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Case Antiques
Two-Day Summer Auction
July 12 & 13, 2025Case Antiques, July 12-13: Winston Link Signed Photograph, Hotshot Eastbound, Iager, West Virginia, July 1957. $3,400 to $3,800.Case Antiques, July 12-13: Alexander Hamilton ALS, Whiskey Rebellion. $2,800 to $3,200.Case Antiques, July 12-13: Civil War Canteen and Letters, Thomas Tabb Jr. CSA. $1,800 to $2,200.Case Antiques
Two-Day Summer Auction
July 12 & 13, 2025Case Antiques, July 12-13: Archive of Capt. William Tabb of MS, CSA, Killed Atlanta. $1,000 to $1,400.Case Antiques, July 12-13: Rudyard Kipling Collection, 29 Volumes, First Editions; Zaehnsdorf Bindings. $1,000 to $1,200.Case Antiques, July 12-13: Artist Andrew Wyeth & Family Signed Letters, Cards. $1,000 to $1,200.Case Antiques
Two-Day Summer Auction
July 12 & 13, 2025Case Antiques, July 12-13: Augusta Resolves Silk Broadside, Revolutionary War RelateD. $800 to $1,000.Case Antiques, July 12-13: 1894 Map of Nashville. $800 to $900.Case Antiques, July 12-13: CSA Navy Appointment, Semmes and Mallory plus Photo of Lt. Armstrong. $600 to $800.Case Antiques
Two-Day Summer Auction
July 12 & 13, 2025Case Antiques, July 12-13: Slave Colonies of Great Britain, 1825, Macaulay, First Edition, plus Debate on Abolition, 1792. $600 to $800.Case Antiques, July 12-13: Signed Photo of 3 Presidents: Nixon, Ford, Carter. $600 to $800.Case Antiques, July 12-13: Slave Ledger, Merrill Plantations, Natchez, MS & Concordia, LA. $1,000 to $1,200. -
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Sotheby’s
New York Book Week
12-26 JuneSotheby’s, June 25: Theocritus. Theocriti Eclogae triginta, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, February 1495/1496. 220,000 - 280,000 USDSotheby’s, June 26: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby, 1925. 40,000 - 60,000 USDSotheby’s, June 26: Blake, William. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Printed ca. 1381-1832. 400,000 - 600,000 USDSotheby’s, June 26: Lincoln, Abraham. Thirteenth Amendment, signed by Abraham Lincoln. 8,000,000 - 12,000,000 USDSotheby’s, June 26: Galieli, Galileo. First Edition of the Foundation of Modern Astronomy, 1610. 300,000 - 400,000 USD -
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Books, Autographs & Prints
June 24 & 25, 2025Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE / LANDINO, CRISTOFORO. Comento di Christophoro Landino Fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino, 1481. €40,000 to €50,000.Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus]. Aggiunta: Marsilius Ficinus, Ad Dantem gratulatio [in latino e Italiano], 1487. €40,000 to €60,000.Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. Il Convivio, 1490. €20,000 to €25,000.Finarte
Books, Autographs & Prints
June 24 & 25, 2025Finarte, June 24-25: BANDELLO, MATTEO. La prima [-quarta] parte de le nouelle del Bandello, 1554. €7,000 to €9,000.Finarte, June 24-25: LEGATURA – PLUTARCO. Le vies des hommes illustres, grecs et romaines translates, 1567. €10,000 to €12,000.Finarte, June 24-25: TOLOMEO, CLAUDIO. Ptolemeo La Geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alessandrino, Con alcuni comenti…, 1548. €4,000 to €6,000.Finarte
Books, Autographs & Prints
June 24 & 25, 2025Finarte, June 24-25: FESTE - COPPOLA, GIOVANNI CARLO. Le nozze degli Dei, favola [...] rappresentata in musica in Firenze…, 1637. €6,000 to €8,000.Finarte, June 24-25: SPINOZA, BARUCH. Opera posthuma, 1677. €8,000 to €12,000.Finarte, June 24-25: PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER. Borus Godunov, 1831. €30,000 to €50,000.Finarte
Books, Autographs & Prints
June 24 & 25, 2025Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - LECUIRE, PIERRE. Ballets-minute, 1954. €35,000 to €40,000.Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - MAJAKOVSKIJ, VLADIMIR / LISSITZKY, LAZAR MARKOVICH. Dlia Golosa, 1923. €7,000 to €10,000.Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - MATISSE, HENRI / MONTHERLANT, HENRY DE. Pasiphaé. Chant de Minos., 1944. €22,000 to €24,000.
Rare Book Monthly
Articles - February - 2004 Issue
“Unusual” American Imprints<br>from David Lesser
Zebulon Vance of North Carolina was another southern unionist who held out until the end. Elected to Congress in 1860, this message To the Citizens of the Eighth Congressional District of North Carolina has Vance still holding out for the Union as late as February 1861. In it he says that the South “seized upon the election of Lincoln as the occasion, rather than the cause for breaking up the Union.” He claims there has been a vision in the South for thirty years to break up the Union and create an imperial South that would expand to other nations. However, Vance was also strongly opposed to the abolitionists, and as it became clear only a few weeks later that North Carolina would secede, he resigned his seat and joined the Confederacy. Vance would go on to be North Carolina’s Civil War governor and later serve three terms in the senate. Item 183. $350.
As not all Southerners were secessionists, not all Northerners were abolitionists. Actually, few were, but Two Letters to the Editor of the New Bedford Mercury by George Curtis offer a northern argument for upholding the Fugitive Slave Law by someone who disliked slavery. Curtis was a noted lawyer and his argument is that he is bound to obey the law regardless of how he personally feels about it. He rejected the “higher law” notion of the abolitionists. Item 58. $150.
One more look at the Civil War era: Democratic Protests Against the Lecompton Fraud by Tennessee Representative Frederick Stanton. Stanton started out as a supporter of the position that slaveowners had the right to bring their “property,” slaves, into the territories. This position earned him an appointment as territorial governor of Kansas by President Buchanan. However, voter fraud in approving the pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution angered Stanton, and caused him to change his views. Those views are expressed in this piece. Stanton would be dismissed by Buchanan, and he would go on to be a supporter of Buchanan’s party rival Stephen Douglas, who favored voter choice on the slavery issue in the territories. Ultimately, southern Democrats would bolt from Douglas and the northern Democrats, enabling Lincoln to be elected, in turn leading to secession, war, and the end of slavery everywhere, including the South. Item 163. $150.
We have room for one more tragedy, so how about the great Chicago fire? We all know about Mrs. O’Leary’s cow, but for those wishing more detail, here’s the Full Account of the Great Fire in Chicago. For Sale by all News Dealers, and on all Trains. This pamphlet was published shortly after the fire and described the tragic event in detail. But, contrary to the title, you’re not likely to find this item at your local newsstand or train station, so you will need to inquire of David Lesser if you would like a copy. Item 38. $375.
David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books may be found on the internet at www.lesserbooks.com or contacted by phone at 203-389-8111.