Books and Manuscripts
Sale #6285
Auction features almost 300 lots of printed Americana, literature, art, maps, and more, led by an incredible rarity of philosophical thought, a first edition of John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government ($20,000-$30,000). Other top lots include rare first printings of the Journals of the Continental Congress for 1774-76 ($20,000-$30,000), and the Stamp Act ($15,000-$25,000), a first edition of Joyce’s Ulysses ($15,000-$25,000), and the earliest known extant manuscript of William Blackstone ($8,000-$12,000).
The sale offers a number of fine press productions including the Arion, Chelodiinae, and Kelmscott Presses, as well as a group of first editions of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels, some inscribed, from the estate of a personal friend of the author.
Rounding out the auction is an amazing archive of books and letters signed by African American poet and novelist Paul Laurence Dunbar ($10,000-$15,000), a rare and complete run of John Martin’s illustrations for Milton’s Paradise Lost ($10,000-$15,000), and autograph letter by Sigmund Freud discussing fellow psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich ($6,000-$9,000), a fine display of items signed by many key figures in the Dreyfus Affair ($4,000-$6,000), English cartographer John Speed’s first double hemisphere map in English ($4,000-$6,000), Presidential material, including signatures of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower, and more.
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Freeman's | Hindman - Philadelphia
2400 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA
