ELIZABETH’S AUCTIONS EPHEMERA and BOOKS — Sale 146
Monday, March 21, 2016 at 6:00 PM
(Preview: 3:00-6:00pm)
The Auburn Elks, 754 Southbridge Street
(Route 12), Auburn, Mass.
ADVERTISING * AUTOGRAPHS & DOCUMENTS
* LITERARY EDITIONS & SETS * BROADSIDES *
PHOTOGRAPHS * POSTCARDS * CIVIL WAR *
POLITICAL MEMORABILIA *TRADE & TRAVEL
Our Spring Sale includes many very large lots of
specializedephemera: travel& transportationbooklets,
billheads & letterheads, calendars, photographs,
posters, prints, postcards & trade cards. The following
is a sample from our catalogue. For details, go to
www.elizabethsauctions.com or www.auctionzip.com
BOOKS — [Architecture] Charles James Richardson.
ARCHITECTURAL REMAINS… ELIZABETH AND JAMES I. London, 1840. 32plates. *** WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION OF Art and Architecture. W. Walton. Philadelphia: George Barrie, 1893. Eleven portfolios. *** [Bindings (26)] Honore De Balzac. WORKS. Twenty-Six Volumes. Philadelphia: George Barrie, [1898]. Limited Edition. Full red morocco. *** THE WORKS OF H.G. WELLS. Limited, Signed by H.G. Wells. 28 volumes. NY, 1924. ***PLUTARCH’S LIVES… (with) LIFE OF PLUTARCH by Dryden. (6). London,1758. *** Clemens, Samuel Langhorne. ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN. NY, 1885. First Edition, first issue. * THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER. Hartford, 1876. First Edition, second issue.*** THE WORKS OF THE LATE EDGAR ALLAN POE… NY: Redfield, 1856. Four volumes. *** etc.
DOCUMENTS —James Madison document, signed. Presidential pardon, ca 1816. *** James Pierce (1768-1849) archive (100-110), Hudson & Hillsboro, N H. Legal documents, deeds, receipts, etc. relating to the Pierce family; ca 1774-1880. *** Butler, Benjamin F. Printed military forms, signed (3). *** Nahum Parker (1760-1839), autograph letter, signed. *** Joseph Dorr Jr. (1730-1808), autograph document, signed. *** Captain Samuel Hartley (1770-1857), Saco, Maine. Fifty indentures, guardian documents, estate inventories and wills, receipts, etc. ca 1800-1870. *** Plus, many archives of documents. *** etc.
PHOTOGRAPHS — [Civil War] McPherson & Oliver (Louisiana), photographic views (5) of Mobile, Alabama. Five ca 1864 views of Fort Morgan and the light house, Mobile Point. *** John Wilkes Booth. Carte de visite portrait by Charles Fredericks, ca 1862. *** [Civil War] Ferrotype quarter plate of soldier with a U.S. Model 1861 rifle musket. *** [Dance] Photos [450-500] of the dance duet of Addison Fowler and Florenz Tamara, exponents of ballroom dance in America, ca 1925. *** Plus many large lots of 19th-20th century topical gelatin
print photos. *** etc. OTHER EPHEMERA — Black sheet music (45). Illustrated song sheets, ca 1875-1920. *** American 45 star flag: cotton, 70”x104.” ca 1896. *** Wilken whiskey sign. “Sweet Music” by Harold Anderson, 1938. Evans Mfg. Co., Cincinnati. *** Political Bandannas, including James A. Garfield & Chester A. Arthur Republican 1880, * Plus, two James A. Blaine & John A. Logan, Republican 1884 campaign. *** A number of 19th century
broadsides, including “View of Ascutney Mountain…Claremont, N.H.” Windsor, Vt. published by M.K. Paine, Druggist [1868]. *** Centennial Exhibition, large folio Liberty print: “In Remembrance of …the Independence of the United States.” Portland: George Stinson & Co., 1876. *** [Alberto Martini] “La Danse Macabre Europeenne” (9), postcards illustrated with dancing skeletons, ca 1914.*** Ocean liner and other travel (225): Cunard Line, Anchor Line, French Line, etc. ca 1900-1960. *** [Magic] “Nicola,” the Prince of Magic, illustrated souvenir program. ca 1907. *** etc. Request Free Catalogue at Elizabeth’s Auctions, P.O. Box 20705, West Side Station, Worcester, MA 01602; elizauct@aol.com; (508) 798-5672.
Terms: cash or known check; 15% buyer’s premium.
To register: please bring photo id (driver’s license); dealers, bring resale certificate.
Note to Absentee bidders: in order to ensure the execution of your absentee bids, please call (508) 798-5672 before the day of the sale; mail or email absentee bids on time. The day of the sale call (508) 769-3791. Directions: The Auburn Elks is on Rt. 12; near the intersection of Rt. 12 & 20; accessible from I-290, I-395, I-90, and Route 20. There are several hotels and restaurants plus many fast food restaurants within less than half a mile from the Auburn Elks.
Auctioneer: Peter Mancevice (Lic. 1740)
Elizabeth’s is taking consignments for future auctions, please call
(508) 798-5672 for appointment.
PICK LOTS OF BOOKS & EPHEMERA—
to be sold at the beginning of the sale.
View catalogue at
www.elizabethsauctions.com or www.auctionzip.com