841
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 9,375Closed - Lot 107
On the death of Princess Alice
Queen Victoria, 14 December 1878
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 1,250Closed - Lot 108
With a letter to psychiatrist Strauss
Evelyn Waugh, 1957
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 9,375Closed