Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana

Date(s)

Thursday, May 14th, 2026

Auctions

Street Address

Freeman's - Chicago
1550 W Carroll Avenue
Chicago, IL 60607

Freeman's - Chicago Sale #6501

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41.887538214242, -87.66580485

Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana

Event Times

10am

Maps

WWII Operation Bigot map

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Maps and Atlases: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

Civil War Maps at Printed & Manuscript Americana Auction

Exhibitions

A section of the errata slip for James Joyce’s Ulysses

Printing Errors Celebrated in Upcoming Yale Library Exhibition

Complete and Gilded Book of the Dead Goes on View for First Time

Jack Kerouac's Origins Explored In New Grolier Exhibition

Book Arts

Antony Gormley's Tree for Waiting for Godot on an upland bog in the UNESCO Cuilcagh Lakelands Geopark Co. Fermanagh at the July 2019 Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival

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’

Booker Prize Bindings 2025

Americana

A collection of American railroad and steamer passes, 1856 – 1936

Railroadiana Ephemera: Five Rare Items for Collectors

Steve Jobs Signed Apple Check No. 1 Sold for $2.4m at Auction

George Washington Pre-Inauguration Letter Headlines Freeman’s Americana Auction

Book People

Amalia V

Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize Honorable Mention Amalia V on Collecting Sex

New Newberry Library $4m Grant Will Expand Access to Indigenous Studies Collections

How to Collect and Present for Book Collection Prizes

Photographs

Jaeden Yoshikawa

Collector Jaeden Yoshikawa on Real Photo Post Cards and Lovers' Locations

New Exhibition Celebrates Photography in Children's Books

New York Melting Pot Photographs Go On Display

Rare Books

Dupetit-Thouars' complete voyages with atlases

Pacific Voyages: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Hemingway Letters: Five Rare Letters for Collectors

Unpublished Louisa May Alcott Letters and Manuscript Acquired by Concord Free Public Library

Sponsored

Lieutenant Henry Robertson Bowers, At the South Pole.

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction

Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Visual Art

America's Answer! Production (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942)

War Posters: Five Rare Posters for Collectors

Yuletide at Winterthur Offers Literature-Inspired Festive Experiences

Original Works by Charlie Mackesy to Auction

Auctions

Louis Palander in polar outfit photographed at his arrival in Japan.

Groundbreaking Vega Expedition Polar Archive to Auction

Founding Fathers Manuscripts Lead Freeman’s Printed & Manuscript Americana Auction

Autograph Book With Beatles and 1960s Singers Sold for £7,000