Bidspirit auctions | Palmer's Auction Co Auction Dec 4, 2025
Palmer's Auction Co, Dec 4, 2025. 195 lots.
Palmer's Auction Co -
Step into history with our exclusive auction featuring a fresh-to-market collection of antiquarian books, ephemera, and local arts. This diverse assortment includes rare volumes, photos, vintage postcards, and captivating artworks. Perfect for collectors and enthusiasts alike, each piece offers a glimpse into the past and provides an opportunity to own a unique piece of history. Join us for this extraordinary opportunity to enrich your collection!
Pre-bidding starts 11/12. Live bidding and Online Auction starts 7 pm EST 12/4/25
Lots in this catalog (195)
- Lot 1: Spalding's Athletic Library: "Bag Punching" by Jules Franks, 1895
- Lot 2: "The Yellowstone National Park" by Herman Haupt Jr., J.M. Stoddart, 1883
- Lot 3: Early American Fourth Edition Masonic Chart by R. W. Jeremy L. Cross, 1826, Leather-Bound
- Lot 4: Three Vintage Raggedy Ann Hardcover Books by Johnny Gruelle, c. 1931-1942
- Lot 5: Victorian-Era Astronomy Simplified Illustrated Book, 1875, J. A. S. Rollwyn
- Lot 6: Mid-19th Century 1/6th Plate Daguerreotype of an Elderly Couple in a Union Case, St. John N.B.
- Lot 7: A Collection of Four Mid-19th Century Cased Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes in Union and Gutta-Percha Cases
- Lot 8: A Collection of ten 19th Century Cased Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, and Tintypes
- Lot 9: An Early 20th-Century Art Nouveau Postcard Album, Dated 1906
- Lot 10: John James Audubon, *The Birds of America*, 1942 Macmillan Reprint with Wild Turkey Dust Jacket
- Lot 11: Vintage WWII Military Service Photo Album, Panama Canal Zone & Italian Campaign, Fort Davis
- Lot 12: A Collection of Vintage American Life and Industry Photographs, circa 1920s-1950s
- Lot 13: A Collection of Vintage Photographs and Postcards, Military, Aviation, and Civilian Scenes, Early to Mid-20th Century
- Lot 14: Charles Dickens, *The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit*, Household Edition, Harper & Brothers, 1872
- Lot 15: Turn of the Century West Texas Professional Portrait Photography Collection,
- Lot 16: A Collection of Early 20th Century Photo Albums, Postcards, and Photographic Prints
- Lot 17: A Collection of Vintage Boy Scouts of America Literature and Ephemera, Mid-20th Century
- Lot 18: 1942 Curtiss-Wright Corporation Airplane Division WWII Production Award Medallion and Four Pins
- Lot 19: A Collection of World War II Era and Post-War Paper Ephemera, including 'The Stars and Stripes' Newspapers, Postcards,
- Lot 20: Anonymous (also known as "1811 The Backwoodsman's Christmas"), Oil on Academy Board, Winter Landscape
- Lot 21: Mary Rutherford 'Log Cabin' Signed and Numbered Embossed Print
- Lot 22: WWII 'Let's Pull Together' Uncle Sam Hanging Hitler Pin Button
- Lot 23: Late 19th to Early 20th Century Photographic Album with Historical Portraits and Scenic Views
- Lot 24: Massacres of the Mountains: A History of the Indian Wars of the Far West by J. P. Dunn, Jr.
- Lot 25: A 1902 Austrian 'Tree Make' Ivory Buttons Sample Book
- Lot 26: An 18th-Century American Newspaper, The Middlesex Gazette, December 7, 1798
- Lot 27: A Pair of Late 19th / Early 20th Century Photographs, Including Niagara Falls with Bicyclists
- Lot 28: Le Roy Plow Company Advertising Booklet / Farmer's Guide, c. 1900
- Lot 29: 1922 The Story of Theodore Roosevelt by M.G. Brumbaugh, F. A. Owen Publishing Company, Instructor Literature Series No.
- Lot 30: A Collection of Four Color Art Prints by Philip R. Goodwin, 'Tales of the North Country'
- Lot 31: Vintage Black Americana 'Mammy' Bell Doll Souvenir, Alexandria, LA
- Lot 32: Vintage Reiss Game Farm Cuba New York American Bison Felt Pennant
- Lot 33: Boy Scouts of America Merit Badge Series 'Indian Lore' Pamphlet, Copyright 1932, Printed May 1937
- Lot 34: Vintage City and Vicinity Map of Corning, Steuben County, New York, 1951-1956
- Lot 35: L. Wright, The Practical Poultry Keeper, Twelfth Edition
- Lot 36: Early 20th Century Miller Bros. 101 Ranch Wild West Official Review and History Booklet
- Lot 37: Victorian Tooled Leather Carte de Visite Album with Gilt Metal Mounts
- Lot 38: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night and Supplemental Nights, translated and annotated by Richard F. Burton,
- Lot 39: J. Plankenhorn (20th Century), Landscape with Castle and River
- Lot 40: Small Arts and Crafts Patinated Metal Plaque with Landscape Scene, 'Fidelis'
- Lot 41: Clayton's Octavo Diary for 1879 with Extensive Handwritten Entries
- Lot 42: The Holy Bible, 1844, Published for the Methodist Episcopal Church, Leather-Bound
- Lot 43: A Collection of Eight Early 20th Century Japanese Documentary Photographs by The Philadelphia Museums
- Lot 44: Annual Reports of the Forest, Fish & Game Commission of the State of New York for 1904-1905-1906, published 1907
- Lot 45: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Commemorative Print, Late 19th Century
- Lot 46: Mid-20th Century Military Photo Album of SGT. Richard H. Giles, 917 F.A.BN., with Images from France & Italy
- Lot 47: A Collection of Cased Mid-19th Century Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, and Tintypes
- Lot 48: Three Photographic Items: A Civil War Stereoview, Carte de Visite, and Military Cabinet Card
- Lot 49: Mid-19th Century Leather-Cased Ambrotype of a Couple
- Lot 50: Mid-19th Century Ambrotype in Gutta-Percha Union Case, Portrait of a Gentleman
- Lot 51: A Collection of Four Mid-20th Century Books on Glass Manufacture, including Fay V.
- Lot 52: A Collection of World War II American Newspapers from St. Paul and Duluth, Minnesota, 1941
- Lot 53: A Pair of 1914 B18 Tobacco Baseball felts, featuring Gandil and O. Miller
- Lot 54: Elias Artmetal Fine Pewter Oval Tabletop Frame, 1987
- Lot 55: Elias Fine Pewter Bow Pediment Picture Frame
- Lot 56: A Collection of Vintage American Horology Trade Journals and Ephemera, 1949-1955
- Lot 57: A Collection of "The American Horologist & Jeweler" Magazines and Related Periodicals, Mid-20th Century
- Lot 58: A Collection of Bulletins of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors (NAWCC) and The Watchmakers'
- Lot 59: A Collection of Mid-20th Century Horological Periodicals, Trade Catalogs, and Manuals
- Lot 60: Letters of James Joyce, Three Volumes
- Lot 61: Abraham Lincoln The War Years by Carl Sandburg, Four-Volume Set, 1939
- Lot 62: A Six-Volume Boxed Set: Great Religions of Modern Man by George Braziller, 1961
- Lot 63: LSD: The Consciousness-Expanding Drug, Edited by David Solomon, Introduction by Timothy Leary, Ph.D., G. P.
- Lot 64: A Collection of Five Vintage Archaeology, History, and Science Hardcover Books
- Lot 65: Vintage S. Howes Co. Inc. 'Eureka' Industrial Flour Mixers Machinery Catalog No. 78
- Lot 66: Vintage Industrial Catalog: Bulletin No. 70. Fitz Steel Overshoot Water Wheels
- Lot 67: Sprout, Waldron & Co. 'Monarch Burr Mills' Catalog, Section E, No. 123, circa 1915
- Lot 68: Vintage Engelberg Huller Co. 'The Halstead' Attrition Feed & Meal Mills Promotional Catalog
- Lot 69: The Millwright's Guide, 1834, by Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, Leather Bound
- Lot 70: Hawkins' Indicator Catechism: A Practical Treatise on the Steam Engine Indicator by N. Hawkins, 1903
- Lot 71: A Collection of Vintage Big Little Books
- Lot 72: Schmidkunz, Hans, and Gerster, Franz Carl. Psychologie der Suggestion. Stuttgart: Ferdinand Enke, 1892.
- Lot 73: The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats, Complete in One Volume, 1844, Leather Bound
- Lot 74: "The Jew." by Harper & Brothers, 1844, Antique Half-Leather Bound Book
- Lot 75: Art Nouveau Carved Oak Wall Barometer and Thermometer
- Lot 76: The State: Elements of Historical and Practical Politics by Woodrow Wilson, 1892
- Lot 77: The Boys' Book of Locomotives by J. R. Howden, 1909
- Lot 78: Harriet Beecher Stowe, *Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp*, First Edition, Volume II, Phillips,
- Lot 81: A Pair of Early to Mid-20th Century Travel Accounts: White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien and
- Lot 82: Birds and Nature, Volume XII, June-December 1902, Half-Bound Periodical
- Lot 83: Antique Keystone Monarch Stereoscope Viewer with a Collection of Stereoview Cards, circa 1904
- Lot 84: How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot by John Muir,
- Lot 85: H. W. Caldwell & Son Co. General Catalogue No. 28, Elevating, Conveying, and Power-Transmitting Machinery, Chicago
- Lot 86: Two Volumes: Agriculture of Pennsylvania, 1878 and 1894
- Lot 91: A Pair of 19th Century Chinese Silk Embroidered Sleeve Panels
- Lot 92: The Practical Exemplar of Architecture, Volume 1, by Gordon M. Hadden, featuring Architectural Elements
- Lot 93: G. J. Adler, A Dictionary of the German and English Languages, D. Appleton and Company, 1891
- Lot 94: Isaac Watts, The Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, 1852
- Lot 95: American Landscape Village Scene, Signed Rob. S. Stanley, Dated 1936
- Lot 96: Lillian Levit (1905-1965), 'The Pied Piper', Original Lithograph, Circa 1950
- Lot 97: An Abstract Expressionist Work by Norm James Brown, Dated 1963
- Lot 98: Antique Manual of British Birds Complete by W. Macgillivray, 1846
- Lot 99: James Emerson, Treatise Relative to the Testing of Water-Wheels and Machinery,
- Lot 101: Vintage Chinese Johnny Lung Bird Print
- Lot 102: Framed Watercolor Landscape with House, Signed O. Kussul
- Lot 103: Vintage Mark Twain Enriched Flour Sack by Voigt Milling Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan, c. 1910
- Lot 104: A Collection of The Confederate Veteran Magazine, Reprint Set, Volumes I-XL (1893-1932),
- Lot 105: Semi-Abstract Nude Figure, Signed S. Diaz
- Lot 106: Lillian Levit (1905-1965), Standing Male Nude, Original Sanguine Drawing
- Lot 107: Lilian Levit, Studies of a Child's Head, 1928
- Lot 108: A Collection of Southern Historical Society Papers, Kraus Reprint Co. Editions
- Lot 109: Lillian Levit (1905-1965), 'A Cat Nap', Pencil Drawing, Circa 1950s
- Lot 110: Lillian Levit (American, 1905-1965), 'Let Sleeping Dog Lay'
- Lot 111: Bernard Gussow N.A. (1881-1957), 'Jackson's Barn,' Mixed Media Landscape
- Lot 112: Attributed to Bernard Gussow (1881-1957), 'A Tropical Corner', Pastel and Crayon Drawing
- Lot 113: The Cañons of Colorado by W. H. Jackson, Published by Frank S. Thayer
- Lot 114: Antique Cast Iron Flyball Governor on Wooden Base
- Lot 115: A Collection of Early 20th Century American Fraternal, Labor Union, and Commemorative Ribbons and Badges
- Lot 116: Bernard Gussow (1881-1957), 'Maine Farm', Watercolor
- Lot 117: Framed Original Watercolor Painting by Bernard Gussow, "Woodstock Cabin", 1931
- Lot 118: The Gentleman's Magazine Library: Dialect, Proverbs and Word-Lore, Edited by George Laurence Gomme, 1884
- Lot 119: Vigor Antique Micro Flying Pendulum Wind-Up Dome Clock
- Lot 120: Rosa Bonheur (after), 'Buffalo Bill / The Last of the Great Scouts' Lithograph
- Lot 121: Mid 20th Century Modern Still Life with Three Vessels, Signed Slater
- Lot 122: Signed 20th Century Japanese Winter Landscape Painting on Paper, Suishū
- Lot 123: A David Lance Goines 'Chez Panisse Fourth Birthday' Poster, 1975
- Lot 124: David Lance Goines, 'Pandora's Box' Offset Lithograph Poster, 1975
- Lot 125: Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Painting
- Lot 126: Mid-to-Late 19th Century Carte de Visite of Three Men on Horseback, York, PA
- Lot 127: A Group of Four Volumes: History of the Conquest of Mexico by William H. Prescott, J. B. Lippincott & Co.,
- Lot 128: Mid-19th Century Ambrotype or Tintype of Identified Frontiersman 'Mr. Z. Taylor'
- Lot 129: An Early 20th Century Impressionistic Urban Street Scene, Oil on Panel, Signed J. Berzevity
- Lot 130: Late 19th/Early 20th Century British School Pastoral Landscape, Inscribed 'Fouremere, Nr. Kempsford. C.'
- Lot 131: A Group of Four Early to Mid-20th Century American Juvenile Adventure Novels,
- Lot 132: Vintage German World War II Photograph Album with Military & Swastika Images
- Lot 133: A Pair of John H.
- Lot 134: Herman Melville, Typee, Illustrated by Mead Schaeffer, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1930
- Lot 135: A. Conan Doyle, The White Company, Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth, David McKay Company, 1955 Reprint
- Lot 136: The Canterbury Tales in Modern English by J.U. Nicolson, Illustrated by Rockwell Kent, 1934
- Lot 137: A Pair of Vintage American Children's Books: An American ABC by Maud and Miska Petersham and Canyon Country Kiddies by
- Lot 138: A Pair of Early 20th Century American Juvenile Books: Ivanhoe Illustrated 200th Anniversary Edition by Sir Walter
- Lot 139: The Rifle in America by Philip B. Sharpe, 1995 Firearms Classics Library Special Edition
- Lot 140: Three Vintage American Hardcover Books Illustrated by Robert Lawson, including Country Colic: The Weeder's Digest
- Lot 141: A Collection of Four Vintage Children's and Young Adult Books, Early to Mid-20th Century, Illustrated by Henry C.
- Lot 142: Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe, Illustrated by Harry Clarke, Calla Editions, 2008
- Lot 143: The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll, First Modern Library Edition, 1936, with Dust Jacket
- Lot 144: Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress, 1899
- Lot 146: An Antique Plain-Bound Volume, in Worn Leather
- Lot 147: Mid-20th Century American Hardcover Books
- Lot 148: The Army Mule and Other War Sketches by Henry A. Castle, Illustrated by J. W. Vawter, 1897/1898
- Lot 149: A Collection of Four Mid-20th Century American Nature-Themed Books
- Lot 150: A Collection of Four Mid-20th Century Adventure Novels by Armstrong Sperry
- Lot 151: A Pair of PM Craftsman Brass Swallow Bookends, Model 402B
- Lot 152: Vintage American Folk Art Hand-Tied Patchwork Quilt with Pinwheel Motif
- Lot 154: A Pair of 1919 Children's Books Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith: The Water Babies and At the Back of the North Wind
- Lot 155: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Illustrated by Gustave Doré, The World Publishing Company,
- Lot 156: Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande by E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Oxford at the Clarendon Press,
- Lot 157: The Official Guide to the Klondyke Country and the Gold Fields of Alaska, W. B. Conkey Company, 1897
- Lot 158: A Pair of Art Deco Cast Metal Female Figure Bookends
- Lot 159: Daniel Fink, Barns of the Genesee Country, 1790-1915, First Edition, Signed