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Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 419		*1798 Encyclopedia; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Vol XVIII.* Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson. 1st American Edition. 11" x 9" x 3½" thick, with original lmarble boards, leather corners, and leather gold-stamped title spines and tight binding. Light overall age toning and occasional foxing, but bright and fresh with very clear text. This volume covers the letters "STR-ZYM" and has 58 copper-plate illustrations. Topics include: an extensive description of Surgery, with six full-page engravings; a section on Naval Tactics with seven plates showing warship battle positions; a section on Telegraph and Telescope, with a full-page engraving of Herschel's Grand Telescope; and a large section on WAR with 21 full-page plates. From the first set of Encyclopedias published in the United States. Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $230
Lot 420		*1798 Encyclopedia; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Vol XVII.* Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson. 1st American Edition. 11" x 9" x 3½" thick, with original marble boards, leather corners, and leather gold-stamped title spines and tight binding. Light overall age toning and occasional foxing, but bright and fresh with very clear text. This volume covers the letters "SCO-STR" and has 32 copper-plate illustrations, three of which are fold-outs. A large section on Shipbuilding includes 16 plates, with two fold-outs showing ship design.; another illustration shows a full-page portrait of a complete warship under sail. The section on the Steam Engine has a fold-out of "Watt's Steam Enginre." From the first set of Encyclopedias published in the United States. Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $230
Lot 421		*1798 Encyclopedia; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Vol XVI.* Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson. 1st American Edition. 11" x 9" x 3" thick, with original lmarble boards, leather corners, and leather gold-stamped title spines and tight binding. Light overall age toning and occasional foxing, but very clear text; some nibbed page corners. This volume covers the letters "RAN-SCO" and has 11 copper-plate illustrations. Section Sections include the French Revolution, a study of the Rhinoceros with a full-page illustration, and a large section on the Roman Empire. From the first set of Encyclopedias published in the United States. Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $230
Lot 422		*17th Century Tamil Hindu Prayer Book.* Written on 10½" x 1" palm leaves with a stylus, giving the order of worship at a local shrine in Madura, India in the 1600s. "Tamil" is the oldest known language that, to this day, remains written and understood. The text is tiny, yet sharp and clear; the palm leaves are held together by two small wood planks that were "holed" and remained in place with a pair of simple wooden pins. One pin is missing and is temporarily held together with a length of think rope. Accompaned by a century-old tag with a penned notation, "Old Hindu book on palm leaf…Madura, India…J.T. Tracy." Of special interest to the linguist or antiquarian book enthusiast. Estimated Value $300 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,208
Lot 423		*1803 3 Vol. Supplement For 1st American Encyclopedia.* A complete set to the first American Encyclopedia, which was published in Philadelphia in 1798. This supplement set, published by the same Encyclopedia authors, was printed by Budd and Bartram for Thomas Dobson, Philadelphia, 1803. The three volumes run from A-Z and are complete, oversize editions, each. 11" x 9" x 2½" thick. Original marble boards with leather corners and gold-stamped title spines. Light page toning but overall a very clean and bright set. Select topics are illustrated with full-page copper-plate engravings, and topics include architecture, astronomy, carpentry, chemistry, the galvanic theory of electricity, magnetism, and mineralogy, as well as a history of Germantown in Philadelphia, a description of and plate illustrating the Guillotine, a section detainling the French Revolution, and a lengthy history of the United States States. A rare adjunct to America's first published Encyclopedia. Estimated Value $1,200 - 1,500. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 424		Albert, George Dallas. The Frontier Forts of Western Pennsylvania. 2nd Edition edited by Thomas Lynch Montgomery. Harrisburg, Pa: Wm. Stanley Ray, State Printer, 1916. Two volumes, 627 and 646 pages, plus index. With numerous plates and seven fold-out plans and diagrams. Original buchram covers with gilt-stamped spines. Light toning, else fine. Both volumes are stamped on the title page: "Compliments of James A. O'Donnell / House of Representatives / Harrisburg, Penna." Estimated Value $250 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $144
Lot 425		Besse, Joseph. A Collection of the Sufferings of the Quakers, 2 Vols. 1753 London printing., 12½" x 8½", 768 pp. and 638 pp. plus table of contents. Original leather boards with new spines; gold, red-letter titles, and gold-gilt remarques. Small paper repair of Vol I's title page and light toning throughout. Comprised of thousands of articles, letters, and petitions, much of the work taken from original records and authentic testimonial accounts, covering the period from 1650, when the Quakers were first called by that name (during the English Civil War), to 1689, the first year of the reign of William and Mary. Estimated Value $900 - 1,200. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,035
Lot 426		Bowditch, Nathaniel. The New American Practical Navigator. New York: E.M. Blunt, 1817. Thick 9" x 5½" leather cound edition, consisting of 274 pages of text, 280 pages of nautical tables, and a very large appendix showing the parallaxes of the moon and sun, and related longitude calculations. Book is replete with numerous illustrations and calculations, including a fold-out chart/map of the Atlantic Ocean. Scattered foxing throughout, toned pages, and some damp-staining throughout. Rebuilt spine with gold-stamped title and remarques decorations, stamped "New York 1817." An excellent reference for those interested in early American nautical writing. Estimated Value $350 - 450. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $201
Lot 427		Bradley, Richard. New Improvements in Planting and Gardening. London, printed by W. Mears, 1719, 3rd edition, 7¾" x 5". Over 340 pages, including 5 engraved, fold-out plates. Original lightly decorated leather binding with gilt spine lettering. Some minor margin notes contemorary to the book. Light foxing and normal age toning to pages. The book also includes Bradley's :The Gentleman and Gardener's Kalendar" for 1720, inscribed by Bradley himself. A very fine copy and interesting book on English garden methods. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $173
Lot 428		Concanen, Edward. A New Matrimonial Ladder. Printed in London around 1850. Hard-cover volume, 11¼" x 9", filled with poems and engravings on the joys and foibles of 19th century institution of marriage. Contains 20 full-page intaglio engravings and a poem of 55 stanzas. Professionally rebound in dark blue cloth binding, incoporating original, front cover with some white scuff marks; spine with gold-stamped, leather title plate. Estimated Value $200 - 250. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 429		Edited by Samuel Croxall, D.D. Aesop's Fables. 1722 edition, published in London, with a dedication to George, Lord Viscount Sunbury, Baron Halifax. A handsome, lavishly-illustrated edition, 7: x 4½", 329 pages, plus index. Professionally rebound leather binding with gold-stamped spine, decorations and gold-stamped red title. Internally very clean and bright. Includes more than 200 copper-plate engravings. A fine copy. Estimated Value $300 - 350. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 430		Ellwood, Thomas. The Foundation of Tythes Shaken. Second edition, published in London, printed by J. Sowle, 1720. 8 ¼" x 5" 384 pages, plus advertisement. Professionally rebound in tan cloth binding with leather gold-stamped title on spine. Small corner margin repairs on title page, not affecting text; similar repair on back advertising page. Normal edge and page toning. Very readable text. Tight binding. A famous early Quaker book. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $288
Lot 431		Ellwood, Thomas. Sacred History of the Historical Part of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. Mount Pleasant, Ohio: Enoch and Emily M. Harris, 1854. Two volumes, 544 and 455 pages. Original green marble boards, with leather corners and leather gold-stamped title spine. Foxing throughout; legible text. A sought-after Bible reference. Estimated Value $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $155
Lot 432		Erasmus. Liber utilissiamus De Conscribendis Epist:…. Amsterdam: Joannem Janssonium, 1629. 445 pages, 4¼" x 2¼". Latin text, frontispiece engraving of Erasmus. Old leather rebinding with gilt title plate on spine. Slight glue repair to inside front hinge. The first 30 pages have numerous light pen underlining and a few tiny margin notations, else a fine copy with a tight binding. Clipped lower right corner on p. 35, not affecting.text. Original 17th century book plate of Isaac Norris, one of first founders of Philadelphia, Pa. and a close friend of William Penn. Estimated Value $200 - 250. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $120
Lot 433		*Friends of the Seventeenth Century.* Published in Philadelphia at the Friends� Bookstore, 1876, 668 pages. 9 ½" x 6". Original cloth and quarter leather corners and spine, with gold-stamped title spine. Tight binding. The book covers the entire history and suffering of the Quakers, with detailed accounts of Quaker founder George Fox and William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania. Estimated Value $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 434		Janney, Samuel Janney, Samuel Janney, Samuel. Life of William Penn. Philadelphia: Hogan, Perkins & Co., 1852. Leather bound, 560 pp. Original boards with restored spine and gold-stamped title. Light edge toning and foxing. Signature of original owner, "Benjamin Newlin 2nd Mo. 7th. 1852," on front end paper. Frontispiece showing steel-engraved portrait of a young William Penn. Light foxing, else a fine copy. Estimated Value $200 - 250. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $115
Lot 435		*Journal of John Comly.* Journal of a Pennsylvania Quaker, covering his life from his birth in 1773 to 1839. Published by his children in 1853, 645 pages, 9" x 6" x 2 ¼". Original leather boards with professionally restored leather spine reinforcement and gold-stamped title on spine. Light toning; tight binding. A fine edition. Estimated Value $150 - 200. View details	Unsold
Lot 436		Junius. Stat Nominis Umbra. London: Printed by T. Bensley For Vernor and Hood Poultry, 1805, 2 volumes. Engraved frontispieces, title vignettes and portraits throughout, full mottled calf, gilt-stamped raised bands, leather spine labels, and marbled end papers; corners and edges of spine worn, some light foxing. Previous owner's name on title pages. Estimated Value $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $115
Lot 437		McKenney, Thomas L. Sketches of a Tour to the Lakes, of the Character and Customs of the Chippeway Indians, and of Incidents Connected with the Treaty. (Baltimore: Fielding Lucas, 1827), 494 pages, 9" x 6", rebound in brown closth with gold-stamped leather title plates, 5 full-page engravings. An early narrative written in diary form which gives an intimate look at the Great Lakes and native peoples of the region. A full-color lithograph of a Navaho Indian was used as a frontispiece when the book was rebound. Pages have uniform age toning; original title page is missing but narrative is complete. Overall a sound copy of the rare original, in very good condition. Estimated Value $250 - 350. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $196
Lot 438		Penington, Isaac. The Way of Life & Death Made Manifest and Set Before Men. …Held forth in good Will, both to Papists & Protestants," London, 1680. Large oversize leather bound edition, 11½" x 8" x 3" thick, 496 pages. Includes testimony by George Fox (founder of the Quakers) and by William Penn (founder of Pennsylvania). Normal age toning on edges, internally clean and bright text except for some inner page toning from paper inclusions and a small burn hole on page 211-212. Original boards with rebuilt spine showing gold remarques. Gold-stamped title is mistakenly labeled "The Testimony of George Fox Concerning Isaac Penington…London 1679" but this refers only to the first testimony in the book. Rare, early and important Quaker work. Estimated Value $500 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $863
Lot 439		Penn, William. No Cross, No Crown. Published in Philadelphia by Jacob Johnson, No. 147 High street (now Market Street), 1796., 358 pages, complete in two parts (one volume). 8 ½" x 5 ½". Professionally rebound with marble boards and quarter-leather, gold-stamped title spine, with reargues designs. Repair of portion of text on title page; light edge and page toning; otherwise, fine, readable copy of this famous Quaker theological work. Estimated Value $250 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 440		Pontey, William. The Forest pruner. Published in London, 1805, by T. Smart. Professionally rebound in green-cloth binding with gold-stamped tile-spine, 9" x 5¾", 270 pages plus extended index and advertisements. Light page toning. An extensive treatise on the management of British timber trees, including an explanation of general diseases and defects. Includs an examination of the properties of English fir timber and the management of oak woods, with eight explanatory plates. An excellent early arborist's reference. Estimated Value $150 - 175. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $86
Lot 441		*Quaker "Progressive Friends Meetings, 1862-88".* Bound in one volume, 26 complete reports of yearly Quaker meetings held in Longwood, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 9" x 6¼" x 2½" thick. Original quarter leather binding with gold-stamped title spine. Well over 500 pages. Penned inside front cover: "Gift of Mrs. Theodore Foulk 1934 No. 9995," with residue from a book plate, and stationer's stamp, else fine. Reports include a memorial message to President Lincoln, reports on "Slavery and the Rebellion," "The Rights of Women," and a eulogy on "The Assassination of President Lincoln." An important Pennsylvania Quaker reference. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 442		*Quaker "Progressive Friends� Meetings, 1853-1886".* Two volumes, 8 ½" x 6", with 33 complete reports, bound together, of annual Quaker meetings held in Longwood, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Original cloth and quarter leather binding with gold-stamped title spines. Well over 600 pages. Reports include a memorial message to President Lincoln regarding "…the seditious course pursued …by the so-called Confederate States," as well as reports on "Slavery and the Rebellion," "The Rights of Women," and a lengthy eulogy: "The Assassination of President Lincoln.". Estimated Value $250 - 350. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 443		Raymont, Sir Thomas Raymond. [17th Century Law Cases During the Reigns of James I and Charles I and II. A compendium of three complete volumes, two in French and one in English, which were published in 1656, 1661, and 1674. Printed by Richard and Edward Atkyns and their assigns, London, over .506 pages, 12½" x 8" x 2". Original leather boards, later varnished; front cover detached but present; light to heavy toning. Text is very clear and readable. Some interesting contemporary margin notes on some pages. An excellent book for the jurist or student of British law. Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $230
Lot 444		Sewell, William. The History of the Rise, Increase and Progress, of the Christian People Called Quakers, 1774. Third edition, corrected. Published in Burlington, NJ; printed and sold by Isaac Collins, Revolutionary War patriot and printer for New Jersey; he published many of the most important New Jersey books and broadsides. Oversize volume, 12½" x 8" x 2¼" thick; over 800 pages, plus an extensive index. Full calf leather rebound, with gold-stamped title spine. Large pen signature on front end-paper by original owner, "Edward Black's Book 1774." Normal age toning; some damp staining on back pages in lower corner margins. Contains a history of George Fox and the beginnings of the Quaker movement. A wonderful early American edition. Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 445		Twain, Mark. 1601 Conversation by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors. Semi-Centennial Edition, 1926. No. 191 of 525 copies, n.p., privately printed. 7¾" x 5", grey-blue wrappers. 18pp. Very good. Mild wrapper wear and slight age toning. Anttractive copy of this bawdy tale written in archaic courtly style. Estimated Value $125 - 150. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 446		Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Library of Humor. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1888. 9¼" x 6½", 707 pages. Brownish-red hard covers with gilt-stamped spine. With Twin's facsimile apology; warm hair on page .8 is credited to Twain; authors are alphabetized. Illustrated by E.W. Kemble. A very good copy. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $230
Lot 447		Twain, Mark. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1896, 1st Edition, 1st State, 8" x 6", original cloth covers, some sunning to spine. Page 463 reads "some Books for the Library The Abbey Shakespeare…Memoirs of Barras…Vols I & II., $3.75 each. Vols. III. and IV., just ready." Estimated Value $80 - 100. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $92