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
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
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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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    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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    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.