Sale 21BP01 | Catalogue

Rare Books, Autographs & Maps

Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 10am EDT | New York

Rare Books, Autographs & Maps | Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 10am EDT

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ALI, MOHAMMAD and FRAZIER, JOE Rare Stadium Poster for "The Fight of the Century" at Madison Square Garden.

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Sold for $1,512 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1002

[AMERICANA] Sammelband of old Americana catalogues from mostly booksellers and auctioneers.

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $220 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1003

[AMERICAN REVOLUTION] Journals of Congress, Containing the Proceedings from Sept. 5, 1774 to Jan. 1, 1776.

C From the Collection of the late William Safire

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $819 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1004

[BASEBALL-YANKEES] Painted Wood and Metal Yankee Stadium Seat.

C Collection of Herman Krawitz, Assistant Manager, Metropolitan Opera 1953-72

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Sold for $630 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1005

[BASEBALL-SIGNED] 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers signed baseball including Jackie Robinson.

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000

Sold for $10,080 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1006

[BASEBALL-SIGNED] 1952 New York Yankees signed baseball including Mickey Mantle.

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000

Unsold

Lot 1007

[BASEBALL-SIGNED] Baseball signed by Ted Williams, Ed Mathews and Del Crandall.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $189 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1008

[BASEBALL-SIGNED] 1954-55 Milwaukee Braves signed baseball including Hank Aaron.

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $252 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1009

[BASEBALL] Team photograph of the North Philadelphia Hebrew Association, 1927.

Estimate: $250 - $250

Sold for $535 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1010

[BIBLIOGRAPHY] PETERS, HARRY T. America on Stone.

Estimate: $100 - $200

Sold for $88 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [BROADSIDE] Life, Last Words and Dying Confession, of Rachel Wall, Who, with William Smith and William Dunogan, were executed at Boston, on Thursday, October 8, 1789, for High-Way Robbery.

Lot 1011

[BROADSIDE] Life, Last Words and Dying Confession, of Rachel Wall, Who, with William Smith and William Dunogan, were executed at Boston, on Thursday, October 8, 1789, for High-Way Robbery.

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000

Sold for $6,300 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1012

[CIVIL WAR] Three framed signatures of Union Generals.

Estimate: $500 - $800

Sold for $378 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1013

[CIVIL WAR] Archive of a Union doctor's letters.

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $1,197 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1014

[CIVIL WAR] SHERIDAN, PHILIP. Signed letter.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $220 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1015

CLAY, HENRY Document signed as Secretary of State.

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $598 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1016

COBBETT, WILLIAM A Bone to Gnaw, for the Democrats; or. Observations on a Pamphlet, entitled, "The Political Progress of Britain."

C From the Collection of the late William Safire

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $346 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1017

COBBETT, WILLIAM Four American works by William Cobbett.

C From the Collection of the late William Safire

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $535 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - COBBETT, WILLIAM The Woodlands: or, A treatise on the preparing of ground for planting, on the planting, on the cultivating, on the pruning, and on the cutting down of Forest Trees and Underwoods...

Lot 1018

COBBETT, WILLIAM The Woodlands: or, A treatise on the preparing of ground for planting, on the planting, on the cultivating, on the pruning, and on the cutting down of Forest Trees and Underwoods...

C From the Collection of the late William Safire

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $693 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [AMERICANA-COLOR PLATE] GUILLET, PETER. Timber Merchants Guide. Also a Table, whereby, at one view, may be seen the solid and super..

Lot 1019

[AMERICANA-COLOR PLATE] GUILLET, PETER. Timber Merchant's Guide. Also a Table, whereby, at one view, may be seen the solid and superficial measure of any square or unequal Hewed Logs or Plank, from one to forty-seven inches. Also, Plates representing the Figures of the principle pieces of timber, used in building a seventy-four Gun Ship of the Line, in standing trees.

Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500

Sold for $4,095 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1020

EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D. Crusade in Europe.

Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500

Sold for $3,465 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1021

EISENHOWER, DWIGHT & MAMIE Signed photograph.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $189 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1022

FORD, GERALD A Time to Heal.

Estimate: $200 - $400

Unsold

Lot 1023

KELLER, HELEN Twice signed library card for the Public Library of Cincinnati.

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $882 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1024

[KISSINGER, HENRY] NIXON, RICHARD. State of the World Messages, 1970 and 1972, with inscription and signature from Henry Kissinger.

C From the Collection of the late William Safire

Estimate: $500 - $800

Sold for $882 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1025

KISSINGER, HENRY Typed letter signed to David K.E. Bruce, first United States emissary to the People's Republic of China.

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $220 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1026

LINCOLN, ABRAHAM Commission signed.

C From the Collection of the late William Safire

Estimate: $5,000 - $8,000

Sold for $7,560 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1027

LINCOLN, EVELYN Three typed notes signed, two during Kennedy Administration.

Estimate: $200 - $300

Unsold

Lot 1028

LINDBERGH, CHARLES Typed letter signed mentioning early airmail service.

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Sold for $693 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1029

BLAEU, WILLEM Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali, cum Terris adjacentibus.

Estimate: $500 - $800

Sold for $630 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [MAP - FREMONT] Map of Oregon and Upper California from the Surveys of John Charles Frémont and other Authorities, Drawn by Charles Preuss Under the Order of the Senate of the United States.

Lot 1030

[MAP - FREMONT] Map of Oregon and Upper California from the Surveys of John Charles Frémont and other Authorities, Drawn by Charles Preuss Under the Order of the Senate of the United States.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $1,386 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - MITCHELL, SAMUEL AUGUSTUS Mitchells National Map of the American Republic or United States of North America. Together with Maps of the Vicinities of Thirty-Two of the Principal Cities and Towns in the Union.

Lot 1031

MITCHELL, SAMUEL AUGUSTUS Mitchell's National Map of the American Republic or United States of North America. Together with Maps of the Vicinities of Thirty-Two of the Principal Cities and Towns in the Union.

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

Sold for $441 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1032

RATZER, BERNARD Plan of the City of New York in North America, surveyed in the years 1766 & 1767.

Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000

Sold for $151,200 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1033

[NEW YORK] VIELE, EGBERT. The Topography and Hydrology of New York.

Estimate: $2,500 - $3,500

Sold for $10,080 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [NEW YORK] The laws of His Majesties Colony of New-York, as they were enacted by the Governour, Council and General Assembly (for the Time being) in divers Sessions, the first of which began April 9th, 1691

Lot 1034

[NEW YORK] The laws of His Majesties Colony of New-York, as they were enacted by the Governour, Council and General Assembly (for the Time being) in divers Sessions, the first of which began April 9th, 1691

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000

Sold for $5,355 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1035

STOKES, I. N. PHELPS The Iconography of Manhattan Island

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000

Sold for $5,040 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1036

[NEW YORK SUBWAY] Celebration of the Commencement of Work on Rapid Transit Railroad. March 24th 1900, one o'clock, City Hall Park, New York.

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $1,071 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [NIXON/KENNEDY ELECTION] The Campaign Speeches of Nixon of Kennedy, inscribed to William Safire by Richard Nixon and secretarially for John Kennedy.

Lot 1037

[NIXON/KENNEDY ELECTION] The Campaign Speeches of Nixon of Kennedy, inscribed to William Safire by Richard Nixon and secretarially for John Kennedy.

C From the Collection of the late William Safire

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000

Sold for $2,016 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1038

NIXON, RICHARD The Memoirs of Richard Nixon.

C From the Collection of the late William Safire

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Sold for $2,016 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1039

NIXON, RICHARD Four volumes presented to William Safire.

C From the Collection of the late William Safire

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Sold for $1,764 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1040

NIXON, RICHARD Signed advance copy and galley proof with letter of Real Peace: A Strategy for the West.

C From the Collection of the late William Safire

Estimate: $500 - $800

Sold for $315 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1041

[NIXON, RICHARD] President Bill Clinton's Official Proclamation on the Death of Richard Nixon.

C From the Collection of the late William Safire

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $126 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1042

[NIXON, RICHARD] MAZO, EARL. Richard Nixon: A Political and Personal Portrait.

C From the Collection of the late William Safire

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $1,071 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1043

[NIXON ADMINISTRATION] Two large format photograph albums including many from the 1972 Moscow Summit.

C From the Collection of the late William Safire

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $535 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1044

PAINE, THOMAS The Political Writings; with a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life.

C From the Collection of the late William Safire

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $126 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1045

[PENNSYLVANIA] CONNELLY, FRANK and JENKS, GEORGE C. Official History of the Johnstown Flood.

Estimate: $100 - $200

Sold for $63 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1046

RIPLEY, ROBERT Signed letter from the creator of Ripley's Believe It or Not!

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $535 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1047

ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN DELANO Two signed items.

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $283 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1048

SUMNER, CHARLES The Works of Charles Sumner.

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $472 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1049

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

C From the Collection of the late William Safire

Estimate: $500 - $800

Sold for $1,008 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1050

WHITE, THEODORE Set of White's four The Making of the President books, three inscribed to William Safire.

C From the Collection of the late William Safire

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $756 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1051

ADDAMS, CHARLES Original drawing "I hope the power doesn't go out until after Masterpiece Theatre."

Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000

Sold for $18,900 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1052

[AUTOGRAPHS] 19th Century Autograph Album.

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000

Sold for $2,394 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1053

[BEATON, CECIL and others] The autograph album of Thomas P. Lacy.

C Estate of Thomas P. Lacy

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $819 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - BEATON, CECIL Travel permit and safe conduct issued to Cecil Beaton by the Kuomintang (the Chinese Nationalist Party) during his 1944 stint as a photographer in the Far East for the British Ministry of Information.

Lot 1054

BEATON, CECIL Travel permit and safe conduct issued to Cecil Beaton by the Kuomintang (the Chinese Nationalist Party) during his 1944 stint as a photographer in the Far East for the British Ministry of Information.

C Estate of Thomas P. Lacy

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $598 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1055

BEATON, CECIL Scrapbook prepared by Cecil Beaton over the period 1935-1944, with some later inclusions.

C Estate of Thomas P. Lacy

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $3,150 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1056

[BEATON, CECIL] Collection of notes and letters sent to Cecil Beaton by friends and admirers.

C Estate of Thomas P. Lacy

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $535 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1057

[BEATON, CECIL] COWARD, NOËL. Two autograph letters signed, from Noël Coward to Cecil Beaton.

C Estate of Thomas P. Lacy

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $693 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1058

[BEATON, CECIL] ELIOT, THOMAS STEARNS. Typed letter signed to Cecil Beaton, Esq.

C Estate of Thomas P. Lacy

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $1,638 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1059

[BEATON, CECIL] GIELGUD, JOHN. Two exceptional autograph letters signed, from John Gielgud to Cecil Beaton.

C Estate of Thomas P. Lacy

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $252 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 1060

BELL, ALEXANDER GRAHAM Two typed notes signed.

Estimate: $500 - $800

Sold for $1,386 (includes buyer's premium)