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Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Letter thanking an Ohio women abolitionists for support of his Canadian Underground Railroad “station”; explaining his work feeding, clothing and teaching hundreds of newly-arrived Black “fugitives” View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Heading(African American – Underground Railroad)AuthorRice, Isaac J.HeadlineLetter from terminus of Underground RailroadDate PublishedApril 26, [1851?] Lot #7 Rasa’il Ikhwan al-Safa ('Epistles of the Brethren of Purity') View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000Sold for$125,000StatusSold Heading(Arabic Manuscript)HeadlineArabic ms Epistles of Brethren of Purity c.1495Date PublishedAH 900 (CE 1495-96) Lot #8 Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorAshbery, JohnHeadlineSigned by De Kooning, Rivers, Katz, AvedonPublisherArion PressDate Published1984 Lot #9 The Physiology of Taste, or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorBrillat-Savarin, Jean AnthelmeHeadlineThe Physiology of Taste signed by Wayne ThiebaudPublisherArion PressDate Published1994 Lot #10 Don Quixote View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorCervantes, Miguel deHeadlineDon Quixote signed by William T. WileyPublisherArion PressDate Published2009; 2010 Lot #13 Poems View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorStevens, WallaceHeadlineSigned by Jasper Johns, Wallace Stevens PoemsPublisherArion PressDate Published1985 Lot #24 Siete Poemas Sajones. Seven Saxon Poems View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold AuthorBorges, Jorge LuisHeadlineSigned by Jorge Luis Borges, one of 120 producedPublisherPlain Wrapper PressDate Published[1974] Lot #26 Photograph of Kim Il-sung and Liu Shaoqi, signed by both of them View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Heading(China & Korea)HeadlineSigned photo of Kim Il-sung & Liu ShaoqiDate Publishedc.1960s? Lot #27 Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$31,250StatusSold Heading(China)AuthorMao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung)HeadlineMao's Quotations signed first editionPublisherForeign Language PressDate Published1966 Lot #30 Manifest listing a shipload of Chinese laborers bound for Havana, seven of whom died en route View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineChinese laborers settling in Cuba, 1867 manifestDate PublishedAugust 3, 1867 Lot #31 Manifest listing Chinese laborers bound for Havana View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineChinese laborers bound for Cuba in 1867Date Published6 April 1867 Lot #32 Manuscript papers and documents relating to the formation of a Chinese Society in Cuba, with extensive additional documentation on its operations over some 70 years View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineDocuments of Chinese Society in China 1890-1960Date Publishedc.1890-1961 Lot #33 Registro Civil de Esclavos de la jurisdicion de... Cedula... (from first page) View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineListing of Cuban slaveowners c.1850Date Publishedc.1850s Lot #34 Zona Central de Puerto Principe año de 1879 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Heading(Cuba)HeadlineManuscript maps of Cuban communities 1879Date Published1879 Lot #37 The Alloys of Steel. By J. Stodart, Esq. F.R.S. and Mr. M. Faraday, Chemical Assistant in the Royal Institution. From the Philosophical Transactions View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold AuthorFaraday, MichaelHeadlineRare offprint inscribed by Michael FaradayPublisherPrinted by William NicolDate Published1822 Lot #40 An abridgement of the booke of acts and monumentes of the Church: vvritten by that Reuerend Father, Maister Iohn Fox: and now abridged by Timothe Bright, Doctour of Phisicke, for such as either through want of leysure, or abilitie, haue not the vse of so necessary an history View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorFoxe, JohnHeadlineAbridgment of Foxe's Martyrs 1589PublisherImprinted at London by I. Windet, at the assignment of Master Tim BrightDate Published1589 Lot #45 Archive relating to Tomiji Takeda, a Japanese-American resident of Milpitas, California, who was interned at Tule Lake camp, then allowed to move to Utah and eventually Colorado View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Heading(Japanese-American Internment)HeadlineJapanese American interned at Tule LakeDate Publishedc.1930-1950s Lot #46 The Loving Shepherdess View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorJeffers, RobinsonHeadlineSigned by Robinson Jeffers and Jean KelloggPublisherRandom HouseDate Published1956 Lot #48 Arca Noë, in Tres Libros Digesta, quorum: I. De rebus quæ ante diluvium, II. De iis, quæ ipso diluvio ejusque duratione, III. De iis, quæ post diluvium a Noëmo gesta sunt, quæ omnia novâ methodo, nec non summa argumentorum varietate, explicantur, & demonstrantur View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold AuthorKircher, AthanasiusHeadlineKircher's analysis of the Ark & Flood, 1675PublisherApud Joannem Janssoniun à WaesbergeDate Published1675 Lot #49 Watermark View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Heading(Koch, Peter)AuthorBrodsky, JosephHeadlineSigned by Peter Koch and Robert MorganPublisherPeter Koch, PrinterDate Published2006 Lot #50 The Fragments of Parmenides View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Heading(Koch, Peter)AuthorParmenidesHeadlineSigned by R. Wagener, P. Koch, and R. BringhurstPublisherEditions KochDate Published2003 Lot #52 To Kill a Mockingbird View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold AuthorLee, HarperHeadlineTo Kill a Mockingbird with Harper Lee letterPublisherJ.B. Lippincott CompanyDate Published[1960] Lot #60 Encheiresin Naturae: Fifteen Engravings by Barry Moser; A Heroic Crown of Sonnets by Paul Muldoon View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Heading(Moser, Barry - Nawakum Press)AuthorMoser, Barry and Paul MuldoonHeadlineEncheiresin Naturae with 15 Moser engravingsPublisherNawakum PressDate Published2015 Lot #63 The Waste Land View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Heading(Officina Bodoni)AuthorEliot, T.S.HeadlineFinely printed Waste Land signed by T.S. EliotPublisherFaber & FaberDate Published[1961] Lot #64 The Oyez Press collection and archive View details Estimate$60,000 - $90,000StatusUnsold Heading(Oyez Press)HeadlineOyez Press collection & archivePublisherOyez PressDate Published1964-2000 Lot #65 The Knave of Hearts View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Heading(Parrish, Maxfield, illustrator)AuthorSaunders, LouiseHeadlineParrish's Knave of Hearts with 2 ALSPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1925 Lot #67 At Low Water: An Intertidal Memoir View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Pie in the Sky Press)AuthorChamlee, RebeccaHeadlineLetter A of 5 deluxe copies, At Low WaterPublisherPie in the Sky PressDate Published2017 Lot #69 Atlas Shrugged View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$11,875StatusSold AuthorRand, AynHeadlineAyn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, signedPublisherRandom HouseDate Published[1957] Lot #73 Handwritten letter by J.D. Salinger, signed Jerry, to Rose-Ellen Currie, relaying news of his recent wedding to Claire Douglas, with mention of Franny and Holden Caulfield View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold AuthorSalinger, J.D.HeadlineAutograph letter from J.D. "Jerry" SalingerDate PublishedWednesday [1955] Lot #74 Letter from J.D. Salinger to the principal of a Michigan elementary school, recommending a former neighbor, friend and tutor for employment as a teacher View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorSalinger, J.D.HeadlineJ.D. Salinger recommends neighbor as teacherDate PublishedOctober 29, 1982 Lot #75 Farmers: Wood Engravings—Interviews [with] Farmers Progressive Proofs View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorSchanilec, GaylordHeadlineFarmers by Schanilec with progressive proofsPublisherMidnight Paper Sales PressDate Published[1989]; 1992 Lot #77 2020 Vision: Nineteen Wood Engravers, One Collector, and the Artists Who Inspired Them View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,000StatusSold Heading(Society of Wood Engravers)AuthorHamway, Nigel, compilerHeadlineDeluxe edition with portfolio of wood engravingsPublisherNomad Letterpress / Society of Wood EngraversDate Published2020 Lot #81 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold AuthorTwain, Mark [pseud. of Samuel L. Clemens]HeadlineHuckleberry Finn with card signed by TwainPublisherCharles L. WebsterDate Published1885 Lot #84 Heart Disease View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorWhite, Paul DudleyHeadlineSigned by Paul D. White & 3 colleaguesPublisherThe Macmillan CompanyDate Published1932 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next