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LINDBERGH, CHARLES A. "We". New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1927 8vo, AUTHOR'S AUTOGRAPH EDITION, NUMBER 140 OF 1,000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, two etchings and numerous plates comprising photographic illustrations, original parchment-backed boards lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover, bumped [together with:] "$25,000.00 REWARD", 1 pp. typescript broadside issued by Colonel H. Normal Schwarzkopf, dated May 26, 1932, calling for "information which shall result in the apprehension and conviction of the kidnaper or kidnapers of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.", watermark, spotting, tear to left margin, two folds, adhesive residue to corners, minor chipping to extremities THE AUTOGRAPH EDITION OF LINDBERGH'S HUGELY POPULAR 'INSTANT' AUTOBIOGRAPHY, coinciding with his three-month tour of the country in which we was seen by more than thirty million Americans, then a quarter of the country's population. The trade edition of We sold more than 650,000 copies in the first year. In 1932 Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was kidnapped from his family's home in New Jersey. The "crime of the century" resulted in kidnapping being classified as a federal offence if the victim is taken across state lines. Please see Shipping Calculator Link: Click Here

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The Collection of Jay I. Kislak: Sold to Benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

The Collection of Jay I. Kislak: Sold to Benefit the Kislak Family Foundation Charles Lindbergh Typed document signed by Lindbergh ("Charles A. Lindbergh") and Carlisle MacDonald ("J. Carlisle MacDonald"), being a memorandum of agreement for the publication of a book on Lindbergh’s trans-Atlantic flight by G. P. Putnam’s 2 pages (280 x 216 mm), [New York,] 14 June 1927, neatly attached to a blue legal file docket, being a memorandum of agreement for the publication of a book on Lindbergh’s trans-Atlantic flight by G. P. Putnam’s; light creases. [Accompanied by:] a printed outline map of the Northern Atlantic Ocean bounded by North America and the west coasts of Europe and Northern Africa (456 x 205 mm on paper watermarked with the seal of the United States), with grid of latitude and longitude lines, dated in pencil lower right "5-19-27" and annotated in pencil and red pen as an aviation weather map with streamlines and high- and low-pressure areas; light creases. Author and ghostwriter—and author: the writing of "We", the aviator’s firsthand account of his historic transatlantic flight. In 1919, a New York City hotel owner named Raymond Orteig offered $25,000 to the first person to fly nonstop from New York to Paris. By 1927, the prize had still not been claimed, although six pilots had lost their lives in the attempt. Lindbergh convinced a group of St. Louis businessmen to underwrite a plane built to his own design modifications. Ryan Aeronautical Company of San Diego produced The Spirit of St. Louis, and after a cross-country shakedown flight, Lindbergh took off, 20 May, from Roosevelt Field near New York City at 7:52 a.m. He landed at Le Bourget Field near Paris at 10:21 p.m., 21 May. He had covered some 3,600 miles in thirty-three and one-half hours and won not only the Orteig Prize but the adulation of much of the world. Before he left New York, Lindbergh contracted with the New York Times for the exclusive rights to his own story of the flight—if it was successful. The front-page story of his safe landing and many subsequent feature stories published in the Times before the return to New York of the aviator and his plane aboard the U.S.S. Memphis, 11 June 1927, carried the by-line of Charles Lindbergh, but they were actually written by the paper’s Paris correspondent, Carlisle MacDonald. Because of the arrangement between Lindbergh and the Times, MacDonald had far greater access to the pilot than any other correspondent. In the meantime, Lindbergh had also agreed to provide an autobiography with a full account of the transatlantic flight to G. P. Putnam’s Sons. Putnam’s, as a matter of course, engaged a ghostwriter for the work: Carlisle MacDonald. To the publisher’s surprise, Lindbergh would not approve MacDonald's account, which he found to be overly dramatic and inaccurate. He vowed to write the book himself—and did so in some three weeks. The present Memorandum of Agreement demonstrates, however, that Lindbergh remained in MacDonald’s debt. And while it is not reflected in the agreement, which gives the tentative title of the book as His Own Story, it was MacDonald who came up with the title "We" a pronoun that the aviator frequently employed when speaking of his triumphant flight. According to the dust-jacket of the first edition, the pronoun title refers to Lindbergh's view of a deep "spiritual" partnership that had developed "between himself and his airplane during the dark hours of his flight." The book was published with a less obscure subtitle: The Daring Flyer's Remarkable Life Story and his Account of the Transatlantic Flight that Shook the World. The present Agreement states that Lindbergh will share his royalties on the book with MacDonald on the following schedule: 10% of the first $100,000; 7 ½ % on the next $100,000; and 5% on any amount above $200,000. In return, "MacDonald agrees to render Lindbergh every possible assistance in the preparation of the book which Lindbergh has agreed to furnish to Putnams; releases to Lindbergh for use in the said book or otherwise, any and all rights in articles written by Lindbergh with MacDonald’s assistance for the New York Times … and releases any and all claims which he may have against Lindbergh for all services of every kind to date." The Agreement also notes that Arthur Hays Sulzberger had released the Times’s copyright on the Lindbergh-MacDonald articles. The accompanying map is dated the day before Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field, and it was evidently used in planning his record-breaking flight. It was presumably given by him to MacDonald sometime after his arrival in France. PROVENANCE: Sotheby's New York, 18 June 2004, lot 403 (undesignated consignor) ⁠— Ira Lipman, his sale, Sotheby's New York, 4 June 2013, lot 108

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Books and Manuscripts from the Collection of Jay I. Kislak. Sold to Benefit the Kislak Family Foundation. 

Lindbergh, Charles Typed document signed by Lindbergh ("Charles A. Lindbergh") and Carlisle MacDonald ("J. Carlisle MacDonald"), being a memorandum of agreement for the publication of a book on Lindbergh’s trans-Atlantic flight by G. P. Putnam’s 2 pages (280 x 216 mm), [New York,] 14 June 1927, neatly attached to a blue legal file docket, being a memorandum of agreement for the publication of a book on Lindbergh’s trans-Atlantic flight by G. P. Putnam’s; light creases. [Accompanied by:] a printed outline map of the Northern Atlantic Ocean bounded by North America and the west coasts of Europe and Northern Africa (456 x 205 mm on paper watermarked with the seal of the United States), with grid of latitude and longitude lines, dated in pencil lower right "5-19-27" and annotated in pencil and red pen as an aviation weather map with streamlines and high- and low-pressure areas; light creases. Author and ghostwriter—and author: the writing of "We", the aviator’s firsthand account of his historic transatlantic flight. In 1919, a New York City hotel owner named Raymond Orteig offered $25,000 to the first person to fly nonstop from New York to Paris. By 1927, the prize had still not been claimed, although six pilots had lost their lives in the attempt. Lindbergh convinced a group of St. Louis businessmen to underwrite a plane built to his own design modifications. Ryan Aeronautical Company of San Diego produced The Spirit of St. Louis, and after a cross-country shakedown flight, Lindbergh took off, 20 May, from Roosevelt Field near New York City at 7:52 a.m. He landed at Le Bourget Field near Paris at 10:21 p.m., 21 May. He had covered some 3,600 miles in thirty-three and one-half hours and won not only the Orteig Prize but the adulation of much of the world. Before he left New York, Lindbergh contracted with the New York Times for the exclusive rights to his own story of the flight—if it was successful. The front-page story of his safe landing and many subsequent feature stories published in the Times before the return to New York of the aviator and his plane aboard the U.S.S. Memphis, 11 June 1927, carried the by-line of Charles Lindbergh, but they were actually written by the paper’s Paris correspondent, Carlisle MacDonald. Because of the arrangement between Lindbergh and the Times, MacDonald had far greater access to the pilot than any other correspondent. In the meantime, Lindbergh had also agreed to provide an autobiography with a full account of the transatlantic flight to G. P. Putnam’s Sons. Putnam’s, as a matter of course, engaged a ghostwriter for the work: Carlisle MacDonald. To the publisher’s surprise, Lindbergh would not approve MacDonald's account, which he found to be overly dramatic and inaccurate. He vowed to write the book himself—and did so in some three weeks. The present Memorandum of Agreement demonstrates, however, that Lindbergh remained in MacDonald’s debt. And while it is not reflected in the agreement, which gives the tentative title of the book as His Own Story, it was MacDonald who came up with the title "We" a pronoun that the aviator frequently employed when speaking of his triumphant flight. According to the dust-jacket of the first edition, the pronoun title refers to Lindbergh's view of a deep "spiritual" partnership that had developed "between himself and his airplane during the dark hours of his flight." The book was published with a less obscure subtitle: The Daring Flyer's Remarkable Life Story and his Account of the Transatlantic Flight that Shook the World. The present Agreement states that Lindbergh will share his royalties on the book with MacDonald on the following schedule: 10% of the first $100,000; 7 ½ % on the next $100,000; and 5% on any amount above $200,000. In return, "MacDonald agrees to render Lindbergh every possible assistance in the preparation of the book which Lindbergh has agreed to furnish to Putnams; releases to Lindbergh for use in the said book or otherwise, any and all rights in articles written by Lindbergh with MacDonald’s assistance for the New York Times … and releases any and all claims which he may have against Lindbergh for all services of every kind to date." The Agreement also notes that Arthur Hays Sulzberger had released the Times’s copyright on the Lindbergh-MacDonald articles. The accompanying map is dated the day before Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field, and it was evidently used in planning his record-breaking flight. It was presumably given by him to MacDonald sometime after his arrival in France. PROVENANCE: Sotheby's New York, 18 June 2004, lot 403 (undesignated consignor) ⁠— Ira Lipman, his sale, Sotheby's New York, 4 June 2013, lot 108

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lindbergh, charles | a memorandum of agreement for the publication of a book on his transatlantic flight

nickel lever movement, 15 jewels, bi-metallic compensation balance, silvered matte dial, roman numerals, the concentric rings around revolving inner disk calibrated to determine the Greenwich hour angle of the heavenly body observed, outer ring for 180 degrees, middle ring for 60 minutes, inner ring for 15 degrees of arc, the bezel divided into 15 minutes, circular case, the case back inscribed LONGINES LINDBERGH HOUR ANGLE WATCH, INVENTED BY Col. Chas. A. Lindbergh, U.S. PAT. NOS. 1923305, case, dial and movement signed.

nickel lever movement, 17 jewels, mono-metallic compensation balance, steel cuvette, white enamel dial, arabic numerals, central revolving silvered disc calibrated for 60, oversized stainless steel hinged case, large spherical winder, case, dial and movement signed.

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automatic, fully jewelled, silvered dial displaying time, hours, minutes and longitude, Roman numerals, circular-shaped case, tapered leather strap together with additional strap, manufacturer's presentation case and papers

automatic, fully jewelled, silvered dial displaying time, hours, minutes and longitude, Roman numerals, circular-shaped case, tapered leather strap together with additional strap, manufacturer's presentation case and papers diameter 36mm

a stainless steel commemorative wristwatch marking the 60th anniversary of charles a. lindbergh's historic flight which opened the atlantic to aviation longines 'hour angle watch' recent

Presidential and Other American Manuscripts from the Dr. Robert Small Trust

Typed letter signed, 2 pages (11 x 8  1/2  in.; 279 x 216 mm), Darien, Connecticut, 16 March 1954, to Jesse Davidson, Forest Hills, New York, responding to Davidson's queries about U.S. Air Mail service between 1918 and 1927; leaves stapled together in upper left corner.  With a carbon copy of Davidson's letter to Lindburgh, 12 March 1954.

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Typed letter signed, 1 page (11 x 8 1/2 in.; 279 x 217 mm), Darien, CT, 15 April 1962 to President John F. Kennedy's personal secretary, Evelyn Lincoln; marginal light yellowing Accompanied by: Photograph of President Kennedy, Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles A. Lindbergh (8 1/8 x 10 in.; 207 x 254mm), 12 May 1962 by R. L. Knudsen (stamped on verso).

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The Library of an English Bibliophile, Part V

8vo (240 x 160mm.), AUTHOR'S AUTOGRAPH EDITION, NUMBER 494 OF 1000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, two etchings and numerous plates comprising photographic illustrations, original parchment-backed boards lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover, original glassine, original publisher's box, collector's chemise and blue morocco-backed slipcase, glassine slightly worn at extremities with occasional tears, some minor repairs to publisher's box

"we". new york: g.p. putnam's sons, 1927

The Spirit of St. Louis. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953

Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana. Part 2

Property of a New York Collector Lindbergh, Charles A small archive of maps and documents relating to Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's 1931 "North to the Orient" flight from the United States to Japan and China, by the northern route over the Arctic frontier of Canada and Alaska, and Kamchatka peninsula, later documented by Mrs. Lindbergh in her book of that title Comprising: Map of the Northwest Territories (995 x 1020 mm), Department of the Interior, Canada, 1929, printed in colors, signed and inscribed lower right, in pencil, "Lindbergh, Orient Flight—1931"; creased, a few short fold separations. Portion of a printed map of Lake Champlain, Northern Vermont and New Hampshire (312 x 487 mm), n.d., printed recto and verso in colors, signed and inscribed lower right, in pencil, "Lindbergh, Orient Flight 1931" in pencil, with plot line in pencil and one location note in red pencil. Portion of a printed map of Quebec & Ontario (725 x 564 mm at largest dimensions, but cut to an L shape), n.d., printed in colors, signed and inscribed lower right, in pencil, "Lindbergh, Orient flight—1931" and with autograph navigational notations. Rand McNally Standard Map of China and Japan (512 x 707 mm), n.d., printed in colors, signed and inscribed lower right, "Lindbergh, Orient flight—1931" and with numerous autograph pencil plotting and navigational notations. Very large, bi-lingual Postal Map of China (1500 x 1575 mm), Shanghai, 1920, printed in colors, signed and inscribed lower right, in pencil, "Lindbergh, (Orient flight—1931)"; rather worn, with marginal chips and tears and loss at upper left corner. Carte du District Postal de Hupeh | Postal Map of Hupeh District, n.d., printed in colors, signed and inscribed lower right, "Lindbergh, (Orient flight—1931)" and with route markings and 9 towns circled in pencil. Mimeographed typescript, Pan American Airways report "Radio on Lindbergh Tokyo Flight," 30 pp. in a brown paper binder, including chart of "Lindbergh’s Flight from Washington, DC, to Tokyo July 29 to Aug 26 1931." The report concludes, "In closing, I wish to again thank the Navy, Army and foreign stations for the wholehearted cooperation with the radio work. The success of the flight and operation of the radio equipment aboard the plane was due in no small measure to Mrs. Lindbergh’s ability. No failure of equipment was experienced during the entire flight," signed in mimeograph, "HC __ Chief Comm Engineer/ Pan American Airways System, July 7, 1932, New York City." A collection of 13 telegrams and QSL postcards from Japanese ham radio operators to the Lindberghs, 19 to 30 August 1931, some with original envelopes, some bearing Japanese postage. Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Autograph telegram draft signed ("A. M. Lindbergh"), in pencil, on verso of a telegram to Col. and Mrs Lindbergh, from Carroll, WOA Pan American Airways, Aug 3 1931, with instructions for radio contact. Approximately 30 items, including some related ephemera, including 3 further copies of the chart of Lindbergh's flight from Washington to Tokyo. Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow were married on 27 May 1929. Over the next two years, the celebrity couple traveled throughout the country, Charles as a consultant for Transcontinental Air Transport and Pan American Airways. He also taught Anne to fly. In the winter of 1930–1931, the couple envisioned a new adventure, a flight to Japan by way of the north Pacific, with Anne would be the co-pilot and radio operator. They spent six months preparing for the trip, prioritizing items to pack, and studying maps and charts, as Lindbergh had in 1927 for the trans-Atlantic flight. On July 28, 1931, they took off, charting a course over Ontario and the Northwest Territories of Canada. They then flew over the Bering Sea. In August, they arrived on Hokkaido Island, Japan. Charles and Anne continued their travels through China, which included relief work, but the expedition was discontinued when news reached them of the death of Anne’s father, Senator Dwight Morrow. Before leaving, Chiang Kai-shek awarded Charles and Anne the National Medal. PROVENANCE: The Archives of the the American Geographical Society (Christie's New York, 19 June 2007, lot 272)

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lindbergh, charles | "north to the orient"

English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations Online

LINDBERGH, CHARLES A. "We". New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1927 8vo, AUTHOR'S AUTOGRAPH EDITION, NUMBER 140 OF 1,000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, two etchings and numerous plates comprising photographic illustrations, original parchment-backed boards lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover, bumped [together with:] "$25,000.00 REWARD", 1 pp. typescript broadside issued by Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf, dated May 26, 1932, calling for "information which shall result in the apprehension and conviction of the kidnaper [sic] or kidnapers of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.", watermark, spotting, tear to left margin, two folds, adhesive residue to corners, minor chipping to extremities THE AUTOGRAPH EDITION OF LINDBERGH'S HUGELY POPULAR 'INSTANT' AUTOBIOGRAPHY, coinciding with his three-month tour of the country in which was seen by more than thirty million Americans, then a quarter of the country's population. The trade edition of We sold more than 650,000 copies in the first year. In 1932 Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was kidnapped from his family's home in New Jersey. The "crime of the century" resulted in kidnapping being classified as a federal offence if the victim is taken across state lines. Please note, Condition 11 of the Conditions of Business for Buyers (Online Only) is not applicable to this lot. To view shipping calculator, please click here

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Partly printed map, n.p., 19 May 1927, being a flight map from Lindbergh's first trans-Atlantic flight, emended in both ink and pencil by Lindbergh; marginal soiling.

Partly printed map, n.p., 19 May 1927, being a flight map from Lindbergh's first trans-Atlantic flight, emended in both ink and pencil by Lindbergh; marginal soiling. [With:]  Typed document signed ("Charles A. Lindbergh"), 2 pages (8 x 10 in.; 204 x 254 mm), n.p. [New York], 14 June 1927; neatly attached to a blue legal docket, very light browning.

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Typed manuscript signed ("Charles A. Lindbergh"), 2 pages (8 x 10 in.; 204 x 254 mm), [Maui], 29 September 1968; light smudging.  Each leaf framed and glazed.

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Typed letter signed ("Charles A. Lindbergh"), 1 page (7 x 6 1/4 in.; 178 x 160 mm), no place [possibly East Amwell, New Jersey], 18 February 1929, to Hon. Clyde Kelly in Washington D.C.; formerly folded, lightly browned.

Fine collection of approximately 42 items including autograph and typed letters signed by himself and his wife Anne, photographs, souvenir programs, postcards and other memorabilia, 1927–1983, as follows:

Fine collection of approximately 42 items including autograph and typed letters signed by himself and his wife Anne, photographs, souvenir programs, postcards and other memorabilia, 1927–1983, as follows: 1. San Diego Chamber of Commerce. Citizen's "We" Banquet Program signed ("C.A. Lindbergh"), 4 pages on a bifolium (7 x 5 1/2 in.; 178 x 140 mm); traces of mounting in fore-edges of first and last pages. Blue cloth folding-case, gilt-stamped title on spine and upper cover. 2. Autograph note signed "C.A.L.", notecard (3 x 5 in.; 76 x 127 mm),no place or date, typewritten at top is citation of Carl Spaatz, "Strategic Air Power," Foreign Affairs, April 1946, vol. 24, pages 385-396, Lindbergh writes: "Marvin McFarland, Congressional Library, says this is probably the best article Spaatz has written." On the verso: "The Cong. Library has the negative of the Kitty Hawk first flight—much clearer than most prints one sees" and then gives McFarland's address, and concludes "This is the one of the plane just taking off —Wilbur W. at wing." Cream cloth folding-case, gilt-stamped title label on spine. 3. Russell J. Birdwell. "Covering the Air," autograph manuscript signed at title, 29 pages (11 x 8 1/2 in.; 280 x 215 mm), [New York City], 30 November 1927, a first-hand account of Lindbergh's take-off from Roosevelt Field, 20 May 1927 on his transatlantic flight to Paris, recounting how The Daily Mirror had scooped all other reporters on this event, by bribing a telephone operator with several pairs of silk stockings, and printing an account of the take-off while Lindbergh was still on the ground. 4. Typed letter signed ("Charles A. Lindbergh"), 2 pages (9 7/8 x 7 3/4 in.; 250 x 198 mm), Long Barn, Sevenoaks, Kent, 21 September 1936, with stamped envelope, to Martin Engstrom in Little Falls, Minnesota, offering guidance on restoring his farm property. 5. Typed letter signed ("Charles A. Lindbergh"), 1 page (11 x 8 1/4 in.; 280 x 210 mm), Vaud, Switzerland, 16 August 1967, to Cass Canfield, Harper & Row, New York City, refusing to cooperate with a planned biography by [Walter S.] Ross, published in 1968 as The Last Hero; a few pencil notes in top margin. 6. Typed letter signed ("Charles A. Lindbergh"), 1 page (11 x 8 1/2 in.; 280 x 215 mm), Vaud, Switzerland, 7 August 1969, to Margaret K. Thompson, Guidance Associates, Pleasantville, New York, mentioning the flight of Apollo XI, his appreciation of her photographs, and on his favorite nature magazines. 7. Typed letter signed ("Charles A. Lindbergh"), 1 page (11 x 8 1/2 in.; 280 x 215 mm) on the letterhead of the Lindbergh Cattle Company, but Darien, Connecticut, 29 December 1968, to Margaret K. Thompson, Harcourt Brace & World, Pleasantville, New York, on scheduling times for further recordings, comments and readings for an impending publication (perhaps the Wartime Journals). Items 3-7 in a green cloth folding-case, gilt-stamped title label on spine. Plus 35 additional items including autograph and typed letters signed by Lindbergh and by his wife and transcripts thereof, signed and unsigned photos, postcards, commemorative envelopes, souvenir programs, menus, and a contract for his life story with the Daily Mirror from 1927; in various states of preservation. In a black half morocco drop-box, gilt-stamped title on spine.

The Library of a Distinguished American Book Collector

Typed document signed by Lindbergh ("Charles A. Lindbergh") and Carlisle MacDonald (“J. Carlisle MacDonald”), 2 pages (8 1/2 x 11 in.; 216 x 280 mm), [New York,] 14 June 1927, neatly attached to a blue legal file docket, being a memorandum of agreement for the publication of a book on Lindbergh’s trans-Atlantic flight by G. P. Putnam’s; light creases. [accompanied by:] a printed outline map of the Northern Atlantic Ocean bounded by North America and the west coasts of Europe and Northern Africa (10 x 18 in.; 205 x 456 mm on paper watermarked with the seal of the United States), with grid of latitude and longitude lines, dated in pencil lower right  “5-19-27” and annotated in pencil and red pen as an aviation weather map with streamlines and high- and low-pressure areas; light creases.

Property of a New York Collector Lindbergh, Charles Four signed and annotated maps, including two portions of a map used in planning for his iconic 1927 trans-Atlantic flight Comprising: Portion of a hydrographic map of the Western and Southern Atlantic Ocean, No. 955, 40th edition, May 1925 (but with small corrections printed through October 1926 and with date stamp from the Navy Hydrographic Office, Navy Department, 29 January 1927), trimmed to trapezoidal shape (890 x 492 mm at greatest dimensions), inscribed and initialed lower left margin, "Unused portion of chart for New York-Paris flight, 1927 C.A.L." Portion of a hydrographic map of the Middle and Eastern Region of Atlantic Ocean, No. 956, 31st edition, March 1926 (but with small corrections printed through September 1926 and with date stamp from the Navy Hydrographic Office, Navy Department, 29 January 1927), trimmed to trapezoidal shape (1090 x 452 mm at greatest dimensions), inscribed and initialed lower right, "Unused portion of chart for New York-Paris flight—1927 C.A.L." Rand McNally Standard Map of Wisconsin (707 x 530 mm), n.d., the recto printed in yellow with railroad lines shown, the verso printed in blue with main highways show, the recto signed ("Lindbergh") lower left in pencil and with autograph flight paths plotted in pencil, including Chicago to Minneapolis, 10-mile intervals ticked off and 50-mile intervals noted with numerals; quite creased, two short internal fold separation and one marginal chip. Rand McNally New Official Railroad Map of the United States and Southern Canada (734 x 993 mm), n.d., signed ("Lindbergh") lower right; creased, several fold separations without loss. Together 4 maps. In 1919, a New York hotelier, Raymond Orteig, offered a prize of $25,000 to the first person to fly solo, non-stop, from New York City to Paris (or vice versa). Several individuals, lured by the prize and by the possibility of fame, either attempted the feat, or were planning to do so, before 20 May 1927. It was on this day that Charles Lindbergh, in the cockpit of the Spirit of St. Louis, flew from Roosevelt Airfield in Garden City, New York, to Le Bourget Airport in Paris. Lindbergh’s plane was designed by Donald Hall and built by Ryan Aeronautical Company in San Diego, California, but on his vision of what would work: a one-engine plane with one cockpit and one set of wings. All of these modifications allowed Lindbergh to carry more fuel. Before attempting the trans-Atlantic flight, Lindbergh had to fly the Spirit of St. Louis from San Diego to New York. On 7 March 1927, according to biographer A. Scott Berg, Lindbergh flew to Los Angeles and visited a map store, purchasing "every chart he could imagine necessary for his Atlantic crossing—Mercator’s projections, a gnomonic projection, a time-zone chart of the world, a chart of magnetic variation, and even a few maps showing prevailing winds over the Atlantic during the spring months." For the trip to New York, he purchased "the trusty guides he had always used, Rand McNally railroad maps available in drugstores for fifty cents per state" (pp. 101–102). The two unused portions of the hydrographic maps included here may have been cut out in order to save weight and, so, fuel, although the savings could not have been very great. PROVENANCE: The Archives of the American Geographical Society (Christie's New York, 19 June 2007, lot 271)

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lindbergh, charles | cartographic relics of lindbergh's 1927 flight across the atlantic

Luxe: The Art of the Table

each struck on one side with the Spirit of St. Louis flying over choppy seas, surrounded by Raymond Orteig $25,000 Prize Fund above engraved inscription, and on the other Captain Charles A. Lindberg May 20-21, 1927, surrounded by Non-stop flight - New York to Paris, suspended from a French tricolor ribbon below a chased gold bar

charles lindbergh's award-winning flight: two american gold medals, circa 1927

each  struck on one side with the Spirit of St. Louis flying over choppy seas, surrounded by Raymond Orteig $25,000 Prize Fund above engraved inscription, and on the other Captain Charles A. Lindberg May 20-21, 1927, surrounded by Non-stop flight - New York to Paris, suspended from a French tricolor ribbon below a chased gold bar, the medal stamped at top 18K and ?R&L

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Tirage argentique d’époque, (354 x 279 mm). Déchirures dans les marges (sur le bord droit, sur 3,7 mm sans atteinte à l’image et en bas à droite sur 8 mm).

Tirage argentique d’époque, (354 x 279 mm). Déchirures dans les marges (sur le bord droit, sur 3,7 mm sans atteinte à l’image et en bas à droite sur 8 mm).Envoi autographe signé, à l’encre noire :"For Antoine de Saint ExupéryCharles A. LindberghAugust 6, 1939".

portrait dédicacé à antoine de saint-exupéry, 1939.

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. Magnificent Books and Bindings

Phalaridis. [Epistolae] Le bellissime è sententiose lettere di Falari prencipe d'Agrigento in Sicilia, di nuouo tradotte dalla greca nella fauella toscana. Venice: Venturino Ruffinelli for Curzio Troiano Navò, 1545

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phalaris, le lettere, venice, 1545, parisian armorial calf binding for jean ii brinon

Bibliotheca Brookeriana VIII

PHALARIDIS. [Epistolae] Le bellissime è sententiose lettere di Falari prencipe d'Agrigento in Sicilia, di nuouo tradotte dalla greca nella fauella toscana. Venice: Venturino Ruffinelli for Curzio Troiano Navò, 1545

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