Schilb Antiquarian: Rare Books with NO Reserve, NO Buyers Premium, 401049, Columbia
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- February 15, 2026 - February 15, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | J.W. Barber | Incidents in American History |
Boston | 1854 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 155.00 |
| 52 | Samuel Cooper | A Concise System of Instructions and Regulations for the Militia and Volunteers of the United States: Comprehending the Exercises and Movements of the Infantry, Light Infantry, and Riflemen; Cavalry and Artillery |
Philadelphia | 1854 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 410.00 |
| 53 | John C. Fremont | The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California: to which is added a description of the physical geography of California |
New York | 1856 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 200.00 |
| 54 | John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne Illustrator(s): John Mlenan | Life and Times of Gen. Sam. Dale, the Mississippi Partisan |
New York | 1860 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 74.00 |
| 55 | various Illustrator: John Leech, and others | Punch Magazine |
London | 1862 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 130.00 |
| 56 | Annual Report of the American board of commissioners for Foreign Missions | various |
Boston | 1863 | USD 399.00 - 800.00 | USD 22.00 |
| 57 | traditional Hebrew | Form of Prayers for the Feast of Pentecost; Form of Prayers for the Feast of Tabernacles |
New York | 1865 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 700.00 |
| 58 | Ed. S. Taylor | The History of Playing Cards, With Anecdotes of Their Use in Conjuring, Fortune-Telling, and Card-Sharping |
London | 1865 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 220.00 |
| 59 | various Illustrator: John Tenniel, and others | Punch Magazine |
London | 1865 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 100.00 |
| 60 | A.H. Worthen Illustrator: the Western Engraving Company Contributor(s): J.D. Whitney, Leo Lesquereux, Henry Engelmann | Geological survey of Illinois. Volume I. Geology |
Chicago | 1866 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 94.00 |
| 61 | State of Illinois Illustrator: the Western Engraving Company Contributor(s): F.B. Meek, A.H. Worthen, Leo Lesquereux, J.S. Newberry | Geological survey of Illinois. Volume II. Paleontology |
Chicago | 1866 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 68.00 |
| 62 | various Illustrator: John Tenniel, and others | Punch Magazine |
London | 1866 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 74.00 |
| 63 | Charles Louis Flint | Eighty Years Progress of the United States |
Hartford, Conn. | 1869 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 155.00 |
| 64 | Charles Burdett | Life of Kit Carson: The Great Western Hunter and Guide; comprising Wild and Romantic Exploits as a Hunter and Trapper in the Rocky Mountains |
Philadelphia | 1869 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 115.00 |
| 65 | J. W. Foster | The Mississippi Valley: Its Physical Geography, Including Sketches of the Topography, Botany, Climate, Geology, and Mineral Resources |
S. C. Griggs and Company | 1869 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 82.00 |
| 66 | J. W. Elliot | Mother Gooses Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs Set to Music |
New York | ca. 1870. | USD 399.00 - 800.00 | USD 96.00 |
| 67 | O. Turner | History of the Pioneer Settlement of Phelps and Gorhams Purchase, and Morris Reserve |
Rochester | 1870 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 70.00 |
| 68 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Society and Solitude |
Boston | 1870 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 70.00 |
| 69 | Benson John Lossing Illustrator(s): Benson John Lossing | The Home of Washington; or, Mount Vernon and its Associations, Historical, Biographical, and Pictorial |
New York | 1871 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 445.00 |
| 70 | W.J. Loftie Illustrator(s): T.L. Rowbotham | Picturesque Scottish Scenery from Original Drawings |
New York | 1875 | USD 399.00 - 800.00 | USD 145.00 |
| 71 | Crisfield Johnson | Centennial History of Erie County, New York: Being Its Annals from the Earliest Recorded Events to the Hundredth Year of American Independence |
House of Matthews & Warren | 1876 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 105.00 |
| 72 | Mark Twain | Roughing It |
Hartford, Conn. | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 200.00 | |
| 73 | James Parton | Life of Voltaire |
Boston | 1881 | USD 399.00 - 800.00 | USD 52.00 |
| 74 | Thurlow Weed Contributor(s): Harriet A. Weed (Editor) | Autobiography of Thurlow Weed |
Boston | 1883 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 88.00 |
| 75 | The Life of Colonel David Crockett: comprising his adventures as backwoodsman and hunter, his services as soldier and scout in the Creek War,... |
Philadelphia | 1884 | USD 399.00 - 800.00 | USD 78.00 |
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Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000Forum, Mar. 26: France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen miniatures surviving from an original cycle of at least twenty, [c. 1430]. £15,000-20,000Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000Forum, Mar. 26: Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, one of 215 first issue "Proof" copies, this one of 65 copies on "French" paper, Published by the Author, March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000Forum, Mar. 26: Kepler (Johannes). Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, first edition, Augsburg, David Frank, 1611. £12,000-18,000 -
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Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.