Fine Books & Manuscripts Including Americana

1. Letter signed ("John Adams"), being a Special Message to "Gentleman of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives"

Estimate: 8,000 – 12,000 USD

Lot Sold:

16,250 USD

BIDDING IS CLOSED

2. Autograph letter signed ("John Quincy Adams") to James Madison

Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 USD

Lot Sold:

5,000 USD

BIDDING IS CLOSED

3. Autograph letter signed ("John Quincy Adams") to William D. Lewis

Estimate: 2,500 – 3,500 USD

BIDDING IS CLOSED

4. An American silver two-handled cup, Tiffany & Co., New York, dated 1913; front engraved presentation to literary editor Gilman Hall, back engraved with names of donors,  marked on base and numbered 16603-2499. Height: 11 ¾  in.; 29.8 cm; Weight: 72 oz; 2239 gram.

Estimate: 6,000 – 8,000 USD

BIDDING IS CLOSED

5. Siren, Osvald. A History of Early Chinese Painting. London: Medici Society, 1933 — A History of Later Chinese Painting. London: Medici Society, 1938 — A History of Early Chinese Art.  London: Ernest Benn, 1939

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 USD

BIDDING IS CLOSED

6. Auden, W.H.

and William Meredith.  A small archive of items documenting the friendship of the two poets.  V.p., c. 1962–72

Estimate: 10,000 – 15,000 USD

Lot Sold:

10,000 USD

BIDDING IS CLOSED

7. Audubon, John James - John Bachman

The Quadrupeds of North America. New York: by V.G. Audubon, 1856-1860.

Estimate: 8,000 – 12,000 USD

BIDDING IS CLOSED

8. The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories.... The Quadrupeds of North America. New York: George R. Lockwood, 1870.

Estimate: 14,000 – 18,000 USD

Lot Sold:

16,250 USD

BIDDING IS CLOSED

9. John James Audubon

The Birds of America. New York & Amsterdam: Johnson Reprint Co, 1971-1972.

Estimate: 15,000 – 20,000 USD

Lot Sold:

9,375 USD

BIDDING IS CLOSED

10. A collection of material related to Harry Lyon, navigator on board The Southern Cross, the first Trans-Pacific flight

Estimate: 25,000 – 35,000 USD

BIDDING IS CLOSED

11. Banks, Joseph

Banks' Florilegium: A Publication in thirty-four parts of seven hundred and thirty-eight copperplate engravings of plants collected on Captain James Cook's First Voyage Around the World. London: Alecto Historical Editions and the British Museum [Natural History], 1980-1990.

Estimate: 15,000 – 25,000 USD

Lot Sold:

20,000 USD

BIDDING IS CLOSED

12. Bemelmans, Ludwig

"And sometimes they were very sad." Ca. 1953

Estimate: 10,000 – 15,000 USD

BIDDING IS CLOSED