Sothebys: Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana , N11899, New York

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Auction Date
December 16, 2025 - December 16, 2025
Page Size: 99 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1001

Journals of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Beginning the Twenty-Eighth day of November, 1776, and Ending the Second day of October, 1781.

Philadelphia 1782 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,175.00
1002 Pennsylvania. House of Representatives.

Instructions for Inlisting Rifle-Men, in the Service of Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia? ca.March 1776 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 31,750.00
1003 Anonymous 19th-Century American Maritime Artist

Album of 17 pen-and-ink, watercolor and wash drawings of American subjects (one of Canada)

New York? circa 1816-1827 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 38,100.00
1004 Arrowsmith, Aaron

Chart of the West Indies and Spanish Dominions in North America

London 1803 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
1005

Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union between the States of New-Hampshire, Massachusettes-Bay, Rhode-Island and Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia .

New-London 1784 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 6,096.00
1006 Audubon, John James

Ornithological Biography, or an account of the habits of the birds of the United States of America;

Edinburgh & London 1831, 1834, 1835, 1838, 1849 i.e. 1839 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,985.00
1007 Birch, William --- Samuel Seymour (engraver)

The City of New York in the State of New York, North America.

Springland, near Bristol, PA ca.1820 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 7,620.00
1008 Bodmer, Karl

Sih-Chida & Mahchsi-Karehde. Mandan Indians. [Tab. 20]

Paris, Coblenz, and London 1839-1842 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
1009 Bodmer, Karl

Pehriska-Ruhpa. Moennitarri Warrior in the Costume of the Dog Danse. [Tab. 23].

Leipzig 1922 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 12,065.00
1010 Bodmer, Karl

Pehriska-Ruhpa. [A Minatarre or Big-Bellied Indian]. [Tab. 17].

Paris, Coblenz, and London 1839-1842 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
1011

The Votes and Proceedings of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, in Town Meeting Assembled, According to Law, the 5th and 18th days of November. 1773.

Boston 1773 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 107,950.00
1012

[Bound volume of 44 pieces of lithographed Confederate sheet music].

Richmond, Columbia, Augusta, and elsewhere 1863-64 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 5,080.00
1013 Curtis, Edward

The North American Indian being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska.

Cambridge, Mass. 1916 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 15,240.00
1014 Curtis, Edward

The North American Indian being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska.

Cambridge, Mass. 1930 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 10,160.00
1015 Davis, Jefferson

Autograph letter signed ("Jefferson Davis"),

1878 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
1016 Faden, William --- Bernard Ratzer

The Province of New Jersey, Divided into East and West, commonly called the Jerseys

London December 1st 1777 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
1017

The Freedman's Primer; or First Reader.

Boston 1864 USD 25,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 241,300.00
1018

Six works mostly concerning the English colonies in America

1695-1770 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 13,970.00
1019 Gordon, William

The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America,

London 1788 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 6,350.00
1020 Grant, Ulysses S., Eighteenth President, as Major General, United States Army

Autograph letter signed ("U. S. Grant | Maj. Gen."), 3 pages (244 x 193 mm) on a bifolium, Head Quarters, Dept. of the Tenn., Holly Springs, Mississippi, 28 December 1862, to Brigadier General Isaac F. Quinby

1862 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 20,320.00
1021 Hoover, Herbert

The Child's Bill of Rights

No place Washington, D.C.? no date circa 1923? USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 5,080.00
1022 Howdell, Captain Thomas (after)

A South East View of the City of New York, in North America... [with:] A South West View of the City of New York, in North America...

London ca. 1768 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
1023 Jefferson, Thomas

Printed document signed ("ThJefferson") as Secretary of State, being an official printing of "An Act respecting the Government of the Territories of the United States North West and South of the River Ohio."

Philadelphia 1792 USD 35,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 82,550.00
1024 Jefferys, Thomas

The West-India Atlas; or, a Compendious Description of the West-Indies: Illustrated with forty correct charts and maps, taken from actual surveys.

London 1775 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 25,400.00
1025 (Key, Francis Scott)

"Fort Mc. Henry, or, The Star Spangled Banner, Sung with great applause by Mr. Hardinge, at the Theatre Baltimore. Air, Anacreon in Heaven,"

Philadelphia after 9 October 1814 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 12,700.00
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