- 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 - Lot 246
To the poet Christopher Cranch
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1 October 1841
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 5,040Closed - Lot 247
Presentation Copies of the Essays, First and Second Series
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841 and 1844
EstimateUSD 30,000 - 50,000Price realisedUSD 47,880Closed - Lot 249
Letters and Social Aims
R.W. Emerson, 1876
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 3,780Closed - Lot 250
The Tennessean, uncut in original boards
Anne Royall, 1827
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 4,410Closed - Lot 254
Nacoochee; or, The Beautiful Star
Thomas Holley Chivers, 1837
EstimateUSD 300 - 500Price realisedUSD 504Closed - Lot 257
Legends of New-England
John Greenleaf Whittier, 1831
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 1,386Closed - Lot 258
Moll Pitcher
John Greenleaf Whittier, 1832
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 6,048Closed - Lot 260
Snow-bound, first and second issues with ALSs
John Greenleaf Whittier, 1866
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Closed - Lot 261
Protesting the removal of the Cherokee west of the Mississippi
Anonymous, 8 June 1832
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 4,410Closed - Lot 262
Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, 1835
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Closed - Lot 263
Miriam Coffin; or, The Whale-Fisherman
Joseph C. Hart, presentation copy
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 1,764Closed - Lot 266
Sending a poem for publication
James Russell Lowell, 16 July 1845
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Closed - Lot 267
To Emerson on The Atlantic
James Russell Lowell, 11 November 1857
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 6,048Closed - Lot 268
Ode recited at the Commemoration of the Living and Dead Soldiers of Harvard University
J.R. Lowell, 1865
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Closed - Lot 269
The manuscript for "On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners"
James Russell Lowell, ca. 1869
EstimateUSD 7,000 - 10,000Closed - Lot 270
The manuscript for "An Apology for a Preface"
James Russell Lowell, 1888
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 3,000Closed - Lot 271
Two Years Before the Mast
Richard Henry Dana, Jr, 1841
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 4,410Closed - Lot 272
The Mysteries and Miseries of New York
E.Z.C. Judson, 1848
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 1,512Closed - Lot 273
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, the Parsons-Engelhard copy
Henry David Thoreau, 1849
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 8,190Closed - Lot 276
Poems
Emily Dickinson, 1890, 1891 & 1896
EstimateUSD 15,000 - 25,000Price realisedUSD 21,420Closed - Lot 278
Part of the manuscript for his poem "Urania"
Oliver Wendell Holmes, ca. 1846 & 1893
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Closed - Lot 279
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
O.W. Holmes, 1858
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 1,260Closed - Lot 280
Elsie Venner & Songs in Many Keys, two presentation copies
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr, 1861 and 1862
EstimateUSD 1,200 - 2,200Price realisedUSD 1,386Closed - Lot 281
Soundings from the Atlantic, presentation copy
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr, 1864
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Closed - Lot 282
A poem for Whittier's 80th birthday
Oliver Wendell Holmes, 17 December 1887
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Closed - Lot 283
The Man Without a Country
Edward Everett Hale, 1865
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 4,000Price realisedUSD 2,016Closed - Lot 285
Deephaven and inscribed King of Folly Island
Sarah Orne Jewett, 1877
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 1,008Closed - Lot 287
"The Old Swimmin'-hole," and 'Leven More Poems
James Whitcomb Riley, 1883
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 630Closed - Lot 288
Working autograph manuscript for a short story
Bret Harte, ca. 1890s
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 3,024Closed - Lot 289
The Torrent and the Night Before
E.A. Robinson, 1896
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedUSD 2,520Closed - Lot 292
"The Young Provincial" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Token, 1830
EstimateUSD 500 - 800Price realisedUSD 1,008Closed - Lot 295
"Little Annie's Ramble" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Youth's Keepsake, 1835
EstimateUSD 300 - 500Closed - Lot 296
The New-England Magazine
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1834-35
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 2,520Closed - Lot 297
Burying-Grounds in Salem, Massachusetts
Nathaniel Hawthorne's copy, 1837
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Closed - Lot 298
Nathaniel Hawthorne's great-great-grandfather and Salem Witch Trial judge
John Hathorne, 2 January 1703
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 5,292Closed - Lot 299
A leaf from his 1839 diary
Nathaniel Hawthorne, [15] & 19 February [1839].
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 3,276Closed - Lot 301
The Picturesque Pocket Companion through Mount Auburn
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1839
EstimateUSD 300 - 500Price realisedUSD 630Closed - Lot 302
Grandfather's Chair and Famous Old People
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1841
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Closed - Lot 304
First printings in literary magazines
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1841-44
EstimateUSD 400 - 600Price realisedUSD 378Closed - Lot 305
La Lettre rouge and Trois contes d'Hauthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1853
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 1,008Closed - Lot 306
The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851-52
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Closed - Lot 307
"The Snow-Image," first printing
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 150
EstimateUSD 300 - 500Price realisedUSD 252Closed - Lot 308
A passage from "A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys"
Nathaniel Hawthorne, ca. 1851
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Closed - Lot 310
Bemoaning his "ungainly autograph"
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 29 March 1853
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 1,134Closed - Lot 315
A Month in England by H. Tuckerman
Presentation copy for Hawthorne, 1854
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 3,780Closed - Lot 316
True Stories from History and Biography, The Snow-Image, and A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851-52
EstimateUSD 500 - 1,000Price realisedUSD 504Closed - Lot 317
On his family's absence from Liverpool
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 18 July 1854
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Closed - Lot 318
A consular passport and other signed documents
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1848-1856
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 1,386Closed - Lot 319
A visit to a Liverpool workhouse
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 25 February 1856
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Closed - Lot 320
Cantus Hibernici from Hawthorne's library, the Wakeman copy
Thomas Moore, 1856
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Closed - Lot 321
Arranging his summer visit to Florence
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 16 May 1858
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 1,134Closed - Lot 322
Soliciting a submission from Nathaniel Hawthorne
James Russell Lowell, 18 July 1859
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedUSD 6,048Closed - Lot 323
From his journals, with an allusion to the Marble Faun
Nathaniel Hawthorne, August and December 1858
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Closed - Lot 324
On his London social engagements
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 15 May [1860]
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Closed - Lot 325
On Lincoln's removal of McClellan
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 12 November 1862.
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Closed - Lot 326
The Blithedale Romance and The Marble Faun
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851 and 1860
EstimateUSD 500 - 1,000Closed - Lot 328
An annoyed response to an autograph seeker
Nathaniel Hawthorne
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 1,386Closed - Lot 329
A draft manuscript from his visit to Warwick
Nathaniel Hawthorne, ca. 1863
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 3,780Closed