Sale 22JK02 | Catalogue

The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 10am EDT | New York

The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation | Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 10am EDT

Lot 121

[FLORIDA-POTTER, WOODBURNE] The War in Florida: Being an Exposition of its Causes, and an Accurate History of the Campaigns of...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $378 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [FLORIDA] SEWALL, R. K. Sketches of St. Augustine. With a View of its History and Advantages as a Resort for Invalids.

Lot 122

[FLORIDA] SEWALL, R. K. Sketches of St. Augustine. With a View of its History and Advantages as a Resort for Invalids. New Y...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $100 - $200

Sold for $283 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [FLORIDA] SHERMAN, CHARLES E. Long letter to Senator John P. Hale of New Hampshire on Florida land claims.

Lot 123

[FLORIDA] SHERMAN, CHARLES E. Long letter to Senator John P. Hale of New Hampshire on Florida land claims. Washington: 26 Ma...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Sold for $882 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 124

[FLORIDA] SIEBERT, WILBUR HENRY, editor. Loyalists in East Florida, 1774 to 1785. The Most Important Documents Pertaining There...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $100 - $200

Sold for $315 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 125

[FLORIDA] SPRAGUE, JOHN T. The Origin, Progress, and Conclusion of the Florida War; to which is Appended a Record of Officers,...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $300 - $500

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

Lot 126

[FLORIDA-STREETER COPY] TAYLOR, ROBERT BARRAUD and SAMSON, WILLIAM. The validity of the title of R. S. Hackley, to Florida land...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $500 - $800

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

Lot 127

[FLORIDA-STREETER COPY] UPHAM, SAMUEL C. Notes from Sunland, on the Manatee River, Gulf Coast of South Florida. Its Climate, So...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $500 - $800

Sold for $409 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 128

[FLORIDA-STREETER COPY] WHITNEY, JOHN F. St. Augustine, Florida. Its Advantages as a Winter Residence for Invalids and Nothern...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $472 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [WEST FLORIDA] MACKENZIE, JOHN. Petition signed to Governor Peter Chester requesting a land grant.

Lot 129

[WEST FLORIDA] MACKENZIE, JOHN. Petition signed to Governor Peter Chester requesting a land grant. Pensacola: 7 March 1776....

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

Sold for $3,780 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 130

[FLORIDA-WALKER, JONATHAN] Trial and Imprisonment of Jonathan Walker, at Pensacola, Florida, for Aiding Slaves to Escape from B...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $378 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 131

[FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS] COWPER, WILLIAM. Poems.

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $567 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS] Group of six volumes, all with fine concealed fore-edge paintings, one double.

Lot 132

[FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS] Group of six volumes, all with fine concealed fore-edge paintings, one double. Leather bindings, gilt...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

Sold for $1,197 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [FORE-EDGE PAINTING] MILTON, JOHN. Paradise Lost.

Lot 133

[FORE-EDGE PAINTING] MILTON, JOHN. Paradise Lost. London: Septimus Prowett, 1827. Two volumes. Dark green straight-grain morocco, gi...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $400 - $600

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

Lot image - [FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS] CRABBE, GEORGE The Works...

Lot 134

[FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS] CRABBE, GEORGE The Works... London: John Murray, 1823. Five volumes, full period green straight-grai...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $252 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 135

[FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS] Group of seven volumes, all with fine concealed fore-edge paintings.

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

Sold for $1,197 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 136

[FORE-EDGE PAINTING] PEPYS, SAMUEL. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S. Secretary to the Admiralty in the reigns of Cha...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $693 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 137

[FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS] IRVING, WASHINGTON. Oliver Goldsmith. A Biography.

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

Sold for $472 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 138

[FORE-EDGE PAINTING] The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church o...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $472 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 139

[FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS] Group of fourteen volumes, all with fine concealed fore-edge paintings.

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

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

Lot 140

[FOSSIL] Palm Frond Fossil. A palm frond fossil sculpture, Eocene period, likely the Green River region of Southwestern Wyom...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $567 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [FRANCE] [JARVES, JAMES JACKSON]. Parisian Sights and French Principles, Seen Through American Spectacles.

Lot 141

[FRANCE] [JARVES, JAMES JACKSON]. Parisian Sights and French Principles, Seen Through American Spectacles. London: Clarke, B...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $50 - $80

Sold for $113 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 142

FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN The Way to Wealth: The Preface to Poor Richards Almanack for the Year 1758 written under the name of Richar...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $80 - $120

Sold for $113 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - FROST, ROBERT New Hampshire.

Lot 143

FROST, ROBERT New Hampshire. New York: Holt, 1923. A later printing, inscribed and signed on the front blank Some say the w...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $150 - $250

Sold for $409 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [GAME OF THE GOOSE] MRS. BRYAN, [MARGARET]. Science in Sport, or the Pleasures of Astronomy; A New & Instructive Pastime.

Lot 144

[GAME OF THE GOOSE] MRS. BRYAN, [MARGARET]. Science in Sport, or the Pleasures of Astronomy; A New & Instructive Pastime. Lo...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $1,500 - $2,000

Sold for $945 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [GEORGIA] BISHOP, ABRAHAM. Georgia Speculation Unveiled; in two numbers.

Lot 145

[GEORGIA] BISHOP, ABRAHAM. Georgia Speculation Unveiled; in two numbers. Hartford: Elisha Babcock, 1797. First edition of th...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $189 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 146

GISBORNE, LIONEL The Isthmus of Darien in 1852: Journal of the Expedition of Inquiry for the Junction of the Atlantic and Pacif...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $346 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 147

[GRABHORN PRESS] POWELL, H. M. T. [Douglas S. Watson, editor]. The Santa Fé Trail to California, 1849-1852: The Journal and Drawings...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $882 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 148

[GRABHORN PRESS] A collection of approximately twenty works printed by the Grabhorn Press.

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $346 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - HARRIS, MRS. HELENA J. Southern Sketches. Cecil Gray; or the Soldiers Revenge. Rosa Sherwood; or the Avenger.

Lot 149

HARRIS, MRS. HELENA J. Southern Sketches. Cecil Gray; or the Soldiers Revenge. Rosa Sherwood; or the Avenger. New Orleans:...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $40 - $60

Sold for $945 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - HAKLUYT, RICHARD The Principal Navigations.

Lot 150

HAKLUYT, RICHARD The Principal Navigations. Glasgow: James MacLehose, 1912. 12 volumes, original cloth. 9 x 5 1/2 inches (23...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $100 - $200

Sold for $756 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [HEBRAICA] Group of works on Hebrew and Oriental languages published by Thomas Roycroft.

Lot 151

[HEBRAICA] Group of works on Hebrew and Oriental languages published by Thomas Roycroft. Comprises: BYTHNER, VICTORINUS....

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

Sold for $598 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 152

HUBBARD, WILLIAM A Narrative of the Indian Wars in New-England, from the first Planting thereof in the year 1607, to the year 1...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $882 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 153

HUMBOLDT, ALEXANDER VON Essai Politique sure le Royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne.

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $21,420 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 154

[INDIANA] MACLURE, WILLIAM. Opinions on Various Subjects, Dedicated to the Industrious Producers.

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $100 - $200

Sold for $63 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - IRVING, WASHINGTON Autograph manuscript leaf from The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus.

Lot 155

IRVING, WASHINGTON Autograph manuscript leaf from The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. A single-page manuscript in...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Unsold

Lot 156

IRVING, WASHINGTON A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus.

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $189 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - IRVING, WASHINGTON The Life of George Washington.

Lot 157

IRVING, WASHINGTON The Life of George Washington. New York: G. P. Putnam & Co., 1855-1859. The Large Paper Quarto edition, n...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $200 - $400

Sold for $630 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [JAMAICA] LYNCH, THOMAS, Governor. Autograph letter signed to the Earl of Sunderland.

Lot 158

[JAMAICA] LYNCH, THOMAS, Governor. Autograph letter signed to the Earl of Sunderland. Jamaica: 15 August 1683. A one page le...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $500 - $800

Sold for $472 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [JAMAICA] TRELAWNY, EDWARD, Governor. Will document signed.

Lot 159

[JAMAICA] TRELAWNY, EDWARD, Governor. Will document signed. Jamaica: circa 5 March 1740. Party printed document accomp...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $400 - $600

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Lot 160

[JAMAICA] RODNEY, GEORGE, Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station. Mansucript document signed regarding the storage of powder...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $400 - $600

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Lot image - [JAMAICA] LEWIS, MATTHEW GREGORY. Journal of a West India Proprietor, kept during a residence in the Island of Jamaica.

Lot 161

[JAMAICA] LEWIS, MATTHEW GREGORY. Journal of a West India Proprietor, kept during a residence in the Island of Jamaica. Lond...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $567 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 162

[JAMAICA] KERR, WILLIAM JAMES. The Genealogical Tree of the Family of Jarrett, of Orange Valley, Jamaica, and Camerton Court, C...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $100 - $200

Sold for $220 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 163

JOHNSON, SAMUEL The Lives of the most eminent English poets; with Critical Observations on their Works.

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $378 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [JOSEPHUS] The Works of Flavius Josephus.

Lot 164

[JOSEPHUS] The Works of Flavius Josephus. London: Fielding and Walker, 1777-78. Two volumes, contemporary calf with red and...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $819 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 165

[JOSEPHUS] BASNAGE, JACQUES. The History of the Jews from Jesus Christ to The Present Time ... Being a Supplement and Continuat...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $100 - $200

Sold for $472 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - JUSTEL, HENRI Recueil de Divers Voyages faits en Afrique et en LAmerique.

Lot 166

JUSTEL, HENRI Recueil de Divers Voyages faits en Afrique et en LAmerique. Paris: Chez Louis Billaine, 1674. First edition....

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $567 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 167

[KENTUCKY] HARDIN, MARTIN. Reports of Cases argued and adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, from Spring Term 1805, to...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $100 - $200

Sold for $63 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE] Excerpta ou Fables Choisies.

Lot 168

[LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE] Excerpta ou Fables Choisies. New York: De Limprimerie de Leconomical School], 1810. First edition....

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $80 - $120

Sold for $220 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - LABORDE, LEON DE Journey through Arabia Petraea, to Mount Sinai, and the Excavated City of Petra, the Edom of Prophecies.

Lot 169

LABORDE, LEON DE Journey through Arabia Petraea, to Mount Sinai, and the Excavated City of Petra, the Edom of Prophecies. Lo...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $100 - $200

Sold for $378 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 170

LAFAYETTE, GILBERT DU MOTIER, MARQUIS DE Memoirs of General La Fayette, Embracing Details of his Public and Private Life, Sketc...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $252 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - LANE, EDWARD WILLIAM The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called in England, The Arabian Nights Entertainment.

Lot 171

LANE, EDWARD WILLIAM The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called in England, The Arabian Nights Entertainment. London: Cha...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $1,260 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - LATROBE, CHARLES JOSEPH The Rambler in Mexico.

Lot 172

LATROBE, CHARLES JOSEPH The Rambler in Mexico. London: R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1836. First edition. Publishers patter...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $80 - $120

Sold for $189 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 173

[LEEWARD ISLANDS] VAUGHAN, JOHN, Sir. Long manuscript letter signed to William Wyndham, Baron Grenville, providing a detailed r...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000

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

Lot image - [LEWIS & CLARK] Commemorative Lewis & Clark Journal Pages Blanket.

Lot 174

[LEWIS & CLARK] Commemorative Lewis & Clark Journal Pages Blanket. A Faribault Woolen Mills commemorative Lewis & Clark J...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $40 - $60

Sold for $31 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [LITERATURE] Group of approximately two hundred works of literature or books on literary subjects.

Lot 175

[LITERATURE] Group of approximately two hundred works of literature or books on literary subjects. Various dates and publish...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $378 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [MAINE] SULLIVAN, JAMES. The History of the District of Maine.

Lot 176

[MAINE] SULLIVAN, JAMES. The History of the District of Maine. Boston: Thomas and Andrews, 1795. First edition. First editio...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $500 - $800

Sold for $1,386 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 177

[MAINE] The Constitution of the State of Maine, and that of the United States. An Appendix Containing the Act of Separation. Pu...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $252 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 178

[MAINE] PERLEY, JEREMIAH. The Debates, Resolutions, and other Proceedings, of the Convention of Delegates, Assembled at Portlan...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $252 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 179

[MAINE] Autobiographical Sketch of the Life of Nathaniel Dunn ... Born Poland, Province of Maine, January 29, 1800. Died 3 Bank...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $300 - $500

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Lot image - [MANUSCRIPTS-GARTLAND, JAMES] Four bound late 18th century nautically oriented mathematical manuscripts.

Lot 180

[MANUSCRIPTS-GARTLAND, JAMES] Four bound late 18th century nautically oriented mathematical manuscripts. Four folio manuscripts on w...

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Sold for $1,071 (includes buyer's premium)