- Lot 161
A very early survey
George Washington, 9 April 1751
EstimateUSD 25,000 - 35,000Price realisedUSD 56,700Closed - Lot 162
The Christian Rapture
Andrew Le Mercier, 1747
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedUSD 1,512Closed - Lot 164
The Prince of Parthia
Thomas Godfrey, 1765
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 3,024Closed - Lot 165
Poems on Several Occasions
Nathaniel Evans and Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson, 1772
EstimateUSD 200 - 500Closed - Lot 167
McFingal: a Modern Epic Poem, in Four Cantos
John Trumbull
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 756Closed - Lot 168
A Poem Spoken in the Chapel of Yale College
Return Jonathan Meigs, 1784
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Closed - Lot 169
The Conquest of Canaan, Greenfield Hill, and two other works
Timothy Dwight, 1785-1794
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 1,008Closed - Lot 170
The Algerine Spy in Pennsylvania
Peter Markoe, 1787
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 16,380Closed - Lot 171
The Vision of Columbus, Charles Pinckney's copy
Joel Barlow, 1787
EstimateUSD 300 - 500Price realisedUSD 756Closed - Lot 173
The Better Sort: or, The Girl of Spirit. An Operatical, Comical Farce.
William Hill Brown, 1789
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 8,000Closed - Lot 174
The Father; or, American Shandy-ism
William Dunlap, 1789, also with his 1798 Andre: a Tragedy
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Closed - Lot 175
Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous
Mercy Otis Warren, 1790
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 1,764Closed - Lot 177
The Yankey in London & The Algerine Captive
Royall Tyler, 1809 and 1816
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 1,008Closed - Lot 178
Memoirs of the Bloomsgrove Family & The Farmer's Friend
Two novels by Enos Hitchcock, 1790 and 1793
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,500Closed - Lot 179
The Foresters, an American Tale
Jeremy Belknap, 1792
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 630Closed - Lot 180
The Miscellaneous Essays and Occasional Writings
Francis Hopkinson, 1792
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedUSD 1,512Closed - Lot 181
Posthumous Works
Ann Eliza Bleecker, 1793
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 1,638Closed - Lot 182
American Poems
The first anthology of American poetry, 1793
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 1,008Closed - Lot 185
Every One Has His Fault
Susanna and William Rowson, 1794
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 3,024Closed - Lot 188
Trials of the Human Heart
Susanna Rowson, 1795
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 10,080Closed - Lot 190
An Abridgment of Universal Geography
Susanna Rowson, 1806
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 3,528Closed - Lot 191
Spelling Dictionary
Susanna Rowson, 1807
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 1,638Closed - Lot 193
"Orphan Nosegay Girl"
Words by Susanna Rowson
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 1,008Closed - Lot 196
Yankee Doodle
New York and Boston, [1796]
EstimateUSD 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedUSD 2,772Closed - Lot 198
The Lay Preacher & The Spirit of the Farmers' Museum
Two works by Joseph Dennie, 1796 and 1801
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,500Closed - Lot 202
The Boarding School
Hannah Webster Foster, 1798
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 1,008Closed - Lot 205
The History of Constantius & Pulchera
Printed in Leominster MA, 1797
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 2,016Closed - Lot 207
The Ladies' Philosophy of Love
Charles Stearns, 1797
EstimateUSD 300 - 500Price realisedUSD 252Closed - Lot 208
The Fortunate Discovery
"By a Young Lady of the State of New-York," 1798
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 3,528Closed - Lot 209
Amelia; or, The Faithless Briton
With Anna Seward's Monody on Major Andre, 1798
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Closed - Lot 210
Memoirs of Stephen Burroughs
Stephen Burroughs, 1798
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 1,134Closed - Lot 211
The American Musical Miscellany
Northampton, MA, 1798
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 2,772Closed - Lot 212
Poems and Compositions in Prose
William Munford, 1798
EstimateUSD 200 - 400Price realisedUSD 378Closed - Lot 215
Arthur Mervyn; or Memoirs of the Year 1793
Charles Brockden Brown, 1799 and 1800
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Closed - Lot 216
Jane Talbot
Charles Brockden Brown, 1801
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 2,772Closed - Lot 217
Fortune's Foot-ball: or, the Adventures of Mercutio
James Butler, 1797-98
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 6,048Closed - Lot 218
Essays on Various Subjects: to Which is added, a Short Treatise on the Art of Praising One's-Self
Abijah Bigelow, 1801
EstimateUSD 500 - 800Closed - Lot 219
Physiognomy, a Poem
Joseph Barlett, 1799
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedUSD 1,512Closed - Lot 220
Letters on Various Interesting and Important Subjects: Many of which have Appeared in the Aurora. Corrected and much Enlarged
Philip Freneau, 1799; with two other works by Freneau
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 2,016Closed - Lot 221
A Poem; Sacred to the Memory of George Washington
Richard Aslop, 1800
EstimateUSD 300 - 500Closed - Lot 222
The Oriental Philanthropist
Henry Sherburne, 1800
EstimateUSD 300 - 500Price realisedUSD 252Closed - Lot 223
Julia, and the Illuminated Baron
Sally Keating Wood, 1800
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 5,292Closed - Lot 226
Secret History; or, The Horrors of St. Domingo
Leonora Sansay, 1808
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 5,292Closed - Lot 228
The Lawyer; or Man as he ought not to be
George Watterston, 1808
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 2,772Closed - Lot 229
The Wandering Philanthropist and Extracts from a Journal of Travels in America
George Fowler, 1810; Samuel Knapp, 1818.
EstimateUSD 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedUSD 3,780Closed - Lot 230
One of his earliest poems
William Cullen Bryant, May 1809
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 1,512Closed - Lot 231
To a Waterfowl, Translation of a Fragment of Simonides, and To a Friend on his Marriage
William Cullen Bryant, 1818
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 1,008Closed - Lot 232
The Embargo; or, Sketches of the Times, with ALS
William Cullen Bryant, 1809
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 1,008Closed - Lot 233
Manuscript for two Hymns
William Cullen Bryant, ca 1820
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 1,008Closed - Lot 235
The White-Footed Deer and other Poems
William Cullen Bryant, 1844
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 4,410Closed - Lot 236
Thirty Poems
William Cullen Bryant, 1864
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 1,512Closed - Lot 238
The Star. A Collection of Songs
Pittsburgh, 1818
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 3,528Closed - Lot 239
An Essay on American Poetry
Solyman Brown, 1818
EstimateUSD 500 - 800Price realisedUSD 3,276Closed - Lot 241
The Battle of Plattsburgh: A poem
Samuel Woodworth, 1819
EstimateUSD 500 - 800Price realisedUSD 1,512Closed - Lot 243
Hobomok, a Tale of Early Times
Lydia Maria Child, 1824
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 5,292Closed - Lot 244
Thoughts on the Religion of the Middle Ages
R.W. Emerson, 1822
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 4,788Closed