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Item #409946 Journals... Containing An Account of the several Excursions he made under the...

ROGERS, Robert

Journals... Containing An Account of the several Excursions he made under the Generals who commanded upon the Continent of North America, during the late War

London: Printed for the Author, and sold by J. Millan, 1765. 8vo (206 x 125 mm). viii, 236 pages, [4, advertisement and list of books]. Contemporary English speckled calf, red morocco lettering-piece on spine, spine compartments gilt-ruled. Provenance: unidentified early inkstamp and armorial bookplate; Everett D. Graff (1885-1964), Chicago Western.....

Price: $12,500.00

Item #409934 Texas. Mary Austin HOLLEY

HOLLEY, Mary Austin

Texas

Lexington, KY: J. Clarke & Co., 1836. 8vo (176 x 107 mm). Later copy of Holley's frontispiece map inserted (tear along one fold). Original muslin, printed paper spine label. Provenance: William Bollaert (1807-1876), writer, chemist, geographer and ethnologist (signature on title, see below); Edward Everett Ayer, presented to the Newberry.....

Price: $6,000.00

Item #409921 An Account of the Countries Adjoining to Hudson’s Bay, in the North-west Part of...

DOBBS, Arthur

An Account of the Countries Adjoining to Hudson’s Bay, in the North-west Part of America

London: J. Robinson, 1744. 4to (278 x 215 mm). Large engraved folding map "New Map of Part of North America" (some minor offsetting). 20th-century brown half morocco, marbled boards, top edges gilt. Provenance: Edward Everett Ayer, presented to the Newberry Library (bookplate, with Newberry removal label). First edition of this.....

Price: $17,500.00

Item #409885 Autograph letter signed ("James G. Drake") to W. Elliott Woodward, being an account...

DRAKE, Samuel Gardner

Autograph letter signed ("James G. Drake") to W. Elliott Woodward, being an account of the life of Samuel G. Bishop; Boston, 8 June 1866

3 1/4 pages, 8vo, a bifolium on pale bluish-green paper. Evidence of folds, a marginal tear not affecting text, scant remains of former mounting on last page. The American antiquarian and historian Samuel G. Drake (1798-1875) writes to William Elliot Woodward (1825-1892), the numismatist, New England genealogist, and publisher, about.....

Price: $650.00

Item #42976 Anitigüedades Mejicanas Falsificadas: Falsificacion y Falsificadores. Leopoldo BATRES

BATRES, Leopoldo

Anitigüedades Mejicanas Falsificadas: Falsificacion y Falsificadores

Mexico: Fidencio S. Soria, nd. 4to. 30 pages. 63 plates, with two large folding plates. Brown cloth, original printed wrappers bound in.

Price: $250.00

Item #409716 Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts and Engravings Belonging to William Menzies of...

[MENZIES, William, collection] – Joseph SABIN, compiler

Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts and Engravings Belonging to William Menzies of New York -List of Prices...

New York: J. Sabin & Sons, 1876. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. List of prices bound in after title. Original printed wrappers, paper spine with title in manuscript (presumably done by Goelet when the price list was added). 2239 lots, priced in pencil. Ogden Goelet's copy, with his name.....

Price: $650.00

Item #409705 "Wanted! The Farmers of Virginia and the surrounding country to know that the...

[VIRGINIA – COMMERCIAL BROADSIDE] – John R. HOCKADAY

"Wanted! The Farmers of Virginia and the surrounding country to know that the reports from the West and the entire country indicate abundant yields of GRAIN and PRODUCE of every description...

[Richmond, VA]: [Hockaday], ca late 1860s-early 1870s. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. Some foxing. Hockaday goes on to report that "prospects are favorable for a HEAVY DECLINE in grain and flour especially, and as Produce generally sells better and commands higher prices when new.....

Price: $250.00

Item #409680 [Cover title:] Bibliothica [sic] Scallawagiana. Catalogue of a Matchless Collection...

[MORMON LITERATURE] – Charles L. WOODWARD

[Cover title:] Bibliothica [sic] Scallawagiana. Catalogue of a Matchless Collection of Books, Pamphlets, Autographs... Relating to Mormonism and the Mormons. The 10 Years' Gathering of Charles L. Woodward, Who, enjoying superior facilities for their acquisition, has never let slip an opportunity–whether at public, or private sale–of adding to their number. To be sold at Vendue, Monday, January 19, 1880... by Messrs. Bangs & Co.

New York: Bangs & Co., 1880. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 50 pages. Original printed wrappers; in a cloth folding chemise. A priced copy. "There is in this catalogue, fifty titles which are rare, and fifty more which are scarce. Be kind enough to help yourselves. 'The Book of.....

Price: $650.00

Item #409514 Autograph letter signed ("A. W. Tourgee") to "My Dear Little Friend"; n.p., n.d....

TOURGÉE, A[lbion] W[inegar] (1838-1905)

Autograph letter signed ("A. W. Tourgee") to "My Dear Little Friend"; n.p., n.d.

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 12mo. Tourgée was a carpet-bagger judge and a best-selling author of sensational political novels, including 'A Fool's Errand'. Here (in about 155 words) he writes a playful response to a girl's request for an autograph: "My publisher handed me your request for an.....

Price: $250.00

Item #409475 The Buccaneers of America ... Now faithfully rendered into English. With Facsimiles...

[PIRATES] – John ESQUEMELING

The Buccaneers of America ... Now faithfully rendered into English. With Facsimiles of all the Original Engravings, etc.

London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1893. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Frontispiece and plates. Original midnight blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered and decorated, all edges gilt.

Price: $250.00

Item #409462 Desirable Property on Broadway, and on 33rd, 34th & 35th Streets, Between Broadway...

[NEW YORK – AUCTION BROADSIDE]. Anthony J. BLEECKER, Auctioneer

Desirable Property on Broadway, and on 33rd, 34th & 35th Streets, Between Broadway and the 7th Avenue, Near the Intersection of Broadway & 6th Avenue. Anthony J. Bleecker Will sell at Auction, on Wednesday, Dec. 27, 1848, at 12 M. at the Merchant's Exchange, 22 Lots and Gores

[New York]: [1848]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Large folio broadside (27 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches), two long folds (one vertical, one horizontal). The top half of this broadside advertisement is a map of the area, showing the properties to be auctioned. The bottom half gives the information about.....

Price: $2,500.00

Item #409461 A Bond of Performance between Garrett Poor (a carpenter) and Luke von Thinehoon (a...

[NEW YORK]

A Bond of Performance between Garrett Poor (a carpenter) and Luke von Thinehoon (a "cuirurgoon" [sic]) and Lawrence Read (a merchant) to whom they agree to pay two hundred pounds. [New York], 22 May 1691

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, folio, with integral blank leaf (with docket). Signed by Roos and Thinehovon (followed by red wax stamps) and signed by three witnesses. "The Condicon of this obligation is... that if the above bound... doo well and truely observe, perform, fullfill, accomplish, and keep.....

Price: $250.00

Item #409408 Letters to Esq. Pedant, in the East, by Lorenzo Altisonant, an Emigrant to the West....

[HOSHOUR, Samuel K.]

Letters to Esq. Pedant, in the East, by Lorenzo Altisonant, an Emigrant to the West. Published for the Benefit of Youth; By a Lover of the Studious.

Cambridge City, Wayne County [Indiana]: D. K. Winder, Printer, 1844. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 12mo. [2], [8], 10-64 pages. Original red roan-backed brown boards. First edition of this pioneer Indiana educator's first book, which consists of a series of letters, ostensibly pertaining to local events, written in the most.....

Price: $1,250.00

Item #409361 The Life and Reflections of Charles Observator: in which Are Displayed the Real...

[EARLY AMERICAN FICTION] – SABIN, Rev. Elijah R.

The Life and Reflections of Charles Observator: in which Are Displayed the Real Characters of Human Life

Boston: Printed by Rowe & Hooper, 1816. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Contemporary sheep, green morocco spine label. First (and only) edition. A didactic novel set in New England, and with numerous references to the Revolutionary War. The author was a Methodist minister and father of Lorenzo Sabin, senator.....

Price: $100.00

Item #409345 Autograph letter signed ("R. H. Dana Jr." to "Messrs Stimpson"; Boston, 30 December...

DANA, Richard Henry, Jr.

Autograph letter signed ("R. H. Dana Jr." to "Messrs Stimpson"; Boston, 30 December 1858

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 8vo. The author, best known for 'Two Years Before the Mast', comments on the "air pipe" he has purchased and orders a drum. (BA).

Price: $150.00

Item #409337 Chaudron's Spelling Book, Carefully Prepared for Family and School Use. CONFEDERATE...

[CONFEDERATE CHILDREN'S BOOK] – Adelaide de V. CHAUDRON

Chaudron's Spelling Book, Carefully Prepared for Family and School Use

Mobile, Alabama: S. H. Goetzel, 1865. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 12mo. 48 pages. Original tan pictorial stiff wrappers. "Fourth edition – Thirtieth Thousand" on front cover. Two full-page woodcuts (one of a printing press) and numerous cuts in the text. A fine copy. Crandell 4039; Parrish & Willingham 7685.....

Price: $450.00

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