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1062: Online-Only Bookworm Sale
Online-Only Sale of Rare, Antiquarian, & Vintage Books
Auction lots (312)
Ca. 1850 Map of the United States
Estimate: 1 1000Circa 1850, map of the United States, outlined in hand-color. Sheet 16.5" x 10.25". With numerous Native...
[1774, Burke on American Taxation]
Estimate: 1 1000Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq; On American Taxation. April 19, 1774. Bristol, [ca. 1775.] 12mo, stitched, lacks...
[Prize Binding, Early Photography]
Estimate: 1 1000A History and Handbook of Photography. Translated from the French of Gaston Tissandier With Upwards of Seventy...
[Slave Trade, Charleston]
Estimate: 1 1000Minority Report on the Slave Trade, Submitted to the Legislature November, 1857. Charleston: Harper and Calvo,...
[INSCRIBED and SIGNED, Russian]
Estimate: 1 1000Velikie Knyazya Nikolaevichi v Visshem Svete I na Voine (The Grand Dukes Nikolaevichi in High Society and at...
1793 Boston Imprint
Estimate: 1 1000Sermons, on the Mode and Subjects of Christian Baptism. By Joseph Lathrop. Boston: Edes for Thomas and...
[Westerns, Presentation Copies]
Estimate: 1 1000Lot of 4 softcover books containing illustrations and some commentary on different westerns, all compiled by...
18th c. Medical Manuscript
Estimate: 1 1000An 18th century medical manuscript in Latin, 8vo, approximately 267 pages, bound in period calf, gilt, intact,...
[Music History] La Musique des Origines
Estimate: 1 1000 a Nos Jours. BY Norbert Dufourcq. Pairs: Librairie Larousse, 1946. Large 4to, 11.5" H, heavily illustrated...
1709, Horace: of the Art of Poetry: A Poem
Estimate: 1 1000By the Earl of Roscommon. London: H. Hills, 1709. 12mo, disbound. 16 pages. Good.Condition: For lots in this...
Tea Cards, Full Set, History of Aviation
Estimate: 1 1000History of Aviation series by Brooke Bond Tea, ca. 1972. Complete set of 50 cards, Very Good. Condition: For...
John C. Calhoun, Speech and Portrait
Estimate: 1 1000Lot includes a 19th c. engraved portrait of John C. Calhoun, plus his speech discussing the Jackson...
1895, National Rifle Association
Estimate: 1 1000Proceedings of the National Rifle Association1895. London, [ca. 1895.] 8vo, includes large folding account...
RARE, 1611, A Key to the Key of Scripture
Estimate: 1 1000By William Sclater. London, 1611. 8vo. First edition. Bound in period limp vellum, vellum soiled with age,...
[Americana] Fiske's Works
Estimate: 1 1000A collection of 4 works in 5 volumes by John Fiske, all uniformly bound in half calf, printed in 1899 at the...
Signed Photos, Celebrities, Album
Estimate: 1 1000Album containing 19 signed photographs of various celebrities, each with certificate of authenticity from...
1792, Jonathan Edwards, New-Haven Imprint
Estimate: 1 1000All Divine Truth Profitable: Illustrated in a Sermon Preached at Hamden By Jonathan Edwards. New-Haven: Morse,...
[North Carolina] Swamp Lands of the State
Estimate: 1 1000 of North-Carolina: Facts for Emigrants and Capitalists. Raleigh, N.C., Pell, 1867. 8vo, disbound. Ink-stamp...
George III, Revolutionary War, Act
Estimate: 1 1000An Act for Punishing Mutiny and Desertion. London, 1777. Folio, disbound. Issued by George III during the...
King George III, 18th c. Vellum Document
Estimate: 1 1000A large document on vellum issued by King George III ca. 1783-1784 (or the 24th year of his reign.) On vellum...
Evolution, Christian Crusade
Estimate: 1 1000Evolution by A Medical Scientist. Toronto, International Christian Crusade, 1951. 5.75" H. Original...
1678, Fables of Fontaine, Engravings
Estimate: 1 1000Fables Choisies Mises en Vers par M. de la Fontaine. Pairs, 1678. 6" H. Volumes 1 and 2 bound in 1. ...
Acts of the Sixth US Congress
Estimate: 1 1000Acts Passed at the First Session of the Sixth Congress of the United States. N.p., n.d., circa 1800. 8vo, pages...
Female Anatomy, Color Plates
Estimate: 1 1000"Colored Plates for Ladies' Guide." N.p., n.d., circa 1883. 12mo booklet in wrappers, containing plates...
[Slavery] Manuel Pereira; Or, the Sovereign
Estimate: 1 1000 Rule of South Carolina. With Views of Southern Laws, Life, and Hospitality. By F. C. Adams. London: Benton,...
[Slavery] Notice of the Rev. John C. Adger's
Estimate: 1 1000 Article on the Slave Trade. Charleston, 1858. 8vo, stitched. Foxing to first and final leaf but mostly clean...
J.M. Barrie, Dumas, Rare Appearance
Estimate: 1 1000[J.M. Barrie, and others.] Short Stories, a Magazine of Select Fiction, Volume XIV, September-December, 1893....
[Architecture, Plates, Cathedral Churches]
Estimate: 1 1000Winkles's Architectural and Picturesque Illustrations of the Cathedral Churches of England and Wales. By Robert...
Appeal to Confederates, 1863
Estimate: 1 1000National Rectitude the Only True Basis of National Prosperity; An Appeal to the Confederate States. By J. C....
1760, Letters of Abelard and Heloise
Estimate: 1 1000 Translated from the French by John Hughes, To Which are Now Added, the Poem of Eloisa to Abelard By Mr. Pope. ...
Trotsky, Pair of Russian Works
Estimate: 1 1000A pair of works by Lev Trotsky, including Predannaya Revolucia (Betrayed Revolution, Moscow, 1991), and Moya...
1716, Justin Martyr, Tertullian
Estimate: 1 1000The Apologies of Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Minutius Felix. By William Reeves. Second edition in Two...
1698, A Commentary Upon the First
Estimate: 1 1000 Book of Moses, Called Genesis. By Rev. Symon, Lord Bishop of Ely. London, 1698. 8" H. Period calf, intact...
The Constitution of Man
Estimate: 1 1000By George Combe. Boston, 1856. 12mo, original cloth, Good-.The additional description and commentary below was...
18th c. Engraved Plates, Sierra Leone
Estimate: 1 1000A pair of engraved plates from the late 1700s, depicting African scenes. Includes View and Houses in Sierra...
1686-1688 Turretin, Theology
Estimate: 1 1000Institutio Theologiae Electicae Authore Francisco Turrettino. Geneva: Tournes, 1688 (third vol. dated 1686.) ...
Rare 1938 Snow White Souvenir Album
Estimate: 1 1000Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Souvenir Album, Words and Music from The World's Greatest Picture Walt...
Internal Combustion Engines
Estimate: 1 1000By John Barton. Annapolis, 1907. 8vo, original cloth, Very Good.The additional description and commentary below...
The Southern Planter, A Monthly
Estimate: 1 1000Periodical, Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture and the Household Arts. Richard Gooch, editor. Richmond,...
1611, Edmund Spenser, Works
Estimate: 1 1000A fragment from a 1611 folio edition of works by Spenser, printed by Mathew Lownes in London, 1611. Contains...
Memoirs of the Forty-Five First Years of
Estimate: 1 1000 of J. Lackington, Bookseller Written by Himself. London: for Lackington, 1803. 12mo, with half-title leaf at...
Works of Charles Dickens
Estimate: 1 1000Six volumes of Collier's works of Charles Dickens. 4to, original cloth, includes Christmas stories. ...
[Bindings, Theatre and Broadway]
Estimate: 1 1000Willis, John [ed.] Theatre World. 1985-1986 Season. New York. Crown Publishers. 1987. 256pp.Also, the same for...
[Classics, Bindings]
Estimate: 1 1000Ancient Classics for English Readers Edited by the Rev. W. Lucas Collins, M.A. Edinburgh. William Blackwood and...
Rare Russian Museum Souvenir Post Cards
Estimate: 1 1000A collection of post cards featuring paintings from the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. The cards are housed in a...
[Judaica] Theological Discourses
Estimate: 1 1000 by the Rev. J. Kohn-Zedek. London, 1878. 8vo, text in Hebrew (with additional titles in English), original...
The Poor Man's Best Companion
Estimate: 1 1000By Richard Baxter. Manchester: Russell and Allen, 1812. 8vo, engraved frontis, attractive period marbled...
[SIGNED] Roots, by Alex Haley
Estimate: 1 1000Garden City, (ca. 1976.) 8vo, original hardcovers, no jacket. Inscribed to Maxine and signed by the author on...
Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress
Estimate: 1 1000London: Noel Douglas, 1928. 16mo, a facsimile edition of the 1678 edition. Finely bound in 1/2 morocco,...
Memoirs of the Life George Whitefield
Estimate: 1 1000 Compiled by John Gillies. New-London (Conn.), 1798. 12mo. Early leather binding. Foxing and toning, else...
1930s Tea Cards, Full Set
Estimate: 1 1000Set of 25 (complete series) of Ty-Phoo Tea cards from the late 1930s, "Important Industries of the British...
Binding, Shakespeare, Macbeth and As
Estimate: 1 1000 You Like It. NY, Dutton and Dent, 1931 and 1927. Two bound in one. 5.75" H. Finely bound in full morocco,...
Female Life Among the Mormons; a Narrative
Estimate: 1 1000 by the Wife of a Mormon Elder, Recently from Utah. New York, 1856. 8vo, original cloth intact but worn and...
1749, Josephus' Account of Jesus
Estimate: 1 1000A Dissertation upon the Account Suppos'd to have been given of Jesus Christ by Josephus. By Nathaniel Forster. ...
1695, Characters of the Virtues and Vices
Estimate: 1 1000 of the Age; Or, Moral Reflections, Maxims. By [Abel] Boyer. London, 1695. 12mo. [16], 128, 145-215, [1] pp....
1716, Vindication of Apostolical Constitutions
Estimate: 1 1000St. Clement's and St. Irenaeus's Vindication of the Apostolical Constitutions...In this second edition is added...
1796 Philadelphia Imprint
Estimate: 1 1000Six Discourses, or Sermons, As Intended for the Pulpit By John Newton. Philadelphia: William Young, 1796. ...
[Binding] Works of George Herbert
Estimate: 1 1000Edited by Robert Aris Willmott. London, 1859. 12mo, illustrated with plates. Finely bound in full morocco,...
1782, David Hume, History of England
Estimate: 1 1000London: Cadell, 1782. 8vo, 6 volumes (of 8, missing vol 4 and 8), plus the third volume from a slightly later...
Pair of 19th c. Almanacs
Estimate: 1 1000The Family Almanac, 1851. [Plus] Hutchins' Improved Family Almanac, 1850. Both Fair, with some...
25th Communist Convention, USSR
Estimate: 1 1000Lot includes a slipcase housing two folders which contain large postcards (7" x 5.5") with images of Lenin in...
[Science, Chemistry]
Estimate: 1 1000Three volumes, 8vo, uniformly bound in 1/2 calf, gilt, intact, Very Good, including: ** William Foster. ...
Cruisings in the Cascades. A Narrative
Estimate: 1 1000Chicago and New York, 1889. 8vo, illustrated throughout. Period 1/4 morocco, intact, stain to front pastedown,...
1673, The Parable of the Pilgrim
Estimate: 1 1000By Symon Patrick. London, 1673. 7.75" x 6". Rebound in modern 1/2 morocco, some foxing to contents, Good+. ...
[Fidel Castro, Cuba, Press Notice]
Estimate: 1 1000A press notice issued by the Cuban government. 1959. An invitation to witness a trial. 8.5" x 7.5". Toned,...
San Francisco Imprint, Pacific Expositor
Estimate: 1 1000The Pacific Expositor, edited by W. A. Scott. Volume II. San Francisco: George Stevens, 1861. 8vo, period...
Our Wild Indians: Thirty-Three Years'...
Estimate: 1 1000 Personal Experience Among the Red Men of the Great West. By Richard Dodge. Hartford, 1890. Thick 8vo,...
Through the Grand Canyon from
Estimate: 1 1000Wyoming to Mexico. By E. L. Kolb. New York, 1920. 8vo, heavily illustrated with frontis and photographic...
Stamp Album, Large Assortment
Estimate: 1 1000A stamp album containing a large assortment of stamps from all over the worlds from various period. Album...
Easton Press, Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Estimate: 1 1000Norwalk CT: Easton Press, 1989. 8vo, leather-bound, a.e.g., silk endpapers, Fine condition.Condition: For lots...
Large Group of Tea Cards, Vanishing Wildlife
Estimate: 1 1000Approximately 225 tea cards from Brooke Bond's "Vanishing Wildlife" series from the 1970s. The full series was...
India, Madras Printing, Port Rules
Estimate: 1 1000West India Portuguese Railway Company, Port of Mormugao. Rules, Rates and General Instructions, 1925. Madras:...
Early 18th c. Manuscript Docs on Vellum
Estimate: 1 1000A pair of manuscripts on vellum, with seals affixed, dated 1710. Both approximately 14" wide, 1.75" H. Folded,...
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan
Estimate: 1 1000New York, 1888. 8vo, 2 vol. set. Illustrated with portraits and maps. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. ...
[San Francisco Earthquake]
Estimate: 1 1000San Francisco's Horror of Earthquake and Fire By James Russel Wilson. Philadelphia: Percival Supply Company,...
1781, The Works of Lucian
Estimate: 1 1000 From the Greek, By Thomas Francklin. London: Cadell, 1781. 4 volume set. 8vo, early 1/2 calf, several boards...
18th c. Genealogical Manuscripts
Estimate: 1 1000Lot of three manuscript leaves, as found among several old Bible fragments, including Joseph Fell (family), son...
[Doves Press, Press Notices, Lot of 4]
Estimate: 1 1000Lot includes 4 press notices (or similar) from the Doves Press, early 19th c. Housed in folder and slipcase. ...
Library of Wit and Humour
Estimate: 1 1000Edited with notes by A. R. Spofford and Rufus Shapley. Philadelphia: Gebbie, 1885-6. 9" H. 5 vols. Illustrated...
[Limited Ed., Golden Cockerell Press]
Estimate: 1 1000The 7th Man, a True Cannibal Tale of the South Sea Islands. By Robert Gibbings. The Golden Cockerell Press,...
[Bindings] The History of Painting in Italy
Estimate: 1 1000By Thomas Roscoe. London: Bohn, 1852, 1853, 1847. 12mo. 3 vol. set. Period full calf, gilt, marbled...
1796, Connecticut Imprint
Estimate: 1 1000Noah's Flood: A Poem. In Two Parts. By Joseph Vail. New-London (CT): Samuel Green, 1796. 8vo, disbound....
Beethoven, VIII Variations on a Celebrated
Estimate: 1 1000 Air in the Opera of "Richard Coeur de Lion" for the Piano Forte, Composed by L/ Beethoven. London: Goulding,...
New Studies in Literature, by Edward Dowden
Estimate: 1 1000Accompanied also by "Transcripts and Studies" by the same author. Both printed in London by Trench, 1895 and...
Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1st ed.
Estimate: 1 1000A Farewell to Arms. By Ernest Hemingway. NY, 1929. First printing, with seal and without disclaimer. No...
Hemingway, Men Without Women, 1st ed.
Estimate: 1 1000Men Without Women. By Ernest Hemingway. NY, 1927, first edition, first printing with Scribner's seal,...
1920-30s Cigarette Cards, Dogs, etc.
Estimate: 1 1000Lot of 32 cigarette cards: Includes 20 cards from around the 1920 and 1930s, primarily "Dogs," mostly Player's...
Laurence Stern, Sentimental Journey and
Estimate: 1 1000 The Journal to Eliza. London, Robert Riviere, n.d. 12mo, engraved frontispiece. Half calf, intact,...
[Whaling, 1802] An Act for Continuing
Estimate: 1 1000 the Premiums allowed to Ships employed in the Southern Whale Fishery. London, 1802. Plus another act also...
Crabbe's "The Borough"
Estimate: 1 1000The Borough: A Poem in Twenty Four Letters by George Crabbe. London, 1816. 24mo. Period calf, front board nearly...
[Jesuit Missions in Brazil]
Estimate: 1 1000[Caption Title] As Cartas do P. David Fay Contribuicao para a Historia das Missoes Jesuiticas no Brasil. N.p.,...
Genuine Epistles of the Apostolic Fathers
Estimate: 1 1000London: Bagster, 1817. 8vo. Bound in early calf, Very Good condition. Contains letters of church fathers such...
Cabinet Cyclopaedia Treatise on Arithmetic
Estimate: 1 1000By Dionysius Lardner. London, 1834. 12mo. Original cloth, Very Good.Condition: For lots in this online-only...
Letters, Sentences and Maxims
Estimate: 1 1000By Lord Chesterfield. New York and London: Putnam's, Knickerbocker Press, n.d. 16mo. Original limp morocco,...
Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 19th c.
Estimate: 1 1000The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. By Daniel Defoe. 8vo, illustrated with plates by Stothard. ...
[Lrg Quarto, Engraved Plates] Family Worship
Estimate: 1 1000Family Worship. A Series of Devotional Services. London: Blackie and Son, n.d. (ca. mid-1800s.) 12" x 9.5". ...
Easton Press, Einstein, His Life and Times
Estimate: 1 1000By Phillip Frank. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1988. Collector's edition. 8vo, illustrated, leather-bound,...
Replica Antique Book Display
Estimate: 1 1000A replica antique book mounted on a black ground and held within a plexi-glass box for display. Case needs a...
[Illustration] The Wonder Book of
Estimate: 1 1000 of Myths and Legends. Compiled by William Forbush, Illustrated by Frederick Richardson. John Winston Co.,...
[1649, Eikon Basilike, King Charles I]
Estimate: 1 1000Eikon Basilike. Konincklick Memoriael....Carolus Stuart. Amsterdam, [1649.] 7.25" H. [2], 130 pp (a few pages...