Sale 21BP03 | Catalogue

Rare Books, Autographs & Maps

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[WAR of 1812] RHEA, JOHN. Letter from the Tennessee Congressman to his Brother James relaying news from General Jackson.

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $252 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [WASHINGTON, GEORGE] A Message of the President of the United States to Congress Relative to France and Great-Britain. Delivered December 5, 1793.

Lot 62

[WASHINGTON, GEORGE] A Message of the President of the United States to Congress Relative to France and Great-Britain. Delivered December 5, 1793.

Estimate: $400 - $600

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

Lot image - [WASHINGTON, GEORGE] Message of the President of the United States to Congress, Enclosing Three Letters from the Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States in London...

Lot 63

[WASHINGTON, GEORGE] Message of the President of the United States to Congress, Enclosing Three Letters from the Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States in London...

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $10,710 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 64

[WASHINGTON, GEORGE] Washington's Political Legacies.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $630 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 65

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

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $1,260 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 66

WEBSTER, NOAH Document signed.

Estimate: $700 - $900

Sold for $472 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [WHALING] OBED, MACY. The History of Nantucket; Being a Compendious Account of the First Settlement of the Island by the English, Together with the Rise and Progress of the Whale Fishery.

Lot 67

[WHALING] OBED, MACY. The History of Nantucket; Being a Compendious Account of the First Settlement of the Island by the English, Together with the Rise and Progress of the Whale Fishery.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $882 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 68

[WHALING & NEW ENGLAND] A group of nicely bound New England and Nautical histories.

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

Sold for $2,520 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 69

WILSON, WOODROW Mere Literature.

Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800

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

Lot image - [ANGLING-BERNERS, DAME JULIANA] ANDREWS, WILLIAM LORING. Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle. From the Book of St. Albans. With an Introductory Essay on the Contemplative Mans favorite recreation.

Lot 70

[ANGLING-BERNERS, DAME JULIANA] ANDREWS, WILLIAM LORING. Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle. From the Book of St. Albans. With an Introductory Essay on the Contemplative Man's favorite recreation.

C Property of a Massachusetts Gentleman

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $252 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 71

[ANGLING-CHETHAM, JAMES] The Angler's Vade Mecum: or, a Compendious, yet Full, Discourse of Angling.

C Property of a Massachusetts Gentleman

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $819 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [ANGLING] HAWKINS, JOHN, Sir; WALTON, ISAAC; and COTTON, CHARLES. The Complete Angler, or Contemplative Mans Recreation; Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish and Fishing.

Lot 72

[ANGLING] HAWKINS, JOHN, Sir; WALTON, ISAAC; and COTTON, CHARLES. The Complete Angler, or Contemplative Man's Recreation; Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish and Fishing.

C Property from the Estate of Dr. James Lawrence Pool

Estimate: $200 - $400

Sold for $346 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 73

[ARCTIC] PHIPPS, CONSTANTINE JOHN. A Voyage Towards the North Pole.

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $157 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - CHARDIN, JEAN. Journal du voiage du Chevalier Chardin en Perse et aux Indes Orientales, par la Mer Noire et par la Colchide: qui contient le voiage de Paris à Ispahan.

Lot 74

CHARDIN, JEAN. Journal du voiage du Chevalier Chardin en Perse et aux Indes Orientales, par la Mer Noire et par la Colchide: qui contient le voiage de Paris à Ispahan.

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

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

Lot 75

DARWIN, CHARLES Three later editions of major works, nicely bound.

Estimate: $200 - $300

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

Lot image - [EGYPT] WALSH (THOMAS) Journal of the Late Campaign in Egypt: Including Descriptions of that Country, and of Gibraltar, Minorca, Malta, Marmorice, and Macri.

Lot 76

[EGYPT] WALSH (THOMAS) Journal of the Late Campaign in Egypt: Including Descriptions of that Country, and of Gibraltar, Minorca, Malta, Marmorice, and Macri.

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

Sold for $693 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 77

[EGYPT] [FRANKFORT, HENRY and others]. The Mural Paintings of El 'Armaneh. F. G. Newton Memorial volume.

C Property from an Ohio Collection

Estimate: $400 - $600

Unsold

Lot image - ELLIS, WILLIAM Polynesian Researches, During a Residence of Nearly Six Years in the South Sea Islands; Including Descriptions of the Natural History and Scenery of the Islands...

Lot 78

ELLIS, WILLIAM Polynesian Researches, During a Residence of Nearly Six Years in the South Sea Islands; Including Descriptions of the Natural History and Scenery of the Islands...

Estimate: $250 - $350

Sold for $220 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 79

GENLIS, MADAME DE [Caroline-Stéphanie-Félicité] Le Voyageur. Par Madame de Genlis. Ouvrage utile a la jeunese et aux etrangers.

C Property from the Collection of Jacqueline & Pierre Simon

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $126 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - JAMES, WILLIAM The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Declaration of War by France, in February 1793; to the Accession of George IV, in January 1820; with an Account of the Origin and Progressive Increase of the British Navy.

Lot 80

JAMES, WILLIAM The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Declaration of War by France, in February 1793; to the Accession of George IV, in January 1820; with an Account of the Origin and Progressive Increase of the British Navy.

Estimate: $400 - $600

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

Lot image - KEATE, GEORGE An Account of the Pelew Islands, Situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean, Composed from the Journals an...

Lot 81

KEATE, GEORGE An Account of the Pelew Islands, Situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean, Composed from the Journals and Communications of Captain Henry Wilson, and Some of His Officers, Who, in August 1783, Were There Shipwrecked, in the Antelope...

Estimate: $200 - $400

Sold for $598 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 82

KEATE, GEORGE An Account of the Pelew Islands, Situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean, Composed from the Journals and Communications of Captain Henry Wilson, and Some of His Officers, Who, in August 1783, Were There Shipwrecked, in the Antelope...

Estimate: $100 - $200

Sold for $126 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 83

[MOUNTAINEERING] FRESHFIELD, DOUGLAS W. The Exploration of the Caucasus

C Property from an Ohio Collection

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

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

Lot 84

[NAUTICAL AND MILITARY] Three works.

Estimate: $300 - $500

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

Lot 85

[NELSON, LORD VISCOUNT] CLARKE, JAMES S. and McARTHUR, JOHN. The Life of Admiral Lord Nelson, K.B. from His Lordship's Manuscripts.

C Property from an Ohio Collection

Estimate: $500 - $800

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

Lot image - [NELSON, LORD VISCOUNT] CHURCHILL, T.O. The Life of Lord Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronté, Ec. Illustrated by Engravings of Its Most Striking and Memorable Incidents.

Lot 86

[NELSON, LORD VISCOUNT] CHURCHILL, T.O. The Life of Lord Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronté, Ec. Illustrated by Engravings of Its Most Striking and Memorable Incidents.

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $378 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 87

SCORESBY, WILLIAM An Account of the Arctic Regions, with a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery.

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

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

Lot 88

ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM Typus Orbis Terrarum.

Estimate: $2,500 - $3,500

Sold for $4,410 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 89

ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.

Estimate: $2,500 - $3,500

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

Lot 90

ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM Europae.

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $693 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 91

ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM Africae Tabula Nova.

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

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

Lot 92

ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM Asiae Nova Descriptio.

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $504 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 93

ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.

Estimate: $2,500 - $3,500

Sold for $2,835 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 94

[MAP-WORLD] [TORNIELLO, AUGUSTINO]. Situs Partium Praecipuarum Totius Orbis Terrarum.

Estimate: $500 - $1,000

Unsold

Lot 95

BLAEU, WILLIAM Nova Virginia Tabula.

Estimate: $600 - $900

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

Lot 96

VISSCHER, NICOLAS Novi Belgii novaeque angliae nec non partis Virginiae tabula multis in locis emendate.

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000

Sold for $4,725 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 97

FADEN, WILLIAM The Province of New Jersey, Divided Into East and West, Commonly Called The Jerseys.

Estimate: $2,000 - $4,000

Sold for $5,985 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 98

FADEN, WILLIAM; SCULL, NICHOLAS and GEORGE HEAP A Plan of the City and Environs of Philadelphia, Survey'd by N. Scull and G. Heap.

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000

Sold for $4,410 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 99

LA ROUGE, GEORGE LOUIS Theatre de la Guerre en Amerique.

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

Sold for $441 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 100

DES BARRES, JOSEPH F. WALLET A Chart of Nova Scotia.

Estimate: $5,000 - $8,000

Sold for $4,725 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 101

[MAPS-EUROPE] Group of four framed maps.

Estimate: $500 - $800

Unsold

Lot 102

[FRANCE] Fifteen volumes on the French countryside, nine with folding maps.

Estimate: $100 - $200

Sold for $157 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 103

[MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATION] Two manuscript leaves.

Estimate: $400 - $600

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

Lot 104

[MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATION] Group of ten cut inhabited initials and border elements from antiphonals and other manuscripts.

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $2,520 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 105

[MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATION] NERI DA RIMINI (attributed). Large excised initial "N" from a choirbook, extensively historiated.

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000

Sold for $28,350 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 106

[ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS] Group of five framed cut initials and leaves from fifteenth century manuscripts.

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Sold for $1,260 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 107

[ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS] Two very fine excised historiated initials from choirbooks.

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $819 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 108

[MANUSCRIPT] AQUINAS, THOMAS]. AQUINAS. Tractatus Brevis De Scriptura Sacra in Genere.

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

Sold for $567 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 109

[AMSTERDAM] PONTANUS, JOHANNES ISACIUS. Rerum et Urbis Amstelodamensium Historia.

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

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

Lot 110

[ANTIQUARIAN] Group of five works.

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

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

Lot 111

[ANTIQUARIAN MISCELLANY] A group of nicely bound works many of antiquarian interest.

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

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

Lot 112

[ARCHITECTURE] MIZNER, ADDISON. Florida Architecture of Addison Mizner.

C Property from an Ohio Collection

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $819 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 113

[BASKERVILLE] ADDISON, JOSEPH. Works.

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $100 - $200

Sold for $63 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 114

[BINDING] Auctoris Latinae Linguae in unum redacti corpus.

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000

Unsold

Lot 115

BOSWELL, JAMES The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $315 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 116

BUBER, MARTIN Ekstatische Konfessionen.

Estimate: $400 - $600

Unsold

Lot image - BUXTORF, JOANNES Lexicon Hebraicum et Chaldaicum: complectens omnes voces tam primas quàm derivatas, quæ in sacris Bibliis, Hebraeâ, & ex parte Calaeâ linguâ scriptis extant.

Lot 117

BUXTORF, JOANNES Lexicon Hebraicum et Chaldaicum: complectens omnes voces tam primas quàm derivatas, quæ in sacris Bibliis, Hebraeâ, & ex parte Calaeâ linguâ scriptis extant.

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $100 - $200

Sold for $157 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 118

CELLINI, BENEVENUTO Vita di Benvenuto Cellini orefice e scultore fiorentino, da lui medesimo scritta...

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $220 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 119

[COLOR PLATE] IRELAND, SAMUEL. Picturesque Views on the River Thames.

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $2,835 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 120

[COSTUME] [MANSION, LOUIS and others]. 52 mounted hand-colored plates of costume mounted in an album

C Property from an Ohio Collection

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

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