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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
![<b>Sotheby’s, Jan. 27:</b> [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/9d2762bc-9f26-47ef-96de-1c28070e19f6.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Jan. 27:</b> [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.")
![<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Plato. [<i>Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera</i>], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/df7dd9ac-f0d0-4cb3-a44d-2731758530e4.png "<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Plato. [<i>Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera</i>], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000")
![<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/c40bad29-8cb5-4347-a0fd-5361d39e84a5.png "<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000")
![<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Powell (Anthony). [<i>A Dance to the Music of Time</i>], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/b7fdee12-4803-4d32-9330-a5729091cb92.png "<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Powell (Anthony). [<i>A Dance to the Music of Time</i>], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000")
![<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a06cc0dd-7619-45e9-b155-5ad75ed7b2e5.png "<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000")
![<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 72. Edwards (George). <i>A Natural History of Uncommon Birds…</i> [and] <i>Gleanings of Natural History,</i> 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/7f9e9df2-b83a-40aa-a1b7-a535a02705d5.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 72. Edwards (George). <i>A Natural History of Uncommon Birds…</i> [and] <i>Gleanings of Natural History,</i> 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000")
![<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 236. <i>A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…,</i> By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/1832c377-f148-4e66-ba22-33bef01d81a7.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 236. <i>A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…,</i> By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000")
![<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). <i>Concerto for Violin and Orchestra,</i> [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/df958814-0689-4876-8b73-cfe5c0c6ad24.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). <i>Concerto for Violin and Orchestra,</i> [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800")
![<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 286 - Walton (William, 1902-1983). Autograph manuscript full score for <i>Belshazzar’s Feast,</i> [1930-31]. £20,000-30,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/5ac2876b-2794-47d3-9df7-c4a002016bd6.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 286 - Walton (William, 1902-1983). Autograph manuscript full score for <i>Belshazzar’s Feast,</i> [1930-31]. £20,000-30,000")
