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Vancouver, George (1757-1798) A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World.
Lot: 396Sold for: $23,370$19,000Vancouver, George (1757-1798) A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World. London: Printed for G.G and J. Robinson and J. Edwards, 1798. First edition, four volumes: three ...
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Wilkes, Charles (1798-1877) Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842.
Lot: 410Sold for: $1,353$1,100Wilkes, Charles (1798-1877) Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845. Large paper copy, second edition, ...
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Wilkes, Charles (1798-1877) Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842.
Lot: 411Sold for: $9,225$7,500Wilkes, Charles (1798-1877) Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845. Five text volumes, and one atlas ...
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Wilson, Sir Charles William (1836-1905) Picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt.
Lot: 412UnsoldWilson, Sir Charles William (1836-1905) Picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt. New York: Appleton, 1881-1883. First edition, American issue, four folio volumes, illustrated with thirty-nine ...
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Wedgwood Black Basalt Baptismal Font
Lot: 181Sold for: $6,765$5,500Wedgwood Black Basalt Baptismal Font, England, late 18th century, banded rim with criss-cross ribbons, drapery swags and rings in high relief, acanthus leaf foot, unmarked, dia. 17 5/8 in. ...
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Wedgwood Majolica Shell Compote
Lot: 406Sold for: $1,599$1,300Wedgwood Majolica Shell Compote, England, c. 1866, the nautilus shell molded bowl with mottled glazes, set atop the entwined tails of two dolphins mounted on a raised base with fluted trim, ...
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Wedgwood Rockingham Brown Glazed Plaque
Lot: 418Sold for: $17,220$14,000Wedgwood Rockingham Brown Glazed Plaque, England, c. 1875, rectangular form with high relief depiction of Death of a Roman Warrior, impressed mark, sight size 10 3/8 x 20 in.; mounted in a modern ...
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Wedgwood Numbered First Edition Copy of the Portland Vase
Lot: 365Sold for: $147,000$120,000Wedgwood Numbered First Edition Copy of the Portland Vase, England, 18th century, solid black body with applied white classical figures in relief enhanced with a gray wash, a man wearing a Phrygian ...
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Neale & Co. White Stoneware Portland-type Vase
Lot: 444Sold for: $1,968$1,600Neale & Co. White Stoneware Portland-type Vase, England, c. 1795, ropetwist handles terminating at bearded mask heads, the body with molded relief, a man wearing a Phrygian cap beneath the base, ...
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Logbook of United States Frigate Brandywine
Lot: 1183Sold for: $1,599$1,300Logbook of United States Frigate Brandywine and Sloop of War Vincennes, many records apparently kept by Midshipman Richard W. Meade, United States Navy, 1826-1829, comprising hundreds of pages of ...
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Twenty-one Early Books
Lot: 392Sold for: $300$300Twenty-one Early Books, titles include: A Short and Easy Method with the Deists (T.M. Pomeroy: Windsor, VT, 1812); Rev. John Flavel, The Touchstone of Sincerity or Trial of True and False Religion ...
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WWI Aviators, Six Photo Albums.
Lot: 1118Sold for: $2,829$2,300WWI Aviators, Six Photo Albums. Six volumes filled with photographs compiled during the first World War by a pilot trained at Princeton who shipped over to Europe to carry out manned reconnaissance ...
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Audubon, John James (1785-1851) The Birds of North America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories.
Lot: 1127Sold for: $52,275$42,500Audubon, John James (1785-1851) The Birds of North America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories. New York: by J.J. Audubon [and] Philadelphia: by J.B. Chevalier, 1840-1844. ...
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Business Ledgers c. 1787-1859.
Lot: 1133Sold for: $1,476$1,200Business Ledgers c. 1787-1859. Six leather-bound volumes fulfilled with manuscript notations throughout memorializing business transactions; one covering March-July 1787, approximately 130 leaves, ...
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Decorative Bindings, Sets, Approximately Sixty-eight Volumes.
Lot: 1149Sold for: $2,583$2,100Decorative Bindings, Sets, Approximately Sixty-eight Volumes. A variety of sets in half leather bindings with gilt tooled and lettered spines, mostly octavo format, including: Memoirs of Napoleon ...
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Froissart, Sir John (c. 1337-1405) Chronicles of England, France, and the Adjoining Countries.
Lot: 1173Sold for: $584$475Froissart, Sir John (c. 1337-1405) Chronicles of England, France, and the Adjoining Countries. [Wales]: Haford Press, by James Henderson, 1803-1805. Five large quarto volumes in four, translated and ...
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Maritime Subjects, 19th Century, Nine Titles in Ten Volumes.
Lot: 1210Sold for: $461$375Maritime Subjects, 19th Century, Nine Titles in Ten Volumes. Including: Herman Melville's White-Jacket, New York: Harper's [and] London: Bentley, 1855, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in.; Captain MacKinnon's ...
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Wedgwood & Bentley Black Basalt Vase and Cover
Lot: 312Sold for: $1,353$1,100Wedgwood & Bentley Black Basalt Vase and Cover, England, c. 1775, shape no. 41 with maiden head handles, swirled fluting to the bottle-shaped neck above a band of drapery swags bordering elongated ...
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Two Volumes of Frank Forrester's Horse and Horsemanship of the United States
Lot: 134Sold for: $98$80Two Volumes of Frank Forrester's Horse and Horsemanship of the United States, 1857. ...
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Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Autograph Letter Signed, 26 March 1844.
Lot: 21Sold for: $2,214$1,800Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Autograph Letter Signed, 26 March 1844. Two leaves, each inscribed on one side. To Frederick Oldfield Ward (1817-1877) concerning Thomas Hood's (1799-1845) magazine, ...
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Audubon, John James (1785-1851) and Reverend John Bachman (1790-1874) The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America.
Lot: 93Sold for: $237,000$195,000Audubon, John James (1785-1851) and Reverend John Bachman (1790-1874) The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. New York: by J.J Audubon and V.G. Audubon, 1845-1851. Three imperial folio atlas ...
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Fiddes, Richard (1671-1725) The Life of Cardinal Wolsey.
Lot: 171Sold for: $492$400Fiddes, Richard (1671-1725) The Life of Cardinal Wolsey. London: for John Barber, 1724. Folio, with engraved portrait frontispiece and engraved plates, not collated for completeness, in contemporary ...
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Hunting and Fishing, Six Titles in Seven Volumes.
Lot: 204Sold for: $185$150Hunting and Fishing, Six Titles in Seven Volumes. Frank Forester's Field Sports of the United States, New York: Townsend, 1864, in two volumes, half morocco; Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of ...
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London Gazette
Lot: 229Sold for: $1,230$1,000London Gazette, August 6-10, 1776. Two sheets removed from a bound volume, trimmed at the foot with loss; containing extracts from two letters from General Howe, dated Staten Island, July 7 and 8, ...
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Meehan, Thomas (1826-1901) The Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States.
Lot: 243Sold for: $246$200Meehan, Thomas (1826-1901) The Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States. Boston: Prang, [1878]. Four large octavo volumes, illustrated with chromolithographs, publisher's cloth, a.e.g., 10 x ...
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Prince, Thomas (1687-1758) A Chronological History of New-England in the Form of Annals.
Lot: 270Sold for: $461$375Prince, Thomas (1687-1758) A Chronological History of New-England in the Form of Annals. Boston: Kneeland & Green, 1736. First edition, octavo, volume one only, title printed in red and black ...
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American Imprints, Pre-1750, Three Titles.
Lot: 82Sold for: $431$350American Imprints, Pre-1750, Three Titles. Including Henry Flynt's (1675-1760) Twenty Sermons on Various Subjects, Boston: S. Kneeland and T. Green, 1739, first and only edition, octavo; Giles ...
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Decorative Bindings, Sets, Fifty-six Leather-bound Volumes:
Lot: 130Sold for: $1,476$1,200Decorative Bindings, Sets, Fifty-six Leather-bound Volumes: Including: Agnes Strickland's The Lives of the Queens of England, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1892, in eight volumes; J.R. Green's A Short ...
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Denton, Sherman F. (fl. circa 1900) As Nature Shows Them: Moths and Butterflies of the United States East of the Rocky Mountains.
Lot: 140Sold for: $984$800Denton, Sherman F. (fl. circa 1900) As Nature Shows Them: Moths and Butterflies of the United States East of the Rocky Mountains. Boston: J.B. Millet Co., [1900]. First edition, two quarto ...
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Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) The Writings , Federal Edition, with a Signed Document.
Lot: 179Sold for: $7,380$6,000Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) The Writings, Federal Edition, with a Signed Document. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, Knickerbocker Press, 1905. Limited edition set of eight large octavo volumes, ...