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George Bernard Shaw Autograph Letter and Typed Letter Signed. Autographed letter dated November 17, 1912, typed letter dated February 1, 1930. Mounted to backing for an overall measurement of 11.75 x 8.75 inches. Typed letter has a single horizontal crease. Toned, else fine. From the collection of Judith Adelman.
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93040 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $1,250.00
House of Commons Document Signed by Several Members. Two pages with integral blank, 7.5" x 11.5", London, December 15, 1648. Order for payment signed by Lord Salisbury, James Bond, Henry Mildmay, John Trenchard, Cornelius Holland, et al. Scattered foxing.

Auction 201406 | Lot: 93038 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $500.00
King Charles XIV John of Sweden and Norway Document Signed "J. Bernadotte" as marshal of the French Empire. One page, 7.75" x 12.5", in French, Hanover, circa August 28, 1804. Jean Baptiste Bernadotte (1763-1844) served Napoleon Bonaparte as marshal of France until he was elected King of Sweden and Norway in 1810. Very light toning of the edges, else fine.

Auction 201406 | Lot: 93004 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $437.50
[Anti-Slavery Broadside]. David Claypoole Johnston (1798-1865). The House That Jeff Built. Etching. Features twelve vignettes with accompanying verse. Measures 16.75 x 11.75 inches. Some foxing and soiling. Two small closed tears to bottom right corner. Very good. From the collection of Zita Books.
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93263 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $406.25
[Map]. C. C. Royce, cartographer. "Map Showing the Territory Originally Assigned to the Cherokee "Nation of" Indians West of the Mississippi. Also Showing the Boundaries of the Territory Now Occupied or Owned By Them." 32" x 23". 1844. Originally issued by the Bureau of Ethnology in their 5th Annual Report. With old fold creases, a few splits in the folds and light toning, else very good condition.
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93265 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $375.00

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[Original Art]. Signed Watercolor Painting of Western Scene. Undated. Signed 'Osborne.' Applied to paper board. Matted to an overall size of 11 x 17.25 inches. Fine. From the collection of Judith Adelman.

Auction 201406 | Lot: 93323 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $350.00
Great Seal of Scotland, Queen Victoria, 1837-1901,
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93036 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $325.00
Hawaiian Islands. Report by the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Washington: Government Printing office, 1894. Contains nine color foldout maps. Octavo. Publisher's black cloth. Spine sunned and soiled. Over-opened in some places. Housed in a brown slipcase. Good. From the library of James Strohn Copley, with his bookplate.
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93198 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $237.50
Frederick Law Olmsted. A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States. New York: Putnam, 1904. Two volumes. Publisher's cloth. Covers rubbed and lightly soiled. Corners very slightly bumped. Very Good. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93230 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $237.50
[Political Cartoon]. Lithograph Print Entitled, Á Big Thing on Ice: A Change of Base." New York: Currier & Ives, 1862. Measures roughly 11.25 x 16.5 inches. Mounting remnants to verso. Toned, with a 3-inch dampstain to top edge. Very good. Cartoon mocking General George B. McClellan. From the collection of Zita Books.
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93309 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $225.00
Group of Eight Early Twentieth Century Illustrated Books, Including Some Children's Stories. Various publishers. Various editions. Octavos. Publishers' decorated bindings. Toning and rubbing. Some soiling. Good. (Total: 8 Items)
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93159 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $216.25
[World War II]. V for Victory. Patriotic poster. Taped to cardboard backing. Measures 19.5 x 29.75 inches. Some stains, with wrinkles and tears to edges. Large, 3-inch closed tear to top edge has been repaired with tape on the verso. Overall good or better. From the collection of Judith Adelman.

Auction 201406 | Lot: 93280 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $212.50
Dominique Vandamme Letter Signed. One page, 9" x 14", "Headquarters at Zotenberg," circa July 23, 1796, acknowledging the furnishing of horses to a French captain by the magistrate of Oberdorf. Vandamme (1770-1830) was a French general during the Napoleonic Wars. Uneven edges.

Auction 201406 | Lot: 93046 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $200.00
[Samuel Pepys]. Richard Lord Braybrooke (editor). Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F R. S. Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II and James II. London: Colburn, 1828. Diary and private correspondence of the English naval administrator who recorded eyewitness accounts of many major events in seventeenth century London. Second Edition with illustrated plates. Five octavo volumes. Half-calf over marbled boards with marbled page edges. Some boards rubbed and edges worn. Spines browned with some very small cracks. Page edges faded. Some title pages slightly foxed. Frontispiece tissue guards trimmed with small tears. Very Good. (Total: 5 Items)
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93217 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $200.00
[World War I]. Raleigh. Hun or Home? Buy More Liberty Bonds. Ca. 1918. Tipped onto cardboard backing. Measures 22 x 31 inches. Open tear to bottom right corner. Very good. From the collection of Judith Adelman.
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93276 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $200.00
Lord Byron. LIMITED. A Venetian Story. With 35 illustrations from eighteenth century copperplate engravings. The Allen Press, 1963. Limited to 150 copies. Oblong folio. Publisher's brown cloth over decorative boards. Portfolio with 47 loose leaves housed in a brown clamshell box. A fine, beautiful copy.
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93065 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $187.50
The Complete Reprint of Exotique. Köln: Taschen, [1998]. Foreword by Kim Christy. Three volumes of the first thirty-six issues of the illustrated fetish magazine from 1951-1957. Publisher's binding in slipcase. Slipcase edges rubbed with some small tears, some corners bumped. Books Fines, slipcase Very Good. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93194 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $187.50
R.L. Wilson. The Book of Winchester Engraving. Los Angeles: Beinfeld Publishing, 1975. First edition. Quarto. 402 pages. Publisher's binding in dust jacket. Some rubbing and edgewear to jacket. Very good.
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93240 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $187.50
[Map]. Map of the Japan Islands, Circa 1855. 15.75" x 13.75". Compiled by order of Commodore Matthew Perry, copied from von Sibolds with slight additions and corrections by the U.S. Japan Expedition. With some toning, fold creases, tears in the creases; small area of loss along the lower left edge, else good condition.
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93267 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $187.50
William Brotherhead, editor. The Book of the Signers. Philadelphia: Brotherhead, 1861. First edition. Contains facsimile signatures of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Illustrated with engravings. Folio. Half leather over marbled boards. Top edge gilt. Marbled edges and endpapers. Some rubbing to joints and extremities. Very good. From the library of James Strohn Copley, with his bookplate.

Auction 201406 | Lot: 93186 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $168.75
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Typed Letter Signed "C.W. Nimitz." One page, 6.5" x 8.75", n. p., December 18, 1946, to P.A. Kline thanking him for a Christmas card. Admiral Nimitz (1885-1966) was commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet during the Second World War. Smoothed fold. With the original transmittal envelope.
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93028 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $162.50
James Fenimore Cooper. The Deerslayer: Or, the First War-Path. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1841. First edition. Two small octavo volumes. Brown cloth with missing paper spine titles. Boards heavily rubbed. Dampstain to top edge of textblock in volume one. Foxing throughout. From the library of James Strohn Copley, with his bookplate.
(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93068 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $162.50
[Science Fiction]. Group of Ten Issues of Super Science Stories. Various issues 1941-1951. 7" x 9.5". Original wraps. Edgeworn with chips and spine damage. Very good. (Total: 10 Items)
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93121 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $162.50
Good Housekeeping. Ten (10) Issues, 1928-1933. Rubbing, toning, and small tears. Very good. (Total: 10 Items)
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93246 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $162.50
Thomas Carter. War Medals of the British Army and How They Were Won. London: Norie and Wilson, 1893. Later edition. Octavo. Fully illustrated. Publisher's cloth binding. Spine rolled. Spine faded and boards rubbed. Edges worn. Good.
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93188 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $156.25
Isaac Asimov. SIGNED. Robots and Empire. Doubleday: Garden City, 1985. First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Some sticker residue to front jacket panel. Very good overall.
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93053 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $150.00
[Napoleon]. General Géraud Duroc, Duke of Friuli, Autograph Letter Signed. One page with integral address leaf, 8" x 12.5", in French, n. p., n. d., regarding the acquisition of some cushions for "the study of His Majesty and then . . . the other rooms of his apartment." Duroc (1772-1813) was Napoleon's aide-de-camp and, later, Grand Marshal of the Palace. With an engraved portrait of the general.

Auction 201406 | Lot: 93007 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $137.50
Ray Bradbury. SIGNED. The Illustrated Man. New York: Bantam, [1952]. First Bantam printing. Signed by the author on the title page. Publisher's printed wrappers. Some toning and shelfwear. Very good.
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93058 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $137.50
[Pro-Slavery Response to Uncle Tom's Cabin]. Caroline Lee Hentz. Eoline. Or, Magnolia Vale. Philadelphia: Hart, 1854. Novel by the famed female anti-abolitionist. Cloth stamped blind and in gilt. Spine lean. Covers rubbed and soiled with dampstains. Corners bumped, with bottom edge frayed. Overopened. Previous owner's signature. Good.
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93130 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $137.50
[Pro-Slavery Response to Uncle Tom's Cabin]. J. H. Ingraham. The Sunny South. Or, The Southerner at Home. Philadelphia: Evans, 1860. Letters written under the pseudonym Kate Conyngham. Publisher's cloth. Boards rubbed. Spine ends slightly chipped. Corners lightly bumped. Hinges starting. Front end paper creased. Slightly soiled. Very Good.
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93131 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $137.50
Charles Darwin. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Volume II Only. D. Appleton and Company, 1871. First American edition. Originally two volumes, this lot volume II only. Illustrated. Publisher's original maroon cloth binding. Boards worn at the corners and spine ends with spits in the hinges and small abrasions elsewhere, else good condition.
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93189 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $137.50
Eric Kroll, editor. The Complete Reprint of John Willie's Bizarre. Köln: Taschen, [1995]. Complete run of the irregularly printed illustrated fetish magazine which ran from 1948 to 1959 in two volumes. Publisher's binding and slipcase. Covers rubbed and very slightly soiled. Slipcase edges worn with some tears. Front panel bruised. Books Near Fine, Very Good overall. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93193 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $137.50
The Great Southwest along the Santa Fe. Kansas City: Fred Harvey, 1919. Full page color prints with descriptive text. Oblong quarto. Publisher's pictorial wrappers. String bound. Minor edgewear and wrinkling. Housed in green library portfolio. Very good. From the library of James Strohn Copley, with his bookplate.
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93197 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $137.50
Gilbert White. A Naturalist's Calendar. London: B. and J. White, 1795. First edition. Features one beautiful hand-colored engraving of a hybrid pheasant. Octavo. Contemporary full calf with morocco spine label. Hinges starting. Joints cracked. Still, very good. A collection of unpublished material from White's Selborne notebooks. From the collection of Judith Adelman.
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93239 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $137.50
Good Housekeeping. Ten (10) Issues, 1929-1932. Rubbing, toning, and small tears. Very good. (Total: 10 Items)
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93245 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $137.50
General Daniel O'Meara Letter Signed. Two pages with integral blank, 8" x 10", in French, "Dunkerque," January 10, 1809, to the director general of the Department of Bridges and Highways on behalf of Charles Thevenet who may be losing his job. O'Meara was commandant of Dunkirk and head of Napoleon's Irish Brigade from August 1809 to May 1810. Unevenly toned along the right edge.

Auction 201406 | Lot: 93032 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $125.00
[William Hogarth, illustrator]. Samuel Butler. Hudibras. London: Printed for D. Midwinter et al., 1732. Later edition. Twelvemo. Full contemporary calf binding. Front board splitting. Spine cracked. Label pasted to spine. Bookplate of John Rutherfurd, former United States Senator from New Jersey. Good.
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93064 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $125.00
[Robert Cruikshank]. Pierce Egan. The Finish to the Adventures of Tom, Jerry, and Logic. In Their Pursuits through Life in and out of London. London: Reeves & Turner, 1887. Hand-colored illustrations by Robert Cruikshank. Octavo. Half-leather over cloth. Gilt-stamped spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Spine slightly faded. Front board cloth very minimally frayed with negligible soiling. Very Good.
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93085 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $125.00
[Adolphe Thiers]. Group of Two Autograph Letters Signed "A. Thiers." The first is three pages, 5" x 7.75", n. p., n. d., addressed (presumably) to King Louis-Phillippe regarding some tension within the kingdom. The second is one page with integral blank, 5.25" x 8", n. p., n. d., to Stanislas Julien regarding a visit. Thiers (1797-1877) served twice as prime minister of France and as the second president of the French Republic. Both letters are entirely in French. With an engraved portrait.
(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93042 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $118.75
[Political Cartoon]. William Charles. The Congress at Vienna in Great Consternation. Original etching. N.d., ca. 1815. Measures 15 x 10.5 inches. Toned and edgeworn, with very minor loss. Very good. From the collection of Zita Books.
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93261 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $118.75
Robert Heinlein. Beyond This Horizon. Reading: Fantasy Press, 1948. First edition. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Jacket rubbed, with small stain on back panel. Very good.
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93096 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $112.50
[Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, Editor]. The Comic Magazine. London: James Gilbert, 1832 and Published at the National Library, 1833-1834. States "Edited by the editor of Figaro in London," Gilbert Abbot à Beckett. Four twelvemo volumes. Contemporary quarter leather binding. Boards significantly soiled and edgeworn. Spines cracked and worn at edges. Paper labels affixed to spine. Former owner's signature. Good. (Total: 4 Items)
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93056 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $106.25
Group of Fifteen Issues of Fantastic Novels. New York: Frank A. Munsey, 1940 to 1949. Wrinkles, creases and edgewear. Some soiling. Good. (Total: 15 Items)
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93120 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $106.25
Group of Two Limited Editions Including: [Edmund Dulac, Illustrator]. Alexander Pushkin. SIGNED. The Golden Cockerel. [and]: [Fritz Eichenberg, Illustrator]. Ivan Turgenev. SIGNED. Fathers and Sons. Both Limited Editions Club, [Circa 1950] and 1951. Limited to 1500 copies signed by the illustrators. Some wear and fading to slipcases. Very good. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93164 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $106.25
General Antoine Christophe Saliceti Autograph Letter Signed "Saliceti." Two pages with integral blank, 8" x 9.75", in French, Genoa, circa January 26, 1794, to Jean Marie Arrighi regarding recent happenings in the Ligurian Republic. Saliceti (1757-1809) was a politician and diplomat during the French Revolution and the First French Empire. With an engraved portrait of the Saliceti. Lightly toned.

Auction 201406 | Lot: 93037 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $100.00
[Lucille Corcos, Illustrator]. Grimm's Fairy Tales. Limited Editions Club, 1962. Limited edition of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator. In four volumes. Publisher's binding in glassine and slipcases. Slipcases edgeworn. Else fine. (Total: 4 Items)
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93093 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $100.00
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909, American novelist). Clipped Signature. August 26, 1885. Measures 4.25 x 3.5 inches. Very good.
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93016 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $93.75
James Parton. The Life and Times of Aaron Burr. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1867. Enlarged edition. Two octavo volumes. Later half leather over marbled boards. Some very light foxing throughout textblock. Very good. From the library of James Strohn Copley, with his bookplate. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201406 | Lot: 93216 | Feb 6, 2014

Sold For: $93.75

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