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Auction Name Early Printing Science Americana Maritime & Maps Total Sales (USD) 69,570.00
Auction Date March 31, 2026 - March 31, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #550 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 218
Sold Lots 200.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 91.74% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 18 Total Sales as a % of High Est. Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
146 Max, Peter D.

Massive archive of over 1000 documents, letters, programs, and personal items.

1940s-90s Not Available USD 20,400.00
117

Votes of the Honorable the House of Assembly of Jamaica.

1861-66 Not Available USD 3,300.00
32 Boschini, Marco.

L'Arcipelago con tutte Le Isole, Scogli Secche, e Bassi Fondi, con i Mari, Golfi, Seni, Porti, Citta e Castelli.

1658 Not Available USD 3,000.00
33

The Boston Chronicle. Volume 1, nos. 3-27, 29-46, 48-54

1768 Not Available USD 2,700.00
5 Catullus, Caius Valerius; Tibullus, Albius; and Propertius, Sextus.

[Carmina].

1502 Not Available USD 2,280.00
97 Graham, Sylvester.

A Treatise on Bread, and Bread-Making.

1837 Not Available USD 1,560.00
81 Weismann, August.

11 volumes, as listed below.

vd Not Available USD 1,080.00
156

Natural History of New York. Group of 30 volumes, as listed below.

1843-94 Not Available USD 1,020.00
199

The Spiritual Age.

Jan. 1858-Aug. 1859 Not Available USD 960.00
211 Von Neumann, John; & Oskar Morgenstern.

Theory of Games and Economic Behavior.

1944 Not Available USD 900.00
48 Chaucer, Geoffrey.

The Works...compared with the Former Editions, and many valuable MSS. Out of which, Three Tales are added which were never before printed.

1721 Not Available USD 840.00
96 Golius, Jacobus.

Lexicon Arabico-Latinum.

1653 Not Available USD 780.00
56

Confederate and Early Southern Newspapers. Group of over 20 issues.

vd Not Available USD 660.00
64

Group of over 650 hand-colored fashion plates from various issues of Gallerie des Modes et Costumes Francais and other periodicals bound in 3 albums.

1786-1803 Not Available USD 600.00
165 Newton, Sir Isaac.

The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended. To which is Prefix'd A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great.

1728 Not Available USD 600.00
203 Sweet, Robert.

Geraniaceae: The Natural Order of Gerania.

1820-26 Not Available USD 600.00
144

The Boston Nation.

1839-46 Not Available USD 570.00
166 Nightingale, Florence.

Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not.

[1860] Not Available USD 570.00
91 Friedman, Milton.

Essays in Positive Economics.

-1953 Not Available USD 510.00
111 Horneman, Frederick Konrad

The Journal of Frederick Horneman's Travels, from Cairo to Mourzouk; the Capital of the Kingdom of Fezzan in Africa. In the Years 1797-8.

1802 Not Available USD 510.00
24

La Saincte Bible.

1603-04 Not Available USD 480.00
98 Grew, Nehemiah.

Musaeum Regalis Societatis; or, A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham College ... Whereunto is Subjoyned the Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts.

1681 Not Available USD 480.00
77 Strong, James.

A Geographical Chart of the American Federal Republic.

Circa 1806 Not Available USD 450.00
37 Eaton, Daniel Cady.

The Ferns of North America.

1879-80 Not Available USD 420.00
200 Stein, Marc Aurel.

Archaeological Reconnaissances in North-Western India and South-Eastern Iran.

1937 Not Available USD 420.00
  • Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Queen Anne's War] Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York Accomplished to Queen Anne. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Mormonism] A Unique Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words Offered to His Congregation, the Day Before his Violent Death, 1844. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] [Mantle, Mickey] 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: [Baseball] A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Declaration of Independence] One of the First Printed Announcements of American Independence, Subscriber Ebenezer Hazard's Copy, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000/15,000
    Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776! $15,000/25,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [War of 1812] "We Have Met the Enemy and They are Ours": The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry is Appointed Master Commandant in the United States Navy, 1812. $40,000/60,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Star-Spangled Banner] Eyewitness Account of the Shelling of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812, in a Manuscript Logbook from the HMS Trave, Present at the Battles of Baltimore and New Orleans, 1814-16. $60,000/80,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Thomas Jefferson at the Birth of a New Nation: An Important Letter Carried by a Jewish Patriot Communicating the Definitive Treaty of Paris, January 16, 1784. $100,000/200,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Colonial America] [Plymouth Colony] Plymouth Colony Seeks a Royal Charter: A Rare and Important Plymouth Colony Document, 1690/91. $6,000/9,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Selections from The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin
    Live Sale 24 June
    Sotheby’s, June 24: (Benjamin Franklin). The founding—and funding—of the Pennsylvania Hospital. $150,000 to $200,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, "the Day of the Declaration of Independence is everywhere annually celebrated”. $80,000 to $120,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, “probably the most fundamental thing ever done in the field of electricity”. $75,000 to $125,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin. One of Franklin's very earliest surviving letters. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Roger More and Benjamin Franklin. The only complete copy known of Poor Roger. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: John Jerman. The American Almanack ... for 1731 — the only known copy in private hands. $25,000 to $35,000.