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
376

Poems by the Rev. George Crabbe, 1808, in full vellum binding

London 1808 USD 75.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
377 M. Hoke Gottschall

Constructive Pittsburgh, a Review of the Babcock Administration, 1922

Pittsburgh 1922 USD 40.00 - 75.00 Not Sold
378

1925 indenture lease Duke of Newcastle for premises in Newark upon Trent, Nottingham

1925 USD 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
379

1830 Last Will & Testament of Daniel Allen of Wrockwardine, County Shropshire

1830 USD 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
380

Ca. 1912-1915 4 real photo postcards RPPCs Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia & son

Ca1912-1915 USD 30.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
381

1876 parchment Philadelphia indenture deed, 619 N. 25th Street

Philadelphia 1876 USD 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
382

1925 program for La Savoie steamship, C. G. Transatlantique shipboard concert

1925 USD 30.00 - 60.00 USD 11.20
383 1955 folio

Forty Handwoven Cotton Textiles from Japan - with actual sample swatches

Kyoto & Tokyo 1955 USD 400.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
384

Frederick Richardson, illustrations. Mother Goose, Volland Popular Edition, large quarto in d/j.

Chicago C1915 USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
385 Lu Shanchuan

Events in China, 2008 [in Chinese]

China 2008 USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
386 Valentin Teirich

Blatter fur Kunstgewerbe. Band 1 & 2, 1872-1873 - architect Hermann

Wien 1872-1873 USD 400.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
387 St. Hildegard of Bingen; Alfons Huber

Physica (ca. 1150). Vienna, 1923. Signed limited by Huber

Wien; Vienna (1923) USD 175.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
388 Mary Howitt

Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap-Book, MDCCCXLI (1841), 35 engraved plates

London 1841 USD 125.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
389 Richard von Mises

Adolf Grunbaum's copy of Kleines Lehrbuch des Positivismus, 1939

The Hague 1939 USD 175.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
390

Reade, Charles; Hugh Thomson, illus. Peg Woffington (1899) 1/200 large paper copies

London 1899 USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
391 Spallanzani & Senebier

Experiences pour...l'histoire de la generation des

Geneve 1785 USD 450.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
392

Art and Letters, March-April, 1889, quarto, finely bound with many prints and etchings

London and New York 1889 USD 175.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
393

Art and Letters, January - February, 1889, quarto, finely bound with many prints and etchings

London and New York 1889 USD 175.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
394

Art and Letters, September-October 1889, finely bound with many prints and etchings

Includes Manet, Rodin and Millet! London and New York 1889 USD 175.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
395 R. T. Trall

The Hygienic Hand-Book, intended as a practical guide for the sick room, 1872

New York 1872 USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
396 Gray

From the Peace to the Fraser. Hunting & Exploration Journals 1900 to 1930, #29/50 signed

Missoula 1994 USD 250.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
397 Peter Capstick's Africa

A Return To The Long Grass - inscribed to his publisher

New York 1987 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 134.40
398 Capt. G. D. Hamilton

Trout-Fishing and Sport in Maoriland -- signed copy, 1904 1st ed.

Wellington, NZ 1904 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 145.60
399 J. E. Davis

Ye Sylvan Archer, Volume I, May 1927 - December 1929 (Derrydale Press, 1993)

(Lyons, MS) 1993 USD 85.00 - 175.00 Not Sold
400 Vincent Stall (King Mini)

9 King Mini comic booklets with cover wrap signed with drawing

vMinneapolis 1997-2003 USD 75.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 286 - Walton (William, 1902-1983). Autograph manuscript full score for Belshazzar’s Feast, [1930-31]. £20,000-30,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [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.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: 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