Schilb Antiquarian: Rare Books with NO Reserve, NO Buyer's Premium, 102724, Columbia

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Auction Date
October 27, 2024 - October 27, 2024
Page Size: 101 items in 5 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
27 Unknown author

Book of Rites or LiJi;

Japan 1850 USD 550.00 - 1,200.00 USD 84.00
28 DAVIS, George Lynn-Lachlan

The day-star of American freedom, or, The birth and early growth of toleration in the province of Maryland : with a sketch of the colonization upon the Chesapeake and its tributaries

New York 1855 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 145.00
29 LESTER, C Edwards

The life and voyages of Americus Vespucius, with illustrations concerning the navigator, and the discovery of the New World ...

New Haven, 1855 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 125.00
30 SEARS, Robert

Bible biography; or, The lives and characters of the principal personages recorded in the sacred writings; practically adapted to the instruction of youth and private families

New York 1856 USD 399.00 - 800.00 USD 94.00
31 UPHAM, Charles Wentworth

Life, explorations and public services of John Charles Fremont

Boston 1856 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 245.00
32 BIGELOW, John

Memoir of the life and public services of John Charles Fremont: including an account of his explorations... and his principal speeches...

New York 1856 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 100.00
33 VIERIA E SOUSA, Jose

Orac?a?o funebre, que, nas annuaes exequias de Sua Magestade Imperial o Senhor D. Pedro IV, Duque de Braganc?a e Regente de Portugal

Porto 1857 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 90.00
34 GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von

Reineke Fuchs

Stuttgart 1857 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 200.00
35 DANA, C.W.

The Great West, or the Garden of the World; its History, its Wealth, its Natural Advantages, and its Future. Also Comprising Complete Guide to Emigrants, with a Full Description of the Different Routes Westward. With Statistics and Facts, from Hon. Thomas

Philadelphia 1857 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 54.00
36 FRIKELL, Wiljalba

The secret out : or, One thousand tricks with cards, and other recreations

New York 1859 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 215.00
37 HARTLEY, Cecil B

Life of the Empress Josephine : wife of Napoleon I

Philadelphia 1860 USD 399.00 - 800.00 USD 160.00
38 HEADLEY, J.T. Hon.

The Illustrated life of Washington. Giving an account of his early adventures and enterprises, ...

New York 1860 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 380.00
39 OLMSTED, Frederick Law

A journey in the seaboard slave states, with remarks on their economy.

New York 1861 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 160.00
40 LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth

Tales of a wayside inn

Boston 1863 USD 399.00 - 800.00 USD 990.00
41 DADMUN, John

The masonic choir: a collection of hymns and tunes, original and selected, for the use of the fraternity

Boston 1864 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 140.00
42 MARKS, James Junius

The Peninsular campaign in Virginia: or, Incidents and scenes on the battle-fields and in Richmond

Philadelphia 1864 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 330.00
43 BOWMAN, S.M.; IRWIN, R.B.

Sherman and his campaigns : a military biography

New York 1865 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 250.00
44 KIRKLAND, Frazar [pseud. of RM Devens]

The pictorial book of anecdotes and incidents of the war of the rebellion, civil, military, naval and domestic

Hartford 1867 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 90.00
45 United States

The magnetism of ships and the deviations of the compass [A series of papers from the transactions of foreign societies].

Washington, D.C. 1867 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 120.00
46 TIFFANY, Osmond

Sacred biography and history, or, Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures

Springfield, Mass. 1867 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 70.00
47 COPPEE, Henry

Life and services of gen. U.S. Grant.

Chicago 1868 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 330.00
48 MOORE, Charles

The new masonic trestle-board : adapted to the work and lectures as practised in the lodges, chapters, councils, and encampments of Knights templars, in the United States of America

Boston 1868 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 125.00
49 NAST, Thomas (Illus.); [ADAMS, William Taylor]; GALLIGASKEN, Captain Bernard (Pseud.); OPTIC, Oliver (Pseud.)

Our Standard-Bearer; or, the Life of General Ulysses S. Grant: His Youth, His Manhood, His Campaigns, and His Eminent Services in the Reconstruction of the Nation His Sword Has Redeemed.

Boston 1868 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 175.00
50 DABNEY, Robert Lewis

Life and campaigns of Lieutenant-General Thomas J. Jackson

London 1868 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 3,500.00
51 SMITH, Michael Hale

Sunshine and shadow in New York

Hartford, 1868 USD 399.00 - 800.00 USD 48.00
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    Bonhams, Dec. 18: Edith Wharton's Gold Medal from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1924. $20,000 - $30,000
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    Bonhams, Dec. 18: Fanny Burney's Groundbreaking First Novel. Evelina, Or a Young Lady's Entrance into the World. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 18: Kafka's Earliest Extant Piece of Writing. Autograph Note Signed ("Franz Kafka"). $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 18: Wagner Signed "Ride of the Valkries." $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 18: Dickens on the Death of Little Nell. $5,000 - $8,000
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    Bonhams, Dec. 18: Walt Whitman and Friends: Whitman to James Russell Lowell. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 18: Walt Whitman and Friends: The Genesis of his Lincoln Lectures. $6,000 - $9,000
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    Wood & Metal Type. Many fonts and faces.
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    Print Shop Miscellany including type, tools, and equipment.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: A Rare Complete Run of the Cuala Press Broadsides. €5,500 to €7,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Rare First Edition of a Classic Work. [Stafford (Thos.)] Pacata Hibernia, Ireland Appeased and Reduced…, 1633. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Yeats (W.B.) The Poems of W.B. Yeats, 2 vols. Lond. (MacMillan & Co.) 1949. Signed by author, limited edition. €1,250 to €1,750.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Fishing: Literal Translation into English of the Earliest Known Book on Fowling and Fishing, Written originally in Flemish and Printed at Antwerp in 1492. London (Chiswick Press) 1872. €1,500 to €2,000.
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    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Joyce (James). Finnegans Wake,, London (Faber & Faber Ltd.) 1939, Lim. Edn. No. 269 (425) copies, Signed by the Author (in green pen). €3,000 to €4,000.
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    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Carve (Thomas). Itinerarium R.D. Thomas Carve Tripperariensis, Sacellani Maioris in Fortisima iuxta…,, Moguntia (Mainz) impriemebat Nicolaus Heyll, 1639. €1,500 to €2,000.
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    Sotheby’s, Dec. 9: Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria. "Epitome Cosmografica." With the 6 circular celestial and terrestrial charts. 7,000 – 10,000 USD
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