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Two Multi-volume Literary Works.
Lot: 1202Sold for: $438$350Two Multi-volume Literary Works. Boswell, James (1740-1795), Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D., London: John Murray, 1835, ten volumes, half-bound in brown leather with marbled paper, ...
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Poems , First Edition.
Lot: 1154Sold for: $308$250Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Poems, First Edition. Boston: James Munroe & Co., 1847. 12mo, with ads dated January 1, 1847, in full calf by Riviere, 7 x 4 1/2 in. ...
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Unbound Photo Album Containing Thirty Identified Albumen Carte-de-Visite Photographs of 19th Century Literary, Stage, Political, and Mi
Lot: 1676Sold for: $584$475Unbound Photo Album Containing Thirty Identified Albumen Carte-de-Visite Photographs of 19th Century Literary, Stage, Political, and Military Figures, c. 1860-80, sitters include: General P.G.T. ...
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Tudor, William Jr. (1779-1830) Manuscript Archive.
Lot: 1033Sold for: $3,075$2,500Tudor, William Jr. (1779-1830) Manuscript Archive. Collection of manuscript material, including the following: octavo-format manuscript from 1799, documenting European tour, including stops in ...
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Autograph Sentiment Signed.
Lot: 45Sold for: $1,476$1,200Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Autograph Sentiment Signed. Small sheet of graph paper inscribed, "So near is grandeur to our dust, So nigh is God to man, When duty whispers low, Thou must, The ...
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Abolition of Slavery, Two Titles from the 1850s.
Lot: 127Sold for: $185$150Abolition of Slavery, Two Titles from the 1850s. Autographs for Freedom, edited by Julia Griffiths, Auburn: Alden, Beardsley & Co.; and Rochester: Wanzer, Beardsley, & Co., second edition, octavo, a ...
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Fortune of the Republic , Author's Presentation Copy.
Lot: 273Sold for: $5,843$4,750Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Fortune of the Republic, Author's Presentation Copy. Boston: Osgood, 1879. Octavo, inscribed and initialed on ffep by Emerson to Elizabeth Palmer Peabody ...
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Poems , Signed Presentation Copy.
Lot: 274Sold for: $5,843$4,750Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Poems, Signed Presentation Copy. Boston: Munroe & Co., 1847. First edition, four pages of publisher's ads dated January 1, 1847 bound before the title, inscribed by ...
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Works , Autograph Centenary Edition.
Lot: 275Sold for: $1,046$850Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Works, Autograph Centenary Edition. Cambridge: Riverside, 1903. Six octavo volumes (of twenty-two) uniformly bound in half green morocco, gilt spines, with a ...
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Autograph Letter Signed, 24 October 1867.
Lot: 1032Sold for: $523$425Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Autograph Letter Signed, 24 October 1867. Octavo-format wove paper bifolium inscribed over three pages. To G.F. Tinker Esquire of New London, Connecticut, altering ...
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Autograph Letter Signed, 4 November [n.d., 1867?].
Lot: 1033Sold for: $492$400Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Autograph Letter Signed, 4 November [n.d., 1867?]. Octavo-format wove paper bifolium inscribed over two pages. To Cyrus Augustus Bartol (1813-1900) regarding a ...
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Autograph Letter Signed, Concord, 22 October 1858.
Lot: 1034Sold for: $523$425Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Autograph Letter Signed, Concord, 22 October 1858. Octavo-format wove paper bifolium inscribed over four pages. To Reverend William Fish in Cortland, New York, ...
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Autograph Letter Signed, Concord, 24 September 1867.
Lot: 1035Sold for: $461$375Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Autograph Letter Signed, Concord, 24 September 1867. Octavo-format wove paper bifolium inscribed over two pages. To G.F. Tinker Esquire of New London, Connecticut, ...
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Autograph Letter Signed, Concord, 8 November 1853.
Lot: 1036Sold for: $492$400Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Autograph Letter Signed, Concord, 8 November 1853. Octavo-format wove paper bifolium inscribed over three pages. To a correspondent interested in having Emerson ...
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Ten Hall of Fame for Great Americans at New York University Bronze Medals
Lot: 1494Sold for: $62$50Ten Hall of Fame for Great Americans at New York University Bronze Medals, Medallic Art Co., New York, 20th century, Walt Whitman, Francis Parkman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Kent, Lillian Wald, ...
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Signed Sentiment.
Lot: 76Sold for: $584$475Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Signed Sentiment. Small piece of wove paper, inscribed and signed on one side, matted and framed, 4 x 6 in. The text is the first three lines of Emerson's poem, "No ...
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Literary Figures, Fourteen Signed Pieces.
Lot: 112Sold for: $2,091$1,700Literary Figures, Fourteen Signed Pieces. Including: Hermann Hesse signed card; James Fenimore Cooper, check signed 19 November 1843; George Bernard Shaw, photograph signed 14 February 1935; John ...
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Ten Hall of Fame for Great Americans at New York University Bronze Medals
Lot: 2775UnsoldTen Hall of Fame for Great Americans at New York University Bronze Medals, Medallic Art Co., New York, 20th century, Walt Whitman, Francis Parkman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Kent, Lillian Wald, ...
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John Appleton Brown (American, 1844-1902) Celia's Garden
Lot: 260Sold for: $46,125$37,500John Appleton Brown (American, 1844-1902) Celia's Garden Signed and dated "J. Appleton Brown '79" l.r., identified on a label affixed to the reverse, inscribed "John Thaxter Sept. 1874" on the ...
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Autograph Letter Signed, Concord, 2 June 1852.
Lot: 23Sold for: $1,845$1,500Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Autograph Letter Signed, Concord, 2 June 1852. Single sheet of laid paper, inscribed on both sides. To Robert Carter, apologizing for not correcting some errors in ...
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) The Complete Works , Manuscript Edition; [and] Journals , Large Paper Edition
Lot: 214Sold for: $4,305$3,500Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) The Complete Works, Manuscript Edition; [and] Journals, Large Paper Edition Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1903-1904 [and] Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1909-1912. The ...
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Complete Works , Riverside Edition.
Lot: 132Sold for: $277$225Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Complete Works, Riverside Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1886. Ten volumes of eleven, lacking volume three, bound in uniform publisher's blue cloth, some ...
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Attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson Meyers (American, 1885-1948) Seated Navajo Man.
Lot: 95Sold for: $420$350Attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson Meyers (American, 1885-1948) Seated Navajo Man. Initialed and dated "RM 35" l.r., Oil with graphite on canvas, 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm), framed (under ...
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Small Group of Ephemera
Lot: 165Sold for: $120$100Small Group of Ephemera, a mounted photograph of Jenny Lind, a framed autograph note "In kind remembrance of Jenny Lind," a postcard album containing approximately twenty-nine mostly military and ...
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Georg Jensen Cosmos Pattern Pitcher
Lot: 330Sold for: $2,880$2,400Georg Jensen Cosmos Pattern Pitcher Sterling silver Johan Rohde designed c. 1915, Sweden, c. 1926 Baluster form with all over hammered surface and chased petal design around lower body, an ...
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Attributed to Grace Parrish Emerson (American, 1871-1960) View of a Rowboat on a Lake at Dusk
Lot: 219Sold for: $474$400Attributed to Grace Parrish Emerson (American, 1871-1960) View of a Rowboat on a Lake at Dusk Signed "G.PARRISH." l.r. Oil on canvas, 20 1/4 x 18 1/4 in., unframed. Condition: Losses, lifting, ...
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Lot: 37Sold for: $593$500Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882), Autograph letter signed, February 14, 1869, one page, to Charles W. Upham, informing him of the death of John M. Cheney and asking him to notify the members of the ...
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882), Presentation Copy
Lot: 221Sold for: $1,778$1,500Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882), Presentation Copy, Burns, Robert (1759-1796), Poems and Songs, New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1858, gilt lettered full crushed oxblood morocco, inscribed on ...
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Moses Wight (Boston, 1827-1895) Portrait of George Washington.
Lot: 191Sold for: $5,925$5,000Moses Wight (Boston, 1827-1895) Portrait of George Washington. Signed "M.Wight Pinx" l.r. Oil on canvas, 47 1/2 x 38 1/2 in., in original gilt-gesso frame. A typed Museum of Fine Arts paper ...
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Twenty-three Titles of Ralph Waldo Emerson's Works
Lot: 29Sold for: $47$40Twenty-three Titles of Ralph Waldo Emerson's Works, various printers, mostly late 19th/early 20th century, cloth bound. ...