Sale 19BP02 | Catalogue

Rare Books, Autographs & Maps

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AIKIN, C[HARLES]. R[OCHEMONT]. A Concise View of All the Most Important Facts which have hitherto appeared concerning the Cow-Pox.

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $468 (includes buyer's premium)

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[AMERICAN FLAG] Centennial American parade flag with stars arranged in the 1776/1876 pattern.

Estimate: $3,000 - $4,000

Sold for $2,500 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot 3

[AMERICAN FLAG] Forty-Four Star American Flag.

C Estate of Howard L. Munson

Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000

Sold for $1,500 (includes buyer's premium)

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ANDERSON, JAMES An Essay on Quick-Lime, as a Cement and as a Manure.

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $125 (includes buyer's premium)

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[BALTIMORE IMPRINTS] Group lot of Baltimore imprints and miscellaneous Americana.

C Estate of Frances Tower Thacher

Estimate: $150 - $250

Sold for $375 (includes buyer's premium)

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BEMISS, ELIJAH The Dyer's Companion. In Two Parts.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $187 (includes buyer's premium)

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[BRONX RIVER PARKWAY] Series of approximately ninety glass plate slides

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $531 (includes buyer's premium)

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[CALIFORNIA - PERIODICAL] Twelve issues of The Overland Monthly.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $187 (includes buyer's premium)

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[CAREY, MATHEW (editor)] Ten volumes from The American Museum, or, Universal Magazine.

C Estate of Frances Tower Thacher

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $4,687 (includes buyer's premium)

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CATLIN, GEORGE No. 15. Buffalo Hunt, under the White Wolf Skin.

C Property of Two New York Gentlemen

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $1,187 (includes buyer's premium)

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[CHICAGO FIRE] the Burning of Chicago.

C Estate of Frances Tower Thacher

Estimate: $200 - $400

Sold for $312 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - CHITTENDEN, HIRAM MARTIN The American Fur Trade of the Far West. A History of the Pioneer Trading Posts and Early Fur Companies of the Missouri Valley and the Rocky Mountains and of the Overland Commerce with Santa Fe.

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CHITTENDEN, HIRAM MARTIN The American Fur Trade of the Far West. A History of the Pioneer Trading Posts and Early Fur Companies of the Missouri Valley and the Rocky Mountains and of the Overland Commerce with Santa Fe.

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $531 (includes buyer's premium)

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[CIVIL WAR] Harper's Weekly. A Journal of Civilization. January 5, 1861-December 30, 1865 (i.e. volumes V-IX)

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000

Sold for $2,125 (includes buyer's premium)

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[CIVIL WAR] Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.

C Estate of Frances Tower Thacher

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $437 (includes buyer's premium)

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[CIVIL WAR - NEW YORK TIMES] Bound issues of the New York Times.

C Estate of Frances Tower Thacher

Estimate: $100 - $200

Sold for $437 (includes buyer's premium)

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[CONSTITUTION] STORY, JOSEPH. Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States.

C Estate of Florence and Judge David Edelstein

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Sold for $6,250 (includes buyer's premium)

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DOUGLAS, STEPHEN A. Remarks of the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas on Kansas, Utah, and the Dred Scott Decision.

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $375 (includes buyer's premium)

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FLINT, TIMOTHY A Condensed Geography and History of the Western States, or the Mississippi Valley.

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $156 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - [GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL] Group of approximately 75 glass lantern slides depicting the construction of Grand Central terminal and related buildings.

Lot 19

[GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL] Group of approximately 75 glass lantern slides depicting the construction of Grand Central terminal and related buildings.

Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500

Sold for $2,812 (includes buyer's premium)

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[HARDY BOYS] DIXON, FRANKLIN W. Collection of approximately forty-five volumes of Hardy Boys Mysteries

Estimate: $300 - $500

Unsold

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Lot 21

[HAWAII] Large format brad-bound blueprint book depicting the Hotel at Waikiki Beach

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $1,062 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot 22

HOUGH, ROMEYN B. The American Woods, exhibited by actual specimens and with copious explanatory text.

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Sold for $2,500 (includes buyer's premium)

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MICHAUX, F.[RANCOIS] A. Travels to the westward of the Allegany Mountains in the states of the Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee in the year 1802...

C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $406 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - [NATIVE AMERICANS] GALLATIN, [ABRAHAM ALFONSE] ALBERT. Table of the Indian tribes of the United States, east of the Stony Mountains arranged according to languages and dialects...

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[NATIVE AMERICANS] GALLATIN, [ABRAHAM ALFONSE] ALBERT. Table of the Indian tribes of the United States, east of the Stony Mountains arranged according to languages and dialects...

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $1,000 (includes buyer's premium)

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[NATIVE AMERICANS] SMITH, ELBERT H. Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak or Black Hawk and Scenes in the West.

C Estate of Frances Tower Thacher

Estimate: $200 - $300

Unsold

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PIKE, [JAMES] The Scout and Ranger: being the personal adventures of Corporal Pike of the Fourth Ohio Cavalry.

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $312 (includes buyer's premium)

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[PRINGLE, EDWARD J.] = A CAROLINIAN Slavery in the Southern States.

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $125 (includes buyer's premium)

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ROBERTSON, WILLIAM The History of America.

C Estate of Frances Tower Thacher

Estimate: $150 - $250

Sold for $187 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - [ROSETTA STONE - CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY] [HALE, CHARLES REUBEN, S. H. JONES & H. MORTON]. Report of the Committee appointed by the Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania to translate the inscription on the Rosetta Stone.

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[ROSETTA STONE - CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY] [HALE, CHARLES REUBEN, S. H. JONES & H. MORTON]. Report of the Committee appointed by the Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania to translate the inscription on the Rosetta Stone.

C Estate of Frances Tower Thacher

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $375 (includes buyer's premium)

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[SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE] Group of books related to the earthquake in San Francisco in 1906.

C Estate of Frances Tower Thacher

Estimate: $100 - $200

Sold for $156 (includes buyer's premium)

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[SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE] Group of 20 photographs of the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the resulting fire.

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Sold for $1,500 (includes buyer's premium)

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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM The Poems of Shakespeare. To which is added an account of his life.

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $468 (includes buyer's premium)

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STEWART, WILLIAM DRUMMOND (Sir) [WEBB, J. WATSON, ed.] Altowan: or Incidents of Life and Adventure in the Rocky Mountains by an amateur traveler.

C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $750 (includes buyer's premium)

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STILLMAN, SAMUEL A Sermon, Preached May 31, 1791, In Providence, State of Rhode-Island, On the Death of Nicholas Brown, Esq...

Estimate: $150 - $250

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Lot image - [TEXAS] NILES, JOHN M. and PEASE, L. T. History of South America and Mexico ...To Which is Annexed, A Geographical and Historical View of Texas, with a Detailed Account of the Texian Revolution and War.

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[TEXAS] NILES, JOHN M. and PEASE, L. T. History of South America and Mexico ...To Which is Annexed, A Geographical and Historical View of Texas, with a Detailed Account of the Texian Revolution and War.

C Estate of Frances Tower Thacher

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Sold for $812 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - THOMAS, JERRY [Jeremiah P.] How to mix drinks: or, The bon-vivants companion, containing clear and reliable directions for mixing a..

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THOMAS, JERRY [JEREMIAH P.] How to mix drinks: or, The bon-vivant's companion, containing clear and reliable directions for mixing all the beverages used in the United States, together with the most popular British, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish recipes, embracing punches, juleps, cobblers, etc., etc., etc., in endless variety.

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000

Sold for $2,500 (includes buyer's premium)

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[EARLY VIRGINIA IMPRINT] The Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal.

C The Marian Sulzberger Heiskell and Andrew Heiskell Collection

Estimate: $200 - $300

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[WAR OF 1812 - BROADSIDE] Great and Glorious News! Defeat of the British near Baltimore; Capture of the Champlain Fleet.

C Estate of Frances Tower Thacher

Estimate: $200 - $400

Sold for $1,500 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot 39

WEBSTER, NOAH Autograph letter signed.

C Property from the Estate of an Upper East Side Collector

Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800

Sold for $2,250 (includes buyer's premium)

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WEBSTER, NOAH A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings. On Moral, Historical, Political and Literary Subjects.

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $375 (includes buyer's premium)

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CUSTER, G. A., Gen. My Life on the Plains. Or, Personal Experiences with Indians.

C Estate of Frances Tower Thacher

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $687 (includes buyer's premium)

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ANDERSON, SHERWOOD Windy McPherson's Son.

C Estate of a Palm Beach Heiress

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $125 (includes buyer's premium)

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[BOOKS] Miscellaneous group of approximately sixty volumes, many inscribed.

C Estate of a Palm Beach Heiress

Estimate: $100 - $150

Sold for $312 (includes buyer's premium)

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CLINTON, BILL My Life.

C Estate of a Palm Beach Heiress

Estimate: $100 - $150

Sold for $625 (includes buyer's premium)

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FORD, GERALD A Time to Heal.

C Estate of a Palm Beach Heiress

Estimate: $100 - $200

Sold for $437 (includes buyer's premium)

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[MEDALS] Large group of Scaife Company bronze medals.

C Estate of a Palm Beach Heiress

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $250 (includes buyer's premium)

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[MEDALS & AWARDS] Group of miscellaneous bronze medals, plaques and other items presented to Scaife family members.

C Estate of a Palm Beach Heiress

Estimate: $100 - $200

Sold for $312 (includes buyer's premium)

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[MELLON FAMILY] Miscellaneous group of approximately twenty-five books on the Mellon or Scaife families.

C Estate of a Palm Beach Heiress

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $500 (includes buyer's premium)

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[MELLON & SCAIFE FAMILY] Large photography archive.

C Estate of a Palm Beach Heiress

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $531 (includes buyer's premium)

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[NEWSPAPERS] Large archive of newspapers.

C Estate of a Palm Beach Heiress

Estimate: $50 - $80

Sold for $156 (includes buyer's premium)

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NIXON, RICHARD Group of signed items.

C Estate of a Palm Beach Heiress

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $187 (includes buyer's premium)

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REAGAN, RONALD Group of signed items.

C Estate of a Palm Beach Heiress

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $500 (includes buyer's premium)

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[SILVER] Miscellaneous group of silver and plated items.

C Estate of a Palm Beach Heiress

Estimate: $200 - $300

Unsold

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[AFRICA] Map of Africa with the Latest Discoveries.

C Estate of Frances Tower Thacher

Estimate: $300 - $400

Sold for $218 (includes buyer's premium)

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[AMERICAS] [HEYLYN, PETER]. America.

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Sold for $687 (includes buyer's premium)

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[COLONIAL ERA] Three small format maps.

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $500 (includes buyer's premium)

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[COMTE LA PEROUSE, JEAN FRANCOIS GALOUP] Carte des Cotes de l'Amerique et de l'Asie Depuis la Californie Jusqu'a Macao... 1787.

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $250 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - [MARCOU, JULES] FLOQUET, M. Carte Hydrologique du Département de la Seine. Dressée par M. Delesse ... Inspecteur General des Mines. Publiée daprès les ordres de M. Floquet Préfet de la Seine 1882.

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[MARCOU, JULES] FLOQUET, M. Carte Hydrologique du Département de la Seine. Dressée par M. Delesse ... Inspecteur General des Mines. Publiée d'après les ordres de M. Floquet Préfet de la Seine 1882.

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $937 (includes buyer's premium)

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[NEW YORK] MATHER, W.W. Geological Map of Long & Staten Islands with the Environs of New York.

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

Sold for $1,000 (includes buyer's premium)

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[NEW YORK] [ANONYMOUS]. A Plan of the City and Environs of New York in North America.

Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500

Sold for $1,187 (includes buyer's premium)

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