Books & Manuscripts

25. Washington, George, as first President

Printed broadside document signed ("Go: Washington"), being a three-language ship's paper

Estimate: 20,000 – 30,000 USD

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26. Wheatley, Phillis

Poems on Comic, Serious, and Moral Subjects. London: printed for A. Bell, 1773

Estimate: 25,000 – 35,000 USD

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27. Wilson, Alexander

American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States. Philadelphia: Bradford & Innskeep, 1808–14

Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 USD

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28. A Proclamation. The Frailty of Human Nature, the Wants of Individuals, and the numerous Dangers which surround them, through the Course of Life, have ... impelled them to form Societies, and establish Governments. As the Happiness of the People is the sole end of Government , so the Consent of the People is the only Foundation of it ... therefore every Act of Government, every exercise of Sovreignty, against, or without the Consent of the People, is Injustice, Usurpation and Tyranny ... 23 January 1776. [Watertown: Benjamin Edes, 1776]

Estimate: 35,000 – 50,000 USD

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29. A Collection of the Constitutions of the Thirteen United States of North-America. Philadelphia Printed: Glasgow Re-printed by John Bryce, 1783

Estimate: 18,000 – 25,000 USD

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30. Stampioen, Jan Jansz de Jonge

Het Hooge Heemraedt Schap van Schielandt. Rotterdam: Abraham van Hoorn, 1684

Estimate: 10,000 – 15,000 USD

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31. de Fer, Nicolas

Mappe-Monde ou Carte generale de la Terre, divisee en deux hemispheres... Paris, chez l'auteur, 1705 [1708].

Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 USD

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32. Ptolemaeus, Claudius

[Modern map of Palestine]. Ulm: Leonardus Holle, 1482

Estimate: 10,000 – 15,000 USD

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33. Ptolemaeus, Claudius

[Quarta Asiae tabula continet Cyprum & Syrium & Iudea & utraq[ue] Arabia petream & deserta ac Mesopotamia & Babilonia.] Ulm: Leonardus Holle, 1482

Estimate: 10,000 – 15,000 USD

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34. “Destruccio Iherosolime”. [Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493].

Estimate: 1,000 – 2,000 USD

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35. Hierosolyma, Clarissima totius Orientis civitas. Cologne: 1572

Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 USD

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36. Bünting, Heinrich

Die gantze Welt in einem Kleberblat Welches ist der Stadt Hannover meines lieben Vaterlandes Wapen ["The entire world in the shape of a clover-leaf, which is the emblem of the city of Hannover, my beloved homeland"]. Magdeburg: [1581 - 1600]. [With 5 maps of the Holy Land from the same publication.]

Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 USD

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