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
226 Rev. John East

Songs of My Pilgrimage - inscribed (1839)

Bath and London 1839 USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
227 William Fleetwood

4 Sermons (1712) Death of Queen Mary, Gloucester, King William, Queen's

London 1712 USD 250.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
228 (Anglican) Thomas Bisse

The Beauty of Holiness in the Common Prayer [&] Pride & Ignorance, 1716-17

London 1717 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
229

Hunter & Pickup's Panoramic Guide from Niagara Falls to Quebec, 1866, folding 10-foot panorama!

Montreal 1866 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 56.00
230 Costello

Specimens of the Early Poetry of France (1835) in beautiful Zaehnsdorf full cherry calf

London 1835 USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
231 Pond

1885 History of Life-Saving Devices, Military & Naval Constructions invented by Joseph Francis

History of Life-Saving Appliances, and Military and Naval Constructions, Invented and Manufactured by Joseph Francis. New York 1885 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 134.40
232 Bruce Nauman, Peter Campus

Points of Departure, Origins in Video, 1991 rare early video art catalog

Pittsburgh 1990 USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
233 Jane Euphemia Saxby

Aunt Effie's Rhymes For Little Children, ca. 1864, many colored illustrations

early 1850s USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 56.00
234 Olympio Massoto

Des Wohl-Ehrwurdigen und Geistreichen Herrn Lauren. Scupuli [Lorenzo Sculpoli],

Augsburg 1759 USD 125.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
235 Frederick A. Talbot

Practical Cinematography and Its Applications, 1913 first edition

London 1913 USD 75.00 - 150.00 USD 44.80
236 Robert Bloomfield

The Banks of Wye / May Day with the Muses / Hazelwood-Hall, 1813---1822---

London 1813 USD 125.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
237

(Chess) Alain White, et al. A Century of Two-Movers. Overbrook Press, 1941. Edition of 350 copies.

Stamford CT 1941 USD 250.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
238

1827-1830 bound volume of 4 Welsh books on Baptism, Christianity, Missionaries, etc

1827-1830 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
239 (Wilhelm) F. Hey, Otto Speckter (illus.)

Picture Fables Drawn by Otto Speckter. NY, 1858

New York 1858 USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
240 Father Richard Simon

Religions and Customs of the Eastern Nations, 1685

London 1685 USD 400.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
241

Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic Equipments and Materials for Amateurs, 1889.

Pittsburgh 1889 USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
242 Samuel Cooper, Ludwig Friedrich von Froriep

Handbuch der Chirurgie (Manual of Surgery) 3 vols, 1819

Weimar 1819 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
243 Dan Brown

The Da Vinci Code, 2003, 1st printing, 1st issue

NY 2003 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 56.00
244

1900 catalog of cloaks, suits, furs for women & girls, Edward B. Grossman Co., Chicago

Chicago 1900 USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
245 A. J. Bates & Co., NY

1896 Shoe Buyers' Helper & catalog

NY 1896 USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
246 Carl Johan de Geer

Long Live the Large Family (2010), one of 250 signed

NY 2010 USD 175.00 - 350.00 USD 89.60
247

De Haven & Co., Pittsburgh 1881 catalog of stoves, portable ranges, grate fronts, sugar kettles &c.

Pittsburgh 1881 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 44.80
248 Hogg & Johnson

A Selection of the Eatable Funguses of Great Britain, 1863. 24 color lithographs

London 1863 USD 350.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
249 Lestiboudois

Botanographie Belgique, 1803 [Botany of Belgium] --- many plates and tables

Lille, France An XII [1803] USD 300.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
250 Horace; Thomas Creech

Odes, Satyrs, and Epistles of Horace, Done into English by Mr. Creech, 1720

London 1720 USD 150.00 - 300.00 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