Sale 14BP01 | Catalogue

Rare Books, Autographs & Photographs

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[CUBA-SLAVERY] Manumission document granting freedom to twin slave infants. Havana: 1868. 12 1/4 x 8 1/2 (32 x 21.5 cm); two...

Estimate: $600 - $900

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Lot image - GUEVARA, CHE Photograph of Che [Ernesto] Guevara, cigar in hand, with a group of cigar workers

Lot 64

GUEVARA, CHE Photograph of Che [Ernesto] Guevara, cigar in hand, with a group of cigar workers, gelatin silver print with th...

Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000

Sold for $2,500 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - CASTRO, FIDEL Autograph letter signed

Lot 65

CASTRO, FIDEL Autograph letter signed, dated Havana January 16 (19)59, 11a.m., addressed to Pastorita Nunez. 6 5/8 x 5 inches (17 x ...

Estimate: $5,000 - $10,000

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Lot image - [CUBA-SLAVERY] Group of five Cuban Chinese slavery documents

Lot 66

[CUBA-SLAVERY] Group of five Cuban Chinese slavery documents. Havana: 1860-1868. Printed forms completed by hand, signed in...

Estimate: $600 - $900

Sold for $437 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - CROMWELL, OLIVER Document signed (Oliver P[rotector])

Lot 67

CROMWELL, OLIVER Document signed (Oliver P[rotector]), manuscript warrant in a secretarial hand, dated 1 April 1657 at White...

Estimate: $5,000 - $8,000

Sold for $6,250 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot 68

GEORGE III Document signed. London: 13 February 1793. 2 page document on recto and verso of one folded sheet allowing paymen...

Estimate: $250 - $350

Sold for $312 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - [FREDERICK THE GREAT] Letter signed

Lot 69

[FREDERICK THE GREAT] Letter signed. Berlin: 6 January 1772. One page note in a secretarial hand, thanking his brother-in-la...

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $437 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - [DANCE] Large collection of approximately sixty-six signed photographs

Lot 70

[DANCE] Large collection of approximately sixty-six signed photographs. Comprising 11 framed photographs, each signed by the...

Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800

Sold for $3,125 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - [HOLLYWOOD] Collection of thirty-one signed photographs of Hollywood stars

Lot 71

[HOLLYWOOD] Collection of thirty-one signed photographs of Hollywood stars. Most approximately 8 x 10 inches, housed in a bi...

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $937 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - HOUDINI, HARRY Autograph sentiment signed

Lot 72

HOUDINI, HARRY Autograph sentiment signed, Love Laughs at/Lockmiths./So Does/Harry Houdini. Palace Theatre/N.Y. City/Oct 24...

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $937 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - HOUDINI, HARRY Two page typed letter signed

Lot 73

HOUDINI, HARRY Two page typed letter signed, dated July 16, 1925 on Houdinis 278 West 113 Street notepaper, addressed to El...

Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500

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Lot 74

OKEEFFE, GEORGIA Christmas card, signed and inscribed; Together with a Photograph of Rene Magritte

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $7,500 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - RENOIR, PIERRE AUGUST Two page autograph letter on two leaves

Lot 75

RENOIR, PIERRE AUGUST Two page autograph letter on two leaves, signed Renoir, dated Saturday 29 December, 1900. Each leaf...

Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000

Sold for $4,375 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot 76

JEFFERYS, THOMAS and [MEAD, BRADDOCK aka GREEN, JOHN] A Map of the Most Inhabited part of New England, containing the Provinces...

Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000

Sold for $5,000 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot 77

[LOTTER, TOBIAS CONRAD]. SEUTTER, GEORG MATTHAUS Pensylvania, Nova Jersey et Nova York cum regionibus ad Fluvium Delaware in Am...

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Sold for $1,000 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - HOMANN, JOHANN BAPTIST Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americae implantata Anglorumque coloniis florentissima

Lot 78

HOMANN, JOHANN BAPTIST Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americae implantata Anglorumque coloniis florentissima. Nuremburg: [cir...

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Sold for $875 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - [ATLAS] Carey's American Atlas: Containing Twenty Maps and One Chart

Lot 79

[ATLAS] Careys American Atlas: Containing Twenty Maps and One Chart. Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1795. First edition. Conte...

Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000

Sold for $10,625 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - [ATLASES] A New General Atlas, comprising a complete set of maps representing the grand division of the globe

Lot 80

[ATLASES] A New General Atlas; Together with SMITH, ROSWELL. A Concise and Practical System of Geography

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $1,500 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot 81

[ATLAS] CARY, JOHN. Carys New Universal Atlas

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000

Sold for $1,250 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot 82

MURRAY, HUGH The Encyclopaedia of Geography. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1837. Three volumes, contemporary calf...

Estimate: $250 - $350

Sold for $156 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot 83

RAYNAL, GUILLAUME THOMAS FRANCOIS Histoire philosophique et politique des etablissements et du commerce des Europeens dans les...

C Property from the Collection of Jerome M. and Rhoda S. Fischer

Estimate: $2,500 - $3,500

Sold for $2,000 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - [MAPS AND GLOBES] BION, NICOLAS. L'Usage des globes celeste et terrestre et des spheres

Lot 84

[MAPS AND GLOBES] BION, NICOLAS. LUsage des globes celeste et terrestre et des spheres; Together with three others

C Property from the Collection of Jerome M. and Rhoda S. Fischer

Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800

Sold for $750 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - [HOMANN ATLAS] Atlas Compendiarius se ita dictus Scholasticus Minor

Lot 85

[HOMANN ATLAS] Atlas Compendiarius se ita dictus Scholasticus Minor. [Nuremburg: Homanns Heirs, circa 1806].

C Property from the Collection of Jerome M. and Rhoda S. Fischer

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

Sold for $875 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - [MAP] HOMANN, JOHANN BAPTIST. Urbis Romae Veteris ac Modernae Accurata Delineatio

Lot 86

[MAP] HOMANN, JOHANN BAPTIST. Urbis Romae Veteris ac Modernae Accurata Delineatio. [Nuremberg: circa 1720 or later]. E...

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $1,062 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot 87

[MAP] [WEISS, J.H.] Atlas Suisse.

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

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Lot image - [COOK, CAPTAIN JAMES - VOYAGES] A uniformly bound set of Cook's Voyages

Lot 88

[COOK, CAPTAIN JAMES - VOYAGES] A uniformly bound set of Cooks Voyages, all of the Voyages in the first edition. Tan calf, edges mo...

Estimate: $12,000 - $18,000

Sold for $22,500 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - [CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICAN TRAVEL] Group of ten titles

Lot 89

[CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICAN TRAVEL] Group of ten titles. Comprising SCHERZER CARL. Travels in the Free States of Central Ameri...

C Property from the Collection of Jerome M. and Rhoda S. Fischer

Estimate: $600 - $900

Sold for $812 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - GAGE, THOMAS The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land; or, a New Survey of the West-Indias

Lot 90

GAGE, THOMAS The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land; or, a New Survey of the West-Indias. London: printed by R. Co...

C Property from the Collection of Jerome M. and Rhoda S. Fischer

Estimate: $3,000 - $4,000

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Lot image - LAFOND, GABRIEL Voyages autour du monde et naufrages celebres

Lot 91

LAFOND, GABRIEL Voyages autour du monde et naufrages celebres. Paris: Lachaud, 1870. Inscribed on the half-title, a later ed...

C Property from the Collection of Jerome M. and Rhoda S. Fischer

Estimate: $400 - $600

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Lot image - MORIER, JAMES A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor ... A Second Journey...

Lot 92

MORIER, JAMES A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor ... A Second Journey... London: Longman, et al 1812 & 1818....

C Property from the Collection of Jerome M. and Rhoda S. Fischer

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

Sold for $1,062 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot 93

[PHOTOBOOK] MAXWELL, MARIUS. Stalking Big Game with a Camera in Equatorial Africa.

Estimate: $300 - $500

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Lot image - ROBERTS, DAVID The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia

Lot 94

ROBERTS, DAVID The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia... London: F.G. Moon, 1842-9. First edition, the tinted issue. Three vol...

Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000

Sold for $15,000 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - [TRAVEL] Group of four titles

Lot 95

[TRAVEL] Group of four titles. Comprising HENRY SWINBURNE. Travels in Spain. London: 1787. 2nd edition. Two volumes. Contemp...

C Property from the Collection of Jerome M. and Rhoda S. Fischer

Estimate: $600 - $900

Sold for $375 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - [TRAVEL] WHITING, JOHN D. Samaritanernas Paskfest

Lot 96

[TRAVEL] WHITING, JOHN D. Samaritanernas Paskfest... Stockholm: Albert Bonniers (1917). First edition, one of 300 copies. Or...

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $125 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - ULLOA, ANTONIO de Voyage historique de l'Amerique meridionale

Lot 97

ULLOA, ANTONIO de Voyage historique de lAmerique meridionale. Amsterdam & Leipzig: Arstee & Merkus, 1752. First edition in...

C Property from the Collection of Jerome M. and Rhoda S. Fischer

Estimate: $500 - $800

Sold for $375 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot 98

VINCENT, WILLIAM The Voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates.

C Property from the Collection of Jerome M. and Rhoda S. Fischer

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $625 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot 99

Cuneiform cylinder with inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II describing the rebuilding of the temple of Shamash in Sippar (modern Tell A...

Estimate: $300,000 - $500,000

Sold for $605,000 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - [MANUSCRIPT] Collection of leaves and fragments from decorated manuscripts, in Latin, written on vellum

Lot 100

[MANUSCRIPT] Collection of leaves and fragments from decorated manuscripts, in Latin, written on vellum. Various locations:...

Estimate: $5,000 - $7,000

Sold for $10,000 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - [MANUSCRIPT] Two illuminated leaves on vellum from a Missal

Lot 101

[MANUSCRIPT] Two illuminated leaves on vellum from a Missal. France: second quarter of the fifteenth century. Each leaf 10 1...

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000

Sold for $1,250 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - [MANUSCRIPT] Illuminated leaf on vellum extracted from a Book of Hours, likely Use of Rome

Lot 102

[MANUSCRIPT] Illuminated leaf on vellum extracted from a Book of Hours, likely Use of Rome. Northern France: second quarter...

Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500

Sold for $937 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - [MANUSCRIPT] Illuminated leaf on vellum extracted from a Bible

Lot 103

[MANUSCRIPT] Illuminated leaf on vellum extracted from a Bible. Likely Bologna: last quarter of the thirteenth century. 6 1/...

Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500

Sold for $750 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot 104

[MANUSCRIPTS] Manuscript pertaining to trade rules and laws. Low Countries, or perhaps Bremen: last quarter of the fifteenth century...

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $8,750 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot 105

[MANUSCRIPTS] Group of three Charters offering grants to a Cistercian monastery (Vallis Sancte Marie), likely the Abbey of M...

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $6,250 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot 106

[MANUSCRIPT] Two large cuttings in the manner of an Italian antiphonary, both with very large historiated initials.

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Sold for $1,625 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - GRIMOD DE LA REYNIERE, ALEXANDRE-BALTHAZAR-LAURENT Autograph Diary

Lot 107

GRIMOD DE LA REYNIERE, ALEXANDRE-BALTHAZAR-LAURENT Autograph Diary. Paris and Montmelian: 1 July 1794 to 1 April 1795. Self...

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000

Sold for $2,812 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot 108

[ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS] An interesting miscellany including an accomplished manuscript with numerous hand-colored illustrations...

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $1,250 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - [MANUSCRIPT] Collection of Deeds Belonging to Jose Ramon de Loayza

Lot 109

[MANUSCRIPT] Collection of Deeds Belonging to Jose Ramon de Loayza, manuscript title reading Proto Colo De Titulos pertenecientes a...

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000

Sold for $1,875 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - [HISPANO-AMERICANA] Exhibition Collection of Colonial Bolivian Revenue Stamp Paper 17th-19th century

Lot 110

[HISPANO-AMERICANA] Exhibition Collection of Colonial Bolivian Revenue Stamp Paper 17th-19th century. The use of revenue s...

Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000

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Lot image - [CHINESE PAINTING] Group of seven 19th century pith painting of Chinese punishments

Lot 111

[CHINESE PAINTING] Group of seven 19th century pith painting of Chinese punishments; Together with a second album with ni...

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $562 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot 112

[ALDINE PRESS] MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS. [Epigrammata]. Venice: Aldus, December, 1501. Contemporary Venetian decorated pigs...

Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000

Sold for $3,437 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot 113

[ALDINE] SANNAZARO, JACOPO. Actii synceri Sannazarii de partu virginis libri III. Venice: Aldus, 1533. First collected editi...

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $531 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot 114

[BUCHANAN, GEORGE] De Maria Scotorum Regina, totaque eius contra Regem coniuratione, fodo cum Bothuelio adulterio, nefaria in m...

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $1,375 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot 115

[GUNPOWDER PLOT] A true and perfect relation of the whole proceedings against the late most barbarous Traitors, Garnet a Iesuite, an...

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $1,062 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - [ELIZABETHAN - DRAMA] JONSON, BEN. Workes

Lot 116

[ELIZABETHAN - DRAMA] JONSON, BEN. Workes. London: William Stansby, 1616; Together with Workes. London: 1640-41 (comprising the seco...

Estimate: $5,000 - $8,000

Sold for $17,500 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot 117

RALEIGH, WALTER, SIR The prerogatiue of parliaments in England: proued in a dialogue (pro & contra) betweene a councellour of state ...

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $218 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - WALTON, IZAAK The Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert

Lot 118

WALTON, IZAAK The Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert... London: Thomas Newcomb...

Estimate: $600 - $900

Sold for $406 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot 119

RUSHWORTH, JOHN The tryal of Thomas Earl of Strafford, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, upon an impeachment of high treason by the Common...

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $687 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot 120

[BUTLER, SAMUEL] Hudibras. London: printed for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold by Tho. Sawbridge at the Three Flower-de...

Estimate: $200 - $300

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Lot 121

[COMPUTERS] BEDOS DE CELLES, [FRANCOIS]. [Descriptions des Arts et Metiers]. LArt du Facteur DOrgues.

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $1,375 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - MUSIC A collection of books on the organ

Lot 122

MUSIC A collection of books on the organ. HILL, ARTHUR GEORGE. The Organ-Cases and Organs of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Series...

Estimate: $600 - $900

Sold for $531 (includes buyer's premium)

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