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Auction 20009
19 Jun 2012, starting at 10:00 EDT with lot 3001.
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LINCOLN EXERTS EXECUTIVE CONTROL OVER AMNESTY AND, BY EXTENSION, RECONSTRUCTION. LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. 1809-1865.
Sold for US$ 74,500 inc. premium
FOUJITA, TSUGUHARU, illustrator. JOSEPH, MICHAEL. A Book of Cats. New York: Covici Friede, 1930.
Sold for US$ 45,000 inc. premium
AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. 1785-1851. The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories. New York ...
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DE BRY, THEODOR. 1528-1598. Der Ander Theyl / der Newlicherfundenen Landtschafft Americæ, Von dreyen Schiffahrten/ so die Frantzosen in Floridam (die ...

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3001 AIZENBERG, NINA EVSEEVNA. 1902-1974. Futuristic Dance and Sketch for a Theatre Costume. US$ 1,250
£824
€971
3003 ALTMAN, NATAN. 1889-1970. Les Plus beaux livres pour enfants. Paris: "nrf," 1935. US$ 1,500
£989
€1,165
3004 ANNENKOV, GEORGES, illustrator. 1. DURTAIN, LUC. Crime à San Francisco. Paris: au Sans Pareil, 1927. US$ 875
£577
€680
3005 ARABIAN NIGHTS. Kniga tysjachi i odnoj nochi. [The Book of a Thousand and One Nights.] Leningrad & Moscow: Academia, 1929-1930. US$ 375
£247
€291
3011 BABEL, IZAAK EMMANUILOVICH. 1894-1940. SSSR na stroike. [USSR under Construction.] Moscow: OGIS-Isogis, April, 1937. US$ 625
£412
€485
3012 BALLET. 1. LIFAR, SERGEI MIKHAILOVICH. Tanetz. Osnovnye techeniya Akademicheskogo Tantsa. [The Dance. Current Principles of the Dance Academy.] Paris: "Étoile," 1937. US$ 375
£247
€291
3013 BALLET. 1. Collection of 33 early 20th century photographic postcards of important Russian dancers: US$ 1,250
£824
€971
3014 [BAKST, LEON. 1866-1924.] LEVINSON, ANDRÉ. Bakst. The Story of the Artist's Life. London: Bayard Press, 1923.
US$ 3,125
£2,062
€2,428
3015 [BAKST, LEON. 1866-1924.] EINSTEIN, CARL. Leon Bakst. Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1927.
US$ 3,250
£2,144
€2,526
3016 BEKETOV, PLATON PETROVICH. 1761-1836. Opisanie v litsakh torzhestva ... v 1626 ... pri brakosochetanii gosudaria i velikago kniazia Mikhaila Feodorovicha. [Description of the Wedding Celebration ... in 1626 ... of Great Prince Mikhail Feodorovich with Evdoika Lukianova Streshneva.] Moscow: Moscow University, 1810.
US$ 18,750
£12,374
€14,573
3017 BELYI, ANDREI (BORIS NIKOLAEVICH BUGALEV). 1880-1934. 1. Posle razluki. [After the Separation.] Petrograd: Epokha, 1922. US$ 875
£577
€680
3018 BENOIS, ALEXANDRE. 1870-1960. Les Gardini Gusti à Verone.
US$ 3,000
£1,979
€2,331
3019 BENOIS, ALEXANDRE, AND A.V. PRAKHOV, editors. Khudoshestvennyya sokrovischa rossii / Les Trésors d'Art en Russie. St. Petersburg: R. Golike and A. Vilborg, 1903. US$ 1,875
£1,237
€1,457
3020 BENOIS, ALEXANDRE, illustrator. PUSHKIN, ALEKSANDR SERGYEEVICH. Pikovaya dama. [Queen of Spades.] St. Petersburg: R. Golike & A. Vilborg, 1911. US$ 3,500
£2,309
€2,720
3021 BILIBIN, IVAN YAKOVLOVICH, illustrator. AFANASIEV, ALEKSANDR NIKOLAEVICH. Skazka ob Ivane-Tsareviche; Zhar Ptitse, i o Serom Volke. [Tales of Ivan Tzarevich; The Fire Bird and the Grey Wolf.] St. Petersburg: Expeditsii Zagotovlenya Gosudarstvennykh Bumag, 1901. US$ 750
£494
€582
3022 BILIBIN, IVAN YAKOVLOVICH, illustrator. AFANASIEV, ALEKSANDR NIKOLAEVICH. Tsarevna Lyagushka. [Frog Princess.] St. Petersburg: Expeditsii Zagotovlenya Gosudarstvennykh Bumag, 1901. US$ 750
£494
€582
3023 BILIBIN, IVAN YAKOVLOVICH, illustrator. AFANASIEV, ALEKSANDR NIKOLAEVICH. Peryshko Finista Yasna-Sokola. [The Feather of Finist the Falcon.] St. Petersburg: Expeditsii Zagotovlenya Gosudarstvennykh Bumag, 1902. US$ 750
£494
€582
3024 BILIBIN, IVAN YAKOVLOVICH, illustrator. AFANASIEV, ALEKSANDR NIKOLAEVICH. Marya Morevna. St. Petersburg: Expeditsii Zagotovlenya Gosudarstvennykh Bumag, 1903. US$ 750
£494
€582
3025 BILIBIN, IVAN YAKOVLOVICH, illustrator. AFANASIEV, ALEKSANDR NIKOLAEVICH. Sestritsa Alenushka i Bratets Ivanushka, Belaya Utochka. [Sister Aloynushka and Brother Ivanushka; and The Little White Duck.] St. Petersburg: Expeditsii Zagotovlenya Gosudarstvennykh Bumag, 1903. US$ 750
£494
€582
3026 BILIBIN, IVAN YAKOVLOVICH, illustrator. Volga. St. Petersburg: Expeditsii Zagotovlenya Gosudarstvennykh Bumag, 1904. US$ 500
£329
€388
3027 BILIBIN, IVAN YAKOVLOVICH, illustrator. PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER. Skazka o Tsare Saltane. [The Tale of Tsar Saltan.] St. Petersburg: Expeditsii Zagotovlenya Gosudarstvennykh Bumag, 1905. US$ 1,000
£659
€777
3028 BILIBIN, IVAN YAKOVLOVICH, illustrator. PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER. Skazka o zolotom petushke. [The Tale of the Golden Cockerel.] St. Petersburg: Expeditsii Zagotovlenya Gosudarstvennykh Bumag, 1907. US$ 2,750
£1,814
€2,137
3029 BLOK, ALEKSANDR ALEKSANDROVICH. 1880-1921. Autograph Manuscript Poem, 1/2 p, 4to, "I pozdno i temno. Pokinu bez zhelanii..." US$ 10,625
£7,012
€8,258
3030 BRAUN, GEORG & FRANZ HOGENBERG. Moscauw. [Cologne: 1572 or later.] US$ 3,500
£2,309
€2,720
3032 BRODSKY, JOSEPH. 1940-1996. Ostanovka v pustyne. [A Stop in the Desert.] New York: Chekhov, 1970. US$ 1,000
£659
€777
3033 BRODSKY, JOSEPH, AND MARINA I. TSVETAEVA. Izbrannaya proza v dvukh tomakh. [Selected Prose in Two Volumes.] New York: Russica Publishers, 1979. US$ 375
£247
€291
3034 BRODSKY, JOSEPH, AND MARINA I. TSVETAEVA. Stikhotvoreniya i poemy v pyati tomakh. [Verses and Poems in Five Volumes.] New York: Russica Publishers, 1980. US$ 625
£412
€485
3035 BRUNI, LEV. 1894-1948. Three original costume drawings, gouaches on paper: US$ 1,875
£1,237
€1,457
3036 CATHEDRAL OF ST. FEODOR. Feodorovskii Gosudarev' Sobor v Tsarskom Sele. [St. Feodor's Cathedral in Tsarskoye Selo.] [Moscow?: n.p., 1916?] US$ 3,125
£2,062
€2,428
3038 CHEKHOV, ANTON. 1860-1904. V Sumerkakh. [At Dusk.] St. Petersburg: A.S. Suvorin, 1887. US$ 16,250
£10,724
€12,630
3039 CHERNIKOV, YAKOV GEORGIEVICH. 1889-1951. Konstruktsiya arkhitekturnykh i mashinnykhiform. [Construction of Architectural and Machine Forms.] Leningrad: Leningradskogo Obshestva Arkhitektorov, 1931. US$ 1,000
£659
€777
3040 CHILDREN'S BOOKS. 1. PAKHOMOV, ALEXEI FEDOROVICH. Leto. [Summer.] Moscow: GIZ, 1927. US$ 937
£618
€728
3041 CHUKOVSKY, KORNEI IVANOVICH. 1882-1969. 1. Skok-poskok. [Hippity-Hop.] Leningrad: Gosizdat, 1929. US$ 500
£329
€388
3042 COATS OF ARMS OF THE PROVINCES. Gerby gubernii i oblastei Rossiiskoi Imperii. [Coats of Arms of the Provinces and Regions of the Russian Empire.] St. Petersburg: [Ministry of Interior Affairs], 1880. US$ 21,250
£14,024
€16,516
3043 CONSTRUCTIVIST MAQUETTE. SEDELNIKOV, NICOLAI. "Literatura mirovoi revolustsii." [Literature of the World Revolution.] US$ 2,000
£1,319
€1,554
3044 COSTUME—MILITARY. The Costume of the Russian Army. London: Edward Orme, 1807. US$ 11,250
£7,424
€8,743
3045 COSTUME. [HARDING, EDWARD.] Costume of the Russian Empire. London: John Stockdale, 1811.
US$ 1,500
£989
€1,165
3046 DIAGHILEV, SERGEI PAVLOVICH. 1872-1929. Ezhegodnik Imperatorskikh Teatrov. Sezon 1899-1900. [Yearbook of the Imperial Theater for the Season 1899-1900.] St. Petersburg: Direktsii Imperatorskikh Teatrov, 1900.
US$ 6,875
£4,537
€5,343
3047 DOSTOEVSKY, FEDOR MIKHAILOVICH. 1821-1881. Zapiski iz mertvago doma. [The House of the Dead.] St. Petersburg: Brat. Panteleevy, 1875. US$ 1,250
£824
€971
3048 DOSTOEVSKY, FEDOR MIKHAILOVICH. 1821-1881. Prestupeenie i nakazanie. [Crime and Punishment.] St. Petersburg: Brat. Panteleevy, 1877. US$ 1,875
£1,237
€1,457
3049 DOSTOEVSKY, FEDOR MIKHAILOVICH. 1821-1881. Unizhennye i oskorblennye. [The Insulted and Humiliated.] St. Petersburg: Brat. Panteleevy, 1879. US$ 1,250
£824
€971
3050 EFROS, ABRAM. 1888-1954. Erotichestkie sonety. [Erotic Sonnets.] Moscow: privately printed by the author, 1922. US$ 500
£329
€388
3052 ERMOLAEVA, VERA, illustrator. KRYLOV, IVAN. Basnya Krylova. [Krylov's Fables.] Moscow: GIZ, 1930. US$ 7,500
£4,949
€5,829
3053 FEDOROVSKY, FEDOR FEDOROVICH. 1883-1955. A pair of costume designs, US$ 875
£577
€680
3054 FEDOTOV, IVAN SERGEEVICH. 1881-1951. 1. Design for the theatre program for Boris Godunov. US$ 5,000
£3,299
€3,886
3055 FIVE YEAR PLAN. The Struggle for Five Years in Four. Moscow: State Publishing House of Fine Arts, 1932. US$ 1,062
£701
€825
3056 FLEGON COLLECTION. The private Russian library of the late Alec Flegon, London publisher and antiquarian bookseller, US$ 13,750
£9,074
€10,687
3057 FORTUNE TELLING. [Fiziogmiya i khiromantiya. Physiognomy and Chiromancy.] N.p., circa 1780. US$ 1,875
£1,237
€1,457
3058 FOVORSKII, VLADIMIR ANDREEVICH, illustrator. SHTORM, GEORGII PETROVICH. Trudy i dni Mikhaila Lomonosova. [The Works and Days of Mikhail Lomonosov.] Moscow: GIZ, 1932. US$ 375
£247
€291
3060 [GERDT, ELIZAVETA PAVLOVNA. 1891-1975.] NAPPELBAUM, MOSEI SOLOMONOVICH. US$ 500
£329
€388
3061 GONCHAROVA, NATALIA, AND JOSEPH KESSEL. Le Thé du Capitaine Sogoub. Paris: Au Sans Pareil, 1926. US$ 250
£164
€194
3062 GONCHAROVA, NATALIA, illustrator. KHLEBNIKOV, VELIMIR. Neizdannyi Khlebnikov, no. 17. Moscow: Gruppa druzei Khlebnikova, 1930. US$ 1,625
£1,072
€1,263
3064 GRINBERG, ROMAN N. Vozdushnye puti. [Aerial Ways.] New York: R.N. Grinberg, 1960-61, 1963, 1965 and 1967. US$ 1,500
£989
€1,165
3065 GUMILEV, NIKOLAI STEPANOVICH. 1886-1921. 1. Gilgamesh. Petrograd: Z.I. Grzhebin, 1919. US$ 750
£494
€582
3066 ILIAZD [ILYA MIKHAILOVICH ZDANEVICH]. 1894-1975. Voskhishchenie. [Rapture.] Paris: 41°, 1930. US$ 375
£247
€291
3067 JAILLOT, HUBERT. c.1632-1712. La Russie Blanche ou Moscovie Divisee Suivant l'Estendue des Royaumes, Duches, Principautes, Provinces et Peuples.... [Paris]: H. Jaillot, 1692.
US$ 1,000
£659
€777
3068 KARSAVINA, TAMARA PLATANOVA. 1885-1978. Autograph postcard, in French, to Robert Brussel, Paris, on verso of US$ 1,250
£824
€971
3069 KLIUTSIS, GUSTAV, illustrator. BORIS PASTERNAK, SERGEI TRETYAKOV, DAVID BURLIUK, et al. Zhiv Kruchenykh! [Kruchenykh Lives!] Moscow: Soiuza Poetov, 1925. US$ 1,875
£1,237
€1,457
3070 KLUIN, IVAN VASILIEVICH, illustrator. KHLEBNIKOV, VELIMIR. Neizdannyi Khlebnikov, no. 15. Moscow: Gruppa druzei Khlebnikova, 1930. US$ 3,750
£2,474
€2,914
3073 KUZMIN, MIKHAIR ALEKSEEVICH. 1872-1936, and VLADIMIR ALEKSEEVICH MILASHEVSKII. 1893-1976. Zanaveshennye kartinki. [Curtained Pictures.] Amsterdam [but Petersburg: Petropolis], 1920. US$ 13,750
£9,074
€10,687
3074 KUZMIN, MIKHAIL ALEKSEEVICH. 1872-1936. Nezdeshnie vechera. [Otherworldly Evenings.] Petrograd: Golike & Wilborg, 1921.
US$ 375
£247
€291
3075 LEBEDEV, VLADIMIR VASILIEVICH. 1891-1967. Russian Placards, Placard Russe 1917-1922. St. Petersburg: "Strelets," 1923.
US$ 4,000
£2,639
€3,108
3076 LEBEDEV, VLADIMIR V., AND SAMUIL Y. MARSHAK. Tsirk. [Circus.] St. Petersburg: "Raduga" [Rainbow], 1925. US$ 3,750
£2,474
€2,914
3077 LEBEDEV, VLADIMIR VASILIEVICH. 1891-1967. Okhota. [The Hunt.] St. Petersburg: "Raduga," 1925. US$ 3,750
£2,474
€2,914
3078 [LEBEDEV, VLADIMIR VASILIEVICH. 1891-1967.] 1. NERADOVSKII, PETR I., AND NIKOLAI PUNIN, editors. V. Lebedev. Leningrad: Gosudarstvennogo Russkogo Muzei, 1928. US$ 1,000
£659
€777
3079 LEBEDEV, VLADIMIR VASILEVICH and SAMUIL YAKOLOVICH MARSHAK. Vchera i segodnya. [Yesterday and Tomorrow.] Leningrad: OGIZ-DETGIZ, 1935. US$ 625
£412
€485
3081 LISSITZKY, EL, illustrator. DOLGOPOLSKI, TZADAK. Dem Zeydns Kloles. [Grandfather's Curses.] Moscow: Tsentrain Yidishn Komisariat, 1919. US$ 8,125
£5,362
€6,315
3082 LISSITZKY, EL. 1890-1941. VISHNITZER, M., AND M. KLEINMAN, editors. Milgroim. A Yiddish Magazine of Art and Letters. Berlin: Rimon, 1923. US$ 1,250
£824
€971
3083 LISSITISKY, EL, editor. SSSR im Bau. [USSR under Construction.] Moscow: OGIS-Isogis, February, 1933. US$ 625
£412
€485
3084 LISSITSKY, EL, editor. SSSR na stroike. [USSR under Construction.] Moscow: OGIS-Isogis, February, 1934. US$ 625
£412
€485
3085 LISSITSKY, EL, editor. SSSR na stroike. [USSR under Construction.] Moscow: OGIS-Isogis, October 1934. US$ 625
£412
€485
3086 LUGNÉ-POE, AURÉLIEN-FRANÇOIS. 1869-1940. L'Œvre. Revue internationale des arts du théâtre. Paris: Éditions Morancé, Autumn 1924. US$ 6,250
£4,124
€4,857
3088 MAYAKOVSKY, VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH. 1893-1930. Oktyabr 1917-1918. Geroi i zhertvy revolutistii. [October 1917-1918: Heroes and Victims of the Revolution]. Petrograd: IZO Narkompros, [1918]. US$ 1,250
£824
€971
3089 MILITARY. Voina i nashi trofei. [War and our Trophies.] St. Petersburg: Union, [1915]. US$ 1,000
£659
€777
3090 MOSCOW VIEWS. Historical Sketch of Moscow. London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1813. US$ 1,875
£1,237
€1,457
3091 MOSCOW—CHURCH ARCHITECTURE. Moskovskie sviatyni i pamiatniki. [Religious Sites and Monuments of Moscow.] Moscow: Sinodal'naia Tipografia, 1903. US$ 3,125
£2,062
€2,428
3092 MOSCOW. Moskva = Moscou = Moskau. Moscow: A.A. Levenson, [c.1912]. US$ 937
£618
€728
3094 NABOKOV, VLADIMIR. 1899-1972. Dar. [The Gift.] New York: Chekhov House, 1952. US$ 375
£247
€291
3095 NICHOLAS II—CORONATION. V pamyat svjashhennogo koronovaniya ikh imperatorskikh velichestv Nikolaja Aleksandrovicha i Aleksandry Feodorovny. [In Memory of the Sacred Coronation of their Majesties the Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich and Alexandra Feodorovna.] St. Petersburg: German Goppe, 1896. US$ 5,000
£3,299
€3,886
3097 PAVLOV, IVAN. 1849-1936. Starata Moskva. Gravyury. [Old Moscow Engravings.] Moscow: "Iskusstvo," 1947. US$ 1,250
£824
€971
3099 PHOTOGRAPHY—EUROPEAN ROYALTY. US$ 1,250
£824
€971
3102 POSTER MAQUETTE. DENI, VIKTOR, AND NIKOLAI DOLGORKOV. "Liniya mannergeima." [The Mannerheim Line.]
US$ 1,250
£824
€971
3103 POSTER MAQUETTE. DOLGORKOV, NIKOLAI. 1902-1980. "Stalingrad Varshava Berlin." [Stalingrad Warsaw Berlin.] US$ 1,250
£824
€971
3104 POSTERS—SPACE RACE. 1. My zazhgli zariy kosmicheskoi aery. Yu. Gagarin. [We Ignited the Dawn of the Space Age. Yu. Gagarin.] Moscow: 1972. US$ 312
£206
€242
3105 PRAKHOV, ADRIAN VIKTOROVICH. editor. Khudoshestvennyya sokrovishcha rossii/Les Trésors d'Art en Russie. St. Petersburg: R. Golike and A. Vilborg, 1904. US$ 1,250
£824
€971
3106 PROBST, GEORG BALTHASAR. 1673-1748. Moscau. [Early 18th century.] US$ 2,000
£1,319
€1,554
3107 PUNI, IVAN. 1894-1956. Sovremennaya zhivopis. [Contemporary Art.] Berlin: L.D. Frenkel, [1923]. US$ 625
£412
€485
3108 REMIZOV, ALEKSEI MIKHAILOVICH. 1877-1957. Zvezda nadzvezdnaya: Stella Maria Maris. [Star above All Stars.] Paris: YMCA Press, 1922. US$ 375
£247
€291
3109 RODCHENKO, ALEKSANDR M., AND VLADIMIR V. MAYAKOVSKY. LEF. Moscow: "LEF," June-July 1923. US$ 625
£412
€485
3110 RODCHENKO, ALEKSANDR M., AND VLADIMIR V. MAYAKOVSKY. Novyi LEF. [New LEF.] Moscow: Gosizdat, May 1928. US$ 500
£329
€388
3111 RODCHENKO, ALEKSANDR M., AND VLADIMIR V. MAYAKOVSKY. Novyi LEF. [New LEF.] Moscow: Gosizdat, August 1928. US$ 500
£329
€388
3112 RODCHENKO, ALEKSANDR, AND VARVARA STEPANOVA. USSR: The Red Army and Navy. Moscow and Leningrad: State Art Publishers, 1939. US$ 250
£164
€194
3113 ROMANOV FAMILY. Boyare Romanovy i votsarenie Mikhaila Feodorovicha. [Boyars Romanovs and the Reign of Mikhail Feodorovich.] St. Petersburg: Gosudarstvennaya tipografia, 1913. US$ 937
£618
€728
3114 ROMANOV FAMILY. ZVORYKIN, BORIS VASILEVICH, illustrator. Letopisnyi i litsevoi izbornik doma Romanovykh. [Annalistic and Illuminated Anthology of the House of the Romanovs]. [Moscow: A. A. Levenson, 1913]. US$ 1,500
£989
€1,165
3115 ROMANOV, KONSTANTIN. 1858-1915. Tsar Іudeiskіi; drama v chetyrekh deistvіjakh i piati kartinakh. [King of the Jews; Drama in Four Acts and Five Scenes.] St. Petersburg: [privately printed by the author], 1914. US$ 1,500
£989
€1,165
3116 SALTYKOV-SHCHEDRIN, MIKHAIL EVGRAFOVICH. 1826-1889. Russkaya biblioteka VIII. [The Russian Library Vol. 8.] St. Petersburg: M. Stasiulevich, 1878. US$ 2,500
£1,649
€1,943
3117 SENKIN, SERGEI YAKOVLOVICH. 1894-1960. [Cover title:] Geroisheskii pokhod. [The Heroic Rescue.] Moscow: Pravda & Izogiz, 1934. US$ 875
£577
€680
3118 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. 1564-1616. VENGEROV, S.A., editor. [Works.] St. Petersburg: Brokgauz & Efron, 1902. US$ 687
£453
€534
3119 SHTERENBERG, DAVID PETROVICH. 1881-1948. Obzor Deyatelnosti Otdela-izobraz. Iskusstv N.K.P. [Review of the Activity of Fine Arts Department NKP.] Petersburg: NKP, 1920. US$ 812
£536
€631
3120 SLAVONIC MANUSCRIPT PSALTER. Manuscript on paper, US$ 1,000
£659
€777
3121 STANISLAVSKY, CONSTANTIN. 1863-1938. Moya zhizn v iskusstve. [My Life in Art.] Leningrad: Akademiya, 1926. US$ 625
£412
€485
3122 STEINMETZ, LEON, and JOHN CATALDO, artists. GOGOL, NIKOLAI. The Diary of a Madman. [Cambridge, MA: the artists, 2007.] US$ 5,000
£3,299
€3,886
3123 STRAVINSKY, IGOR. 1882-1971. BRANDT, A., AND MAURICE DELAGE, translators. Trois Poésies de la lyrique japonaise. Berlin, Moscow & St. Petersburg: Edition Russe de Musique, [1913]. US$ 375
£247
€291
3124 SUDEIKIN, SERGEI IUREVICH, AND NICOLAI REMIZOV. Collection des Programmes du Théâtre de la Chauve-souris 1920-1921 (cover title). [Paris: Comoedia Illustré, 1922]. US$ 2,000
£1,319
€1,554
3125 TELINGATER, SOLOMON B., AND ILYA FEINBERG. 1914-i, dokumentalnyi pamflet. [The Year 1914; A Documentary Pamphlet]. Moscow: Internatsionalnaya, 1934. US$ 2,250
£1,484
€1,748
3126 TROTSKY, LEON [LEV DAVIDOVICH BRONSTEIN]. 1879-1940. Moya zhizn. [My Life]. Berlin: "Granit," 1930. US$ 1,625
£1,072
€1,263
3127 TROUBETZKOI, ELIZABETH DE. Les princes Troubetzkoi. Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1887. US$ 1,250
£824
€971
3131 VASNETSOV, VIKTOR MIKHAILOVICH, illustrator. PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER. Pesn o veshchem Olege. [Song of Oleg the Wise.] St. Petersburg: Ekspeditsii Zagotovlenya Gosudarstvennykh Bumag, 1899.
US$ 2,000
£1,319
€1,554
3134 ZABOLOTSKY, NIKOLAI A. ("YASHA MILLER.") 1903-1958. US$ 1,062
£701
€825
3135 ZAMYATIN, EVGENII IVANOVICH, editor. SHERIDAN, RICHARD. Shkola zlosloviya [School for Scandal]. Moscow / Leningrad: "Academia," 1931.
US$ 1,875
£1,237
€1,457
3150 ABOLITION. [BENEZET, ANTHONY. 1713-1784.] Observations on the Inslaving, Importing and Purchasing of Negroes.... Germantown: Printed by Christopher Sower, 1760.
US$ 400
£263
€310
3151 BERKELEY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION. A large collection of signed material relating to the Berkeley Musical Association, 1920-1934, most signatures on the group's printed programs, but also including signed photographs and other ephemera. US$ 525
£346
€408
3153 BRADFORD, WILLIAM AND ANDREW, printers. A Plat-Form of Church-Discipline, Gathered out of the Word of God, and Agreed upon by the Elders and Messengers of the Churches Assembled in the Synod at Cambridge in N.E. ... Anno 1649. New York: Re-printed by William and Andrew Bradford, 1711. US$ 4,000
£2,639
€3,108
3154 [CHANDLER, THOMAS BRADBURY. 1726-1790.] What Think Ye of Congress Now? Or, An Enquiry, How Far the Americans are Bound to Abide by, and Execute the Decision of, the Late Congress? New York: Printed by James Rivington, 1775. US$ 1,125
£742
€874
3155 CIVIL WAR DIARIES. Group of Civil War diaries, US$ 2,750
£1,814
€2,137
3156 COLTON, J.H. Colton's Atlas of the World. New York: J.H. Colton, 1856. US$ 937
£618
€728
3157 CONTINENTAL CONGRESS. Extracts from the Votes and Proceedings of the American Continental Congress, Held at Philadelphia, on the Fifth of September, 1774, containing, the Bill of Rights, a List of Grievances, Occasional Resolves, the Association, an Address to the People of Great-Britain, and a Memorial to the Inhabitants of the British American Colonies. US$ 3,000
£1,979
€2,331
3158 DE BRY, THEODOR. 1528-1598. Der Ander Theyl / der Newlicherfundenen Landtschafft Americæ, Von dreyen Schiffahrten/ so die Frantzosen in Floridam (die gegen Niderganggelegen) gethan. Frankfurt: Theodor de Bry, 1591.
US$ 31,250
£20,623
€24,288
3159 [DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.] The Declaration of Independence [in:] The London Magazine, or Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer. Vol. XLV For the Year 1776. London: R. Baldwin, 1776. US$ 2,375
£1,567
€1,845
3160 EBERHARDT, NELLE RICHMOND. 1871-1944. Archive of 39 autograph manuscript notebooks, thousands of pages, rectos and versos, 8vo, mostly in heavy pencil, some minor dampstaining. US$ 1,500
£989
€1,165
3161 EVANS, LEWIS. c.1700-1756. A General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America: viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsilvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, and Rhode-Island. Of Aquanishuonigy the Country of the Confederate Indians [etc]. London: Sayer and Jefferys, 15 June 1775. US$ 1,000
£659
€777
3162 [FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN. 1706-1790.] Constitutions des treize Etats-Unis de l'Amérique. Philadelphia and Paris: [Printed for Franklin by] Philippe-Denis Pierres and Pissot, 1783. US$ 2,250
£1,484
€1,748
3163 HAMILTON, ALEXANDER. 1755/7-1804. Document Signed ("Alexander Hamilton"), 1 p, folio, Albany, October 25, 1796, US$ 2,375
£1,567
€1,845
3166 KENNEDY, JOHN FITZGERALD. 1917-1963. First Day Postal Cover Signed ("John F. Kennedy"), US$ 812
£536
€631
3167 LATOUR, ARSÈNE LACARRIERE. 1778-1837. Historical Memoir of the War in West Florida and Louisiana in 1814-15. Philadelphia: John Conrad and Co., 1816. US$ 3,750
£2,474
€2,914
3168 LINCOLN EXERTS EXECUTIVE CONTROL OVER AMNESTY AND, BY EXTENSION, RECONSTRUCTION. LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. 1809-1865.
US$ 218,500
£144,200
€169,827
3169 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. 1809-1865. Document Signed ("Abraham Lincoln") as President, US$ 5,000
£3,299
€3,886
3170 LINDBERGH, CHARLES. 1902-1974. 1. The Spirit of St. Louis. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. US$ 1,500
£989
€1,165
3171 MASSACHUSETTS—NANTASKET. Album of 31 original watercolors, several signed "P.W. Noble," and 3 pencil drawings, [Nantasket, MA, 1893-1904], oblong cloth-bound album, 178 x 256 mm, image size varies. US$ 1,875
£1,237
€1,457
3172 MCKENNEY, THOMAS LORAINE. 1785-1859. Sketches of a Tour to the Lakes, of the Character and Customs of the Chippeway Indians, and of Incidents Connected with the Treaty of Fond du Lac. Also, a Vocabulary of the Algic, or Chippeway Language. Baltimore: Fielding Lucas, 1827. US$ 750
£494
€582
3174 MOHAWK PRAYER BOOK. NELLES, ABRAHAM, translator. Book of Common Prayer. Ne Kaghyadquhsera ne Yoedereanayeadagwha. Hamilton: Printed at Ruthven's Book and Job Office, 1842.
US$ 687
£453
€534
3175 MORSE, SAMUEL. 1791-1872. Autograph Document Signed ("S.F.B. Morse. Sup.[erintendent] Elec.[tric] Mag.[netic] Tel.[egraph]") and dated, 1 p, folio, New York, July 10, 1843, US$ 3,500
£2,309
€2,720
3176 NEW YORK FUR TRADE—ASTOR FAMILY. Manuscript account book, 64 pp mostly recto and verso, small 4to, [New York City], 1787-1791, US$ 1,062
£701
€825
3177 NEW YORK. City of New York. New York: Berford & Co., 1849.
US$ 312
£206
€242
3178 NEW YORK—PHOTOGRAPHY. Pair of New York photograph albums, c.1907, US$ 500
£329
€388
3179 OHIO & TEXAS—CARPENTER DAYBOOKS. Manuscript daybooks, Ohio and Texas, 1829-1876, small 4to, 8 volumes, US$ 687
£453
€534
3183 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN DELANO. 1882-1945. State of New York. Public Papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Forty-Eighth Governor of the State of New York, 1929. Albany: J.B. Lyon, Printers, 1930.
US$ 2,000
£1,319
€1,554
3184 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN DELANO. 1882-1945. Photograph Signed ("Franklin Delano Roosevelt") and Inscribed, 18 x 23 inch silver print portrait by Harris Ewing with photographer's signature at lower right corner, US$ 2,125
£1,402
€1,651
3185 ROZSA, MIKLOS. 1907-1995. 15 Autograph Letters Signed ("Miklos"), 28 pp, 4to and 8vo, various places including Paris and Italy, 1969-1993, his sister Edith Jankay, US$ 937
£618
€728
3186 SAYER, ROBERT, AND JOHN BENNETT. The American Military Pocket Atlas; being an Approved Collection of Correct Maps, both General and Particular, of the British Colonies. London: R. Sayer and J. Bennett, [1776]. US$ 8,750
£5,774
€6,800
3188 SMITH, WILLIAM. 1728-1793. The History of the Province of New-York, from the First Discovery to the Year M.DCC.XXXII. London: Thomas Wilcox, 1757. US$ 3,125
£2,062
€2,428
3189 THOMAS, ISAIAH, printer. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments: with the Apocrypha. Worcester, Mass: Isaiah Thomas, 1791. US$ 437
£288
€340
3190 TITANIC. CARTER, LUCILE P. Manuscript diary of a Titanic survivor, US$ 17,500
£11,549
€13,601
3192 UNITED STATES CENSUS. Return of the Whole Number of Persons within the Several Districts of the United States, according to "An act providing for the second Census or Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the United States." [Washington, D.C.]: Printed [by William Duane] for the House of Representatives, [1801].
US$ 13,750
£9,074
€10,687
3193 VANDERMAELEN, P.M.G. Group of 10 lithographed maps of the Midwestern and Southeastern States and one general map of North America, US$ 1,125
£742
€874
3194 VIRGINIA. HONDIUS, HENRICUS. Nova Virginiæ Tabula. [Amsterdam: c. 1638.] US$ 1,000
£659
€777
3196 WESTERN STATES. VANDERMAELEN, P.M.G. Group of 13 lithographed maps of the Western States, US$ 1,625
£1,072
€1,263
3197 WILKES, CHARLES. 1798-1877. Atlas. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. During the Years 1838, 1839 , 1840, 1841, 1842. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845. US$ 1,187
£783
€922
3203 [KIDGELL, JOHN.] The Card. London: Printed for the Maker and sold by J. Newberry, 1755.
US$ 562
£371
€437
3206 POPULAR CULTURE. US$ 475
£313
€369
3207 ROBINSON, JACKIE. 1919-1972, et al. US$ 625
£412
€485
3208 YEARBOOKS, etc. US$ 375
£247
€291
3209 CALLAS, MARIA. 1923-1977. US$ 600
£395
€466
3211 MOZART, LEOPOLD. 1719-1787. Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule. Augsburg: Johann Jacob Lotter, 1756. US$ 1,500
£989
€1,165
3212 SCHWEITZER, ALBERT. 1875-1965. Approximately 124 Autograph Letters Signed (a few unsigned), approximately 190 pp recto and verso, 4to and 8vo, Lambarene, West Africa, February 20, 1929 to June 23, 1965, to Dr. Robert Weiss, Chief of Pharmacy at General Hospital, Strasbourg, in German and French, US$ 20,000
£13,199
€15,544
3218 BREVIARY. Illuminated Latin manuscript on vellum, being prayers for the Office of the Dead. [Italy, late 15th century.] US$ 10,000
£6,599
€7,772
3219 BIONDO, [FLAVIO]. 1392-1463. Per il fatto del imperio e temporale delia chiesa ristretto di Giulio [sic] Biondo. [Italy]: seventeenth century. US$ 475
£313
€369
3222 EMBLEM BOOK. BORJA, JUAN DE. Emblemata moralia. Berlin: J.M. Rudiger, 1697. US$ 687
£453
€534
3223 EMBLEM BOOK. VAENIUS, OTTO. Quinti Horatii Flacci emblemata. Brussels: Francis Foppens, 1682. US$ 687
£453
€534
3224 EYTZINGER, MICHAEL VON. c.1530-1598. Novus de Leone Belgico, eiusque Topographica atque, historica descriptione liber. Cologne: Franciscus Hogenberg, 1588. US$ 2,750
£1,814
€2,137
3227 HERBINIUS, JOHANNES. 1633-1676. Dissertationes de admirandis mundi cataractis supra & subterraneis.... Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1678. US$ 525
£346
€408
3228 ILLUMINATED MINIATURE. Illuminated portrait of a halo-ed figure with left hand resting on a globe, US$ 1,625
£1,072
€1,263
3230 JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS. 37-C.100. Historien und Buecher: Von Alten Juedischen Geschicten. Frankfurt: Georg Raben & the heirs of Wengand Hanen for Sigmund Feyerabendt, 1571. US$ 687
£453
€534
3231 PERSIAN MANUSCRIPT. HAFIZ, KHWAJA SHAMS AL-DIN, OF SHIRAZ. Diwan, manuscript on paper, US$ 2,125
£1,402
€1,651
3232 PORCACCHI, THOMASO. Funerali antiche de diversi popoli, et nationi. Venice: Heirs of Simon Galignani, 1591. US$ 475
£313
€369
3235 AFRICA. HONDIUS, HENRICUS. Nova Africae Tabula. [Amsterdam: 1610 or later.] US$ 625
£412
€485
3236 ALEXANDRE DU RHODES. 1591-1660. Divers voyages et missions ... en la Chine, & autres royaumes de l'Orient, avec son retour en Europe par la Perse & l'Armenie. Paris: Sebastien and Gabriel Cramoisy, 1653. US$ 1,750
£1,154
€1,360
3239 ANSON, GEORGE, LORD. WALTER, RICHARD, compiler. A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. London: T. Osborne [et al], 1767. US$ 437
£288
€340
3240 ARCTIC. BLAEU, WILLEM. 1571-1638. Regiones Sub Polo Arctico. [Amsterdam, c. 1635.]
US$ 750
£494
€582
3241 ARCTIC. CORONELLI, VICENZO MARIA. 1650-1718. Terre Artiche. [Venice: 1690s.] US$ 625
£412
€485
3242 BACKER, REMMET TEUNISSE, after. DE BROEN, J., engraver. Sterre Kaert of Hemels Pleyn, waer door met kan wete hoe laet dat het is over de gehele aertkloot op alle meridiane en polus hoogte, en op wat lengte en brete, de voorsz sterre staen, bezuyde en benoorde de Liniae Aequinoctiael. Amsterdam: Reinier & Josua Ottens, c.1750. US$ 525
£346
€408
3243 BARROW, JOHN, SIR. 1764-1848. Travels in China. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804. US$ 1,375
£907
€1,068
3244 BARROW, JOHN, SIR. 1764-1848. A Voyage to Cochinchina, in the Years 1792 and 1793 ... with Sketches of the Manners, Character, and Condition of their Several Inhabitants. To which is Annexed an Account of a Journey ... to the Residence of the Chief of the Booshuana Nation. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806. US$ 1,250
£824
€971
3246 BERMUDA. JANSSON, JOHANNES. Mappa Æstivarum Insularum, alias Barmudas dictarum. Amsterdam: c.1650. US$ 1,125
£742
€874
3247 BRAZIL. VANDERMAELEN, P.M.G. Group of 18 lithographed maps of Brazil, US$ 1,125
£742
€874
3248 BROUERIUS VAN NIERDEK, MATTHAEUS, [& ABRAHAM RADEMAKER. 1677-1735]. Kabinet van Nederlandsche Outheden en Gezichten. Amsterdam: Willem Barents, 1725. US$ 750
£494
€582
3249 BURTON, RICHARD FRANCIS, SIR. 1821-1890. The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi: [A Lay of the Higher Law]. London: Privately Printed [but Bernard Quaritch], [1880]. US$ 8,750
£5,774
€6,800
3251 CHINA & JAPAN—PHOTOGRAPHY. Group of 39 albumen prints including: US$ 7,500
£4,949
€5,829
3252 DOPPLEMAYR, JOHANN. HOMANN, JOHANN BAPTIST. Hemisphaerium Coeli Australe... [AND:] Hemisphaerium Coeli Boreale.... Nuremberg: Homann, [c.1730]. US$ 1,000
£659
€777
3253 DOPPLEMAYR, JOHANN. HOMANN, JOHANN BAPTIST. Hemisphaerium Coeli Boreale. [AND:] Motus Cometarum in Hemisphaerio Australi. US$ 1,625
£1,072
€1,263
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