Maine Antique Digest April 2015

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Maine Antique Digest, April 2015 25-CS
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Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, first edition, five
volumes, London, 1625-26. Estimate $30,000 to $50,000.
At auction April 9.
Parisian Book of Hours, printed on vellum, with contemporary illumination, 1534.
Estimate $15,000 to $25,000. At auction April 9.
William Tryon, Proclamation ordering the Arrest of Ethan Allen and other
leaders of the Green Mountain Boys, partial document signed, New York, 1774.
Estimate $3,000 to $4,000. At auction April 14.
Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More
than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from
Alcoholism, first edition, New York, 1939.
Estimate $6,000 to $9,000. At auction April 14.
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Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronicon,
second edition, Venice, 1483.
Estimate $6,000 to $9,000. At auction April 9.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Orationum volumen primum, from the private library of Queen Elizabeth I,
Paris, 1543. Estimate $8,000 to $12,000. At auction April 9.
Archive of Rough Rider Tilden W. Dawson, possibly the first American killed in the
Spanish-American War, 1885-1900. Estimate $6,000 to $9,000. At auction April 14.
Single leaf from a paper copy of the Gutenberg Bible,
with text of 2 Kings 21:3-23:3, Mainz, circa 1450-55.
Estimate $40,000 to $50,000. At auction April 9.
Aratus, Syntagma Arateorum: opus poeticae et astronomiae
studiosis utillisimum, first Grotius edition, Leiden, 1600.
Estimate $3,000 to $5,000. At auction April 9.