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Six Literary Works.
Lot: 1199Estimate: $200 - $300Six Literary Works. Lawrence, T.E. (1888-1935), Seven Pillars of Wisdom. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935, with dust jacket, illustrated throughout, frontispiece with bust of T.E. ...
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Harvard Alumni Book
Lot: 1217Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500Harvard Alumni Book, third quarter 19th century. Full black calf with gilt tooling and stamping, containing approx. 119 autographed albumen portraits of Harvard Alumni from the 1830s including ...
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Autograph Album, Late 19th Century, with Signatures of Louisa May Alcott, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Others.
Lot: 1007ASold for: $1,046$850Autograph Album, Late 19th Century, with Signatures of Louisa May Alcott, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Others. Handmade album with deep blue silk velvet covers, matching satin doublures and wide ...
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Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell (1841-1935) Speeches.
Lot: 1197Sold for: $277$225Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell (1841-1935) Speeches. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1891. First edition, bound in publisher's printed boards with a linen spine, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. ...
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Unbound Photo Album Containing Thirty Identified Albumen Carte-de-Visite Photographs of 19th Century Literary, Stage, Political, and Mi
Lot: 1676Sold for: $584$475Unbound Photo Album Containing Thirty Identified Albumen Carte-de-Visite Photographs of 19th Century Literary, Stage, Political, and Military Figures, c. 1860-80, sitters include: General P.G.T. ...
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell Jr. (1841-1935) Autograph Letter Signed, 20 March 1900.
Lot: 25Sold for: $492$400Holmes, Oliver Wendell Jr. (1841-1935) Autograph Letter Signed, 20 March 1900. Single laid paper Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Supreme Judicial Court letterhead, inscribed over two pages, to a Mr. ...
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809-1894) Autograph Letter Signed, 3 October 1852.
Lot: 26Sold for: $431$350Holmes, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809-1894) Autograph Letter Signed, 3 October 1852. Single leaf of folded bifolium addressed to a C. Swan of Poughkeepsie, New York, declining an invitation to speak, ...
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Autograph Album, Late 19th Century, with Signatures of Louisa May Alcott, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Others.
Lot: 1005UnsoldAutograph Album, Late 19th Century, with Signatures of Louisa May Alcott, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Others. Handmade album with deep blue silk velvet covers, matching satin doublures and wide ...
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After Leslie Matthew Ward (British, 1851-1922), Julius Mendes Price (British, 1857-1924), and Others Five Vanity Fair...
Lot: 1396Sold for: $135$110After Leslie Matthew Ward (British, 1851-1922), Julius Mendes Price (British, 1857-1924), and Others Five Vanity Fair Caricatures of Scientists: Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, Sir James Paget, ...
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Autograph Album, Late 19th Century, with Signatures of Louisa May Alcott, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Others.
Lot: 13UnsoldAutograph Album, Late 19th Century, with Signatures of Louisa May Alcott, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Others. Handmade album with deep blue silk velvet covers, matching satin doublures and wide ...
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Autograph Album, 1860s-1880s.
Lot: 14Sold for: $3,321$2,700Autograph Album, 1860s-1880s. Octavo, printed by Lippincott in Philadelphia, containing autographs, signed cards, clipped signatures, and a few letters, approximately 100 in total, including: John ...
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809-1894) Autograph Letter Signed, 31 January 1883.
Lot: 61Sold for: $185$150Holmes, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809-1894) Autograph Letter Signed, 31 January 1883. Single leaf of wove paper inscribed over one and a quarter pages, regarding his old school teacher, Ma'am Prentiss, 6 ...
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Wedgwood Oliver Wendell Holmes
Lot: 368Sold for: $308$250Wedgwood Oliver Wendell Holmes Dark Blue Jasper Dip Portrait Plaque, England, c. 1900, oval shape with applied white relief, printed mark for Richard Briggs Company Boston and impressed title and ...
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William Meyerowitz (American, 1887-1981) Five Etchings of Supreme Court Justices
Lot: 1387Sold for: $369$300William Meyerowitz (American, 1887-1981) Five Etchings of Supreme Court Justices. All signed "Wm Meyerowitz" in pencil beneath the images l.r. Four of the portraits identified in the plates as ...
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Ten Hall of Fame for Great Americans at New York University Bronze Medals
Lot: 1496Sold for: $74$60Ten Hall of Fame for Great Americans at New York University Bronze Medals, Medallic Art Co., New York, 20th century, Edward Alexander MacDowell, Maria Mitchell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sidney Lanier, ...
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Literary Figures, Fourteen Signed Pieces.
Lot: 112Sold for: $2,091$1,700Literary Figures, Fourteen Signed Pieces. Including: Hermann Hesse signed card; James Fenimore Cooper, check signed 19 November 1843; George Bernard Shaw, photograph signed 14 February 1935; John ...
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Ten Hall of Fame for Great Americans at New York University Bronze Medals
Lot: 2774UnsoldTen Hall of Fame for Great Americans at New York University Bronze Medals, Medallic Art Co., New York, 20th century, Edward Alexander MacDowell, Maria Mitchell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sidney Lanier, ...
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Senior (1809-1894) Signed Poetry Transcription, 27 April 1868.
Lot: 33Sold for: $369$300Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Senior (1809-1894) Signed Poetry Transcription, 27 April 1868. Single page laid paper inscribed with the first and last two stanzas of "The Boys," three four-line stanzas; ...
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Senior (1809-1894) Signed Poetry Transcription, 5 April 1890.
Lot: 34Sold for: $369$300Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Senior (1809-1894) Signed Poetry Transcription, 5 April 1890. Single page. Fair copy of the final stanza of Holmes's poem, "The Chambered Nautilus," that begins: Build thee ...
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Two Wedgwood Jasper Plaques
Lot: 733Sold for: $246$200Two Wedgwood Jasper Plaques, England, 19th century, each oval with applied white relief, a dark blue jasper dip depiction of Oliver Wendell Holmes, 4 3/4 x 6 1/2; and a solid light blue with ...
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American Letters, Autograph Lot, Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), and Oliver Wendell Holmes Senior (1809
Lot: 2Sold for: $400$325American Letters, Autograph Lot, Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), and Oliver Wendell Holmes Senior (1809-1894), Three Autograph Notes Signed. Three short notes, ...
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. (1809-1894) Autograph Letter Signed, 23 April 1883.
Lot: 31Sold for: $240$200Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. (1809-1894) Autograph Letter Signed, 23 April 1883. One page. To an unnamed recipient, with thanks, for including Holmes's work in a book of "memory quotations," and ...
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Small Group of Ephemera
Lot: 165Sold for: $120$100Small Group of Ephemera, a mounted photograph of Jenny Lind, a framed autograph note "In kind remembrance of Jenny Lind," a postcard album containing approximately twenty-nine mostly military and ...
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Presidential and Political Autographs 1860s.
Lot: 44UnsoldPresidential and Political Autographs 1860s. Commercially produced autograph album originally compiled by Mary Roxana Birchard (1827-1876), Rutherford B. Hayes's cousin; thereafter continued by ...
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Curley, James Michael (1874-1958) Lot of Assorted Material, 20th Century.
Lot: 116Sold for: $300$250Curley, James Michael (1874-1958) Lot of Assorted Material, 20th Century. Four books inscribed by Curley, the first three presented to Boston Judge Daniel Gillen: Gurn's Charles Carroll of ...
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Group of Cabinet Cards, Depicting Presidents, Political Figures, Writers, Literary Figures, and Actors
Lot: 532Sold for: $431$350Group of Cabinet Cards, Depicting Presidents, Political Figures, Writers, Literary Figures, and Actors, American presidents and related cards including three of Garfield, one of Garfield's assassin, ...
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Album, Cartes de Visite (c. 1860):
Lot: 3Sold for: $210$175Album, Cartes de Visite (c. 1860): Twenty portraits mounted in a green morocco binding with clasps, housed in a leather-covered book box. Including the 1861 Appleton portrait of Abraham Lincoln ...
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Anderson, Isabel (1876-1948) The Great Sea Horse
Lot: 905Sold for: $237$200Anderson, Isabel (1876-1948) The Great Sea Horse. Boston: Little Brown, 1909. Illustrated in color throughout, in white publisher's binding with gold stamping and paper dust jacket. Together with ...
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Six Decorative Framed Photographs and Photomechanically Reproduced Signatures
Lot: 523BSold for: $182$150Six Decorative Framed Photographs and Photomechanically Reproduced Signatures, Oliver Wendell Holmes; Bret Harte; Charles Dickens; Longfellow; Robert Louis Stevenson; and Mark Twain. Matted and ...
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(Autograph Album)
Lot: 10Sold for: $2,133$1,800(Autograph Album), including clips, and autograph/manuscript letters and notes, many to members of the Carlisle family, and referencing Washington, DC, most late 19th-early 20th century and laid ...