Auction Highlights: Printed & Manuscript Americana — June 12, 2025

At Auction Thursday, June 12 at 12 PM ET

Highlights of this exceptional auction span nearly five centuries of American history, featuring remarkable items from colonial exploration to modern presidential photography.

Thomas Hariot, *Frankfurt: Theodore De Bry*, illustrated folio with 31 engravings and folding map, 1590. Estimate $25,000 to $35,000.

*Boston Post Boy*, Invoice to the Town of Boston for advertising pre-revolutionary content, manuscript document, 1768. Estimate $5,000 to $7,500.

Charles Smith, *The Monthly Military Repository*, two volumes with 7 folding maps and 5 plates, 1796-1797. Estimate $7,000 to $10,000.

Hermann Burmeister, *Reise nach Brasilien durch die Provinzen von Rio de Janeiro und Minas Geraes with Landschaftliche Bilder Brasiliens und Portraits einiger Urvölker*, text volume with hand-colored map and plate volume with 11 tinted lithographs, 1853. Estimate $3,000 to $4,000.

Paul Revere, Masonic certificate, engraved vellum certificate completed for Christopher Allen of Union Lodge, engraved circa 1773 and 1796, completed 1817. Estimate $3,000 to $4,000.

Album of photographs of the three Kennedy brothers, 41 photographs collected by Melody Miller, 1961-1968. Estimate $3,000 to $4,000.

Thomas Moore and L.D. Hoard, *Array Thee Love*, first music published in Chicago, sheet music, 1849. Estimate $2,000 to $3,000.

Maturino Gilberti, *Vocabulario en lengua de Mechuacan / Aqui comienca el vocabulario en la lengua Castellana y Mechuacana*, quarto volume, 1559. Estimate $8,000 to $12,000.

John Dunlap, Journals of Congress Containing the Proceedings from January 1, 1777, to January 1, 1778, Volume III, original boards, 1778. Estimate $1,500 to $2,500.

Philibert-Louis De Bucourt, *M. le M’is de la Fayette, Commandant Général de la Garde Nationalle Parisienne*, colored aquatint with mezzotint embellishments, 1790. Estimate $3,000 to $4,000.

Courtius, *Klyn Loretten in Noord-America / Petit-Lorette etats unis de L’amerique / Little Loretto*, Kentucky, engraving, circa 1812. Estimate $1,500 to $2,500.

E. Simms Campbell, *Salute to Negro Troops… Pageant on the Negro’s Contribution to America*, silk screen poster with text panel, 1942. Estimate $1,500 to $2,500.

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May 20, 2025
Author: Rick Stattler
Category: Printed & Manuscript Americana

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Auction Highlights: Printed & Manuscript Americana — June 12, 2025

At Auction Thursday, June 12 at 12 PM ET

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