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

Auction Details

Auction Report
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
226 Rev. John East

Songs of My Pilgrimage - inscribed (1839)

Bath and London 1839 USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
227 William Fleetwood

4 Sermons (1712) Death of Queen Mary, Gloucester, King William, Queen's

London 1712 USD 250.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
228 (Anglican) Thomas Bisse

The Beauty of Holiness in the Common Prayer [&] Pride & Ignorance, 1716-17

London 1717 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
229

Hunter & Pickup's Panoramic Guide from Niagara Falls to Quebec, 1866, folding 10-foot panorama!

Montreal 1866 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 56.00
230 Costello

Specimens of the Early Poetry of France (1835) in beautiful Zaehnsdorf full cherry calf

London 1835 USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
231 Pond

1885 History of Life-Saving Devices, Military & Naval Constructions invented by Joseph Francis

History of Life-Saving Appliances, and Military and Naval Constructions, Invented and Manufactured by Joseph Francis. New York 1885 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 134.40
232 Bruce Nauman, Peter Campus

Points of Departure, Origins in Video, 1991 rare early video art catalog

Pittsburgh 1990 USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
233 Jane Euphemia Saxby

Aunt Effie's Rhymes For Little Children, ca. 1864, many colored illustrations

early 1850s USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 56.00
234 Olympio Massoto

Des Wohl-Ehrwurdigen und Geistreichen Herrn Lauren. Scupuli [Lorenzo Sculpoli],

Augsburg 1759 USD 125.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
235 Frederick A. Talbot

Practical Cinematography and Its Applications, 1913 first edition

London 1913 USD 75.00 - 150.00 USD 44.80
236 Robert Bloomfield

The Banks of Wye / May Day with the Muses / Hazelwood-Hall, 1813---1822---

London 1813 USD 125.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
237

(Chess) Alain White, et al. A Century of Two-Movers. Overbrook Press, 1941. Edition of 350 copies.

Stamford CT 1941 USD 250.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
238

1827-1830 bound volume of 4 Welsh books on Baptism, Christianity, Missionaries, etc

1827-1830 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
239 (Wilhelm) F. Hey, Otto Speckter (illus.)

Picture Fables Drawn by Otto Speckter. NY, 1858

New York 1858 USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
240 Father Richard Simon

Religions and Customs of the Eastern Nations, 1685

London 1685 USD 400.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
241

Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic Equipments and Materials for Amateurs, 1889.

Pittsburgh 1889 USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
242 Samuel Cooper, Ludwig Friedrich von Froriep

Handbuch der Chirurgie (Manual of Surgery) 3 vols, 1819

Weimar 1819 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
243 Dan Brown

The Da Vinci Code, 2003, 1st printing, 1st issue

NY 2003 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 56.00
244

1900 catalog of cloaks, suits, furs for women & girls, Edward B. Grossman Co., Chicago

Chicago 1900 USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
245 A. J. Bates & Co., NY

1896 Shoe Buyers' Helper & catalog

NY 1896 USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
246 Carl Johan de Geer

Long Live the Large Family (2010), one of 250 signed

NY 2010 USD 175.00 - 350.00 USD 89.60
247

De Haven & Co., Pittsburgh 1881 catalog of stoves, portable ranges, grate fronts, sugar kettles &c.

Pittsburgh 1881 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 44.80
248 Hogg & Johnson

A Selection of the Eatable Funguses of Great Britain, 1863. 24 color lithographs

London 1863 USD 350.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
249 Lestiboudois

Botanographie Belgique, 1803 [Botany of Belgium] --- many plates and tables

Lille, France An XII [1803] USD 300.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
250 Horace; Thomas Creech

Odes, Satyrs, and Epistles of Horace, Done into English by Mr. Creech, 1720

London 1720 USD 150.00 - 300.00 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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