Auction: October 17, 2021

Lot #204: Book and Pamphlet Assortment

(8) items including "Discourses Concerning Government" by Algernon Sidney, London and Westminster, first edition 1698, full calf binding; "Animadversions Upon a Paper, Entitled, The Speech of the Late Lord Russel, &c", 1683, 4-page pamphlet housed in a cloth over marbled paper folder; "Pieces de Clavencin" musical scores by T. Mattheson, London, 1714, (2) volumes bound together, having gilt-tooled tree-figured calf binding and (2) engraved title pages; "Woodland Sketches" by E.A. MacDowell, musical scores having leather binding; a 19th century leather over cloth bound ledger book recording fines levied in the Boone County, Illinois Court of the Justice of the Peace; a program for a series of concerts by Ralph Kirkpatrick at the 1939 Williamsburg Festival; an 1888 tattered hand written document glued to (2) joined sheets having 1930s Chicago letterheads; together with a printed portrait of Abraham Lincoln on canvas, faintly stamped lower right "Illinois Watch Co. / The Lincoln Watch / Springfield" having a gold-tone frame