Freeman's | Hindman: Books & Manuscripts, including Americana, 6493, Chicago

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 15, 2026 - May 15, 2026

Page Size: 140 items in 6 pages

Auction Lot Books
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Balthus (1908-2001)	Balthus (1908-2001), illustrator. -- Bronte, Emily (1818-1848). Wuthering Heights. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1993.	New York	1993	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 1,792.00
2	Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)	Basquiat, Jean-Michel (1960-1988). Jean-Michel Basquiat. Drawings. Zurich: Bischofberger and Boone, 1985.	Zurich	1985	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 6,400.00
3	Umberto Brunelleschi (1879-1949)	Brunelleschi, Umberto (1879-1949), illustrator. -- Regnier, Marie de ("Gerard de Houville") (1875-1963). Les Masques et les Personnages de la Comedie Italienne. Paris: Aux Bureaux du Journal des Dames et des Modes, 1914.	Paris	1914	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 3,840.00
4	Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)	Cartier-Bresson, Henri (1908-2004), photographer. -- Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867). Portfolio for Three Poems from Les Fleurs du Mal. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1997.	New York	1997	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 7,040.00
5	Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)	Cartier-Bresson, Henri (1908-2004), photographer. -- Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867). Three Poems from Les Fleurs du Mal. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1997.	New York	1997	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,920.00
6	Marc Chagall (1887-1985)	Chagall, Marc (1887-1985). The Lithographs of Chagall. Vol. I: Paris: Andre Sauret, 1960; Vol. II: Paris: Andre Sauret, 1963; Vol. III: Paris: Andre Sauret, 1969; Vols. IV, V and VI: Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1974, 1984, 1986.	Paris; Monte Carlo	1960; 1963; 1969; 1974; 1984; 1986	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 3,200.00
7	Salvador Dali (1904-1989)	Dali, Salvador (1904-1989). Autograph note signed ("Dali") to unknown recipient, Paris, 1965.	Paris	1965	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
8	Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)	De Kooning, Willem (1904-1997), illustrator. -- O'Hara, Frank (1926-1966). Poems. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1988.	New York	1988	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,280.00
9	Edouard Manet; Berthe Morisot; Pierre-Auguste Renoir	Duret, Theodore (1838-1927). Manet and the French Impressionists. J.E. Crawford Flitch, translator. Philadelphia: J.P. Lippincott, 1910.	Philadelphia	1910	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,152.00
10	Robert Frank (1924-2019)	Frank, Robert (1924-2019), photographer. The Declaration of Independence. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 2010.	New York	2010	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	USD 1,024.00
11	Georg Hirth (1841-1916)	Hirth, Georg (1841-1916), editor. Jugend: Munchner illustrierte Wochenschrift fur Kunst und Leben. Munich and Leipzig: G. Hirth's Kunstverlag, 1896-1900.	Munich; Leipzig	1896-1900	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,408.00
12	Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015)	Kelly, Ellsworth (1923-2015), illustrator. -- Mallarme Stephane (1842-1898). A Un Coup de Des n'Abolira Jamais le Hasard. [A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance]. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1992.	New York	1992	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 3,520.00
13	Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)	Motherwell, Robert (1915-1991), illustrator. -- Paz, Octavio (1914-1998). Three Poems. New York: The Limited Editions Club, [1988].	New York	1988	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,176.00
14	Charles Peignot (1897-1983)	Peignot, Charles (1897-1983), editor. Photographie. Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 1930-1939, 1947.	Paris	1930-1939; 1947	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
15	Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)	Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973). -- Sabartes, Jaime (1881-1968). Picasso: Toreros. Patrick Gregory, translator. New York: George Braziller; Monte Carlo: A. Sauret. 1961.	New York; Monte Carlo	1961	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,664.00
16	Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)	[Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919)]. -- Geffroy, Gustave (1855-1926). La Vie Artistique, Troiseieme serie. Paris: E. Dentu, 1894.	Paris	1894	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 704.00
17	Sean Scully (b. 1945)	Scully, Sean (b. 1945), illustrator. -- Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924). Heart of Darkness. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1992.	New York	1992	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,664.00
18	Walasse Ting (1929-2010); Sam Francis; E.W. Kornfeld	Ting, Walasse (1929-2010). 1 Cent Life. Bern: E.W. Kornfeld, 1964.	Bern	1964	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 5,120.00
19	Kara Walker (b. 1969)	[Walker, Kara (b. 1969), artist]. -- Morrison, Toni (1931-2009). Five Poems. Las Vegas: Rainmaker Editions, 2002.	Las Vegas	2002	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 3,840.00
20		Acosta, Cristobal (1525-1594). Trattato di Christoforo Acosta Africano Medico, & Chirurgo della Historia, Natura, et Virtu delle Droghe Medicinali... Venice: Francesco Ziletti, 1585.	Venice	1585	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,216.00
21	Aristotle (384-322 BCE); Henrico Monantholio	[Aristotle (384-322 BCE)]. Mechanica Graeca, emendata, Latina facta, & commentariis illustrata ab Henrico Monantholio. Paris: Jeremiah Perier, 1599.	Paris	1599	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 4,800.00
22	John Payne	[Bindings]. Payne, John (1842-1916), translator. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night... [with:] Tales from the Arabic. [and:] Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp. London: Villon Society 1882-1889.	London	1882-1889	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,152.00
23	Walter Scott	[Bindings]. Scott, Walter (1771-1832). [Waverly Novels]. Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable & Co., et al.,	Edinburgh	1811; 1813; 1818; 1820; 1822; 1823; 1824; 1825; 1826; 1827; 1829; 1830; 1832	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 960.00
24	William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley	Cecil, William, 1st Baron Burghley (1520-1598). Autograph document signed ("W. Burghley") as Lord High Treasurer to unknown recipient, possibly relating to a debt. [London], July 1574.	London	1574	USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 576.00
25	Claude E. Shannon; Ralph Hartley; Harry Nyquist; Norbert Wiener; B.M. Oliver; J.R. Pierce; Denis Gabor; Alan Turing	[Communications Theory]. A significant archive of works on communications theory, comprising foundational texts by leading mathematicians.	New York; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Paris; London	1928; 1924; 1948; 1949; 1953; 1956; 1957; 1959	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 25,600.00

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000

Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000

Forum, May 28: The Christ Child holding a crystal orb and surrounded by banderoles with devotional exhortations, on a leaf most probably from a Book of Hours, [Southern Netherlands, last decades of the fifteenth century]. £2,000-3,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000

Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000

Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000

Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000

Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000

Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000

Forum, May 28: Ribelles y Helip (José), Attributed to. An album comprising 33 finely executed watercolours of Spanish costume, bull-fighting scenes, and other genre subjects, [circa 1830]. £10,000-15,000