American History Auction / June 24, 2009

 
Items 101 - 120 of 742
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    Lot #108
    a black leather album, 8" x 10", titled in gilt on front cover Autographs, with the owner's name calligraphed on first page, G.W. Holmes, dated January 25, 1858, Detroit, Michigan. Featu ...
    Price Realized: $1,645.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #109
    lot of 2, including the clipped portion of a letter signed by John J. Audubon, which reads:

    ...regards to your Dear Fire Side believe me ever Your Friend and obt Servant

    John J. Aud ...
    Price Realized: $840.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #110
    lot of approximately 100 items related to James A. Hope (1818-1892), a noted portrait, landscape, and historical genre painter, including 20+ photographs, 35+ letters, and several postcards, booklets, ...
    Price Realized: $2,232.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #111
    6pp, 7 x 8.75", ALS in French, ca 1841. To Jerome-Napoleon Bonaparte, King of Westphalia (Napoleon's youngest brother) describing the exhumation of Napoleon's body on St. Helena (Ste. Hélène) in Octob ...
    Price Realized: $0.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #112
    3pp, 5.25 x 8", Nantucket, n.d. Addressed to Mrs. Gay(?), contents personal (when various people were visiting Boston or Nantucket, etc.).

    Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) was born on Nantucket to a ...
    Price Realized: $235.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #113
    lot of 6, including 3 ALsS and 3 ANsS from Clara Barton (1821-1912), teacher, nurse, and humanitarian who founded the American Red Cross in 1881.

    3 ALsS as American Red Cross President, 1p (2) ...
    Price Realized: $940.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #114
    a shoulder-length portrait of Mary Livermore, featuring her signature at the bottom margin of the photograph, with Hardy's Boston, Massachusetts imprint below image and on verso.

    Mary Ashton R ...
    Price Realized: $264.38 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #116
    Tolstoi (Tolstoy), Leo*(n). New York: Gottsberger, 1886. Six volumes, 16mo, brown cloth covers with black and gilt. Title page also notes: Translated into French by a Russian Lady and from the Fren ...
    Price Realized: $0.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #117
    Anon. n.d., but probably the last, 1915, edition of this size. 24mo in blue printed paper wraps with red imprint and printer's ornament of a harp on cover, 96 unnumbered pages. Described on pages 71-7 ...
    Price Realized: $1,880.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #118
    24mo, in dark greenish cloth, 30 numbered pages. An early guide to Kansas City "entertainment." First half lists "working women," or, as the first page is titled, Kansas City's Houses of Questionab ...
    Price Realized: $4,700.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #119
    L'Amerique Septentrionale & Meridionale divisee en ses pricipales parties,…, by Gerard Valck, Amsterdam. Hand-colored copper plate engraving, ca 1702. A nicely embellished map of the Americas w ...
    Price Realized: $1,920.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #120
    8" x 10.75" (sight); framed and matted to 14.75" x 17.5". Cartouche upper left corner with Virginia and Maryland, by H. Moll, Geographer; probably London; scale of 30 English miles lower left. ...
    Price Realized: $381.88 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #121
    recently hand-colored. A New Map of North American from the Latest Discoveries, 1761. Matted and framed, 14 x 18", 11 x 14.5" (sight). John Spilsbury (1730 - 1795?), [London]. Top border Eng ...
    Price Realized: $470.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #124
    viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pensilvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut & Rhode-Island of Aquanishuonigy the Country of the Confederate Indians Comprehending Aquanishuonigy proper, their ...
    Price Realized: $1,880.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #125
    Tabulae Geographicae Orbis Veteribus Noti. Vienna, Libraria C.R. Small folio in marbled paper boards; pages are double, tipped onto tabs in binding; even title page is folded double sheet with ...
    Price Realized: $264.38 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #126
    lot of 3. Includes a small triangular piece (approx. 0.4 x 0.7") reported to have been taken from the Liberty Bell with a note signed by the collector that the piece was removed during a repair of the ...
    Price Realized: $2,467.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #127
    patinated metal lamp, possibly repainted, featuring WESTERN UNION in glass letters on two sides that still light up; 17" wide, 26" tall. Most likely from a Western Union office in a Cleveland o ...
    Price Realized: $1,292.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #128
    hickory shaft topped by 3" cast silver head decorated with classical motifs, below a .75" brass collar, inscribed with WP Aug 1769, and another brass collar with rolled edges, inscribed with th ...
    Price Realized: $587.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #129
    lot of 12, includes Vol. I, No. 1 through Vol. I, No 12. Nos. 1-7 are in newspaper format and dated March 9, 1901, Topeka, Kansas, with masthead The Smasher’s Mail with illustration of peaceful ...
    Price Realized: $940.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #130
    lot of 65 camera-ready prints of cartoons produced by Cecile Starr between the 1930s and 1940s, signed, dated, and captioned in ink by the artist; most prints measure app. 12" x 14", housed in ...
    Price Realized: $646.25 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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