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Near Life-size Magician Automaton from the Film Sleuth
Lot: 924Sold for: $40,000$40,000Near Life-size Magician Automaton from the Film Sleuth, possibly by Decamps, c. 1925-30, with defined features, articulated lower lip and brown glass eyes, standing behind blue-painted wood table ...
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Portrait Jumeau Swivel-Head Fashion Doll and Original Outfits
Lot: 934Sold for: $8,500$8,500Portrait Jumeau Swivel-Head Fashion Doll and Original Outfits, with closed mouth accented in slight smile, fixed threaded blue eyes with shaded lids, arched light brown feathered brows, pierced-in ...
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Painted Wooden "Upstairs to the Rare Book Department" Trade Sign
Lot: 304Sold for: $2,252$1,900Painted Wooden "Upstairs to the Rare Book Department" Trade Sign, Boston, late 19th/early 20th century, (shrinkage crack), 25 x 13 in. Provenance: Oral history purports this sign came from The ...
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Baumann, Gustave (1881-1971)
Lot: 129Sold for: $764$650Baumann, Gustave (1881-1971), Frijoles Canyon Pictographs, Santa Fe: Writers' Editions, Inc., 1939, edition of 480, with folding print signed in pencil by Baumann, original cloth, square 8vo, ...
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(Astronomy, Early) Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642)
Lot: 214Sold for: $3,819$3,250(Astronomy, Early) Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642), Systema Cosmicum in Quo Dialogis IV. de duobus Maximis Mundi Systematibus, Lyons: Joan. Antonii Huguetan, 1641, second edition (first in Latin), ...
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(Exploration, World) Harris, John (1667?-1719)
Lot: 707Sold for: $5,875$5,000(Exploration, World) Harris, John (1667?-1719), Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca. or, A Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels. Consisting of Above Six Hundred of the Most Authentic ...
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Important Gold and Enamel Signed Singing Bird Box by Jaquet-Droz & Leschot
Lot: 558Sold for: $182,000$160,000Important Gold and Enamel Signed Singing Bird Box by Jaquet-Droz & Leschot, London, circa 1785, the bird with iridescent blue, green and red plumage, moving bone beak, wings, and tail, the swiveling ...
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American School, 19th Century Pair of Miniature Portraits of James M. Whiton and Mary F. Whiton of Boston.
Lot: 186Sold for: $1,528$1,300American School, 19th Century Pair of Miniature Portraits of James M. Whiton and Mary F. Whiton of Boston. Unsigned. The sitters identified in inscriptions on the reverse. Watercolor on paper, ...
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Giovanni Desimone
Lot: 547Sold for: $323$275Giovanni Desimone Decorated earthenware vase Italy, 1975 Decorated in predominantly primary colors on a stippled white ground with a figure of a man and a woman in a colorful landscape, signed and ...
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Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (1835-1910)
Lot: 25Sold for: $3,173$2,700Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (1835-1910), Autograph letter signed, four pages, May 7, 1898, to Gilder, concerning general news and reflecting on his history as a paid writer and his relationships with ...
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Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851)
Lot: 33Sold for: $1,880$1,600Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851), Autograph letter signed, two pages, January 5, 1850, to John Clayton, et al., (a printer), informing him that he cannot attend a function and commenting on his ...
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(Poets, English Romantic)
Lot: 92Sold for: $382$325(Poets, English Romantic), Autograph letter signed, dated February [1808], likely William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779-1848), writing to Miss Sarah Stoddard in Winterslow, concerning her ...
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(Parrish, Maxfield, Illustrator)
Lot: 420Sold for: $470$400(Parrish, Maxfield, Illustrator), Saunders, Louise, The Knave of Hearts, Racine: Artists and Writers Guild, [1925], spiral-bound pictorial wraps, folio, (covers with minor fading and soiling). ...
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Celia Laighton Thaxter (American, 1835-1894) Oil Lamp with an Olive Branch (Olea) Motif
Lot: 113Sold for: $23,500$20,000Celia Laighton Thaxter (American, 1835-1894) Oil Lamp with an Olive Branch (Olea) Motif Unsigned. Painted ceramic presented on metal lamp base, height 7 in. (17.8 cm). Condition: Craquelure, ...
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Thomas Ball (American, 1819-1911) Ophelia
Lot: 685Sold for: $35,250$30,000Thomas Ball (American, 1819-1911) Ophelia/A Relief Signed "T.BALL" l.l., identified on a label affixed to the reverse. Marble, 22 x 18 1/2 in. (55.9 x 47.0 cm), framed. Condition: Surface grime. ...
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World Type Writer by the Typewriter Improvement Co.
Lot: 6Sold for: $382$325World Type Writer by the Typewriter Improvement Co., Boston, No. 13450, patd. October 12 1886, with index wheel, pointer and oak base with instruction plaque, lg. 12 in., (letters rubbed off, ...
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Astronomical 4-inch Refracting Telescope by Alvan Clark & Sons
Lot: 222UnsoldAstronomical 4-inch Refracting Telescope by Alvan Clark & Sons, engraved on the body-cap Alvan Clark & Sons, Cambridgeport, Mass., 1891, with 52-inch lg. lacquered-brass tube, rack-and-pinion ...
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George Nakashima (1905-1990)
Lot: 253Sold for: $204,000$180,000George Nakashima (1905-1990) Large Free Edge English oak burl and walnut table New Hope, Pennsylvania, 1973 Large free edge burled english oak top with five butterfly joints with two canted ...
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Collection of Boston Red Sox Related Items
Lot: 231Sold for: $59$50Collection of Boston Red Sox Related Items, a framed Babe Ruth photograph print, a 1974 WHDH Poster Day poster, two 1983 Herald wall charts, a Mel Almada photograph print, The Great Rivalry, Tony ...
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American School, 19th Century Pair of Miniature Portraits of James M. Whiton and Mary F. Whiton of Boston.
Lot: 220UnsoldAmerican School, 19th Century Pair of Miniature Portraits of James M. Whiton and Mary F. Whiton of Boston. Unsigned. The sitters identified in inscriptions on the reverse. Watercolor on paper, ...
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Edward Eggleston (1837-1902)
Lot: 683Sold for: $35$30Edward Eggleston (1837-1902), approximately twenty-two photographic prints, twelve portraits of Eggleston in youth and age, architecture and Indiana topography with pen inscriptions, including ...
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Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962)
Lot: 61Sold for: $1,293$1,100Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962), Autograph letter signed, dated May 5th, 1931, four pages, on Executive Mansion, Albany letterhead, addressed to "My dear George," regarding arrangements to meet, ...
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)
Lot: 128Sold for: $646$550Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894), Autograph letter signed, August 7th, 1887, two pages, unknown recipient, concerning submitting articles to the Editor of the Atlantic Monthly, and discussing ...
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Ricardo, David (1772-1823)
Lot: 152Sold for: $470$400Ricardo, David (1772-1823), Autograph sentiment signed, [undated], to Sir Philip Francis, "I have the honour to be Sir, your humble servant", cut from a letter, (mounted to card). Note: A celebrated ...
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Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)
Lot: 172Sold for: $4,994$4,250Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862), Autograph manuscript fragment, undated, [circa December 1853], from the Lecture entitled "An Excursion to Moosehead Lake," delivered to the Concord Lyceum on ...
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Maugham, William Somerset (1874-1965), Signed copy
Lot: 299Sold for: $118$100Maugham, William Somerset (1874-1965), Signed copy, A Writer's Notebook, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1949, original cloth with slip case, one of 1000, signed, (very good). ...
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Paul Troubetzkoy (Russian/American, 1866-1938) Tolstoy on Horseback
Lot: 750Sold for: $24,675$21,000Paul Troubetzkoy (Russian/American, 1866-1938) Tolstoy on Horseback Dated and signed "1911 Paul Troubetzkoy" l.c., Valsuani foundry mark l.r. Bronze sculpture, height 18 in. (45.7 cm). Condition: ...
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Attributed to John Carlin (New York City, 1813-1891) Portrait of Ellen F. (b. 1839) and Her Brother George Lemuel Clark (1845-1851), Ne
Lot: 184Sold for: $19,975$17,000Attributed to John Carlin (New York City, 1813-1891) Portrait of Ellen F. (b. 1839) and Her Brother George Lemuel Clark (1845-1851), New York, c. 1850, unsigned. Oil on canvas. Ellen, who is about ...
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Richardson's New London Fashionable Gentleman's Valentine Writer, or The Lover's Own Book
Lot: 364Sold for: $176$150Richardson's New London Fashionable Gentleman's Valentine Writer, or The Lover's Own Book, c. 1850, contains a selection of original and popular valentines, published by Thomas Richardson, complete ...
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Odell's Type Writer
Lot: 1203Sold for: $323$275Odell's Type Writer, by Odell Type Writer Co., Chicago, with circular nickel-plated baseplate, sliding type-selector, plaque and patent dates to 1890, wd. 10 in. ...