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Lot 228 : (on 12) EPHEMERA LOT incl. BOOKS

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(on 12) EPHEMERA LOT incl. BOOKS
framed script calligraphy Human Prudence, faded attached note on reverse "Printed in Nathaniel Low's Almanac for 1772.....Madeline"; 11.5 by 7 in.; a leather covered book of beautiful script poems and notations dating in the 1830's, perhaps some original poems, 8" by 6.5"; small paper covered handwritten book Thomas Holkin's Poetical Extracts, 1831, 6" by 4"; (3) classroom paper rewards of merit 1841 and 1856 to Mary and Thomas Seal (the third faded); leather bound book, pub. Philadelphia 1810 in Dutch/German with watercolor title page dated 1818; a merchant's ledger of goods incl. silver from 1826; little Victorian book Sweet Forget Me-Not, "To my dear sweet Mary...Mother...1895"; a little Victorian paper book Nearer My God to Thee, Tuck & Sons, pub. to Her Majesty the Queen, inscribed "To Mother from Emma"; Ben Pearson's small bound sermon, publ. Boston, 1746, Rogers and Fowle, Queen Street next to the prison; three fragile unbound pages The Golden Goose, Fishers' Toy Books, Phil. and Baltimore (as is); a watercolor of Adam, Eve and the Serpent in the Garden sgn. A.White '81, 12 by 10 in., framed under glass; and a letter from a son to his mother in Troy NH, 1894
Estimate: $300 - $400
Realized: $2,300 - Excluding Buyer's Premium


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