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1787 WOOLLETT ENGRAVING PRINT
1787 WOOLLETT ENGRAVING PRINT
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1808 MASSACHUSETTS FARMER'S ALMANAC
1808 MASSACHUSETTS FARMER'S ALMANAC Massachusetts,1808Printed by David Carlisle for John West with entertaining matter by Robert B. Thomas and features hand written notes.
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BUFFUM, RICHARD, ET AL. KEEP THE
BUFFUM, RICHARD, ET AL. KEEP THE WHEELS TURNING.Buffum, Richard, et al. Keep the Wheels Turning. Alhambra and Azusa: Owen, 1977 and 1992. Two volumes, quarter leather, gilt-lettered, with cloth sides. Each numbered and signed by Les Smith from limited editions of 1,000 copies (latter also signed by Gertrude Smith). Illustrated with drawings, photographs, and color plates. 4to. Fine.
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TWO AUTOGRAPH ALBUMS AND FOUR
TWO AUTOGRAPH ALBUMS AND FOUR BOOKS. One album filled with inscriptions from the 1860s and 1870s Massachusetts with handcolored lithograph floral vignettes. The other with marbleized boards copied poetry and inscriptions dated in the 1860s from Pulaski New York with a few original flower watercolors. And a McGuffy Reader German hymnal schoolboy's math copybook and a German diary in a marbleized slipcase.
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TWO EARLY 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN
TWO EARLY 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICAL VOLUMESTwo Early 19th Century American Enlightenment Science and Mathematical Volumes,, Consisting of: 'Conversations on Natural Pholosophy...A Dictionary of Philosophical Terms', Reverend John Lauris Blake, A.M. for Lincoln & Edmands, Boston, 1828, Eighth American Edition, Interior of front cover with deteriorated signature <...ce Jonathan Mulliken and opening page signed Samuel G. P. Mulliken with other scattered pencil notations and 'Arithmetic Upon The Inductive Method of Instruction: Being A Sequel to Intellectual Arithmetic', Warren Colburn for Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, Boston, 1830, with pencil signature above frontispiece and back of last page signed Samuel G.P Mulliken also on back cover additionally with date and location 1831/Newburyport. Provenance: Family Descent From the Library of Nobel Laureate (Chemistry, 1966) Professor Robert Sanderson Mulliken By Descent to Current Owner
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RENNIE GEORGE Illustrations of Mill
RENNIE GEORGE Illustrations of Mill Work and Other Machinery Together with Tools of Modern Invention. Atlas to the New Edition of Buchanan's Work. S.l.: John Wheale 1842. Folio quarter leather over cloth spine lettered in gilt. Over 70 engravings on 42 plates with two additional plates illustrating ''Babcock Wilcox & Co's Patent Stationary Steam Engine.'' Boards rebacked and soiled with edges frayed; contents disbound by front backstrip; chipping to edges of some sheets.
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1 vol. (American Genealogy.) Ward,
1 vol. (American Genealogy.) Ward, Andrew Henshaw. Ward Family; Descendants of William Ward, Who Settled in Sudbury, Mass., in 1639. Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1851. 8vo, orig. blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; spine ends & corners slightly chipped. With 2 portrait plates. Some foxing to plates. Text generally clean. Unsold
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Leather-bound books, mixed
Leather-bound books, mixed titles: 18th and 19th century works by Joseph Allen (Francis Marion), Archibold Allison, Oliver Goldsmith, Henry Gilpin, Josiah Priest, Rev. Glasse, others, (10 pieces); detailed listing available.
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[African Americans] The American
[African Americans] The American Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1836 Vol. I. No. I Plus Lot of 2 including: The American Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1836. Vol. I No. I. Boston: Webster & Southard 1835. Farmers' and Mechanics' Almanac for 1862; Calculated for the Western States. Cincinnati: A.L. Scovill & Co. 1861.
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Currier & Ives "The Celebrated
Currier & Ives "The Celebrated Trotting Stallions 'Ethan Allen and George M. Patchen'" 1858. 19.5"x27.5"
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Anti-slavery Almanac (1844); old
Anti-slavery Almanac (1844); old ledger and various old newpaper articles.
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Early primitive wheelbarrow.
Early primitive wheelbarrow.
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3 vols.(1 wrappers) Americana -
3 vols.(1 wrappers) Americana - Law: (Hathaway Trial.) Remarks of Mr. Allen's Counsel, upon The Petition of Silas Hathaway, Praying for a New Trial. [Montpelier?, 1822]. 1st ed. 8vo, later 19th-Century 3/4 red morocco & marbled bds., untrimmed; scuffed, some edge wear. Case involving the widow & heirs of Ethan Allen. Includes Daniel Webster's opinion. Sabin 69392. * Angell, Joseph K. An Inquiry into The Rule of Law... Incorporeal, Hereditament,... Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1827. 1st ed. 8vo, orig. bds.; scuffed & occasionally blistered. Scattered light foxing. American Imprints 27875. * (Rhode Island Dorr Rebellion.) Arguments of Messrs. Whipple and Webster, in The Case of Martin Luther,... Providence: Charles Burnett, 1848. 1st ed. 8vo, orig. printed wrappers; corners chipped. Inscribed & signed by Whipple on front wrapper. Internally clean. Sabin.
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An Alvis spoked wheel and tyre
An Alvis spoked wheel and tyre
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Henry Thomas Alken (British,
Henry Thomas Alken (British, 1785-1851)
The Road, No. 1
aquatint engraving
9 x 12 3/4 inches.
Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana
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FOUR LEATHERBOUND VOLUMES.
FOUR LEATHERBOUND VOLUMES. Includes Watts The Terms of Christian Communion Boston: Armstrong 1811 first edition full leather; together with Cooper A Treatise of Pleading on the Equity Side of the High Court of Chancery New York: I. Riley 1813 full leather; Souvenirs of Madam Vigee Le Brun New York: Worthington 1879 red leather over marbled boards; and McIntosh Charms and Counter-Charms New York: Appleton 1848 red leather over marbled boards.
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Ackermann & Co., publishers THE
Ackermann & Co., publishers THE FIRST CARRIAGE, THE "ARIEL" Hand-colored aquatint, 1843
Estimate:$600-$800
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1858 autograph book, title page
1858 autograph book, title page hand lettered "Devoted to Religious Poetry and Literature, 1858, multum in parvo ", 48 pages of essays, stories and poems hand written and signed by prominent people, including five lines signed "Henry W. Longfellow", "The shades of night were falling fast/As through an Alpine village passed/A youth who bore 'mid snow and ice/A banner with the strange device/Excelsior! June 24, 1858", with engraving of Longfellow by John Fry & Co., New York; 16 lines verse signed "S.F. Smith" (Samuel Francis Smith, 1808-1895), July 24, 1865; 18 lines verse signed "Edw. N. Kirk" (Union Civil War General Edward Needles Kirk, 1828-1863), Boston, January 26, 1859; nine-line essay on duty, signed "Geo[rge] S. Boutwell" (1818-1905, Grant's Treasury Secretary); eight lines regarding the Bible, signed "Edward Everett" (1794-1865, Fillmore's Secretary of State); items by "Josiah Quincy", "Robt. C. Winthrop", "H.W. Beecher" with cabinet card of him by Sarony, New York, "James T. Fields", "Charles Cleveland", "Anna E. Dickenson", "Charles Sumner", and by 28 other writers, each page with elaborate gilt and color printed foliate border, 12 x 9 in., with several printed pages of history of the Dana family, Massachusetts, in which the album descended, all loose from original binding, in archival sleeves housed in black leather "Presidential" series album, with gilt border and title, by Exposures, 14-1/2 x 13 in. Light toning, minor stains, small edge chips. Brunk Auctions, January 6, 2000, Lot 0427; Collection of H. Donald Nelson, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Group of five English colored
Group of five English colored engravings; Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785-1851) 6" x 8 1/2" (sight, each, approx.)
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ALLEN, Anna Elizabeth, (American,
ALLEN, Anna Elizabeth, (American, 1881-1959): ''Class A Loft - Studio on the Wharf, Gloucester, Mass.'', Oil/Canvasboard, 21'' x 15.5'', signed lower right, old label affixed verso, framed, 24.75'' x 19''.
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Ellsworth Woodward (American/New
Ellsworth Woodward (American/New Orleans, 1861-1939) "Bronze Wheel-Guard, Siena", pen and ink, 6-3/4" x 8", initialed and titled at the basal edge. Glazed, matted and presented in a carved and parcel-argente black wooden frame. Provenance: From the collection of Carl Woodward.
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AFTER WILLIAM ALLEN WALL, CA. 1858,
AFTER WILLIAM ALLEN WALL, CA. 1858, TITLED NEWBEDFORD 50 YEARS AGO, BY ENDICOTT AND CO., NEW YORK. MODERN FRAME AND MATTING. APPEARS TO BE IN GOOD CONDITION, HAS NOT BEEN REMOVED FROM FRAME. SIGHT SIZE 18 1/2" X 24 1/2", OVERALL WITH FRAME 23 1/2" X 30". FRAME SHOWS SOME CHIPPING AND LOSS TO GESSO. PROVENANCE: DEACCESSIONED FROM THE NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM.
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AFTER WILLIAM ALLEN WALL (NEW
AFTER WILLIAM ALLEN WALL (NEW BEDFORD ARTIST),19TH CENTURY COLORED LITHOGRAPH TITLED “NEW BEDFORD 50 YEARS AGO (1810)”. BY ENDICOTT AND CO, NEW YORK, COPYRIGHTED BY CHARLES TABOR AND CO, 1858. IN ORIGINAL WALNUT FRAME WITH GOLD LINER. MATTING SHOWS TANNING AND DISCOLORATION, ALSO SEVERAL SMALL CREASES IN THE SKY. SIGHT SIZE 16” X 23 1/2”, WITH FRAME 25” X 32”.
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HARPERS WEEKELY, VOL VIII, JULY 25,
HARPERS WEEKELY, VOL VIII, JULY 25, 1968NEW ENGLAND FACTORY LIFE – BELL TIME After Winslow Homer, (1836-1910), a wood cut engraving page 472, depicts a multitude of men and women leaving a factory [presumably in Lowell, Mass] at days end, the opposing page, 471, with a commentary referencing Charles Dickens’ examination of societies industrial and humane institutions, as published in his “AMERICAN NOTES”, framed between two plates of glass. Measuring 11.25 by 16 in., overall 15 by 18 in. (Cond: discoloring, edges tattered, mainly lower edge)
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E. Wyatt, publisher ALL ON FIRE
E. Wyatt, publisher ALL ON FIRE Hand-colored etching, 1784 Together with G. Humphrey, publisher THE MARCH OF INTELLECT, hand-colore...
Estimate:$600-$800
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ASA WESTON TWITCHELLAmerican
ASA WESTON TWITCHELLAmerican 1820-1904Portrait of a gentleman with glasses. Monogrammed and dated lower right A.W. Albany 1868''.Provenance: Private Collection Plymouth Massachusetts.Oil on canvas 30'' x 25''. Framed.''
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Owen Biddle Philadelphia
Owen Biddle Philadelphia Architect & Scientist ALS Owen Biddle (1737-1799).? American Patriot and Revolutionary War colonel also noted as an astronomer scientist architect clockmaker and? watchmaker in Philadelphia.? ALS 1p 6 x 7.75 in. Philadelphia August 29 1777 addressed to Mr. French at the United States Lottery Office submitting his resignation from the position of manager because my private affairs have suffered so much by a long attendance in public business. Condition: Soiling.
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54'' Wheel Rim for high wheel
54'' Wheel Rim for high wheel bicycle English circa 1884.
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2 vols. Wheeler, William Ogden.
2 vols. Wheeler, William Ogden. The Ogden Family in America, Elizabethtown Branch and Their English Ancestry. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1897. 4to, orig. green cloth, gilt-lettered spines; some edge wear, back joint of vol. 1 frayed. Color frontis., plates. Includes vol. of fold. charts.
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Henry Alken (British 1785-1851)
Henry Alken (British 1785-1851) Lying in Wait 1817 color engraving 10 x 14 inches.
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Attributed to James Sharples Jr.
Attributed to James Sharples Jr. English 1789-1839 Portraits of Abram Bradley and His Wife Henrietta Riggs pair of watercolor and gouaches on paper board 5 x 3 3/4 in. framed Estimate $ 1 000-2 000 Frame wear. Paintings have not been examined by blacklight.
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BOOKS: TWO VOLUMES, ONE BY
BOOKS: TWO VOLUMES, ONE BY WILLIAM HUBBARD, "A NARRATIVE OF THE INDIAN WARDS IN NEW ENGLAND" STOCKBRIDGE, 1803; ALONG WITH EZEKIEL SANFORD "A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES BEFORE THE REVOLUTION: WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF TH...BOOKS: Two volumes, one by William Hubbard, "A Narrative of the Indian Wards in New England" Stockbridge, 1803; along with Ezekiel Sanford "A History of the United States Before the Revolution: With Some Account of the Aborigines" 1819, worn copy, cover loose, sold as is.
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W.L. Walton after Victor Dubreuil
W.L. Walton after Victor Dubreuil ''The Contest Between Heenan and Sayers at Fairborough on the 17th of April 1860'' color lithograph Bufford Sons Boston lithographer published by George Newbold London 28 1/4 x 39 in. framed Estimate $ 500-700 Creases buckling. Paintings have not been examined by blacklight.
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Book dated 1821.
Book dated 1821.
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"Evangeline" by Henry Wordsworth
"Evangeline" by Henry Wordsworth Longfellow with illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy, some full page color plates. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1905. Overall good condition; very minor loosening of the gutter.
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Three copies from an edition of 400
Three copies from an edition of 400 of ''A Panorama Of The Progress Of Human Life Fashionably Displayed'' by Henry Alken published by S. and J. Fuller 1930 ''privately printed by the author of ''Hunting Hawking Shooting'''' in original sleeves together with ''Wife and no Wife'' five portrait caricatures by James Gillray 1 796 of an edition of 2.500 published 1969.