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Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including The World of Hilary Knight

Part II – Online sale
6 – 13 December 2018
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124 lots available

KIPLING, RUDYARD. 1865-1936. Typed Letter Signed ("Rudyard Kipling") and initialled, 1p, 12mo, to dear

STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968. The Moon is Down. New York: The Viking Press, 1942.

VONNEGUT, KURT. 1922-2007. Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade. New York: Delacorte Press, 1969.

Ptolemy, Claudius. Tabula Moderna Hiber [British Isles]. [Strassburg: 1525].

GREAT BRITAIN: ROYAL RESIDENCES. [PELHAM, HENRY. 1694-1754.] Manuscript document on vellum, being an accounting of expenditures, 45 pp recto and verso, folio (550 x 476 mm), London, 27 June, 1751,

Bertrand de Moleville. Costume of the Hereditary States of the House of Austria. London: William Miller, 1804.

Lloyd, J.T. Topographical Map of the Hudson River from the head of navigation at Troy to its confluence with the ocean at Sandy Hook. Embracing an area 4 miles on either side. New York: 1864.

STRUTT, JOSEPH. 1749-1802. A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1842.

CIVIL WAR: CONFEDERATE SOLDIER'S LETTER. Autograph Letter Signed ("Jacob E Wells"), 3 pp recto and verso on 8vo (conjoining leaves), Vicksburg, Mississippi, February 26, 1863, to his father,

FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR. A group of 30 original pen, ink and watercolor illustrations of scenes and events from the Franco-Prussian War,

Two guns White calf, native American, the last chief of the Pikuni Blackfoot. 1872-1934. Portrait of Two Guns White Calf. Signed "F.A.V. [19]29", with the pictographic form of his signature added by the artist.

KELLER, HELEN. 1880-1968. Typed Letter Signed ("Helen Keller"), to a Mr. Bosqui, soliciting donations for the American Foundation for the Blind, 1 p, 4to, New York, September 16, 1942, on Keller's personal letterhead,

VE-DAY IN PARIS. MILLER, JUNE. Typed Letter Signed ("June Miller"), 4 pp, Paris, France, May 9, 1945,

CBI Theater: US Army 35th Group Army Liaison Team (Guerrilla Team India & China), the collection of Major Carl J. Chormley, Covering operations, February 1944 to May 1945.

WASHINGTON, BOOKER T. 1856-1915. Typed Letter Signed ("Booker T. Washington"), to John Jay Phelps, asking for a donation for improvements at the Tuskegee Institute, 1 p, 16mo, Tuskegee, AL, May 6, 1915, in blue typewriter ink on red printed letterhead paper, with original mailing envelope and enclosure of a report entitled "Permanent Improvements, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute,"

FRENCH AERONAUTICS. A group of 4 items related to French aeronautics, comprising: 1. Premiere Navigation Aerienne. Excerpt from a French periodical, c.1790. 8vo. 62 pp. Disbound. Some dampstaining, library stamps, minor wear.

GLAISHER, JAMES. 1809-1903. ET AL. Voyages Aeriens. Paris: Hachette, 1870.

AVIATION AND AERONAUTICS PUBLICATIONS. A group of 9 books and pamphlets, comprising: 1. WISE, JOHN J. 1808-1879. A System of Aeronautics, Comprehending its Earliest Investigations, and Modern Practice and Art. Philadelphia: Joseph A. Speel, 1850.

The London to Weilburg Balloon voyage. [After Hollins, J.] A Consultation previous to an Aerial Voyage from London to Weilburg in Nassau, on the 7th day of November 1836. [London: c.1837.]

[ROMANOV, NICHOLAS NIKOLAEVICH, GRAND DUKE. 1831-1891.] DEGREAUX, LAURENT. La puissance de l'aile ou l'oiseau pris au vol. Paris: Germer-Bailliere, 1871.

TSIOLKOVSKY, KONSTANTIN. 1857-1935. 3 volumes of NASA translations, comprising: 1. Works on Rocket Technology. Washington, DC: NASA, 1965. 4to. Red printed wrappers. Publication number TT F-243.

PONTON D'AMECOURT, GUSTAVE LOUIS DE. 1825-1888. Collection de mémoires sur la locomotion aérienne sans ballons. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1864.

[SCHÜTTE, JOHANN. 1873-1940.] HARDESTY, FREDERICK S. Key to the Development of the Super-Airship Luftfahrzuegbau Schütte-Lanz. New York: privately published, 1930.

BURDEN, WILLIAM A.M. 1906-1984. [AVIATION BIBLIOGRAPHY.] Typescript, being a listing of printed resources on aeronautics and aviation, dated 1933, 4to, 140pp, with alphabetical section tabs on outside page edges, maroon cloth, gilt titles on spine.

AVIATION ART. A group of 6 etchings on aviation subjects, including two images of Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, by G.C. Webb, one of a Ford trimotor by Wayne Davis, one entitled Wings in the Night by Inger Veise, one by Geoffrey Watson, all circa 1930's,

BRANSON, RICHARD. B.1950. [Virgin Galactic Brand Identity Book]. London: GBH, 2007.

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