Civil War era album containing fifty (50) cartes-de-visite (CDVs), including thirty-two (32) lithographed images of engravings and eighteen (18) photographic images, depicting Presidents, Presidential Cabinet members, Union and Confederate generals and leaders, and other figures of historical significance, including John Wilkes Booth. Album includes: Presidential related images, including one (1) depicting the Sixteenth President Abraham […]
Lot 754: John Hunt Morgan related Bible Flag + 4 CSA Covers
Confederate Personal or Bible flag found with personal belongings of the wife of General John Hunt Morgan, First National pattern, 15 stars; hand sewn silk striped field and blue canton with fourteen embroidered stars encircling a large single star. Red or burgundy silk cord and tassels. 5" x 8 1/2". Circa 1862. Note: This flag […]
Lot 748: Archive: Wm. Vance of Memphis, TN, Slave and Lincoln Assassination interest
Archive of over three hundred (300) items primarily pertaining to Colonel William Little Vance (1815-1888), early Memphis, Tennessee businessman, slave trader, and witness to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Includes slave receipts, inventory lists, and other documents related to Vance and members of his prominent family including his wife Letitia Hart Thompson Vance (1826-1896), […]
Lot 743: Large Davis Family & Devon Farm Archive, incl. James K. Polk Signed
Large archive of 100 plus items, including land grants signed by Tennessee Governors James K. Polk, Willie Blount, Joseph McMinn, and William Carroll, pertaining to John Davis (1770-1853), early surveyor and prominent land holder in Nashville, Tennessee and grandfather of Edward Dickson Hicks II (1831-1984), the founder of Historic Devon Farm. 1st item: Governor of […]
Lot 739: TN Centennial Exposition Archive, 31 items
Archive of thirty (30) items pertaining to the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, held in Nashville, TN, May 1-October 31, 1897, 31 items total. 1st-22nd items: Twenty-two (22) Tennessee Centennial Exposition related souvenir items, including eleven (11) postcards and photographic images (ranging in size from 3 3/8" x 8" H), four (4) cranberry cut glass items (ranging […]
Lot 732: 2 Thomas Hardy Books, incl. Author Signed TESS, 1926
Two (2) Thomas Hardy novels, including Author Signed TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES, 1926. 1st item: Author Signed TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES: A PURE WOMAN, Limited First Illustrated Edition, by Thomas Hardy, illustrated by Vivien Gribble, published by Macmillan and Company, Ltd., London, 1926. Hardcover octavo, 508 pages with 41 woodcut illustrations and foldout map by […]
Lot 733: Writings of Thoreau, Manuscript Edition, 20 vols.
Publisher Signed, THE WRITINGS OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Manuscript Edition, Vol. I-XX, No. 133/600, published by Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, Boston and New York, 1906. Hardcover octavos, top edge gilt pages, each volume with handwritten number, frontispieces and additional illustration plates with tissue paper guards, hardbound in three-quarter green Moroccan leather with tan marbled paper […]
Lot 730: Rimball, A Season In Hell, LEC Edition, 1986
Translator and Photographer Signed A SEASON IN HELL, by Arthur Rimball, translated by Paul Schmidt, with photogravures by Robert Mapplethorpe, Limited Editions Club (LEC) Edition, Number 426/1000, published by the LEC, New York, 1986. Hardcover quarto, 87 pages with English and French text, 8 hand-rubbed photogravure plates with tissue paper guards, hardbound in full red […]
Lot 722: 10 Fossil, Paleontology, & Natural History Books
Ten (10) Books Related to Fossils, Paleontology, and Natural History. 1st-2nd items: NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK: PALEONTOLOGY OF NEW YORK, Vol. I & II, by James Hall, printed by C. Van Benthuysen, Albany, 1847 & 1852. Hardcover octavoes, 700 total pages with engraved title and additional engraved plates, rebound in black cloth with gilt […]
Lot 720: L'Hospital, Analyse Des Infiniment Petits, 2nd Ed., 1716
ANALYSE DES INFINIMENT PETITS, POUR L'INTELLIGENCE DES DES LIGNES COURBES, Second Edition, by the Marquis Guillaume de L'Hospital, published by Etienne Papillon, Paris, 1716. Hardcover octavo, 181 pages with 11 fold-out copper engraving plates, rebound in three quarter brown leather with marbled paper sides, gilt lettering to spine, five raised hubs, marbled endpapers. 10" H […]
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