Northeast Auctions: Books and Prints, 100914, Portsmouth

Auction Details

Auction Date
October 09, 2014 - October 09, 2014
Page Size: 81 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
220

WAR OF 1812 NAVAL BALLAD "PERRY'S VICTORY." Manuscript copy comprising eleven stanzas beginning "Ye tars of Columbia give ear to my story."

Not Available Unknown
221

PROGRAM FOR A RECEPTION OF JAMES K. POLK, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AT PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ISSUED BY GEORGE W. TOWLE, CHIEF MARSHAL, PORTSMOUTH, JULY 3, 1847.

1847 Not Available Unknown
223

CITY OF PORTSMOUTH WALL MAP DATED 1850 AND A PRINT OF THE BRIGANTINE "YOUNG AMERICA."

Not Available Unknown
226

FIVE PRINTS OF ST. JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

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227 ERIC ROBERT MOORE.

TEN NINETEENTH CENTURY PRINT VIEWS OF PORTSMOUTH, TOGETHER WITH EIGHT PRINTS AFTER WATERCOLORS BY ERIC ROBERT MOORE.

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245

BOX LOT OF LEATHER BOUND BOOKS.

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250

HARVARD CRIMSON, BOUND VOLUME, JANUARY TO JUNE 1914.

1914 Not Available Unknown
251

FLORA'S DICTIONARY BY A LADY, BALTIMORE 1832, FULL LEATHER EMBOSSED MISS LYDIA SMITH, LONG ISLAND.

BALTIMORE 1832 Not Available Unknown
253

CURRIER AND IVES, CLIPPER SHIP IN A HURRICANE AND CLIPPER SHIP GREAT REPUBLIC.

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254

TWO ENGLISH MARINE PRINTS.

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255

HAND COLORED MAP OF VICENZA BY HENRICI HONDII.

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256

HENRY ALKIN, SET OF FOUR FRAMED SATIRICAL HUNTING PRINTS.

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257

SET OF FOUR FRAMED DR. SYNTAX PRINTS AFTER THOMAS ROWLANDSON.

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258

TWO FRAMED CHROMOLITHOGRAPH STILL LIFE PRINTS.

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261

CHROMOLITHOGRAPH OF RUDDY EGRETS AND BULRUSHES.

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263

RED WING SHEET MUSIC COVER AND A CHROMOLITHOGRAPH OF AN INDIAN MAIDEN.

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265

FRAMED PRINT OF THE INDIAN MAIDEN WAH-TA WAH.

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269

DELICIOUS BRITISH COLOR LITHOGRAPH OF A VARIETY OF CHEESES.

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278

FRAMED PRINT OF A YACHT RACE TOGETHER WITH A PRINT OF A DOG.

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285

SPANISH MISSION CHURCH.

Not Available Unknown
286 LUCEBERT (LUBERTUS J. SWAANSWIJK) (DUTCH 1924-1994).

SAILBOATS.

Not Available Unknown
288 EDWARD COLKER (AMERICAN, B. 1927).

SIGN AND SYMBOL,

1966 Not Available Unknown
289 UTAGAWA KUNISADA,

TWO FRAMED WOODBLOCK PRINTS. Each depicting a woman standing in a garden.

Not Available Unknown
300

FISHER'S ISLAND SOUND, FRAMED NAVIGATIONAL CHART.

Not Available Unknown
301

FRAMED TEMPLE RUBBING.

Not Available Unknown
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    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.
    SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
  • Sotheby’s
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    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
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    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
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    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
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    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.