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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

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Lot 1

Yale College

[AMERICAN PERIODICAL; PROSPECTUS] THE ATHENAEUM. Vol. 1, no. 1 -15. 1814

Complete run of early literary magazine issued by the senior class of Yale College

Lot 5

Samuel PEPYS

Diary of Samuel Pepys

18 volumes in 3/4 morocco

Lot 6

[ANONYMOUS]

Historical Record of the Fifty - Sixth, or the West Essex Regiment of Foot

With one more color plate than called for.

Lot 8

Wm. Lloyd GARRISON, editor

[NEWSPAPER; SLAVERY] THE LIBERATOR Jan. 4, 1839 w/ Contemporary inscription, “Colonization Society “ mentioned

Lot 9

COLONIAL AMERICANA

[WILLS, INVENTORIES & DEEDS] Variety of probate & property papers for 1738-1840's

In an early dome-top stenciled-wallpapered document box

Lot 14

James MEIKLE

[MARITIME ART] Famous Clyde Yachts 1880-87 from original water colour drawings by Henry Shields

25 Classic maritime color plates

Lot 16

[INSCRIBED] Augusta Emma Simmons STETSON

My Spiritual Aeroplane

Rare, no copies online, spirituality from a friend of Mary Baker Eddy

Lot 17

Frank WATERS

Fever Pitch

Rare first edition in a very good dust jacket

Lot 29

Frances Folsom CLEVELAND Preston (1864-1947, First Lady).

4pp. autograph letter to her daughter

with 'free' envelope + associated postcard

Lot 41

‘SARBAN’ [John William WALL (1910-1989)]

The Dollmaker and other tales of the uncanny.

'Sarban' : "a subtle, literate teller of tales, conscious of the darker and less acceptable implications that underlie much popular literature" (The Encyclopedia of…

Lot 44

Owen JONES (1809-1874, designer) – Robert Charles DUDLEY (1826-1909, illustrator).

[King James Version] The Holy Bible, Containing the Old & New Testaments.

Spectacular 'relievo leather' binding designed by Owen Jones

Lot 57

Chris L. DEMAREST (b. 1951).

Benedict Finds a Home [with:] an original watercolor, artwork to the published work

The watercolor illsutrates 'But the neighbors were not very friendly' and is inscribed to the book's designer.

Lot 61

Rex BRASHER (1869-1960).

[Rubythroat Hummingbird]

One plate from a much larger work, numbered '428' and this example signed in ink by Brasher

Lot 67

Terence BARROW

[Tribal Art]  Maori post figure Poutokomanawa & Baga Female Figure, privately issued photographic study

Author of "An illustrated guide to Maori art" & related books; Former Bishop Museum curator

Lot 79

Jerry HOLTMAN

Freak Show Man. the Autobiography of Harry Lewiston as Told to Jerry Holtman

Fine copy of this scarce book

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