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  • Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896)

    Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896)

    Lot: 166
    Sold for: $764$650

    Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896),Autograph note signed, December 19, [no year], one page, to Houghton Mifflin, requesting that they give her grandson a copy of the Holiday edition of Uncle Tom's more ...

  • Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)

    Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)

    Lot: 167
    Sold for: $881$750

    Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971),Autograph musical quotation signed, one page, dated Hollywood, January 23rd, [19]66, single bar of music, framed with large black and white photograph, (good). more ...

  • Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892)

    Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892)

    Lot: 168
    Sold for: $2,350$2,000

    Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892),Signed large format photograph, 1869, also signed and inscribed by Julia Margaret Cameron, "From Life Registered Photograph Copyright Julia Margaret Cameron June more ...

  • Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892)

    Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892)

    Lot: 169
    Sold for: $3,290$2,800

    Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892),Signed large format portrait photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, [1865], signed and inscribed by Cameron, "From Life Registered Photograph Copyright Julia more ...

  • Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892)

    Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892)

    Lot: 170
    Sold for: $3,819$3,250

    Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892),Annotated printed copy of the poem Sea Dreams. An Idyll with hand corrections, eight loose pages, with many marginal marks and notes and with extensive more ...

  • Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863)

    Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863)

    Lot: 171
    Sold for: $999$850

    Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863),Three autograph articles; first, autograph note signed, recipient unknown, concerning an autograph request "You have given me half a crown for poor Mrs. more ...

  • Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)

    Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)

    Lot: 172
    Sold for: $4,994$4,250

    Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862),Autograph manuscript fragment, undated, [circa December 1853], from the Lecture entitled "An Excursion to Moosehead Lake," delivered to the Concord Lyceum on more ...

  • Tolstoy, Count Lev Nikolaevich (1828-1910)

    Tolstoy, Count Lev Nikolaevich (1828-1910)

    Lot: 173
    Sold for: $1,645$1,400

    Tolstoy, Count Lev Nikolaevich (1828-1910),Autograph corrected galley proof, [no date], pages 275-276, one leaf, with corrections in Tolstoy's hand and two words written in the margin, (minor more ...

  • Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915)

    Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915)

    Lot: 174
    Sold for: $441$375

    Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915),Autograph letter signed, May 2nd, 1891, one page, as Principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, to Miss Jones, thanking her for sending a package more ...

  • Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892)

    Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892)

    Lot: 175
    Sold for: $206$175

    Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892),Autograph poem signed, Amesbury, August 18th, 1886, one page, four stanzas of four lines each, beginning "How slowly beams the world the truth...," (good, more ...

  • Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892)

    Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892)

    Lot: 177
    Sold for: $71$60

    Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892),Autograph card, dated 1881 at Danvers, Massachusetts, on ruled paper, matted and framed together with a portrait print, (toning, mat burn),card sight size 3 more ...

  • Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)

    Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)

    Lot: 178
    Sold for: $9,400$8,000

    Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900),Autograph letter signed, [January 22, 1889], four pages, to Mr. Walter Hamilton, concerning his thoughts on parody, with holograph envelope, (slight fold weakness, slight more ...

  • Wilhelm I, King of Prussia (1797-1888)

    Wilhelm I, King of Prussia (1797-1888)

    Lot: 179
    Sold for: $147$125

    Wilhelm I, King of Prussia (1797-1888),Manuscript signed document, July 29th, 1867, one page, in German, framed with portrait. more ...

  • Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)

    Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)

    Lot: 180
    Sold for: $558$475

    Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963),Two signed poems, [undated], each typed on a single sheet of paper, "This is just to Say" and "The Term," (creased, very good). more ...

  • Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

    Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

    Lot: 181
    Sold for: $470$400

    Wordsworth, William (1770-1850),Autograph letter signed, [undated], one page, recipient unknown, writing to a friend, "I am sorry to say that Lord Tinsdale's (?) recovery proceeds slowly, that I am more ...

  • Wright, Orville (1871-1948)

    Wright, Orville (1871-1948)

    Lot: 182
    Sold for: $1,645$1,400

    Wright, Orville (1871-1948),Signed photographic card, depicting the First Man-Flight, December 17, 1903, inscribed on reverse, likely in a different hand, 6 x 4 in., (creases, toned, small surface more ...

  • (Academie des Sciences, Paris)

    (Academie des Sciences, Paris)

    Lot: 183
    Sold for: $88$75

    (Academie des Sciences, Paris),Memoires de Mathematique et De Physique Annee MDCXCII, Amsterdam: 1723, with folding plates, calf, 12mo, (bumped, chipped, starting, some plates not flush, minor more ...

  • Adams, John Quincy, (1767-1848)

    Adams, John Quincy, (1767-1848)

    Lot: 183A
    Sold for: $118$100

    Adams, John Quincy, (1767-1848),Rare copy of The Wants of Man; A Poem, Lowell, Massachusetts: Amos Upton, 1841, original printed wraps, 16mo, (spotting and soiling). more ...

  • (African American, Seven Titles)

    (African American, Seven Titles)

    Lot: 184
    Sold for: $294$250

    (African American, Seven Titles),including Sidelights on Negro Soldiers, Twenty-five Years in the Black Belt, (two copies),Hitting the Dark Trail, Black Yeomanry, and three others. more ...

  • (Almanack, New York)

    (Almanack, New York)

    Lot: 185
    Sold for: $1,175$1,000

    (Almanack, New York),The New York Pocket Almanack for the Year 1767, by Richard Moore, New York: Hugh Gaine, [1767], original printed wraps, interior with manuscript notes, 12mo, (chipped and more ...

  • (American Literature, 20th century, Two Titles)

    (American Literature, 20th century, Two Titles)

    Lot: 187
    Sold for: $264$225

    (American Literature, 20th century, Two Titles),O'Connor, Flannery (1925-64),The Violent Bear it Away, New York: Farrar, Strauss & Cudahy, [1960], first edition, boards, with dust jacket, (dust more ...

  • (Architecture)

    (Architecture)

    Lot: 188A
    Sold for: $382$325

    (Architecture),Daly, Cesar (1811-94),L'Architecture Privee au XIXe Siecle, Paris: Ducher et Cie., 1872, three volumes, second series, half red morocco, folio, (edge wear, scattered foxing, volume more ...

  • (Architecture, England)

    (Architecture, England)

    Lot: 188B
    Sold for: $470$400

    (Architecture, England),Hall, Samuel Carter (1800-89),The Baronial Halls and Ancient Edifices of England, London: Willis and Sotheran, 1858, in two volumes, gilt tooled red morocco, folio, (minor more ...

  • Audubon, John James (1785-1851),Rare and Fine Copy

    Audubon, John James (1785-1851),Rare and Fine Copy

    Lot: 189
    Sold for: $281,000$250,000

    Audubon, John James (1785-1851),Rare and Fine Copy, The Birds of America, New York: Bien Chromolithographers, 1860, second double folio edition with four text volumes, contemporary calf, complete more ...

  • Barham, Richard Harris (1788-1845)

    Barham, Richard Harris (1788-1845)

    Lot: 190
    Sold for: $499$425

    Barham, Richard Harris (1788-1845),The Ingoldsby Legends of Mirth and Marvels, London and New York, 1907, gilt lettered and tooled vellum, one of 560, illustrated and signed by Arthur Rackham, with more ...

  • (Baskerville, Printer, Three Titles)

    (Baskerville, Printer, Three Titles)

    Lot: 192
    Sold for: $764$650

    (Baskerville, Printer, Three Titles),Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius, Opera, 1772; Lucretius Carus, Titus (96?-55 B.C.),Rerum Natura, 1772; Sallustius Crispus, Caius (86-34 B.C.) and Florus, more ...

  • Baum, L. Frank, (The Wizard of Oz, Cast Signed)

    Baum, L. Frank, (The Wizard of Oz, Cast Signed)

    Lot: 193
    Sold for: $2,350$2,000

    Baum, L. Frank, (The Wizard of Oz, Cast Signed),The Land of Oz, Popular Edition, Chicago, [1904], pictorial boards, signed on flyleaf by the major actors of the 1939 film, Judy Garland, Billie more ...

  • (Binding, Silver)

    (Binding, Silver)

    Lot: 195
    Sold for: $147$125

    (Binding, Silver),German silver filigree binding, late 17th/early 18th century, encasing a German prayer book, 1674, printed by Johann Hofmann, Nuremberg, 12mo, (binding separating, book trimmed, more ...

  • (Botanical)

    (Botanical)

    Lot: 198
    Sold for: $353$300

    (Botanical),Pratt, Anne, The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain, London, [1873], six volumes, original gilt lettered and stamped green cloth, with approximately 315 more ...

  • (Botanical)

    (Botanical)

    Lot: 198A
    Sold for: $646$550

    (Botanical) Paxton, Joseph, Sir (1801-65),Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, London: William S. Orr & Co., 1849, volumes 15 and 16 only, hald crushed morocco, 4to, (one with more ...