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Jean T[héodore] Descourtilz. [
Oiseaux brillans du Brésil.
Paris: 1834]. First edition of the rarest bird book relating to the Americas.
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45090 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$100,000.00
John. Thomson.
Foochow and the River Min.
A Series of Photographs.
London: Autotype Fine Art Company, 1873. First edition.
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45117 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$100,000.00
[Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay].
The Federalist: A Collection of Essays.
Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787.
In two volumes. New York: Printed and Sold by John Tiebout, 1799. First collected edition of the "Federalist Papers;" reissue, with cancel title-pages, of the 1788 edition printed by John and Archibald M'Lean. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45098 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$87,500.00
[Tsuguharu] Foujita.
A Book of Cats.
Being Twenty Drawings.
Poems in Prose by Michael Joseph. New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1930. First edition, limited to 500 copies, of which this is number twenty-eight, and
signed by the artist.
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45081 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$22,500.00
John [Jack] Kerouac.
The Town and the City.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1950]. First edition,
association copy, inscribed to Al and Helen Hinkle
, the models for Ed and Galatea Dunkel in Kerouac's
On the Road
: "This lousy first book / I dedicate to my old / buddy of old roads / Al Hinkle and / his fine beautiful / Helen-of-Argos wife, / Jack Kerouac / March 20, 1952 / (Winedrinking, French-language night.) / 'Long-stepping Pantrio comes / fulmigating [sic] along the maguey / rows.... The women flow / across the fields with flax / in their arms...'"
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45033 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$21,250.00
David Roberts.
Egypt & Nubia,
From Drawings Made on the Spot...
With Historical Descriptions by William Brockedon...London: F. G. Moon, 1846[-1849]. First edition. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45116 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$21,250.00
John James Audubon.
The Birds of America.
From Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories.
New York George R. Lockwood, [1870-1871]. Seventh, and final, octavo edition. [Together with:]
John James Audubon and John Bachman.
The Quadrupeds of North America.
New York: George R. Lockwood, [1870]. Fourth octavo edition. (Total: 11 Items)
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45087 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$19,375.00
Joseph Smith.
The Book of Mormon.
Translated by Joseph Smith, Jr. Nauvoo, Ill: Printed by Robinson and Smith, Stereotyped by Shepard and Stearns ... Cincinnati, Ohio, 1840. Third edition.
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45105 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$17,500.00
John Speed.
A New and Accurat Map of the World.
Drawne according to ye truest Descriptions latest Discoveries & best Observations yt have beene made by English or Strangers.
[London]: Are to be sold in pops-head Alle by George Humble, 1626 [1627]. Highly decorated, hand-colored double-hemisphere world map.
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45165 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$17,500.00
Richard Bright.
Reports of Medical Cases.
Selected with a View of Illustrating the Symptoms and Cure of Diseases by a Reference to Morbid Anatomy.
London: Printed by Richard Taylor... Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827-31. First edition. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45089 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$15,000.00
Hartmann Schedel.
Secunda etas mundi.
[Nuremberg: 1493]. Original woodcut world map conceived at the time of Columbus's first voyage, published in the
Nuremberg Chronicle
(Schedel's
Liber Chronicum
).
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45160 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$12,500.00
[Bill Wilson].
Alcoholics Anonymous.
The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism.
New York: Works Publishing Company, 1939. First edition.
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45106 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$11,250.00
Make Offer to Owner
$16,875 or more
Arthur. Conan Doyle. "The Sign of the Four"
[appearing in:
Lippincott's Monthly Magazine,
No. 266]. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, [February, 1890]. First U. S. edition and first appearance of the second Sherlock Holmes story, preceding the first English edition.
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45003 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$11,250.00
A. A. Milne.
The House at Pooh Corner.
With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Metheun & Co., 1928. First edition, vellum issue,
limited to just twenty copies, and signed by the author and the illustrator.
Presentation copy for Curtis Brown, Esq., Milne's literary agent in Britain and the United States.
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45073 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$10,625.00
Guillaume de l'Isle.
Carte du Mexique et de la Floride, des Terres Angloises et des Isles Antilles, du Course et des Environs de la Riviere de Mississipi.
Paris: Chéz l'Auteur, 1703. First issue. Map of southern North America.
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45133 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$10,312.50
Make Offer to Owner
$15,469 or more
J. K. Rowling. Boxed Set of Seven Harry Potter Books.
[London]: Bloomsbury: [circa 2007]. First editions, first five titles later printings and likely issued simultaneously, each volume
signed by the author.
(Total: 7 Items)
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45016 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$10,000.00
Make Offer to Owner
$15,000 or more
A. A. Milne.
When We Were Very Young.
London: Methuen & Co., [1924]. First edition, second state of the contents leaf with the pagination (ix) present.
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45072 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$10,000.00
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stride Toward Freedom.
The Montgomery Story.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. First edition, first printing, with the publisher's code H-H;
inscribed by the author
: "Sept. 2, 1958. / To: / Rev. + Mrs. Robert L. Lowe / With best wishes / and warm personal regards / Martin Luther King Jr."
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45102 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$10,000.00
[John Thomson, association]. Will Tod. Photo Album with Fifty-Five Photographs.
[Shanghai, The Alps, and elsewhere: circa 1870s]. Original album with fifty-five photographs, many of which are from China, the first twelve mounted on five leaves (five recto pages and one verso), others laid in; mounted photos with manuscript captions, occasionally signed "W. T." and dated between 1869 and 1873; some loose photographs captioned in pencil on the verso. (Total: 4 Items)
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45119 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$10,000.00
Herman Moll.
A New and Correct Map of the World, Laid Down.
[London]: Bowles, 1709 (circa 1730). Original large-format, double-hemisphere map of the world.
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45148 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$8,750.00
Frederick de Wit.
Nova Orbis Tabula.
In Lucem Edita, A. F. de Wit.
[Amsterdam: circa 1660-70]. Double hemisphere map of the world, with California as an island.
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45135 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$8,750.00
L. Frank Baum. Group of Eleven Oz Books.
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., [1904-1918]. First editions, generally first states, all except
The Marvelous Land of Oz,
which is second state. (Total: 11 Items)
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45065 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$8,125.00
Vincenzo Maria Coronelli.
America Settentrionale.
Colle Nuove Scoperte sin all' Anno 1688.
Venice: [circa 1690]. Two-sheet map of North America, featuring California as an island, including notes on recent explorations of the continent. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45130 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$8,125.00
Abraham Ortelius.
Islandia.
[Antwerp: circa 1585]. Early map of Iceland, from a Latin volume of Ortelius's
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
.
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45153 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$8,125.00
[H. G. Wells].
The Time Machine.
An Invention.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1895. First edition, with the author's name printed "H. S. Wells" on the title-page.
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45020 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$8,125.00
Jorge Luis Borges.
El Aleph.
Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, S. A., 1952. Second edition,
association copy, inscribed by the author
: "Para Silvina Ocampo, con toda mi amistad -- Jorge Luis Borges / 1952."
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45028 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$8,125.00
[Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay].
The Federalist, on the New Constitution.
By Publius. Written in 1788. To Which is Added, Pacificus, on the Proclamation of Neutrality. Written in 1793. Likewise, the Federal Constitution, with all the Amendments. Revised and Corrected.
New York: Printed and sold by George F. Hopkins, 1802. Second U. S. edition (and second in English), third overall. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45099 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$8,125.00
Ernest Hemingway.
A Farewell to Arms.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First edition, limited issue, limited to 510 copies, of which this is number sixty-five, and
signed by the author.
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45031 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$7,500.00
Make Offer to Owner
$11,250 or more
John F. Kennedy.
Profiles in Courage.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, [1955]. First edition, with the publisher's code M-E;
inscribed by the author
on the front free endpaper: "To Joe Seacrest / with very best wishes - / John Kennedy."
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45101 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$7,500.00
[John Thomson, attributed]. Panoramic Photograph of a Bank along the Yangtze River in China.
[Possibly Kiu-Kiang (Jiujiang): circa 1871]. Original composite photograph from seven plates.
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45118 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$7,500.00
Nicolas de Fer.
Partie Meridionale de la Riviere de Mississipi, et ses environs.
Paris: chez J. F. Benard, 1718. Map of the Southeastern United States, from Carolina to New Mexico, including northern Mexico.
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45132 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$7,500.00
Charles Dickens. [The Nonesuch Dickens].
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1937-1938. First Nonesuch edition, limited to 877 sets, each including an original engraved steel plate or a woodblock, this set featuring Hablot K. Browne's [Phiz] "The old Couple" from Sketches of Young Couples and includes a pull taken from plate with letter of authenticity signed by Arthur Waugh. (Total: 25 Items)
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45055 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$6,875.00
Make Offer to Owner
$10,312 or more
[Albert Einstein]. Paul Arthur Schilpp, editor.
Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist.
Evanston, Illinois: The Library of Living Philosophers, 1949. First edition, limited to 760 copies (including ten presentation copies), of which this is number 755, and
signed by the subject.
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45091 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$6,875.00
Jorge Luis Borges.
Poema Conjetural.
[
The Conjectural Poem
]. Buenos Aires: June 1943. Original manuscript,
signed by the author.
(Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45024 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$6,250.00
John [Jack] Kerouac.
The Town and the City.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1950]. First edition,
association copy, inscribed by the author
to Josephine Gordon, the sister of Al Hinkle: "To 'Jo' / from Albert's good / friend -- & yours. / Jack Kerouac."
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45034 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$6,250.00
L. Frank Baum.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Chicago and New York: Geo. M. Hill, 1900. First edition, first state of the text.
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45064 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$6,125.00
[Laurence Sterne].
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.
London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley; Printed for T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, 1760-1767. First edition. Signed by the author. (Total: 9 Items)
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45041 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$6,000.00
Make Offer to Owner
$9,000 or more
[From the library of Charles Dickens]. Charles Dickens.
Bleak-House.
[French translation.] Paris: L. Hachette et Cie, [1857]. First authorized French edition.
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45058 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$6,000.00
Benjamin Franklin.
Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Made at Philadelphia in America.
To which are added, Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects. The Whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now collected into one Volume, illustrated with Copper Plates.
London: Printed for F. Newberry, [1774]. Fifth edition.
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45092 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$5,750.00
Make Offer to Owner
$8,625 or more
[Walt Disney]. Deems Taylor.
Walt Disney's Fantasia.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940. First edition,
inscribed by Walt Disney
following his introductory note on page [8]: "To Harold Ridenour / with all best / wishes / Walt Disney."
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45067 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$5,625.00
Charles Dickens.
A Tale of Two Cities.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. First edition, first state. (Total: 0 Items)
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45053 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$5,500.00
Herman Moll.
To the Right Honourable John Lord Sommers... This Map of North America.
[London: I. Bowles, circa 1720]. Original large-format map of North America with California as an island.
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45145 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$5,500.00
[Ensigns and Thayer].
Pictorial Map of the United States, 1848.
New York: 1847. U. S. wall map with hardware.
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45308 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$5,250.00
P. G. Wodehouse. Notes and partial manuscript of
A Pelican at Blandings
.
[Remsenburg, N. Y.]: 1966-1968. Original manuscript.
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45043 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$5,250.00
Theodore de Bry.
America sive novus orbis respect europaeorum inferior globi terrestris pars.
Frankfurt: 1596. Map of the Americas.
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45131 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$5,200.00
Isaac Asimov.
The Caves of Steel.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1954. First edition,
signed by the author
and dated "5 March 67."
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45008 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$5,000.00
Make Offer to Owner
$7,500 or more
Charles Dickens.
A Christmas Carol.
In Prose. A Ghost Story of Christmas.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. First edition, first state.
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45051 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$4,875.00
[H. P. Lovecraft, association].
The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments.
Philadelphia: A. J. Holman & Co., 1881. Holman's Edition,
H. P. Lovecraft's family's Bible
, with his birth record and the various records of his family members.
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45012 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$4,750.00
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