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Previous|1|Next Lot #67 The Soldier's Memorial: 152nd Regiment, Company H, New York Volunteers Heading(Civil War)HeadlineHand-colored Currier & Ives Civil War broadsidePublisherCurrier & IvesDate Published1862 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #76 Original caricature drawing for sports column illustration Heading(Football)Author[Boumer?], FrankHeadlineOriginal caricature drawing for a football illustrationDate PublishedNo date View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #80 Fourteen Months in American Bastiles Author[Howard, Frank Key]HeadlineF.K. Howard's Civil War ImprisonmentPublisherKelly, Hedian & PietDate Published1863 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #89 A Sketch of the Destruction of the Willey Family by the White Mountain Slide of the Night of August 28, 1826 AuthorMelcher, EdwardHeadlineAccount of aftermath of landslide in 1826PublisherRepublican Book and Job Printing OfficeDate Published1883 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #90 Estracto de la noticia de Mons. de Forbin-Janson, Obispo de Nancy y de Toul, sobre la Obra de la Santa Infancia para el rescate de los niños infieles de la China y de los otros paises idolatras. Bajo la Especial Proteccion de los RR. Obispos Heading(Mexican Imprint)HeadlineRescuing the infidel children of ChinaPublisherImprenta de M. Murguia y C.Date Publishedc.1850 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #97 A Sixteenth Century Mexican Broadside from the collection of Emilio Valtn. Described, with a Checklist, by Edwin H. Carpenter. Heading(Mexico)HeadlineA Sixteenth Century Mexican Broadside leaf bookPublisherDawson's Book ShopDate Published1965 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #110 Album of 105 Albumen Prints from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Heading(Photograph Album - Louisiana Purchase Exposition)Headline105 Prints from St. Louis World's FairDate Published1904 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #112 Two panoramas of Fort Winfield Scott in San Francisco Heading(Photographs - California)AuthorNock, C.R.HeadlineTwo San Francisco military panoramasDate PublishedNo date View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #126 Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant Heading(Presidents, 1869)AuthorGrant, Ulysses S.HeadlineGrant's Memoirs in half morocco bindingPublisherCharles L. WebsterDate Published1885-86 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #127 The Life and Travels of General Grant Heading(Presidents, 1869)AuthorHeadley, J.T.HeadlineThe Life and Travels of General GrantPublisherHubbard Bros.Date Published1879 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #137 Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman AuthorSherman, William TecumsehHeadlineMemoirs of General W.T. Sherman with mapPublisherD. AppletonDate Published1875 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #139 The New Sports Magazine: Dummy No. 1, December 5, 1953 Heading(Sports Illustrated)HeadlineThe New Sport Magazine, Dummy no. 1PublisherTime Inc.Date Published1953 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #148 Steel Treadway Across Inde River at Frenz, Germany: Built Under Fire! - original WWII battlefield drawing Heading(World War II)AuthorAllen, Benjamin "Stookie"HeadlineOriginal battlefield drawing by Benjamin "Stookie" AllenDate Published[c. 1944] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #149 Three World War II Scrapbooks Heading(World War II)AuthorBuglio, Albert J.HeadlineWWII Scrapbooks from US Sergeant in the India-Burma TheaterDate Published1943 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #155 Science, The Endless Frontier: Report To The President On A Program For Postwar Scientific Research Heading(Atomic Bomb)AuthorBush, VannevarHeadline1945 blueprint for postwar American scientific researchPublisherUnited State Government Printing OfficeDate PublishedJuly 1945 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #156 Science and Statecraft: Address at the Weizmann Institute Dinner, New York City, December 2, 1958 Heading(Atomic Bomb)AuthorOppenheimer, J. RobertHeadlineJ. Robert Oppenheimer on Science and StatecraftPublisherAmerican Committee for the Weizmann Institute of ScienceDate Published1958 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Lot #158 Men and Power 1917-1918 AuthorBeaverbrook, William Maxwell AitkenHeadlineBeaverbrook's Men & Power 1917-1918 inscribedPublisherDuell, Sloan and PearceDate Published[1956] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #162 A Concise History of the Moors in Spain, from Their Invasion of That Kingdom to Their Final Expulsion from It. AuthorBourke, ThomasHeadlineBourke's history of Spain under the MoorsPublisherF. C. and J. Rivington, and J. HatchardDate Published1811 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #163 Los Toros: Tratado Tecnico e Historico Heading(Bullfighting)AuthorCossio, Jose Maria deHeadlineLos Toros 4 vols.PublisherEspasa-CalpeDate Published1961 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #172 A New System of Sword Exercise for Infantry AuthorBurton, Richard F.HeadlineRichard Burton on sword exercises for infantryPublisherWilliam Clowes and SonsDate Published1876 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #173 The Port of Trieste, Ancient and Modern (in Journal of the Society of Arts October 29, 1875 [and] November 5, 1875) AuthorBurton, Richard F.HeadlineRichard Burton The Port of Trieste 1875PublisherSociety of ArtsDate Published1875 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #181 A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the Command of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Discovery; in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780 AuthorCook, James and James KingHeadlineCook's 3rd Voyage 2nd EditionPublisherPrinted by H. Hughs, for G. Nicol... and T. CadellDate Published1785 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #186 The British Army and Auxiliary Forces AuthorCooper-King, Colonel C.HeadlineThe British Army and Auxiliary Forces, 1893PublisherCassell and Company, LimitedDate Published[1893] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #195 Totemism and Exogamy: A Treatise on Certain Early Forms of Superstition and Society AuthorFrazer, J. G.HeadlineTotemism & Exogamy w/ supplemental volumePublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1910-1937 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #196 Reports of the commissioners relating to the capture of Charles O'Hara at Toulon Heading(French Revolution)HeadlineManuscript detailing the Siege of Toulon, 1793Date Published1793 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #198 La Mécanique à l'Exposition de 1900 AuthorHaton de la Goupilliere, J.N.HeadlineTechnological advances of the century, illustratedPublisherCh. Dunod, EditeurDate Published1902 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #201 India Directory; or Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, Cape of Good Hope, Brazil, and Adjacent Ports: Chiefly Compiled from Original Journals at the East India House, and from Observations and Remarks, Made during Twenty-one Years Experience Navigation in Those Seas AuthorHorsburgh, JamesHeadlineRare guide to sailing trade routes, 1826PublisherKingsbury, Parbury, and Allen BooksellersDate Published1826-1827 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #202 Mekka in the Latter Part of the 19th Century. Daily Life, Customs and Learning. The Moslims of the East-Indian Archipelago. AuthorHurgronje, Christiaan SnouckHeadline1888 pilgrimage to Mecca, illustratedPublisherLate E.J. Brill Ltd. & Luzac & Co.Date Published1931 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #204 Siberia and the Exile System AuthorKennan, GeorgeHeadlineTsarist Russia's penal system in SiberiaPublisherThe Century Co.Date Published1891 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$137.50StatusSold Lot #205 I Pregi della Toscana nell' Imprese piu' Segnalate de Cavalieri di Santo Stefano Heading(Knights of St. Stephen)AuthorFontana, FulvioHeadlineEngravings of Sea Battles against the Ottoman TurksPublisherPer Pier Mattia Miccioni, e Michele NestenusDate Published1701 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #209 Dictionnaire Historique et Bibliographique: Contenant l'Histoire Abrégée de Toutes les Personnes de lun et de Lautre Sexe qui se sont Fait un nom par Leurs Talens... AuthorLadvocat, Jean-BaptisteHeadlineLadvocat's bibliography of historical figuresPublisherLedouxDate Published1822 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #211 Coral Gardens and their Magic: A Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands AuthorMalinowski, BronislawHeadlineMalinowski's magnum opusPublisherAllen & UnwinDate Published[1935] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #219 The Life of Lord Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronté, Ec. Illustrated by Engravings of Its Most Striking and Memorable Incidents Heading(Nelson, Lord)AuthorChurchill, T.O.HeadlineChurchill's illustrated Life of Nelson 1808PublisherJ. and W. MacgavinDate Published1808 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #223 The Crossbow...with a Treatise on the Balista and Catapult of the Ancients AuthorPayne-Gallwey, RalphHeadlineA treatise on the crossbow, medieval and modernPublisherLongmans, Green and Co.Date Published1903 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #228 Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the Command of Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy, by Order of the Government of the United States. AuthorPerry, Matthew CalbraithHeadlinePerry's Japan ExpeditionPublisherA.O.P. Nicholson, PrinterDate Published1856 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #230 Five posters from the international Anti-Apartheid Movement Heading(Propaganda & Political Posters - Anti-Apartheid)HeadlineFive Anti-Apartheid posters from the 1980'sDate Published[1980's] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #231 Armada Obrance Demokracie / Armada for the Defense of Democracy Heading(Propaganda & Political Posters - Czechoslovakia)HeadlineCzech pro-democracy posterPublisherCeskoslovenska strana lidovaDate PublishedNo date View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #232 Bank poster issued by Czechoslovak bank 204. csl. Sporitelna Heading(Propaganda & Political Posters - Czechoslovakia)AuthorHlavacek, F.HeadlineCzechoslovakian bank poster for "Savings Day"PublisherTarkovsky & SvobodaDate PublishedNo date View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #233 Mladez Celeho Sveta Je Demokraticka / Youth from the Whole World is Democratic Heading(Propaganda & Political Posters - Czechoslovakia)HeadlineCzech protest posterPublisherStatni TiskarnaDate PublishedNo date View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #234 Pracujicim Pravni Jistotu / I Work for Safety Heading(Propaganda & Political Posters - Czechoslovakia)HeadlineCzech propaganda posterPublisherCeskoslovenska Strana LidovaDate PublishedNo date View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #235 Rolnici! Pomahajte Stavat Chlieb Je Zaisteny! / Farmers! Help Build Until Bread is Secured! Heading(Propaganda & Political Posters - Czechoslovakia)HeadlineCzech communist propaganda posterPublisherVydalo Poverenictvo Informacii a OsvetyDate Published[c. 1950's?] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #236 Through Dialogue to Disarmament! Heading(Propaganda & Political Posters - Glasnost)HeadlineThrough Dialogue to Disarmament! Russian glasnost posterDate Published1988 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #237 Three Latin American or Latin American support political posters Heading(Propaganda & Political Posters - Latin America)HeadlineThree Latin American/Latin American support political postersDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #238 We Stand Against Oppression and Bloody Terrorism in Iraq: We Have Decided to Fight / We Have Decided to Victory Heading(Propaganda & Political Posters - Middle East)HeadlineAnti-Baathist poster from Revolutionary Iraki CommunistsPublisherIraki Revolutionary CommunistsDate Published[1970's] View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #239 For Home and Country: Victory Liberty Loan Heading(Propaganda & Political Posters - WWI)AuthorOrr, Alfred EverittHeadlineAlfred Everitt Orr WWI propaganda posterPublisherAmerican Lithographic Co.Date Published1918 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #240 That Liberty May Not Perish from the Earth Heading(Propaganda & Political Posters - WWI)AuthorPennell, JosephHeadlineJoseph Pennell WWI propaganda posterPublisherGovernment Printing OfficeDate Published1918 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #241 Halt the Hun! [with] The Spirit of War Camp Community Service Heading(Propaganda & Political Posters - WWI)AuthorRaleigh, Henry; UnattributedHeadlineTwo WWI propaganda postersPublisherEdwards & Deutsch Litho Co.; Heywood Strasser & Voight Litho Co.Date Published1918; [c. 1917] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #242 A Wonderful Opportunity for You United States Navy Heading(Propaganda & Political Posters - WWI)AuthorRuttan, Charles E.HeadlineCharles E. Ruttan WWI Propaganda PosterPublisherNew-Art Lithographic CompanyDate Published1917 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #244 Your War Savings Pledge: Our Boys Make Good Their Pledge--Are You Keeping Yours? Heading(Propaganda & Political Posters - WWI)AuthorUnattributedHeadlineUncle Sam WWI Propaganda PosterPublisherGovernment Printing OfficeDate Published1917 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #245 They Give Their Lives, Do You Lend Your Savings? Heading(Propaganda & Political Posters - WWI)AuthorWelsh, Horace DevitHeadlineWar Savings Stamps WWI propaganda posterPublisherCommittee on Public InformationDate Published1918 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #246 France Heading(Propaganda & Political Posters - WWII)AuthorBarton, LorenHeadlineWWII propaganda poster with lady libertyPublisherCrocker-UnionDate Published1942 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #247 Leader: Loyalty above reproach; Extra courage; Abhorrence of deceit; Devotion to duty; Eagerness to learn; Responsibility to God and country - Do You Qualify? Heading(Propaganda & Political Posters - WWII)HeadlineFort Ord Training Aids posterPublisherFort OrdDate Published[c. 1940-45] View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #248 Ours to Fight For...Freedom from Fear Heading(Propaganda & Political Posters - WWII)AuthorRockwell, NormanHeadlineFreedom from Fear, Norman Rockwell WWII posterPublisherGovernment Printing Office for the Office of War InformationDate Published1943 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #251 Military Character. U.S. Naval War College, Summer of 1913 AuthorSchofield, Frank H. (compiler)HeadlineU.S. Naval War College summer reading 1913PublisherU.S. Naval War CollegeDate Published[ca. 1913] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #254 A Narrative of Arctic Discovery, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. With the Details of the Measures Adopted by Her Majesty's Government for the Relief of the Expedition Under Sir John Franklin. AuthorShillinglaw, John J.HeadlineShillinglaw's Arctic Discoveries w/ mapsPublisherWilliam ShoberlDate Published1850 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #260 Telephone Directory for Redstone Arsenal, Alabama Heading(Space Exploration, 1958)HeadlineTelephone Directory, Von Braun's US Army Missile AgencyPublisherUS Army Ordnance Missile CommandDate Published1958 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #277 Collection of photo negatives from Harland and Wolf shipyard -including twenty-six images of the Titanic Heading(Titanic)HeadlineEighty photographic negatives of Titanic, Britannic, and OlympicPublisherHarland and Wolf Ltd.Date Published[c. 1911-12] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #281 Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. During the Years, 1838, 1839, 1849, 1841, 1842 AuthorWilkes, CharlesHeadlineEarly edition of Wilkes' Exploring ExpeditionPublisherGeorge P. PutnamDate Published1856 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #282 Prehistoric Man; Researches into the Origin of Civilisation in the Old and the New World AuthorWilson, DanielHeadlineSir Daniel Wilson's Prehistoric Man, 1862PublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1862 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #285 Thirty photographs of post-surrender activities in the Pacific Theatre Heading(World War II - Photographs)HeadlineWWII Japanese 'Mop-up" photographsDate Published1940s View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #286 Three Works on Cartography by Lloyd A. Brown AuthorBrown, Lloyd A.HeadlineWorks on old maps by Lloyd A. BrownPublisherVarious publishersDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #287 Nine works concerning cartography Heading(Cartography)HeadlineCollection of 9 Cartography reference booksPublisherVarious publishersDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #288 Maps of America in Periodicals / Maps in British Periodicals I&II Heading(Cartography)AuthorJolly, David C.Headline2 Cartography bibliographies by David JollyPublisherDavid C. JollyDate Published1989-1991 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #290 The Carta Marina of Olaus Magnus, Venice 1539 & Rome 1572 AuthorLynam, EdwardHeadlineAnalysis of the Carta Marina of Olaus MagnusPublisherTall Tree LibraryDate Published1949 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #291 The Mappemonde of Juan De La Cosa: A Critical Investigation of its Date AuthorNunn, George E.HeadlineSigned work on early map of AmericasPublisherGeorge H. Beans LibraryDate Published1934 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #292 Origin of the Strait of Anian Concept AuthorNunn, George E.HeadlineOrigin of the Strait of Anian Concept w/letter 1929PublisherPrivately PrintedDate Published1929 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #295 Catalogue des Livres Publiés en Langues Étrangères par l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg Heading(Russia)HeadlineImperial Russia science academy catalog, 1854Date Published[1854] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #346 Cary's new map of France, Divided into Departments, as Decreed by the National Assembly January 1st, 1790 on Which are also Delineated, the Boundaries of its Former Provinces... AuthorCary, [John]HeadlineMap of post-revolutionary provinces in FrancePublisher[J. Cary, Engraver & Mapseller]Date Published[ca 1810] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next