HC-2605 · Live saleroom
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Cartography
Printed books, autograph letters and maps
Sale details
Demonstration site. Hammer & Co is a fictional auction house; every lot, estimate, bid, result and provenance chain on this site is invented for the purpose of showing the design. No bid placed here is a real bid and nothing here is offered for sale.
The programme
The order of the day
Time reads downward. Sessions are numbered in Roman, as they are in the printed catalogue.
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Session I
Books and Manuscripts
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 2:00 PM EDT · Lots 1–188
- 21 A folio natural history, with forty-eight engraved plates Continental $3,000 – 5,000 Upcoming 26 days
- 64 An autograph letter, signed, from a nineteenth-century engineer Manuscript $600 – 900 Upcoming 26 days
- 142 An engraved chart of the northern hemisphere Cartographic $1,500 – 2,500 Upcoming 26 days
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Close
The last lot is knocked down
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 7:00 PM EDT
Every lot
The catalogue for HC-2605
The department
Rare Books & Manuscripts
Printed books, manuscripts, autograph letters and maps. Collation is given in full and defects are listed; this department sells at a reduced premium of 25 per cent, as is customary in the trade.