CHILD OF GOD by Cormac McCarthy, New York: Random House, 1973. First Edition; only 4,000 copies were printed in the first run. Octavo, 197 pages, stated first edition. Bound in red boards with blue spine embossed “CMcC” to front with gilt lettering to spine, includes original pictorial dust jacket with $5.95 price on flap. 8 […]
Lot 527: Historie of Philip de Commines, Knight, Lord of Argenton, English Translation, 1614
THE HISTORIE OF PHILIP DE COMMINES, KNIGHT, LORD OF ARGENTON, Philippe de Commines. London: (Imprinted for) John Bill, 1614. Translated by Thomas Danett (1543-1601). Folio, [xvi], 366 pp. Contemporary full calf, intricate publisher’s woodcut title page, as well as numerous smaller woodcut designs and capitals. An early English translation of Commines’ (1447-1511) influential work of European […]
Lot 526: Annali et Istorie di Cornelio Tacito (Annals and Histories of Cornelius Tacitus), 1604
1604 publication of Publius Cornelius Tacitus’ Annals and Histories, in a single volume, translated into “the Tuscan vernacular” by Adriano Politi. Venice: Paolo Meglietti, 1604. 12mo., contemporary limp vellum over boards with leather thong sewing; yapp-edge covers; handwritten title on spine; printer’s woodcut device on title. 5 1/4 in. x 3 1/4 in. x 2 in. Note: Tacitus, a 1st-century Roman politician […]
Lot 525: Methodus Rustica: Catonis atq. Varronis (The Rustic Method: Cato and Varo), 1576
1567 book of Cato’s (Marcus Porcius) agricultural treatise concerning plant and animal husbandry, edited by Swiss physician Theodor Zwinger. METHODUS RUSTICA CATONIS ATQ. VARRONIS. Praeceptis aphoristicis per Locos communes digestis a Theodoro Zwingero typice delineata & illustrata. (Publisher) Basilae: Petri Pernae opera atque impensa. Cum Privilegio. No date (1567). Small 8vo., 494pp (22pp index), contemporary limp vellum over boards with leather thong […]
Lot 524: Orlando Furioso by Ariosto Ludovico, Published 1547
ORLANDO FURIOSO, Ariosto Ludovico, Venice: by Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1547. 8vo, bound in later full brown leather with gilt design to covers, gilt foliate and lettering to spine. Title page within an elaborate woodcut frame; with multiple illustrations inside the text at the beginning of each canto and throughout. 6 1/4 in. x 8 1/2 in. x 2 […]
Lot 523: Military Annals of Tennessee, 1866; with Eyewitness Notes
THE MILITARY ANNALS OF TENNESSEE: CONFEDERATE by John Berrien Lindsey. Nashville, TN: J. M. Lindsley & Co, 1886. First Edition. 910pp. Original publisher’s gilt-pictorial boards, gilt spine and marbled endpapers. The book reviews in detail regimental histories with their military operations and memorial rolls. Numerous portraits throughout. Notations by George W. Samuel, a member of […]
Lot 522: Pr. Greg Ridley Copper Civil War Plaques, Lee & Grant, Plus Sketches
Two (2) Greg Ridley (Tennessee, 1925-2004) bas relief copper plaques of Civil War Generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant, plus four (4) Ridley pen sketches on envelopes. 1st item: Oval copper portrait plaque depicting General Robert E. Lee in Confederate uniform. Signed lower right and dated “’95”. Matted and framed in a wood frame […]
Lot 515: 6 TN Confederate Civil War Related Letters Incl. POW
Group of six (6) Civil War-era letters written by or addressed to Confederate Private James Polk Blakemore (called Polk), 18th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry. Includes four written by Polk as Prisoner of War at Camp Butler, Illinois, plus Nashville and Middle Tennessee content. Letters discuss details of POW life (“…it is the same thing over and over every day get […]
Lot 513: CSA Gen. William Loring and JD Bulloch Photos, Letters, CSS Alabama related
Archive of 3 letters and 3 autographed Cabinet Card photographs of Confederate General William Wing Loring, AKA Loring Pasha, and of Cmdr. James D. Bulloch, Confederate spy and chief Naval Representative to England, from the collection of CSN 1st Lt. Richard Fielder Armstrong of the CSS Alabama, plus 2 Confederate post-war pieces of souvenir “currency.” 1st grouping: The […]
Lot 510: Gen. Alex P. Stewart ALS Civil War Letter to Capt. Wm. Tabb’s Sister
Confederate General Alexander P. Stewart (1821-1908) ALS to the sister of Captain William Henry Tabb, dated July 2, 1862, in response to her letter begging him to intervene for his release from Johnson’s Island Prison. Tabb and many soldiers in his regiment, the 14th Mississippi Infantry, were captured at the Battle of Fort Donelson. Stewart had […]
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