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The Monument to Robert Gould Shaw, Its Inception, Completion and Unveiling, 1865-1897
Lot: 1151Sold for: $375$300The Monument to Robert Gould Shaw, Its Inception, Completion and Unveiling, 1865-1897. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1897. First edition, octavo, in publisher's red cloth with more ...
Four Historical Works and Two Manuscript Account Book/Ledger Name Indexes.
Lot: 1152Sold for: $313$250Four Historical Works and Two Manuscript Account Book/Ledger Name Indexes. Thomas T. Stone, Sketches of Oxford County (Portland: Shirley and Hyde, 1830),with a postcard regarding the book addressed more ...
Cambridge Photographic Club Presentation Album to Miss Laura P. Stone and Mr. Charles F. Batchelder, February 19, 1895.
Lot: 1153Sold for: $750$600Cambridge Photographic Club Presentation Album to Miss Laura P. Stone and Mr. Charles F. Batchelder, February 19, 1895. Twenty-two signed gelatin silver prints and platinum/palladium prints bound in more ...
Twenty-two Letters and Documents Regarding the Business and Personal Affairs of Samuel Batchelder, 1808-1827.
Lot: 1154Sold for: $750$600Twenty-two Letters and Documents Regarding the Business and Personal Affairs of Samuel Batchelder, 1808-1827. Samuel Batchelder autograph letter to Nathan Hale, Amherst, April 26, 1808, regarding more ...
Manuscript to Samuel Batchelders The Introduction and Early Progress of the Cotton Manufacture in the United States and Two First Edit
Lot: 1155Sold for: $688$550Manuscript to Samuel Batchelder's The Introduction and Early Progress of the Cotton Manufacture in the United States and Two First Edition Copies of the Published Book, Early 1860s. Written in black more ...
Four Batchelder Guest Books and a Birthday Book, 1881-1928.
Lot: 1156Sold for: $156$125Four Batchelder Guest Books and a Birthday Book, 1881-1928. The guest books signed by a multitude of Batchelder, Stone, and Haskin family members and numerous other guests, dates spanning 1881-1888 more ...
Amy Batchelder's Illustrated Christmas Book, 1858.
Lot: 1157Sold for: $1,750$1,400Amy Batchelder's Illustrated Christmas Book, 1858. 16mo, with gilt stamped green leather boards and marbled end papers and approx. sixty leaves, the pages with carefully written verse with elaborate more ...
Amy Batchelder's Illustrated Christmas Rhymes, 1863.
Lot: 1158Sold for: $438$350Amy Batchelder's Illustrated Christmas Rhymes, 1863. 16mo, with gilt stamped green leather boards and marbled end papers and approx. sixty leaves, the pages with carefully written verse with more ...
Three Samuel Batchelder Family Carte-de-visite Photograph Albums, 1860s-70s.
Lot: 1159Sold for: $625$500Three Samuel Batchelder Family Carte-de-visite Photograph Albums, 1860s-70s. Containing eighty-six albumen and collodion images and twelve tintype images, including photographs of Samuel Batchelder more ...
Eleven Identified Photographs of Stone, Batchelder, Foster, Giles, Carlisle and Andrew Family Members, Mid-19th Century.
Lot: 1160Sold for: $5,313$4,250Eleven Identified Photographs of Stone, Batchelder, Foster, Giles, Carlisle and Andrew Family Members, Mid-19th Century. Images include a cased sixth-plate ambrotype of Lincoln Ripley Stone, Surgeon more ...
Biographical Sketch of John Hodges Jr. and Transcripts of His Civil War Letters, 19th Century.
Lot: 1161Sold for: $500$400Biographical Sketch of John Hodges Jr. and Transcripts of His Civil War Letters, 19th Century. Drafted by his mother likely in the late 1860s or 1870s, the eighteen-page biographical sketch more ...
Manuscript Play Scenes from Barnaby Rudge by Osgood Hodges and a Manuscript History of the Trial of George Jacobs for Witchcraft, Lat
Lot: 1162Sold for: $125$100Manuscript Play "Scenes from Barnaby Rudge" by Osgood Hodges and a Manuscript History of the Trial of George Jacobs for Witchcraft, Late 19th Century. The play, based on the Charles Dickens novel, more ...
Two Foster Family Miniature Portraits, Early 19th Century.
Lot: 1163Sold for: $500$400Two Foster Family Miniature Portraits, Early 19th Century. A miniature portrait on ivory probably of Francis Foster dressed in a blue jacket with gold buttons mounted in a purple velvet lined case more ...
Jackson Family Carte-de-visite Album with Portraits of Massachusetts Civil War Officers, Boston, 1860s.
Lot: 1164Sold for: $2,500$2,000Jackson Family Carte-de-visite Album with Portraits of Massachusetts Civil War Officers, Boston, 1860s. Containing twenty-seven albumen images and one tintype image, officers identified by period more ...
Page/Andrew/Deland Family Carte-de-visite Photograph Album, 1860s.
Lot: 1165Sold for: $1,125$900Page/Andrew/Deland Family Carte-de-visite Photograph Album, 1860s. Forty albumen images and a tintype, most subjects identified in index, including images of Civil War soldiers John Hodges Jr. 59th more ...
Carte-de-visite Album of Civil War-era Figures, 1860s.
Lot: 1166Sold for: $1,063$850Carte-de-visite Album of Civil War-era Figures, 1860s. Containing thirty-two albumen and two tintype images of notables including Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, Andrew Croswell, 1863; Jared more ...
Harris/Silsbee Family Carte-de-visite Photograph Album, 1860s.
Lot: 1167Sold for: $875$700Harris/Silsbee Family Carte-de-visite Photograph Album, 1860s. Containing forty-five albumen photographs of family members and notable people including Col. Harrison Ritchie, 10th Massachusetts more ...
Approximately 176 Hillsborough Bank, Amherst, New Hampshire, Ten Dollar Bank Notes and Two Documents Regarding a Legal Dispute Mentioni
Lot: 1168Sold for: $2,500$2,000Approximately 176 Hillsborough Bank, Amherst, New Hampshire, Ten Dollar Bank Notes and Two Documents Regarding a Legal Dispute Mentioning the Bills, 1806-07. The notes signed and dated October 17, more ...
Twenty-one 19th Century Bank Notes/Currency Items.
Lot: 1169Sold for: $688$550Twenty-one 19th Century Bank Notes/Currency Items. Including three printed Cheshire Bank shares made out to Samuel Batchelder, September 18, 1804; a September 2, 1861 Confederate $20 note and a more ...
Five Large G.C. Cox Platinum/Palladium Prints and Ten Aquatic Life Printing Blocks, Late 19th Century.
Lot: 1170Sold for: $688$550Five Large G.C. Cox Platinum/Palladium Prints and Ten Aquatic Life Printing Blocks, Late 19th Century. The photographs mounted on gray board, each stamped "G.C. Cox Photo" at l.l. corner of the more ...
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) and John Bachman (1790-1874),The Quadrupeds of North America
Lot: 1171Sold for: $2,250$1,800Audubon, John James (1785-1851) and John Bachman (1790-1874),The Quadrupeds of North America. New York: V.G. Audubon, 1851. First octavo edition, in original wrappers, a partial set composed of more ...
Adams, Ansel (1902-1984) My Camera in the National Parks , Signed.
Lot: 1172Sold for: $250$200Adams, Ansel (1902-1984) My Camera in the National Parks, Signed. Boston: Yosemite National Park and Houghton Mifflin Co., 1950. First edition, spiral-bound folio, signed on the front endpaper, more ...
Two 18th Century Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company Sermons.
Lot: 1173Sold for: $875$700Two 18th Century Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company Sermons. Samuel Dunbar, A Sermon Preach'd before the ancient and honourable Artillery-Company, on their Anniversary Meeting for the Election more ...
Rare Bulaq Printing of Kitab Alf Layla wa-Layla (Thousand and One Nights)
Lot: 1174UnsoldRare Bulaq Printing of Kitab Alf Layla wa-Layla (Thousand and One Nights). Bulaq, Egypt, 1251 AH (1834-1835). One of two volumes, 356 numbered laid paper pages (178 printed leaves),bound in red more ...
Minor White (American, 1908-1976) Collection of Aperture Magazines
Lot: 1175UnsoldMinor White (American, 1908-1976) Collection of Aperture Magazines, 1952-2005. Approx. 133 issues and 20 duplicates including: 1952-1975, Vol. 1, nos. 1-4; vol. 2, nos. 1-4, vol. 3, nos. 1-4, more ...
Balzac, Honore de (1799-1850) Comedie Humaine Collected Works.
Lot: 1176UnsoldBalzac, Honore de (1799-1850) Comedie Humaine Collected Works. London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1895-1898. Thirty-three octavo volumes, number 148 of 300 illustrated copies printed, uniformly bound in more ...
Bartholomew, Richard and Shiv S. Kapur, Husain
Lot: 1177Sold for: $100$80Bartholomew, Richard and Shiv S. Kapur, Husain. New York: Harry N. Abrams, [1972]. First edition, oblong, bound in red cloth board with silver stamping, 192 illustrations with 52 tipped in color more ...
Biographie Universelle, Ancienne et Moderne , 52 Vols., and Four Engraved Portraits of Frederic Alfred Pierre, Comte de Falloux.
Lot: 1178Sold for: $375$300Biographie Universelle, Ancienne et Moderne, 52 Vols., and Four Engraved Portraits of Frederic Alfred Pierre, Comte de Falloux. Paris: Chez Michaud Freres, 1811-1828. Octavo, leather boards, (spines more ...
Blumann, Sigismund (1872-1956) Camera Craft, 1931-1936.
Lot: 1179Sold for: $625$500Blumann, Sigismund (1872-1956) Camera Craft, 1931-1936. San Francisco: Pacific International Photographer's Association. Seventy-two issues spanning Vol. XXXVIII, No. 1 (January 1931) through Vol. more ...
Brassai (1899-1984) Brassai
Lot: 1180Sold for: $438$350Brassai (1899-1984) Brassai. [Exhibition Catalog], Signed. Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, 1963. Quarto, in orange paper wrapper with attached photograph of a black cat at night, inscribed on front more ...