Common Crow Books: Rare Books & Ephemera, 393976, Pittsburgh
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- December 03, 2025 - December 03, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | W. H. Auden | Secondary Worlds (1968) drunkenly inscribed 4x to one of his editors |
New York | c.1968 | USD 400.00 - 800.00 | USD 358.40 |
| 102 | Richard Avenarius | Philosophie als Denken der Welt (1876) inscribed first edition |
Leipzig | 1876 | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 103 | Isaac Bashevis Singer & Ira Moskowitz | Satan in Goray 1981 1/50 signed, ink drawings, etchings |
New York | 1981 | USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 104 | Bendixen | Perceptive Illustrations of the Bible (1850 folio of 40 colored lithographs) |
London | Ca.1850 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 105 | Georges Bernanos | Lettre Aux Anglais - One of 32 signed copies (1942) Anti-Hitler Anti-Nazi |
Rio de Janeiro | 1942 | USD 400.00 - 850.00 | Not Sold |
| 106 | John Brand | The History of Newcastle upon Tyne (1789) quarto, 32 plates |
London | 1789 | USD 450.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold |
| 107 | E. Wallis Budge | The Alexander Book in Ethiopia (1933) 1st ed., very rare in dj. |
London | 1933 | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 108 | 1936-40 binder on opening Buhl Planetarium, Pittsburgh | letters, docs, ephemera, etc. |
USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 109 | Byne & Stapley | Decorated Wooden Ceilings of Spain (1920) folio, 56 plates |
New York | C.1920 | USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 110 | Susannah Carter | The Frugal Housewife (Philadelphia, 1802) |
Philadelphia | 1802 | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 111 | Raymond Chandler | The High Window (1942 first edition in dust jacket) |
New York | 1942 | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 268.80 |
| 112 | G. Woolworth Colton | New York City, Jersey City, Hoboken, Brooklyn, Etc. Map and Guide (1873) |
New York | 1873 | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 113 | William Combe & Thomas Rowlandson | Dr. Syntax, 3 Tours (1855), 80 colored plates, finely bound. |
London | -1855 | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 114 | Cramer et al. Henry Moore | Catalogue of Graphic Work, Volume III, 1976-1979, SIGNED by Moore! |
Geneva | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 115 | De Amicis | My Last Friend, Dog Dick - inscribed to Sidney Lanier Jr. by translators & Enrico Caruso! |
Boston | C.1916 | USD 400.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 116 | Caswall | Sketches of Young Ladies (1837) --- attributed to Charles Dickens |
London | 1837 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 117 | Dispatch News Service | 1939 Bound volume of 75 original 13x11 photos of newsworthy pictures |
1939 | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 118 | Austin Dobson | Poems on Several Occasions (1895) #11/50 signed by author, William Strang, Lalauze |
New York | 1895 | USD 400.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 119 | Du Choul | Discorso Sopra La Castrametatione...(1556), 44 woodcut plates, military camps & |
Lyons | 1556 | USD 400.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 120 | (Fayette County, PA) 1833-36 Providence Iron Works Ledger, Day Book & Account Book, Brownsville |
Brownsville PA | 1833-1836 | USD 450.00 - 850.00 | Not Sold | |
| 121 | Rene Gasnier | Villes Americaines (1909) inscribed to French aviator Paul Tissandier: |
Angers | 1909 | USD 450.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 122 | 1548 First printed map of Indian subcontinent | Giacomo Gastaldi, Calecut Nova Tabula |
(Venice | 1548 | USD 450.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 123 | Der Koran...1828 in handsome dark green morocco gilt. Qur'an in German. |
Halle | 1828 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 89.60 | |
| 124 | Paul B. Goddard | Plates of the Cerebro-Spinal Nerves (1837) -- Plates of the Arteries (1839) |
Philadelphia | 1837-1839 | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 125 | Edmond & Jules de Goncourt | Renee Mauperin, 1864 -- with tipped in letter from Edmond |
Paris | 1864 | USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/0a99416d-9c0f-4fa3-afdd-7532ca8a2b2c.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a077b4a5-0477-4c47-9847-0158cf045843.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/6363a735-e622-4d0a-852e-07cef58eccbe.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/3ee16d5b-a2ec-4c03-aeb6-aa3fcfec3a5e.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/d5f50485-7faa-423f-af0c-803b964dd2ba.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/fb024365-7d7a-4510-9859-9d26b5c266cf.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a7c0eda0-9d8b-43ac-a504-58923308d5a4.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.")
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/00d5fd41-2542-4a80-b119-4886d4b9925f.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.")
