Common Crow Books: Rare Books & Ephemera, 393976, Pittsburgh

Auction Details

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
151	Cecil Aldin	The Black Puppy Book, 1908, 12 color plates	London	ca1908	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 112.00
152	Armont, Paul & Jacques Bousquet	Le Danseur de Madame (1921) signed by both to Edmond Roze	Paris	1921	USD 500.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
153	Arrhenius	Recherches sur la Conductibilite Galvanique des Electrolytes, 1884. Nobel	Stockholm	1884	USD 300.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
154	Binswanger	Grundformen und Erkenntnis menschlichen Daseins, 1942. Existential psychology major work	Zurich	1942	USD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
155	19th century science fiction	Willis Brewer's "The Secret of Mankind" 1895, set on	New York	1895	USD 250.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
156	Aldo Carpi	Serbia Eroica (1917) inscribed with poster, maps, etc. Documenting Serbian Retreat.	Milano	1917	USD 400.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
157	Willa Cather	Father Junipero's Holy Family -- Anvil Press 1956, Carolyn Hammer's own copy	Lexington	1956	USD 350.00 - 700.00	USD 246.40
158	John Ratcliffe Chapman	Instructions to Young Marksmen (1848)	New York	1848	USD 300.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
159	Cumming	Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa (1850) 2 vols, 1st ed.	London	1850	USD 300.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
160	(Aviation) D'Amecourt	La conquete de l'air par l'helice, un nouveau syste	Paris	1863	USD 250.00 - 450.00	Not Sold
161	Wakeman	Victorian Colour Printing, 1981, one of 150 with actual specimens	Wakeman, Geoffrey. Victorian Colour Printing. Loughborough, UK	1981	USD 400.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
162	Avedon, Richard	In the American West, 1985, inscribed to director of Amon Carter Museum	New York	1985	USD 800.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
163	E. R. Brainerd (Chicago)	1896 Oak Cane Seat Chair catalog, with poster-sized advertisement		1896	USD 100.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
164	David Acheson	David Acheson, Jun. Ca. 1850s --- Acheson family copy	NY	Ca1850s	USD 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
165		30 "Esky" 1940-44 pin-up girl postcards by Vargas, Hurrell & Waxman for Esquire 7 x		1940-44	USD 150.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
166		Parker, Holmes & Co., Boston, 1889 catalogue of boots, shoes, rubbers		1889	USD 75.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
167		Jamestown Bedstead Co. 1895 catalog of beds, bedsteads, cribs & cradles, lots of illustrations!	Jamestown, NY	1895	USD 75.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
168		30 colorized photo postcards of Japan, early 1900s	Japan and Cleveland, OH, almost all unused (no messages, addresses, postmarks, stamps). The Manila Trading Co. dealt in imports from the Far East and used these postcards as advertising cards for their inventory.<br>Mainly very good, occasional light soi	early 1900s	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 56.00
169		17 military-themed Real Photo Postcards (RPPCs) 1900s-1940s	Berlin/ Canada/ Romania/ Russia	ca1900s-40s	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 56.00
170		15 Arizona postcards, 1900s-1910s	Cincinnati/ Phoenix, AZ/ Los Angeles	1907-1914	USD 150.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
171		44 RPPCs from Western Pennsylvania & Pittsburgh, many of the 1936 flood; Real Photo Postcards	Pittsburgh	ca1930s	USD 300.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
172		26 Real Photo Postcards (RPPCs) of women in hats, early 1900s	London/ Germany/ Cleveland/	ca1910s-20s	USD 150.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
173		16 Circus and Troupe Postcards, many RPPCs, with messages 1900s-1920s	Germany	ca1900s-1920s	USD 175.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
174		17 postcards by French caricaturist Albert Guillaume, early 1900s	Paris	ca1910s	USD 125.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
175	Karl Marx	Capital (First American edition, 1891)	New York	1891	USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	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