Sale 22BP01 | Catalogue

Rare Books, Autographs & Maps

Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 10am EDT | New York

Rare Books, Autographs & Maps | Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 10am EDT

Lot image - [ABOLITION] CLARKSON, THOMAS. The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament.

Lot 1

[ABOLITION] CLARKSON, THOMAS. The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament.

C Property of a Massachusetts Gentleman

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $378 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [ABOLITION] WOOLMAN, JOHN. Serious Considerations on Various Subjects of Importance. By John Woolman of Mount Holly, in the Jerseys, North America, deceased; with some of his Dying Expressions.

Lot 2

[ABOLITION] WOOLMAN, JOHN. Serious Considerations on Various Subjects of Importance. By John Woolman of Mount Holly, in the Jerseys, North America, deceased; with some of his Dying Expressions.

C Property of a Massachusetts Gentleman

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $693 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 3

[ADIRONDACKS] FROST, CHARLES HUBBARD. My Summer Vacations.

C Property of a Massachusetts Gentleman

Estimate: $100 - $150

Sold for $157 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 4

[ALASKA] FRENCH, L. H. Nome Nuggets. Some of the Experiences of a Party of Gold Seekers in Northwestern Alaska in 1900.

C Property of a Massachusetts Gentleman

Estimate: $50 - $100

Sold for $189 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 5

[AMERICANA--PAMPHLETS] Group of six rare 19th century pamphlets.

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $315 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 6

[AMERICAN REVOLUTION] HARRISON V, BENJAMIN (Signer). Certification signed.

C The Estate of Kathryn Graham

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

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

Lot 7

[AMERICAN REVOLUTION--FORCE, PETER] Four rare 1777 United States Loan Receipts with a manuscript note describing them by Peter Force.

C The Estate of Kathryn Graham

Estimate: $1,500 - $2,000

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

Lot 8

[AMERICAN REVOLUTION] Rare 1777 Georgia issued United States Loan Receipt.

C The Estate of Kathryn Graham

Estimate: $600 - $900

Sold for $2,268 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 9

[AMERICAN REVOLUTION] Rare 1777 Georgia issued United States Loan Receipt.

C The Estate of Kathryn Graham

Estimate: $600 - $900

Sold for $2,142 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 10

[AMERICAN REVOLUTION] Rare 1777 Georgia issued United States Loan Receipt.

C The Estate of Kathryn Graham

Estimate: $600 - $900

Sold for $2,142 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 11

[AMERICAN REVOLUTION] Rare 1777 Georgia issued United States Loan Receipt.

C The Estate of Kathryn Graham

Estimate: $600 - $900

Sold for $2,142 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 12

[AMERICAN REVOLUTION] Pennsylvania pay order signed by John Dickinson.

C The Estate of Kathryn Graham

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $535 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [AMERICAN REVOLUTION--YORKTOWN CAMPAIGN] Narrative of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton, K. B., relative to his conduct during pa...

Lot 13

[AMERICAN REVOLUTION--YORKTOWN CAMPAIGN] Narrative of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton, K. B., relative to his conduct during part of his command of the King's Troops in North America; Particularly to that which respects the unfortunate Issue of the Campaign in 1781.

C Property of a Massachusetts Gentleman

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $220 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 14

[AUTOGRAPH ALBUM] A 1930s Waterman's Autograph Album.

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

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

Lot 15

CLYMER, GEORGE (Signer) Promissory note signed.

C The Estate of Kathryn Graham

Estimate: $150 - $200

Sold for $378 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 16

BURT, HENRY M. Burt's Among the Clouds. Printed Daily on the Summit of Mount Washington. Vol. 1, No. 1.

C Property of a Massachusetts Gentleman

Estimate: $40 - $60

Sold for $88 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 17

[CIVIL WAR] SHERMAN, WILLIAM TECUMSEH. Signature on sheet.

C The Estate of Kathryn Graham

Estimate: $100 - $150

Sold for $220 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 18

[CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE] 1861 Virginia Presidential Election Ballot.

C The Estate of Kathryn Graham

Estimate: $150 - $250

Sold for $315 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [CIVIL WAR] THE WAR DEPARTMENT. U.S. Infantry Tactics, for the Instruction, Exercise, and Manoeuvers of the United States Infantry, Including Infantry of the Line, Light Infantry, and Riflemen.

Lot 19

[CIVIL WAR] THE WAR DEPARTMENT. U.S. Infantry Tactics, for the Instruction, Exercise, and Manoeuvers of the United States Infantry, Including Infantry of the Line, Light Infantry, and Riflemen.

C Property of a Massachusetts Gentleman

Estimate: $150 - $300

Sold for $315 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 20

[CIVIL WAR--PRISONS] GOSS, WARREN LEE. The Soldier's Story of his Captivity at Andersonville, Belle Isle, and Other Rebel Prisons.

C Property of a Massachusetts Gentleman

Estimate: $300 - $500

Unsold

Lot 21

[CIVIL WAR--PRISONS] GOSS, WARREN LEE. The Soldier's Story of his Captivity at Andersonville, Belle Isle, and Other Rebel Prisons.

C Property of a Massachusetts Gentleman

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $283 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 22

[COSTUME--NATIVE AMERICAN] SETON, JULIA M. Illustrated by SETON, ERNEST THOMPSON. The Indian Costume Book.

C Property of a Massachusetts Gentleman

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $126 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 23

EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D. Crusade in Europe.

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000

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

Lot 24

[FLORIDA] SPILMAN DEWEY, BYRD. The Blessed Isle and its Happy Families.

C Property of a Massachusetts Gentleman

Estimate: $100 - $200

Sold for $100 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 25

KENNEDY, JOHN FITZGERALD Manuscript notes mentioning Thomas Jefferson.

Estimate: $2,500 - $3,500

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

Lot image - [KENNEDY ASSASSINATION] A collection of AP press photographs and other materials, relating to Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby and the Kennedy assassination.

Lot 26

[KENNEDY ASSASSINATION] A collection of AP press photographs and other materials, relating to Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby and the Kennedy assassination.

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $504 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 27

[KENNEDY ASSASSINATION] RUBY, JACK. Two signed items.

C The Collection of Barry Ferine

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $630 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 28

[KENNEDY ASSASSINATION] OSWALD, LEE HARVEY. Signature on hand-addressed envelope to his mother.

C The Collection of Barry Ferine

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000

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

Lot 29

[KENNEDY ASSASSINATION] Four teletype transcripts from 22 November 1963 detailing the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000

Sold for $1,890 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 30

LINCOLN, ABRAHAM Commission signed appointing ironclad commander Stephen Clegg Rowan Captain in the United States Navy.

Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000

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

Lot 31

LINCOLN, ABRAHAM Discharge note signed.

Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000

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

Lot 32

[LINCOLN, ABRAHAM--EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION] A highly decorative early calligraphic broadside titled Proclamation of Freedom.

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000

Unsold

Lot 33

[LINCOLN ASSASSINATION] New York Tribune dated April 18th, 1865.

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $220 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 34

[MASSACHUSETTS] Group of three 18th century broadsides.

Estimate: $150 - $250

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

Lot 35

[PROVINCE OF MASSACHUSETTS-BAY] Two seventeenth century Massachusetts militia appointments, each signed by the governors of the time.

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $2,142 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [PROVINCE OF MASSACHUSETS-BAY] Four early eighteenth century Massachussetts militia appointments, each signed by the governors of the time.

Lot 36

[PROVINCE OF MASSACHUSETS-BAY] Four early eighteenth century Massachussetts militia appointments, each signed by the governors of the time.

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

Sold for $6,930 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 37

[MASSACHUSETTS HISTORY] Group of documents pertaining to Braintree, the history of the Prescott family, etc.

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

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

Lot 38

[MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY] Appointment of Jonas Prescott as Lieutenant of a Foot Company in the Town of Groton.

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

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

Lot image - [PROVINCE OF MASSACHUSETTS-BAY] PHIPS, WILLIAM, (Sir). Signed appointment of Jonas Prescot[t] as a Lieutenant of a Foot Company of Militia in the town of Groton, 13th June, 1692.

Lot 39

[PROVINCE OF MASSACHUSETTS-BAY] PHIPS, WILLIAM, (Sir). Signed appointment of Jonas Prescot[t] as a Lieutenant of a Foot Company of Militia in the town of Groton, 13th June, 1692.

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

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

Lot 40

WINTHROP, JOHN Endorsing signature on 1640 document for land in "Mount Wollaston alias Brayntry."

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000

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

Lot 41

[MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY] Plat map for Mount Wollaston Farm, Braintree, Massachusetts-Bay Colony, dated 1669.

Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000

Sold for $6,930 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 42

[MASSACHUSETTS] The remains of a collection.

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

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

Lot 43

[MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE] A fine photographic album titled Middlebury College and its Surroundings.

C Property of a Massachusetts Gentleman

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $441 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 44

[NEW YORK] CLINTON, GEORGE. Land Grant Document Signed.

C The Collection of Barry Ferine

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $409 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [NEW YORK] The Heidelbergh Catechism, or Method of Instruction, in the Christian Religion, as the Same is Taught in the Reformed Churches and Schools of Holland. Translated for the use of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, of the City of New-York.

Lot 45

[NEW YORK] The Heidelbergh Catechism, or Method of Instruction, in the Christian Religion, as the Same is Taught in the Reformed Churches and Schools of Holland. Translated for the use of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, of the City of New-York.

C The Estate of Kathryn Graham

Estimate: $500 - $800

Sold for $1,134 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [ORNITHOLOGY] BAIRD, SPENSER F; CASSIN, JOHN; and LAWRENCE, GEORGE N. Reports of Explorations and Surveys ... for a Railroad from th...

Lot 46

[ORNITHOLOGY] BAIRD, SPENSER F; CASSIN, JOHN; and LAWRENCE, GEORGE N. Reports of Explorations and Surveys ... for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean made under the direction of the Secretary of War, in 1853-6 ... Volume IX [part II].

C Property of a Massachusetts Gentleman

Estimate: $500 - $800

Sold for $504 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 47

[REVOLUTIONARY WAR] Group of three appointments of Oliver Prescott, 1776-1778.

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

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

Lot 48

ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D. Early typed letter signed as New York Senator regarding his brief history in public office.

C The Collection of Barry Ferine

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $882 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [SHEEP/MERINO WOOL] BARD, SAMUEL. A Guide for Young Shepherds or Facts and Observations on the Character and Value of Merino Sheep: With Rules and Precepts for Their Management, and the Treatment of Their Diseases...

Lot 49

[SHEEP/MERINO WOOL] BARD, SAMUEL. A Guide for Young Shepherds or Facts and Observations on the Character and Value of Merino Sheep: With Rules and Precepts for Their Management, and the Treatment of Their Diseases...

C Property of a Massachusetts Gentleman

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $157 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 50

[TELEVISION] TV Guide. Complete Program Listings--April 3-9.

Estimate: $200 - $300

Unsold

Lot image - [TEXAS] JOHNSTON, JOSEPH EGGLESTON. Reports of the Secretary of War, with Reconnaissances of Routes from San Antonio to El Paso...

Lot 51

[TEXAS] JOHNSTON, JOSEPH EGGLESTON. Reports of the Secretary of War, with Reconnaissances of Routes from San Antonio to El Paso ... Also, the Report of Capt. R.B. Marcy's Route from Fort Smith to Santa Fe; and the Report of Lieutenant W.J.C. Whiting's Reconnaissances of the Western Frontier of Texas.

C Property of a Massachusetts Gentleman

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $189 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [TEXAS FRONTIER] Autograph letter signed from Benjamin Middleton to his brother Samuel Middleton of Terre Haute, Indiana, written January 21, 1839 from Burnets Colony, Robinson County, Texas.

Lot 52

[TEXAS FRONTIER] Autograph letter signed from Benjamin Middleton to his brother Samuel Middleton of Terre Haute, Indiana, written January 21, 1839 from Burnet's Colony, Robinson County, Texas.

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $8,820 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 53

[TEXAS--MEXICAN BORDER WAR] Large panoramic photograph of Camp Stewart, El Paso, Texas, 1916.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $567 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 54

[TEXT LEAF--AMERICANA] [PURCHAS, SAMUEL]. English Discoveries and Plantations in New England and Newfoundland... The Tenth Booke

Estimate: $150 - $250

Unsold

Lot 55

THOMSON, JAMES. The Seasons.

C Property of a Massachusetts Gentleman

Estimate: $100 - $200

Unsold

Lot image - [VERMONT] ELDRIDGE, LEMUEL B. The Torrent; or an Account of a Deluge Occasioned by an Unparalleled Rise of the New Haven River, in which Nineteen Persons Were Swept Away, Five of Whom Only Escaped, July 26, 1830.

Lot 56

[VERMONT] ELDRIDGE, LEMUEL B. The Torrent; or an Account of a Deluge Occasioned by an Unparalleled Rise of the New Haven River, in which Nineteen Persons Were Swept Away, Five of Whom Only Escaped, July 26, 1830.

C Property of a Massachusetts Gentleman

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $126 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 57

[MAP--MANUSCRIPT] Manuscript World Map.

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Sold for $630 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 58

[MAPS] [ANDREWS, ISRAEL DE WOLF]. Maps. Andrews' Report [Cover title].

C Property of a Massachusetts Gentleman

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $157 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [MAP--UNITED STATES] BLANCHARD, RUFUS. Historical Map of the United States Showing Early Spanish, French & English Discoveries and Explorations, also Forts, Towns & Battlefields of Historic Interest.

Lot 59

[MAP--UNITED STATES] BLANCHARD, RUFUS. Historical Map of the United States Showing Early Spanish, French & English Discoveries and Explorations, also Forts, Towns & Battlefields of Historic Interest.

C Property of a Massachusetts Gentleman

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $346 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [MAP-TEXAS] DISTURNELL, JOHN. Mapa de los Estados Unidos de Mejico.

Lot 60

[MAP--MEXICO & TEXAS] DISTURNELL, JOHN. Mapa de los Estados Unidos de Mejico.

Estimate: $15,000 - $25,000

Sold for $40,950 (includes buyer's premium)