Important Book Auction
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We are pleased to offer from the collection of Rosemary Sullivan, a long time rare and out of print book dealer, and her late husband Bob “Sully” Sullivan, 1000’s of fine & collectible books.
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7 Books on Eastern Pennsylvania
Lot # 194 (Sale Order: 201 of 444)
Lot includes: 1) The Blue Hills by Cornelius Weygandt, Henry Holt & Co. New York 1936. 2) Philadelphia Folks, Ways & Institutions in and about the Quaker city by Cornelius Weygandt. D. Appleton - Century Company inc. 1938. 3-5) Church Music and Musical Life in Pennsylvania in the Eighteenth Century. Volume 1 through 3 Philadelphia 1926. 6) Meeting House & Counting House by Frederick B. Tolles. University of the North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1948, first edition, dust jacket. 7) Old Churches and Meeting Houses in and Around Philadelphia by John T. Faris. J. B. Lippencott Co. 1926, first edition. Selling as 1 lot.
3 William Penn Books
Lot # 195 (Sale Order: 202 of 444)
Lot Includes: (1) William Penn Horticulturist by Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 1953. (2) The Life of William Penn; with selections from His Correspondence and Auto-Biography by Samuel M. Janney. Philadelphia; Hogan, Perkins & Co. 1852. Selling as 1 lot. (3) William Penn 1644-1718 A tercentenary Estimate by William Wistar Comfort President Emeritus of Haverford College, President of Friends Historical Assoc. Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press. London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press 1944.
Prominent & Progressive Pennsylvanians
Lot # 196 (Sale Order: 203 of 444)
Prominent and Progressive Pennsylvanians of the Nineteenth Century. A review of their careers. Philadelphia; The Record Publishing Company. 1898. Vol. 3. Although states vol. 2 on spine. 475pp. Plus portraits.
Annals of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, 2 Vols.
Lot # 197 (Sale Order: 204 of 444)
Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time; being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents…Embellished with engravings by T. H. Mumford. 2 Volumes. 1850, 4th Edition, xv, 609pp, vii, 591pp. Volume 1 has all engravings present, pencil notes on the top of some of the engravings. Previous owners' names in ink and pencil on the blank front end page. Volume 2 has all engravings present but in the list of illustration the engraving listed as page 147 is with the engraving on page 113, penciled name of previous owner on blank end page. Some stains in text. rebound in full leather with gilt decorations and marbled end pages. Selling as set.
1796, Der Hock-Deutsche Americanische Calender
Lot # 198 (Sale Order: 205 of 444)
A scarce early PA-German Almanac published by Michael Billmeyer, Germantown,38pp, illus., lacks back page and cover, many pages dog eared, damaged back pages at the bottom corner. Drake lists this as only having 22 pages.
6 Books on Philadelphia
Lot # 199 (Sale Order: 206 of 444)
Lot includes: 1) Bicentennial City by John Francis Marion, copyright 1974, dust jacket. 2) Life and Times in Colonial Philadelphia by Joseph J. Kelley, Jr. Copyright 1973 by the Stackpole Company, dust jacket. 3) The Independence Square Neighborhood. Published by the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, copyright 1926. 4) Sketch Of The History Of The Philadelphia Society For Promoting Agriculture. Copyright 1939 by the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture. 5) Birch's Views of Philadelphia with photographs of the sites in 1960 & 1982 by S. Robert Teitelman. Text copyright 1982. 6) Pattern For Library The Story of Old Philadelphia by Gerald W. Johnson. Copyright 1952 by the McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. Selling as 1 lot.
4 Books on Historic Philadelphia
Lot # 200 (Sale Order: 207 of 444)
Lot includes: 1) The Romance of Old Philadelphia by John T. Faris. J. B. Lippincott Company 1918, first edition. 2) Byways and Boulevards In and About Historic Philadelphia by Francis Burke Brandt and Henry Volkmar Gummere. Copyright 1925 by the Corn Exchange National Bank, Philadelphia. 3) The Colonial Homes Of Philadelphia and it's neighborhoods. J. B. Lippincott Company 1912. 4) Bendiner's Philadelphia by Alfred Bendiner, 1964, dust jacket. Selling as 1 lot.
6 Books on Philadelphia
Lot # 201 (Sale Order: 208 of 444)
Lot includes: 1) Old Gardens in and about Philadelphia by John T. Faris. Copyright 1932 by the Bobbs-Merrill Company. First Edition. 2) "Philadelphia Scrapple" by Several Anonymous Philadelphians. Copyright 1956 by the Dietz Press, Inc. 3) The Perennial Philadelphians by Nathaniel Burt. Copyright 1963 First Edition, dust jacket. 4) Philadelphia Holy Experiment by Struthers Burt. Copyright 1945, dust jacket. 5) Our Philadelphia by Frank Brookhouser, copyright 1957 Doubleday and Company, dust jacket. Signed by author. 6) Philadelphia Merchant - The Diary of Thomas P. Cope 1800-1851 Copyright 1978, dust jacket. Selling as 1 lot.
7 Books on Amish
Lot # 202 (Sale Order: 209 of 444)
Lot includes: 1) The Round Of The year by Fredric Klees, copyright 1963 First Printing, dust jacket. 2) Local Lives by Millen Brand, copyright 1975, dust jacket. 3) Traditionally Pennsylvania Dutch by Edward E. Smith and Virginia van horn Thompson, copyright 1947. 4) The gentle people - A Portrait of the Amish by James A. Warner and Donald M. Denlinger. Copyright 1969 and dust jacket. 5) Amish Society by John A. Hostetler Third Edition 1980. 6) Meet The Amish by Charles S. Rice and John B. Shenk, copyright 1947. 7) Who Are The Amish by Merle Goode, copyright 1985. Selling as 1 lot.
6 Books on Pennsylvania
Lot # 203 (Sale Order: 210 of 444)
Lot includes: 1) Nicholas Comenius by William Riddle, copyright 1897 2) One Red Rose Forever by Mildred Jordan, copyright 1941. 3) Contributions to the History of the Lackawanna Valley by H. Hollister, M.D., 1857 First Edition. 4) Early Freemasonry In Pennsylvania by Henry S. Borneman, 1931. 5) The Wagon That Rolled Uphill by Earl F. Rebman, Second Printing 1980, dust jacket. 6) Pennsylvania Birthplace of a Nation by Sylvester K. Stevens, copyright 1964, signed b author limited edition 36/300. Selling as 1 lot.
7 Books on Pennsylvania
Lot # 204 (Sale Order: 211 of 444)
Lot includes: 1) area code 215 - A Private Line in Buck County by Walter Teller, First Edition 1963, dust jacket. 2) Rambling Through Penn's Woods edited by Ron Shafer and Jerry Shue, copyright 1981. 3) Before William Penn by Akseli Rauanheimo, copyright 1929, dust jacket. 4) Poems of Pennsylvania by Irving Sidney Dix. Copyright 1943, Edward and Charity Martin Bookplate. 5) Memoirs of General Harry Clay Trexler by Leo Gregory Fink, copyright 1935. Edward and Charity Martin Bookplate. 6) Seeing Pennsylvania by John T. Faris, copyright 1919, First Edition. 7) Pennsylvania Birthplace Of A Nation by Sylvester K. Stevens, copyright 1964, First Printing. Selling as 1 lot.
The Pennsylvania Pilgrim, First Edition
Lot # 205 (Sale Order: 212 of 444)
The Pennsylvania Pilgrim and Other Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier. Boston 1872. 1st edition, scarce.
1795, Treaty Of Amity, Commerce and Navigation
Lot # 206 (Sale Order: 213 of 444)
between His Britannic Majesty, and the United States of America, conditionally ratified by the Senate of the United States, at Philadelphia, June 24, 1795. To Which is Annexed a Copious Appendix. Philadelphia: Lang & Ustick, for Matthew Carey, No. 118 Market-Street, Nov. 2, 1795., 190 (2)pp... Second edition. Howes T-341; Evans 29753.An important treaty, which DAB justifies as a "sort of necessary evil" for peace and financial stability; both necessary for the establishment "of American Nationality under the new Constitution.". Some sections worn to board on the back
Library of Congress, Washington Papers, 5 Vols.
Lot # 207 (Sale Order: 214 of 444)
This lot contains one 1906 and 1915, vols. 1-4, scarce. George Washington Papers, Officers & Continental Congress. Selling as one lot.
Political And Civil History Of The United States
Lot # 208 (Sale Order: 215 of 444)
Pitkin, Thomas, Two volumes, 1828, first edition, New Haven, rebound with new end pages, some foxing, toning throughout, the title page of volume 2 has some tatters on the outside edge.
American Precedents Of Declarations, by John Anton
Lot # 209 (Sale Order: 216 of 444)
Collected Chiefly from Manuscripts of Chief Justice Parsons and other Accomplished Pleaders in the State of Massachusetts…, Stephen Gould, NY, 1810, 2nd edition, xxxiv, 570pp. Rebound with new endpps, minor xlibr (no outside marks), ink names on title page and on 2 others, foxing throughout. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 9216.
A Study Of Communism, Autographed by J. E. Hoover
Lot # 210 (Sale Order: 217 of 444)
N. Y. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962. First Edition with 2 tipped-in letters and an inscription to PA Senator Edward Martin from J. Edgar Hoover, Martin bookplate, with worn dust jacket.
The Executive Documents, Volume 17
Lot # 211 (Sale Order: 218 of 444)
Volume 4, Part 3. United States report on western water irrigation with plates and chart. Rebound in leather. 1892-93. . Washington: Government Printing Office 1892..
PA 8th Annual Bar Assoc. Vol 1 - 7
Lot # 212 (Sale Order: 219 of 444)
Report of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Bar Association held at various PA cities. Years include 1895, 1896, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902. Selling as 1 lot.
Discourses on Various Subjects, 1740
Lot # 213 (Sale Order: 220 of 444)
Discourses on Various Subjects by Jacob Duche', M.A. 3rd edition. Volume II London M DCC.XC. (1740). Rebound.
Messages & Papers of the Presidents Volume 1-20
Lot # 214 (Sale Order: 221 of 444)
Richardson, James, Prepared Under the Direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, of the House and Senate. Published by Bureau Of National Literature, Inc. 1897. Selling as a set.
5 Books on Washington DC
Lot # 215 (Sale Order: 222 of 444)
Lot includes: 1) Inside History of the White House by Gilson Willets, copyright 1908. 2) Washington City and Capital by Federal Writer's Project,1937. 3) Washington The National Capital by William Howard Taft and James Bryce, copyright 1915 by the National Geographic Society Washington D.C. 4) Report of the Commission on the Renovation of the Executive Mansion, November MDCCC. 5) The Evidence of Washington by William Walton, 1966, First Edition. Selling as 1 lot.
1st ed,Six Crises, Autographed by Richard M. Nixon
Lot # 216 (Sale Order: 223 of 444)
Richard M. Nixon, Six Crises, Doubleday 1962. Signed by Richard M. Nixon. Bookplate: Edward Charity Martin. 1st edition. Dust jacket.
Benjamin Franklin 1794 First Edition
Lot # 217 (Sale Order: 224 of 444)
Political, Miscellaneous And Philosophical Pieces By Benjamin Franklin, Printed for J. Johnson, London, MDCCLXXIX (1779), first,(12) 567, (7), portrait, 3 plates and a tablet. The portrait of Franklin seems to have been removed from page 2 and mounted as a frontispiece. Scuffing and wear to the leather spine and corners and marble board covers, still good and tight. Howes listed.
3 - Dick And Jane Books
Lot # 218 (Sale Order: 225 of 444)
2 softbound, 1 hardbound includes; 1) The New Fun with Dick and Jane, 1951. 2) We Look and See 3) We Work and Play by William S. Gray, Dorothy Baruch and Elizabeth Rider Montgomery, illustrated by Eleanor Campbell, 1946-47 editions. Scott, Foresman & Co. Selling as one lot.
