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[Illuminated Manuscript - 15th Century] Lovely circa 1475 Double Column 27 Line Breviary With Red, Blue, and Gilt Decorations and Initials on 109 Leaves - Possibly for Franciscan Use

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Estimate: $7,500 - $10,000

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$4,500

04/04/2019

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[Judaica - Torah - Exodus] Yemeni Manuscript Leaf circa 1500 -- Torah: Exodus 34:23 - 36:25 - "I Have Formed A Covenant With You."

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Estimate: $700 - $1,000

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$480

04/04/2019

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[17th C. English History - Calligraphy] Manuscript Speeches and Other Passages in Parliament 1625-1626 Beautifully Written on 248 Leaves in a Contemporary Hand

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Estimate: $750 - $1,000

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$1,020

04/04/2019

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[Early Printing - Scotland - Presbyterian Church] First Book of Discipline, 1621, Autographed by Rev. Dr. John Jamieson (1759-1838)

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Estimate: $400 - $600

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$300

04/04/2019

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[Bible - Nurnberg Imprint 1755] Large Quarto 18th Century Nurnberg Bible Woodcut Illustrations Throughout

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Estimate: $750 - $1,000

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$450

04/04/2019

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[Americana - Manuscript - Revolutionary War Era] Revolutionary War-Date Receipt for Blankets Used by Washington's Army

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Estimate: $200 - $400

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$1,080

04/04/2019

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[Americana - Manuscript - Virginia] Promissory Note to Pay "Light Horse" Henry Lee, 1799

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Estimate: $200 - $400

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$132

04/04/2019

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[Americana - Autographs - President Madison Land Grant] 1815 Partially Printed Land Grant Signed by President James Madison & Josiah Meigs

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Estimate: $400 - $600

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$780

04/04/2019

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[Americana - Presidents - Autographs] James Monroe Presidential Signed Land Grant

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Estimate: $200 - $400

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$480

04/04/2019

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[Americana - Illustrated] Ambroise-Louis Garneray, Vue de Baltimore

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Estimate: $100 - $150

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$60

04/04/2019

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[Americana - Military] Instruction for Field Artillery Horse & Foot by Robert Anderson, Philadelphia, 1839, with 56 Plates

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Estimate: $200 - $300

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$132

04/04/2019

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[Americana - Mexican War - General Orders, Etc.] Bound Volume of Original Army Registers and Orders, Over 700 Pages Original Printed Documents 1845-1850, War With Mexico - Army and Navy

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Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$1,200

04/04/2019

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[Sporting - Duelling - Gaming] A Dissertation on Dueling, 2nd Ed., Richard Hey, 1801, and A Dissertation on the Pernicious Effects of Gaming, Richard Hey, 2nd Ed.

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Estimate: $100 - $200

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$132

04/04/2019

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[Sporting - Derrydale Press] Roland Clark's Stray Shots, 1931 First Edition by Derrydale Press, 1 of 535 Printed, Signed Frontis Drypoint Etching

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Estimate: $200 - $300

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$240

04/04/2019

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[Illustrated - Botany] Johann Hedwig, Species Muscorum - on Mosses - With 100 Hand Colored Plates

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Estimate: $300 - $500

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$300

04/04/2019

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[Botany - Horticulture - Gardening] Wild Flowers of New York, 1921 - Plate Volume with Over 260 Color Illustrations

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Estimate: $50 - $100

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$156

04/04/2019

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[Natural History - Birds & Fishes - Illustrated] Yarrell History of British Birds and Fishes, 5 Vols, 19th Century

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Estimate: $300 - $500

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$180

04/04/2019

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[Ornithology - Illustrated] A History of British Birds by William Yarrell, 1843, Three Volumes in Fine Binding

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Estimate: $250 - $350

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$240

04/04/2019

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[Medicine & Alchemy - 16th Century] Leonardo Fioravanti's "Compendium of Secrets," 1596 in Italian

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Estimate: $300 - $500

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$192

04/04/2019

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[Medicine - 17th Century] Rare 1674 Medical Treatise by Gideon Harvey (1640-1700) on Fevers - Physician to Charles II

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Estimate: $300 - $500

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$1,440

04/04/2019

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[Americana - Medicine - Kentucky Imprints] Rare Medical Herbal/Midwifery Published in Frankfort, Kentucky in 1815; OCLC Shows only 1 (AAS)

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Estimate: $500 - $750

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$1,920

04/04/2019

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[Illustrated - Japan] 19th Century Japanese Woodblock Printed Books by Seitei; Plus Japanese Months: With Illustrations

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Estimate: $150 - $300

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$204

04/04/2019

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[Art - Asia - Chinese] Annie MacBeth Pictures from the Land of Sina, 1915 Published in Shanghai

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Estimate: $100 - $200

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$144

04/04/2019

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[Architecture - 19th Century England] Three Volumes of English Architecture - Prout on Castles, Bridges, Etc. plus Knight on "Old England"

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Estimate: $400 - $600

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$240

04/04/2019

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[Illustrated - History] George Vertue (British, 1684–1756), Mary Queen of Scotts Famous Portrait Engraving

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Estimate: $200 - $400

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$120

04/04/2019

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[English & European History] Unusual and Quite Scarce An Inquiry into the Principles of National Order:..., Plus 1803 Wilmington, Delaware Imprint

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Estimate: $500 - $800

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$300

04/04/2019

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[Illustrated - 19th C. France, Germany - Engraved Views] Lovely 2 Volume "Europe Illustrated," 1876-79 with 151 Steel Plates

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Estimate: $400 - $600

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$240

04/04/2019

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[Illustrated - Pogany] Parsifal, Illustrated by Willy Pogany - Signed Ltd. # 383 of 525 in Full Pictorial Leather Binding

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Estimate: $300 - $500

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$180

04/04/2019

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[Illustrated - Fore-edge Painting] 1849 Scott's Poetical Works, with Double Fore-edge Paintings of Fox-Hunting Scenes

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Estimate: $100 - $200

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$240

04/04/2019

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[Illustrated - Fore-edge Painting] Walford's Cousins, with Fore-edge Painting of Rural Scene with Farrier Shoeing a Horse

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Estimate: $200 - $300

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$168

04/04/2019

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