JAPANESE WOOD AND METAL BOUND MERCHANT'SBOXJapanese 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....
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C. 1883 KANSAS CITY'S LIVE STOCK TRADERS1ST 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...
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18TH C. JAPANESE EDO PAPER & INK LEDGERBOOKEast 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...
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18TH C. JAPANESE EDO PAPER & INK LEDGERBOOKEast 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...
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CHINESE TANG DYNASTY SEATED CAMEL WEARINGSADDLE, 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...
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SIGNED 1650S JAPANESE EDO WAKIZASHIBY 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...
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8 BOUND BOOKS RELATED TO WHALING ANDMARITIMEHISTORY 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,...
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TWO CHINESE IRON BOUND MERCHANT LOCKBOXES Two footed Chinese iron bound, wooden merchant lock boxes, each having hinged lids and studs, apparently unmarked. Provenance: From the Private Collection of Hillel...
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RARE 1794-1803 BOUND VOLUME OF NANTUCKETMERCHANT CORRESPONDENCE 13" X 8.5". MERCHANT CORRESPONDENCE, Includes approx. 25 of Nantucket merchant James Barker (1759–1832)'s transcribed letters to merchants worldwide...
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POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALE'S TOOTH BYEDWARD 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....
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WILLIAM HOWARD YORKE (CANADA/UNITEDKINGDOM, 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...
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FIVE INDIVIDUALLY BOUND 18TH CENTURYSERMONS 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...
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A MERCHANT'S BARROW blue-painted witha 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....
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"DESCRIPTION OF THE LARGEST SHIP INTHE 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...
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COLLECTION OF PAMPHLETS, A BOUND QUANTITY
INCLUDINGTHE 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,...
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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...
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32PC MINIATURE LEATHER SHAKESPEARE BOOKSCollection of 32 miniature leather bound volumes of the works of William Shakespeare (English 1564-1616) comprising 24 books published by the Knickerbocker Leather Novelty...
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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...
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Letters Between the Sturges BrothersMost 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...
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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...
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(SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM) SHAKESPEARE HEADPRESS 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...
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(SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM) SHAKESPEARE HEADPRESS 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...
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The Universal Magazine of Knowledgeand 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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