Common Crow Books: Rare Books & Ephemera, 393976, Pittsburgh

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 03, 2025 - December 03, 2025
Page Size: 306 items in 13 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
326 (Ethiopia) Mansfield Parkyns

Life in Abyssinia, 2 vols. 1854

New York 1854 USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
327

The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, 3 vols. 1764-1769, 1st collected ed.

London 1764-1769 USD 400.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
328

The Plays of Bernard Shaw, 1927, 12 volumes in publisher's cloth box, limp blue leather

London 1927 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
329 W.T. Sherman et al

Supplemental Report of Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, 1866, 2 vols.

Washington DC 1866 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
330 Augustin Bernard

Petits Edifices, Quatrieme Serie, Provence: Constructions Rurales, 1927 portfolio

Paris 1927 USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
331

Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, Moderniz'd by Mrs. Stanley, 1725 large folio

London 1725 USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
332

Robert Clarke & Co., Bibliotheca Americana 1886 & 1893, 2 rare Americana catalogues

Cincinnati 1886 & 1893 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 67.20
333

(Knights Templar) The Conclave through a Camera, Pittsburgh 1898

Pittsburgh 1898 USD 60.00 - 125.00 USD 67.20
334 Katherine Thomson

Memoirs of Viscountess Sundon, 2 vols. 1847, finely bound by Root.

1847 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 89.60
335 Duff & Allen

Psychic Research and Gospel Miracles, 1902

New York 1902 USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
336 Harris Nicolas

A Treatise on The Law of Adulterine Bastardy with a Report of the Banbury Case, 1836

London 1836 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
337 F. O. C. Darley

A Selection of War Lyrics, 1864, with tinted full page wood engravings.

New York 1864 USD 60.00 - 125.00 Not Sold
338 Sofu Matsuno

My Life on Noh Stages: Drawings and Paintings (1945, in Japanese)

Tokyo 1945 USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
339 John Quincy Adams

Dermot Macmorrogh, or The Conquest of Ireland (1832)

Boston 1832 USD 75.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
340 Ber Karlinski, ed.

Illustrirte Velt [Illustrated World], 1919-1920 Yiddish Polish Warsaw cultural

Warsaw, Poland 1919-1920 USD 300.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
341 Cody, William F. & Helen Cody Wetmore

Last of the Great Scouts. Chicago, c. 1899

Chicago c.1899 USD 75.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
342 Walter Pearce

Painting and Decoration, 1907

London 1907 USD 60.00 - 125.00 Not Sold
343 Bland, J. O. & E. Backhouse

China Under the Empress Dowager, 1910

Philadelphia 1910 USD 75.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
344 Schwartz, Israel Jacob

Yunge Yorn (verse autobiography in Yiddish about life in Lithuania), 1952

Mexico City 1952 USD 125.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
345 Marah Ellis Ryan

Indian Love Letters, frontispiece by Edward S. Curtis, 1907 1st ed.

Chicago 1907 USD 125.00 - 250.00 USD 67.20
346 Robertson, Patrick (Lord)

Sonnets, Reflective & Descriptive, 1854, inscribed & manuscript poems

Edinburgh 1854 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
347

(Military Medicine) Message Center, a Record of the R.O.T.C. Camp, 1930 Carlisle PA

Carlisle PA 1930 USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
348

1916 poster for Pittsburgh's Friends of Irish Freedom for a reception at the William Penn Hotel

Pittsburgh 1916 USD 650.00 - 1,250.00 Not Sold
349 Marie Harrison

Cook and Be Cool: A Book for Hot-Weather Housekeeping, 1928

Boston 1928 USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 33.60
350 Jones, Alvin Lincoln; Charles B. Webster

Under Colonial Roofs, 1894, 40 large gravure photos

Boston C.1894 USD 250.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
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    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
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    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
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    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
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    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.
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    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.
    SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: 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.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
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    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.