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Bonhams, June 16-25: 15th-CENTURY TREATISE ON SYPHILIS. GRÜNPECK. 1496. $20,000 - $30,000Bonhams, June 16-25: THE NORMAN COPY OF BENIVIENI'S TREATISE ON PATHOLOGY. 1507. $12,000 - $18,000Bonhams, June 16-25: FRACASTORO. Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus. 1530. $8,000 - $12,000Bonhams, June 16-25: THE FIRST PUBLISHED WORK ON SKIN DISEASES. MERCURIALIS. De morbis cutaneis... 1572. $10,000 - $15,000Bonhams, June 16-25: BIDLOO. Anatomia humani corporis... 1685. $6,000 - $9,000Bonhams, June 16-25: THE NORMAN COPY OF DOUGLASS'S EARLY AMERICAN WORK ON INNOCULATION AND SMALLPOX. 1722. $20,000 - $30,000Bonhams, June 16-25: LIND'S FIRST TREATISE ON SCURVY. 1753. $15,000 - $20,000Bonhams, June 16-25: RARE JENNER SIGNED CIRCULAR ON VACCINATION. 1821. $4,000 - $6,000Bonhams, June 16-25: MOST BEAUTIFUL OF MEDICAL ILLUSTRATIONS. BRIGHT. Reports of Medical Cases... 1827-1831. $10,000 - $15,000Bonhams, June 16-25: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE PRESENTATION COPY TO HER MOTHER. 1860. $6,000 - $8,000Bonhams, June 16-25: LORENZO TRAVER'S MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF BURNSIDE'S NORTH CAROLINA EXPEDITION. TRAVER, Lorenzo. $2,000 - $3,000Bonhams, June 16-25: ONE OF THE EARLIEST PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOKS ON DERMATOLOGY. HARDY. Clinique Photographique... 1868. $3,000 - $5,000
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Bonhams, June 16-24: KELMSCOTT PRESS. RUSKIN. The Nature of Gothic. 1892. $1,500 - $2,500Bonhams, June 16-24: ASHENDENE PRESS. The Wisdom of Jesus. 1932. $2,000 - $3,000Bonhams, June 16-24: CHARLOTTE BRONTE WRITES AS GOVERNESS. Autograph Letter Signed, 1851. $15,000 - $25,000Bonhams, June 16-24: FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF WUTHERING HEIGHTS. BRONTE, Emily. New York, 1848. $3,000 - $5,000Bonhams, June 16-24: IAN FLEMING ASSOCIATION COPY. You Only Live Twice. London, 1964. $7,000 - $9,000Bonhams, June 16-24: DELUXE EDITION WITH ORIGINAL PAINTING. BUKOWSKI, Charles. War All the Time. 1984. $3,000 - $5,000Bonhams, June 16-24: EINSTEIN'S MOST POWERFUL STATEMENT ON THE ATOMIC BOMB. Original Typed Manuscript Signed, "On My Participation in the Atom Bomb Project," 1953. $100,000 - $150,000Bonhams, June 16-24: EINSTEIN ON SCIENCE, WAR AND MORALITY. Autograph Letter Signed, 1949. $20,000 - $30,000Bonhams, June 16-24: SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. WASHINGTON, George. Engraved document signed, 1786. $8,000 - $12,000Bonhams, June 16-24: AN EARLY CHINESE-MADE 34-STAR U.S. CONSULAR FLAG. $8,000 - $12,000Bonhams, June 16-24: SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF LINCOLN WITH HIS SON TAD. 1864. $60,000 - $90,000Bonhams, June 16-24: MALCOLM X WRITES FROM KENYA. Postcard signed, 1964. $4,000 - $6,000
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Case Antiques
Two-Day Summer Auction
July 12 & 13, 2025Case Antiques, July 12-13: Winston Link Signed Photograph, Hotshot Eastbound, Iager, West Virginia, July 1957. $3,400 to $3,800.Case Antiques, July 12-13: Alexander Hamilton ALS, Whiskey Rebellion. $2,800 to $3,200.Case Antiques, July 12-13: Civil War Canteen and Letters, Thomas Tabb Jr. CSA. $1,800 to $2,200.Case Antiques
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July 12 & 13, 2025Case Antiques, July 12-13: Archive of Capt. William Tabb of MS, CSA, Killed Atlanta. $1,000 to $1,400.Case Antiques, July 12-13: Rudyard Kipling Collection, 29 Volumes, First Editions; Zaehnsdorf Bindings. $1,000 to $1,200.Case Antiques, July 12-13: Artist Andrew Wyeth & Family Signed Letters, Cards. $1,000 to $1,200.Case Antiques
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July 12 & 13, 2025Case Antiques, July 12-13: Augusta Resolves Silk Broadside, Revolutionary War RelateD. $800 to $1,000.Case Antiques, July 12-13: 1894 Map of Nashville. $800 to $900.Case Antiques, July 12-13: CSA Navy Appointment, Semmes and Mallory plus Photo of Lt. Armstrong. $600 to $800.Case Antiques
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July 12 & 13, 2025Case Antiques, July 12-13: Slave Colonies of Great Britain, 1825, Macaulay, First Edition, plus Debate on Abolition, 1792. $600 to $800.Case Antiques, July 12-13: Signed Photo of 3 Presidents: Nixon, Ford, Carter. $600 to $800.Case Antiques, July 12-13: Slave Ledger, Merrill Plantations, Natchez, MS & Concordia, LA. $1,000 to $1,200. -
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Book Catalogue Reviews - April - 2009 Issue
<i>What Katy Did</i> - A Recognition of Feminism from Randall House Rare Books
By Michael Stillman
This month we review one of the most extensive catalogues on a subject we have seen: What Katy Did. A Recognition of Feminism in the American Experience. This is an exceptional catalogue, long in the making, long in the offerings. Randall House Rare Books has come up with over one thousand items, all pertaining to or written by women. They aren't necessarily "feminist," though many pertain to the long struggles for women's rights. What you will find here are many famous and important women, as writers or subjects. They range from the 1960's and 70's New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug, known for fighting for women's and others' rights (and for her large hats), to Babe Didrickson Zaharias, the marvelous woman athlete from the first half of the 20th century, an all around competitor whose biggest mark was made in golf. Here are just a few of the very many items Randall House has put together.
Item 971 ties together two remarkable women fighters for abolition: Harriet Beecher Stowe and Sojourner Truth. Stowe was the novelist whose Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the horrors of slavery front and center for all to see in the decade before the Civil War. Truth was a campaigner for freedom, a woman born into slavery in upstate New York (in 1793, slavery still existed in the North) who, despite being uneducated and illiterate, became a major speaker for abolition. Offered is the April 1863 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, containing Stowe's tribute to Truth, Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl. Priced at $100.
Hannah Duston was an early fighter for freedom - her own - and the Indians rued the day they messed with her. Hannah and her family were living in rural Haverhill, Massachusetts, when a group of Indians came calling with unfriendly intentions. Most of the family escaped, but Hannah, her nurse, and her few week old baby were captured and forced to march north. When the baby slowed them down, one of the Indians took it and smashed its head against a tree. Hannah would get her revenge. Hannah, her nurse, and a 14-year-old boy captured earlier were sent with a group of 12 Indians to continue the arduous journey through snow and mud to Canada. One night, they camped on an island in New Hampshire. The Indians (only two of whom were men, the rest being women and children) got a bit careless and went to sleep with no guard. Hannah and the boy grabbed the Indians' tomahawks. With spectacular efficiency, Hannah killed nine of them, the boy one, and one Indian woman and child escaped. Hannah and her companions set down the river in a canoe when she realized no one would believe their story. She quickly reversed course, scalped the Indians, and returned with the evidence (which was also needed for her to secure a reward). Hannah's story was first written up by Cotton Mather, of all people, in 1702. Item 273 is Heroism of Hannah Duston... by Robert B. Caverly, published in 1874. Hannah was a hero in her hometown for centuries, but her story makes us a bit more squeamish today. $100.