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
126 J. Ernst Herger

Die Systeme der magnetischen Curven, Isogonen und Isodynamen (1844)

Leipzig 1844 USD 400.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
127

Memorias Historicas del rei D. Alonso el Sabio (1777); Alfonso the Wise (1221-1284)

Madrid 1777 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
128 Johnson

Battles & Leaders of the Civil War, 4v, 1887-88, deluxe attractive half leather

New York c.1887-1888 USD 500.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
129 Isaac Leeser

The Jews and the Mosaic Law (1833), first edition, his first book

Philadelphia 1833 or 1834 USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
130 Carlos Mesia de la Cerda

El Gorro de Mi Abuelo, Cuentos Fantasticos (1865) inscribed by author

Madrid 1865 USD 400.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
131 Mark Doty

Fire to Fire, Poems. Sutton Hoo Press, 2004. Edition of 160 signed

Winona and Stockton 2004 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 224.00
132 Robert Ganzo, Jacques Villon

Oeuvre Poetique (1957), 8 etchings by Jacques Villon, signed limited

Paris 1957 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 268.80
133 Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Rowlandson

The Vicar of Wakefield (1817) 24 colored aquatints

London 1817 USD 450.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
134

Victor Hammer's Engravings and Woodcuts, 1979, one of 50 copies, hand-bound by Carolyn Hammer

Lexington 1979 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
135 Victor Hugo, Lynd Ward

Les Miserables (LEC 1938), the printer's own copy (Peter Bielenson)

New York 1938 USD 400.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
136

Group of 5 very long specs, blueprints, plans,1880s public works projects in Belgium

Belgium 1880s USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
137

Memoirs of Count Grammont, 1811, extra-illustrated, original painting by George Perfect Harding

London 1811 USD 750.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
138 Randall Cotgrave

(1611) A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues

London 1611 USD 800.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
139 Ernest Hemingway

A Death in the Afternoon, 1932 1st ed. in dust jacket

New York 1932 USD 750.00 - 1,500.00 USD 392.00
140 Sinclair Lewis

Main Street, 1920 1st ed. in dust jacket & slipcase

New York 1920 USD 800.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
141

Emile Zola, pref. Exposition des Oeuvres de Edouard Manet, 1884 catalogue

Paris 1884 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
142

Hermann Muller, et al. Drosophila Information Service Bulletins 1936-1951, rare genetics material!

1936-1951 USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
143 Niderndorff

Generalis Geographia Cosmica, Mathematica, Naturalis, Politica...1739, maps &

Wirceburg [Wurzburg]i 1739 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 268.80
144 Marcel Pagnol

Catulle, Drame en 4 Actes, 1922, inscribed to famous actor Eugene Silvain

Marseille 1922 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
145 Class of 1887, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

Folio photo album, 85 photos, Troy NY

Troy, NY 1887 USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
146 Alexandre Saverien

Histoire Des Philosophes Modernes (etc.) 1761-62, 22 crayon portraits

1761-62 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
147 Jonathan Swift

Verses on the Death of Doctor Swift (1739) & The Life and Character of Dr. Swift

London 1733-1739 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
148 John M. Synge

Deirdre of the Sorrows. NY 1910, one of 10 surviving copies. W. B. Yeats preface

New York 1910 USD 1,200.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
149 Zompini

Le arti che vanno per via nella citta Venezia (1785) incomplete - Tradesmen, hawkers,

Venezia 1785 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
150 (African-American sheet music) James A. Bland

In the Morning by the Bright Light, 1879, illustrated

Boston C1879 USD 200.00 - 400.00 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