Important Book Auction

Important Book Auction

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Important Book Auction

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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The Doctrine of Friends by Elisha Bates, 1825

Lot # 47 (Sale Order: 51 of 444)      

1825, Mount Pleasant, OH, 1st, scarce, leather, worn at spine, corners, pages yellowed, first page tattered, hard to find early Mount Pleasant, OH title....more

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Clark of the Ohio by Frederick Palmer

Lot # 48 (Sale Order: 52 of 444)      

Life of George Rogers Clark, Dodd, Mead, 1929, first edition, xv, 482 pp. frontispiece., plates, portraits, maps, indexed. Good Old Northwest history....more

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Bonnie Belmont, Belmont Co., OH, & Wheeling

Lot # 49 (Sale Order: 53 of 444)      

Bonnie Belmont, A Historical Romance of the Days of Slavery and the Civil War by Judge John S. Cochran. Published by the author, Wheeling,1907, first, 291pp, illus. including a fold out view of Wheeling (tattered, old yellowed tape on the back of the foldout), stories of Belmont County, Ohio and Wheeling, WV. Rebound long ago, some pages spotted....more

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Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio

Lot # 50 (Sale Order: 54 of 444)      

Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson County (Ohio), and Representative Citizens, Doyle, Joseph B., 1992 reprint of the 1910 original, 1197pp plus numerous illustrations and portraits plus a new 132 pp all name index. Contains 1000s of names from Steubenville and nearby areas. Near fine...more

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Book Press

Lot # 50A (Sale Order: 55 of 444)      

Cast iron book press with wheel driven mechanism. Measures 15.5" high, 22" long and 12" deep....more

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The Ohio Annual Register by John A Bryan

Lot # 51 (Sale Order: 56 of 444)      

For the year 1835, containing a condensed history of the state, with a full and complete catalogue of all the public officers in the several counties of Ohio; officers of state; members of congress, and the legislature, 128pp., first edition. Covered with a clear mylar jacket....more

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The Navigator by Zadoc Cramer, 1824

Lot # 52 (Sale Order: 57 of 444)      

Containing Directions for Navigating the Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers; with an ample account of Much Admired Waters from The Head of the Former to the Mouth of the Latter; and a Concise Description of Their Towns,Villages, Harbors, Settlement., w Maps of the Ohio and Mississippi; To which Is Added an Appendix, Containing an Account of Louisiana, And of the Missouri and Columbia Rivers, as Discovered by the Voyage under Capts. Lewis and Clark, (CRAMER, Zadok), Twelfth Edition, 1824, Published By Cramer & Spear, Wood Street, Pittsburgh, 275 pp plus a map of Pittsburgh and 13 maps of the Ohio, 1 of the Falls of the Ohio, and 13 maps of the Mississippi. (map of Pittsburgh has corner missing, map 4, page 69 has a closed tear) There is an ink name on the title page and some foxing or soil on some pages. Howes C-855: "Most widely used guide to western waters in the early period, both before and after the application of steam in 1807." Sabin 17386. American Imprints 40590....more

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Citizens of Ohio

Lot # 53 (Sale Order: 58 of 444)      

Representative Citizens of Ohio. Memorial-Biographical by G. Frederick Wright. The Memorial Publishing Co. Cleveland, Ohio New York, N.Y. 1915. Water stain in lower right corner, beginning from title page to page 66. 462 pp. plus index...more

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2 volumes- History of the Upper Ohio Valley

Lot # 54 (Sale Order: 59 of 444)      

History of the Upper Ohio Valley. Illustrated. Madison Wis. Brant & Fuller, 1890. History and genealogical info on Belmont County, Ohio and Brooke, Hancock and Ohio Counties of West Virginia including much on the great Wheeling area. Spines weak on edges. Sold as a set....more

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Parkersburg Oil & Gas Well Drilling Equipment

Lot # 55 (Sale Order: 60 of 444)      

The Parkersburg Rig & Reel Company, Parkersburg, WV, 1921, 506pp, index, heavily illustrated with many, many fold out plates. Hardbound, some wear on the covers, good and tight and extremely hard to find....more

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Flora of WV 2 Volumes

Lot # 56 (Sale Order: 61 of 444)      

Flora of West Virginia, Strausbaugh & Core, West Virginia University Bulletins, 4 softbound issues, 1952 - 1964, Morgantown, WV, First editions bound in two leather volumes, 1075pp plus the original paper wraps, many black and white and a few col illustrations, index in volume 2, original paper covers soiled else very good ++....more

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A Winter In The West, 2 Volumes

Lot # 57 (Sale Order: 62 of 444)      

By Charles F. Hoffman. 1835, First Edition, "BAL 8521; Sabin 32389; Field, Indian Bibliography, 706." "2 vols, 12mo, original slate brown cloth, gilt lettering." " Hoffman’s first book, an entertaining and informative journal of his travels from New York to Ohio, Missouri and Illinois in the winter of 1833. Field thought highly enough of Hoffman’s account of the various Western Indian tribes to give it a “high rank in aboriginal literature.” , rebound long ago with new end pages, some foxing....more

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A Crooked Trail

Lot # 58 (Sale Order: 63 of 444)      

Axtell-Rush Pub., Pittsburgh, 1908, first in book form, rebound, some foxing to pages. The story of a thousand-mile saddle trip up and down the Texas frontier in pursuit of a runaway ox, with adventures by the way, Miller, L...more

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Prairie and Rocky Mountain Adventures

Lot # 59 (Sale Order: 64 of 444)      

Prairie and Rocky Mountain Adventures, or Life in the West by John C. Van Tramp. 1867, rebound in leather. Engraved frontis page, 13 wood engravings, 763pp....more

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California: For Health, Pleasure, And Residence

Lot # 60 (Sale Order: 65 of 444)      

Nordhoff, C., California: For Health, Pleasure, And Residence, a book for travelers and settlers by Charles Nordhoff. NY Harper & Brothers,1872, first edition, 255pp + 4pp book ads, many illus and maps. Rebound with new end pages, some foxing throughout....more

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Western Wilds And The Men Who Redeem Them

Lot # 61 (Sale Order: 66 of 444)      

By J.H. Beadle. Cincinnati: Jones Brothers & Company, 1879, first edition, color map, illustrations, with much on Mormons, Custer, etc. Leather spines and corners worn, nice marbled endpages....more

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The Black Hills…by Richard Irving Dodd

Lot # 62 (Sale Order: 67 of 444)      

a Minute Description of the Routes, Scenery, Soil, Climate, Timber, Gold, Geology, Zoology, Etc, James Miller, Publisher, N.Y.,1876, first edition, 151pp + [4]pp publisher"s catalog, four cross section plates, two of which are hand-colored and one of which folds out + 10 tinted plates for a total of 14. Alas the map is missing. Rebound in leather with new end pages. Howes listed "b" 411....more

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Great West And Her Commercial Metropolis,1860 1st

Lot # 63 (Sale Order: 68 of 444)      

Edwards, Richard and Hopewell,M, St. Louis, 1860, first edition, [4],[53]-604,[1],[30]pp. Contains a wealth of historical material, especially on early days in the West, the fur trade, scrapes with Indians, the Mexican War, and the commercial development of St. Louis, with many biographies of prominent citizens. Includes a view of Pittsburgh at the beginning of the text. The 30pp. section after the main text (not mentioned by Howes), is comprised of engraved plates to adorn a projecte second volume, which was apparently never published. These specimen plates depict business establishments, breweries, mills, steam laundries, etcfocus on St Louis and area, some wear on spine, corners, all edges gilt. Howes E 69....more

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First Across The Continent by N. Brooks

Lot # 64 (Sale Order: 69 of 444)      

The Story of the Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6, Brooks, N. October, 1901, First Edition with foldout map, 1 plate loose, xii pp., 1 l., 365 pp...more

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2 - Western Books

Lot # 65 (Sale Order: 70 of 444)      

Includes; 1) Brockett, Our Western Empire or the New West Beyond the Misssissippi, 1881, first, color maps and many black/white illustrations, covers worn. 2) Wood, Over the Range to the Golden Gate, 1904, revised with additions, foldout map in rear, numerous illustrations, with the names W. P. Templeton and J. E. Johnston on the endpage. Selling as one lot....more

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3 - Books on General Custer

Lot # 66 (Sale Order: 71 of 444)      

Lot includes; 1) Boots and Saddles by Elizabeth B. Custer, with portrait and map. New York, Harper and Brothers , Franklin Square. Copyright 1885. 2) Cavalier in Buckskin - George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier by Robert M. Utley. University of Oklahoma Press: Norman and London, copyright 1988, dust jacket. 3) Custer and the Little Big Horn - A Psychobiographical Inquiry by Charles K. Hofling, M.D., Wayne University Press, Detroit, 1981. Dust jacket. Selling as one lot....more

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1887 Animal Industry Report on Cattle Range

Lot # 67 (Sale Order: 72 of 444)      

GPO, Wash, DC, 1887, 456 pp, illus,13 color fold-outs. Herd 2368, "Contains a report on the condition of the range cattle industry by H. M. Taylor, on calf raising on the plains by George W. Rust, and on the cattle industry in California by A. S. Mercer. Some cover wear and soil....more

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3 Books on California History

Lot # 68 (Sale Order: 73 of 444)      

Lot Includes; (1) West Winds, California's Book of Fiction. Edited by Herman Whitaker. 1914. (2) The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire. Edited by Charles Morris, LL.D. 1906. (3) Glimpses of California and the Missions by Helen Hunt Jackson. Boston 1911. Selling as 1 lot....more

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5 Books on Early U.S. Fur Trading

Lot # 69 (Sale Order: 74 of 444)      

Lot Includes; (1) The Time of the Buffalo by John McHugh. New York 1972. Dust jacket. (2) Adventures of Zenas Leonard Fur Trader edited by John C. Ewers. 1959. (3) The Beaver Men Spearheads of Empire by Mari Sandoz. New York. 1964 2nd printing. (4) Furs by Astor by John Upton Terrell. 1963 1st edition. (5) Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth by T.D. Bonner. 1965. All have dust jackets. Selling as 1 lot....more

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2 California History Titles

Lot # 70 (Sale Order: 75 of 444)      

Lot Includes;; (1) Oregon and California the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains by Brevet Col. J. C. Fremont. Buffalo 1851. Double Frontis and 2 plates. (2) The Great Trek by Owen Cochran Coy. 1931. 3 maps and woodcuts. Selling as 1 lot....more

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