Freeman's | Hindman Auctions - Philadelphia

Date(s)

Wednesday, September 10th, 2025

Auctions

Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Sale #6417

10am

Preview By Appointment

Freeman's | Hindman Auctions - Philadelphia
2400 Market Street

Philadelphia, PA

39.953916563303, -75.17917425

Freeman's | Hindman Auctions - Philadelphia

Photographs

Marilyn Monroe and Paula Strasberg, Something’s Got to Give, 20th Century Fox Studios, Los Angeles May 1962

Marilyn Monroe Photos by Lawrence Schiller On Show Next Month

Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea' Location Photos to Auction

'Henry Wessel: Photographs and Books' at the Grolier Club

Sponsored

On the Origin of Species

First Edition of “On the Origin of Species” Features at Ripley

1859 First Edition of Darwin’s "On the Origin of Species" to Lead Ripley Rare Books Auctions

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction

Book Arts

Miami Zine Fair 2025

Miami Zine Fair 2026 Details

Major New Samuel Beckett Biennale to Include First Ulster-Scots Translation of 'Waiting for Godot'

New Celebrations Mark 40 years of ‘Poems on the Underground’

Maps

'Beggar' from Costume of the lower orders of the metropolis, c.1822, hand-coloured engravings by Thomas Lord Busby.

Charles Booth's Poverty Maps Lead New Housing Exhibition

Atlases and Maps: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

New Book Focuses on Historic First Detailed Map of 18th Century London

Visual Art

Diana in the Corn by Sir William Nicholson (1872-1949)

Novelist Jilly Cooper's Favourite Art Works to Auction

Original Art for Edgar Rice Burroughs Titles Leads Illustration Auction

Robert Louis Stevenson Statue Set for Unveiling

Americana

Items from the Sotheby's sale

$12m Estimate for Washington's Acts of Congress Printing at Sotheby's

Enola Gay’s Hiroshima Logbook and Bob Dylan’s ‘Blood on the Tracks’ Lyrics Lead RR Auction Sale

Important African Americana Collection Leads at Freeman's

Auctions

JFK's Bay of Pigs Top Secret letter

JFK’s Top Secret Bay of Pigs Letter to Auction

Library of Economist Michael Kuczynski to Auction

Gene Cernan’s Handwritten Lunar Rover Repair Notes Sold for $510,000

Exhibitions

Hieronymus Tochtermann's Schriften Buch (Augsbourg, 1744-1747), from Librarie Paul Jammes

The Return of Rare Book Dealers to the Palais-Royal in Paris

Charles Dickens's Campaign to Clean Up London's Water Explored in New Exhibition

Unfinished Byron Fragment Leads New Vampire Exhibition

Book People

2026 Sandars Lectures Focus on History of Paper

Bright Young Collector: Ryan R. Martins

Darby Ronning's Feminist Science Fiction Collection Wins Final Honey & Wax Prize

Rare Books

Walt Whitman's O brood continental autograph manuscript poem, early 1860s

Walt Whitman’s Working Manuscript of 'O brood continental' Leads Peter Harrington Poetry Catalogue

Finely Bound Dos Passos Trilogy: Rare Books of the Week

Previously Unknown 15th Century Text by Gutenberg Associates Discovered