Past Auctions

Manuscript Diaries, A Stamp from the Stamp Act of 1765, an Important Spanish-Nahuatl dictionary, & more

Fall 2019 Americana Highlights

An Introduction to the Catalogue by Eric Marcus | Highlights at a Glance

Upcoming Highlights

Upcoming Highlights

As our offering of Latin Americana grows each year, upcoming highlights include the first printing by a classical author in the New World, and a 1566 treatise on the sacrament.

Highlights include manuscript ship's logs, family archives from the frontier and the first printed eyewitness report of the Wright Brothers' flight, published in an unexpected source.

Highlights in our spring Americana sale include Malerische Reise in Brasilien by Johann Moritz Rugendas, and a complete run of the Cherokee Messenger, Oklahoma's first periodical.

Highlights include the Californiana collection of Timothy Treacy, as well as substantial selections on the American Revolution, the Civil War, colonial Cuba and Mexico. Read more.

This auction features a large section related to Judaica, as well as diaries by diverse American characters, including Civil War soldiers and a gentleman adventurer on a Buffalo hunt. Read more here.

Featuring several important books, including a previously unknown seventh edition of the Bay Psalm Book, a 1788 first edition of the Federalist Papers, and two early editions of Thomas Jefferson's Notes on Virginia. More information here. 

This sale features more from the collection of the late Milton Slater, including books, manuscripts, and ephemera from American Revolution, the Mormons and Vermont. The Latin Americana section includes letters relating to Venezuelan independence. More information can be found here. 

Features books, documents, manuscripts and ephemera related to nearly every major aspect of American history, from accounts of colonial Latin America, through the Civil War, 20th-century presidencies and the Civil Rights Movement.

Thomas Paine’s rare American Crisis, a Peter Force printing of the Declaration of Independence and an 1830 first printing of the Book of Mormon headline this auction dedicated to important Americana.

This auction features an extensive collection of books and pamphlets, most printed in colonial Latin America, plus a selection of important early European books on the region.

Highlights include a 1601 set of Herrera's Historia General de los Hechos de los Castellanos, a first printing of the 1792 Act Establishing a Mint signed by Thomas Jefferson and more.