- JAPANESE WOOD AND METAL BOUND MERCHANT'S
BOXJapanese wood and metal bound merchant's box with lift top and multidrawer front. Measures appx 9" tall x 7 1/2" w x 11 1/2" d....
[more like this] - C. 1883 KANSAS CITY'S LIVE STOCK TRADERS
1ST ED.Featured in this lot is a Rare First Edition of "Twenty Years Of Kansas City's Live Stock Trade and Traders", by Cuthbert Powell, 1893. A very scarce book on the history...
[more like this] - 18TH C. JAPANESE EDO PAPER & INK LEDGER
BOOKEast Asia, Japan, Edo period, ca. 18th century CE. A paper and ink ledger book known as a daifuku-cho, with a braided hemp tassel intended for merchant use. The ledger...
[more like this] - 18TH C. JAPANESE EDO PAPER & INK LEDGER
BOOKEast Asia, Japan, Edo period, ca. 18th century CE. A paper ledger book known as a daifuku-cho, bound with dozens of rectangular pages and handwritten accounts for merchant...
[more like this] - CHINESE TANG DYNASTY SEATED CAMEL WEARING
SADDLE, TL'DEast Asia, China, Tang Dynasty, ca. 618 to 906 CE. A handsome terracotta statue of a camel, shown seated with legs bent beneath him and head tilted skyward as...
[more like this] - SIGNED 1650S JAPANESE EDO WAKIZASHI
BY BISHU OSAFUNEEast Asia, Japan, early Edo Period, ca. mid-17th century, signed "Bishu Osafune" on tang. A forged steel wakizashi blade of elegant shinogi-zukuri form bearing...
[more like this] - 8 BOUND BOOKS RELATED TO WHALING AND
MARITIMEHISTORY TO INCLUDE HISTORY OF AMERICAN WHALE FISHERY BY ALEXANDER STARBUCK, 1878, SLIGHT DAMAGE TO SPINE. BULLETIN OF THE U.S. FISH COMMISSION, VOLUME XVI, 1896,...
[more like this] - TWO CHINESE IRON BOUND MERCHANT LOCK
BOXES Two footed Chinese iron bound, wooden merchant lock boxes, each having hinged lids and studs, apparently unmarked. Provenance: From the Private Collection of Hillel...
[more like this] - RARE 1794-1803 BOUND VOLUME OF NANTUCKET
MERCHANT CORRESPONDENCE 13" X 8.5". MERCHANT CORRESPONDENCE, Includes approx. 25 of Nantucket merchant James Barker (1759–1832)'s transcribed letters to merchants worldwide...
[more like this] - POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALE'S TOOTH BY
EDWARD BURDETT CIRCA 1830-1833 LENGTH 6.25". INCLUDES STAND. EDWARD BURDETT, Circa 1830-1833, Signed on edge "Engraved. By. Edward Burdett.". Obverse titled "Wm. Tell. of....
[more like this] - WILLIAM HOWARD YORKE (CANADA/UNITED
KINGDOM, 1847-1921), THE FOUR-MASTED BARQUE KENILWORTH OFF FASTNET ROCK, IRELAND., OIL ON CANVAS, 24" X 36". FRAMED 31" X 43" UNDER GLASS.WILLIAM HOWARD YORKE, Canada/United...
[more like this] - FIVE INDIVIDUALLY BOUND 18TH CENTURY
SERMONS FROM BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS All 12mo (7 1/8 in. tallest), as follows: Foxcroft, Thomas. The Divine Right of Deacons: A Sermon Preach'd On the Occasion of the Ordination...
[more like this] - A MERCHANT'S BARROW blue-painted with
a fall front, on two iron bound wheel, 109cm high x 164cm long x 79cm wide Provenance: The Richard Pratley Collection of English Furniture, Naïve and Folk Art....
[more like this] - "DESCRIPTION OF THE LARGEST SHIP IN
THE WORLD, THE NEW CLIPPER GREAT REPUBLIC ..." 1853 SLIPCASE 10.5" X 6.5". THE WORLD, THE NEW CLIPPER GREAT REPUBLIC ...", 1853, An extremely rare first and only edition...
[more like this] - COLLECTION OF PAMPHLETS, A BOUND QUANTITY
INCLUDING
THE ACCOUNTS OF THE CHAMBERLAIN OF SCOTLAND Edinburgh: A. Murray, 1771. 4to; [bound with] [drop-head title] Memorial for the Merchants, Traders and Manufacturers of Glasgow,...
[more like this] - DUNCAN MCFARLANE (1834-1871, MA, UK)
OIL PAINTINGON CANVAS DEPICTING PACKET SHIP "CITY OF MONTREAL", OF WHOM THE MASTER WAS ELI COOLEY BLISS. SIGNED LOWER LEFT AND DATED 1862. THE SHIP IS LEAVING THE HARBOR WITH...
[more like this] - 32PC MINIATURE LEATHER SHAKESPEARE BOOKS
Collection of 32 miniature leather bound volumes of the works of William Shakespeare (English 1564-1616) comprising 24 books published by the Knickerbocker Leather Novelty...
[more like this] - NANTUCKET WHALING JOURNAL OR LOGBOOK,
1869.Journal is 8 volumes with 30 leaves leather bound diary type binding with brass clasp. Part of clasp is missing as well as some pages missing from the beginning of the...
[more like this] - Letters Between the Sturges Brothers
Most Antebellum Including J.R. Sturges 3rd GA Infantry KIA These 58 letters encompass a "snapshot" of antebellum life in the South.Samuel Sturges (1774-1831) was born in Fairfield...
[more like this] - COLLECTION CHINESE PITH PAINTINGS -
Early 19th c Pith Paintings including: Remnants of Three Bound Books containing a Parade of Merchants Court Portraits and Family Portraits all ribbon mounted roughly 8'' (20.3...
[more like this] - (SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM) SHAKESPEARE HEAD
PRESS A group of three volumes from the Players' Shakespeare series finely bound by Zaehnsdorf including The Tragedie of Macbeth Merchant of Venice and Julius Ceasar all limited...
[more like this] - (SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM) SHAKESPEARE HEAD
PRESS A group of seven cloth-bound volumes of the Players' Shakespeare. Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press n.d. Loves Labour's Lost number 279 of 550 copies. Illustrated...
[more like this] - The Universal Magazine of Knowledge
and Pleasure Containing...and Other Arts and Sciences; Which may render it Instructive and Entertaining to Gentry Merchants Farmers and Tradesmen. London: For John Hinton...
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