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Truman, Harry S. (1884-1972) Typed Letter, Signed, 31 March 1945.
Lot: 60Sold for: $338$275Truman, Harry S. (1884-1972) Typed Letter, Signed, 31 March 1945. Single page, stationery of the Vice President. To Senator Alben W. Barkley (1877-1956),suggesting that he fill a vacancy on the more ...
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University Diploma, Continental, 16th Century.
Lot: 61Sold for: $677$550University Diploma, Continental, 16th Century. Single page parchment document, in a secretarial hand, with a coat of arms flanked by two lions, and two small portraits in rondelles at the top, the more ...
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Washington, George (1732-1799) Letter to President John Adams (1735-1826),Signed by Tobias Lear (1726-1816),An Account of the First P
Lot: 62Sold for: $108,000$90,000Washington, George (1732-1799) Letter to President John Adams (1735-1826),Signed by Tobias Lear (1726-1816),An Account of the First President's Death, Mount Vernon, 15 December 1799. Single more ...
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Washington, George (1732-1799) Lottery Ticket, Signed, 1768.
Lot: 63Sold for: $7,800$6,500Washington, George (1732-1799) Lottery Ticket, Signed, 1768. Ticket number 165 in the Mountain Road Lottery, numbered by hand, with the President's signature, matted and mounted with a more ...
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Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) Letter Signed, 28 June 1838.
Lot: 64Sold for: $210$175Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) Letter Signed, 28 June 1838. One sheet inscribed on both sides. To the Whigs of Philadelphia, declining an invitation to celebrate the fourth of July with them. Body of more ...
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Acts and Laws Passed by the Great and General Court or Assembly of the Colony of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England.
Lot: 65Sold for: $2,400$2,000Acts and Laws Passed by the Great and General Court or Assembly of the Colony of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. Watertown and Boston: various printers, including Ede, Adams, and Larkin, more ...
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Acts and Laws Passed by the General Court of Massachusetts
Lot: 65ASold for: $840$700Acts and Laws Passed by the General Court of Massachusetts. Boston: various printers, including Adams & Larkin, andYoung & Minns, 1795-1805. Folio, large, stab-sewn, untrimmed copies, not more ...
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Aesop (c. 620-564 BC) Appologi sive Mythologi cum quibusdam Carminum et Fabularum additionibus Sebastiani Brant
Lot: 66UnsoldAesop (c. 620-564 BC) Appologi sive Mythologi cum quibusdam Carminum et Fabularum additionibus Sebastiani Brant. Basel: Jacob Wolff of Pforzheim, 1501. First edition by Sebastian Brant (1457-1521),more ...
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Alcott, Louisa May (1832-1888) Little Women
Lot: 67Sold for: $3,600$3,000Alcott, Louisa May (1832-1888) Little Women [First and Second Parts]. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1868 [-1869]. First editions, two octavo volumes; part one with four illustrations and six pages of more ...
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Allers, Christian Wilhelm (1857-1915) Capri
Lot: 68Sold for: $154$125Allers, Christian Wilhelm (1857-1915) Capri. Munich [New York]: Franz Hanfstaengl, 1892. Folio, the short introduction in German is followed by a total of sixty-four illustrations, including the more ...
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Aretaeus of Cappadocia (fl. circa A.D. 50) De Causis et Signis Acutorum, et Diuturnorum Morborum
Lot: 69UnsoldAretaeus of Cappadocia (fl. circa A.D. 50) De Causis et Signis Acutorum, et Diuturnorum Morborum. Leiden: Janssonios Vander, 1735. Folio, edited by Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738),title printed in more ...
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Balzac, Honore de (1799-1850) L'Heritier du Diable
Lot: 70Sold for: $180$150Balzac, Honore de (1799-1850) L'Heritier du Diable. Paris: Rene Kieffer, 1926. Quarto, limited edition, number 217 of 500; illustrated throughout with bright hand-colored pochoir images, deckle more ...
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Balzac, Honore de (1799-1850) Le Pere Goriot
Lot: 71Sold for: $185$150Balzac, Honore de (1799-1850) Le Pere Goriot. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, Andre Sauret, 1952. Quarto, copy number 1,061 of 3,000, frontispiece lithographic portrait of Balzac by Picasso; in more ...
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Bar, Jacques-Charles (1740-1811) Collection of Thirty Aquatints, Nuns, Priests, and other Religious.
Lot: 72Sold for: $510$425Bar, Jacques-Charles (1740-1811) Collection of Thirty Aquatints, Nuns, Priests, and other Religious. [from] Recueil de Tous les Costumes des Ordres Religieux et Militaires. Paris: Chez l'Auteur, more ...
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Barclay, Patrick (fl. circa 1735) The Universal Traveller
Lot: 73UnsoldBarclay, Patrick (fl. circa 1735) The Universal Traveller. London: for Purser, Read, and Hester, 1735. Folio, with three added maps, two small-format and intact, the other, a large map of Asia, more ...
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Barton, Richard (1706-1759) Lectures in Natural Philosophy, Designed to be a Foundation, for Reasoning Pertinently, upon the Petrifica
Lot: 74Sold for: $246$200Barton, Richard (1706-1759) Lectures in Natural Philosophy, Designed to be a Foundation, for Reasoning Pertinently, upon the Petrifications, Gems, Crystals, and Sanative Quality of the Lough Neagh more ...
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Belzoni, Giovanni Battista (1778-1823) Voyages en Egypte et en Nubie
Lot: 75Sold for: $308$250Belzoni, Giovanni Battista (1778-1823) Voyages en Egypte et en Nubie. Paris: Galignani, 1821. First French edition, two octavo volumes, in period half-calf, untrimmed, with deckle edges more ...
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Oeuvres de M. Franklin
Lot: 76Sold for: $277$225Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Oeuvres de M. Franklin. Paris: Chez Quillau, Esprit, et L'Auteur, 1783. Third French edition, with the inclusion of hitherto unpublished material, two volumes bound more ...
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Benson, Frank Weston (1862-1951) Etchings and Drypoints
Lot: 77Sold for: $270$225Benson, Frank Weston (1862-1951) Etchings and Drypoints. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959. Volume Five only, review copy, originally sent to Edgar Driscoll, of the Boston Globe, with the letter from more ...
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Bewick, Thomas (1753-1828) and John (1760-1795) Select Fables
Lot: 78UnsoldBewick, Thomas (1753-1828) and John (1760-1795) Select Fables. Newcastle: by Hodgson for Charnley et al., 1820. Large paper copy in straight-grained green morocco, gilt, by Worsfeld, illustrated more ...
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Bloemaert, Abraham (1566-1651) Fondamenten der Teecken-Konst
Lot: 79Sold for: $240$200Bloemaert, Abraham (1566-1651) Fondamenten der Teecken-Konst. [Antwerp, c. 1670]. Folio, engraved by Nicolaus Visscher (1618-1679) as follows: twenty-four numbered plates (including the title),more ...
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Blossfeldt, Karl (1865-1932) Art Forms in Nature
Lot: 80Sold for: $400$325Blossfeldt, Karl (1865-1932) Art Forms in Nature. New York: Weyhe, 1929. Large quarto, short preface, table of contents and 120 full-page photographic illustrations of close-up details of plant more ...
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Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas (1636-1711) Oeuvres
Lot: 81Sold for: $185$150Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas (1636-1711) Oeuvres. Amsterdam: les Freres C. & R. Westein, 1717. Four octavo volumes, two portraits in volume one, bound in uniform contemporary speckled calf, spines more ...
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Bradshawe, Nicholas (fl. circa 1635) Canticum Evangelicum Summam Sacri Evangelii Continens
Lot: 81ASold for: $4,613$3,750Bradshawe, Nicholas (fl. circa 1635) Canticum Evangelicum Summam Sacri Evangelii Continens. London: Excusum apud Iohannem Norton pro Roberto Bird, 1636. Octavo, lacking initial ?blank; no copies more ...
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Brinkley, Captain Francis, editor (1841-1912) Japan Described and Illustrated
Lot: 82Sold for: $2,880$2,400Brinkley, Captain Francis, editor (1841-1912) Japan Described and Illustrated. Boston: Millet, [1897]. Ten folio volumes, the Emperor's edition, copy number one of seventy-five, illustrated with more ...
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Brown, Fredric (1906-1972) The Dead Ringer
Lot: 83Sold for: $480$400Brown, Fredric (1906-1972) The Dead Ringer. New York: Dutton, 1948. Stated first edition, in red cloth publisher's binding, in a good dust jacket, the spine slightly sunned, the back panel with more ...
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Browne, Edward (1644-1708) An Account of Several Travels through a Great Part of Germany
Lot: 84UnsoldBrowne, Edward (1644-1708) An Account of Several Travels through a Great Part of Germany. London: Tooke, 1677. First edition, quarto, five full-page engravings (three folding),modern quarter more ...
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Bruehl, Anton (1900-1983) Photographs of Mexico
Lot: 85Sold for: $720$600Bruehl, Anton (1900-1983) Photographs of Mexico. New York: Delphic Studios, [1933]. First edition, folio, illustrated with twenty-five black and white photographs, limited edition out of series more ...
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Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de (1707-1788) Oeuvres Completes
Lot: 86Sold for: $1,020$850Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de (1707-1788) Oeuvres Completes Paris: Dumenil, 1837. Nine octavo volumes, frontispiece portrait of Buffon opposite the title, volume one; volumes one through more ...
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Burnet, Gilbert (1643-1715) The Groans of Great Britain: a Funeral Sermon Preachd Occasionally on the Funeral of our late most Graciou
Lot: 87UnsoldBurnet, Gilbert (1643-1715) The Groans of Great Britain: a Funeral Sermon Preach'd Occasionally on the Funeral of our late most Gracious Soveraign, King William. Exon [Exeter]: S[am]. Farley, 1702. more ...