2025 American Antiques, Chinese, and Continental Spring Auction

George Matthaus Seutter (German 1678-1757)
“Palatinatus Inferior sive Electoratus Palatinus ad Rhenum” circa 1735
Hand Colored copperplate map engraving of Germany, printed on two sheets
20″ x 23″
Provenance: Property from the Estate of E.T. Krolikowski, III of Laurel Beach in Milford, Connecticut

Estimate: $150 - $250

William Partridge Burpee (American 1846-1940)
Hudson River landscape with sailboats, 1868
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right “W.P. Burpee ’68”
9″ x 18″

Estimate: $400 - $800

Isaac Weld Travels Through the States of North America for John Stockdale
1799 to include 16 illustrated plates and large colored fold out map of the U.S. and parts of Canada

Estimate: $200 - $400

First Edition Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894
Cassell and company limited London, Paris, and New York 1883, red cloth uncut

Estimate: $2000 - $4000

H.G. Wells The Time Machine First Edition, First Issue (1895)
having inscription and author signature

Estimate: $1000 - $3000

Guest Book of Author Landing Lamont Form 1922-1951
to include signatures of poet John Masefield, Author H.G. Wells poet / writer Robert Frost, John and Daisy Kennedy Drinkwater, and many illegible signed names

Estimate: $600 - $800

Approximately 38 Volumes of Leather Bound Books
to include five volumes of The Life of Washington the political works of Tennyson, two volumes of Smith’s History of Virginia (one cover missing but available), and The Iron Magh

Estimate: $300 - $600

Eleven First Edition Books
to include seven Robert Louis Stevenson books first editions of The Black Arrow, The Master of Ballantrae, Vailima Letters, Weir of Hermiston, St. Ives, Songs of Travel,and Underworld; Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters cloth uncut having dust jacket first edition first issue seldom found with dust jacket one of the Merle Johnson’s “High Spots of American Literature”, The Rise of Silas Lapham by Howells William D. Boston 1885 first edition blue cloth fine copy opposite title page is advertisement headed “Mr. Howell’s Latest Novels” the type is broken in the words “thick” and “sojourner” at the bottom of page 176, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life by Herman Melville map New York 1846 original blue cloth having minute tear in backstrip first edition of the author’s first book having very slight foxing on a few pages and is otherwise a very desirable copy of a work seldom found in good state, She-Shanties by A.P. (Alan Patrick) Herbert and illustrated by A.K. Zinkeisen T. Fisher Unwin Ltd. 1926 with author inscription and signature

Estimate: $800 - $1000

Approximately 65 Leather Bound Books
to include seven volumes of Gibbon’s Roman Empire, two volumes of Fielding’s works, 14 volumes of Bret Harte’s writings, etcetera
(please note Smith’s History of Virginia has been removed from this lot and added to lot 456)

Estimate: $800 - $1200

Approximately 56 Leather Bound Books
to include a set of The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot, 38 volumes of the works of Charles Dickinson

Estimate: $400 - $600

Approximately 190 Leather Bound Books
to include 11 volumes of Thackery, six volumes of Alexander Dumas, 20 volumes of Ainsworth’s historical reminisces, 31 volumes of American Statesman, etcetera

Estimate: $1000 - $2000

Large Lot of Mostly Leather Bound Books
to include Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, Plato, etcetera

Estimate: $1000 - $2000

Approximately 30 Leather Bound Books by Rudyard Kipling
to include second Jungle Book The Phantom Rickshaw, Seven Seas , and more

Estimate: $500 - $800

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Italian 1469-1527)
“Princeps ex Sylvestri Telii “, published 1622
Italian edition, leather bound printed book on laid paper, in presentation box
6″ x 3 1/2”
Condition: presents well, wear consistent with age, discoloration and foxing to leather, tear to front page

Estimate: $500 - $1000

Approximately 20 Box Lots of Books
to include classics, table / coffee books, political works, art books, and more

Estimate: $300 - $500

Table Lot of Mostly Historical Maps and Children’s Books to include
“Harmonia macrocosmica of 1660. The Finest Atlas of the Heavens”, “Joan Blaeu. Atlas Maior of 1665”, group of hand colored bookplates of American views, collection of Becassine children’s books, five volumes of “A Travers Les Ages”, “Cities of the World” etc…
Provenance: The Eric Van Rooy Estate: A Connecticut Gentleman’s Collection

Estimate: $300 - $500

Group of Seven 19th Century American Ledgers
to include a Joseph W. Morgan of Short Creek, Ohio County, Virginia, records of marriages, bank accounts, daily pay, Per Contra bookkeeping entries, some names include a George Huff, John Caldwell, John Martin, Fergus Smith, dates range from about 1830-1870
16″ x 6 1/2″ largest

Estimate: $200 - $400

Six Stamp Albums to include
partial books of the International Postage Stamp Album 1901-1902, Scott Stamp and Coin Junior Edition, the Master Globe Album etc…

Estimate: $300 - $500