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1053: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Ephemera
| Status: | Closed |
| Type: | Live auction with webcast bidding |
| By: | Addison & Sarova Auctioneers |
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| At: | 291 N. Cherokee Road, Social Circle, Georgia, 30025. USA. tel: 478-787-2665 |
| Date: | 17th Aug, 2024 … |
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Live auction of rare books, manuscripts, and ephemera. Bidding available online (either live or pre-bidding), by phone, by absentee, or live on the auction floor.
Auction lots (155)
[Bindings] Works by Hugh Miller
Estimate: 15 150Uniformly bound collection of Hugh Miller's works. Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1869. 12 vols (13.) 8vo. ...
Jefferson, Notes of Virginia, 1803
Estimate: 70 700Jefferson, Thomas. NOTES ON THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. WITH AN APPENDIX RELATIVE TO THE MURDER OF LOGAN'S FAMILY. ...
[Map] Tanner, Georgia and Alabama
Estimate: 400 4000Tanner, Henry Schenck. GEORGIA AND ALABAMA, BY H. S. TANNER. Philadelphia: Tanner, 1823. 27.75" x 21.75...
[Early Oregon Printing] Crossing the Plains
Estimate: 400 4000Duniway, Abigail J. CAPTAIN GRAY'S COMPANY; OR, CROSSING THE PLAINS AND LIVING IN OREGON. Portland, Oregon:...
Map of the Oregon Territory
Estimate: 20 200Map of the Oregon Territory by the U.S. Ex. Ex. 1841. N.p., n.d. Sheet 14" x 9.5". Appears to be a smaller...
[Maps, Napoleonic Wars]
Estimate: 40 400Lot of 12 maps related to the Napoleonic Wars, ranging from 4to to folio in size (the largest 17.25" x 10.75".) ...
[Binding, Diogenes Laertius, 1566]
Estimate: 100 1000Diogenes, Laertius. DE VITA ET MORIBUS PHILOSOPHORUM LIBRI X. Antwerp: Plantin, 1566 [colophon dated 1567.]...
Aristotle, Scientific Works, 1558
Estimate: 250 2500Aristotle. [Collection of Scientific Works]: PHYSICORUM ARISTOTELIS LIBRI. Joanne Argyropylo & Francis. [20],...
1664, Schott's Technica Curiosa
Estimate: 250 2500Schott, Gaspar. TECHNICA CURIOSA, SIVE MIRABILIA ARTIS, LIBRIS XII COMPREHENSA. Nuremberg: Jobst Hertz for...
Ars Magna Sciendi, 1669
Estimate: 350 3500Kircher, Athanasius. ARS MAGNA SCIENDI. Amsterdam: Janssonius van Waesberge, 1669. Folio, 14.75" x 9.5"....
19th c. Masonic Manuscript, Untraced
Estimate: 70 700"Masonry / A Soul in Symbolism." Author unknown, apparently unpublished. Circa 1890. 12mo album with...
Alchemical Manuscript, ca. 17th c.
Estimate: 200 2000An extensive German manuscript related to medical alchemy. Circa mid-17th century with some later additions. ...
[Gold Mining, 1752]
Estimate: 40 400[Lisbon]: Na Officina de Miguel Rodrigues, 1752. "Alvara, em que determina a forma para os pagamentos dos...
1529, Ovid, Epistole Heroides
Estimate: 150 1500Ovid. EPISTOLE HEROIDES. Lyon: Joannes David, March 13, 1529 (colophon), with printer's device Estienne...
[Incunabula] Cordiale quattuor novissimorum
Estimate: 800 8000CORDIALE QUATTUOR NOVISSIMORUM. Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1492. 7.75" x 5.25". 39 (of 42) leaves, wanting...
Works of Davenant, 1673, Folio
Estimate: 90 900Davenant, William. THE WORKS CONSISTING OF THOSE WHICH WERE FORMERLY PRINTED, AN THOSE WHICH HE DESIGN'D FOR THE...
[Utopia, Imaginary Worlds, Doni, 1597]
Estimate: 50 500Doni, Anton Francesco. MONDI CELESTI, TERRESTRI, & INFERNALI. Vicenza: appresso gli heredi di Perin Libraro...
[Anti-Utopia, Satire, Hermaphrodites]
Estimate: 40 400Thomas d'Embry, Artus. DESCRIPTION DE L'ISLE DES HERMAPHRODITES NOUVELLEMENT DECOUVERTE. Cologne: Herman...
Plato's Dialogues in Greek, 1760
Estimate: 80 800Plato. [Ek ton peri Sokratous] Title transliterated from Greek.] Selections from Plato's Dialogues. London: ...
Plato's Works, w/ Heavily Annotated
Estimate: 20 200PLATONIS OPERA OMNIA. Leipzig: Holtze, volumes variously dated between 1869 and 1886. 8 volumes bound in 10. ...
1722, Fables of Aesop, Croxall
Estimate: 100 1000Croxall, Samuel, translator. FABLES OF AESOP AND OTHERS, NEWLY DONE INTO ENGLISH ILLUSTRATED WITH CUTTS. ...
1694, Fables of Aesop, Folio
Estimate: 30 300L'Estrange, Roger, Sir (translator.) FABLES OF AESOP AND OTHER EMINENT MYTHOLOGISTS: WITH MORALS AND...
Ogle's Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
Estimate: 70 700Chaucer, Geoffrey; Ogle, George. THE CANTERBURY TALES OF CHAUCER, MODERNIS'D BY SEVERAL HANDS. London: for...
Signed/Limited Rackham, Shakespeare
Estimate: 120 1200Lamb, Charles and Mary; Rackham, Arthur (ill.) TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE. London and New York: J. M. Dent and...
[Spanish Literature, Guillen de Castro.
Estimate: 200 2000Castro, Guillen de. LAS MOCEDADES DEL CID. Valencia: e la Imprenta de Joseph y Tomas de Orga, 1796...
Violet Oakley, Law Triumphant
Estimate: 100 1000Oakley, Violet. LAW TRIUMPHANT. [N.p. but Philadelphia], [privately printed by Violet Oakley], [1932.] #37...
Violet Oakley, The Holy Experiment
Estimate: 100 1000Oakley, Violet. THE HOLY EXPERIMENT: A MESSAGE TO THE WORLD FROM PENNSYLVANIA. SERIES OF MURAL PAINTINGS BY...
Phillis Wheatley, Recollection, 1772
Estimate: 60 600[Wheatley, Phillis.] "Recollection. To Miss A__ M__, Humbly Inscribed by the Authoress." From The Annual...
[PROVENANCE] Walt Whitman, Two Rivulets
Estimate: 700 7000Whitman, Walt. TWO RIVULETS INCLUDING DEMOCRATIC VISTAS, CENTENNIAL SONGS, AND PASSAGE TO INDIA. Author's...
[INSCRIBED/SIGNED] Whitman, Two Rivulets
Estimate: 600 6000Whitman, Walt. TWO RIVULETS INCLUDING DEMOCRATIC VISTAS, CENTENNIAL SONGS, AND PASSAGE TO INDIA. Author's...
SIGNED Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Estimate: 300 3000Whitman, Walt. LEAVES OF GRASS. Author's Edition. Camden, New Jersey, 1876. 8vo. 384, [2, blank], [1, ad]...
Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Two Copies
Estimate: 175 1750Pair of copies of Walt Whitman's LEAVES OF GRASS. Both 8vo. *** First copy printed in Washington, D.C.,...
Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Two Copies
Estimate: 150 1500Pair of copies of Walt Whitman's LEAVES OF GRASS. Both 8vo. *** First copy printed in Washington, D.C.,...
[SIGNED, LIMITED] Whitman's Poems and Prose
Estimate: 600 6000Whitman, Walt. COMPLETE POEMS AND PROSE. [Camden, N.J.], [1888/9.] 10" x 6.25". Title with portrait, [2],...
Walt Whitman, After All Not to Create.
Estimate: 70 700Whitman, Walt. AFTER ALL, NOT TO CREATE ONLY. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871. 8vo. Original publisher's...
Walt Whitman, Pair of Books
Estimate: 80 800A pair of books by Walt Whitman, including:NOVEMBER BOUGHS. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1888 (but likely 1891...
[Bindings] Sir Walter Scott's Works
Estimate: 60 600A uniformly bound collection of Sir Walter Scott's works, all published in Edinburgh, by Archibald Constable in...
H. G. Wells, War of the Worlds
Estimate: 150 1500Wells, H. G. THE WAR OF THE WORLDS. New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1898. 8vo. With 16 plates...
Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, 1st ed.
Estimate: 60 600Dickens, Charles; Browne, H. K., illustrator. LITTLE DORRIT. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857. 8vo. xiv, 625 pp....
Twain, Huckleberry Finn, 1st ed.
Estimate: 120 1200Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens.) ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN. NY: Charles Webster, 1885. 8.75" x 6.75"....
Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 1st ed.
Estimate: 200 2000Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens.) LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. 8vo. ...
Mark Twain on General Grant
Estimate: 25 250Northampton Semi-Weekly Free Press. Northampton, Mass., Tuesday, December 29, 1868. Large folio, 4 pp. ...
Autograph Album, Kipling, Powell, and Others
Estimate: 30 300An autograph album, 6" x 4", containing signatures of Rudyard Kipling, Robert Baden Powell, Arthur Christopher...
Hitler Signed Doc. w/ Archive
Estimate: 300 3000Berlin, 20, August 1941. Typed war-time letter signed by Adolph Hitler, on Hitler's letterhead with Nazi...
[German Enigma Code Breaker, Chess]
Estimate: 80 800Autograph letter signed by Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, who was deputy head of Hut 8 under Alan Turing at...
Einstein, Relativitatstheorie, 1916
Estimate: 80 800Einstein, Albert. DIE GRUNDLAGE DER ALLGEMEINEM RELATIVITATSTHEORIE. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1916...
Apollo 11, Manuscript, Transcript
Estimate: 40 400"Apollo 11 NASA Voice Line." Lengthy manuscript in pencil on leaves numbered 56, 99, 7, 4, 12, and 23 (appears...
Engravings of Human Bones
Estimate: 30 300Cheselden, William. ENGRAVINGS OF THE HUMAN BONES, SELECTED AND REDUCED FROM THE LARGE PLATES OF CHESELDEN. ...
[Hand-Colored Illustration]
Estimate: 40 400PICTURE STORY OF MU LAN. "An extraordinary brave girl at the time of Northern Wei Dynasty, in the Fifth Century...
Congreve, Way of the World, 1706
Estimate: 40 400Congreve, William. THE WAY OF THE WORLD, A COMEDY. London: for Jacob Tonson, 1706. 8.25" x 6.5". [8], 68...
Dryden, Marriage A-la-Mode, 1673
Estimate: 40 400Dryden, John. MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE. A COMEDY. London: by T. N. for Henry Herringman, 1673. 8.5" x 6.15". ...
[Spanish Comedy, Ramirez de Arellano]
Estimate: 40 400Ramirez de Arellano, Jose. LOF QUE CIEGA UNA PASION A UNA MUGER DESPECHADA. Caption title. Valencia: en la...
Shadwell, The Scowrers, 1691
Estimate: 20 200Shadwell, Thomas. THE SCOWRERS. A COMDEY, ACTED BY THEIR MAJESTIES SERVANTS. London: for James Knapton, 1691. ...
Dryden, Annus Mirabilis, 1688
Estimate: 25 250Dryden, John. ANNUS MIRABILIS. THE YEAR OF WONDERS, 1666. AN HISTORICAL POEM. London: for Henry Herringman,...
1652, Poetae Minores Graeci
Estimate: 60 600POETAE MINORES GRAECI ACCEDUNT ETIAM NUPERAE OBSERVATIONES RADULPHI WINTERTONI IN HESIODUM. Cambridge: Thomas...
15th c. Manuscript, Spain
Estimate: 50 5001499. Zamora, Spain. Manuscript, ink on laid paper. 9" x 6.25". Stitched. 16 pp., plus paper covers (added...
16th c. Manuscript w/ Seal
Estimate: 60 600An attractive manuscript document on vellum, dated 1591. With red was seal affixed. 11.5" 9".Condition:...
Life of Clarendon, Folio, 1759
Estimate: 40 400THE LIFE OF EDWARD EARL OF CLARENDON WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. PRINTED FROM ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS. Oxford: Clarendon...
Antonio Perez, Spanish Court, 1715
Estimate: 40 400Perez, Antonio. THE FATAL EFFECTS OF ARBITRARY POWER, AND THE DANGEROUS CONDITION OF COURT-FAVOURITES...
[Rare Buenos Aires Printing, 1816]
Estimate: 30 300Hilarion de Quintana. Breve Manifesto Justificando con Documentos su Conducta Publica Contra las Invasiones de...
[Music] Antiquae Musicae, 1652
Estimate: 60 600Meibom, Marcus. ANTIQUAE MUSICAE AUCTORES SEPTEM. Amsterdam: Lodewijk Elzevier, 1652. 8.5" x 6". 2 volumes...
[1664, Whaling in Bermuda]
Estimate: 60 600PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. Num. 8. January 8, 1664. Oxford: Lichfield, 1666. 8.25" x 6.5". Disbound. ...
John Donne and Dutton, Paradoxes
Estimate: 30 300[Dutton, John.] ATHENIAN SPORT: OR TWO THOUSAND PARADOXES MERRILY ARGUED, TO AMUSE AND DIVERT THE AGE. London:...
The Comical Revenge, 1669
Estimate: 30 300Etherege, George. THE COMICAL REVENGE, OR, LOVE IN A TUB. London: for Henry Herringman, 1669. 8.25" x 6". ...
1703, Letters from Living to Living
Estimate: 40 400LETTERS FROM THE LIVING TO THE LIVING. London: Printed in the Year, 1703. 7.5" x 4.65". [16], 215, [1], 24...
1678, Thomas Hobbes, Peak in Darby-shire
Estimate: 40 400Hobbes, Thomas. DE MIRABILIBUS PECCI: BEING THE WONDERS OF THE PEAK IN DARBY-SHIRE, COMMONLY CALL THE DEVIL'S...
[William Penn, Quakers, 17th c.]
Estimate: 80 800Penn, William. THE TRYAL OF WILLIAM PENN, AND WILLIAM MEAD SHEWING THE ARBITRARY, ILLEGAL, AND TYRANNICAL...
[Mohammed and Islam, 1651]
Estimate: 80 800Hottinger, Johann Heinrich. HISTORIA ORIENTALIS: QUAE, EX VARIIS ORIENTALIUM MONUMENTIS COLLECTA, AGIT I: DE...
Fuchs on Metoscopy, 1615
Estimate: 80 800Fuchs, Johann Samuel. METOPOSCOPIA & OPHTHALMOSCOPIA. Strassburg: Theodosius Glaserus sumptibus Pauli...
1633, Epictetus, Rare Edition
Estimate: 20 200Epictetus. EPICTETI ENCHIRIDION GRAE & LATINE. [Paris]: apud Sebastian Cramoisy via Iacobea, sub Ciconiis,...
[Aldus] Sallust, Conspiracy of Catiline
Estimate: 40 400Sallust. CONIURATIO CATILINAE ET BELLUM IUGURTHINUM FRAGMENTA. Venice: Aldus, 1567. 6" x 4". [8], 189, [19]...
Historia Indiae Orientalis, 1608
Estimate: 60 600Arthus, Gothard. HISTORIA INDIAE ORIENTALIS. Cologne: Wilhelm Lutzenkirch, 1608. 5.75" x 3.75". [20, inc....
1582, English History, Anglorum Praelia
Estimate: 70 700Ockland, Christopher. ANGLORUM PRAELIA AB ANNO DOMINI 1327 1558 ITEM DE PACATISSIMO ANGLIAE STATU, IMPERANTE...
[Free Press, Obscenity, Ralph Ginzburg]
Estimate: 50 500Schroeder, Theodore (compiler.) FREE FRESS ANTHOLOGY. New York: Free Speech League and Truth Seeker...
[Slave Trade] Portugal, 1772
Estimate: 20 200Portuguese declaration relating to navigation and trade. Dated December 12, 1772. [Lisbon]: Na Regia Officina...
1815, Montevideo, Buenos Aires Printing
Estimate: 60 600Buenos Aires, March 30, 1815. Folio, 2 pp. Signed at end by Nicolas Herrera. "Desde que D. Jose Artigas vio...
Autograph Collection, 18th and 19th c.
Estimate: 30 300Collection of fourteen autograph items, mostly notable British 18th and 19th century legal figures, including ...
[1666, Virginia Farming, Robert Boyle]
Estimate: 60 600PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. Num. 12. May 7, 1666. [London]: John Martyn and James Allestry, 1666. Disbound....
Declaration of Independence, Early Printing
Estimate: 60 600The Annual Register... for the Year 1776. Fourth Edition. London: Dodsley, 1788. 8v. Early paper over board...
[French and Indian War, Battle Plan]
Estimate: 20 200[Lithograph.] "A Prospective View of the Battle fought near Lake George, on the 8th of Sept. 1755, between 2000...
Revolutionary War, Benjamin Lincoln Document
Estimate: 60 600February 14, 1776. Watertown, Massachusetts-Bay Colony. Partially printed document completed in manuscript. ...
Benedict Arnold, Unpublished Manuscript Play
Estimate: 200 2000"Treachery of Arnold. A Tragedy in 5 Scenes." Dated 1838 at end. Folio, 6 pages, plus docket leaf at end. ...
1791, American Congress, Maritime Act
Estimate: 60 600First Congress. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE UNLADING OF SHIPS AND VESSELS, IN CASES OF OBSTRUCTION BY ICE. ...
[Georgia, Creek Indians, James Jackson]
Estimate: 70 700New York, August 30, 1789. Letter signed by James Jackson (1757-1806, Georgia Governor from 1798 to 1801, and...
Otsego Herald, 1797
Estimate: 10 100OTSEGO HERALD: OR, WESTERN ADVERTISER. Thursday, September 21, 1797. Cooperstown (NY): Elihu Phinney, 1797. ...
Lot of 13 George Washington Eulogies
Estimate: 100 1000A group of 13 eulogies and orations on the death of Georgia Washington, 8vo and smaller, some disbound and...
Quincy, Clay, and Jackson, Hand-colored Etching
Estimate: 60 600[Akin, James, attributed to.] THE PEDLAR AN HIS PACK OR THE DESPERATE EFFORT; AN OVER BALANCE. [Philadelphia,...
[Amistad, Slavery, Message from the President]
Estimate: 30 300SCHOONER AMISTAD. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TRANSMITTING SUNDRY LETTERS BETWEEN THE...
1841, Missouri's Northern Boundary
Estimate: 50 500[Allen, Beverly.] [Correspondence between Beverley Allen and other members of the State Constitutional...
Colonial South Carolina, Signed Document
Estimate: 20 200October 6, 1767. Document by William Glascock (1730-1793) relating to the sale of a plantation in South...
Louisiana Secession, Judaica, 1860
Estimate: 50 500Benjamin, Judah. SPEECH OF HON. J. P. BENJAMIN, OF LOUISIANA, ON THE RIGHT OF SECESSION. DELIVERED IN THE...
South Carolina Secession, Lincoln Election
Estimate: 30 300THE TRIBUNE ALMANAC FOR 1861. New York, [1860.] 12mo, in original publisher's printed wrappers. 80 pp. ...
[South Carolina, Judiciary System]
Estimate: 30 300THE PRESENT JUDICIARY SYSTEM OF SOUTH-CAROLINA; ITS DEFECTS REVIEWD AND MODES SUGGESTED FOR ITS IMPROVEMENT...
Civil War, General's Letter
Estimate: 30 300March 2, 1865. Paducah, Kentucky. Autograph letter signed by Union General Samuel P. Heintzelman (1805-1880). ...
Civil War Map, Tennessee, 1862
Estimate: 20 200The Dollar Weekly Times. Cincinnati, Thursday, December 25, 1862. Large folio, 4 pages. Christmas day issue,...
McClellan's Dream, Rare Broadside
Estimate: 100 1000Bradshaw, Wesley. GENERAL M'CLELLAN'S DREAM. [Washington?] Daily News Job Office, [1861.] Broadside, 13" x...
Florida General Assembly, Civil War Era
Estimate: 200 2000[Florida.] Twelve sessions of the Florida General Assembly, printed before, during, and after the Civil War. ...
Andrew Johnson Impeachment Ticket
Estimate: 50 500An unused ticket to the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. Gallery entrance for April 7th, 1868. 4.75" x 2.75". ...
Confederate Maritime, Manuscripts
Estimate: 50 500A pair of printed and manuscript depositions, true copies, relating to the capture of the CSS Georgia in 1864. ...
Confederate Letter, Henry C. Wayne
Estimate: 30 300February 11, 1863. Milledgeville, Georgia. Autograph letter signed by Confederate Adjutant and Inspector...