Freemans: Books and Manuscripts, 2101, Philadelphia

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Auction Date
September 10, 2024 - September 10, 2024
Page Size: 152 items in 7 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 (Paine, Thomas, et al.).

Eulogies and Orations on the Life and Death of General George Washington, First President of the United States of America

Boston 1800 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 762.00
27 Paine, Thomas, et al.

Group of 2 Works Regarding French King Louis XVI. Opinion de Thomas Payne Depute du Departement de la Somme, concernant le Jugement de Louis XVI, ...

Paris 1792-(1793). USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
28 Palmer, John.

Journals of Travels in the United States of North America, and in Lower Canada, Performed in the Year 1817...

London 1818 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 381.00
29 Palmer, Peter S.

History of Lake Champlain, from its First Exploration by the French in 1609, to the Close of the Year 1814

Albany 1866 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 318.00
30 Pownall, Thomas (after).

A View of the City of Boston the Capital of New England, in North America

London ca. 1761 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
31 Krausch, Theodore.

Freight Engine. New York & Erie R.R.

(Pennsylvania) 1855 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
32 Bright, Clarence E.

Personal Archive of Letters and Ephemera. Archive of Clarence E. Bright, longtime Manager of the Pearson Printing Office, the sole printer of Supreme Court Decisions from 1891-1946

Locations vary ca. 1913-75. USD 2,500.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,810.00
33 Niles, John M., and L.T. Pease.

History of South America and Mexico...To Which is Annexed, a Geographical and Historical View of Texas, with a Detailed Account of the Texian Revolution and War

Hartford 1837 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,397.00
34 [Washington, Bushrod] (Hamilton, Alexander, and James Madison, and John Jay).

The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, As Agreed Upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787

Bushrod Washington's Copy<br><br>New-York 1788 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 53,975.00
35 [Washington, George, and Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette] Cathala, Etienne-Louis-Denis.

The Destruction of the Bastille. A Tribute to the Patriarch of Liberty: The Marquis de Lafayette's Personal Gift to President George Washington of a Drawing of the Demolished Bastille...

Paris 1789 USD 500,000.00 - 800,000.00 USD 1,996,000.00
36 [Lafayette, Marquis de] Hennon-Dubois, Romulus Antoine.

Le General La Fayette

No place ca. 1820s. USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
37 Adams, John Quincy.

Oration on the Life and Character of Gilbert Motier de Lafayette. ...

Washington 1835 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,016.00
38 [Washington, George]

Residence of Washington. Mount Vernon.

No place ca. 1840s. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
39 [Lafayette, Marquis de]

Silk Mourning Ribbon

No place ca. 1834 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 445.00
40 [Vitruvius].

Vitruvius iterum et frontinus a' locundo revisi repurgatique quantum ex collatione licuit

Florence 1513 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,270.00
41 Vitruvius, Marcus.

M. Vitruvii de Architectura Libri decem nuper maxima diligentia castigati atq; excusi, additis, Iulii Frontini De aqueductibus libris propter materiae affinitatem

Florence 1522 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,778.00
42 Burton, Richard F.

The Book of the Sword

London 1884 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 508.00
43 Roworth, Charles.

The Art of Defence on Foot with the Broad Sword and Sabre

London 1798 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 318.00
44 (Caradoc of Llancarfan, and Humphrey Llwyd, and David Powel).

The historie of Cambria, now called Wales: A part of the most famous Yland of Brytaine, written in the Brytish language abouet two hundreth yeares past...

(London 1584 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,493.00
45 [Mary, Queen of Scots] Belleforest, Francois de, and (John Leslie).

L'Innocence de la Tresillustre Tres-Chaste, et Debonnaire Princesse, Madame Marie Royne d'Escoffe

(Reims) 1572 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,016.00
46 Beardsley, Aubrey.

A Book of Fifty Drawings

London 1897 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,778.00
47 [Beardsley, Aubrey] Malory, Sir Thomas. [Le Morte Darthur]

The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur of his Noble Knights of the Round Table...

(London) 1893-94. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,143.00
48 Carlson, George L.

Rip Van Winkle Cut-Out Pageant

No place 1930s. USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 381.00
49 Hearn, Lafcadio.

Japanese Fairy Tales

Tokyo; Philadelphia (1931). USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,080.00
50 Milne, A.A.

Now We Are Six

London (1927). USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 381.00
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