Two (2) Currier & Ives Presidential prints, including one (1) titled "Washington's Reception by the Ladies, on passing the bridge at Trenton, NJ April 1789" and one titled "The Presidents of the United States" which features the first ten (10) presidents of the United States of America with Jefferson misspelled "Jeffrson". Both housed in matching […]

Continental powder flask, comprised of a curved and flattened cow horn with metal mounts. The front of the flask with elaborate engraved decoration depicting a soldier flanked by a lion with a central vignette of three fleurs-de-lis with the date 1608. The reverse side with engraved concentric circle decoration and the top and base with […]

Four (4) Surveyor's Equipment items. 1st item: Thomas Whitney, Philadelphia Vernier Compass, No. 448, comprised of brass with a glass face, the steel eight-point dial with black lines and lettering for each cardinal direction, a fleur de lis representing North, a black steel directional needle on central brass post, with a vernier scale to outer […]

Noon Cannon Sundial, having a brass model cannon, gnomon, and frame fitted with a glass lens, all mounted to a round off white resin dial plate with incised roman numerals and hour lines. 5 1/2" H x 11 3/4" W. Mid 20th Century. PROVENANCE: The Estate of James W. Perkins, Jr., Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall […]

Six (6) books, including CANDLE-LIGHTIN'TIME by Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1901, and three (3) Maria Howard Weeden books. 1st item: CANDLE-LIGHTIN'TIME by Paul Laurence Dunbar, illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club and decorations by Margaret Armstrong, published by Dodd Mead and Company,1901. Octavo, 127 gilt top edged pages with song lyrics and photographic […]

Early Canada Map plus Reproduction of Des Barres' View of Boston. 1st item: A PLAN OF THE COPPER MINE RIVER, SURVEYED BY SAMUEL HEARNE, JULY 1771. Early engraved Canada map, depicting the Coppermine River in the Hudson Bay / North Slave and Kitikmeot regions of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Image: 7 3/4" H x […]

1st-2nd items: Two (2) Neo-Classical hand-colored, copperplate etchings on laid paper after drawings by Nicolaus Vanni (Italian, 1720-1800) from RACCOLTA DI PITTURE D'ERCOLANO, published circa 1752-62. Both depict images from Ancient Roman wall frescoes excavated in Herculaneum. Scale and publication information, lower left, center, and right, below the images. Both matted and housed under glass […]

Three (3) maps of Russia and two (2) maps of Spain, five (5) items total, including Christoph Cellarius and Abraham Ortelius. 1st item: SCYTHIA ET SERICA map, engraved by William Henry Toms, from Christoph Cellarius' GEOGRAPHIA ANTIQUA, published by John and Paul Knapton, London, circa 1742. Copperplate engraved map on laid paper depicting Central Russia, […]

Two (2) historical books, including PEDIGREES OF THE COUNTY FAMILIES OF YORKSHIRE, Vol.1 and THE AMERICAN WEEKLY MESSENGER, 1813-1814. 1st item: PEDIGREES OF THE COUNTY FAMILIES OF YORKSHIRE, Vol. I – West Riding, compiled by Joseph Foster, printed and published by W. Wilfred Head, London, 1874. Hardcover quarto, includes the pedigrees of 130 familes, most […]

LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, Vol. I-V, by Washington Irving, published by G. P. Putnam, New York, 1861. Hardcover octavos, 2,336 total marbled-edged pages, each volume with two steel engraved frontispieces depicting portraits of Washington or other scenes relevant to his life with tissue paper guards, hardbound in three quarter light brown leather with marbled paper […]