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
301 Josef Mikes

Nase Kvetena ve Fotografii (Our Flowers in Photography), Prague 1940, blue-tint photos!

Praze (Prague) 1940 USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
302 Freud

Vorlesungen zur Einfuhrung in die Psychoanalyse (Lectures on Psychoanalysis). 1922

Leipzig - Wien - Zurich 1922 USD 75.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
303 James Baikie

Egyptian Papyri and Papyrus-Hunting, 1925 first printing, in dust jacket

London 1925 USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
304 Ernest Thompson Seton

The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe-Journey of 2000 Miles, 1911 1st ed.

NY 1911 USD 65.00 - 125.00 USD 33.60
305 (Mid-Century Modern) Gilbert Rohde

9 original pencil specs for 1940s furniture for La France

New York Ca1940-1944 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
306 James Grahame

The Sabbath and other Poems (1857) Birket Foster illus.

London 1857 USD 65.00 - 125.00 Not Sold
307 Childe Hassam, illus. Mary E. Blake

Youth in Twelve Centuries, 1886, poems by Mary E. Blake

Boston 1886 USD 75.00 - 150.00 USD 44.80
308 F. E. Pitts

A Defence of Armageddon, Or Our Great Country Foretold in the Holy Scriptures, 1857

Baltimore 1859 USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
309 William Harrison Ainsworth

The Spendthrift, a Tale, 1857

London 1857 USD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
310

The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway, bound volume of 5 pamphlets, 1862-1865

1862-1865 USD 250.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
311 Eugene O'Neill

A God's Chillun Got Wings & Welded, 1924 first printing in dust jacket

NY 1924 USD 75.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
312 Mayne Reid

The Forest Exiles (1855) & The Young Yagers (1857), 1st eds, handsome leather bindings

London 1855 & 1857 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 112.00
313 Walter Damrosch

Framed autographed musical fragment, signed in Pittsburgh in 1903

1903 USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
314 Pierre Hamp

La France Traveille---Les Metiers du Fer - 1930 photobook on French iron & steel

Paris nd, ca1930 USD 75.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
315

1910-20 Keystone Bank of Pittsburgh limp suede account book cover with embossed image of building

1910-20 USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
316 Mitchell Conveyor Co., London

"Material Handling" (1930) coal tipplers, conveyors,

London nd (1930) USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
317 Josef Sudek photographs: Vitezslav Nezval:

Prazsky Chodec [Pedestrian Prague], 1981

Prague 1981 USD 60.00 - 125.00 Not Sold
318 Marcel Natkin, photos

Visages d'enfants (1946) signed by Natkin, text by Jaboune.

Paris 1946 USD 75.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
319 Henry Miller and Elmer Gertz

Henry Miller and Elmer Gertz Selected Letters 1964-1975 (1998) illustrator's own copy, 71/100

Ann Arbor, MI 1998 USD 150.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
320

George Constant (1961). Limited signed book on the artist.

NY 1961 USD 60.00 - 125.00 Not Sold
321

Thomas Otway's Works in 3 volumes, 1813

London 1813 USD 125.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
322

Chaos - Cai Guo Qiang, 1994 exhibition catalog, Setagaya Museum, Tokyo. Important Chinese artist.

Osaka 1994 USD 75.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
323 A. Heckmann & Alb. Schley

Artistic Sugar Work and Ice Sculpturing, 1925, color plates

Nordhausen, Germany 1925 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
324 Peter Barwick

Vita Johannis Barwick, 1721. Life of John Barwick 1612-1664, English churchman

London 1721 USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
325 Peter Barwick

The Life of the Reverend Dr. John Barwick, 1724. English language edition.

London 1724 USD 125.00 - 250.00 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