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IMPORTANT 2-DAY SUMMER AMERICANA & BOOK AUCTION SATURDAY & SUNDAY JULY 28TH & 29TH @ 11:00 AM BOTH DAYS

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[226] Palmer, John. Journal of Travels in the United States of North America, and in Lower Canada, Performed in the Year 1817...... London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1818. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. WITH FOLDING COLOURED MAP. vii, [1] 456pp, bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, raised bands on gilt decorated spine, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Covers show edge/corner wear, surface rubbing, upper backstrip edge peeling, front cover detached, lacks marbled ffp, map shows crease tears and paper repair, with occasional light interior foxing. Binding tight. In a protective mylar jacket. EST: $400.00 - $800.00
Realized bid price - $450.00
[227] Doughty, Charles M. Travels in Arabia Deserta - 2 Volumes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1888. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Very Good Condition. WITH FOLDING, LINEN BACKED, COLOR MAP bound in back. One of 500 copies. Includes half-titles, plates (many folding), and text illustrations throughout. xx, 623pp; xiv, 690pp, bound in library half-leather & cloth, with binding & hinges tight. One plate detached, map has crease chips, lacks ads. EST: $600.00 - $800.00
Realized bid price - $1,100.00
[228] POLAR. A Group of 3 Volumes as Listed. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. ***Ice-Pack and Tundra. An Account of the Search for the Jeannette and a Sledge Journey Through Siberia by William H. Gilder (1883) 1st Edition, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Complete with all plates and MAPS. xi, 1 list of maps, [1] map, 344pp, folding map in back. Bound in mustard cloth showing age darkening, front hinge taped, folding map has tear/repair, binding tight, frontis has tissue guard. ***Northward Over the "Great Ice". A Narrative of Life and Work along the Shores and Upon the Interior Ice-Cap of Northern Greenland in the Years 1886 and 1891-1897 by Robert E. Peary - 2 Volumes (1898) NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company. Photographic frontis in each volume, with photos throughout, folding map in back of vol. 2. lxxx, 521pp; xiv, 625pp on glossy paper, in mis-matched library bindings, with Vol. 1 a half-inch smaller than vol. 2. Occasional paper tear/repair, folding map torn at creases, binding tight. EST: $40.00 - $100.00
Realized bid price - $70.00
[229] AMERICANA. A Group of 3 Volumes as Listed. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. ***Wau-Bun, the "Early Day" in the North-West by Mrs. John H. Kinzie (1856) 1st Edition, NY: Derby & Jackson. Frontis and 5 lithographed plates. 8vo, 498pp in original blind stamped cloth (sunned), lacks backstrip (half of backstrip, showing gilt Indian, laid-in), inner split after title page, occasional interior stain. In a protective mylar jacket. ***The Discoveries of John Lederer, In Three Several Marches from Virginia, to the West of Carolina, and Other Parts of the Continent: Begun in March 1669 and Ended in September 1670, Together with a General Map of the Whole Territory Which He Traversed by Sir William Talbot (1672) 1902 reprint, LIMITED #220 of 300, Rochester: Reprinted for George P. Humphrey WITH HIS SIGNED INITIALS. 8vo, 30pp in paper over boards with cloth backstrip & paper title label on cover. Front hinge starting, binding tight. ***The Compact with the Charter and Laws of the Colony of New Plymouth: Together with the Charter of the Council at Plymouth, and an Appendix, Containing the Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England, and Other Valuable Documents, published under the supervision of William Brigham (1836) Boston: Dutton and Wentworth. 4to, leather binding, leather spine label (chipped), covers detached, with inner split. EST: $60.00 - $100.00
Realized bid price - $90.00
[230] Earl of Shaftsbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper). Characteristicks - 3 Volumes. 1749. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Poor Condition. Leather bindings with gilt borders, raised bands on spines. Covers detached, vol. I lacks title page, covers worn, vol. 2 has split binding. EST: $40.00 - $80.00
Realized bid price - $20.00
[231] ART. A Group of 7 Volumes as Listed. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Very Good Condition, WITH DUST JACKETS.. ***The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough by John Hayes - 2 Volumes (1970) New Haven: Yale University Press. 4to in original red cloth, binding & hinges tight. Volume 1 is text, volume 2 consists of b/w plates, on glossy paper. ***The Drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle by Kenneth Clark - 3 Volumes (1968-9) London: Phaidon. Folio in original orange cloth, binding & hinges tight, b/w plates throughout. ***The Berlin-Dahlem Gallery - Great Paintings from the Former Kaiser Friedrich Museum, with an Introduction and Commentary by Edwin Redslob (1967) NY: The MacMillan Co. Folio in original tan buckram, binding & hinges tight, color & b/w plates, on glossy paper, throughout. ***Poland - Painting of the Fifteenth Century, Preface by Rene Huyghe (1964) New York Graphic Society. Elephant Folio in original binding, binding & hinges tight, plates detached for display purposes. EST: $60.00 - $100.00
Realized bid price - $40.00
[232] McMullan, Joseph V.. Islamic Carpets. New York: Near Eastern Art Research Center, Inc., 1965. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Very Good Condition, WITH A DUST JACKET mounted in a protective mylar cover. 385pp on glossy paper, with Errata, bound in original red cloth, hinges taped, binding tight. STUNNING color plates, many of which fold-out, with descriptive text. EST: $100.00 - $200.00
Realized bid price - $250.00
[233] Adams, John. A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, Against the Attack of M. Turgot in His Letter to Dr. Price, Dated the Twenty-Second Day of March 1778. London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1794. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Very Good Condition. A New Edition. In library bindings, with binding & hinges tight. Lacks frontis. EST: $500.00 - $700.00
Realized bid price - $750.00
[234] . New York State Silversmiths. Eggertsville, NY: The Darling Foundation of New York State, Early American Silversmiths and Silver, 1964. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. In Very Good ++ Condition. LIMITED #194/500. Illustrated throughout, includes identification marks. Binding & hinges tight. SCARCE. 228pp in original cloth binding with silver medallion on cover. EST: $100.00 - $250.00
Realized bid price - $80.00
[235] ANTIQUE REFERENCE. A Group of 3 Volumes as Listed. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. In Very Good ++ Condition. ***Vermont Clock and Watchmakers, Silversmiths and Jewelers 1778-1878 by Lilian Baker Carlisle (1970) Burlington, VT: Self Published. LIMITED EDITION #326/1000. xi, 313pp on glossy paper, in original cloth binding, with binding & hinges tight. Illustrated. ***American Silver 1655-1825 in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - 2 Volumes by Kathryn C. Buhler (1972) Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society. Illustrated throughout, binding & hinges tight. EST: $60.00 - $100.00
Realized bid price - $30.00
[236] Civil War. A Group of 2 Volumes as Listed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. ***Rosecran's Campaign with the Fourteenth Army Corps, or the Army of the Cumberland. A Narrative of Personal Observations, with an Appendix, Consisting of Official Reports of the Battle of Stone River by W.D.B. (1863) Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co. 12mo, 476pp in marbled paper, with leather tips, library cloth backstrip, hinges taped, tape repair to map frontis & title page. Binding tight. ***War Talks of Confederate Veterans, compiled and edited by Geo. S. Bernard, Petersburg, VA. (1892) Petersburg: Fenn & Owen. 8vo, xxiii, 335pp, errata & supplement, with review taped in. Bound in original illustrated cloth, library tape backstrip, hinges taped. Frontis with plates throughout and 2 folding maps. Double column format, binding tight. EST: $60.00 - $120.00
Realized bid price - $30.00
[237] Civil War. A Group of 5 Volumes as Listed. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Very Good Condition. All in library bindings. ***A Narrative of the Campaign in the Valley of the Shenandoah in 1861 by Robert Patterson (1865) Philadelphia: John Campbell. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title page. 128pp with map frontis, binding & hinges tight. ***Life on the Circuit with Lincoln. With Sketches of Generals Grant, Sherman and McClellan, Judge Davis, Leonard Swett and other Contemporaries by Henry C. Whitney (1892) Boston: Estes and Lauriat. Portrait frontis has tissue guard, illustrated throughout (some folding), binding & hinges tight. ***Samuel Francis Du Pont - A Selection From His Civil War Letters edited by John D. Hayes - 3 Volumes (1969) 1st Edition, Ithaca: Cornell University Press for The Eleutherian Mills Historical Library. Frontis in each volume, illustrations throughout, with maps. Bindings & hinges tight. EST: $80.00 - $150.00
Realized bid price - $130.00
[238] PRESIDENTS. A Group of 2 Volumes as Listed. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. ***The Life of Abraham Lincoln; from His Birth to His Inauguration as President by Ward H. Lamon (1872) Boston: James R. Osgood and Co. Frontis with tissue guard, xiv [2] 547pp, with tissue guarded plates throughout & map. Bound in library buckram with library cloth tape backstrip. Binding & hinges tight. ***The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America, Throughout the War Which Established Their Independence; and First President of the United States by David Ramsay (1807) 1st Thus, New York: Printed by Hopkins & Seymour, sold by Geo. F. Hopkins & others. Engraved frontis, viii, 376pp, bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, with raised bands on spine. Covers show corner wear, front cover detached, loss to upper/lower edge of backstrip, surface rubbed, interior foxing. Binding tight. EST: $120.00 - $250.00
Passed
[239] Ellis, M.D., Thomas T.. Leaves From the Diary of an Army Surgeon; or, Incidents of Field Camp, and Hospital Life. New York: John Bradburn, 1863. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. 312pp with facsimile letter, bound in buckram, with library cloth backstrip, hinges taped, binding tight. Hinge tape on title page, letter taped at crease. EST: $60.00 - $100.00
Realized bid price - $40.00
[240] Jones, J.B.. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital - 2 Volumes. Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1866. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Very Good Condition. 392pp; 480pp in library bindings, with bindings & hinges tight. Page 269 in volume 1 appears to be a facsimile page, with a " 23* " at the bottom of the page. EST: $80.00 - $150.00
Realized bid price - $70.00
[241] Fisher, Richard Swainson. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America . New York : Johnson and Ward, 1863. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. 160pp, complete with 10 COLOR MAPS, bound in original blind stamped cloth with gilt "clasped hands" on cover & marbled page edges all around. Library cloth tape backstrip, hinges taped, corner wear, large folding map has crease tears. EST: $100.00 - $200.00
Realized bid price - $375.00
[242] Ross, Fitzgerald. A Visit to the Cities and Camps of the Confederate States . Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1865. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. x, 300pp, 2 publisher ads, bound in original blind stamped cloth with library tape backstrip, front hinge tape, binding tight. WITH FOLDING MAP FRONTIS (showing crease tears). EST: $100.00 - $200.00
Realized bid price - $160.00
[243] Scott, Wm. Forse. The Story of A Cavalry Regiment - The Career of the Fourth Iowa Veteran Volunteers From Kansas to Georgia 1861-1865. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1893. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. xxii [2] 602pp, errata slip, with engraved frontis (lacks tg) and 9 MAPS, as called for (some folding, with occasional tear). Bound in original gray cloth, showing age darkening, some loss to upper backstrip, slightly shaken. EST: $100.00 - $200.00
Realized bid price - $100.00

[244] Early, Lieutenant-General Jubal A.. A Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence, in the Confederate States of America, Containing An Account of the Operations of His Commands in the Years 1864 and 1865. Toronto: Lovell & Gibson, 1866. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. 144pp, bound in original paper over boards, with library cloth tape backstrip, hinges taped, binding tight. Covers rubbed, with paper chips. EST: $100.00 - $200.00
Realized bid price - $70.00

[245] Sanderson, John. Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence - Complete in 9 Volumes. Philadelphia: Joseph M. Sanderson, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair Condition. Bound in marbled paper with leather tips, library cloth tape backstrips, hinges taped, occasional cracked hinge or split binding, interior foxing. Uncollated. Engraved plates with tissue guards throughout. EST: $80.00 - $200.00
Realized bid price - $40.00
[246] Siren, Osvald. Chinese Painting - Leading Masters and Principles - Complete in 7 Volumes. New York: The Ronald Press Company, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Very Good Condition. 1956-1958. In original red cloth bindings, one hinge starting, otherwise bindings & hinges tight. 4 Color frontis with b/w plates throughout. EST: $100.00 - $300.00
Realized bid price - $220.00
[247] . ILLUSTRATED SIAMESE MANUSCRIPT. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Very Good Condition. 4-1/2 inches by 13-1/2 inches, oblong format, accoridan style, on black heavy stock, with gilt & yellow ink. Handwritten in the Siamese and Cambodian script. Gilt and floral designs on covers, all edges gilt. Illustrations are of an astronomical & religious nature. Possible Association Copy - from the library of the King of Siam. (letter from Library of Congress laid in). EST: $200.00 - $400.00
Realized bid price - $350.00
[248] Van Ess, Leander [editit]. Biblia Sacra Vulgate Editionis Juxta Exemplar Ex Typographia Apostolica Vaticana, Romae 1592 - 3 Books in 1. Tubingae: Sumtibus Ludovici Friderici Fues, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good + Condition. 1822-1824. Title [1] 646pp, Title [1] 648pp, Title [1] 12 leaves Praefamen & Index, 342pp, in double column format. Bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, green leather spine label with upper/lower gilt decorative border on backstrip, binding & hinges tight. Covers show edge/corner wear/tear, with backstrip wear. LATIN BIBLE. EST: $60.00 - $100.00
Realized bid price - $160.00
[249] Vossius, Gerardus Joannes. Harmoniae Evangelicae De Passione, Morte, Resurrectione, Ac Adscensione Iesu Christi, Servatoris Nostri, Libris Tres. Amstelodami: Apud Ludovicum & Danielem Elzevirios, 1656. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. Title in red & black with a title vignette, [1] 6, 432pp, bound in leather with a red leather spine label, with raised bands on spine. Covers show chipped corners, front cover starting, backstrip with upper/lower peeling. Binding tight. Damp mark on last 10 leaves. THEOLOGY. EST: $100.00 - $250.00
Realized bid price - $150.00
[250] Davillier, The Baron Ch.. Spain. ill. Dore, Gustave. New York: Scribner, Welford and Armstrong, 1876. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hard & Soft Covers. Ex-Library. Good Condition. SCARCE. Translated by J. Thomson. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. xiii [1] 512pp in a library binding, with library cloth tape backstrip, general cover wear, binding & hinges tight. ILLUSTRATIONS BY DORE, THROUGHOUT. EST: $100.00 - $300.00
Realized bid price - $50.00
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