Cowans Auctions: Books and Manuscripts: Timed Auction launch 8/22

[Literature - Don Quixote in Italian] Don Chisciotte Della Mancia in Two Volumes - The First Complete Edition in Italian, Published in Venice, 1625

[Religion - Bible - Early Printing] Confutation of the Rhemists, printed by Brewster in Leiden in 1619, important "Pilgrim" book

[Americana - Political - Presidential - Autographs] Autograph Book of West Virginia Senator Henry G. Davis & Daughter Grace - 289 Autographs Including 7 Presidents, 5 Vice-Presidents and 100's Members of Senate, House, and Cabinets, Etc. In Fine Binding

[Americana - Ohio - Cattle Trade] Rare Ohio Memoir by William Renick of Pickaway County, 1880 - Last Appearance at Auction was Streeter Sale 1968

[Americana - Abraham Lincoln - Republican Convention] Proceedings of National Republican Convention, Chicago 1860, Press & Tribune Documents

[Illustrated - 17th C. Views - Matthaeus Merian] Two Great Merian Books Bound Together in Contemporary Tooled Pigskin - 100's of Great Copper Plate Engraved Town Views

[Literature - Italy - 16th C. Printing of Dante] Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Printed in Venice by Bernardino Stagnino, 1536

[Americana - Architecture] Rare First Edition of the Second "Distinctly" American Architecture Book - Young Carpenter's Assistant - Philadelphia 1805 in Contemporary Leather

[Americana- Presidents - Autographs] President Andrew Jackson Signed Land Grant on Vellum, 1830

[Americana - Illustrated - Lincoln] Famous Life-Size Steel Engraving by Henry Gugler 1869 -- The Largest Portrait Engraving of Abraham Lincoln

[Americana - Presidential Politics - Alexander Hamilton] Hamilton's Letter Concerning Public Conduct & Character of John Adams 1800 3rd Edition, Howes H116, A Notoriously Controversial Political Pamphlet

[Religion - Early Printing - Calvinism] Institution of Christian Religion, 1611

[Americana - Kentucky - 18th C. Map] J. Russell, Map of the State of Kentucky with Adjoining Territories, 1794 with Hand Coloring & Framed

[Americana - Abraham Lincoln - "Wigwam Edition"] Nice Example of Rare Lincoln Campaign Biography 1860 Howes L-341; "Abram" Lincoln

[Americana - Native American] The Cherokee Advocate, Rare Indian Territory Newspaper

[Classical Literature - Plutarch - Dryden] Plutarch's Lives Translated from the Greek, Six Volumes Edinburgh 1763

[Americana - Military History] Revolutionary War Newspaper, 1781, Reporting on Benedict Arnold and Major Andre, Plus Runaway Slave Notice

[Ornithology - Illustrated] Studer's Popular Ornithology, The Birds of North America 1881 Printed in Columbus with 119 Chromolithograph Illustrations

[Americana - Native American - Photography] Indian Prayer Book from 1837 Containing CDV of Identified American Indian Woman

[Americana - Early Imprints - Pamphlets] An Interesting Sammelband of 15 American Imprints (Plus 1 London), Incl. 18th Century Boston Sermons, July 4th Orations, & 1787 Benjamin Rush on Publick Punishments

[Illustrated - Color Lithography - Puck] Bound Folio "Puck" for 1884-1885 with 156 Color Plates Including 52 Hinged Double Page Illustrations

[Cartography - Americana - 17th Century] Matthaus Merian, Map of America Circa 1638 Hand Coloring in Outline - Matted and Framed

[Presidents - Children's - Signed - Illustrated] Nikki Grimes' Children's Biography Signed by Barack Obama & the Illustrator Bryan Collier 1st Edition

[Americana - 18th Century - Historic Newspapers] Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, Rare Colonial American Newspaper with Reactions to the Intolerable Acts, April 1774

[Americana - 18th Century - Historic Newspapers] Early Coverage of the Revolutionary War Reported in Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, October 1775