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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 151 | Cecil Aldin | The Black Puppy Book, 1908, 12 color plates |
London | ca1908 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 112.00 |
| 152 | Armont, Paul & Jacques Bousquet | Le Danseur de Madame (1921) signed by both to Edmond Roze |
Paris | 1921 | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 153 | Arrhenius | Recherches sur la Conductibilite Galvanique des Electrolytes, 1884. Nobel |
Stockholm | 1884 | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 154 | Binswanger | Grundformen und Erkenntnis menschlichen Daseins, 1942. Existential psychology major work |
Zurich | 1942 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 155 | 19th century science fiction | Willis Brewer's "The Secret of Mankind" 1895, set on |
New York | 1895 | USD 250.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 156 | Aldo Carpi | Serbia Eroica (1917) inscribed with poster, maps, etc. Documenting Serbian Retreat. |
Milano | 1917 | USD 400.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 157 | Willa Cather | Father Junipero's Holy Family -- Anvil Press 1956, Carolyn Hammer's own copy |
Lexington | 1956 | USD 350.00 - 700.00 | USD 246.40 |
| 158 | John Ratcliffe Chapman | Instructions to Young Marksmen (1848) |
New York | 1848 | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 159 | Cumming | Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa (1850) 2 vols, 1st ed. |
London | 1850 | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 160 | (Aviation) D'Amecourt | La conquete de l'air par l'helice, un nouveau syste |
Paris | 1863 | USD 250.00 - 450.00 | Not Sold |
| 161 | Wakeman | Victorian Colour Printing, 1981, one of 150 with actual specimens |
Wakeman, Geoffrey. Victorian Colour Printing. Loughborough, UK | 1981 | USD 400.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 162 | Avedon, Richard | In the American West, 1985, inscribed to director of Amon Carter Museum |
New York | 1985 | USD 800.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 163 | E. R. Brainerd (Chicago) | 1896 Oak Cane Seat Chair catalog, with poster-sized advertisement |
1896 | USD 100.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 164 | David Acheson | David Acheson, Jun. Ca. 1850s --- Acheson family copy |
NY | Ca1850s | USD 50.00 - 100.00 | Not Sold |
| 165 | 30 "Esky" 1940-44 pin-up girl postcards by Vargas, Hurrell & Waxman for Esquire 7 x |
1940-44 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 166 | Parker, Holmes & Co., Boston, 1889 catalogue of boots, shoes, rubbers |
1889 | USD 75.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 167 | Jamestown Bedstead Co. 1895 catalog of beds, bedsteads, cribs & cradles, lots of illustrations! |
Jamestown, NY | 1895 | USD 75.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 168 | 30 colorized photo postcards of Japan, early 1900s |
Japan and Cleveland, OH, almost all unused (no messages, addresses, postmarks, stamps). The Manila Trading Co. dealt in imports from the Far East and used these postcards as advertising cards for their inventory.<br>Mainly very good, occasional light soi | early 1900s | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 56.00 | |
| 169 | 17 military-themed Real Photo Postcards (RPPCs) 1900s-1940s |
Berlin/ Canada/ Romania/ Russia | ca1900s-40s | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 56.00 | |
| 170 | 15 Arizona postcards, 1900s-1910s |
Cincinnati/ Phoenix, AZ/ Los Angeles | 1907-1914 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 171 | 44 RPPCs from Western Pennsylvania & Pittsburgh, many of the 1936 flood; Real Photo Postcards |
Pittsburgh | ca1930s | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 172 | 26 Real Photo Postcards (RPPCs) of women in hats, early 1900s |
London/ Germany/ Cleveland/ | ca1910s-20s | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 173 | 16 Circus and Troupe Postcards, many RPPCs, with messages 1900s-1920s |
Germany | ca1900s-1920s | USD 175.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 174 | 17 postcards by French caricaturist Albert Guillaume, early 1900s |
Paris | ca1910s | USD 125.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 175 | Karl Marx | Capital (First American edition, 1891) |
New York | 1891 | USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 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.")
