Books and Manuscripts Auction (Freeman’s)

Subjects include: Ethnography, Exploration, Natural History, Science, Topography, Antiquarianism, Early Printing, Early Manuscripts & Autographs, Americana, Modern Poetry. A few highlights:

George French Angas’s The New Zealanders Illustrated $6000-10,000; Emily Eden’s Portraits of the Princes & People of India. $12,000-18,000; Thomas Pennant’s British Zoology ($10,000-15,000);. Antiquities of the Russian Empire (London, 1855 and Moscow, 1849-1853). $50,000-80,000; Edward Kingsborough’s Antiquities of Mexico $30,000-50,000; David Roberts’s The Holy Land (1842-1849) $40,000-70,000; a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible. $40,000-60,000; Harvey’s Scenes of the Primitive Forests of America $8,000 – 12,000; Kendall’s The War between the United States and Mexico $6,000 – 10,000; a 13th Century Portable Manuscript Latin Bible $40,000-60,000; Brasher’s Birds and Trees of North America $15,000-25,000;  Webster’s An American Dictionary of the English Language $5,000-8,000; The Antiquities of Athens $5,000-8,000, and more. Full catalogue here.