Common Crow Books: Rare Books & Ephemera, 393976, Pittsburgh

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 03, 2025 - December 03, 2025

Page Size: 306 items in 13 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
376		Poems by the Rev. George Crabbe, 1808, in full vellum binding	London	1808	USD 75.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
377	M. Hoke Gottschall	Constructive Pittsburgh, a Review of the Babcock Administration, 1922	Pittsburgh	1922	USD 40.00 - 75.00	Not Sold
378		1925 indenture lease Duke of Newcastle for premises in Newark upon Trent, Nottingham		1925	USD 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
379		1830 Last Will & Testament of Daniel Allen of Wrockwardine, County Shropshire		1830	USD 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
380		Ca. 1912-1915 4 real photo postcards RPPCs Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia & son		Ca1912-1915	USD 30.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
381		1876 parchment Philadelphia indenture deed, 619 N. 25th Street	Philadelphia	1876	USD 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
382		1925 program for La Savoie steamship, C. G. Transatlantique shipboard concert		1925	USD 30.00 - 60.00	USD 11.20
383	1955 folio	Forty Handwoven Cotton Textiles from Japan - with actual sample swatches	Kyoto & Tokyo	1955	USD 400.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
384		Frederick Richardson, illustrations. Mother Goose, Volland Popular Edition, large quarto in d/j.	Chicago	C1915	USD 150.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
385	Lu Shanchuan	Events in China, 2008 [in Chinese]	China	2008	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
386	Valentin Teirich	Blatter fur Kunstgewerbe. Band 1 & 2, 1872-1873 - architect Hermann	Wien	1872-1873	USD 400.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
387	St. Hildegard of Bingen; Alfons Huber	Physica (ca. 1150). Vienna, 1923. Signed limited by Huber	Wien; Vienna	(1923)	USD 175.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
388	Mary Howitt	Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap-Book, MDCCCXLI (1841), 35 engraved plates	London	1841	USD 125.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
389	Richard von Mises	Adolf Grunbaum's copy of Kleines Lehrbuch des Positivismus, 1939	The Hague	1939	USD 175.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
390		Reade, Charles; Hugh Thomson, illus. Peg Woffington (1899) 1/200 large paper copies	London	1899	USD 150.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
391	Spallanzani & Senebier	Experiences pour...l'histoire de la generation des	Geneve	1785	USD 450.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
392		Art and Letters, March-April, 1889, quarto, finely bound with many prints and etchings	London and New York	1889	USD 175.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
393		Art and Letters, January - February, 1889, quarto, finely bound with many prints and etchings	London and New York	1889	USD 175.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
394		Art and Letters, September-October 1889, finely bound with many prints and etchings	Includes Manet, Rodin and Millet! London and New York	1889	USD 175.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
395	R. T. Trall	The Hygienic Hand-Book, intended as a practical guide for the sick room, 1872	New York	1872	USD 150.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
396	Gray	From the Peace to the Fraser. Hunting & Exploration Journals 1900 to 1930, #29/50 signed	Missoula	1994	USD 250.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
397	Peter Capstick's Africa	A Return To The Long Grass - inscribed to his publisher	New York	1987	USD 250.00 - 500.00	USD 134.40
398	Capt. G. D. Hamilton	Trout-Fishing and Sport in Maoriland -- signed copy, 1904 1st ed.	Wellington, NZ	1904	USD 250.00 - 500.00	USD 145.60
399	J. E. Davis	Ye Sylvan Archer, Volume I, May 1927 - December 1929 (Derrydale Press, 1993)	(Lyons, MS)	1993	USD 85.00 - 175.00	Not Sold
400	Vincent Stall (King Mini)	9 King Mini comic booklets with cover wrap signed with drawing	vMinneapolis	1997-2003	USD 75.00 - 150.00	Not Sold

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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