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1061: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Ephemera
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Live Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Ephemera
Auction lots (250)
[Deluxe Bindings, Limited Ed., Americana, Yale]
Estimate: 120 1200[Various Authors and Works] THE PAGEANT OF AMERICA. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925-1929. 10"...
[18th c. Surgery, Medicine]
Estimate: 40 400Pott, Percival. THE CHIRURGICAL WORKS. London: for Hawes, Clarke, and Collins, 1775. 4to, 11.25" x 8.5". ...
[Florida, 19th c., Chromolithographs]
Estimate: 150 1500Illustrated Florida. Buffalo, NY: Dodge Art Publishing, 1882. Slipcase with chromolithograph pictorial label,...
Sufferings of Eliza Bradley, 1st ed.
Estimate: 50 500Bradley, Eliza. AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF THE SHIPWRECK AND SUFFERINGS OF MRS. ELIZA BRADLEY. Boston: James...
1586, Jesuit Missions, Asia, New World
Estimate: 150 1500Acosta, Emanuel; Maffei, G. P. [KURTZE VERZEICHNUSS UND HISTORISCHE BESCHREIBUNG DEREN DINGEN SO VON DER...
Walter Raleigh's History of the World, 1614
Estimate: 300 3000Raleigh, Walter, Sir. THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. London: [William Stansby] for Walter Burre, 1614. With...
17th Manuscript, Nostradamus, Poetry
Estimate: 150 1500A lengthy late 17th century French manuscript. 8vo, bound in early vellum with manuscript to rear. 81;...
1517, Plato's Opera, Ficino
Estimate: 700 7000Plato. OPERA. Venice: Philippo Pincio Mantuano (Philippus Pincius Montanus), April 22, 1517. 12" x 8.25". ...
[Voyages, Magellan, Drake, Anson & Others]
Estimate: 100 1000Drake, Edward Cavendish. A NEW UNIVERSAL COLLECTION OF AUTHENTIC AND ENTERTAINING VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. ...
13th c. Manuscript, Book of John
Estimate: 60 600[Paris, ca. 1250.] Manuscript leaf on fine uterine vellum. 6.25" x 4.25". Text in two columns, heading and...
[Occult Literature, Sciences Secretes]
Estimate: 40 400Nicholas Pierre Henri Montfaucon de Villars, Abb. COMTE DE GABALIS, OUR ENTRETIENS SUR LES SCIENCES SECRETES. ...
[Incunable Bible, First Glossed Latin Bible]
Estimate: 600 6000[BIBLIA LATINA] With the Glossa Ordinaria ascribed to Walafrid Strabo and the interlinear glosses of Anselmus...
1585, Aesop, Early Annotations
Estimate: 200 2000Aesop. AESOPI PHRYGIS FABULAE ELEGANTISSIMIS ICONIBUS.... Paris: H. de Marnef & viduam G. Cauellat, 1585. ...
[Incunable Folio Bible, 1478]
Estimate: 3000 30000[BIBLIA LATINA]. Venice: Leonardus Wild, for Nicolaus de Frankfordia, 1478. Folio. 11.5" x 8". [456]...
John Calvin, 1578 Commentary on Psalms
Estimate: 70 700Calvin, John. IOANNIS CALVINI COMMENTARIUS IN LIBRUM PSALMORUM. Geneva: Vignon, 1578. 12" x 7.75". [8],...
Incunable Erotic Novel by Pope Pius
Estimate: 800 8000Pope Pius II (formerly Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini.) DE DUOBUS AMANTIBUS EURYALO ET LUCRETIA. Venice: Petrus...
Incunable, Aldus, Epistole Catharina
Estimate: 1000 10000Catharina Senensis, S. [EPISTOLA DEVOTISSIME DE SANCTA CATHARINA DA SIENA.] [Venice: Aldus Manutius,...
[Atlas] Ortelius, Theatro del Mondo
Estimate: 400 4000Ortelius, Abraham. THEATRO DEL MONDO. Venice: Turrini, [1655.] 5.25" x 3.25". [8], 231, [17] pp.,...
1599, Geneva Bible
Estimate: 150 1500[THE BIBLE.] London: Barker, 1599 (from colophon.) 8" x 6.75". Defective, wanting at least all before leaf...
Erasmus, Hyperaspistes, 1526
Estimate: 150 1500Erasmus, Desiderius. HYPERASPISTES DIATRIBAE AD VERSUS SERUUM ARBITRIUM MARTINI LUTHERI. Basel: Johan...
Incunable Drama and Music
Estimate: 800 8000Two incunable works bound in one, including: Verardus, Carolus. HISTORIA BAETICA. Rome: Silber, March 7,...
[Ornithology, Hummingbirds, Manuscript]
Estimate: 150 1500Simon, Eugene. HISTOIRE NATURELLE DES TROCHILIDAE. Paris, 1921. 10.25" x 7.25". vi, 416 pp. + 43 pages...
Television, By Alfred Dinsdale
Estimate: 150 1500Dinsdale, Alfred. TELEVISION. London: Sir Isaac Pitman, 1926. 12mo. 62 pp., with frontis portrait, 5...
Large Mining Archive, 19th c.
Estimate: 30000 50000A very large assortment of 19th century material from (or related to) the Treloar mining family (most...
Geology, Mineralogy, Large Collection
Estimate: 50 500A sizeable collection of printed material related to geology, mineralogy, fossils, or similar subjects (some...
[Mining, Geology, Mexican Printing]
Estimate: 80 800Ramirez, Fernando. CURSO ELEMENTAL DE GEODESIA. Mexico: Vicente Barcia Torres, 1852. 8vo. 240 pp. + 6 folding...
[Calcutta Imprint, Inorganic Chemistry]
Estimate: 100 1000Datta, Ram Chandra. RASAYAN VIJNANA OR THE ELEMENTS OF INORGANIC AND ORGANIC CHEMISTRY. Calcutta: U. N....
[Astrology, Apocalyptic Warnings]
Estimate: 200 2000Heth, Thomas. A MANIFEST AND APPARENT CONFUTATION OF AN ASTROLOGICAL DISCOURSE, LATELY PUBLISHED TO THE...
[Stellar Spectroscopy, Archive of Plates]
Estimate: 1000 10000[Stellar Spectroscopy Plates, Large Collection] The collection of R. William Shaw (1904-1995), Cornell...
WWI Poetry, Naval Archive
Estimate: 200 2000An archive of material related to WWI, apparently assembled, written, and/or kept by a seaman, including: 4to...
[WWI Poet] Aldington, Images of War
Estimate: 50 500Aldington, Richard. IMAGES OF WAR. Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1920. 12mo. Original printed paper...
[WWI Poet] Wilfred Owen, Poems
Estimate: 120 1200Owen, Wilfred. POEMS. New York: Printed in Great Britain by Morrison and Gibb, for B. W. Huebsch, [1921.] ...
T.S. Eliot, Poems, The Waste Land
Estimate: 200 2000Eliot, T[homas] S[tearns.] POEMS 1909-1925. London: Faber and Gwyer, 1925. 12mo. Original blue cloth with...
T.S. Eliot, E. Pound, Catholic Anthology
Estimate: 200 2000Eliot, T. S.; Pound, Ezra (and others.) CATHOLIC ANTHOLOGY 1914-1915. London: Chiswick Press for Elkin...
James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist
Estimate: 20 200"Extracts from some Press Notices of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, By James Joyce." Leveridge & Co....
[Hogarth Press, Virginia Woolf]
Estimate: 150 1500Woolf, Virginia. MR. BENNETT AND MRS. BROWN. London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth...
Ezra Pound, Ripostes, Presentation Copy
Estimate: 60 600Pound, Ezra. RIPOSTES. London: Stephen Swift and Co., Ltd, 1912. 12mo. With ads at rear. Original gray...
[Signed] Robert Frost, Boy's Will
Estimate: 200 2000Frost, Robert. A BOY'S WILL. New York: Henry Holt, 1915. 12mo, original cloth. 63, [1] pp.First American...
Poems by Marianne Moore, 1st ed.
Estimate: 40 400Moore, Marianne. POEMS. London: Printed at the Pelican Press for The Egoist Press, 1921. 8vo. 23, [1] pp. ...
[W.B. Yeats] The Rhymers' Club
Estimate: 30 300THE SECOND BOOK OF THE RHYMERS' CLUB. London and New York: Elkin Matthew & John Lane, and Dodd, Mead, 1894. ...
Forster, The Eternal Moment, 1st ed.
Estimate: 30 300Forster, Edward Morgan. THE ETERNAL MOMENT AND OTHER STORIES. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1928. 8vo. [8],...
[Sci-Fi] When Worlds Collide
Estimate: 200 2000Balmer, Edwin; Wylie, Philip. WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE. New York: Frederick A. Stoke, 1933. Small 8vo. [i-vi]...
[Rare Drama] The Social War of 1900
Estimate: 20 200Landis, Simon Mohler. A THRILLING "PROPHETIC" DRAMA! ENTITLED, THE SOCIAL WAR OF 1900. Philadelphia: Printed...
[Proof Copies] Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Estimate: 40 400A pair of books, both being uncorrected proof copies of books by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Both 8vo, softcovers,...
Bob Dylan, Signed Book
Estimate: 300 3000Pennebaker, D. A. BOB DYLAN, DON'T LOOK BACK. New York: Ballantine Books, Inc., First Printing: April,...
[Signed, Limited] Isaac Singer, R. Callner
Estimate: 50 500Singer, Isaac Bashevis; Callner, Richard (ill.) ONE DAY OF HAPPINESS. New York: Red Ozier Press, 1982. 10.5"...
[Fairy Books, Pre-Publication, Dover]
Estimate: 100 1000Lot of various "Fairy" books, which were older copies (or parts thereof) being prepared for republication by...
[SIGNED] St. Vincent Millay
Estimate: 30 300St. Vincent Millay, Edna. POEMS. London: Martin Secker, 1927. 12mo. Original cloth.Signed by St. Vincent...
[Baseball, Johnny Mize, Typescript
Estimate: 250 2500Mize, Johnny; Kaufman, Murray. HOW TO HIT AS TOLD TO MURRAY KAUFMAN. Ca. 1952. Carbon typescript, 4to...
[Revolutionary War General Signed Document]
Estimate: 50 500Pennsylvania. May 20, 1788. Manuscript indenture on vellum, 21" x 18". Signed by Major General Peter...
[Sam Adams Provenance, Death of Washington]
Estimate: 300 3000THE COLUMBIAN PHENIX AND BOSTON REVIEW VOL. 1. FOR 1800. Boston: Manning and Loring for Joseph Hawkins,...
John Winthrop's Journal, 1790
Estimate: 30 300Winthrop, John. A JOURNAL OF THE TRANSACTIONS AND OCCURENCES IN THE SETTLEMENT OF MASSACHUSETTS AND THE OTHER...
King George III, Signed Document
Estimate: 80 800King George III. An appointment signed by King George II of Great Britain, with seal. 13.5" x 8.5". 1, [3] pp....
Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, 1802
Estimate: 120 1200Smith, Adam. AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS. IN THREE VOLUMES THE TENTH...
Paine, Common Sense, 1782
Estimate: 100 1000Paine, Thomas. COMMON SENSE; ADDRESSED TO THE INHABITANTS OF AMERICA. [Bound With] LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE...
Jonathan Trumbull Jr., Signed Letter
Estimate: 30 300Circa 1786. Autograph letter signed by Jonathan Trumbull Jr. 1 pg., folio.Jonathan Trumbull Jr. (1740-1809)...
[Revolutionary War, Benezet, Pacifist]
Estimate: 80 800Benezet, Anthony. [Caption title] Serious Reflections affectionately recommended to the Well-disposed of every...
[18th c. American Document on Vellum]
Estimate: 30 300Pennsylvania, Lancaster County. March 29, 1793. Manuscript land deed on vellum. 21.5" x 14.5". Signed on...
[Revolutionary War, American Sermons]
Estimate: 40 400A pair of Hartford sermons from the Revolutionary War period, including:1) White, Stephen. DEATH DISSOLVES THE...
[American Privateers, George III]
Estimate: 60 600Ca. 1784. Apparently unrecorded; a case concerning the ship "Endeavor," which was taken by an American...
[Revolutionary War Era, Anti-Gallicans]
Estimate: 30 300Circa 1779, a pair of documents/invitations from the Greenwich Association of Anti-Gallicans. 8.5" x 6.25" and...
[1779, British Troops Land in Georgia]
Estimate: 50 500THE CONNECTICUT JOURNAL. April 21, 1779. New Haven: Thomas and Samuel Green, 1779. Folio, 4 pp. Among other...
[Townshend, Signed Document]
Estimate: 60 600June 12, 1765. Document signed and sealed by Charles Townshend (1725-1767.) Folio leaf. Most well-known in...
[Colonial Massachusetts, Dudley, Signed Doc.]
Estimate: 100 1000Portsmouth, 1679. Legal document signed by Joseph Dudley (1647-1720), who had a leading role in the colonial...
Oliver Wolcott, Yale, Signed Document
Estimate: 30 300July 25th, 1784. A manuscript pay table document signed Oliver Wolcott Jun. Payment to the President of...
[Rev. War, Provenance]
Estimate: 70 700THE ILIAD OF HOMER. TRANSLATED BY MR. POPE. Dublin, 1736. 12mo. Defective, volumes 26 only. Period calf.Each...
Rare Boston Psalms, Barnard
Estimate: 60 600Barnard, John. A NEW VERSION OF THE PSALMS OF DAVID; FITTED TO THE TUNES USED IN CHURCHES. [Boston]: [Draper,...
Boston, 1743, Gospel Sonnets
Estimate: 60 600Erskine, Ralph. GOSPEL SONNETS, OR, SPIRITUAL SONGS. Boston: re-printed by Rogers and Fowle for Blanchard,...
Early American Almanacs, Lot of 3
Estimate: 20 200Lot of 3 almanacs, including: ** 1) Ames, Nathaniel. An Astronomical Diary, Or, Almanack for the Year 1769. ...
Gouverneur Morris, Manuscript Diary
Estimate: 100 1000A manuscript copy of the first volume of Gouverneur Morris's diary. 4to album, ink on wove. 339 pp. ...
[Indiana Territory, Provenance, Early Printing]
Estimate: 500 5000ACTS OF THE ASSEMBLY OF THE INDIANA TERRITORY. Containing the first and second sessions of the third, fourth,...
Rackham, Undine, Signed/Limited
Estimate: 90 900Fouque, Friedrich de la Motte; Rackham, Arthur (ill.) UNDINE. London & New York: William Heinemann &...
Rackham, Signed/Limited, Midsummer.
Estimate: 200 2000Shakespeare, William; Rackham, Arthur (ill.) A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM. London & New York: William...
Rackham, Signed/Ltd, Tales from Shakespeare
Estimate: 120 1200Lamb, Charles and Mary; Rackham, Arthur (ill.) TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE. London and New York: Dent and...
Rackham, Signed/Limited, [Ring of Nibelung]
Estimate: 250 2500[Ring of Nibelung] Wagner, Richard; Rackham, Arthur. THE RHINEGOLD AND THE VALKYRIE [with] SIEGRIED AND THE...
Rackham, [Ring of Nibelung], 1st Trade. Ed.
Estimate: 60 600[Ring of Nibelung] Wagner, Richard; Rackham, Arthur. THE RHINEGOLD AND THE VALKYRIE [with] SIEGRIED AND THE...
Rackham, Wonder Book, Signed/Limited
Estimate: 150 1500Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Rackham, Arthur (ill.) A WONDER BOOK. London, New York, & Toronto: Hodder &...
Russell Flint, Canterbury Tales, Signed/Limited
Estimate: 120 1200Chaucer, Geoffrey; Flint, Russell (illustrator.) THE CANTERBURY TALES. London: Philip Lee Warner, Riccardi...
Russell Flint, Odyssey of Homer, Limited Ed.
Estimate: 100 1000Homer; Flint, Russell (ill.) THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER DONE INTO ENGLISH PROSE. London and Boston: The Medici...
Russell Flint, Book of Tobit, Limited Ed.
Estimate: 30 300Flint, Russell (illustrator.) THE BOOK OF TOBIT AND THE HISTORY OF SUSANNA REPRINTED FROM THE REVISED VERSION...
Russell Flint, Judith, Signed/Limited Ed.
Estimate: 50 500Flint, Russell (illustrator.) JUDITH REPRINTED FROM THE REVISED VERSION OF THE APOCRYPHA. London: Haymarket...
Russell Flint, The Heroes, Limited Ed.
Estimate: 70 700Kingsley, Charles; Flint, Russell (illustrator.) THE HEROES OR GREEK FAIRY TALES FOR MY CHILDREN. London: ...
[George Cruikshank, Illustration]
Estimate: 40 400Cruikshank, George (illustrator.) DER FREISCHUTZ TRAVESTIE: BY SEPTIMUS GLOBUS, ESQ. London: for C. Baldwyn,...
[Illustration, Chromolithographs] Our Indians
Estimate: 80 800Bradley, Luther. OUR INDIANS: A MIDGNIGHT VISIT TO THE GREAT SOMEWHERE-OR-OTHER. [New York]: Dutton, 1899. ...
[Illustration, Chromolithographs]
Estimate: 50 500Fraungruber, Hans. DER AUFSTAND DER TIERE. Nuremberg: Theo. Stroefer's, [1905]. 12" x 10". [54] pp. with...
[Russian Art, Fairy Tale, Chromolithographs]
Estimate: 90 900Bilibin, Ivan (illustrator.) VASILISA PREKRASNAYA [Vasilisa the Beautiful.] St. Petersburg, 1902. 12.75" x...
Rabinovitch Photography Nudes, Archive
Estimate: 150 1500A collection of photographs, mostly taken by Ben Rabinovitch, many with his stamp to rear and some attributed...
Original Disney Celluloid Animation, Mickey
Estimate: 60 600An original celluloid drawing used in a Walt Disney production, depicting Mickey Mouse with a freight train. ...
[Dickens] Original "Kyd" Watercolors
Estimate: 100 1000"KYD" (Joseph Clayton Clark.) Collection of 4 original watercolors, all signed "Kyd", being illustrations of...
Manuscript Illustrated Children's Book
Estimate: 30 300An original manuscript children's book, circa early 1900s. Untitled, written by Lolite Seeman Sunde,...
19th c. Art Album
Estimate: 50 500An album containing artwork mounted to the leaves, ca. mid 1800s. 12" x 8.25", oblong. Contains around 20...
[Paris, Art Album, 19th c.]
Estimate: 50 500[Watercolors, Album] "Paris - from the 6th November 1816 - to the 21st October 1817" (manuscript label affixed...
[Native Americana, Original Artwork]
Estimate: 500 5000Original artwork for "Decorative Art of the Southwestern Indians." Artwork by Dorothy Alden Smith Sides,...
Alciati, Emblemata, 1589
Estimate: 60 600Alciati, Andrea. OMNIA ANDREAE ALCIATI EMBLEMATA. Paris: Richeriu, 1589. 6.5" x 4". [40], 818, [22] pp. ...
Christianography, Heavily Annotated
Estimate: 100 1000[Pagitt, Ephraim.] [CHRISTIANOGRAPHY, OR THE DESCRIPTION OF THE MULTITUDE SUNDRY SORTS OF CHRISTIANS IN THE...
1685, Lives of the Popes
Estimate: 50 500Platina, Bartholomaeus Sacchi; Rycaut, Paul (trans.) THE LIVES OF THE POPES TO THE REIGN OF SIXTUS IV. London:...
The Monk's Hood Pull'd Off, 1671
Estimate: 40 400Du Moulin, Pierre; Clouet, Francois. THE MONK'S HOOD PULL'D OFF; OR, THE CAPUCIN FRYAR DESCRIBED. London: for...
Arabic Talismans, Amulets
Estimate: 50 500Lot of three Arabic talismanic or magical manuscripts, with invocations for protection and magic squares. These...
[Greek NT, Foulis Press, 1759]
Estimate: 30 300[He Kaine Diatheke] NOVUM TESTAMENTUM. Glasgow: Foulis, 1759. 8" x 6". [4], 205, [1] pp., with half-title. ...
Manuscript Sermons, Lot of 5
Estimate: 30 300Collection of 5 manuscript English sermons, 18th century to early 19th century. Ink on laid, each are multiple...