Bogota Auction: Books, Documents and Old Engravings, 2470B, Bogota

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
August 30, 2024 - August 30, 2024
Page Size: 318 items in 13 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51 Catherwood, Frederick

Vision del mundo Maya - 1844

Mexico 1978 Not Available USD 60,000.00
52 Tolstoi, Leon

Anna Karenina

New York 1886 Not Available USD 84,000.00
53 Griswold, Sylvanus Morley

The inscription of Peten

Washington 1937 Not Available USD 360,000.00
54 Gann, Thomas

Ancient cities and modern tribes

New York 1926 Not Available USD 180,000.00
55 Charnay, Desire

The ancient cities of the new world

New York 1887 Not Available USD 120,000.00
56 Boeheim, Wendelin

Handbuch der Waffenkunde

Leipzig 1890 Not Available USD 300,000.00
57 s.a

Catalogo de armas y objetos curiosos pertenecientes a D. M. Perez de Castro

Madrid 1863 Not Available Not Sold
58 Sagher, Leon de

Nociones de tactica de infanteria, de caballeria y de artilleria

Bogota 1878-1883 Not Available USD 180,000.00
59 Ministerio de Guerra

Reglamento de servicio en campana para el ejercito

Bogota 1926 Not Available USD 240,000.00
60 s.a

Manual de lectura de cartas y elementos de topografia

Mexico 1949 Not Available USD 240,000.00
61 Marques de Sa Da Bandeira

Memoria sobre as Fortificacoes de Lisboa

Lisboa 1866 Not Available Not Sold
62 Bywater, Hector

Strange Intelligence: Memoirs of naval secret service

London 1931 Not Available USD 60,000.00
63 Mattioli, Guido

Mussolini Aviator

Roma 1938 Not Available USD 60,000.00
64 NASA

Press Kit Apollo 11 Lunar landing mission. 25th Anniversary Souvenir edition

USA 1994 Not Available USD 420,000.00
65 Boy, Herbert

Una Historia con Alas. Con la Colaboracion y un punto final de Eduardo Caballero Calderon.

Madrid 1955 Not Available USD 108,000.00
66 Castro Duque, Sady

Republica de Colombia Red de carreteras nacionales

Bogota 1943 Not Available USD 120,000.00
67 SCADTA

Sabana de Bogota con los Nevados de la cordillera central

Bogota N/A Not Available USD 300,000.00
68 SCADTA

[Playa de Sapzurro]

N/A Not Available Not Sold
69 SCADTA

Bogota, Centro con Monserrate y Guadalupe

N/A Not Available USD 360,000.00
70 Kessler, Frido W

The airpost stamps of Colombia. Containing the complete history of the Colombian Air Post Service; the specialized Catalogue of Air Post Stamps and Covers, and Scadta stamps of Colombia and Ecuador. With illustration and charts.

Brooklyn, N.Y. 1936 Not Available USD 540,000.00
71 Daza, Camilo

Rumbo y distancia

Cali 1934 Not Available USD 300,000.00
72 Arias Trujillo, Bernardo Jose

Risaralda: Novela De Negredumbre y De Vaqueria

Manizales 1935 Not Available USD 96,000.00
73 Gonzalez, Fernando

Mi Compadre

Barcelona 1934 Not Available USD 300,000.00
74 Carrasquilla, Tomas

Frutos de mi Tierra

Bogota 1896 Not Available USD 300,000.00
75 Gonzalez, Tomas

Primero Estaba el Mar

Bogota 1983 Not Available USD 240,000.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
    25 June – July 7
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000
  • Freeman’s, June 30. Thomas Jefferson’s “Birth of the New Nation” letter, carried to Paris with the Treaty of Peace, by a Jewish patriot. $100,000-200,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. “The rockets’ red glare.” A British midshipman’s log recording the bombardment of Fort McHenry. $60,000-80,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry Commission signed by James Madison, 1812. $40,000-60,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776. $15,000-25,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. One of the Earliest Printed Announcements of American Independence, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000-15,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. "The Two Big Guns of the N.Y. Yanks": A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000-12,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. A Unique Contemporary Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words to His Followers, the Day Before his Violent Death. $8,000-12,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. The State of Minnesota Officially Certifies the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution Of the United States. $8,000-12,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York to Queen Anne from the Colony of New York. $8,000-12,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000-12,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. A Call to Arms in the Months Following the Declaration of Independence: An Early Continental Army Recruitment Poster. $6,000-9,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. Samuel Jones, the Statesman Behind the Newly Discovered "Jones Declaration": His Annotated Set Used in His Working Law Library. $6,000-9,000.