- CIVIL WAR ARCHIVE, 11 ITEMS TOTAL1st
item: Confederate States of America Oath of Allegiance, Department of East Tennessee, Office Provost Marshal. Inscribed "Greeneville Augt. 26th" with printed "1863", top right,...
[more like this] - RARE MESDA DOCUMENTED NORTH CAROLINA
QUEEN ANNE WALNUT ...circa 1770, attributed to the Hillsborough School per MESDA documentation, possibly Martin or William Palmer, molded two board top, frieze drawer with...
[more like this] - ROMANO-EGYPTIAN CARTONNAGE MUMMY MASK,
EX-CHRISTIE'SIt's not often we start a listing by stating the provenance, but in this case the pedigree is almost as impressive as the piece. Sold - Christies, December 1996;...
[more like this] - COLLECTION OF 20 BOOKS RELATED TO CUBA.
TOINCLUDE: 5 VOLS THE HISTORY OF CUBA BY WILLIS FLETCHER JOHNSON, 1920, PUBLISHED BY B. F. BUCK & CO. INC., NY, LEATHER SPINES AND CORNERS, MARBLED BOARDS, 9 1/2" X 6 1/4",...
[more like this] - 4 vols. Ornithology: Mundie, Robert.
The Feathered Tribes of The British Islands. London, etc., 1835. 2nd ed. 2 vols. 8vo, orig. green cloth, spines gilt; moderately worn & chipped, hinges broken or tender. Ca....
[more like this] - 9 vols. Leather Bindings - French Subjects:
James, G.P.R. The Life and Times of Louis The Fourteenth. London: Richard Bentley, 1838. 4 vols. 8vo, later 19th-Century 3/4 blue morocco & cloth, gilt, gilt-lettered & emblematic...
[more like this] - 1 vol. Marshall, Julian. The Annals
of Tennis. London: The Field, 1878. First edition in book form. 4to, rebound in brown-red cloth & re-backed in brown-red calf, orig. brown cloth front cover, paneled in black...
[more like this] - 2 vols. Victorian British Illustrated
Periodic Literature: The Art-Union Monthly Journal of The Fine Arts, and The Arts, Decorative, Ornamental. London, [1847]. Vol. 9. 4to, contemp. 1/2 green morocco & pebbled...
[more like this] - 1 vol. (Grandville, illustrator.) Vie
Privee et Publique des Animaux. Paris: J. Herzel, 1868. 4to, contemp. richly gilt red morocco spine & red pebbled cloth, a.e.g.; some edge wear, joints & spine ends rubbed....
[more like this] - 5 vols. Illustrated Children's Books:
(Hughes, Thomas.) (Doyle, Richard, illustrator.) The Scouring of The White Horse. Cambridge: Macmillan, 1859. 1st ed. Early 20th-Century full triple-gilt fillet paneled polished...
[more like this] - James Guy Evans (English b. 1810; active
New Orleans 1843-1853) "Arrival of Gen. Z. Taylor & Staff at Balize on the U. S. Steam Ship Monmouth B. T. Willse Commander / November 30th 1847" oil on canvas signed lower...
[more like this] - 15 vols. Machen, Arthur: The Great
God Pan and The Inmost Light. London: John Lane, 1894. 1st ed. 8vo, orig. white-stamped blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; light to moderate wear. Cover & title design by Aubrey...
[more like this] - 1 vol. Wood, W(illiam). General Conchology,
or a Description of Shells... London: for John Booth, 1815. Vol. 1 (all published). 8vo, contemp. diced calf; scuffed, spine gone, front cover detached. With 60 hand-colored...
[more like this] - Five Richard Kidder Meade, Jr. Confederate
Civil War Letters, Civil War Era Photographs, Paintings, Meade Family Archive Virginia, 1861-1862: letter from Fort Sumter, March 21, 1861, to sister Julia Meade (1830-1906),...
[more like this] - 4 vols. Georgia - 19th-Century Imprints:
White, George. Statistics of The State of Georgia. Savannah: W.T. Williams, 1849. 1st ed. 8vo, modern brown buckram, russet morocco spine label. Lg. fold. color map. Scattered...
[more like this] - 2 vols. Lamb, Martha J. History of
The City of New York. New York: A.S. Barnes, (1877). 4to, orig. 3/4 black morocco & pebbled cloth, gilt, gilt-lettered spine, marbled edges & endpapers; scuffed, corners,...
[more like this] - 1 vol. Powell, J.W. Canyons of The
Colorado. Meadville, Pa.: Flood & Vincent, The Chautaqua-Century Press, 1895. 4to, orig. gilt-lettered spine & corners. With frontis. portrait, double-page panoramas, full-page...
[more like this] - 2 vols. American 19th-Century Atlases:
Colton's Illustrated Cabinet Atlas and Descriptive Geography. New York: J.H. Colton, 1859. Folio, orig. morocco & cloth; rubbed & worn, spine defective, front cover detached....
[more like this] - 4 vols. Walton, Izaak; Cotton, Charles.
The Complete Angler: London: Charles Tilt, 1837. 2 vols. in 1. 24mo, orig. gilt-pictorial & lettered blue cloth, a.e.g.; light wear. With 2 wood-engraved plates. Horne 47....
[more like this] - 4 vols. Children's Books - Mid 19th-Century
Imprints in Orig. Cloth: Parley's Pictorial. A Book for Home Education and Family Entertainment. New York: Edward H. Fletcher, 1855. Lg. 8vo, orig. red cloth; spine gilt;...
[more like this] - 1 vol. + 1 piece. Philadelphia 19th-Century
Maps & C.: A Visitor's Guide to The Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, (1876). 12mo, orig. flexible orange bds.; some creasing & edge wear....
[more like this] - 1 vol. Beard, George M. A Practical
Treatise on Nervous Exhaustion (Neurasthenia), Its Symptoms, Nature, Sequences, Treatment. New York: W. Wood, 1880. First edition. 8vo, orig. blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine;...
[more like this] - 5 vols. The American West - History,
Description & Travel: Howe, Henry. Historical Collections of The Great West. Cincinnati, 1852. Twenty-Second Thousand. 2 vols. in 1. 4to, orig. publisher's morocco; rubbed...
[more like this] - 4 vols. Occult Subjects, incl. Magic
- French Imprints: Salverte, Eusebe. Des Sciences Occultes, ou Essai sur la Magie,... Paris: J.B. Bailliere, 1843. 2nd ed. 8vo, contemp. olive calf & cloth, morocco spine...
[more like this] - 5 vols. The American West, including
Utah - 19th-Century Travel & C: Stansbury, Howard. Exploration and Survey of The Valley of The Great Salt Lake. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, 1852. Senate issue. 8vo,...
[more like this] - 2 vols. (Leloir, Maurice, illustrator.)
Dumas, Alexandre. The Three Musketeers. New York: D. Appleton, 1895. 8vo, early to mid 20th-Century 3/4 crushed scarlet morocco & cloth, gilt-lettered spines, t.e.g.; occasionally...
[more like this] - 3 vols. Mormon Subjects - 19th-Century
Accounts & Histories: [Mayhew, Henry.] The Mormons: or Latter Say Saints. With Memoirs of The Life and Death of Joseph Smith. London: National Illustrated Library, [1851]....
[more like this] - 4 vols. Masonic Subjects - American
19th-Century Imprints: Oliver, George. The Revelations of a Square. New York: W.T. Anderson, Masonic Pub., [1854]. Tall 8vo, orig. gilt-pictorial blue cloth, gilt-lettered...
[more like this] - 3 vols. Americana - History, Description
& Travel - 19th-Century Imprints: Roux de Rochelle (Jean B.G.). Etats-Unis D'Amerique. Paris: Didot Freres, 1838. 8 vo, contemp. calf-backed marbled bds.; rubbed & worn. With...
[more like this] - 4 vols. Americana: Blunt, Edmund M.
The Merchant and Seaman's Expeditious Measurer... New York, etc., 1825. Stereotype ed. Tall 12mo, later 19th-Century 3/4 dark brown morocco & gilt, gilt-lettered & decorated...
[more like this] - 5 vols. Classical Literature in English-Language
Translations - 17th & 18th-Century Imprints: (Juvenalis, Decimus Junius.) Juvenalis Redivivus, or The First Satyr of Juvenal Taught to Speak Plain English, a Poem. [London],...
[more like this] - 2 vols. Hall, S.C., editor. The Book
of British Ballads. London: J. How, 1842-44. First edition. 4to, contemp. 1/2 green morocco & cloth, spines gilt; light to moderate wear, occasionally scuffed, spine ends,...
[more like this] - 3 vols. Illustrated 19th-Century British
Imprints: (Cruikshank, George, illustrator.) Ainsworth, William Harrison. The Tower of London. London: H.G. Bohn, 1844. 5th ed. Tall 8vo, contemp. 3/4 red morocco & marbled...
[more like this] - 1 vol. (Leech, John, illustrator.)
A'Beckett, Gilbert Abbott. The Comic History of England. London: Bradbury, Agnew, n.d. [ca. 1860]. 2 vols. in 1. 8vo, contemp. 3/4 brown morocco, gilt, gilt-paneled & lettered...
[more like this] - 1 vol. Radcliffe, F.P. The Noble Science:
A Few General Ideas on Fox-Hunting, for... The Rising Generation of Sportsmen,... Especially... The Hertfordshire Hunt Club. London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1839. First edition....
[more like this] - American Percussion Fowler with Research
Documents .85 cal. smoothbore 46" round barrel.?British?proofs at breech?and? Virginia marked on top of the barrel and dated "1750."? The barrel has both rear and front sights;...
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