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Auction Details

Auction Date: April 09, 2026 - April 09, 2026

Page Size: 342 items in 14 pages

Auction Lot Books
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
176	Williamson (Brig.-Gen. A., editor)	Military Memoirs and Maxims of Marshal Turenne		1740	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 431.80
177	Ward (Edward)]	The Wooden World Dissected; in the Character of a Ship of War		1761	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 114.30
178		Baskerville Press.- Horace. Quintus Horatius Flaccus	Birmingham,	1770	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 609.60
179	Chesterfield (Philip Dormer, Earl of)	Letters written to his Son Philip Stanhope, Esq		1774	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 203.20
180	Rogers (A.)]	The History of Miss Temple. In two volumes. By a Young Lady	Dublin,	1777	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 69.85
181	Scherz (Johann Georg)	Glossarium Germanicum Medii Aevi, edited by Jeremias Jakob Oberlin	Strasbourg,	1781-4	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
182	Walpole (Horace)]	The castle of Otranto, a Gothic story		1782	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 254.00
183	Watts (Isaac)	Divine songs		1783	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 215.90
184	Johnson (Samuel)	A Dictionary of the English Language		1785	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 406.40
185		New Theatre Coventry. On Thursday evening June 3d, 1790	Coventry],	1790.	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 12.70
186	Johnson (Samuel)	The Works of the English Poets		1790	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
187		Particular Account (A) of the Commencement and Progress of the Insurrection of the Negroes in St. Domingo		1792	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
188	Burke (Edmund)	A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks made upon him and his Pensionby the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale		1796	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 139.70
189		Monthly Army List (The)		1800-05	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 127.00
190		Solihull Volunteer Infantry.- The Soldier's Companion; containing Instructions for the Drill, Manual, Platoon, and Rifle Exercise as Commanded by His Majesty: Intended for the use of the Volunteers of this Country		c.1803.	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 114.30
191		Nelson (Horatio, Viscount), Broadside.- A Perspective View of the Grand funeral car which carried the body of the much lamented Lord Nelson from the Admiralty to St. Pauls		1806	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 1,079.50
192	Baxter (John)]	The Sister Arts, or A concise and interesting View of the Nature and History of Paper-Making		1809	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,905.00
193	Cowie (George)]	The Bookbinder's Manual: Containing a Full Description of Leather and Vellum BindingTogether with a Scale of Bookbinder's Chargers; A List of All the Book and Vellum Binders in London		1829	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 635.00
194	Hannett (John)]	John Andrews Arnett. Bibliopegia; or, The Art of Bookbinding		1835	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 190.50
195		Book-Finishers' Friendly Circular (The), Conducted by a Committee of the Finishers' Friendly Association		1845-51.	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,143.00
196		Binding salesman samples, comprising samples of 3 covers and 4 spines		late 19th century.	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 533.40
197	Pitt (William)	General View of the Agriculture of the County of Northampton		1813	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 127.00
198		Austen (Jane)] Sense and Sensibility		1813.	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 3,048.00
199	Austen (Jane)	Pride and Prejudice		1894	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 2,286.00
200		Three Trials (The) of William Hone, for Publishing Three Parodies		1818	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 203.20

Sotheby's Book Week
2 June - 9 July

Sotheby’s, June 25: Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations, on its 250th anniversary. $180,000 to $250,000.

Sotheby’s, June 17: Fontana, Lucio. Concetto Spaziale. 1967. Leporello en papier doré. Bel exemplaire signé. €4,000 to $€,000.

Sotheby’s, June 25: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”. $150,000 to $200,000.

Sotheby’s, June 25: Washington, George (as First President). Washington decries “an ostentatious imitation, or mimickry of Royalty” in his Presidency. $250,000 to $500,000.

Sotheby’s, June 17: Lope de Vega. Rare manuscrit autographe signé de la préface dédicatoire de "El Cardenal de Belen" (le cardinal de Bethléem), pièce composée en 1610. €40,000 to €60,000.
Leland Little, June 12: The First Illustrated Edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Leland Little, June 12: John Morton, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Signed Pennsylvania Land Survey.

Leland Little, June 12: The Scarce Jansson Edition of a Remarkable Early View of London.

Leland Little, June 12: Signed Limited Edition of The Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Leland Little, June 12: Faden’s Important and Scarce Map of the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution.

Leland Little, June 12: William J. Tate (NC, 1869-1953), Archive of the "Original host to the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk.”
Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Galileo Galilei. Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo tolemaico, e copernicano. Firenze, 1632

Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Saverio Manetti. Storia naturale degli uccelli. Firenze, 1771-76

Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Fortunato Depero. Depero futurista. Rovereto, 1927

Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Nicolas Visscher. Atlas minor sive totius orbis terrarum contracta delineat ex conatibus. Amsterdam, circa 1649-95

Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Andreas Vesalius. Anatomia. Addita nunc. Antiquorum Anatome. Venezia, 1604

Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Tristan Tzara and Salvador Dalì. Grains et Issues. Parigi, 1935
June 25, 2026

Doyle, June 25: Houdini's biography, boldly signed. $3,000 to $5,000.

Doyle, June 25: A volume from Abraham Lincoln's library, signed just before heading to Washington for his inauguration. $20,000 to $30,000.

Doyle, June 25: A very early Confederate recruiting manual belonging to the chief commissary in Lee's Army. $600 to $800.

Doyle, June 25: Rare hand-colored lithographs of the life of Napoleon. $20,000 to $30,000.

Doyle, June 25: The "Holster Atlas" of the American Revolution. $5,000 to $8,000.

Doyle, June 25: Jewish ceremonies in fine hand-colored engravings. $7,000 to $10,000.

Doyle, June 25: A very rare work on Turkish military costume. $1,000 to $1,500.

June 25, 2026

Doyle, June 25: The most important illustrated work on the Mexican-American War. $10,000 to $15,000.

Doyle, June 25: The finest illustrated book on Afghanistan. $10,000 to $15,000.

Doyle, June 25: Henry Justice Ford St. George rescues the Princess from the horrible Dragon. $2,000 to $3,000.

Doyle, June 25: A rare work of Prussian Army uniforms under Frederick William II, with exquisite hand-colored engravings. $800 to $1,200.

Doyle, June 25: Lenny Bruce typed letter signed to a Village bohemian during his obscenity trials, with a manuscript note and drawing. $300 to $500.

Doyle, June 25: Schiff's scarce Shanghai Sketchbook. $300 to $500.

Doyle, June 25: The first accurate published representation of the American flag. $2,000 to $4,000.
Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 123. Celebrate 250 Years of Independence with Original Stars and Stripes (1790) Est. $1,400 - $1,700

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 20. Keulen's Spectacular Chart of the World Featuring California as an Island (1728) Est. $12,000 - $15,000

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 42. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 591. Matching Set of 3 Stunning Globe Gores of Eastern Asia from Coronelli's 3.5 Foot Globe (1688) Est. $5,500 - $7,000

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 9. Speed's Popular World Map with Allegorical Representations of the Elements (1651) Est. $14,000 - $17,000

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 168. First Separate Map of Kansas & Nebraska Territories (1854) Est. $5,500 - $7,000

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 43. Only Macrobius Map with Britain Attached to Europe (1515) Est. $800 - $950

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 250. Rare Map of Boston and One of the Earliest Maps of the Revolutionary War (1775) Est. $2,000 - $2,300

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 79. Schenk's Uncommon Map Featuring Two Figurative Title Cartouches (1696) Est. $1,200 - $1,500

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 681. Hand-Colored Image of the Annunciation to the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950