Rare Books, Autographs & Maps

Updated November 7, 2026

What's in this auction

356 lots, mostly comics & books (34), memorabilia & autographs (11), firearms & militaria (9), fine art & prints (8). 356 lots have photos and 355 have full descriptions. Pre-sale estimates $40–$350,000 across 356 priced lots. Bidding is online through the auction house's catalog, closing November 24, 2026.

Highest-estimated lots

• The greatest color plate book on the life and culture of the North America at the period — est. $250,000–$350,000
• McKenney and Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America — est. $70,000–$100,000
• Carbon copy typescript for Tortilla Flat presented by Steinbeck to a close friend, including fifteen — est. $40,000–$60,000
• A presentation copy of Darwin's first published book — est. $30,000–$50,000
• A handsome set of Purchas his Pilgrimes — est. $20,000–$30,000

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In this auction (356 lots)

Categories: Comics & Books (34) · Memorabilia & Autographs (11) · Firearms & Militaria (9) · Fine Art & Prints (8) · Pottery, China & Glass (3) · Sports & Trading Cards (1)

• Lot 0501 — A Revolutionary War issue of the Boston Gazette from 1780
• Lot 0502 — Western Union Edison Universal Type 3A Stock Ticker
• Lot 0503 — First edition of Farnham's Travels in the Californias, in the original cloth
• Lot 0504 — The rare published album of photographs depicting General Grant's funeral procession
• Lot 0505 — First edition of "the best account of the Santa Fé Expedition"
• Lot 0506 — An important inscribed copy of Dr. King's Stride Toward Freedom
• Lot 0507 — Presentation Edition of The Spirit of St. Louis signed by Lindbergh
• Lot 0508 — Louis E. Lomax, When the Word Is Given, signed to Betty Shabazz
• Lot 0509 — Pike's landmark American Southwest travel narrative
• Lot 0510 — Edmund Quincy's rare book on hemp and its cultivation, with a fine plate engraved by Paul Revere
• Lot 0511 — The document committing Malcolm X to prison in 1946
• Lot 0512 — An archive of Malcolm X photo materials, including negatives and press photos
• Lot 0513 — Curries & Ives colored lithograph of Washington's tomb
• Lot 0514 — The American Drawings of John White, 1577-1590
• Lot 0515 — Sinclair Lewis's copy of Weldon on American Negro Spirituals
• Lot 0516 — A Confederate guide to military surgery, illustrated with thirty plates
• Lot 0517 — One of 31 copies on hand-made paper of the Bohemian Club Grove Plays
• Lot 0518 — A compelling Union Civil War diary recording the tumultuous events of 1865
• Lot 0519 — Civil War diary belonging to John Wesley Hersey
• Lot 0520 — Three manuscript Civil War diaries
• Lot 0521 — William Farquhar Barry autograph letter signed
• Lot 0522 — Military appointment signed by Judah P. Benjamin, the first Jew to hold a Cabinet position in
• Lot 0523 — Simon Cameron signed military appointment as Secretary of War, with a clipped signature
• Lot 0524 — Bank check signed by Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a Founding Father
• Lot 0525 — Farewell Address of President Carter, signed
• Lot 0526 — Confederate enlistment document for the South Carolina Army
• Lot 0527 — An early General Custer document from his first command, ordering more supplies for his brigade
• Lot 0528 — Admiral Dahlgren orders Commander J.B. Creighton to prepare forces during the Battle of Tulifinny
• Lot 0529 — Jefferson Davis and John Brown Gordon clipped signatures
• Lot 0530 — Two autograph letters signed by Henry Dearborn to his children
• Lot 0531 — Samuel Francis Du Pont directs J.B. Creighton to assume command of the USS Ottawa
• Lot 0532 — Jubal Early autograph document signed from 1864
• Lot 0533 — Manuscript naval order signed by David Farragut weeks before the Battle of Mobile Bay
• Lot 0534 — Richard Gatling clipped signature
• Lot 0535 — Quincy Adams Gillmore manuscript document twice signed
• Lot 0536 — A fine Ulysses S. Grant signature, dated from City Point in the final weeks of the war
• Lot 0537 — An 1863 letter concerning clothing supplies for Confederate troops
• Lot 0538 — Heintzelman writes to Major General Halleck on the embarkation of troops
• Lot 0539 — General Thomas writes to the historian J.T. Headley regarding criticisms of his delayed movements in
• Lot 0540 — David Hunter signature with rank
• Lot 0541 — Two military appointments signed by Andrew Jackson as President, concerning James M. Bowman
• Lot 0542 — President Kennedy appoints a Special Assistant upon taking office
• Lot 0543 — A typed letter signed from John F. Kennedy as President
• Lot 0544 — Kennedy inscribes his Profiles in Courage
• Lot 0545 — Robert E. Lee writes to Colonel Samuel Cooper about quarters for the newly formed 2nd Cavalry
• Lot 0546 — Military appointment signed by Abraham Lincoln as President
• Lot 0547 — Abraham Lincoln autograph note signed concerning a "Mrs. Disney"
• Lot 0548 — James Longstreet clipped signature
• Lot 0549 — McClellan orders General Louis Blenker to dispatch three regiments to Bailey's Cross Roads
• Lot 0550 — Union Generals Meade and Hooker endorse a cavalry transfer
• Lot 0551 — Barack Obama signed photograph
• Lot 0552 — Horace Porter and John Ellis Wool autograph notes signed
• Lot 0553 — Winfield Scott free frank signed and addressed to Major Thomas Williams
• Lot 0554 — An imperial albumen print of Sheridan in uniform taken shortly before his death
• Lot 0555 — William T. Sherman clipped signature as General
• Lot 0556 — Manuscript endorsement signed by George Henry Thomas in 1863
• Lot 0557 — Two Gideon Welles autograph letters signed
• Lot 0558 — Military document signed "Bonaparte"
• Lot 0559 — Signed photograph of the Dalai Lama and signatures of Mother Teresa and Eleanor Roosevelt
• Lot 0560 — A fine document signed by Ferdinand III
• Lot 0561 — Emperor Franz Joseph signed document
• Lot 0562 — A fine Manet letter to a close friend
• Lot 0563 — Three limited works signed by Margaret Thatcher
• Lot 0564 — Brahms and Von Bülow write a musical joke for the great impresario Hermann Wolff
• Lot 0565 — A superb Brahms letter with observations on the use and abuse of the metronome
• Lot 0566 — Dvorak asks for tickets for the Berlin Philharmonic
• Lot 0567 — Franz Liszt settles a debt
• Lot 0568 — Franz Liszt recommends a violinist
• Lot 0569 — A Mahler autograph note signed
• Lot 0570 — Mendelssohn writes a song for his friend Tischendorf
• Lot 0571 — A short composition by Saint-Saëns for violin and barrel organ
• Lot 0572 — Clara Schumann mourns the death of her husband
• Lot 0573 — Signed manuscript of a Hugo Wolf lieder from the Italienisches Liederbuch
• Lot 0574 — William Blades's copy of a Cologne incunable printed by Zell
• Lot 0575 — A complete set of the first Aldine edition of Livy
• Lot 0576 — The Aldine Pliny of 1518
• Lot 0577 — The Mirror for Magistrates, an unrecorded issue
• Lot 0578 — A pair of works by Thomas Browne
• Lot 0579 — Boschini's guide to Venetian painting
• Lot 0580 — The earliest issue of Georg Wolfgang Knorr's famous illustrated book of fossils
• Lot 0581 — From the library of a woman scientist and collaborator with Darwin
• Lot 0582 — Transcripts of the 1794 Treason Trials, extra-illustrated with pencil sketches from the courtroom
• Lot 0583 — A manuscript collection of poems by Monk Lewis, presented by the author to a popular female novelist
• Lot 0584 — A complete set of the Musee Francais
• Lot 0585 — The Fishes of India, from the library of Maharaja Tagore
• Lot 0586 — A scarce directory of Parisian sex workers in 1880
• Lot 0587 — A Dollond spyglass
• Lot 0588 — A pair of antique military epaulets
• Lot 0589 — An intriguing brass combination lock
• Lot 0590 — Four intriguing brass objects
• Lot 0591 — A map-engraved powder horn depicting Ticonderoga
• Lot 0592 — Two brass puzzle boxes
• Lot 0593 — First edition of Hakluyt's Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries, with distinguished
• Lot 0594 — Third volume of the second edition of Hakluyt's Voyages and Navigations
• Lot 0595 — A fine set of Herrera's Decadas, with distinguished bibliophilic provenance
• Lot 0596 — An important early work on the Philippines
• Lot 0597 — A handsome set of Purchas his Pilgrimes
• Lot 0598 — A partial set of Purchas his pilgrimes
• Lot 0599 — A Description of Tangier, an uncommon work
• Lot 0600 — An important history of European exploration of the Amazon Basin
• Lot 0601 — The first edition in English of the most important source on the buccaneers
• Lot 0602 — First edition of Voyages from Asia to America, for Completing the Discoveries of the North West
• Lot 0603 — A scarce 18th-century sailor's guide
• Lot 0604 — De Beauchamp's History of Brazil. in the original wrappers
• Lot 0605 — One of the bloodiest mutinies in the history of whaling
• Lot 0606 — A presentation copy of Darwin's first published book
• Lot 0607 — Perry's Japan expedition in three volumes, profusely illustrated
• Lot 0608 — Shackleton's Heart of the Antarctic
• Lot 0609 — Shackleton's South!
• Lot 0610 — A fine compass made by Benjamin Martin
• Lot 0611 — Porcacchi and Porro on the most famous islands in the world
• Lot 0612 — Le Clerc's foundational work of early French cartography
• Lot 0613 — Vaugondy's Atlas Universel of 1757
• Lot 0614 — A complete set of Zatta's beautiful folio atlas
• Lot 0615 — One of the most influential early maps of the Americas
• Lot 0616 — The most important derivative of John Smith's Map of Virginia (Burden)
• Lot 0617 — Dutch map of the Americas depicting California as a peninsula
• Lot 0618 — A scarce map showing California in an intermediate state between an island and a peninsula
• Lot 0619 — Three nautical charts from the second edition of Sir Robert Dudley's groundbreaking atlas
• Lot 0620 — Justus Danckert's engraved map of New England
• Lot 0621 — Carolus Allard's rare map of North America
• Lot 0622 — Johann Baptist's decorative map of North America
• Lot 0623 — One of the last maps to show California as an island
• Lot 0624 — An important mid-18th century map of Quito, Ecuador
• Lot 0625 — The birth of a cartographic error: the Sea of the West and the Northwest Passage
• Lot 0626 — Carington Bowles's map after Jefferys of the Northwest Coast of America
• Lot 0627 — A large and significant Revolutionary War era map
• Lot 0628 — A scarce New Jersey map from Hamburg in 1797
• Lot 0629 — David Burr's large format map of New York City
• Lot 0630 — David Burr's Map of the Counties of New York, Queens, Kings, and Richmond
• Lot 0631 — Blaeu's map of the British Isles
• Lot 0632 — An attractively hand-colored map of Belgium by Blaeu
• Lot 0633 — Robert Walton's separately published A New Plaine and Exact Map of Europe...
• Lot 0634 — Jan Jansson's road map of the Roman Empire
• Lot 0635 — Ten engraved maps from the Supplement to Diderot's Encyclopedia
• Lot 0636 — Samuel Purchas's important map of China
• Lot 0637 — Walton's A New Plaine, and Exact Map of Asia
• Lot 0638 — One of the rarest and most decorative maps of Africa published in England in the 17th century
• Lot 0639 — Two 18th-century maps of Asia
• Lot 0640 — Two maps of China drawn by Sir John Barrow
• Lot 0641 — Decorative 18th-century map of the Arabian Peninsula
• Lot 0642 — The first octavo edition of Audubon's The Birds of America
• Lot 0643 — A colored copy of Baudoin's Exercise de l'Infanterie Francoise
• Lot 0644 — The greatest color plate book on the life and culture of the North America at the period
• Lot 0645 — Edwards Natural History, with superb plates of birds and animals in early color
• Lot 0646 — McKenney and Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America
• Lot 0647 — Suite of 16 finely hand-colored plates of imperial Austrian regiments
• Lot 0648 — Very rare hand-colored lithographs of the life of Napoleon, in an excellent contemporary binding
• Lot 0649 — Original drawings of Swiss regimental costumes
• Lot 0650 — The Tooth-Ache, illustrated by Cruikshank
• … and 206 more lots

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