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1061: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Ephemera
Live Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Ephemera
Auction lots (250)
19th c. Arabic Devotional Manuscript
Estimate: 30 300Arabic devotional and instructional manuscript, likely a North African Maghribi hand, circa first half of the...
[Humanist Greek-Latin Dialogue, 1600]
Estimate: 80 800DIALOGI ALIQUOT IN USUM ADOLESCENTULORUM UTRIUSQUE LINGUAE STUDIOSORUM GRAECE LATINA. [Heidelberg]: ...
[Two Penny Blue Stamps, Letter from Editor]
Estimate: 30 300A letter to the editor of the Gentleman's Magazine, 1844. 8vo sheet. Stamped here with a pair of Two Penny...
[NY, Miniature Book] History of the Bible
Estimate: 40 400HISTORY OF THE BIBLE. Troy (NY): W. and J. Disturnell, 1823. 1.75" x 1.25". 256 pp., including frontispiece...
[Australia, NSW Gazette, 1833]
Estimate: 150 1500THE NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT GAZETTE... VOL. II. Sydney: Anne Howe, 1833. Vol.2, numbers 44-95 (numbers 72...
Epicurus' Morals, 1656
Estimate: 100 1000Epicurus. EPICURUS'S MORALS. London: by Wilson for Herringman, 1656. 8.25" x 5.5". [42], 184 pp., wanting...
Early 19th c. Letter Archive
Estimate: 50 500A volume containing letters from 1812 to 1832, also with a 1796 copy of Steel's Original and Correct List of the...
[Pugilism, Boxing] Lot of 4 Photographs
Estimate: 40 400Lot of 4 photographs, circa 1904, related to boxing. Two of the photos show a poster in the background...
Rare 1792 Loyalist Broadside
Estimate: 40 400Honiton, Devon, December 13th, 1792. Double-page broadside, 16.5" x 13".A very scarce local loyalist...
1635, Sleidanus' Key of Historie
Estimate: 60 600Sleidanus, Johannes. THE KEY OF HISTORIE, OR, A MOST METHODICALL ABRIDGEMENT OF THE FOURE CHIEFE MONARCHIES,...
[American Travel, Photo Albums]
Estimate: 40 400A pair of photo albums featuring photographs taken on trips to the USA and Canada. 8vo, one with limp leather...
British Acts, 1715-1719
Estimate: 50 500A thick bound volume containing various British Acts, printed in London and dated 1715-1719. 11" x 7". Bound in...
16th c. Manuscript on Vellum
Estimate: 70 7001573, British manuscript legal document on vellum, with seals wrapped in cotton. In Latin. 11.25" x 10.75". ...
Narrative of Remarkable Escape
Estimate: 80 800Haweis, James. NARRATIVE OF THE REMARKABLE ESAPE AND UNPARALLELED SUFFERINGS OF THE GALLANT CAPTAIN WILSON. TO...
[Brazil, Turkish Invasion, Lot of 3 Works]
Estimate: 50 500Lot of three short works, 17th to 18th century, including:1) June 7, 1755. An edict stripping missionaries of...
[Women's Suffrage]
Estimate: 30 300The Woman's Tribune. Beatrice, Nebraska, Saturday, July 7, 1888. Vol. V., No. 35. Folio, 8 pp., unopened....
[West Indies, Sugar Colonies, Archive]
Estimate: 30 300An archive of early 20th century letters and documents related to agricultural experiments on sugar colonies in...
Large Archive of 17th-18th c. Letters, Etc.
Estimate: 200 2000A collection of letters and similar, heavily researched and housed in 7 folders, contents dating from the...
[English Property Law, Littleton]
Estimate: 40 400Littleton, Sir Thomas. LES TENURES DE MONSIEUR LITTLETON. London: Tho. Wight, 1604. 5.25" x 3.5". Lacks...
1744, Geography Anatomiz'd, Maps
Estimate: 50 500Gordon, Patrick. GEOGRAPHY ANATOMIZ'D: OR, THE GOEGRAPHICAL GRAMMAR. London: for Ward, [et al], 1744. 8vo. ...
Manuscript, African Dialects
Estimate: 60 600An early 19th century manuscript, "A Comparative list of Dialects in use on the Coast of East Africa." Ink on...
Early 17th c. Binding
Estimate: 50 500An armorial calf portfolio binding dated 1603, evidently intended as a folder for loose documents. 12" x 9.5" A...
1536, Justinian, Imperatoris
Estimate: 200 2000Justinian, I. IMPERATORIS IUSTINIANI SACRATISSIMI PRINCIPIS. Paris: Claudium Chevallonium, 1536. 6.75" x...
[Bombay Imprint] Oriental Sporting
Estimate: 100 1000THE ORIENTAL SPORTING MAGAZINE. NO. 1 [THROUGH 4], VOL. 1. 8vo, contains the first 4 issues. [2], 2, 170,...
1589, La Primaudaye's French Academie
Estimate: 120 1200La Primaudaye, Pierre de. THE FRENCH ACADEMIE, WHERIN IS DISCOURSED THE INSTITUTION OF MANERS AND EXAMPLES OF...
1759, Gentleman's Magazine
Estimate: 60 600THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE... VOL. XXVIII. FOR THE YEAR 1759. [London]: R. Baldwin, [1759.] 8vo. [4], 730, [20]...
Society & Manners in America, 1821
Estimate: 50 500[Wright, Frances.] VIEWS OF SOCIETY AND MANNERS IN AMERICA. New York: for E. Bliss and E. White, 1821. 8vo. ...
[18th c. Mexican Imprint]
Estimate: 150 1500CONSTITUCIONES DE LA REAL Y PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD DE MEXICO. Mexico: D. Felipe de Zuniga y Ontiveros, 1775. ...
Rare George Washington Farewell Address
Estimate: 100 1000COLUMBIA'S LEGACY, OR WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS TO WHICH IS ADDED HIS LAST SPEECH IN CONGRESS, AND HIS...
[Native Americana, Nez Perce Tribe]
Estimate: 40 400Andrew Johnson. TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE NEZ PERCE TRIBE OF INDIANS. [Washington,...
[Canada, Rare Emigrant's Guide]
Estimate: 50 500Murray, John. THE EMIGRANT AND TRAVELLER'S GUIDE TO AND THROUGH CANADA. London: Smith, Elder, 1835. 63, [1]...
Mexican Constitution, El Paso Printing
Estimate: 50 500CONSTITUCION POLITICA DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS MEXICANOS. El Paso, Texas: Compania Editora de "La Patria", 1923. ...
[Plates, US Presidents, Elephant Folio]
Estimate: 30 300THE PRESIDENTS THE WHITE HOUSE GALLERY OF OFFICIAL PORTRAITS OF THE PRESIDENTS. New York and Washington: The...
[America, 18th c. Maps, Lot of 3]
Estimate: 40 400Lot of 3 maps, including: 1) West Indies. With "Kitchin, 1776" penciled to upper margin. Hand-colored, 11.5"...
Rare Virginia Magazine, Editor's Copy
Estimate: 150 1500THE VIRGINIA RELIGIOUS MAGAZINE FOR THE YEAR 1806 (AND 1807.) Lexington: Samuel Walkup, 1806 and 1807. Being...
Lady Morgan, St. Clair, Heiress of Desmond
Estimate: 80 800[Morgan, Sydney.] ST. CLAIR, OR THE HEIRESS OF DESMOND. Philadelphia: S. F. Bradford, 1807. 12mo. viii, 240...
[Provenance, John Q. Adams]
Estimate: 80 800Volume containing two works, with the cut signature of John Quincy Adams to the front pastedown. Bound in...
[17th c. Mexican Imprint]
Estimate: 100 1000ESTATUTOS Y CONTITUCIONES REALES. DE LA IMPERIAL Y REGIA UNIVERSIDAD DE MEXICO. Mexico: Bernardo Calderon,...
[First American Book on Mills, 1795]
Estimate: 60 600Evans, Oliver. THE YOUNG MILL-WRIGHT AND MILLER'S GUIDE. Philadelphia: printed for the Author, 1795. 8vo. ...
Phillip Crosby Tucker ALS, 1843
Estimate: 40 400Vergennes, VT. Sunday, August 6, 1843. Autograph letter signed by P.C. Tucker. Folio, 8 pages. Ink on wove...
Brigham Young CDV, Salt Lake City
Estimate: 60 600Brigham Young, carte-de-visite. Salt Lake City: C. R. Savage, 1871. Approx. 4" x 2.5". Condition: Photograph...
Erastus Spalding's Commonplace Book
Estimate: 40 400The commonplace book of Rev. Erastus Spalding (1795-1853) and his family. American (CT and NY), 1820s and...
[Native Americana, Fairies, New York]
Estimate: 50 500[Willoughby, Frederick Stanley Montgomery, attr.] THE INDIAN QUEEN OF CHENANGO. Oxford [NY]: La. F. Leal,...
[Hudson's Bay Company, Charter, America]
Estimate: 30 300[Caption Title] The Charter of King Charles the Second to the Hudson's Bay Company, after sundry Clauses...
[Samuel Sitgreaves, Cherokees, a Pair]
Estimate: 40 400A pair of disbound reports of the Committee of Claims. Published by Order of the House of Representatives,...
[Hawaii, Rare Honolulu Periodical]
Estimate: 100 1000THE FRIEND. Honolulu, Oahu, H.I., November 16, 1846. 169-176 pp. Folio.A very rare Honolulu periodical, and...
Rare American Broadside, Satire
Estimate: 30 300"The First Book of the Cronicles [sic] of the Rich and Devout Men, and the Men of Belial." [New York?], [ca....
[1776-7, American & British Medicine]
Estimate: 50 500A pair of bound volumes containing Edinburgh printings of various medical dissertations, mostly from 1776 and...
San Francisco Earthquake, Photos
Estimate: 20 200Collection of 6 photographs and 6 negative plates, circa 1906, depicting scenes from the San Francisco...
[Remington ill., Oregon Trail, Parkman]
Estimate: 50 500Parkman, Francis; Remington, Frederick, ill. THE OREGON TRAIL / SKETCHES OF PRAIRIE AND ROCKY-MOUNTAIN LIFE. ...