November 10, 2011 Auction |
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Lot 74 : |
AUTOGRAPH/SGN. LETTER: COMMODORE PERRY LETTER, 1845
Matthew C. Perry, (b. Newport, Rhode Island, 1794; d. New York City, 1858)Commodore of the US Navy during the opening of Japan to the West (1852-1854)New York, May 26, 1845Sir, In reply to your letter of the 20th last, I… MORE Estimate: $200 - $300 Realized: $650 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 75 : |
AUTOGRAPH/SGN. HAND WRITTEN LETTER: MARGARET THATCHER, 1969
HOUSE OF COMMONS, Saturday, 15th MarchDear Mrs. Seeler, A very big thank you for the lovely dinner party you gave on Friday evening. I enjoyed every moment, the superb food as well as the excellent company. It makes so much… MORE Estimate: $100 - $150 Realized: $75 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 76 : |
AUTOGRAPH/SGN. LETTER: WOODROW WILSON, 1906
Princeton University Princeton, N. J. December 7th, 1906typed; My dear Mr. Seeler:After your call.........Cordially and sincerely yours, Woodrow Wilson, 8.5 by 6.25 in. Ex: library of Edgar V. Seeler Estimate: $100 - $200 Realized: $150 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 77 : |
AUTOGRAPH/SGN. LETTER: BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, 1913
The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Oct. 1, 1913 Mr. Edgar V. Seeler Wayside Devon, Pa. Written in blue ink asking for donation for tuition and signed in black/brown ink, Booker T. Washingtonas principal of Tuskegee Norman and Industrial Institute,… MORE Estimate: $80 - $125 Realized: $150 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 78 : |
AUTOGRAPH/SGN. HAND WRITTEN LETTERS: (on 3) AMERICAN WOMEN ARTISTS
CECELIA BEAUX (Am., 1855-1942) three page folded note, The Gladstone, Oct 27 Dear Mr Seeler, I think the question of.......Most sincerely yours, Cecelia Beaux.; with a note card, Gloucester Mass Miss Beaux regrets that she is unable to attend the… MORE Estimate: $100 - $200 Realized: $125 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 80 : |
AUTOGRAPH/SGN. LETTER: (on 12) MAXFIELD PARRISH (1870-1966)
to Edgar V. Seeler, architect, concerning projects inc. Curtis Publishing Building in Philadelphia, Seeler being the architect and coordinator of the project. Parrish did panels for the dining hall, and was the inspiration for the 15' by 49' glass mosaic… MORE Estimate: $200 - $300 Realized: $2,600 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 81 : |
AUTOGRAPH/SGN. LETTER: 19/20TH C. ARCHITECTS
approx. 108 letters inc. many hand writtenEdgar V. Seeler's notebook of letters from various architects and several artists inc. Charles F. McKim (Boston Public Library); Cass Gilbert; Walter Cook; Walter Cope; John Stewardson; Aston Webb; Carrere and Hastings; George B.… MORE Estimate: $300 - $500 Realized: $1,400 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 82 : |
AUTOGRAPH/SGN. LETTER: UNION CIVIL WAR LETTER, December 15, 1861
from C.B. Hanson at Camp Dana, Belmont Furnace, Kentucky, to E.H. Greeninteresting, regarding daily life at war and instructions for harvestmounted framed under glass, (inc. transcript) Estimate: $80 - $120 Realized: $60 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 83 : |
EPHEMERA/SLAVERY: REWARD BROADSIDE
$300 REWARDRan away on Friday last, September 18, a negro man named LEWIS. He is very stout and full faced, of light color, about 5 feet 5 inches in height, and rather slow in speech. Clothing not re-collected. I will… MORE Estimate: $100 - $200 Realized: $1,900 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 84 : |
EPHEMERA/CIVIL WAR: (on 31) CIVIL WAR COVERS
various envelopes, dated 1861, 1862, 1863, and mailed to Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, etc.; inc. Prisoner of War Flag of Truce, Johnson Island (wear inc. corner tears and staining) Estimate: $150 - $250 Realized: $800 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 85 : |
EPHEMERA/CIVIL WAR: (on 6) CONFEDERATE STATE CURRENCY BILLS
(3) twenty dollar bills; (2) two dollar bills; (1) five dollar; all Richmond, Virginiadates, 1861-1864 (minor wear and minimal staining) Estimate: $100 - $200 Realized: $150 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 86 : |
PRINT/AFRICAN AMERICAN: CURRIER & IVES
The First Colored Senator and Representatives, in the 41st and 42nd Congress of the United States, Currier and Ives, 1872lithograph, 12 by 14.5 in.unframed (edges brittle and chipped; overall toning; frail) Estimate: $50 - $75 Realized: $550 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 87 : |
EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY/AUTOGRAPH: CLAY/AUDUBON
The Obituary Addresses...Hon. Henry Clay, Washington,1852, embossed cloth, 8voend page with signature of J.W. Audubon (from the library of ?)(spine weak, rough) Estimate: $80 - $120 Realized: $50 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 88 : |
EPHEMERA/EARLY AMERICAN: NEWSPAPER
Massachusetts Mercury, Boston, December 31, 1799, 3 pagesPrinted by Young and Minns (delicate state, rough edges, tears and folds)Ex.: library of Peter Sigourney, whose ancestor Charles Sigourney advertises his Furs For Sale on the back page. Estimate: $30 - $50 Realized: $60 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 89 : |
EARLY AMERICAN/HISTORICAL: (on 2)
American State Papers....Between the United States and Great Britain, from the Original papers of George Washington, 2 vols, London: 1795, full leather, 8vo (good, edges rubbed, age-typical) Estimate: $200 - $300 Realized: $450 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 90 : |
EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS AND THAT OF THE UNITED STATES; THE DECLARTION OF INDEPENDENCE, WITH PRESIDENT WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS, 1807, Brookfield, Printed by E. Merriam & Co. for Isiah Thomas, Jun. 1807, half leather and with paper… MORE Estimate: $30 - $50 Realized: $15 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 91 : |
AMERICAN HISTORY: (on 6)
George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, the Author's Last Revision,New York: D. Appleton, 1888, three quarter leather, marble boards, 8vo (good) Estimate: $100 - $150 Realized: $50 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 92 : |
HISTORY/ENGLAND: (on 8)
Hume, David, History of England, 4 vols. Smollett, T., History of England, 2 vols.Bisset, R., History of England, 2 vols.all Albany, NY, 1816, 8vo., all full brown leather (edges rubbed and chipped) Estimate: $100 - $150 Realized: $60 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 93 : |
AMERICAN HISTORY/GENEALOGY: (on 8)
Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey, 8 vols., (duplicate sets of vols., I thru IV), illus., compiled and ed. by Francis B. Lee, New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1910, full leather, 8vo (edges rubbed, some… MORE Estimate: $150 - $250 Realized: $10 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 94 : |
HISTORY: (on 4)
Edward W. Brayley, The History and Antiquities of the Abbey Church of St. Peter, Westminster, (vol. II only) illus. John Preston Neale, London: printed for Hurst, Robinson, 1823, full leather, (spine leather gone and week, edges rough and corners bumped);… MORE Estimate: $100 - $150 Realized: $25 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 95 : |
FINE ART: (on 5)
THE GREAT UTOPIA, Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932, Guggenheim Museum, soft cover, 1992; VERVE, The French Review of Art, Vol. 2, Nos. 5-6, 1939 (spine separated); LES GRAND HEURES DE ROHAN, Swiss printing, tipted vivid illustrations in color; GUSTAVE MOREAU… MORE Estimate: $60 - $100 Realized: $50 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 98 : |
RELIGION/JUDAICA: (on 6) WAGENSEIL, JOHANN CHRISTOPH (1663-1705)
SOTA..Uxore Adulterii Suspecta una cum Libri en Jacob Excerptis GemaraeVersione Latina, & Commentario perpetuo....6 vols.Johannis Anreae & Wolfgangi Endteri Junioris Haeredum, Excudit Johannes Henricus Schonnerstaedt, 1674, marbeled board, leather spine (intact) folionotations on front page (very good condition, edges rubbed) Estimate: $200 - $400 Realized: $200 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 99 : |
ART/RELIGION: SCHONGAUER, MARTIN (c. 1445-1491)
Die Passion ChristiBerlin: Amsler & Ruthardt, 1921with all 12 impressed plates (very good condition) Estimate: $100 - $125 Realized: $10 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 100 : |
HISTORICAL: BIE, JOCOBI DE
Imperatorum Romanorum a Julio Caesare ad Heraclium usque, Numismata Aurea...Amsteldami: Martinum Schagen, 1738(very good condition) Estimate: $400 - $600 Realized: $100 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 101 : |
NATIVE AMERICAN: EASTMAN, MARY H.
The American Aboriginal Portfolioillus. by S. Eastman, U.S. ArmyPhiladelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1853embossed gilt decorated blue cloth cover, 4to(very good, minor spine roughness at top and bottom, wear to cover corners) Estimate: $400 - $600 Realized: $550 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 102 : |
NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGE: (on 6)
Indian Names of Places in Plymouth..., Lincoln Kinnicutt, Worcester, 1909, 8vo;Inidan Names in Connecticut, J. Hammond Trumbull, Hartford, 1881, 8vo; Lenape-English Dictionary (the Delaware), Brinton and Anthony, Historical Society of Penn., 1888, 8vo; Dakota Grammar, Texts and Ethnography, Riggs, Washington,… MORE Estimate: $200 - $300 Realized: $60 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 103 : |
NATIVE AMERICAN: (on 3)
Old Indian Legends, retold by Zitkala-Sa (Sioux woman), illus. Angel De Cora, Ginn & Co., 1901, linen, 12mo; Life and Traditions of the Red Man, Joseph Nicolar, Bangor, Maine, 1893, linen, 12mo (pg. 15 loose); and The Papoose, vol. I,… MORE Estimate: $200 - $300 Realized: $150 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 104 : |
NATIVE AMERICAN: (on 15) VARIOUS WORKS
New Indian Sketches, P.J. de Smet, New York: D&J Sadlier, 1865, linen, 18mo; Wampum, Ashbel Woodward, pub. Albany, Munsell, 1880, 2nd ed.; 8vo; The Wampanoag, Milton Travers (sgn by author), 1st ed., Reynolds-DeWalt, New Bedford, MA, 1957, 8vo; The Indians… MORE Estimate: $200 - $300 Realized: $175 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 105 : |
NATIVE AMERICAN: (on 4) VARIOUS WORKS
Samuel Auburn Drake, Indian Captivities or Life in the Wigwam, Derby & Miller, 1850embossed linen, 12mo (foxing, spine edges rough); Samuel Drake, Old Indian Chronicle, Boston, 1867, good fold-out map of Nipmuck Country, 8vo(rough, spine decayed, pages loose) E.C. Cummings,… MORE Estimate: $100 - $200 Realized: $175 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 105A : |
NATIVE AMERICAN: (on 13)
Railroad-Indian and Pioneer Prints by Currier and Ives, 1930; Harold McCracken, George Catlin and the Old Frontier, New York: Dial Press, 1959; Warren Moorhead, The American Indian, 1914, sgn. by the author (spine loose); Oliver LaFarge, A Pictorial History of… MORE Estimate: $100 - $150 Realized: $10 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 106 : |
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY: (on 2)
The Negro Pew being an Inquiry Concerning the Propriety of Distinctions in the House of God on Account of Color, Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1837, board, 16mo, wrapped in paper,annotated: Freetown U.S. Society-Subject to a fine if kept more than two… MORE Estimate: $80 - $100 Realized: $375 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 107 : |
EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY/SLAVERY: (on 2)
J. Rankin, Letters on American Slavery, Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1838, 5th ed., 12mo, paper boards, 12mo (age-typical wear); andWorks of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, London: 1824, 32mo, green leather (cover unhinged)Drake, Samuel, Old Indian Chronicle, Boston, 1867, good fold-out map of… MORE Estimate: $60 - $100 Realized: $60 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 108 : |
LITERATURE: (on 6) STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER and SIMMS, WILLIAM
Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life Among the Lowly, 2 vols.Boston: John P. Jewett, Cleveland, Ohio, Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852cloth with gilt, 12mo (age-typical wear, spine slant) along with;Simms, William G., The Border Beagles; a Tale of Mississippi by the… MORE Estimate: $300 - $500 Realized: $125 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 109 : |
AMERICAN HISTORY/CIVIL WAR: (on 4)
The Political Debates Between Hon. Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. DouglasColumbus: 1860, 1st ed. 8vo, embossed cloth (rough edges, overall foxing throughout)The Battle of Gettysburg by the Comte. de Paris, Phila.: 1886, 1st ed., 8vo, embossed blue cloth; Merill, Samuel,… MORE Estimate: $100 - $150 Realized: $85 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 110 : |
TRAVEL/HISTORICAL: (on 2) POCOCKE, RICHARD (1704-1765)
Description of the East and Some other Countries, 2 vols. (three vols. in two)London: Printed for the Author by W. Bowyer and sold by J. and P. Knapton, 1743, foliomany illustrations and fold-out map(hinges cracked, boards still attached on one,… MORE Estimate: $2,000 - $4,000 Realized: $4,000 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 111 : |
18TH C. TRAVEL/EXPLORATION: SHAW, THOMAS
Travels or Observations relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the LevantOxford: Printed at the Theatre, 1738, 1st ed.illustrated, four folding maps, folio(original worn and torn leather, water stains to beginning and end pages) Estimate: $400 - $600 Realized: $275 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 112 : |
TRAVEL: ROUSSELET, LOUIS
India and its Native Princes, Travels in Central IndiaNew York: Scribner, Armstrong, 1876, 317 illustrations and 6 maps, leather, raised ridges to spine, inner leather cover with gilded design, folio(edges rubbed, tear in spine lower right) Estimate: $100 - $200 Realized: $100 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 113 : |
18TH C. EXPLORATION: (on 3)
Thomas Gage, A Survey of the Spanish West IndiesLondon: Printed for Thomas Horne, 1702, 8vo(original leather binding, corners bumped, map with holes and stain at one deep crease); withLeonardo de Argensola, A New Collection of Voyages and Travels into Several… MORE Estimate: $100 - $200 Realized: $550 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 114 : |
EXPLORATION/TRAVEL: (on 2)
Agustus Earle, A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827Together with a Journal of a Residence in Tristan D'AchunhaLondon: Longman, Rees, Orme...etc., 1832, 1st ed., 8vo(leather and cloth rebind, edges bumped; minor spotting; engraved plates (inc.… MORE Estimate: $200 - $300 Realized: $700 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 115 : |
18TH C. EXPLORATION/TRAVEL: ANSON, GEORGE(British, 1697-1762)
A Voyage Round the World, In the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IVLondon: Printed for the Author by John and Paul Knapton, 1748, 1st ed., 4to(orig binding, leather over boards curling at hinges, beginning pages loose, minor spotting, fold-outs intact) Estimate: $400 - $600 Realized: $600 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 116 : |
EXPLORATION: (on 3) LIVINGSTONE
Charles and David Livingston, A Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries (1858-1864) New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866, 1st American ed., 8vo(original worn cloth binding, corners worn, some foxing to pages, fold-out map creased) along with;… MORE Estimate: $100 - $200 Realized: $35 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 117 : |
EXPLORATION: (on 5) WILKES, CHARLES, U.S.N.
Narrative of the United States Exploring Expeditions During the Years 1838-1842, 5 vols.New York: Putnam & Co., 1856, 2nd ed.embossed brown cloth, gilt medallion on cover of native, 8vo(rough edges, age-typical) Estimate: $50 - $100 Realized: $190 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 118 : |
EXPLORATION: (on 3) HERNDON, WM. LEWIS and GIBBON, LARDNER
Exploration of the Amazon Under the Direction of the Navy Department, 2 vols.Published by the House of RepresentativesPart I by Lieut. Herndon, Washington: Robert Armstrong, Public Printer, 1854, 8vo;Part II by Lt. Gibbon, Washington: Nicholson, Public Printer, 1854; andMaps -… MORE Estimate: $200 - $300 Realized: $175 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 119 : |
EPLORATION: (on 5)
James J. Jarves, History of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands, Boston: Tappan & Dennet, 1843, 1st ed., 8vo, embossed cloth (spine rough, foxing, pencil notes in margin);Joseph Trapp, Voyage to Madagascar and the East Indies, London: 1793, 1st ed., 8vo,… MORE Estimate: $200 - $300 Realized: $450 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 120 : |
EXPLORATION/CHINA SEAS: (on 3)
Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, 1854 Under the Command of M.C. Perrycomplied by Francis Hawks, 2 vols., Washington: 1856, vol. III, United States Japan Expedition.… MORE Estimate: $100 - $200 Realized: $600 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 121 : |
EXLORATION: SCOTT, CAPTAIN R.F. (with inscription)
Scott's Last Expedition, 2 vols.pull-out maps and photographs of the ArticLondon: Smith, Elder & Co., 1913, third ed., blue cloth, 8voinset card in back reads To Dorothey Matthew having heard of her interest in Polar exploration from Sir Edwin Diller,… MORE Estimate: $50 - $100 Realized: $200 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 122 : |
ATLAS: JOHNSON'S NEW ILLUSTRATED FAMILY ATLAS OF THE WORLD
New York: A. J. Johnson, 1866embossed cloth with gilt lettering, folio(corners worn and spine edges rubbed) Estimate: $1,000 - $1,200 Realized: $550 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 123 : |
ATLAS: PINKERTON
Pinkerton's School Atlas 1817many colored maps, still vividLondon: T. Cadell, 1871, marbelized paper boards, 8vo (title page loose, rough) Estimate: $80 - $120 Realized: $90 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 124 : |
TRAVEL/19TH C.: SEARS, ROBERT
An Illustrated Description Of The RUSSIAN EMPIRENew York: Robert Sears, 1855, gold embossed red cloth, 8vo(corner and spine roughness) Prov.: collection of Henry Sigourney, Cambridge, MA Estimate: $60 - $100 Realized: $50 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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Lot 125 : |
HISTORY/TRAVEL: (on 3)
John S. C. Abbott, The History of Napoleon Bonaparte, 2 vols.NY: Harper & Bros., 1855, 1st ed., three quarter leather, 8vofly-leaf inscription George Dudley from Caroline, Boston, Dec. 25th, 1855(bumped and rubbed, cover detached at hinge on one); andAusten H.… MORE Estimate: $100 - $200 Realized: $50 - Excluding Buyer's Premium |
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