Bonhams: Fine Books and Manuscripts, 30815, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 24, 2025 - June 24, 2025
Page Size: 78 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1051 EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955.

Autograph Letter Signed ("A. Einstein") to Herbert Jehle, on submitting and endorsing an article by Jehle to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists on science and morality,

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
1052 [EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955.] JEHLE, HERBERT. 1907-1983.

Autograph Lecture notes signed ("H. Jehle") from a 1929 lecture by Einstein, "Vortrag Einstein/ uber die/ neue Feldtheorie/ November 1929,"

USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
1053 EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955.

Three offprints on Einstein's early explorations of the Unified Field Theory from Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften:

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,216.00
1054 EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955. GRAUDENZ, JOHN, photographer.

Original portrait photograph of Einstein at 50, inscribed in the mount, in German, "For beloved Aunt Sophie Lehmann on her 80th birthday,"

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,960.00
1055 [EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955.] SIMON, GERTRUD "GERTY," photographer.

Photograph Signed ("Gerty Simons"), a bust portrait of a seated Einstein looking left,

USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
1056 EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955.

Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist.

Evanston 1949 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 8,960.00
1057 HEEZEN, BRUCE CHARLES. 1924-1977.

A Hubbard Medal and other awards presented to geologist Bruce Heezen.

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
1058 BIBLE - GOSPEL OF JOHN.

St. John's Gospel, in Greek, fragment of an early codex manuscript on vellum,

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 70,350.00
1059 FERDINAND II, KING OF ARAGON. 1452-1516

Document Signed ("Yo el rey"), a privilege for his bodyguard Sancho Sanchez of Avila

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 10,240.00
1060 ORDER OF THE ROSE CROIX.

19th-century manuscript in English describing the rites of the Eighteenth Degree of the Ancient and Accepted (Scottish) Rite of Freemasonry, the Rose Croix of Heredom,

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 230.40
1061 MARX, KARL. 1818-1883 and FRIEDRICH ENGELS 1820-1895.

Det kommunistiske Manifest. In: Socialistisk Bibliotek.

Copenhagen 1885 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
1062 MARX, KARL. 1818-1883 and FRIEDRICH ENGELS 1820-1895.

Kapital: kritika politicke ekonomie.

Prague 1913 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
1063 GANDHI, MOHANDAS K. 1869-1948.

Typed Letter Signed ("M.K. Gandhi"), to "[Shrimati] Janammal," on the fast and care of Ambujammal Desikachari,

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 5,888.00
1064 FLURY, ROY. And THEODORE DALENSON.

Two limited-edition books on salmon fishing:

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,088.00
1065 WASHINGTON, GEORGE. 1732-1799. KNOX, HENRY. 1750-1806.

Partly Engraved Document Signed ("G Washington") as President of the Society of the Cincinnati, certifying Gurdon Bill,

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,960.00
1066 JEFFERSON, THOMAS. 1743--1826. MADISON, JAMES. 1751--1836. ELLERY, WILLIAM. 1727-1820.

Partly Engraved Document on Vellum Signed by Thomas Jefferson ("Thomas Jefferson") as President, and James Madison ("James Madison"), as Secretary of State,

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,040.00
1067 BRYANT, EDWIN. 1805-1869.

What I Saw in California Being the Journal of a Tour, by the Emigrant Route and South Pass of the Rocky Mountains, across the Continent of North America, the Great Desert Basin, and through California, in the Years 1846, 1847.

New York 1849 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,024.00
1069 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. 1809-1865. BRADY, MATTHEW, photographer.

Original portrait photograph of Lincoln seated with a book and his son Tad, taken February 9, 1864, at Brady's studio by Superintendent Anthony Berger,

1864 USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 USD 76,700.00
1070 JOHNSON, ANDREW. 1808-1875.

Document Stamp-Signed by Andrew Johnson ("Andrew Johnson") as President, and by William Hunter ("WHunter"), acting Secretary of State, a Presidential pardon for Captain Elijah Hawkins,

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,584.00
1071 LEE, ROBERT E. 1807-1870.

Photograph Signed ("RE Lee"), a carte de visite by Michael Miley from his last photographic sitting,

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,864.00
1072 ROCKEFELLER, JOHN DAVID. 1839-1937.

Document Signed ("J.D. Rockefeller") issuing five thousand shares of Standard Oil Trust stock to himself,

USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 25,600.00
1073 ROCKEFELLER, JOHN DAVID. 1839-1937.

Document Signed ("J.D. Rockefeller") issuing fifty thousand shares of Standard Oil Trust stock to founding partner Stephen V. Harkness,

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,144.00
1074 NORTHUP, SOLOMON. 1807-1863.

Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River, in Louisiana.

Auburn, et al. 1853 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,816.00
1075 LOCKE, ALAIN. 1885-1954.

The New Negro: an Interpretation.

New York 1925 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 409.60
1076 BALDWIN, JAMES; MALCOLM X; MARTIN LUTHER KING; KENNETH B. CLARK.

The Negro Protest.

Boston 1963 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,432.00
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