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[Declaration of Independence]. The New-England Chronicle. Volume VIII. Numb. 413. Boston: Powars and Willis, July 18, 1776.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45372 | Jun 9, 2021

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[Bible in Latin]. [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust, ca. 1450-1455]. A single folio leaf on unwatermarked paper from the first volume of the Gutenberg Bible, f. [193] containing the Prologue of I Chronicles and the beginning of I Chronicles.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45361 | Jun 9, 2021

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John James Audubon. The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories. By John James Audubon. New York: J. J. Audubon and Philadelphia: J. B. Chevalier, 1840-1844. First octavo edition. (Total: 7 Items)
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45402 | Jun 9, 2021

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Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London: John Murray, 1859. First edition, first printing.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45344 | Jun 9, 2021

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Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall. History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with One Hundred and Twenty Portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at Washington. Philadelphia: Frederick W. Greenough, 1838 (volume I); Daniel Rice and James G. Clark, 1842 and 1844 (volumes II and III). First edition with volume I the third issue, volume II the second issue, and volume III the third issue. Complete with 120 hand-colored engraved plates, tissue guards, one page of engraved maps, and 17 pages of subscribers' signatures in facsimile. State C of "War Dance" and state F of "Red Jacket." (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45414 | Jun 9, 2021

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Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes. In The All-Story, Volume XXIV, Number 2, October 1912. New York: Frank A. Munsey Company, 1912. First edition of the first appearance of Tarzan, containing the entire text of Tarzan of the Apes. This first appearance precedes the A. C. McClurg book edition by a year-and-a-half.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45286 | Jun 9, 2021

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Ernest Hemingway. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First edition, one of 15 advance issue copies, with Scribner's "A" on copyright page. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by Hemingway to his friend Richard Watts on the front free endpaper, "For Richard Watts / as a souvenir of / reading so many papers / from his friend / Ernest Hemingway."
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45244 | Jun 9, 2021

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[Mark Hofmann, forger]. The Oath of a Freeman. Printed broadside comprising a forgery of the first document printed in English North America. [The Oath of a Freeman. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Stephen Daye, circa 1638-1639 but Salt Lake City, Utah: Mark Hofmann, March 25, 1985].
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45390 | Jun 9, 2021

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J. R. R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1954-1955. First editions, first impressions, with original illustrated dust jackets. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45298 | Jun 9, 2021

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[William Shakespeare]. The Tragedie of Julius Caesar [Extracted from the First Folio]. [London: Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623]. First appearance of Julius Caesar in print.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45367 | Jun 9, 2021

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[Continental Congress]. Journals of Congress, Containing the Proceedings... Complete set of thirteen volumes. 1777-1788. Mixed editions. Includes volumes from the libraries, and with the signatures, of important American statesmen Gen. Jonathan Sullivan, Roger Sherman, John Langdon, Gunning Bedford, Jr., Peter du Ponçeau, Gen. Samuel John Attlee, and Richard Rush. (Total: 13 Items)
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45380 | Jun 9, 2021

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[Pillone Library, Cesare Vecellio]. Annales Sive Historiae Rerum Belgicarum. Francoforti ad Moenum [Frankfurt]: [Georgium Corvinum] impensis Sigismund Feyerabend, 1580. Fore-edge painting by Cesare Vecellio, depicting a scholar seated at a desk overlooking a landscape with the title "A N N A / L E S" below, top and tail edges decorated with abstract line designs.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45081 | Jun 9, 2021

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Stephen King. Firestarter. Huntington Woods, MI: Phantasia Press, 1980. First, limited edition of 26 lettered copies, of which this is "O," signed and lettered by the author on the limitation page.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45253 | Jun 9, 2021

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J. R. R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1963. First American edition, later impressions. All signed by the author to the half-titles. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45302 | Jun 9, 2021

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William Harvey. De Motu Cordis, & Sanguinis in animalibus, Anatomica Exercitatio... Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Joannis Maire, 1639. Second complete edition, third overall.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45352 | Jun 9, 2021

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[Continental Congress]. Journal of the Proceedings of the Congress, Held at Philadelphia, September 5, 1774. Philadelphia: William and Thomas Bradford, 1774. First edition, first issue without the 12-page Petition to the King.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45379 | Jun 9, 2021

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Margaret Mitchell. Gone With the Wind. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First edition, first printing, with "Published May, 1936" on copyright page and no note of other printings. In first issue dust jacket with Gone With the Wind listed in the second column of Macmillan Spring Novels list on back panel. Inscribed and signed by Margaret Mitchell in ink to front free endpaper, "For / Jewel Allen with sincere hopes / for a speedy and complete recovery - / Margaret Mitchell / Oct. 12, 1936 / Atlanta, Ga." Includes typed letter signed twice by Mitchell, two typed pages of her bibliographic sources with a half-page holograph note, initialed, and two sepia photographs of the recipient, Jewel Allen.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45259 | Jun 9, 2021

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Frank Lloyd Wright. Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright. Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1910. First edition.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45175 | Jun 9, 2021

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Herman Melville. Moby-Dick. Or, The Whale. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. First American edition, first binding.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45320 | Jun 9, 2021

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William Gibson. Neuromancer. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1984. First English edition, first hardcover edition. Signed by the author to the title page.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45292 | Jun 9, 2021

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[Roger Bartlett, presumed]. Thomas Comber. A Companion to the Temple. Or, a help to devotion in the daily use of the common-prayer. London: Printed by Andrew Clark for Henry Brome, 1676. Part I, second edition; Part II, first edition. Contemporary fore-edge painting depicting flowers, birds, and butterflied with the initials "A. B." within a laurel wreath and initials "J. F." or "I. F." below, artist unknown. Ex-libris Estelle Doheny.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45001 | Jun 9, 2021

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[Frye of Halifax, binder]. Aesop. The Fables of Aesop. With life of the author and embellished with one hundred and twelve plates. London: John Stockdale, 1793. Seemingly contemporary fore-edge painting to each volume; Volume I depicting Aesop being thrown from a precipice by the Delphinians, Volume II depicting a landscape view of "Civita Castellana," artist unknown. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45052 | Jun 9, 2021

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Madeleine L'Engle. A Wrinkle in Time. [New York]: Ariel Books; Farrar Straus, Cudahy, [1962]. First edition, first state dust jacket.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45295 | Jun 9, 2021

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J. R. R. Tolkien. The Hobbit. Or, There and Back Again. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., no date [circa 1963]. Second American edition, presumed 15-17th impression. Signed by the author to the half-title.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45301 | Jun 9, 2021

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Albert Einstein. Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie. Leipzig: Johann Barth, 1916. Signed and dated, "A. Einstein. 49." on printed E=MC² Card. First separate edition of Einstein's general theory of relativity, with printer's imprint, "Druck von Metzger & Wittig in Leipzig" on verso of the title page and "Metzger & Wittig, Leipzig" on back wrapper.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45346 | Jun 9, 2021

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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 first collected into one Volume, and illustrated with Copper Plates. London: Printed for David Henry and sold by Francis Newbery, 1769. First complete edition and the fourth edition overall.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45350 | Jun 9, 2021

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Alfred Russel Wallace. Palm Trees of the Amazon and Their Uses. London: John Van Voorst, 1853. First edition.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45358 | Jun 9, 2021

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[Pocket Map]. Columbus Drew. Map of the State of Florida, Showing the Progress of the Surveys from the Annual Report of the Surveyor General for 1856. Jacksonville, Florida: Columbus Drew, 1856. First edition.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45410 | Jun 9, 2021

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A. A. Milne. The Christopher Robin Set, Bayntun (Riviere) Binding. When We Were Very Young; Winnie-The-Pooh; Now We Are Six; and The House at Pooh Corner with illustrations by E. H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1924]-[1928]. All first trade editions, When We Were Very Young second state with page number ix present. (Total: 4 Items)
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45197 | Jun 9, 2021

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Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. London: Jonathan Cape, [1954]. First edition, first impression, first issue, first state, with printing points as called for.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45223 | Jun 9, 2021

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Mark Twain. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Tom Sawyer's Comrade. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885. First American edition, first state of text and frontispiece.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45335 | Jun 9, 2021

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Ian Fleming. Goldfinger. London: Jonathan Cape, [1959]. First edition, first impression, first issue, second state, without the disclaimer on the dedication page verso, as called for. Boldy signed by the author in blue ink to the front free endpaper recto.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45230 | Jun 9, 2021

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Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird. Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1960. Book Club Edition. Signed by the author on the half-title page, additionally signed and inscribed by Truman Capote to the back panel of the dust jacket, "For Larry Lee / With good wishes / Truman Capote."
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45255 | Jun 9, 2021

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Philip K. Dick. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Garden City: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1968. First edition.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45290 | Jun 9, 2021

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Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First edition, without the legal disclaimer on page [x].
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45238 | Jun 9, 2021

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[William] Ince and [John] Mayhew. The Universal System of Household Furniture. London: sold by Rob[er]t Sayer, no date but [circa 1760].
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45363 | Jun 9, 2021

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[Samuel Mearne, presumed]. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church. According to the use of the Church of England... London: Printed by His Majesties Printers, 1669. 17th century fore-edge painting presumably by Samuel Mearne, depicting the Royal Arms, supporters, and motto, surrounded by flowers.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45077 | Jun 9, 2021

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Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. London: Jonathan Cape, [1963]. First edition, signed limited edition of 250 copies, of which this is number 205, signed by the author to the copyright page.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45234 | Jun 9, 2021

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Henry Gray. Anatomy. Descriptive and Surgical. London: John W. Parker & Son, 1858. First edition.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45351 | Jun 9, 2021

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Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First edition, one of 510 copies signed by Hemingway (#336).
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45239 | Jun 9, 2021

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Isaac Asimov. The Original Foundation Trilogy. New York: Gnome Press, [1951]-[1953]. First editions, first state bindings and dust jackets. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45283 | Jun 9, 2021

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Montague R[hodes] James. Wailing Well. Stanford Dingley: Mill House Press, 1928. Limited edition of seven copies, signed and numbered by the author to the limitation page and with the title page printed in blue and black, this being copy number one.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45566 | Jun 10, 2021

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Mark Twain. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876. First American edition, first printing.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45334 | Jun 9, 2021

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Albert Einstein. Relativity. The special and general theory. New York: Peter Smith, [1931]. Reprint. Signed and inscribed by the author to the half-title to J. M. Frankel.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45347 | Jun 9, 2021

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Martin Luther King Jr. Where Do We Go From Here? New York: Harper & Row, [1967]. First edition. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper recto.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45382 | Jun 9, 2021

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[Fazakerley of Liverpool, binder]. Alfred Tennyson. Poems. London: Edward Moxon, 1857. Contemporary vertical triptych fore-edge painting to the closed edge depicting scenes from the text: The Lotos-Eaters on their ship (page 141), The Lady of Shalott spying Lancelot and tangling herself in the tapestry threads (page 67), and a high chalky ocean cliff (page 373), artist unknown.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45051 | Jun 9, 2021

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Arthur Conan Doyle. The Sign of the Four. Or, the problem of the Sholtos. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., [1889]. First appearance in print, second issue. [Philadelphia:] Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, 45, no. 266, February 1890, pages [145]-223.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45310 | Jun 9, 2021

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The Holie Bible. Faithfully translated into English, out of the authentical Latin.. Doway: Printed by Laurence Kellam, 1609-1610. First edition. The Douai version, chiefly translated by Gregory Martin, containing the Old Testament and Apochrypha only. (Total: 2)
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45362 | Jun 9, 2021

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