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[Americana].
Yankee-Notions.
Group of Four Bound Volumes Containing Vol. XII through Vol. XV, Each Complete in 12 Issues.
1863-1866. Contemporary quarter cloth over marbled boards. Ex-library with typical markings and wear. Overall good condition. (Total: 4 Items)
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92103 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$1,625.00
F. B. Spilsbury. Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria Delineated During the Campaigns of 1799 and 1800.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92147 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$1,625.00
[Antique Map] Hand-Colored Map: "Daciarum, Moesiarum Que, Vetus Descriptio" (Romania and Bulgaria).
21" x 16" on laid paper. Created by Abraham Ortelius and published in Antwerp, circa 1595. Extracted from a larger volume. Chipping and slight loss to lower corners; central binding crease, else very good.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92202 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$1,000.00
Original Oil Painting of Angelic Figure.
Nd. Signature in bottom corner reads Sn. Hisidro Labrador? 17 x 23.5 inches, loosely. Loose canvas, unmounted. Very good.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92217 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$750.00
[Antique Map] "Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of Arkansa Territory".
22.5" x 17.75". Created by Major S. H. Long, circa 1827. Boundaries hand-colored. Very good.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92200 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$562.50
N. C. Wyeth. Editor. Peter Hurd. Illustrator. SIGNED/INSCRIBED.
Marauders of the Sea.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1935.
Signed with original drawing by Peter Hurd.
Publisher's cloth pictorial boards. Moderate toning and light staining to endpapers. Corners bumped. Moderate wear to back board. Very good.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92093 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$531.25
John Herries. The Royal Universal Family Bible; or, A Complete Library of Divine Knowledge: Containing The Sacred Text of the Old and New Testaments, With The Apocrypha At Large.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92124 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$531.25
[Antique Map] "The World, Including the Late Discoveries, by Capt. Cook and Other Circum Navigators".
19" x 14.75" overall. Engraved for Bankes's New System of Geography, circa 1794. With some toning and staining along the edges and with smoothed fold creases, else very good.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92206 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$531.25
Garth Williams, illustrator. Pair of Original Preliminary Pencil Sketches For Margaret Wise Brown's Children's Book
Little Fur Family
, Circa 1946.
Various sizes, on paper. One example with William's full signature; the other with his initials. Excellent condition.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92245 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$500.00
Garth Williams, illustrator. Lot of Six Original Preliminary Pencil Sketches and One Proof Illustration for Margaret Wise Brown's Children's Book
Little Fur Family
, Circa 1946.
Various sizes on onion skin paper; each initialed by the illustrator, Garth Williams. Also includes a color proof illustration signed by the illustrator. Excellent condition.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92244 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$437.50
[Almanacs]. Hosea Stafford.
Stafford's Connecticut Almanack, For the Year of Our Lord, 1779.
New Haven: Thomas & Samuel Green. Pamphlet with one contemporary string binding. Ten pages. Edges abraded. Heavy toning. Good.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92098 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$400.00
[Antique Map] "Map of the Terrestrial Globe; With the Latest Discoveries".
21.75" x 16.25". Engraved for John Harrison, 1787. Removed from a larger volume. Some toning to the edges and a smoothed central binding fold, else very good condition.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92201 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$375.00
Michael Connelly. SIGNED.
The Black Echo.
Little, Brown, 1992. First edition, first printing.
Signed by Connelly and dated in year of publication.
Publisher's binding, dj and
promotional wrap-around band.
Fine.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92028 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$325.00
Hans Holbein.
The Dance of Death.
London: Printed for J. Coxhead, Holywell-Street, Strand, 1816.
Profusely illustrated with thirty-three engraved plates, almost all hand-tinted.
Publisher's full leather binding with gilt. Light toning and minor scattered foxing. Hinges near broken. Front joint starting. Corners bumped. Moderate rubbing to boards and and spine. Portion of spine cap abraded. Very good.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92125 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$325.00
[Paul Revere]. Abraham Weatherwise.
Weatherwise's Town and Country Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1784.
Boston: Norman and White. Pamphlet. String bound.
Woodcut of "The Anatomy of Man's Body" by Paul Revere.
Missing frontis. Moderate to heavy toning. Abrading along edges and corners. Good.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92137 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$325.00
Garth Williams, illustrator. Lot of Two Original Preliminary Watercolor Illustrations for Margaret Wise Brown's Children's Book
Little Fur Family
, Circa 1946.
6.75" x 8.25" on paper; each signed by the illustrator, Garth Williams, on the verso. Excellent condition.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92243 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$325.00
[Nuremberg Chronicle]. Leaf from
Liber Chronicarum
or
Nuremberg Chronicle.
1493. Woodblock illustration to recto and verso depicting the creation of the world. Measures 16.5 x 11.5 inches. Matted. Very good.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92212 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$300.00
Garth Williams, illustrator. Lot of Six Original Preliminary Pencil Sketches and One Proof Illustration for Margaret Wise Brown's Children's Book
Little Fur Family
, Circa 1946.
6" x 6" on onion skin paper; each initialed by the illustrator, Garth Williams. Also includes a color 5" x 4.5" proof illustration initialed by the illustrator. Excellent condition.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92242 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$300.00
Peter O'Donnell. Group of Two
Modesty Blaise
Books Includes
I, Lucifer
and
A Taste for Death.
Souvenir, 1967, 1969. First edition, first printing. Publisher's binding and djs.
I, Lucifer
with a price-clipped dj.
Taste for Death
with foxing to page edges. Mild shelfwear to both. Near fine. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92064 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$275.00
[Civil War]. Charles S. Greene. Thrilling Stories of the Great Rebellion. John E. Potter, 1864. 494 pages. Publisher's decorated blue cloth with minor rubbing. Some splitting to spine ends. Front hinge cracked. Very good.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92122 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$275.00
[Antique Map] "Iura Insula - The Yle of Iura One of the Westerne Iles of Scotland".
21.75" x 17.5" overall. Created by the Blaeu Family, circa 1654. With hand-colored boundaries. Old, smoothed vertical binding fold crease, else very good.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92203 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$275.00
Frederick J. H. Merrill.
Economic and Geologic Map of New York. Showing the Location of its Mineral Deposits.
By authority of the Board of General Managers and the Regents of the University, 1894.
Prepared to accompany the report on the mineral exhibit of New York at the World's Columbian Exposition
. Loosely measures 30.75 x 26.25 inches. Light creasing to one corner. Light staining and toning. Very good.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92208 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$275.00
Garth Williams, illustrator. Preliminary Cover Art Pencil Sketch For Margaret Wise Brown's
Mister Dog
, Circa 1952
. 9.5" x 12", on onion skin paper; initialed by the illustrator in the lower right corner. Included is a later Little Golden Book edition of
Mister Dog, The Dog Who Belonged to Himself
. Interesting to note that the drawing has a working title of "Crispin's Crispian". Excellent condition.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92246 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$275.00
Mark Twain.
Mark Twain's Sketches: New and Old.
American Publishing Co., 1875. First edition, second issue with no footnote on page 120; no "From Hospital Days" sketch on page 299. Profusely illustrated. Light, scattered foxing. Offsetting to pg 317 due to clipping. Light toning. Moderate foxing to endpapers. Corners bumped, showing. Moderate rubbing to boards. Spine lightly sunned. About very good.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92086 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$250.00
[Norman Rockwell]. Benjamin Franklin. Norman Rockwell. Illustrator. SIGNED/INSCRIBED.
Poor Richard's Almanacks.
New York: Heritage Press, 1964. Publisher's leather binding and slipcase.
Signed and inscribed by Norman Rockwell on half title.
Light wear to slipcase including two small red marks. Else, fine.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92144 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$250.00
[Charles Darwin]. Group of Two:
Darwin's Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs
and
The Formation of Vegetable Mould
.
London: John Murray and Walter Scott ca. 1897. Light toning. Abrading to edges on one. Corners bumped. Foxing to end papers. Very good. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92115 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$212.50
John J. Pershing. SIGNED/LIMITED.
My Experiences in the World War. Two Volumes.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. 1931. Numbered 16 out of 2100 and signed by the author on limitations page. Original price of $25.00 intact on dj. Heavy abrading and staining to dj. Lightly toned. Corners bumped. Mild shelf wear and rubbing to boards. Good. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92153 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$212.50
Garth Williams, illustrator. Trio of Original Preliminary Pencil Sketches For Margaret Wise Brown's Children's Book
Mister Dog
.
8.5" x 11", on onion skin paper; each initialed by the illustrator. Three preliminary pencil illustrations, presumably from the original publication in 1952. All are in excellent condition.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92247 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$212.50
Charles W. Lindberg Signed Card.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92004 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$200.00
Randolph Caldecott. Group of Six Picture Books Bound as a Single Volume. Includes: A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go, The Milkmaid, Ride a Cock-Horse to Banbury Cross & A Farmer Went Trotting Upon His Greymare, The Great Panjandrum Himself, Come Lasses and Lads, and An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize. George Routledge, ca. 1880's. Contemporary half leather over marbled boards. Rebacked and with portion of the original backstrip laid down. Corners and endpapers renewed. Scattered light foxing. Color illustrations. Very good.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92014 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$200.00
Philip Jose Farmer. Group of Twenty-six.
Various publishers. Some foreign language.
Most signed.
Good to better. (Total: 26 Items)
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92044 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$187.50
Robert B. Parker. SIGNED.
Looking for Rachel Wallace.
Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence, 1980. First edition, first printing.
Signed by the author.
Publisher's binding and dj. Spine leaning with some mild shelfwear and bumping to bottom edge of front board. Very good.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92068 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$187.50
Garth Williams, illustrator. Large Lot of Proof Illustrations for Margaret Wise Brown's
The Friendly Book
, Circa 1960.
Various sizes from 6.5" x 9" to 22" x 14.5", many signed or initialed by the illustrator. Excellent condition.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92239 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$187.50
Garth Williams, illustrator. Large Lot of 17 Original Proof Illustrations for Margaret Wise Brown's Children's Book
Little Fur Family
, Circa 1946.
Various sizes on paper; all examples signed by the illustrator, Garth Williams. Excellent condition.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92241 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$187.50
Philip José Farmer. Group of Twenty-Nine.
Various publishers.
Most signed/inscribed.
A mix of titles from Farmer, about half are foreign language editions, German, Spanish, French, and more. Some early paperback editions. Fair to better. (Total: 29 Items)
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92045 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$175.00
Michael Connelly. SIGNED/LIMITED.
Angels Flight.
Scorpion, 1998.
Limited to 115 numbered and signed copies.
Publisher's quarter leather over marbled boards. Fine.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92027 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$162.50
George Cruikshank [illustrator].
Punch and Judy.
New York: Sickels, 1830. First American edition. Octavo. 91 pages. Publisher's paper boards with rubbing, rebacked in quarter cloth. Endpapers renewed. Second flyleaf partially detached. Engraved frontis and title page, proceeded by ten engraved plates containing nineteen sequential illustrations of a Punch and Judy performance, all with crude hand-coloring. Good.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92114 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$162.50
[Gambling]. John Nevil Maskelyne.
Sharps and Flats: A Complete Revelation of The Secrets of Cheating.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1895.
Illustrated. One of the first detailed books on the secrets of cardsharps, still considered a classic.
Contemporary binding. Light, scattered foxing. Medium toning to advertisements at end of text. Corners bumped, some showing. Mild rubbing and wear to boards. Spine heavily sunned. Very good.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92119 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$162.50
John Groth. Pat Smith. Text. SIGNED/INSCRIBED.
John Groth's World of Sport.
Winchester Press, 1970.
Signed with original drawing on FFEP
. Publisher's binding and dj. 12 x 8.5 inches. Original price of $25.00 on dj. Mild toning to text. Moderate toning and minor wear to dj. Very good.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92123 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$162.50
[Newspaper].
The New-York Mirror.
Group of Two Bound Volumes Containing Vol. XII. No. 1-52.
1834-1835. [and:]
Vol. XVI. No. 1-52.
1938-1939. Engraved half-title to each. Contemporary half leather with perished spines and boards detached. Foxing scattered throughout. Library stamps. Fair. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92133 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$162.50
Garth Williams, illustrator. Preliminary Cover Art Pencil Sketch For Margaret Wise Brown's
Things I Like
and
The Friendly Book,
Circa 1960
. 9.5" x 12", on onion skin paper; initialed by the illustrator in the lower right corner. Included is a later Little Golden Book edition of
Things I Like
. A few closed tears and light chipping along the right edge of the sketch, else excellent condition.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92249 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$162.50
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Raymond Chandler.
Playback.
Group of Two Books Includes the American and British First Edition, First Printings.
1958. Publisher's binding and djs. Very good. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92017 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$150.00
Giovanni Napolitano. SIGNED/LIMITED.
Napolitano.
New York: E. Weyhe, 1935. Pencil drawing and signature by artist verso to limitation page. Number twenty-eight of 212. Publisher's wrappers. Offsetting to endpapers. Light toning. Wrappers lightly sunned, abraded. Very good.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92062 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$150.00
Robert B. Parker.
God Save the Child.
Houghton Mifflin, 1974. First edition, first printing. Publisher's binding. Modest sunning to spine of dj with a hint of rubbing to spine ends, else fine.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92067 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$137.50
Robert Crais. SIGNED/LIMITED.
The Watchman.
SCV, 2007. First edition,
limited to 200 black numbered and signed copies.
Publisher's full leather. Slipcase. Fine.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92037 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$137.50
William Everson. SIGNED/LIMITED.
War Elegies.
Waldport, Oregon: Untide Press, 1944.
Limited to 30 copies and signed by Everson
. Publisher's full leather binding with marbled end papers. Head spine cap rubbed. Light shelf wear to corners, edges of boards. Mild toning. Very good.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92041 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$137.50
Eliza Craufurd Ball.
The Christian Armour.
New York: Charles Scribner & Co., 1866. Text block loose. Publisher's full leather binding with gilt. Rolled edges. Moderate rubbing to edges on boards. Corners bumped, showing. Lightly toned. Minor, scattered staining. Very good.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92005 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$132.50
Roy Lichtenstein. Box of 20 Note Cards Illustrated by Roy Lichtenstein and Signed by the Artist on the Box Top. Published by the Museum of Modern Art, 1991. 20 Lichtenstein note cards and envelopes, signed by the artist on the box top. Fine.
Auction 201335
| Lot: 92131 | Aug 29, 2013
Sold For:
$125.00
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