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 […]

THE PRIVATE JOURNAL OF AARON BURR, First Edition, Vol. I-II, Number X15/250, reprinted in full from the original manuscript in the library of Mr. William K. Bixby, of St. Louis, MO, published by The Genesee Press, Rochester, 1903. Hardcover octavos, 1,004 total pages with 2 steel engraved frontispieces with tissue paper guards, hardbound in one […]

Seven (7) Southern Arts and Crafts and Historical books; subjects include George Ohr, Alabama and Shenandoah Pottery, MIssissippi historic sites, and Silver. 1st item: TENNESSEE SILVERSMITHS by Benjamin H. Caldwell, Jr., published by The Museum of Early Decorative Arts (MESDA), Winston-Salem, 1988. Hardcover octavo, 216 pages with black and white and color photographic illustrations, hardbound […]

Grouping of thirty-six (36) Civil War and Post Civil War era items, including relic/battlefield pickup artifacts, prints. 1st-6th items: Six (6) assorted relic/battlefield pickup items, including one (1) 69 caliber buckshot, with printed label stating that it was excavated in Virginia; one (1) grouping of tobacco leaves, with printed label stating that it was collected […]