Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 71

The Manuscripts, Collectibles & Space Auction

Authors

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 218		[Blount, Charles] (1654-1693) British deist. First English edition of The two first books of Philostratus, concerning the life of Apollonius Tyaneus written originally in Greek, and now published in English : together with philological notes upon each chapter, London, Printed for Nathaniel Thompson, 1680, folio, 243 pp. Original leather-covered boards; front is detached; heavy foxing to title page and first several pages; the remainder are evenly toned. Penciled notes on back end page. Deistpedia says about Blount's book: "… the notes in the work attacked 'Christianity' directly. First, Blount suggested that rational religion was destroyed by the church. Second, his decrying of pagan sacrifices was a coded attack on eucharistic doctrine and church practice. Additionally, there were long notes making fun of 'priestcraft' and the corruptions of priests…." According to Hart, only a few copies were dispersed before the work was suppressed. Estimated Value $300 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 219		Brontê, Charlotte (1816-1855) English novelist and poet, best known for writing Jane Eyre. Extremely rare Signature ("C Brontê)" on a small piece of paper, 3/8 x 1¼" The "C" is very weak, but "Brontê" is quite strong. Tastefully double-matted with a portrait of the eldest of the three talented sisters and housed in an antique, inlaid 10 x 8" frame. Estimated Value $2,600-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $3,075
Lot 220		d'Annunzio, Gabriele (1863-1938) Italian poet, journalist, novelist, dramatist, and soldier whose ultra-nationalism influenced Benito Mussolini. Photograph Signed and dated, "Fiume d'Italia 1920", 5¼ x 3½". Slight silvering around edges; else fine. The photo was taken during the famous (or infamous) Fiume incident. With the help of 2,000 Italian nationalist irregulars, D'Annunzio seized the city of Fiume (now Rijeka in Croatia) in September 1919, not wanting it to be handed over according to the terms of the Paris Peace Conference (Fiume had a large Italian population). After failing to get Italy to annex the city, he attempted to have it declared an independent state, but finally surrendered the city in December 1920 after a bombardment by the Italian navy. Estimated Value $300 - 450. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $240
Lot 221		du Maurier, Daphnier (1907-1989) English author and playwright; among her novels are Rebecca, Jamaica Inn, and Frenchman's Creek. Signature and date (1988) on 2 x 4" paper, matted with an image of the author and framed to an overall size of 14 x 11". Estimated Value $75 - 100. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 222		[Glanvil, Joseph] Saducismus triumphatus; or, Full and plain evidence concerning witches and apparitions. The Third Edition with Additions. London. Printed for A.L. and Sold, by Roger Tuckyr, at the Golden Led, the corner of Salisbury-street, in the Strand. MDCC. 8vo, worn leather bindings; small modern black title label on spine. Glanvil (1633-1680) was an English writer, philosopher and clergyman-- "late Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty, and Fellow of the Royal Society. " With a letter of Dr. Henry More on the same subject and "Two Authentick, but wonderful Stories of certain Swedish witches. Done into English by A. Horneck, D.D." Engraved frontispiece depicting Saul and Samuel and additional engraved title-page showing supernatural events. With a last leaf containing an illustration of two stones voided by a child in Sweden with an advertisement on the verso. Several loose pages and a couple of marginal tears. This book belonged to Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), the English natural scientist and author who coined the term "agnosticism" and who became widely known as "Darwin's Bulldog" because of his fierce and uncompromising defense of Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection. Huxley's famous 1860 debate with Samuel Wilberforce was a key moment in the wider acceptance of evolution. Huxley signed his name ("T. Huxley"), his address in Yorkshire, and the year (1899), and how much he paid for the book. Inside cover has the bookplate of Edward Hailstone with his family's coat of arms. Glanvil's book, which affirmed the existence of witches with malign supernatural powers of magic, strongly influenced Cotton Mather in his Discourse on Witchcraft (1689) and the Salem witch trials held in Salem, Mass. in 1692-3, as well as Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World (1693). Estimated Value $800 - 1,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,440
Lot 223		Grey, Zane (1872-1939) American author of novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sage was his best-selling book. Eight Checks filled out and signed by Zane Grey, in purple ink (except for the 1919 check), dated from 1919 to 1927. The first is written on a New York bank, six on a Los Angeles bank, and the eighth on an Altadena (Los Angeles area) bank. The Grey mansion in Altadena is on the National Register of Historic Places. Estimated Value $500 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 224		[Hope, Thomas Suthren] The Winding Road Unfolds. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1937. 1st edition, with dust jacket. 292 pp. Pale green cloth covers with black front and spine labels. Foxing to inside covers. The true story of Hope's time as a 16-year-old boy on the Western Front during World War I. Written on scraps of paper in the trenches, he put his experiences into a story which was published in 1937. Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 225		Longfellow, Henry W. Autograph Letter Signed "Henry W. Longfellow," 3 pp, 5 x 4", Rosemont, 25 May 1876. Very good; show-through from mounting remnants at top of blank page 4 with small paper loss at top edge of page 3, not affecting text. With holograph envelope addressed to "Mr. J. G. Rosengarten, Penn Club, Philadelphia," asking if articles Rosengarten wrote on Mr. Greene and Mr. Appleton appeared in a newspaper (Ledger) and if so, to send a copy of the paper. "I read them in ms. and was very much pleased with them…." With a 1 x 2" bronze medal from an "Honor America" series honoring Longfellow. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 226		Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950) Irish playwright and co-founder of the London School of Economics. Autograph Note Signed "GBS' on a partly-printed card, 2 x 4½", Oct. 13, 1925. The card is printed: "With Bernard Shaw's compliments / 10 Adelphi Terrace, London, W.C.2." In his own hand he wrote, "See page 1 of Constables's list enclosed [not present]. The book will contain at least 120,000 words." The date is also holograph. Fine. Estimated Value $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 227		[Speed, John] The History of Great Britaine Under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans, 1627. Their originals manners…and Issues of the English Monarchs, from Julius Caesar, to our most gratious Soveraigne King James, London, 1627. "The Second Edition." First published in 1611; the second edition appeared in 1623 and was reissued in 1625 and 1627. "… to be sold by George Humble at the Whit horse in Popes head Alley." Description: [xii], 155-798, 799-828 leaves, 829-921, [49] pp. With engraved portrait frontispiece and illustrated title page, plus woodcut initials, head and tail pieces and illustrations within text. Folio, period full calf, spine and top and bottom edges replaced. Small bookplate of W.W.E. Wynne and names of four previous owners penned on front pastedown. Many small repairs, some marginal tears, and soiling to early leaves, including title page; some foxing and a few light stains. Majority of leaves are very good. John Speed (1542-1629) was an English historian and cartographer whose maps were of more importance than his work as a historian. His cartes à figures have great eye appeal and are popular today. (See lot 36 for a beautiful John Speed map of America.). Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $246
Lot 228		Steinbeck, John (1902-1968) American writer of social novels dealing with the economic problems of rural labor; winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature. 1st Edition, 2nd state Cannery Row Inscribed and Signed, "For Tom Work / John Steinbeck" on the first end page, New York, The Viking Press, 1945, 8vo, 208 pages. Yellow boards have some toning around edges and some light soiling; price is clipped from front flap of dust cover, which has minor wear to lower edge of spine. Includes a custom clamshell slipcase for presentation and preservation. Tom Work, to whom Steinbeck inscribed this book, was an entrepreneur and developer in Pacific Grove, California, in the early 1900s. He was a banker (Bank of Monterrey) and the treasurer of the city of Pacific Grove; he also owned a commercial block in Pacific Grove, between Forest and Grove on Lighthouse Road. Estimated Value $4,000-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 229		[Steinbeck, John]. 1st Edition, 1st state Cannery Row, New York, The Viking Press, 1945, 8vo, 208 pages. First state in buff cloth boards with blue lettering. Dust jacket with $2.00 price on front flap. Light shelf wear. Includes a custom clamshell slipcase for presentation and preservation. Estimated Value $500 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 230		Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896) Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, one of the most influential books of the mid 19th century, Stowe travelled throughout Europe and the northern United States in support of the abolitionist cause. Card Inscribed and Signed, "Very truly Yours / H.B. Stowe / June 26 1877," 2 1/8 x 2 3/8", n.p., Brown ink on cream card stock. Very fine. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $132
Lot 231		Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. Autograph Letter Signed ("A C Swinburne"), one page, 6¾ x 4½", Holmwood, Dec. 8, 1868. To his secretary, Joh Thomson: "I shall be much obliged if you will take charge of the COLERIDGE ms. for me & forward proofs hither: the cheque had better be sent also to this address. This will save trouble to Mr. Friswell as well as myself. I shall want the ms. back to correct the proofs by." Swinburne is referring to his introduction to Christabel and the Lyrical and Imaginative Poems of S.T. Coleridge, London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1869. Estimated Value $300 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold