18th and 19th Century Travel and Color Plate Books at Freeman's

Freeman’s September 27 sale includes a distinguished selection of 18th- and 19th-century travel and color plate books, led by a rare first edition of Frederick Catherwood’s 1844 Views of the Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan, as well as volumes on the Mediterranean and Middle East.

The sale also brings to market a fine selection of rare Americana, including:

• a 1776 Philadelphia edition of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
• a first edition of The Last Men of the Revolution (1865) featuring six original photographs of the last surviving veterans of that war
• selected abolitionist material, including a very rare 1759 first edition of Quaker Anthony Benezet’s Observations on the Inslaving, importing and purchasing of Negroes, one of the earliest antislavery pamphlets printed in North America
• the personal archive of storied detective Ellis H. Parker, including over 1,100 items from his four-year investigation into the 1932 kidnapping and murder of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.