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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 176 | Cunningham | The Story of Nell Gwyn, 1903, in full lavender morocco, extra-illustrated |
Peter Cunningham, ed. The Story of Nell Gwyn and the Sayings of Charles II...with life of the author by Henry B. Wheatley. London | 1903 | USD 250.00 - 500.00 | USD 134.40 |
| 177 | The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Aug. 6-13, 1853, 2 issues, rare English Mormon |
Liverpool | 1853 | USD 125.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 178 | Natalie Joan & Susan Beatrice Pearse | Ameliaranne in Town [&] At the Circus, 1930-1931 |
Philadelphia | 1930 & 1931 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 112.00 |
| 179 | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Hymns in Prose for Children (Philadelphia, 1810) |
Philadelphia | 1810 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 180 | Gershom Huff | Electro-Physiology, 1853 |
New York | 1853 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 89.60 |
| 181 | George & Ralph Jacoby | Electricity in Medicine, 1919 |
Philadelphia | 1919 | USD 125.00 - 250.00 | USD 67.20 |
| 182 | Walker | History of the Second Army Corps In the Army of the Potomac, 1886 |
New York | 1886 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 183 | Hans Reichenbach | The Theory of Probability, 1949 |
Berkeley | 1949 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 184 | Harvey Rice | Mount Vernon and other poems, 1866, inscribed to cousin |
New York | 1866 | USD 75.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
| 185 | William B. Carpenter | Mesmerism, Spiritualism, &c. Historically and Scientifically Considered, 1897 |
New York | 1897 | USD 75.00 - 150.00 | USD 89.60 |
| 186 | John Landis | Discourses on The Depravity of the Human Family, 1839 |
Harrisburg, PA | 1839. First edition. 8vo | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 187 | Friedrich Heubner | 1922 suite of 40 signed etchings for Voltaire's Princesse de Babylone |
Munchen / Munich | 1922 | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 188 | Nathaniel Parker Willis | Summer Cruise on the Mediterranean, 1853 first edition |
New York | 1853 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 189 | 1914 Official Guide to South-Western Japan. Tokyo | Imperial Japanese Railways, many maps! |
Tokyo | 1914 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 190 | 1843 Report on the Employment of Women & Children in Agriculture, England. |
London | 1843 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 112.00 | |
| 191 | (Abortion) The Right to Life of the Unborn Child, 1903 |
New York | c.1903 | USD 75.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 192 | John Reed | An Apology for the Rite of Infant Baptism, 1806 1st edition |
Providence, RI | 1806 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 193 | Guillaume Le Blond | L'Artillerie Raisonnee, 1776, 30 folding plates |
Paris | 1776 | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 268.80 |
| 194 | Beard & Rockwell | A Practical Treatise on the Medical and Surgical Uses of Electricity, 1883 |
New York | 1883 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 78.40 |
| 195 | Boggs & Buhl Catalogue No. 20, 1896-97, Autumn & Winter Fashions, Allegheny PA - with hat! |
Allegheny, PA [I.e. the North Side of Pittsburgh] | 1896 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 196 | George Rector | Dining in New York, 1939, first edition in dust jacket |
NY | 1939 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 197 | Claire Churchill | South of the Sunset (1936), Life of Sacjawea/Sacagawea 1st in d/j |
NY | 1936 | USD 50.00 - 100.00 | USD 33.60 |
| 198 | Antoine Portal | La Nature et Le Traitement des Maladies du Foie, 1813 (Liver diseases & treatment) |
Paris | 1813 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 199 | Love's Rosary | A Garland of Verses (1912) in rare pictorial dust jacket, anthology of love poems |
Chicago | 1912 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 200 | 1617 indenture agreement for land in Widford, Hertfordshire, England |
1617 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
![<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")
![<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")