Books & Manuscripts

1. Adams, John

Printed document signed ("John Adams"), being a four-language ship's passport

Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 USD

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2. Allen, Ethan

Reason the Only Oracle of Man, or a Compendious System of Natural Religion. Bennington, VT: Haswell & Russell, 1784

Estimate: 10,000 – 15,000 USD

BIDDING IS CLOSED

3. The Birds of America. New York : VG Audubon, 1856 — The Quadrupeds of North America. New York: V.G. Audubon, 1856

Estimate: 20,000 – 30,000 USD

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4. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Newly translated out of the Original Tongues; and with the former Translations Diligently compared and revised. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by R[obert] Aitken, 1782; 1781

Estimate: 35,000 – 50,000 USD

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5. Bowen, Emanuel

A New Map of Georgia with parts of Carolina, Florida and Louisiana. Drawn from Original Draughts, assisted by the most approved Maps and Charts. [London: 1748; 1764]

Estimate: 2,500 – 3,500 USD

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6. Cherokee Alphabet. Characters as arranged by the Inventor ... Characters systematically arranged with the sounds ... Sounds represented by vowels ... Consonant sounds. [New Echota, Georgia: General Council of the Cherokee Nation, ca. 1834]

Estimate: 8,000 – 12,000 USD

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7. A fine and extensive collection of 264 official Confederate imprints, mostly handbills or octavo pamphlets, generally wrappered, sewn, or caption-titled as issued, generally in very good condition, apart from some light browning, including:

Estimate: 8,000 – 12,000 USD

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8. Coxe, Daniel

A Description of the English Province of Carolina, By the Spaniards call'd Florida, And by the French La Louisiane. London: For Edward Symon, 1727

Estimate: 6,000 – 8,000 USD

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9. Curtis, Edward S.

The North American Indian. [Cambridge, Massachusetts: University Press], 1913

Estimate: 6,000 – 8,000 USD

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10. Deane, Silas

Autograph letter signed ("J. H. Longueville"), to "Mon Cher Frère" [John Jay]

Estimate: 5,000 – 7,000 USD

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11. Gates, Horatio

Letter signed ("Horatio Gates"), to Major General John Thomas

Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 USD

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12. The Sugar Act, a working manuscript draft

Estimate: 15,000 – 25,000 USD

BIDDING IS CLOSED