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1061: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Ephemera
Live Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Ephemera
Auction lots (250)
John Wesley Hymns, Bristol Imprints
Estimate: 40 400A pair of short hymn books by John Wesley and Charles Wesley, including: HYMNS OF GOD'S EVERLASTING LOVE. ...
[Maori Bible, 1858]
Estimate: 30 300KO TEKAWENATA TAWHITO.... London: Bible Society, 1858. 12mo. Original cloth. The present is the final part...
[Psalms in Hawaiian]
Estimate: 30 300Rare trial printing of various Psalms in Hawaiian, ca. mid 19th century. Single sheet, 10.5" x 6". Condition:...
Manuscript Sermons, Lot of 3
Estimate: 30 300Lot of manuscript sermons, late 18th and early 19th century, in period wrappers, in an attractive and legible...
Indian Manuscript, Early 20th c.
Estimate: 40 400Ca. early 20th century Indian manuscript, in Sanskrit, with attractive paintings, done in the style of...
[Inquisition, Moriscos, Manuscripts]
Estimate: 60 600Spanish manuscript from the 16th century, with 2 leaves of 17th and 18th century additions (or notes on the...
19th c. Sammelband, Anti-Catholic
Estimate: 30 300A sammelband containing several very rare anti-Catholic lectures, sermons, and similar, including (among several...
1693, Epistles of Barnabas, Polycarp, etc.
Estimate: 50 500Wake, W. THE GENUINE EPISTLES OF THE APOSTOLICAL FATHERS ... And the Martyrdoms of St. Ignatius and St....
Pope on the Miraculous Conception
Estimate: 30 300Pope, John. OBSERVATIONS ON THE MIRACULOUS CONCEPTION AND THE TESTIMONIES OF IGNATIUS AND JUSTIN MARTYR ON THAT...
Velvet Binding, Bible
Estimate: 30 300THE HOLY BIBLE. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1856. 4.75" x 3". With engraved frontispieces to OT and NT. Bound...
[Comets, Early American Astronomy]
Estimate: 150 1500Winthrop, John. [TWO] LECTURES ON COMETS, READ IN THE CHAPEL OF HARVARD ON OCCASION OF THE COMET WHICH...
[16th c. Medicine, Petrus Forestus]
Estimate: 80 800Foreest, Pieter van. OBSERVATIONUM ET CURATIONUM MEDICINALIUM LIBRI DUO DE RENUM AFFECTIBUS AC MORBIS DE...
The Stars, in Six Maps, 1851
Estimate: 30 300THE STARS, IN SIX MAPS, ON THE GNOMONIC PROJECTION. Revised by the Rev. W. R. Dawes. London: Charles Knight,...
[Einstein, Special Relativity]
Estimate: 40 400First editions of two Einstein works on Special Relativity, including: "Bemerkungen zu unserer Arbeit:...
[16th c. Medicine, Rogano on Pulses 7 Urinalysis]
Estimate: 70 700Rogano, Leone. DE PULSIBUS TRACTATUS ABSOLUTISSIMUS DE URINIS LIBRI TRES. Venice Melochoir Sesse, 1597. ...
[AMA Founder, Early American Medicine]
Estimate: 50 500Chapman, Nathaniel. AN ESSAY ON THE CANINE STATE OF FEVER. Philadelphia: for the Author by Hugh Maxwell, 1801....
[Nobel Prize Winners Signed, Atomic Energy]
Estimate: 60 600Laudamus, Leif; Krishnamurthy, Ramesh. THE HISTORY OF ATOMIC ENERGY AT OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY. New York:...
18th c. Medicine, Essay on Fevers
Estimate: 50 500Robertson, Robert. AN ESSAY ON FEVERS. London: printed for the Author and sold by Robinson, 1790. 8vo. [6],...
[Early American Medicine, Pair]
Estimate: 40 400A pair of early American medical works, one with presentation from the author, including:1) Moore, John. AN...
[18th c. Agriculture]
Estimate: 30 300Dossie, Robert. MEMOIRS OF AGRICULTURE, AND OTHER OECONOMICAL ARTS. London: Nourse, 1768, 1771, and 1782. 3 vol,...
[Science, Alchemy Manuscript, 19th c.]
Estimate: 50 500A lengthy manuscript circa late 1840s. 4to. Around 300 leaves in total. Bound in full period calf, lettered in...
[1584, Architecture, Vitruvius]
Estimate: 100 1000Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus. I DIECI LIBRI DELL'ARCHITETTURA. Venice: Francesco de Franceschi, 1584. 9.25" x...
[Albert Einstein, First Appearances]
Estimate: 30 300Albert Einstein. As published in Annalen der Physick, Band 34, in Leipzig, 1911. 8vo. Early 1/4 cloth over paper...
Berkeley's Theory of Vision, 1732
Estimate: 90 900Berkeley, George. SAGGIO D'UNA NUOVA TEORIA SOPRA LA VISIONE. Venice: Francesco Storti, 1732. 12mo. [16],...
[Natural History, Insects, Hand-Colored Plates]
Estimate: 50 500An album containing 18th century hand-colored engraved plates. 11" x 8". Contains approximately 77 leaves with...
[Lord Kelvin, Inscribed, Pair]
Estimate: 40 400Ferguson, James. LECTURES ON SELECT SUBJECTS IN MECHANICS, HYDROSTATICS, PNEUMATICS, OPTICS, AND ASTRONOMY. ...
[Chess, Tal, Signed] Botvinnik - Tal
Estimate: 40 400Abramov, L. BOTVINNIK TAL? Moscow, 1960. 12mo. Original wrappers. Russian text. Book related to the World...
[Chess, Signed, Efim Bogoljubow]
Estimate: 30 300DIE XIII. SCHACHMEISTERSCHAFT DE UdSSR 1944. Ca. 1940s. 12mo. Softcovers. Contains games by Russian...
[Chess, Geller, Karpov, Signed, Typescript + Book]
Estimate: 40 400Lot includes a book and a typescript: ** [Book] Auer, Grund, and Karpov. FASZINATION SCHACH. n.p., n.d. ...
[Civil War, Chess, Provenance]
Estimate: 40 400Lecomte, Ferdinand. THE WAR IN THE UNITED STATES TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1863....
Abraham Lincoln Campaign Button
Estimate: 100 1000Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin ferrotype campaign button, 1860. Just under 1" in diameter. A scarce...
[Wide-Awakes, Abolitionism, Tintypes]
Estimate: 100 1000A collection of four tintypes depicting "Wide-Awakes," all approximately 3.25" x 2.25", featuring people...
[Civil War] Fremantle, Southern States
Estimate: 50 500Fremantle, Arthur. THREE MONTHS IN THE SOUTHERN STATES: APRILJUNE, 1863. New Yok: John Bradburn, 1864. 12mo....
[Civil War] White and Black, Clayton
Estimate: 30 300Clayton, Victoria. WHITE AND BLACK UNDER THE OLD REGIME. Milwaukee: The Young Churchman, [1899.] 195 pp. + 8...
[Civil War, South Carolina Newspapers]
Estimate: 30 300Pair of South Carolina newspapers printed during the Civil War. THE NEW SOUTH. Port Royal, S.C. December 19,...
[Civil War, San Francisco Newspapers]
Estimate: 50 500Evening Bulletin. San Francisco. Lot of 8 issues, all from 1862. Dates include 4/11, 4/12, 4/15, 4/25, 6/26,...
[Autograph Album, Burnside, Webster]
Estimate: 60 600A Civil War era autograph album, containing approximately 68 cut signatures and a some small photographs mounted...
[Provenance, CA] Pocket New Testament
Estimate: 70 700THE NEW TESTAMENT. New York: American Bible Society, 1860. 3.75" x 2.25". Bound in a period wallet-style...
[Confederate Letters] Gen. Custis Lee, Letter +
Estimate: 150 1500Autograph letter signed by General George Washington Custis Lee (1832-1913, son of Robert E. Lee.) 12mo, 2...
[Civil War, Letters, Collection]
Estimate: 100 1000Lot includes: A photo and letter relating to Andrew Simms of the Army of the Potomac, with photo captioned in...
[Provenance] Robert E. Lee's Memoirs
Estimate: 30 300Bond, Christiana. MEMOIRES OF GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE. Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Company, 1926. 12mo....
[Slavery, African American Interest]
Estimate: 50 500Lot of three items, including:1) Treaty Between Her Majesty and Uruguay, for the Abolition of the Traffick in...
[Slavery, Abolitionist James Cropper]
Estimate: 60 6001832. James Cropper, autograph letter signed. 4to, 1 pg.James Cropper (1773-1840) was a very notable...
[Slave Trade, Large Collection]
Estimate: 80 800A large collection of 25 numbers of Votes of the House of Commons, most with content related to the slave trade...
Slavery, Suriname Newspaper, 1834
Estimate: 40 400NIEUWE SURINAAMSCHE COURANT EN LETTERKINDIG DAGBLAD. No. 99. 1834. Folio, 4 pp. A very rare Suriname...
[Dollar Currency, Slavery, 1775]
Estimate: 50 500THE CONNECTICUT JOURNAL Wednesday, October 25, 1775. New Haven: Thomas and Samuel Green, 1775. Folio, 4 pp. ...
[Quakers, Slavery, Philadelphia, 1767]
Estimate: 100 1000[Manuscript Document] September 26, 1767. Extracts from the Meeting held at Philadelphia for Pennsylvania &...
[Slavery, Lot of Abolitionist Newspapers]
Estimate: 50 500Lot of three Morning Star newspapers, Dover, N.H., all from 1835. Includes March 11th, May 20th, and September...
[Savannah, Runaway Slaves, 1796]
Estimate: 50 500COLUMBIAN MUSEUM & SAVANNAH ADVERTISER. Vol. 1, No. 62. Tuesday, October 4, 1796. Folio, 4 pp. A rare...
[Slave Trader, Amazing Grace, John Newton]
Estimate: 150 1500Newton, John. LETTERS, ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED UNDER THE SIGNATURES OF OMICRON AND VIGIL TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,...
[Haiti, Levasseur Signed Document]
Estimate: 80 800Consulat General de France en Haiti. Port-au-Prince, [ca. 1840.] A manuscript passport signed by Andre-Nicolas...
[Slavery, Early Vermont Magazine, 1796]
Estimate: 60 600THE RURAL MAGAZINE: OR, VERMONT REPOSITORY VOLUME II. Rutland (VT) J. Kirkaldie, for S. Williams, 1796. 8vo. ...
[African American Interest, Bible History]
Estimate: 30 300Morrisey, Richard Albertus. COLORED PEOPLE IN BIBLE HISTORY. Hammond, IN: W. B. Conkey, Printed for the...
Martin Luther King, Paris Appearance
Estimate: 20 200A typed letter, unsigned but apparently written by a relatively young woman to mother. 4to, 2 pp. The letter...
Collier, Profaneness in English Stage, 1699
Estimate: 25 250Collier, Jeremy. A DEFENCE OF THE SHORT VIEW OF THE PROFANENESS AND IMMORALITY OF THE ENGLISH STAGE, &C. BEING...
[Similes, Adages, Allegories, 1658]
Estimate: 50 500Spencer, John. [KAINA KAI PALAIA] THINGS NEW AND OLD. OR, A STORE-HOUSE OF SIMILIES, SENTECNES, ALLEGORIES,...
[Erotica, Fanny Hill, Rare Edition]
Estimate: 70 700Cleland, John. MEMOIRS OF FANNY HILL A NEW AND GENUINE EDITION FROM THE ORIGINAL TEXT. Paris: Isidore Liseux,...
John Denham, Poems and Translations
Estimate: 90 900Denham, John. POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS WITH THE SOPHY. London: Herringman, 1667-1668. 6.5" x 4". [8], 186,...
[Renaissance Spanish Poetry, Boscan]
Estimate: 200 2000Boscn, Juan. [LAS OBRAS]. [Barcelona: Amoros, 1543.] 7.25" x 5.25". Lacking A1-6 (including title), D1, D8,...
John Collop, Poesis Rediviva, 1656
Estimate: 80 800Collop, John. POESIS REDIVIVA: OR, POESIE REVIV'D. London: Moseley, 1656. 5.75" x 3.5". Lacks leaves D2...
Cleaveland Revived, 1668
Estimate: 80 800Cleaveland, John. CLEAVELAND REVIVED: POEMS, ORATIONS, EPISTLES, AND OTHER OF HIS GENUINE INCOMPARABLE PIECES....
Plantin Press, Guinisius, 1637
Estimate: 40 400Guinisius, Vincentius. POESIS HEROICA, ELEGIACA, LYRICA, EPIGRAMMATICA, AUCTA & RECENSITA ITEM DRAMATICA. ...
Tragedies of Euripides, Quarto, 1781
Estimate: 60 600Euripides. THE TRAGEDIES OF EURIPIDES TRANSLATED. London: J. Dodsley, 1781-1783. 4to, 2 vols. First volume...
1664, Tomas Overbury, His Wife
Estimate: 150 1500Overbury, Thomas. SIR THOMAS OVERBURY HIS WIFE. WITH ADDITIONS OF NEW CHARACTERS, AND MANY OTHER CONCEITS...
17th c. Historical Romance
Estimate: 40 400Audiguier, Vital d'. A TRAGI-COMICALL HISTORY OF OUR TIMES, UNDER THE BORROWED NAMES OF LISANDER AND CALISTA. ...
James Russell Lowell, ALS
Estimate: 40 400Cambridge. 12th May, 1876. Autograph letter signed by American Romantic poet James Russell Lowell (1819-1891.)...
New Odyssey by Spanish Homer
Estimate: 40 400[Palafox y Mendoza, Juan de.] THE NEW ODYSSEY BY THE SPANISH HOMER: BEING THE TRAVELS OF THE CHRISTIAN HERO,...
19th c. Vellum Commonplace Book
Estimate: 50 500An attractive 19th century album comprised of vellum leaves with manuscript poetry in a variety of hands. Bound...
Clinton Scollard, Autograph Poem Signed
Estimate: 30 300Clinton Scollard. The Flag to the Wind / Song for Memorial Day. An autograph poem signed by Scollard at end. 5...
Spenser, Fairy Queen
Estimate: 40 400Spenser, Edmund. THE FAIRY QUEEN. London: Tonson, 1758. 8vo, 2 vols. xxxviii, [2, Advertisement], 527, [1,...
Large 19th c. Archive, Naval
Estimate: 200 2000A large archive of British documents and ephemera housed in two large folders, ca. 1821 to later 1800s (and a...
WWI Seaman's Diary
Estimate: 30 300A 1917 pocket-sized diary, clothbound, 1917, apparently used by a seaman. Extensive content throughout. 3.5" x...
[Holocaust, Judaica, Typescript]
Estimate: 40 400Weiss, Peter. "The Investigation, Oratorio in 11 Cantos." Circa 1965. Folio, 13.25" x 8.25". With remarks...
WWII Air and Army Maps, Lot of 7
Estimate: 30 300A collection of 7 WWII maps, mostly British Army and Air maps, mostly printed 1943 and 1944. The largest...
WWII, Nuremberg Trials, Archive
Estimate: 150 1500An extensive archive of WWII American war correspondent Tenold Rosvald Sunde. Hundreds of various items,...
J. Edgar Hoover, Signed Book
Estimate: 40 400Hoover, J. Edgar. MASTERS OF DECEIT. New York: Henry Holt, 1959. 5th printing. 8vo hardcover, no jacket. ...
Early 17th c. Vellum Document w/ Seals
Estimate: 50 500Dated January 1612. Manuscript document on vellum, in English, with two wax seals excellently preserved with...
Rare Guatemala Imprint
Estimate: 30 300Casaus y Torres, Ramon. ORACION FUNEBRE PREDICADA Nueva Guatemala: Don Manuel de Arevalo, 1812. 12mo. [16], 36...
Barreda on Pliny, 1622, Rare
Estimate: 80 800Barreda, Francisco de. EL MEIOR PRINCIPE TRAIANO AUGUSTO. SU FILOSOFIA POLITICA, MORAL, Y ECONOMICA. ...
[Butchery, Early 18th c., Manuscript]
Estimate: 30 300November 25, 1738. Manuscript in English, ink on laid, 4to. 5 pp. (+3 blank pp.) Appears to be legal notes...
[Illustration] Matrimonial Ladder
Estimate: 100 1000Egerton, Michael. MATRIMONIAL LADDER OR SUCH THINGS ARE. London: Pyall & Hunt, 1825. 6.75" x 5". With 20...
Early Bibliography, Cottonian Library
Estimate: 120 1200Smith, Thomas. CATALOGUS LIBRORUM MANUSCRIPTORUM BIBLIOTHECAE COTTONIANAE. Oxford: Theatro Sheldoniano. ...
Zionism and Anti-Semitism, Nordau
Estimate: 30 300Nordau, Max; Gottheil, Gustav. ZIONISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM. New York: Scott-Thaw Company, 1904. 12mo. 76 pp....
Post Incunable, Dictionum Graecarum
Estimate: 150 1500[Crastonus, Johannes.] DICTIONUM GRAECARUM THESAURUS COPIOSUS. [Ferrara: Giovanni Mazzocchi dal Bondeno,...
Historie of the Holy Warre, 1647
Estimate: 80 800Fuller, Thomas. THE HISTORY OF THE HOLY WARRE. Cambridge: Printed by Roger Daniel, sold by John Williams,...
Francis Bacon. History of the Reigns
Estimate: 80 800Bacon, Francis; Godwin, Francis. THE HISTORY OF THE REIGNS OF HENRY THE SEVENTH, HENRY THE EIGHTH, EDWARD THE...
Ruscelli, Renaissance Formulas, 1557
Estimate: 40 400[Ruscelli, Girolamo.] DE SECRETI DEL REVERENDO DONNO ALESSIO PIEMONTESE, PRIMA PARTE. Venice: Comin da Trino,...
Cause and Origin of Evil
Estimate: 30 300Clarke, John. AN ENQUIRY INTO THE CAUSE AND ORIGIN OF EVIL. London: for James Knapton, 1720. 7.75" x 4.5". ...
Bolton's Three-Fold Treatise, 1634
Estimate: 60 600Bolton, Robert. A THREE-FOLD TREATISE CONTAINING THE SAINTS OR, MEDITATIONS. London: by E. Puslow for Rapha...
Dugdale on The Late Troubles in England
Estimate: 50 500[Dugdale, William.] A SHORT VIEW OF THE LATE TROUBLES IN ENGLAND. Oxford: at the Theater for Moses Pitt, 1681....
[Bindings] History of England
Estimate: 30 300Macaulay, Thomas. THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND. London: Longmans, Green, 1872-3. 12mo, 8 vols. Period calf, gilt,...
18th c. Sammelband, Augustus Toplady
Estimate: 50 500Sammelband, containing 6 scarce works by Augustus Toplady, 8vo, bound together in period marbled calf,...
Descartes, Opera Philosophica, 1672
Estimate: 60 600Descartes, Rene. OPERA PHILOSOPHICA. Amsterdam: Elzevier, 1672. 4to (7.5" x 5.5".) Parts 1-3 (of 4) bound in...
Miniature Format Illustrated History
Estimate: 80 800Newbery, John. A NEW HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE INVASION OF JULIUS CAESAR TO THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR MDCCXC....
1746, New Musical Grammar
Estimate: 80 800Tans-ur, William. A NEW MUSICAL GRAMMAR: OR, THE HARMONICAL SPECTATOR. [London}: for the Author, 1746. 12mo. ...
[Napoleon Invasion, Broadsides, Pair
Estimate: 60 600A pair of broadsides relating to fear of a French invasion of Britain by Napoleon. Circa 1803. Includes:1)...
[Treaty of Paris, Broadside]
Estimate: 50 500Broadside. "Peace with all the World!" Birmingham: S. Martin, [ca. 1780s.] 12.25" x 7.5", with woodcut...
15th c. Folio Manuscript on Vellum
Estimate: 30 300Ca. late 15th century. An attractive manuscript on vellum. 14" x 11", 4 pages (bifolium.) Written in a French...
[18th c. Map of America, London Magazine]
Estimate: 50 500The London Magazine for the Year 1763. Printed for R. Baldwin, [ca. 1763.] 8vo. Period 1/4 sheep, worn but...
1861 Russian New Testament
Estimate: 50 500[New Testament, in Russian] London, 1861. 5.5" x 3.5". [4], 595, [1, blank] pp. Period morocco stamped in...