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Mary Shelley.
Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus
. London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, 1818.
Auction 6295
| Lot: 45161 | Jun 27, 2024
Sold For:
$843,750.00
Make Offer to Owner
$1,328,906 or more
[World War II, Bombing of Hiroshima]. Autograph Logbook of Capt. Robert A. Lewis [USAAF, Co-Pilot of the
Enola Gay
], containing the only IN-FLIGHT account of the "Little Boy" mission and the bombing of Hiroshima, Japan.
August 6, 1945. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6258
| Lot: 42029 | Jul 16, 2022
Sold For:
$543,000.00
Francis Moore, Jr.
Map and Description of Texas, containing Sketches of its History, Geology, Geography and Statistics:
Auction 6281
| Lot: 60064 | Dec 2, 2023
Sold For:
$519,000.00
J. K. Rowling.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
[London]: Bloomsbury, [1997]. First edition in hardcover, with "1 wand" listed twice on page 53 and without a space between "Taylor and "1997" on the seventh line of the publisher's imprint, as called for.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45062 | Dec 9, 2021
Sold For:
$471,000.00
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The Great Gatsby
. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925.
Auction 6295
| Lot: 45062 | Jun 27, 2024
Sold For:
$425,000.00
Make Offer to Owner
$637,500 or more
Sir Isaac Newton.
Autograph Manuscript, Notes on Physics and Solid Geometry, with Two Diagrams
.
In Latin. [Oxford: 1694].
Auction 6218
| Lot: 45150 | Sep 4, 2019
Sold For:
$399,000.00
Chair Used by J.K. Rowling whilst Writing the First Two Harry Potter Books
,
Later Hand-Painted and Signed by Rowling Herself
. The chair is accompanied by Rowling's signed letter "by Owl Post" describing the history and provenance. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6155
| Lot: 45297 | Apr 6, 2016
Sold For:
$394,000.00
Arthur Conan Doyle. Complete Autographed Manuscript Signed ("
Conan Doyle
") of "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter."
[London,
circa
early 1893].
Auction 6258
| Lot: 42005 | Jul 16, 2022
Sold For:
$350,000.00
[
Petrus Apianus].
Astronomicum Caesareum
.
[Ingolstadt: In aedibus nostris, May 1540]. First edition of the "most spectacular contribution of the book-maker's art to sixteenth-century science" (Owen Gingerich).
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45195 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$325,000.00
[Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay].
The Federalist:
A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787.
New York: Printed and Sold by J. and A. M'Lean, 1788. First edition in book form of the collected essays, one of the scarce "thick paper" copies. This copy
personally gifted by James Madison
to early United States diplomat and overseas consul James Maury. Both volumes with holograph note in Maury's hand at recto of front flyleaf, "James Maury / From Mr Madison / one of the supposed / authors."
Auction 6222
| Lot: 45031 | Mar 4, 2020
Sold For:
$312,500.00
J. R. R. Tolkien.
The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again
. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1937.
Auction 6295
| Lot: 45186 | Jun 27, 2024
Sold For:
$300,000.00
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$450,000 or more
Henry David Thoreau.
Walden; or Life in the Woods
. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.
Auction 6295
| Lot: 45185 | Jun 27, 2024
Sold For:
$275,000.00
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$412,500 or more
Francis Moore, Jr.:
Map and Description of Texas
,
...
Auction 661
| Lot: 56103 | Dec 1, 2007
Sold For:
$274,850.00
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. The Federalist:
...
Auction 683
| Lot: 57044 | Jun 4, 2008
Sold For:
$262,900.00
J. R. R. Tolkien.
The Lord of the Rings
: comprising
The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers,
and
The Return of the King.
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1954-1955.
Auction 6323
| Lot: 45109 | Dec 15, 2025
Sold For:
$250,000.00
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$375,000 or more
J. K. Rowling.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
[London]: Bloomsbury, [1997]. First edition in hardcover, with all points as called for.
Auction 6258
| Lot: 42011 | Jul 16, 2022
Sold For:
$225,000.00
Make Offer to Owner
$337,500 or more
Neal Cassady (1926-1968). The Joan Anderson Letter to Jack Kerouac (1922-1969).
Denver: 17 December 1950. Typed letter of eighteen pages with autograph content and with autograph additions, deletions, and edits, by hand in pencil and ink.
Auction 6174
| Lot: 45378 | Mar 8, 2017
Sold For:
$206,250.00
[Robert S. Mulliken]. Nobel Prize Medal in Chemistry
for his development of Molecular Orbital Theory.
Auction 6323
| Lot: 45341 | Dec 15, 2025
Sold For:
$200,000.00
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$300,000 or more
[Continental Congress President Cyrus Griffin].
The Proceedings of the Convention of Delegates, Held at the Capitol, In the City of Williamsburg, In the Colony of Virginia, on Monday the 6th of May, 1776
.
Auction 6108
| Lot: 36141 | Apr 2, 2014
Sold For:
$197,000.00
Alexander Gardner.
Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War.
Washington, D.C.: Philp and Solomons, [1865-66]. Two oblong folio volumes. Approximately 12 x 16 inches.
Auction 6085
| Lot: 36009 | Apr 11, 2012
Sold For:
$194,500.00
Make Offer to Owner
$291,750 or more
Sir Isaac Newton.
Philosophiæ
naturalis principia mathematica
.
London: Jussu Societatis Regiæ ac Typis Josephi Streater. Prostant Venales apud Samuelis Smith...nonnullos Bibliopolas, 1687.
Auction 6038
| Lot: 37134 | Feb 12, 2010
Sold For:
$191,200.00
[Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay].
The Federalist:
A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution,
as Agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.[- Vol. II.]. New-York: Printed and Sold by J. and A. M'Lean, 1788. First complete edition in book form of "The Federalist Papers"-"the most famous and influential American political work" (Howes), and "one of the new nation's most important contributions to the theory of government" (
Printing and the Mind of Man
). One of 500 copies printed. (Total: 2)
Auction 6208
| Lot: 45214 | Mar 6, 2019
Sold For:
$187,500.00
[J. Robert Schrieffer]. Nobel Prize Medal in Physics
for his co-development of the BCS theory of superconductivity. 1972.
Auction 31179
| Lot: 70001 | Jan 9, 2026
Sold For:
$187,500.00
Make Offer to Owner
$281,250 or more
[Declaration of Independence].
The New-England Chronicle.
Volume VIII. Numb. 413.
Boston: Powars and Willis, July 18, 1776.
Auction 6232
| Lot: 45372 | Jun 9, 2021
Sold For:
$175,000.00
[Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay].
The Federalist:
A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787.
In Two Volumes. New-York: Printed and Sold by J. and A. M'Lean, 1788. First collected edition of the "Federalist Papers," one of only 500 copies printed. From the library of Samuel Boyd, prominent New York lawyer and one of a powerful group of Federalists, who, led by Alexander Hamilton, would found the
New-York Evening Post
(now
New York Post
) in 1801, with his ink signature on each title-page. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6164
| Lot: 45010 | Sep 15, 2016
Sold For:
$175,000.00
David Roberts.
The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia
.
From Drawings Made on the Spot by David Roberts, R.A. With Historical Descriptions, by the Revd. George Croly, L.L.D. Lithographed by Louis Haghe. London: F. G. Moon, 1842-1849. (Total: 6 Items)
Auction 6038
| Lot: 37089 | Feb 12, 2010
Sold For:
$167,300.00
Joseph Smith, Jr.
The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, Upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi
.
Auction 6289
| Lot: 45063 | Oct 11, 2024
Sold For:
$162,500.00
[Ernest Hemingway]. 1926 Underwood Standard Portable (Serial Number 183598).
Auction 6280
| Lot: 47073 | Dec 15, 2023
Sold For:
$162,500.00
[Bible in Latin].
[Mainz: Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust, ca. 1450-1455]. A single folio leaf on unwatermarked paper from the first volume of the Gutenberg Bible, f. [193] containing the Prologue of I Chronicles and the beginning of I Chronicles.
Auction 6232
| Lot: 45361 | Jun 9, 2021
Sold For:
$162,500.00
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The Great Gatsby.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First edition, first printing,
inscribed by the author
on the front-free endpaper: "For Tatnall Brown / from one, who / is flattered at / being remembered / F Scott Fitzgerald / Hollywood, 1939."
Auction 6186
| Lot: 45039 | Mar 7, 2018
Sold For:
$162,500.00
[Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley].
Frankenstein.
Or, The Modern Prometheus.
London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, 1818. First edition.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71090 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$162,500.00
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$243,750 or more
[Kelmscott Press]. Geoffrey Chaucer.
The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer now newly imprinted
.
[Hammersmith: Printed by me William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, 1896].
Auction 6038
| Lot: 37171 | Feb 12, 2010
Sold For:
$161,325.00
Stephen Austin:
Translations of the Laws, Orders, and Contracts, on Colonization
,
...
Auction 661
| Lot: 56016 | Dec 1, 2007
Sold For:
$155,350.00
J. R. R. Tolkien. Genealogy Chart and Autograph Manuscript:
Kinship of the Half-Elven
and
Concerning...The Hoard
with Transmittal Typed Letter Signed, (
"Ronald Tolkien"
).
[
Circa
1964].
Auction 6258
| Lot: 42010 | Jul 16, 2022
Sold For:
$150,000.00
Albert Einstein.
Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie.
Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1916. First separate edition, monograph issue.
The only signed copy to appear at auction, signed and later inscribed by the author in 1938, to the title page.
Auction 6258
| Lot: 42025 | Jul 16, 2022
Sold For:
$150,000.00
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$225,000 or more
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay.
The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787
.
In Two Volumes. Vol. I. New-York:
Auction 6038
| Lot: 37007 | Feb 12, 2010
Sold For:
$143,400.00
Jack Kerouac (John Louis Kerouac). Original Typescript of
The Dharma Bums
(published October 2, 1958), typed by Kerouac himself from his original scroll manuscript.1 This is the very draft Kerouac submitted to his publisher Viking Press in January 1958.
Auction 6174
| Lot: 45379 | Mar 8, 2017
Sold For:
$137,500.00
[Arne W. K. Tiselius].
Nobel Prize Medal in Chemistry
for his work on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis. 1948.
Auction 6280
| Lot: 47010 | Dec 15, 2023
Sold For:
$125,000.00
Make Offer to Owner
$196,875 or more
Martin Luther King, Jr. Signed Copy of
Stride Toward Freedom,
Inscribed to A. Philip Randolph.
Auction 6248
| Lot: 47090 | Oct 19, 2022
Sold For:
$125,000.00
Adam Smith.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
London: W. Strahan; T. Cadell, 1776. First edition.
Auction 6258
| Lot: 42001 | Jul 16, 2022
Sold For:
$125,000.00
Andreas Vesalius.
De humani corporis libri septem.
[Basile: Johannes Oporinus, June, 1543].
First edition of what is possibly the most famous medical book and certainly the most important anatomical work; it is also considered to be the most beautiful anatomical book of all time.
Auction 6091
| Lot: 36101 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$122,500.00
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$199,500 or more
Stephen F. Austin.
Genl. Austins Map of Texas with Parts of the Adjoining States.
Auction 6281
| Lot: 60097 | Dec 2, 2023
Sold For:
$118,750.00
Thomas Jefferson Presentation Copy of
A Manual of Parliamentary Practice
with Holographic Edits and an Autograph Letter Signed Transmitting the Book to Francis T. Brooke.
Auction 6080
| Lot: 34093 | Apr 11, 2012
Sold For:
$113,525.00
Adam Smith.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
. London: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6289
| Lot: 45015 | Oct 11, 2024
Sold For:
$112,500.00
Jane Austen.
Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes. By the Author of "Pride and Prejudice," &c. &c.
London: Printed for John Murray, 1816.
Auction 6295
| Lot: 45009 | Jun 27, 2024
Sold For:
$112,500.00
Make Offer to Owner
$168,750 or more
Christopher Marlowe.
The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta
. London: J[ohn]. B[eale]. for Nicholas Vavasour, 1633.
Auction 6295
| Lot: 45124 | Jun 27, 2024
Sold For:
$112,500.00
[Thomas Jefferson, his copy].
The Laws of the United States of America. Vol. VI
[-
VII
].
Auction 6280
| Lot: 47011 | Dec 15, 2023
Sold For:
$112,500.00
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.
Kinder- und Hausmärchen.
Göttingen: Dieterich, 1837. First enlarged (unabridged edition), and third edition overall.
An important presentation copy, inscribed by Wilhelm Grimm, "to dear Malchen Hassenpflug from her true friend..."
(Total: 2)
Auction 6234
| Lot: 45112 | Dec 16, 2020
Sold For:
$112,500.00
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