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Freeman's | Hindman: Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana

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Auction Name Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana Total Sales (USD) 773,262.00
Auction Date September 10, 2025 - September 10, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 464,300.00
Sale Number #6417 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 716,500.00
Total Lots 289
Sold Lots 265 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 589,900.00
% of Lots Sold 91.70% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 910,500.00
Unsold Lots 24 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 84.93%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
264 [Lincoln, Abraham]

By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation

1863 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 70,350.00
61 [Picasso, Pablo] Level, Andre.

Picasso

1928 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 35,200.00
242 Audubon, John James.

The Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories

1839-1840-44. USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 28,800.00
40 Albers, Josef.

Die Oberflache

1965 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 21,760.00
13

The New-Haven Gazette, and the Connecticut Magazine

1787 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 17,920.00
273 [Arion Press] Joyce, James.

Ulysses

1988 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 16,640.00
5 (Bowdoin, James, and Joseph Warren, and Samuel Pemberton).

A Short Narrative of The horrid Massacre in Boston, Perpetrated In the Evening of the Fifth Day of March 1770...

1770 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 14,080.00
254 [Sowerby, James, et al.]

Archive of Various Material, Including Manuscripts, Family Items, and Books

ca. late 18th to early 20th centuries. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 12,800.00
172 Dickens, Charles.

Great Expectations

1861 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 12,160.00
222 Tagore, Rabindranath.

Group of 6 Signed Titles

1915-16. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 12,160.00
66 Roth, Dieter.

Picture-Book

1956 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 10,240.00
261 Lincoln, Abraham.

Partially-printed Document

1852 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,240.00
265 [Lincoln, Abraham] Seward, William H.

Printed Circular Letter

1862 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 10,240.00
257 [Jefferson, Thomas]. Tucker, George.

The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States...

1837 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 9,600.00
18 Doolittle, A(mos).

A Display of the United States of America...

1791 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 8,960.00
8 Ramsay, David.

The History of the Revolution of South-Carolina, From a British Province to an Independent State

1785 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 8,320.00
276 [Morris, William] Ovid, and Raphael Regius.

Metamorphosin cum luculentissimis Raphaelis Regii enarrationibus...

1509 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 7,680.00
103 Baudelaire, Charles.

Les Paradis Artificiels Opium et Haschisch

1860 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 7,040.00
117 Rackham, Arthur.

Each one, tripping on his toe will be here with mop and mow

1926 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 7,040.00
193 Dickens, Charles.

Sketches by Boz Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People

1837-1839. USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 7,040.00
229 Nelson, Horatio.

Autograph Letter, signed

ca.1803. USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 7,040.00
137 [Zahn, Otto] Beaumont, Francis, and John Fletcher.

Fifty Comedies and Tragedies...

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,400.00
262 Lincoln, Abraham.

Manuscript Document, signed

1855 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 6,400.00
77 Warhol, Andy, and Robert Rauschenberg, and Ed Ruscha, et al.

Artists & Photographs

1970 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,080.00
171 Dickens, Charles.

Great Expectations

1860-1861. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,080.00
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  • Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: BOETTI, Alighiero - Classifying the thousand longest rivers in the world. Ascoli Piceno: 1977. € 15.000 - 18.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José - Los desastres de la guerra. Madrid: 1863. € 12.000 - 18.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: HEVELIUS, Johannes - Selenographia sive lunae descriptio. Danzica: 1647. € 10.000 - 15.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph - Douze Bouquets. Parigi e New York: [s.d., ma ca. 1835]. € 15.000 - 25.000
  • Koller, Sep. 17: NEWTON, ISAAC. Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. London, Joseph Streater, "Prostat apud plures Bibliopolas", 1687. CHF 250,000 to 300,000.
    Koller, Sep. 17: ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. Theatrum orbis terrarum. 3 parts in 1 volume. Antwerpen, Plantin, 1612. CHF 120,000 to 160,000.
    Koller, Sep. 17: BECKMANN, MAX. Apokalypse. Frankfurt a. M., Privatdruck der Bauerschen Giesserei, 1943. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.
    Koller, Sep. 17: BOISSERÉE, SULPIZ. Ansichten, Risse und einzelne Theile des Doms von Köln. AND: Ders. Geschichte und Beschreibung des Doms zu Köln… CHF 30,000 to 50,000.
    Koller, Sep. 17: SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. Buch der Chroniken und Geschichten. Nürnberg, Anton Koberger, 23. Dez. 1493. CHF 25,000 to 40,000.
  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.
    Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.
    Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.
    Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.
    Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.