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
176	Cunningham	The Story of Nell Gwyn, 1903, in full lavender morocco, extra-illustrated	Peter Cunningham, ed. The Story of Nell Gwyn and the Sayings of Charles II...with life of the author by Henry B. Wheatley. London	1903	USD 250.00 - 500.00	USD 134.40
177		The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Aug. 6-13, 1853, 2 issues, rare English Mormon	Liverpool	1853	USD 125.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
178	Natalie Joan & Susan Beatrice Pearse	Ameliaranne in Town [&] At the Circus, 1930-1931	Philadelphia	1930 & 1931	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 112.00
179	Anna Letitia Barbauld	Hymns in Prose for Children (Philadelphia, 1810)	Philadelphia	1810	USD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
180	Gershom Huff	Electro-Physiology, 1853	New York	1853	USD 150.00 - 300.00	USD 89.60
181	George & Ralph Jacoby	Electricity in Medicine, 1919	Philadelphia	1919	USD 125.00 - 250.00	USD 67.20
182	Walker	History of the Second Army Corps In the Army of the Potomac, 1886	New York	1886	USD 150.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
183	Hans Reichenbach	The Theory of Probability, 1949	Berkeley	1949	USD 150.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
184	Harvey Rice	Mount Vernon and other poems, 1866, inscribed to cousin	New York	1866	USD 75.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
185	William B. Carpenter	Mesmerism, Spiritualism, &c. Historically and Scientifically Considered, 1897	New York	1897	USD 75.00 - 150.00	USD 89.60
186	John Landis	Discourses on The Depravity of the Human Family, 1839	Harrisburg, PA	1839. First edition. 8vo	USD 150.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
187	Friedrich Heubner	1922 suite of 40 signed etchings for Voltaire's Princesse de Babylone	Munchen / Munich	1922	USD 500.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
188	Nathaniel Parker Willis	Summer Cruise on the Mediterranean, 1853 first edition	New York	1853	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
189	1914 Official Guide to South-Western Japan. Tokyo	Imperial Japanese Railways, many maps!	Tokyo	1914	USD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
190		1843 Report on the Employment of Women & Children in Agriculture, England.	London	1843	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 112.00
191		(Abortion) The Right to Life of the Unborn Child, 1903	New York	c.1903	USD 75.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
192	John Reed	An Apology for the Rite of Infant Baptism, 1806 1st edition	Providence, RI	1806	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
193	Guillaume Le Blond	L'Artillerie Raisonnee, 1776, 30 folding plates	Paris	1776	USD 500.00 - 1,000.00	USD 268.80
194	Beard & Rockwell	A Practical Treatise on the Medical and Surgical Uses of Electricity, 1883	New York	1883	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 78.40
195		Boggs & Buhl Catalogue No. 20, 1896-97, Autumn & Winter Fashions, Allegheny PA - with hat!	Allegheny, PA [I.e. the North Side of Pittsburgh]	1896	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
196	George Rector	Dining in New York, 1939, first edition in dust jacket	NY	1939	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
197	Claire Churchill	South of the Sunset (1936), Life of Sacjawea/Sacagawea 1st in d/j	NY	1936	USD 50.00 - 100.00	USD 33.60
198	Antoine Portal	La Nature et Le Traitement des Maladies du Foie, 1813 (Liver diseases & treatment)	Paris	1813	USD 150.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
199	Love's Rosary	A Garland of Verses (1912) in rare pictorial dust jacket, anthology of love poems	Chicago	1912	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
200		1617 indenture agreement for land in Widford, Hertfordshire, England		1617	USD 100.00 - 200.00	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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